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  • That is not the correct form of a syllogism. The second premise should be "Some C are A" leading to the conclusion "Some C are B". With the structure you provided, it is easy to produce invalid conclusions from true premises:

    • All planets are round
    • Some fruits are round
    • Therefore: Some fruits are planets

    Whereas a correctly structured syllogism might be:

    • All coconuts are round
    • Some fruits are coconuts
    • Therefore: Some fruits are round
  • 7 bills have passed the Senate, one has been signed into law: Congress.gov search

    (note: the filter doesn't include bills starting in the House, but there aren't any relevant ones)

    Also, the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025" and "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" were "filibustered" (failed to reach cloture).

  • In the EU-wide survey conducted by Eurostat, participants were asked whether their household could afford the adequately heat the home. No fixed temperature was specified; answers are based on self-assessment.

  • My biggest frustration with OneDrive is in combination with Office (on my work PC). You browse to a local folder and save, but instead of saving it locally and syncing to the cloud, it saves to the cloud and downloads, and it is slow.

  • A progressive individual tax would be far more complicated, as you would have to assign, track and audit individual use. And that doesn't even get into secondary uses (e.g. manufacture and transport of goods).

    The flat rebate makes the tax progressive. Typical people pay $0 net tax, or even come out ahead, while heavy polluters pay almost the full tax. Just raising the tax will effectively make it progressive.

  • Thanks for the link and breakdown.

    It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.

    "Thinking speed" is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor's bitrate the computer's FLOPS.

    Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don't think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.

  • It does look like they don't currently have any funding issues. They have 1.5 years of reserves and give about 15% of their income out in grants to other organizations. And like most web sites, the actual hosting costs are a relatively small part of their operation.

  • leaves no calling cards

    I think the engravings on the bullets were intended as a message. It seemed like he expected to be caught with his "manifesto" as well. Not saying that's sufficient to call it terrorism, but it does show a bit of intent beyond anger/revenge.