From the first article you linked:

Under the Jones Act, any vessel can enter Puerto Rico. In fact, many foreign vessels enter Puerto Rico regularly, importing goods from countries around the world. However, transportation of goods between two U.S. ports must be carried out by a vessel that was built in the U.S. and operated primarily by Americans. This law doesn’t single out Puerto Rico – it applies to all U.S. ports, the only exception being the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate the Jones Act as much as any rational American would, but from what I hear, they get a grab bag of exemptions on taxes when moving goods to/from South America (I suppose via non-US ships and via aircraft).

I don’t have the time for proper research at the moment to try to find what my dudes have talked about when it comes to laxer import/export controls, but may revisit later today if I get some down time.

I don’t spend a lot of time with Puerto Ricans, but the two I keep in semi-regular contact with have said that they don’t want Puerto Rico to become a state (they wave vaguely at the rules for imports/exports to South American countries; apparently the island has relaxed rules on that compared to states?).

What’s actually stopped them from.becoming a state in the past? Seems like ~2013 was the last time a movement for that had any real traction?

I don’t know what you mean lol

Yeah, what’s with boomers and the need to add an emoji at the end if each message?

Makes sense, but couple clarifying questions:

By “ending careers for working with Obama”, you mean the people mostly left over from Bill Clinton’s time as president were threatening people within the Democratic party to not work with Obama?

Obama, rightfully pissed off made a stupid decision and allowed the neoliberals to hang onto the DNC.

Wait so, he was so mad at them that he…let them keep power? That doesn’t make sense. Can you shed any light on why he’d do that?

Man, that Victory Fund sounds corrupt as hell. Thanks for explaining things I was too immature/politically ignorant to pay attention to back in the day.

if you didn’t play ball they bankrupted your entire state and let Republicans take it to punish you and set an example to get there states.

I don’t think I follow the logic on this, most probably because I’m not sure which funds / fund pools you’re referring to.

Could you explain what you mean a bit more ELI5 level?

I actually prefer to microdit.

Yeah, but the learning curve. I just can’t seem to find a good rhythm with timing (that is: either I’m playing with the dwarves moving and they go crazy too fast, or I’m paused and just don’t feel engaged with them). I def feel Rimworld hits a good comfy zone on this.

C-shites? Not sure who you’re referencing with that.

Yeah, I’ve no idea how I figured it all out, but I remember a steep learning curve.

The big thing for me is finding a rhythm in the gameplay loop and just sitting comfy in it. While I often describe the game as my “war crime simulator” and a “frantic rush from one dumpster fire to the next”, I still find my deepest chill just watching my pawns live their lives farming rice and ranching a herd of boomalope.

Big same. I’m closing in on 10k hours in Rimworld (been playing since 2016) and don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed.

I have heard about them selling search data to bing. While concerning, I don’t think that’s quite the same thing. I get how 4Chan could blow that out of proportion.

I can’t find any sources to corroborate this claim. Can you link some sources?

Can you link any sources on this?

I think that’s my big hesitance to believe it, there just doesn’t seem evidence (besides other commenter mentioning an anecdotal tank man reference).

Looking over their Wikipedia page, DDG looks like they’re reasonably independent.

Why is everyone saying they’re just Bing?

Completely agree.

Kinda looks like he might’ve been filming ICE doing whatever they were doing, but was using “I’m just dancing on the street filming myself” as a cover. From there looks like ICE wasn’t pleased about it and, uh, “did something about it”.

That’s largely speculation tho. Would love for someone else who actually knows what happened to chime in.

Well github repo hasn’t been updated in 9 mo (yellow flag in my mind - I tend to find projects are either maintained w/i 3 month intervals or on their way to being abandoned).

Paged through the repo briefly and didnt see the scripts it purports to run (I’m not sure if I just wasn’t looking in the right places - didn’t do a total search).

Website takes forever to load, but does provide decent explanations with good sources on what it aims to do.

My very unprofessional assessment: it doesn’t look like malware, but I wouldn’t trust it to be your full privacy guarantor.

Coffee has antioxidant and antifibrotic effects. Caffeine may not be the important component; polyphenols may be more important. Drinking two or more cups of coffee a day is associated with improvements in the liver enzymes ALT, AST, and GGT. Even in those with liver disease, coffee consumption can lower fibrosis and cirrhosis.[110]

Interesting. I would have assumed caffeine was the critical component, and was wondering why they called out coffee, but this all makes sense as to why.

Can you pass me the chapter that happens in? I tried searching it up a year or so ago, but best I could find was [see moment above].