Notices by That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)

Next, the deficit, but first someone in Instapundit comments credibly claimed compared to 2019 we're paying half a trillion more per year in interest on the Federal debt (see first link for some clues to that). Three ways out of that, I suppose at best we'll do all of them: inflation, economic growth, and lower interest rates. The latter is potentially explosive because "Biden" sold a lot of short term debt even when rates were very low.

OK, Miller says it's (very partisan I say) CBO math to count keeping the 2018 "tax cuts" increases the deficit. Here you must first remember the CBO does "static accounting," assumes tax rate cuts don't change behavior, in a tax regime which is very explicit about changing a lot of behavior.

So where are we on the Laffer Curve? Which is a very real thing, I watched my father's business behavior change a lot after Reagan's tax rate cuts took effect, and we curse Reagan for giving the Federal government a lot more money.

On the other hand, we have to see how the SALT debacle plays out, or if it's even "big money" in the scheme of things. State and Local Tax Deduction, Red state residents subsidize the Blue state ones by letting them deduct those from their Federal income.

I was amazed in 2017 when this was capped at ten thousand, but (thanks to comprehensive Democrat vote cheating) the House has a razor thing Republican majority and the BBB will be vetoed by the ten or so Blue state reps unless the limit is removed or significantly increased. But here you'll need to do the numbers, not to mention see how the sausage is further processed in the Senate.

The rest looks fine except for "The only funding in the bill is for the President’s border and defense priorities" and I wonder how that passes reconciliation rule muster ... but in any case we have to see how this plays out in the Senate anyway. Like, does the Senate Parliamentarian play ball? Does she want to keep her job?

The history is weird, one Robert Dove was fired twice from the position, to be replaced by the same Allen Frumin twice :cirnothinking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#Recent_statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_States_Senate

(((Stephen Miller))) makes some very important points about the Big Beautiful Bill in a long Xweet.

I'm still going over the details, but a yuge claim, which in an admission against interest is backed up by Wikipedia, is that reconciliation rules for what it calls "budget reconciliation" cannot touch discretionary spending. that is, what's in theory specifically appropriated each year, like for NASA.

Thus the vast majority of DOGE "cute" are not germane. Scare quotes because if you want the USAID 90% haircut to stand, in practice that must be in a rescission bill, another parliamentary maneuver to get around the Senate filibuster.

Per Wikipedia, "Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit" and Social Security which is part of the first cannot be touched.

Since mandatory spending defines it by things like "everyone 63 and older can get paid." DOGE cuts of for example people over 120 years old need no Congressional action.

Thus the focus on Medicaid, a Federal-state "partnership" which is deeply corrupt when states tax providers and get paid by the Feds for that.

https://x.com/StephenM/status/1926715409807397204

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)

@UnCL3 Maybe.

The Gateway Pundit is notoriously unreliable, :cirnoForReals: and you'd have to listen to a minute or more of Hillary's voice to confirm this :cirnoForReals:

@nyanide @mitchconner @Elliptica "UNIX™ is was a registered trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories."

"UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group"

https://unix.org/trademark.html

@mitchconner @nyanide Except for the whole rolling release minor detail.

Your community resources are indeed awesome, as a Debian and for a little while Ubuntu user (when it was trailing in becoming PoetteringOS/Linux) I've found them quite valuable, but as I understand it they're needed to recover from rolling release problems.

Some of us ... @Elliptica and I are scientists at heart ... just want to get shit done with our computers, whatever sysadmin knowledge we have. For me it can get tiresome after almost half a century starting with UNIX™.

@Marshall1Banana @fatepony This time around Trump is doing quite a few things right. See for example smashing the USAID etc. grifts/attack dogs, which we could see the effects of very quickly. This has been quite a blow to our ruling trash.

Here, we see how Trump's simple lack of hate for whites takes him so far.

@sickburnbro What's particularly amusing is that Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut was being hailed as a particularly effective communicator for the Democratic party (see link for one example of this two weeks ago). Obama, Trump, and "Biden" basically broke the party as a functioning entity outside of their regional enclaves, many of which are propped up by their voting machines.

Here I'm sure we also have an example of the "hot house flower" effect, Democrats in those regions, Kamala is a prime example, never had to fight hard and wilt on the national stage.

https://apnews.com/article/chris-murphy-democrats-trump-opposition-2026-senate-2209564b2e03d990e11abe2cb4987658

@nobullyplz @sickburnbro Any solid sources on what exactly is happening? One I saw said "withdraw public statement" about the AfD, did not go into a change about the agency determination behind the statement on their web page etc.

I mean, secret police are going to secret police, right? The public announcement was of course mostly if not entirely for political reasons.

As for causes, at a certain point the public has to be listened to or brutally repressed, the US keeps hitting them as I've posted on and has some big sticks if it chooses to use them, and don't forget how the new chancellor became the first in history to not get a first round absolute majority vote from the legislature, is "damaged goods."

The people did not vote for the Left this time around, but that's what they're getting since the "center Right" refuses to even talk to the AfD and thus had to make their coalition with one of the old Traffic Light parties.

@dissidentsoaps Her excuse does match everything we're hearing about Castreau absolutely flooding the nation with immigrants, especially pajeets....

Like, a million or more a year, when the country is only building a quarter million new residences a year?

Maybe looking for some jury nullification? Do they do that in Canada?

On the other hand, per the below she then turned herself in at the end of that day. So performative? Political to call attention to the problem?

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/young-woman-robbed-three-halifax-area-gas-stations-in-one-day-police-say-100946248

You can't fuck around with this stuff! Nature is not your friend!

Bacteria are lurking everywhere. :cirnoForReals: If you're careful, they won't get you from this sort of thing. :cirnoSmile:

"New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says"

From the CDC: "This outbreak strain has been linked to two hatcheries in past outbreaks, including one which is also linked to the poultry shipping material sample in the current outbreak."

My early Silent generation mother who grew up on a farm is a fanatic about food safety. Her generation didn't have antibiotics to save people from screwups so they were careful.

As far as I know she/we never screwed up before I left for college (that is, everyone in the household getting quickly sick at the same time, GI infections that went through the family had a timing that indicated serial passage from one member to others, like of norovirus or the like). And she passed that knowledge and habits on to my siblings and myself.

They grew grain, but of course raised chickens for the usual purposes plus providing a good meal for hired for harvest farm hands, it would have been ... impolite to sicken them on.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/salmonella-outbreak-linked-backyard-poultry-205036211.html

https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/outbreaks/mbandaka-05-01/investigation.html

@nobullyplz @Heil_Honkler @sickburnbro @Hertz Joel Pollak is by far the Jewish Jew on Breitbart.com as a/"the senior editor-at-large," cannot be trusted.

@sickburnbro @JoshuaSlocum Indeed, "a lot of companies are nowadays essentially nothing more than importers" although the giants with a huge variety of goods or grocery stores aren't quite so.

We're still for example a food and fossil fuel etc. superpower (we extract more than any other country including Saudi Arabia; funny thing, "drill baby drill" actually worked, although that's shifted around based on refinery sophistication). Wood ... it depends, the Greens did a number of PWN logging, but the paper of various sorts you buy is almost certainly US or Canadian content and made in one of those two places, doesn't make sense for us to ship it across a sea.

Hmmm, if I look at my budget, the vast majority of it is "Made in USA," although insurance costs can be a bit deceptive due to those companies paying re-insurers premiums for huge disasters.

Hmmm, and art isn't a commodity, the small fee I pay to YouTube's superb Never Give In channel which is Japanese isn't substituteble for anything else, ditto more than a few made in Europe classical CDs but that's not much.

Capital and close enough goods are of course a different matter, and I don't own a vehicle so that is a serious skew compared to most people.

And this is even more complicated: the PRC might be "the world's workshop" but they have to import a tremendous amount of stuff, from tens of billions of ball point pen bearings to I've been reading lately ethane from us to make plastics. Decoupling from the PRC is going to be painful, but is absolutely necessary given Xi/the CCP's hatred of us.

@JoshuaSlocum @sickburnbro I suspect the "It's illegal to allow selection by 'Made in America'" issue is probably Amazon being afraid of being nailed for false advertising; it's certainly a good excuse.

It infamously isn't a bit like Walmart which is famous for how they police their supply chain and do on their own sometimes advertise Made in America if I remember correctly.

Amazon depends too much on vendors, so your exaggeration of their being "just a big ass drop-shipping company" + AWS speaks essential truth. I'd add/will be adding a weasel word to that phrase, like "essentially a big ass drop-shipping company." Thanks! :cirnoSmile:

And, hmmm, AWS, built by its current now (((CEO))) of the whole company is likely something of a distraction to normies, perhaps work it in with something like "well, due to [derogatory fill in the blank] they've got a buffer most other retailers don't."

The recent behavior of Land O'Lakes is more easily understood when you learn they got "100 million" from USAID as of late:

https://nitter.poast.org/DataRepublican/status/1915751037832695901

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/land-olakes-international-development-awarded-funds-for-new-capacity-building-food-safety-projects-300726960.html

@p @jae @pwm @phnt @hn50 A list with two "Don't Use JavaScript" entries can't be all bad....

@sun @Neo_Dolus @LordMordred Indeed. They lead in specifics with "Protect the Wayback Machine" while anyone who's been following this knows they've been poking the bear hard in other areas, thus risking their one unique "product" no one else is systematically doing.

See their "unlimited lending of ebooks we made ourselves because of the COVID emergency!!!" stunt. That was entirely unforced and it's hard to argue against the rights holders suing in return, whereas prior to that their limited lending of those books was not provoking a response.

Anyone know the real details of 78 RPM archive issue and lawsuit(s)?? As the prior stunt showed, we can't trust their side of the story.

Clearly colorable, despite (((Eugene Volokh))) protests:

"Plaintiff Alleges Her Children Were 'Trafficked by Members of the Democratic Party's Babylonian Talmud-Adherent Ashkenazi Jewish Cartel-Controlled Foster Care Sex Trade'"

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/21/plaintiff-alleges-her-children-were-trafficked-by-members-of-the-democratic-partys-babylonian-talmud-adherent-ashkenazi-jewish-cartel-controlled-foster-care-sex-trade/

@sicp @p But at some point, by the time of V6, ed allowed you to not rewrite a whole line.

Like ignoring positioning details, to change the type of b, you could do:

Which in this case is more characters to type, but that gives you the idea. The pattern "/char/" can then be used again without typing it all, just "//"

You could also find a line with /[search pattern]/ and that saves the pattern to then do a substitution, or another search.

There can be issues of picking the unique set of characters, but at least the anchoring '^" and '$' beginning and ending of the line worked.

I can't remember when full regular expressions were added to the pattern, ex has them today, but they weren't something I delved into when I was exclusively using ed on V6 and V7, at least for a while in the latter. But I expect these sorts of things to have been added as soon as they were thought of, K&R and company having a very direct interest in editing efficiency.

As quickly as possible I installed an ersatz Emacs on that V7 system, but ed/ex are still handy to get around terminal issues and for quick changes, especially if you've got it wired into your brain. And no surprises like fucking nano having a default of breaking lines at 80 characters or whatever :cirnoForReals:

@p @sicp Some of dc's popularity has to be related to the HP calculator phenomena starting in 1968 for the customer. RPN is just plain popular for calculating for a lot of people, I too use dc by default, but first started with HP handheld calculators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

@sicp @p "K&R style (along with the old C syntax) I figure makes the most sense if you consider writing stuff line-by-line on a teletype with ed; it keeps the lines short."

And there we have it! :cirnoSmile:

Ed was my first editor (not counting the punch card game), and some of it was on a DECwriter, plus I used a real Teletype for international communications a while later.

There were extreme penalties in both time to do a mechanical line feed (and carriage return to a degree) and paper use if you'd for example written "} else {" in three lines. K&R and crew just wouldn't have done that, in the same way they found the CR-LF?CR-LF an entirely acceptable single error message in ed.

Of Bell Labs code I've only read the V6 kernel examples in the Lions' Notes, it was pretty nice although maybe Lions touched it up, or ran it through a pretty printer, I think there was one by the time of V6.

"When I look at Bell Labs code I usually get the idea that whoever was writing it cared more about just getting the program out than getting it to look nice."

There was a lot of work needed to make UNIX™ usable for normies writing technical documentation, I can entirely believe a "get it done" attitude without worrying so much about code formatting elegance in the process.

Especially outside of the kernel where you had it to catch so many mistakes semi-elegantly.