When the Supreme Court let Trump fire people he wasn’t supposed to be able to fire, they went out of their way to say the Fed is different, somehow more independent than the other “independent” agencies whose independence they’ve taken away.
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ryper@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada to Drop Many Counter-Tariffs in Olive Branch to TrumpEnglish201·5 days agoWe’re only dropping counter-tariffs on items that comply with the CUSMA, which are also exempt from Trump’s broad tariffs. That seems reasonable.
How are you even alive if a tiny mistake like that is enough to give you a stroke?
ryper@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Minnesota sues TikTok, alleging it preys on young people with addictive algorithmsEnglish23·8 days agoMaybe they should sue the federal government for not enforcing the TikTok ban that was supposed to take effect months ago.
ryper@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strikeEnglish3·8 days agoOh, for sure, the government could have gotten the same result by completely ruling out getting involved, and they would have been left looking a lot better; it’s more likely they would have only said they wouldn’t get involved yet, and then the company would have kept stalling.
I wasn’t saying the government did the right thing, just that the union managed to make the most of the government doing the wrong thing.
ryper@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strikeEnglish93·9 days agoThe strike still might have lasted longer if the government hadn’t gotten involved. The company probably got more interested in negotiating after government intervention was ineffective.
ryper@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•US sues California to block tough emissions standards for trucksEnglish4·10 days agoIt’s even worse when you consider that the Senate parliamentarian ruled that they couldn’t invalidate the waivers using the Congressional Review Act, and then they did it anyway.
ryper@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Air Canada union says flight attendants will continue strike, defy governmentEnglish1512·10 days agoTo be a little bit fair, the judge apparently last worked for Air Canada in 2004, and who really cares that much about a company they worked for 20 years ago?
ryper@lemmy.cato Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"English5·11 days agoApparently the TARDIS stopped by. I’m going to have to go back and see if I can spot it.
ryper@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Issues Free Update Offer To Millions Of Windows Users (ads in windows update menu)English6·12 days agoMicrosoft got companies like Samsung, HP and Lenovo to make WMR VR headsets that require the WMR Windows components. There is official support for Steam VR, but the headsets don’t work if the WMR components aren’t there, and after November there will be no officially supported version of Windows with those components. From what I’ve read it’s basically impossible to get WMR working on 10 LTSC, and I assume the situation is the same on 11 LTSC.
ryper@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•With out-of-control rents, why is the Saskatchewan government allergic to rent controls?English11·12 days agoOver the past five years, the cost of rent in purpose-built apartments in Saskatchewan has risen 33.9 per cent, placing the province behind only Nova Scotia (+43.9 per cent), Alberta (+38.5 per cent), and B.C. (+36.9 per cent) for long-term rent growth.
Today’s rent controls do not freeze rents but sets limits to rent increases to prevent price-gouging, while creating clear and consistent rent regulations that provide predictability for landlords, tenants and developers.
Nova Scotia had rent increases capped at 2% from Nov 2020 through Dec 2023, and it’s been 5% since Jan 2024, but we have the highest rent growth. A cap isn’t enough if increases between tenants are uncapped, it just encourages renovictions and other bullshit.
ryper@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Issues Free Update Offer To Millions Of Windows Users (ads in windows update menu)English16·12 days agoSeparately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025. Users must upgrade to version 24H2 or 25H2 to continue receiving security updates.
Windows 11 23H2 was the last version that supported Windows Mixed Reality. They’re really in a hurry to kill WMR.
ryper@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interfaceEnglish5·12 days agoI actually like this strategy, they’re taking hope away from people who think Windows alternates between good versions and bad versions by announcing they’re going to follow up a bad version with another bad version.
ryper@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Republican SC Rep. RJ May charged with distributing child sex abuse materialEnglish34·14 days agoMay was arrested at his West Columbia home Wednesday, roughly 10 months after his house was raided in August 2024 by U.S. Homeland Security Investigation agents, who seized various electronic devices, such as cellphones, hard drives, a CD and thumb drives.
May, a married father of two children under the age of 10, last won reelection in November 2024. He was challenged by a write-in candidate.
Apparently voters in his district didn’t think having his home raided by Homeland Security was overly suspicious.
ryper@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the InternetEnglish5·14 days agoI think the headline just means people in those states are going to hit age verification on a lot more sites than in states whose laws include the 1/3 harmful content threshold.
ryper@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Trump says he's placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National GuardEnglish6·16 days agoHe said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”
Isn’t Congress already on vacation? Is he going to order the Supreme Court to put rulings on hold for a while too?
ryper@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage rulingEnglish98·17 days agoSupreme Court: We’re public servants and we’re free to enforce our religion on others.
ryper@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•Texas becomes seventh state to ban lab-grown meat: The new law establishes civil and criminal penalties for selling the product.English46·19 days agoTexans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate
So y’all would be on board with a law to have meat packaging list everything the animals had been injected with, right?
There was a man on the old logo and no man on the new logo. Totally woke.