TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

Him and 500 law firms filed an amicus brief stating that the courts and the rule of law need to stand up to this out of control executive branch.

Now it’s up to the courts to decide if the law bends the knee.

So looking over these numbers I have many questions, and I wish they had a breakdown of what people sell reported as instead of just the overall number of people surveyed, because I think was a good number of people trying to skew things (I hope at least - or else I really don’t understand).

Like comparing the 2 charts below for example:

• 11% of Dems found Trump favorable
• 9% of Dems found JD favorable (ouch for JD “couch fucker” Vance being 2 points behind a guy that is a convicted rapist and felon, and currently running the country into the ground)
• 17% of Dems found RFK Jr. favorable (the guy pushing for sick kids and hurting anyone requiring anything in the proximity of mental health)

• So overall in the 1st chart 18% think Trump is doing great, but then somehow 39% have a favorable opinion of him?
• And overall in the 1st chart 39% think Trump is doing a horrible job, but 57% have an unfavorable opinion of him overall.

So despite 39% of those surveyed thinking Trump is great, only 18% of them think he is doing great. While 57% of people surveyed think unfavorable of Trump, while only 39% think he is doing a horrible job.

The question cropped out of the image above:

Question: So far, in his second term, do you think Donald Trump has been a great, good, average, poor, or terrible president?

Source: AP-NORC poll conducted April 17-21, 2025, with 1,260 adults age 18 and older nationwide.

From the bottom of the survey: The nationwide poll was conducted April 17-21, 2025 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,260 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.9 percentage points.

Was this written by AI?

Forty-two percent of Independents say Trump has the wrong priorities, 30 percent say an even mix, 9 percent believe he has the wrong priorities and 19 percent don’t know.

This sounds like they are going to deliver a truck that everyone is going to want/need to upgrade at least something, and are depending on this post-production upsell to keep things going. Reminds me of the Apple tax of only bare minimum RAM and you can pay a premium to upgrade it to something usable. And for Slate this fits well with the “customer can service/upgrade everything outside of battery stuff” as this lowers their overhead, and then are making a deal with a chain to do the servicing as the only alternative (and depending on which chain that is, and if the one near you is run well, could make this wildly different experience).

The article says they will have a 240 mile battery upgrade available at some point, that can be done at some yet undisclosed service center (article assumes a car service chain).

For everyone that is not a white Christian heterosexual man, absolutely. They want Gilead from The Handmaid’s Tale, which is the Project 2025 end goal.

When it comes to lead, there is no “safe” level of lead in ones body. I think the reason the FDA has a limit is because we know it’s everywhere, so having a standard limit lower than where the average person may begin to see noticeable side-effects is important. Although, as everyone’s body chemistry varies, what is “safe/tolerable” for one individual may not be for another.

Lead is also one of those things that from research I have read affects children to the greatest degree while their little brains are growing. In children it can cause things like aggression, learning disabilities, and slow growth and development amongst other things.

Also this is only one source of lead children (or any of us) may be absorbing, which would make you wonder about a compounding affect when looked at in aggregate. We know it’s in a LOT of chocolate, spices (cinnamon being the current one doing kids in), toys, and environmental things like paint in places like old homes and schools (read a story not long ago about a kid they figured out was being poisoned from lead paint dust on a windowsill at school).