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Godric

@ Godric @lemmy.world

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  • Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time

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  • What? Building data centers in a region known for a constant lack of regional stability in order to take advantage of cheap land and labor isn't working out????

  • Trump says ‘I guess’ Americans should worry about Iran retaliating on U.S. soil: ‘Like I said, some people will die’

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  • I was told Dems were just BLUMAGA, yet here we are.

  • TIL that Rudyard Kipling (writer of the jungle book) wrote a poem called "IF". A few lines of this poem are highlighted in the entrance of Wimbledon's Centre Court.

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  • If you can keep your head when all about you

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;

    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

    Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

    If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

    If you can meet with triumph and disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;

    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

    Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

    And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,

    And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

    Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

    If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—

    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • My family loves quoting Burn Notice, especially after doing something foolish. When you're a spy...

  • Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke

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  • Crocodillians are so fucking cool!

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  • Someone else reccomended the kinesis as well! Mobility is not a major concern, if it fits in a backpack, I'm OK. Is it mechanical? As everyone knows, keys that go clickety-clack are a must

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  • I'll look into the kinesis! I finally got a chair for my office/game desk, and my arms are resting too far apart for a connected keyboard.

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  • Can anyone reccomend a split keyboard? I bought one last week, but it's tiny and lacks FN keys and holding down alt practically curls my thumb into my pinkie.

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  • Oh shit! Is that the bug Biden appointed to be in charge of nighttime? Glad she's doing well :)

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • The first time I had a friend reccomend him, I gave them a funny look, thinking they were talking about Joe Hill the musician and labor organizer XD

    Edit: I'm sick of people mentioning musicians without songs; here's Preacher and the Slave, from which we get the term "Pie in the Sky".

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyGpFncovU

    Performed by the late Utah Phillips, as Joe Hill was executed a good 110 years ago.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • True lol, it's never not been, it's hardwired into humans, but it was nice when certain industries were new and there wasn't so much buildup for the enthrenchment

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • I miss when actors used to be some random boxer a director met in a Cuban bar or the drunk tank, instead of the executive producer's nibling or some fucking baronet.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Gates isn't the only one with a chip on their shoulder, people generally don't get called "Tankies" just for criticizing crony capitalism

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Stephen King's child at least doesn't write under the name "King" to avoid nepotism. I can't read the actual paid article because just going off headlines is apparently OK here, but it doesn't seem like she's trying.

    Her chip on her shoulder is a tiny one she blows out of proportion, like so many "problems" of the uber-wealthy.

  • Live Updates: US Supreme Court rules against Trump Tariffs

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  • I will gladly admit that's partially my own wishful thinking. But hey, America is not a monolith, and that fucking moron isn't dictator yet.

  • Live Updates: US Supreme Court rules against Trump Tariffs

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  • Yep, probably should have said that Trump waking up, rolling some dice, and deciding tariff rates based on that is restrained

  • Live Updates: US Supreme Court rules against Trump Tariffs

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  • Honestly yeah, Republicans not being allowed to burn their hands on the oven is good for them.

  • Live Updates: US Supreme Court rules against Trump Tariffs

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  • My predictions, in no order:

    Economy becomes better as there's finally clarity on what the tariff policy is going forward. Also: no tariffs! This is big, because nobody could plan for the future at all when the policy was whatever Trump feels like that morning. Companies will probably get the tariffs refunded, and they'll pay themselves fat bonuses while continuing to upcharge consumers.

    Europe/our other allies can see this as a sign stating that Trump's will is not the whole of the law, and he hasn't won the absolute power he craves. He can be restrained, at least a little. Freer trade means better relations when an orange lunatic isn't trying to gouge your country economically.

    Trump's ego is hurt, so he's probably starting a war with Iran unless they give up their nuclear program. Khamenei is also a humiliation-adverse dictator, so a deal probably won't happen.

    Epstein files get further and further from the public consciousness.

  • Live Updates: US Supreme Court rules against Trump Tariffs

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  • Trumpist lawyer when a Democrat elected for competence rather than loyalty walks in the room: