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Mom, are we OK?' Children worry their families can't afford food after Trump's SNAP cuts

www.nbcnews.com

Pedo 47 enjoys starving kids almost as much as he enjoys raping them.

@#2

Along those lines ...

OpenAI 'temporarily slows' scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers
www.computerworld.com

... Analysts said the moves may be nothing more than positioning the company for its IPO, but that both changes are welcome news nonetheless. ...

Eb,

When I look back at issues on which my views differed from prevailing opinions on this site, I often find that public policy eventually moves in my direction.

The border. Transgender issues. And now mail-in voting.

The USPS has now finalized a rule requiring states to provide a list identifying every voter scheduled to receive a mailed ballot and place unique tracking barcodes on both the outgoing and return envelopes.

The rule would apply nationwide to mailed ballots used in federal elections.

It originated with one of Trump's executive orders. The rule is currently blocked by federal injunctions, and the administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow it to take effect.

The rule would not turn every mail-in ballot into a traditional absentee ballot or require every voter to apply for one. However, it would require every mailed ballot to be part of an identified, voter-specific tracking system much closer to the way traditional absentee ballots are handled.

The system would provide better information for reconciling the number of ballots mailed and returned, tracking their progress and identifying ballots that were lost or otherwise unaccounted for.

It does not adopt everything I have advocated, but it moves substantially in that direction. The concerns I raised were not nearly as unreasonable as people claimed.

If the Supreme Court allows the rule to take effect, states will have only a small window in which to comply with the new requirements.

I hope they are already working on it.

bsky.app

Jeffries needs to be replaced.

More from the article ...

... Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology "cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals." It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned.

Drawing on a network of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000 communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver's "associates" from the cameras they pass together.

Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives.

It can search for people in an area drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description. ...

The suggested prompts sit in a cache of more than 450 files that WIRED found on Flock's own website, served by its login pages to anyone who loaded them. The code describes 45 tools at the AI's disposal, giving it access to plate scans and camera metadata, arrest records, case files, dispatch logs, ballistics results, and commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates.

Flock says it is testing the product with a small group of law enforcement partners and describes it as still in development, with capabilities that may not reflect what it eventually sells. ...


Herd sizes are the smallest in 75 years coupled with very high prices.

This is due to meat processing being a bottleneck. The meat processing consolidated because high startup costs, razor-thin profit margins, strict government rules, and make it difficult for small or new facilities to survive against giant corporations.

I purchase 1/4 & 1/2 cows, I pay $15.00/lb, almost half of which is ground beef. The Rancher I purchase the cow from make ~$4.00/lb. The issue is we need a USDA butcher ...

Concentration in U.S. Meatpacking Industry and How It Affects Competition and Cattle Prices

However, in recent years there is evidence of reduced competition in meatpacking, with lower prices for cattle. This evidence is reflected in sharply increased spreads between cattle prices and wholesale beef prices, the disappearance of excess capacity in packing plants, and recent entry into the industry by new packers. Entry and capacity expansion could encourage renewed competition in the industry.
www.ers.usda.gov

Same problem different industry...

I seem to recall the same issue with cotton in India. Over production of cotton due to increase yield due to GMO'd seeds, the processing plants couldn't process all that was grown, prices dropped so low, to where the farmers couldn't purchase seeds for the next season. Many were put out of business, at least until more processing plants could be built.

Is this problem any different than having to pay $200 for a 15min consultation with a DR? No ... this is that the government regulates so much that people don't invest in the industry proper. Ergo we get like popup restaurants that don't follow any regulations. Look for more and more under the table dealings as the governments burden creates consolidation in industries. The anti-capitalist aren't wrong about people wanting monopolies, but they are wrong about the cause, its not the free market creating monopolies, its more and more regulations which probably have nothing do with meat processing.

Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
www.theguardian.com

... A series of moves by Donald Trump's administration to sow doubt in the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts -- and sparked hope among election deniers -- that it could declare a national emergency.

The White House and US federal agencies have released a string of documents this summer -- including disputed analyses of alleged voting by noncitzens and historical intelligence memos -- stoking expectations that the US president could move to exert greater control over November's US midterm elections.

Trump used a primetime television address in July to claim -- again -- that US elections were vulnerable to foreign manipulation, and repeat the lie that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen.

Trump's speech prompted Steve Bannon, his former political strategist, to predict the US president will declare a state of emergency on national security grounds to "protect" elections. ...



James Talarico: Biblical Christianity vs. Culture Wars

www.youtube.com

about a minute... I didn't know about him being a diabetic, or about him beating big pharma in TX; breaking the insulin monopoly there

"But Robinson reminds his readers that in addition to healing the Syro-Phoenician woman's daughter, Jesus cured the servant of the Roman soldier in Capernaum, showed compassion for the woman at the well of Sychar and chose a Samaritan to be the hero of one of his most famous parables.

These stories demonstrate that Jesus treated people of other faiths as his neighbors."

"In the Parable of the Last Judgment in Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus talks about the final judgment, when people will be divided like sheep and goats.

The goats will be those who did not perform acts of kindness toward the least of God's little ones, while the sheep will be those who fed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, clothed the naked and visited the sick or imprisoned.

There is nothing in this parable about the sheep being those persons who self-identified as Jesus followers, nor is there any indication that the criterion for entering the kingdom is what a person believes, but rather how he or she acts."

"Finally, the account of Peter at the home of Cornelius in Acts 10 is a remarkable one for me and is perhaps my favorite Scripture.

The context is Peter's visit with a Gentile, Cornelius, after a vision on the rooftop in Joppa when Peter saw a blanket, laden with food, that descended in front of him. He heard God speaking to him, giving instructions to eat the non-kosher, culturally forbidden foods.

Then, after this vision, Peter was guided by Gentile servants to the home of Cornelius, where he was startled to see the Holy Spirit fall upon Cornelius and his family.

This prompted Peter to exclaim: "I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears (respects) (God) and does what is right is acceptable to (God)."

While I realize this aha! moment for Peter, the Jewish disciple of Jesus, concerns his surprise that even Gentiles are acceptable to God, if I place his surprising revelation in the context of today " and allow it to refer to people of other religious traditions " I am fascinated. Perhaps even divinely surprised."

from "Six Scriptures undergirding my attitude toward other faiths"

baptistnews.com

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