Biden ignoring the normal federal pardon process for Hunter contrasts with his we-must-respect-the-process posture when it came to abiding by a parliamentarian’s advisory ruling that blocked a minimum wage increase for millions of workers.
It’s almost as if the process is only selectively honored.
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@DLeeT Andrew Weissmann, Lawrence O’Donnell, Joyce Vance all agree with me. Also, @emptywheel who has written more than anyone I’ve seen on all things Hunter Biden. All noteworthy.
So yes, oh my.
Rarely do I recommend an account however this one has a five star rating⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ @ourhumanfam
I would love for you to take time to read this one example of some of the essays and articles from their publication because it might give you something to think over and discuss with your friends and family.
'A printed book is a living animal with flesh of paper and ink of blood, so that compared to turning pages, mere scrolling is anemic.'
Sven Birkets was right in The Gutenberg Elegies, says Ed Simon on, um, #internet #magazine Lithub:
lithub.com/in-praise-of-print-…
#books #reading #writing #publishing #SocialMedia #culture #society #bookstodon @bookstodon
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Trump’s propagandists are laying the groundwork to cast Mexico as a major scapegoat for U.S. social problems.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been warned that the UK as a state, "alongside individual ministers and government officials as individuals", is at "significant risk of future legal action for complicity in acts of genocide".
In a letter to Lammy on Monday, seen by MEE, Scottish National Party MP Chris Law accused the foreign secretary of failing to "demonstrate any responsibility of the UK government to prevent genocide".
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data)...
• about 550,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,240,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…
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Oh hell no!!
Oil and gas drilling activity to reach 10-year high in 2025: industry group
"CAOEC expects a total of 6,604 wells to be drilled in Western Canada in 2025. That represents a 7.3 per cent increase from 2024 and would be the most activity in the Western Canadian oilpatch since the commodity price crash of 2014/15, which led to years of industry contraction."
#News #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Canada #Politics #Alberta
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has collected more evidence and information in the past 18 months than it has in the 20 years since it was founded, its chief prosecutor said on Monday.
The ICC has received the most evidence and documents in its history in the last year, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and victims submitting a large number of documents and evidence under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, he noted.
States cannot avoid their legal obligations under the Rome Statute to implement International Criminal Court (ICC) decisions, including the arrest of individuals facing warrants, a former UN official said.
“For 77 years, Israel has enjoyed unbroken impunity for a chain of horrific international crimes,” Craig Mokhiber, former Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told Anadolu.
middleeastmonitor.com/20241202…
Putin Ally Predicts Russia Will Reject Trump's Ukraine Truce Bid (Henry Meyer/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
memeorandum.com/241202/p18#a24…
Why They Lost -- In the past few days, four of the senior officials who directed Kamala ... (Ronald Brownstein/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
memeorandum.com/241202/p19#a24…
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@sarahbmyers, @davidthewid & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41586-024…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2024; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/boo…
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The man killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon’s Marjayoun on 2 December has been identified as a Lebanese security officer, authorities said, as Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced over 50 violations of the ceasefire by Israel.
“An Israeli drone targeted a State Security officer, Corporal Mahdi Khreis, with a guided missile while he was performing his national duty,” Lebanon’s State Security service said.
Gregg Wallace remarks ‘inappropriate and misogynistic’, No 10 says as culture secretary holds crunch talks with BBC
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gregg-wallace-bbc-masterchef-investigation-b2657320.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Eventually, the muscle burn, the pump of my arms, the cool wind, and the damp silver city unrolling before me airlift me away from my divorce-scheming. It’s like a mechanical claw seizes me from a scrum of dusty toys. Eventually, I see something so pretty, perhaps sunlight gleaming upon the corrugated bay."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Twenty Thousand Steps by Kim Magowan (2024 Emerge Literary Journal) tinyurl.com/36uejjyj
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There is literally no-one in the world who knows more about CrossRef and about the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) than @gbilder
If he says there's a problem with CrossRef's commitment to POSI, you'd better believe there is.
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Wooo, day 2 of #adventOfCode finished. Didn't spend a ton of time optimizing, mostly because it's still running pretty fast, but gets the right answer quickly regardless. github.com/JamesTheBard/advent…
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proc without(sek: seq[int], idx: int): seq[int] =
if idx == 0: return sek[1..^1]
concat(sek[0..<idx], sek[idx+1..^1])it just concats the numbers before the index with the numbers after it :)
Damn, both your codes are much more elegant than mine.
I ended up having to do quite a lot of debugging to catch some edge cases in part 2 so my code became fairly heavy
Still, runs in less than 10ms so I'm not fussed... it works!
Yeah, it's my favourite way with these too, and I have been doing them for a long time (first time parttaking was in 2016 so I have gotten some nice things)
This will probably be nice for Paul, it's my template that I usually start with for each day, it basically takes the input and splits it into lines, and then sends it to the parse function, I then change the type for Parsed to the datastructure that I want and I'm off running, it has been quite helpful for me at least :)
paste.sr.ht/~sotolf/43315f0b36…
It's just so much fun to go through other people's solutions after I have done mine and see how others tackled the thing.
Other than that my solution is very similar to pauls, just probably with a bit more experience in writing exactly this kind of problem :)
@sotolf @paul I used to use `.readlines()` but realized that you can just loop over the `.open()` construct as it will also yield each line in the file. The `.readlines()` returns a list of every line in the file whereas just using `.open()` will yield each line as needed.
```python
a = [i for i in open("input.txt", 'r')]
```
...will end up the same as...
```python
a = [i for i in open("input.txt", 'r').readlines()]
```
```
Python 3.12.6 (main, Sep 8 2024, 13:18:56) [GCC 14.2.1 20240805] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> [i for i in open("example.txt")]
['7 6 4 2 1\n', '1 2 7 8 9\n', '9 7 6 2 1\n', '1 3 2 4 5\n', '8 6 4 4 1\n', '1 3 6 7 9']
>>> [i for i in open("example.txt").readlines()]
['7 6 4 2 1\n', '1 2 7 8 9\n', '9 7 6 2 1\n', '1 3 2 4 5\n', '8 6 4 4 1\n', '1 3 6 7 9']
```
Steve
in reply to David Sirota • • •And so many people online gave me shit, for pointing out Biden bailed on the $15 wage, and screwed over the rail workers strike.
See? He can ignore the rules when he want's to. He just didn't want to do it for us!