Plenty of places offer fresh ingredients. People often try OG Italian pizza and find they don’t like it.

Here it is, everyone: the most progressive state in the union.

The versions of pizza known to everyone outside of Italy were invented in America. Papa Johns is just crap.

Just wait until you hear about “synthetic” motor oil.

(It’s been made from regular petroleum sources for a long time. It was argued in court that “synthetic” refers to a certain level of quality, not that it’s actually built synthetically from something other than oil out of the ground.)

Jamie Oliver tries to get kids to hate chicken nuggets. Jamie Oliver discovers that it’s pretty hard to get kids to hate chicken nuggets.

Especially with alcohol. Anything with sugar will have at least a tiny amount of it ferment into alcohol. This is also why 0% BAC driving laws are nonsense.

That said, 0.1% might be perfectly reasonable over 0.5%.

Once it gets to a vote, yes. The way to kill these things is to bury it in procedure and pretend you’re just doing due diligence. Still pretty amazing that it got this far.

It’s not just pay. Things like pensions that would encourage long tenures have been all but eliminated from compensation packages. The idea of staying at a job for more than 3 years, especially in IT, is crazy to people. If you’re there for >5 years and then look for something else, interviewers wonder if something is wrong with you.

Which is insane. Companies lose a lot of value by not having long tenured “company [wo]men” anymore. I keep waiting for some convoluted explanation that shows this situation is better in even a strictly capitalist sense, but that explanation doesn’t seem to exist. The best I have is that people coming from outside organizations will cross-pollinate ideas and technologies instead of being stuck with whatever that particular company is doing. But there are other ways to handle that, and you don’t have to push it on everyone.

No, companies just seem to have decided this is how they’re going to operate.

You have a problem with Mosaic Gray?

Would the GOP like to have a white woman as a candidate as an alternative? No? Then STFU.

(I know, they’d probably give us Majorly Tugid Greens or something, but still.)

They won’t have to. Lower courts do it.

Whats going to happen is that every time a corporation doesn’t like a regulation, they will sue to stop it. If possible in the specific case, they will shop for the right circuit court that’s stuffed with judges favorable to them. The regulation will be stopped from taking hold while the case is in process. The federal bench is already overloaded, so this will take years. The corp will continue as they were in the meantime.

Even worse, a corp can now bring up cases against old regulations that started affecting them. An old corp getting into a new area, or a spinoff subsidiary taking their old business, could challenge any regulation that suddenly affects them.

This isn’t like, say, school integration, where the President helps out the enforcement by sending the National Guard. Everything happens within the courts, plus the agencies respecting a court ordered stop like they always have.

Not easily.

Anti-virus companies–when they do it right–have tightly controlled air-gapped systems that they use to load viruses and test countermeasures. It takes a lot of staff to keep those systems maintained before we even talk about the programming involved, plus making sure some idiot doesn’t inadvertently connect those machines to the main building WiFi.

There was at least one confirmed case of a virus spreading through speakers and microphones. What “air-gapped” means is pretty extreme.

If it’s possible at all, it’d have to be through significant donations or public funding. A volunteer effort isn’t going to cut it.

It works in most software because the cost of failure is cheap. It’s especially cheap if you can make that failure happen early in the development process. If anything, I think the industry should be leaning into this even harder. Iterate quickly and cause failures in the staging environment.

This does not work out so well for things like cars, rockets, and medicine. And, yes, software that runs goddamn everything.

If you limit when the public funds are dispersed, then there won’t be much campaigning outside that time frame.

If it’s robust enough that it actually limits campaign spending without loopholes, then that alone might do it. Campaigns would have to use their funds more strategically, and the best time to spend is in the weeks before an election, not a year out.

Nah. VP pick is part of the “min” in a min-maxing strategy. Harris will pick a walking mayo and white bread sandwich with a penis between the legs.

Manchin might be the one candidate where I leave the box unchecked.

Nah, they’re just people who made a pile of money together. Theil was one of the people who stopped Elon from trying to turn PayPal into a complete financial services solution, and instead just focus on paying for eBay purchases. They all take a big payday because of it, but Elon was still upset he wasn’t allowed to “disrupt” the banking industry.

AOC, but that won’t happen.

Jimmy Carter is still alive.