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The government spent $100MM last year to fund this study about how much Americans threw away in coins last year. They wrote a check for the funding, so that explains why it wasn't counted in the results.

Let’s open up the NBA D-League (player salaries ~$120K) for female athletes to compete as well and see how that goes.

This is old news from last week.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Nate Silver on Substack: As much as I might dream of spending election night on a beach in Thailand, there’s no escaping the fact that I’m going to have a lot of my mental bandwidth devoted to the election whether I want to or not. Give that man a medal. I'm certainly not going to give him $8 a month. Yeah, that’s the interesting part of these independent journalists on substack. The materials very few are going to be able to offer enough material to justify the subscription rates. I have a subscription to Bari Weiss’ Free Press, but that’s it..:

My doc has known me since 1977. He wouldn't even bother to ask.

@Renauda said in RFK Jr. - nope, I won't be the VP candidate: In this case, blood is certainly not thicker than water. The Kennedy blood is well known to contain a lot of thinner. You could probably strip paint with it.

Betts had huge boots to fill immediately after Duane Allman was killed. He did it admirably and with great musical skill. Brothers and Sisters was very good album and really launched the band into something more than a southern rock/blues jam band that primarily appealed to other musicians- in particular, guitarists - and a select sector of blues fans. Betts’ solo album Highway Call (1974) focussed on his Country Swing influences and remains to this day an overlooked gem. Certainly one of my all time favourite albums from the era. R.I.P.

this ‘masterpiece cafe’ in Tokyo discourages socializing and forbids mobile phones Ha! Wait 'til neural implants become ubiquitous.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245491081/lawyers-for-nassar-assault-survivors-have-reached-100m-deal The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday. An internal investigation found that FBI agents mishandled abuse allegations by women more than a year before Nassar was arrested in 2016.

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https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2024-04-18/legislature-passes-spending-bill-gun-control-measures-after-marathon-session Earlier in the day, lawmakers gave final approval to a suite of gun control measures roughly six months after the worst mass shooting in Maine history made gun safety a top political issue of the legislative session. One bill will require buyers who purchase from a licensed firearms dealer to wait 72 hours before picking up their guns. Another bill bans the sale in Maine of "bump stocks" and other mechanical or electronic devices that allow a semi-automatic firearm to function more like a machine gun. Opponents said the 72-hour waiting period would not have prevented last October's mass shooting in Lewiston that left 18 dead. But supporters like Democratic Sen. Anne Carney of Cape Elizabeth predicted that the delay will help deter impulsive decisions that can end in suicide or homicide. "This legislation doesn't look backward," Carney said. "It looks forward at how we can prevent suicide and harmful behavior going forward." Lawmakers also passed a bill sponsored by Mills that will require background checks on all private gun sales that were advertised online or in print. Another provision of the bill would make it a felony offense to "recklessly" sell a firearm to a prohibited person. The bill also seeks to remove a perceived barrier to police utilizing the state's "yellow flag" gun confiscation law by allowing police to take a potentially dangerous person into "protective custody" even if they have not committed a crime. The change is a direct response to the fact that police did not attempt to yellow flag the Lewiston gunman, in part, because they felt the did not have legal grounds to take him into protective custody in order to bring him for a mental health evaluation.

Just saw a note that the Congress Representatives are going to vote on the three foreign aid requests (Taiwan/Ukraine/Isreal) separately on Saturday. It will be interesting.

Based on looking at the floor, it looks like the stack has 5 options, left/right/forward/backward and stay. I expect the stack always has a destination, and is looking for a path to get there, one step at a time. I'd start with that and watch it for a while to see what develops. After watching for a while I would probably want a way to assign priority and to keep select paths clear, maybe some express lanes or variable speeds.

Her case is eventually covered in all true crime outlets. And there are a million of them.

Scary stuff