@xorbit Why spend all that effort when you could ask AI for a plausible but entirely wrong answer?

Interesting article for folks that have ordered directly from AliExpress, Temu, Shein, Banggood, etc.

The deadline for the end of *de minimus* is July 2027 and the recent SCOTUS decisions do not change that, as *de minimus* was always an administrative rule rather than law.

The result will be Chinese retailers pivoting to US onshore warehousing. I just ordered an RC car with US fulfillment from AliExpress, and it was great - less than one week to get to my door.

https://www.ajot.com/premium/ajot-de-minimus-is-ending-whats-next-for-us-importers

@GhostOnTheHalfShell I have indeed smashed that subscribe button.

My reaction to the Minecraft chicken jockey is that young people are actually excited to go see a movie in the theater -- perhaps for the first time in a decade or so -- and the movie industry's response is to complain about it.

Movie industry, this is your Rocky Horror moment. REVEL IN IT!

@augieray

Radikal, fyr!

Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.

Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆

https://ktla.com/news/california/thousands-of-danes-sign-petition-to-buy-california-from-u-s/

@emilyyoung "I'm not gonna hide my gay little screwdriver"

NO CONTEXT!

NEW VIDEO: I Left Linus Media Group - What do I do now?

https://youtu.be/ELnX3gEHuHI

I’m not even surprised about Huntington Beach. If you’re from Southern from California, then you know what I’m talking about.

@TechConnectify is my spirit animal

@bsletten A friend of mine works professionally in this space and confirmed that these quantum sensors are, in fact, just inertial sensors. They would need periodic calibration. The current thinking is you add them to GPS devices, and they can reduce the frequency of GPS check-ins and allow the equipment to operate for extended periods without GPS (e.g. underwater, in solar flare situation, etc).

However, he was very impressed at the claimed size improvements.

@bsletten Wouldn't it still need periodic checkins to some gold source of location ground truth to stay calibrated, though?

Any system is going to develop errors that accumulate over time. Granted, maybe those check-ins are once per hour or per day or per week, making them "effectively" independent for long periods.

@blogdiva

Hmm. I'm not sure I take the same reading of the article. I think the author is trying to get Vance et. al. into a pincer: explain how you're going to pay for SS and Medicare, then watch how they give mealy-mouthed answers that not only utterly fail to address the issue but make it clear they are keeping tax cuts for billionaires on the table.

Meanwhile, the author: "Democrats and earlier generations of Republicans have grappled with tough choices and proposed more realistic Social Security reforms. For example, many Democrats have signed onto the Social Security 2100 Act, which proposes increasing taxes on high earners."

I mean, that's the answer, right? Sustain programs for the many by taxing the rich few.

Kevin Smith is a tireless MST3K fan who makes a popular podcast and provides all kinds of support to the MST3K fan community. And he needs some help.

https://gofund.me/fe75b17f

@sarahmiranda I know it's a bullshit government thing, but congratulations on your milestone.

My dick is now *legally* a girl dick I could rearrange your insides with

A well-earned place

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@aud @xgranade @bryophyteish

> people have wildly different needs and the system must work for that

Yes, please, this is the word that needs to get out.

I've seen "walkable" spaces that were absolutely punishing for people with limited mobility. Tables and chairs sitting out in the middle of the walkways, little garden patches in the middle of walkways ready to catch a wheelchair or crutch and get somebody stuck, etc.

Walkable spaces have to be accessible for lots of disabilities, not just a few, and having some accessible parking behind the scenes is a necessity for people with severe mobility restrictions.

@xgranade@wandering.shop @bryophyteish@is.nota.live this is exactly part of it. Bikes are a part of a solution, but people have wildly different needs and the system must work for that. It can be quite hard to bike all the time! It’s not necessarily easy on the body, and it only becomes less accessible in hilly or mountainous areas. Obviously electric bikes can help overcome that but they’re still not the be all end all solution for everyone (although obviously they would work for a great many people).

Public transit, bike lanes, mixed zoning, scooters, walkable areas, etc… I think sometimes people forget that the problem isn’t that we have committed to cars, necessarily, but that we have committed solely to cars (I know cars have a host of environmental problems, but those would be much less impactful if cars were a much smaller part of the transit world).

it's simultaneously hilarious and horrible that one of people's main objections to walkable cities is accessibility. like there are folks with dissociation issues, certain forms of ADHD, epilepsy, anxiety, and a myriad of other potential issues that makes it unsafe for them to drive. in most places in the USA that means they genuinely just can't go anywhere at all unless someone else takes them. imagine thinking that is accessible lmao