> Since it was signed by then-Administrator Lisa Jackson in 2009, the finding has been used by the EPA to regulate sources of climate change-causing pollution from cars, power plants and other sources of transportation like planes, as well as oil and gas operations.

Yes. Regulate how?

So the government should step in to dictate what neutrality means?

Seriously. Is _that_ what it means to have a conservative government? Because I thought it meant they would keep their hands off the market. This is straight from the PDF though:

"Led by the Department of Commerce (DOC) through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change."

Does the individual consumer have any agency in which AI services he chooses to consume?

As I understood the original premises of the US gov, it was to be constitutionally limited in scope. Now I know that ship has sailed a long time ago, but I don't think it follows that we have a gov. to centrally plan AI content as right or wrong.

If you don't read/like much genre fiction, I would say probably no. The pacing is well done and I genuinely find story compelling, but the writing while solid-ish is not exactly of high literary quality.

Additionally, in terms of genre I actually find Weir's books to be more like detective novels than sci-fi, though obviously lots of sci-fi elements in them.

I've found and some have proven that sci-fi is just a setting of sorts, a background to the story at hand. For instance the Backyard Starship series is 100% a detective / cop novel set in space. Asimov did one called The Naked Sun that was pretty much a murder mystery and from what I understand written to prove a point that sci-fi really is just a setting to what ever main genre you want out of it.

I have the same opinion, likewise for fantasy. But a lot of scifi and fantasy stories really have similar tropes and plots, even if it is possible to write say, a romantic book with scifi trappings. There are also some books like I, Robot that really are about the scifi and not just another genre in a scifi setting.

That's definitely not true for a large number of science fiction stories. The science is often a core component and can't be substituted for anything. What does Star Trek look like in a fantasy setting? It doesn't work at all.

Yea that makes a lot of sense. The first Expanse novel (at least Miller’s storyline) fits here as well.

I also think anime is in the same boat, there is a ton of different stories you can tell and how they are animated. its a shame it gets all lumped together like it does

> Only 25% of Army, 52% of Navy and 81% of Air Force emergency doctors were placed at locations where they directly provided care to patients.

Is there a way where this means something different than it sounds? Because that sounds pretty insane.

A plurality of those who voted, you mean.

Choosing not to vote when you're eligible is a statement in itself - which why I referred to the couch.

By this do you mean that Chinese automakers are getting close to a charging rate that would be equivalent to the time it takes to pump gasoline for the equivalent energy? If so, do you have any sources on that?

You are likely correct.

> Of the 73,537 chargers added to the data set in 2024, 37,983 new chargers were installed in 2024. The remaining 35,554 chargers were installed before 2024 and identified through new data sources.

Is almost impossible to defend when done by a particular team. No other team has managed the kind of sustained success with it that the Eagles have. If it was impossible to defend surely other teams would be using it too.

Tom Brady also had similar success with the standard old QB sneak during his career and I don't recall attempts to ban that.

Not in standard American English to the best of my knowledge, but it’s not impossible some dialects use this construction.

American English is shifting strongly in the direction of always using "is" when the subject is dummy "there".

It's also shifting to using schwa rather than FLEECE in "the" when it is followed by a vowel.

On the internet, the -en form of verbs seems to be disappearing entirely, with constructions like "I should have went [wherever]".

How do we “know” this?

Paid for healthcare, housing, or schooling recently?

So no answer except an appeal to anecdotes?

‘Core’ inflation excludes most of this, explicitly.

[https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/30/the-most-splendid-housing-...], [https://www.pgpf.org/article/why-are-americans-paying-more-f...]

Average Housing costs as a multiple of average salary are at 10x, and increasing. Roughly where they were in the 80’s during hyper inflation.

Healthcare spend has increasing from 5% of GDP in ‘62 to 17% of GDP in 2022.

Education cost data is similarly insane - [https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college#:~:text=Th....]

With an average 4 year degree (living on campus) costing > $100k.

If you need a study to tell you traffic is terrible right now, you might just have no idea what’s happening.