Interesting, I'd kinda lost interesting in the last few seasons were Rick was just a straight asshole with no real growth (or even teasing of growth). Just watching characters treat each other poorly isn't a particularly fun pass time.
That said, I'll try a few new episodes and see if it clicks.
This feels more like engine manufacturer QC rather than anything Airbus.
Because also, from Wikipedia: On 22 June 2011, Qantas announced that it had agreed to a compensation of AUD$95 million (£62 million/US$100 million) from Rolls-Royce. - skipping Airbus entirely.
The whole business of airliners engines is fascinating in its own.
AIUI when you're buying a plane from Airbus, it's possible/frequent to own the _airframe_; but not the engines — the engines are often _leased_ (sometimes directly from RR/GE); I've even heard of cases where each engine will be owned by a different entity!
I still agree with parent’s definition more because it also covers the ironic, sarcastic case, as well as the inherent ambiguity of the word ‘besser’. Plainly put, ‘better’ for who?
If you just say it as a logical series of making it worse while making it better you miss that the intention of the ‘better’ is the first place wasn’t even the intention to make it better for the user.
Legal filings by the State of New York indicate that this was not in fact the case and they were asking Kalshi to halt offering their product to the public in the state of NY only.
Most people invoke the "states' rights" platitude when the federal government oversteps on constitutional matters that haven't been specifically legislated. In this case, Congress already passed a law regulating these activities, and it seems pretty clear-cut that Kalshi engages in interstate commerce, so New York will likely lose if this gets to the Supreme Court.
That's not to say I think event prediction markets are good. In fact, I think they should be banned. That doesn't change my analysis of the current situation.
> In this case, Congress already passed a law regulating these activities, and it seems pretty clear-cut that Kalshi engages in interstate commerce, so New York will likely lose if this gets to the Supreme Court.
That is a wild take. Interstate regulatory power does not prevent a state from passing laws regulating things happening inside its own state.
If no federal law exists on that subject, then yes, that's how the Supremacy Clause works. However, an existing federal law preempts state regulations.
As an example, let's say Congress deemed fidget spinners a serious hazard to society. Congress can take two broad approaches to deal with them: (1) regulate, or (2) ban. In the first case, any state laws regulating fidget spinners could theoretically continue to exist, so long as those laws do not conflict with the federal laws and states are allowed to have additional regulations beyond those federal. In the second case, those laws become moot, as fidget spinners are not allowed.
Another reason why this works can be seen in the dynamics of data control laws like the HIPAA, COPPA, and CCPA (they're not privacy laws but data control). If you are an entity operating in the US covered under HIPAA or COPAA, it doesn't matter if your corporate headquarters are in California or Delaware; you must comply with those laws. With the CCPA, California decided that it wanted additional data control laws in the vein of the EU's GDPR, and that's their right because (1) no existing broad-scale federal data control law currently exists and (2) the Constitution does not give Congress the exclusive power to regulate data flows.
Nuclear scepticism… did you know that nuclear power plants need cooling? Germany is learning that lesson the hard way right now, just check the news, it really speaks for reducing their dependency on nuclear as having been a very very good idea.
No wait, they’re not learning it the hard way because they’ve already got rid of them. Phew…
Corollary: If a computer makes a business decision, the person who delegated the decision to the computer must be held accountable.
Consequence: All business decisions will eventually be delegated to computers via sufficiently convoluted and untraceable processes such that no manager can ever be held accountable.
I did most of Advent of Code last year code golfing in MUMPS (running on Caché), with the additional challenge on up to and including day 7 doing without literals - that's to say no numbers and no strings. It was good fun - https://github.com/dominique-m-aoc/aoc-2025/blob/main/day03p... for day three part 1 for example. Or day 7 part 2 where the alphanumeric chars spell a story with only two nonsense words, with almost all the chars being on their own: https://github.com/dominique-m-aoc/aoc-2025/blob/main/day07p... It is a neat language but even more so a neat overall system and bag of concepts that I feel annoyed we haven't seen more of...
Not having literal strings in the source code, I do need to get a capital “R” somewhere and the name of the system being “IRIS” in system variable $ZV makes that easy and terse. Apart from that one trick I think it’ll be more or less just fine.
That's cool; amazing you indeed coded in MUMPS and not in ObjectScript ;-) Caché is (was) a great technology; ironically they tried to look like a relational database in the nineties, and then eventually came the NoSql boom. How did you get to MUMPS?
First job out of university and stuck around with it for the next dozen years, probably longer than sensible... in the context of maintaining a bag of software that got put together in the mid-80s, a substantial module of which continued to enjoy some moderate success to this day.
Also, the marketing term was post-relational if I recall correctly, the funny thing about that being that it was really pre-relational at first. Also, I forgot, it was IRIS this AOC stuff runs on - the $ZV actually needs that "R" in IRIS so it knows what label to jump to... and what file mode to use... it's wonderfully cursed ;P
One thing I miss about Caché/Ensemble/IRIS is the three different paradigms for manipulating the same bits of data - the whole object layer, SQL (with pre-compiled embedded SQL an option), and the raw global access.
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