I remember 90’s era Starbucks and a bunch were still pretty grungy corners of strip malls. But the point was they were still coffeeshops, despite being a chain that went corporate.

Now they’re glorified coffee stands with real estate baggage and little sandwiches. And zero of that ‘third place’ shit they used to dominate the market.

I kinda like it. It’s just neat enough.

A lot of old city plats follow the exact pattern of that square, so I’d be curious what the sequence of development was.

Kind of. It isn’t wrong, but it is a crucial omission that it’s interviewing a former EPA enforcement guy (i.e. not current) about current enforcement policy, (which is radically changing under Zeldin.) So the model’s interpretation on whether the state will hold to federal pressure becomes imprecise since it’s really this guy stating there’s actually a lack of federal pressure.

But it does rightfully note information is not in the article to answer, which is neat.

Because… for context not directly in the article, technically if EPA defers to the state, then Mississippi saying temporary permit exemption actually applies here satisfies the permit requirement, which Buckheit has to know. (Which directly explains the lack of federal pressure.) Citing the policy in January was a clever non-answer from the EPA. They’re actually saying state and federal policies are NOT in conflict.

Also, I’m not trying to dismiss any of this, more trying to provide an insight that might help with accuracy. I have a bit of knowledge on this specific subject, so I thought I’d note a point where I can measure an inaccuracy.

These kinda of articles can be really sneaky about claims and statements. Mostly minor and innocuous, but an LLM doesn’t know the difference. Like, this caught that Buckheit is talking about what should be happening under previous admins when he was involved, but that’s specifically not what the EPA is doing anymore, which the LLM appears to have missed in part. Which to me, that part was the primary purpose of the article.

“List the article’s concrete claims about permit status and turbine operations, each with support.”

• EPA position: these turbines require permits under the Clean Air Act.

Not quite though. The article cited EPA’s policy as per a former EPA enforcement staffer who was explicitly stating the EPA is not requiring that here and has made rules deferring to the state and local authorities. The guy was saying the EPA should be acting, but isn’t. The article was clever with it, but that’s all the more reason.

Part of this I believe can be attributed to labelling rules. Only the concentrate portion can be called juice.

When it is made from concentrate the reconstituting water is the main ingredient. What’s shitty is that water gets more and more sugar/HFCS mixed in so less concentrate is used. Getting it down to 10% or less like that: it’s just flavoring the corn.

Likewise. This is my only reoccurring issue I have had since switching, and it isn’t consistent enough to really be a problem.

I do notice that after sleep mode when things work fine I’ll get a notification my displays are detected. So I assume display detection is switched off during sleep mode, and maybe not always turning back on.

It cites the 2010 All-Russian Population Census by the Federal State Statistics Service directly, so yes. In this case I don’t have any reason not to, since its from the Russian government to begin with.

Damn, I know these are sparsely populated areas, but: 2010 Census population: Five.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarovka,_Konyshyovsky_District,_Kursk_Oblast

Imagine fighting and dying for essentially one private family’s property.

Sounds like they’ve been contacted by their local solid waste department who was lazy about how most sanitary codes don’t define garbage in a trailer as solid waste.

It’s one of the dumber and common loopholes, but a health department with resources (legal and political) would actually require progress at eliminating the garbage since the loophole is based on staging waste for removal.

States and local juridiction vary wildly.

Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you’re installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.

I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I’d had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.

To me that’s impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.

Two sets of lids were swapped. Those lids can be pretty heavy. Whats inside them usually are valves for plumbing.

So after the 100th set of valves you’ve backflow tested that day and you’re resetting the lids in 100F+ degree heat and you turn around as you’re walking away with your gear that you swapped two lids?

Well, having done this work at two different times in my life: the size of paycheck matters decidedly on whether that’s getting fixed.

I spent chunks of 2023 and 2024 investigating and testing image gen models after a cryptobro coworker kept talking about it.

I rigged up an old system and ran it locally to see wtf these things are doing. Honestly producing slop at 5 seconds per image v 5 minutes is meaningless in terms of value if 0% of the slop can be salvaged. And still, a human has to figure out what to so with the best candidates.

In fact at a certain speed it begins to work against itself as no one can realistically analyze AI gen output as fast as it is produced.

Conclusion: AI is mostly worthless. It just forces you to accept that human effort is the only thing with intrinsic value. And it’s as tough to get out of AI as it is to put any in.

And that’s looking past all the other gargantuan problems with AI models.

See your brain went immediately to a solution based on knowing how something works. That’s not in the AI wheelhouse.

He can definitely be the face of the right. Let Asmongold be what people think of when someone airs those kinds of opinions.

I get what you mean, and it’s a common thought and strategy. It just doesn’t work as well as one might think. Unless there is a union, employees are at a significant disadvantage. Forming a union would be FAR more effective than quoting OSHA regs.

The main thing is regulatory violations aren’t (usually) criminal so there’s a long administrative process to most enforcement actions. Companies overwhelmingly have the resources to litigate beyond their employees means. So if they have the resources to have legal council or a compliance officer, there likely needs to be a well documented paper trail of concealment or otherwise flagrant disregard or denial of improved conditions.

There not being A/C isn’t enough. Refusing requests to install A/C is better. The company removing workers fans to make a point goes further in a case. Then putting out an internal memo requiring zero ventilation and to lie to investigators is a strong case.

The fear of god isn’t enforceable. The main thing you do in referencing OSHA is to demonstrate a level of knowledge, commitment, or at least interest in the issue. And most of the time it is the appearance of concealing a condition that is the enforced violation. This is usually what companies are actually sensitive to.

So while an OSHA violation is a serious thing, the conditions in question here (heat) are not a regulation that can be violated and therefore enforced in the same way.

Yep, and precisely why there is the need to develop an argument in defining ‘reasonable’ instead of just citing the applicable law or regulation. The OSHA recommendation provides a less arbitrary foundation for defining a reasonable temperature.

The OSHA recommendation is 68-76F, which isn’t a direct link to ‘reasonable’ but provides a suitable context to frame workplace conditions.

If people’s body temperatures can be measured exceeding 100F a link to heat stress and increasing risk of injury in the workplace can also be drawn as it’s generally the equivalent of working with a fever.

I really hate that this is some of the toughest public language I have seen about Israel from an American official.