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There are natural sounding text-to-speech systems these days. Why is AA using this ten-year-old tech with the janky speaking cadence?

I just used one of the new walkways at T4. Their website says the project is taking so long because the old equipment must be "completely demolished" before replacement. But it will be worth it because

> New walkways will provide users with an enhanced experience, shaving multiple seconds off of the previous equipment’s travel time.  

IDK, it didn't seem any faster to me (also it was much slower overall because one of the replacements was finished but not running). I hope there are more reasons than this to replace this equipment because it must be costing a small fortune.

He said at the end of S13E17 but I couldn't understand him

Is there an equivalent German idiom to the English "took care of business" or "taking care of business"? I realize one could literally translate but it might not have the same implication.

I am all for freedom of religion. But I shouldn't be forced to participate by helping fund a system to accommodate ridiculous beliefs. Standing in the blue circle triggers an electrical current so that's no different than pushing a button.

Neutral summary: Reports on a new Pell Center "Voices of Value" survey examining how Americans understand the nation's origins. The piece opens with remarks President Trump made while welcoming King Charles III for the country's 250th anniversary, in which Trump characterized America as founded on the inherited "Anglo-Saxon" character and "blood and noble spirit" of British settlers rather than as an idea. It links the former position to a broader "blood and soil" ethnonationalist tradition and to similar statements by Vice President J.D. Vance. To test how widely this view is held, the survey asked likely voters whether the country is built on the Declaration's idea that everyone is born with rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or on the character of the Anglo-Saxon people. Respondents favored the ideals-based formulation by 85 to 15 percent, with Republicans and 2024 Trump voters preferring it even more strongly (88-12). Presents the findings as further evidence, consistent with the Lab's earlier polling, that most Americans view national identity as based on ideals rather than ancestry, and that Republican leadership far out of step with this view.

Commentary: This post is by Colin Woodard, author of American Nations (good TL;DR here), one of the best books I've read in a good long time. When it was published in 2011, Woodard predicted the present American political situation, with the Republican party, representing the Deep South, waging Civil War 2.0.

He is running these ads that describe him as a "Trump conservative" (an oxymoron if ever there was one) and have a split screen with the tyrant on one side and hin on the other.

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IDK...is it a smart idea to hitch your wagon to a guy with a sub-40% approval rating?

I've had a giant-ass limb break off my palo brea tree. The guys who did my trees in the past have retired. Can anyone recommend someone reliable and insured who won't charge me a fortune?

Neutral summary: This essay argues that that the Trump administration's Iran negotiations — led by VP JD Vance — structurally mirror the Obama-era JCPOA deal Trump spent years denouncing. Planes full of billions in frozen Iranian assets have already been flown to Tehran through the UAE, effectively front-loading payment before any nuclear compliance. Vance has been anonymously briefing media to build the appearance of public support — aimed more at convincing Trump than informing the public — and that by calling a ceasefire and entering diplomacy, Trump has surrendered the military leverage that made Iran's position vulnerable, leaving no credible enforcement mechanism if Iran fails to meet its commitments.

Anybody know why they have the W bound off ramp from US 60 to Mill Ave closed? It has been closed for weeks and anytime I've looked there's no work being done.

I was using Co-work yesterday, and Claude (Opus) was having lots of problems related to file syncing/reading/corruption. Examples:

• I can't read the prompt — same sync problem, but worse this time: the uploaded file is arriving as all-zero bytes in my sandbox and hasn't hydrated after repeated polling,
• The workspace remounted (new session path) and deps were lost. Let me re-detect the mount, reinstall deps, and re-verify from a clean state.
• The byte size matches host (58533) but bash reads are truncated mid-stream — a mount read bug. My append may have landed at the wrong offset. Let me check the host file end immediately.
• The bash append split line 1420 and destroyed a fragment. I'll repair it with a host edit (and stop using bash to write to these files entirely):
• I need to stop using bash writes on these mounts — they corrupt. Let me diagnose bash's actual cached copy (read-only) to plan a safe path.
• A note on this environment: my sandbox's view of large files (graph.py is ~59 KB) was syncing unreliably, so I verified against a reconstructed copy rather than running tests in place. The actual file in C:\foo is complete and correct — but since I couldn't run Python directly against it, it's worth a quick python -m pytest tests/test_graph.py tests/test_app.py on your end to confirm before committing.

There were a lot more such messages. I eventually got the results but it seemed like it spent more time dealing with these file problems than doing the actual work.

Has anyone else seen this? I'm concerned that my quota is being burnt up by such machinations.

I was just watching S1E3 of Ready Jet Cook. He was making Korean style cucumber kimchi. Did this by combining chopped onions, garlic, and garlic chives with gochujaru then "stuffing" that into cukes that had been sliced lengthwise in a checkerboard pattern (not quite all the way thru). He then arranged these in a jar and poured over with a mixture of sugar and water to cover about the bottom 1/3 of the cukes. Then he left these overnight, apparently at room temp.

Is this going to result in a ferment? I thought you needed salt to select for the LAB. Also how much ferment are you going to get overnight?