TSA says the fee will cover the administrative and IT costs associated with the ID verification program and ensure the expense is covered by the travelers and not the taxpayers.

Ah, that makes sense. It costs $45 per person to do exactly what they were doing without additional cost up until now.

America isn’t a monolith. There are a lot of Americans who fit that stereotype. And there are a lot of Americans who never have and never will fit that stereotype.

It’s apparently Paramount as well, please please don’t let them off the hook. Larry Ellison is a Trump lackey.

Their version of career skills progression is: “I’ve been faking it and making it. Based on what I’ve learned, I’m going to fake it even harder, to increase my making it.”

I wanted to check, so I did a quick time-travel hop to the future. Here is an excerpt from the opinion by Justice Alito:

“While the prosecution may have had irregularities and formalities of the law may not have been followed to the letter, it is the duty of this court not to impede the application of laws except where the effect of the law exerts a substantive injustice. For this solemn reason, it would unduly constrain the executive to prevent prosection because we all already know they’re guilty. I mean, what are we, strict constitutionalists who need text and precedent? Did you think a democrat became president again? On our watch? Didn’t think so. Then see the precedent of deez nuts, so ordered.”

I’m not on a downvote-enable instance, but I think from the other times this user has shown up, they’ve said that the thorn symbol is meant to disrupt AI.

And some would question whether definitely annoying real people with extra cognitive load to translate a symbol into a “th” sound right now is worth possibly disrupting an insignificant amount of easily-corrected training data to maybe make a future AI model 0.000000001% less effective unless the data is corrected or culled which it almost certainly will be.

This was honestly the ballot item I was most concerned about. If we don’t retake the House in 2026 I’d say we’re pretty much cooked, and this at least keeps us in the game.

This is a typical example of the different standards applied to Republican and Democratic initiatives.

Even the weakest Democratic compromise on healthcare reform has to have a specific plan and measures of success and meet them exactly, and even then have to overcome GOP propaganda to succeed - unexpected success like what you reference won’t be counted or acknowledged.

On the other side, Republican initiatives can be nebulous and philosophically-based, to the point of delusion. Their policy to hand trillions over the last 30 years in tax benefits, subsidies and contracts to rich people and companies, not only on just the presumption they will stimulate growth, but despite evidence to the contrary, just persist based on nothing but dogma. Their healthcare plan is “no,” which is objectively the plan nobody can say is likely to succeed.

Yet somehow people give both similar attention and credibility.