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That's super underselling it. Open Financial Exchange OFX is still the go-to for markets and banks to exchange information with various end user devices. ISO 20022 is a standard used in banking that is XML based. Fedwire, the platform that moves money between the central banks completed transition to XML in July... of this year.

Credit reporting agencies, insurance agencies, hospitals, medicare, medicaid, massive amounts of the entire global logistics industry are heavily using XML with no plans in the near future to move off of it. Like the network that handles auto insurance claims and reporting them to people like LexisNexus is all XML.

Like it's impossible to cover just how much of this planet runs on XML.

She can't resign from a job she never legally held.

That's like this kind of interaction in a race:

I'm sorry sir, we're disqualifying your car from racing today. It seems to have a jet engine attached to it and we don't know how that got by inspection. But it's not allowed in the rules.

Oh well that's easy to explain, I just didn't take my car by inspection. I just drove it out here and told everyone I'm here to race. It's a race, correct? Well I'm here to race with the best of them.

That doesn't sound like you're an actual participant in this race then. You should not be here and I'll have to ask you to leave.

Leave? Perish the thought. I officially withdraw from this race. scoffs Clearly you are not ready for innovative takes on race car design.

Well it seems you weren't in the race to begin with, but by whatever means, please see your way out.

That is what this whole thing summarized is...

We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others.

Except it doesn't deter anyone. In fact, in the past executions were a form of entertainment. And if there's a common thing amongst criminals is that everyone of them think they'll get away with it.

Public executions have never served as a deterrence, there's zero historical evidence of this. Crime existed in the days of public executions, hence the reason why we've got lots of them to point at.

And every time someone has said "we will quickly try people", what they are trying to radio in is, "suppress people's rights to a trail and appeal." And a billionaire calling for public executions and reformation of the justice system to skip particular steps due to the citizens, isn't something new. This kind of thinking is as old as time itself. That the aristocracy finds little value in protecting the rights of the common man is just the usual hum-drum of people who devalue human life.

it’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable

This whole quote is just remarkable. Who will protect the feminine political leaders from the wave of masculine leadership? Would not this supposition make them vulnerable? It's just white rich guys doing the usual white rich guy thing. So innovative a thinker the guy is.

The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets

— Texas AG Ken Paxton

That's really odd for a State that has regularly written off all the various pollution Musk does over at his launchpad. And of course that ignores the obvious anything and everything that has anything to with oil production there.

For those just wanting a summary. Nobody is updating the price tags on the shelf. So when you get to the register, it rings up at a higher price. And if you never look at your receipt then you'll never know you over paid.

It a lot of states it's easier to pay the fine than to hire someone to come regularly update the price tags. Error rates in most states are capped at 0.5% to 2%. However, in the example store they talk about in the story, the error rate was 23%. Which is wild. But given that the fine is just $5,000 per inspection, they're likely making more money in the long run.

Don't worry I do the same thing a lot.

For the purpose of sections 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209 of this title the term “special Government employee” shall mean an officer or employee of the executive or legislative branch of the United States Government, of any independent agency of the United States or of the District of Columbia, who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed to perform, with or without compensation, for not to exceed one hundred and thirty days during any period of three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days

— 18 USC § 202(a)

Highlight is mine, but yes. There's a limit of 130 days.

Mike Johnson accused Democrats of “cherry pick[ing] three emails out of 20,000 documents” to “try and imply that the president was guilty.”

Buttery emails anyone?

A lot of the Epstein files has been released. However, there are some things not released. Something I'll refer people to HR 4405

Now in that, let's look at section C of that bill:

would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary

This is a big deal, because Judges ordering things to not be release CAN NOT be released no matter who says so. This is a separation of powers thing. A lot of things are withheld from the public because it's part of various legal cases. The most recent one I can think of is JP Morgan paying out that $290M to victims and there was like some amount paid to the Virgin Islands.

Now the stuff that's wrapped up by the Judges, if someone leaks any of that, they are going to prison. And the people who are handling those files are very well aware of the consequences of if they say peep about what they've seen.

This is the part where people are like "what if Trump destroys some evidence?" Well a lot of that evidence was turned over to the courts during Biden. So if the DoJ suddenly made things start disappearing, it's not going to match up with what the court already knows about.

Many people already know what's in these files. They know what's going to be brought in legal cases. They also know what would happen to them it if they leaked anything they've already seen. And a lot of this information has been steady released to the public.

So this brings up, what the fuck is Congress bitching about then? What Congress is attempting to do, is code into law a requirement for the information to released to the public no matter what might be contained, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS AS NOTED IN SECTION C. What this law would do, is not just ensure that justice if done but also ensure that the public is aware of all the details behind the case.

You know how like some court cases will happen and not everything presented in court is released to the public? Well this would codify into law the requirement to release all of that to the public. Of course, AFTER any kind of trial it was used in, if it wasn't released before a trail began.

Most aren't up in 2026. So don't forget this.

The Government's argument, I shit you not, "Congress has not given explicit permission to do this."

Invade cities with ICE, bomb boats in the body of water formerly know as the Gulf of Mexico, literally start a war with a sovereign nation, tariff the fuck out of everyone... BUT OH NO! Feeding kids, that's Executive overreach.

Man, I'm not religious, but holy fuck I really do hope there is a hell.

The 300% increase is because of Republican cuts from OBBBA. Republicans continually do things to reduce the quality and deliverablity of care from these markets. That's the thing, every "failure" can be traced back to Republicans enacting law that greatly affects the overall success of the program.

What's even more interesting is how flexible the market has been in spite of Republican meddling. But the ACA has offered new avenues for people to have insurance when their situation wouldn't have qualified them for such. This has provided a much needed peace of mind to a large segment of the population.

For all the things that Republicans tend to throw to deride the program, it continues to provide coverage for people in ways that lawmakers don't always foresee. And that has provided care to people who usually would not have care. Allowed people to go on to make small businesses that would not have otherwise taken the risk. Allow people to get regular checkups and routine care that would have otherwise gone without.

Republicans have a funny definition of success in the medical domain. Once that circles around dollars to care, when the goal should be amount of care. Or at least in my most humble opinion, we should look at the amount of care we provide to the population as a metric of success. To then toss dollars on top of that metric really begs the question of what is the worth of a person's life? Yes, the ACA lacks a single provider negotiated benefit. Republicans have sought to never allow that to happen. Don't get me wrong, that's a very clear loss for the ACA program, but again, that's at the behest of Republicans.