That news article doesn't mention the designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk (it was published about 20 minutes before Hegseth's tweet)

> The Mughals ruled themselves

> So the Mughals might’ve been effective but the big difference is they weren’t being exploited as an imperial subject.

The Mughals were the imperium, ruling over their subjects. They came in to the subcontinent as outsiders, just like the British.

Waymo started rolling out freeway trips in some cities late last year

Or maybe some cultures have a higher rate of asking "inappropriate" questions

Some of us were against it then and are against it now

Which part is racist exactly?

I'm not sure why you would characterize the possibility that consciousness relies on quantum mechanics to be "magic". Quantum mechanics are very real.

> It should, because practically everywhere in the US does it wrong

Where do they do it differently? I've been in grocery stores across Western Europe, Asia and Latin America, and the only place I recall seeing the single entry queue was at a Trader Joe's in NYC

The Barnes & Noble Bookstore (at least the two or three I have been to in the past 10 years) has a single queue. Fry's Electronics did it that way. The self-pay corral at HEB (a huge Texas grocery chain) with about 14 check-out stations does it that way. The Academy Sporting Goods store near me does it that way. The Austin Bergstrom Airport security gates are that way.

I agree that many places have a queue for each registers, but the other way isn't entirely rare.

Large grocery stores actually seem to do this the least, but many types of stores default to this in much of the world. Clothing stores, book stores, stationary stores.

Many larger convenience stores do and those are close to being small grocery stores.

"Happy Holidays" comes to the diaspora

Happy Lunar Holidays to you!

It goes into the Treasury Department's general fund, where it's used as part of the federal government's overall budget

I think that's more important than people realize:

* The executive branch is doing its own appropriations, effectively - it's revenue they create and control, with little restriction (?).

* It's a way of shifting revenue from progressive taxation to regressive forms (for example, sales tax is another way to do that).