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  • Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

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  • [he] addressed the “immense” energy needs of AI, acknowledging that the intensive energy requirements of expanding AI ventures have caused slippage on Alphabet’s climate targets. However, Pichai insisted that the company still wants to achieve net zero by 2030 through investments in new energy technologies. “The rate at which we were hoping to make progress will be impacted,” Pichai said, warning that constraining an economy based on energy “will have consequences.”

    We need "line go up" so badly, we're willing to bake the planet.

    “We will have to work through societal disruptions,” he said, adding that the technology would “create new opportunities” and “evolve and transition certain jobs.”

    Someone once described AI as "a way for the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth".

  • US May Owe £760BN in Tariff Refunds if Trump Loses at Supreme Court

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  • Justice Amy Coney Barrett called this scenario 'a mess', warning that the government could face an administrative crisis of unprecedented scale. Trade lawyers say the impact could be overwhelming. Many of President Trump's tariffs changed multiple times, and shipments often contained goods subject to different rates. The result is years of tangled customs data.

    Despite the fact that it's going to be a shitshow to clean the royal fucking mess you've made, you still have to clean up your royal fucking mess.

  • TIL people in Montana, Alaska and Wyoming have the highest suicide rate.

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  • Man, that 100°W longitude is just a killer, isn't it?

  • Trump cuts ties with Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a "ranting lunatic"

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  • Greene was full-throated MAGA. The issue is that she expected that, when Trump returned to power, she would be rewarded with a position in the administration. Except that she's now an older woman, and she looks it, and they mostly only want young, good-looking women in the administration. Even then, she might've gotten a position, except she insists on voicing her opinions, which they can't stand. An older, not-pretty, vocal woman? Nah.

  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • Bulkhead seats can also be the seats directly in front of a bulkhead, which really suck because often your seat cannot recline while the person in front of you can. Not only do you lose footroom, you lose personal space.

  • Trump admits defeat on tariffs as grocery prices force new executive order

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  • Tiny hands, the tiniest, everyone says so!

  • My cat desperately wants to remover her own face. How do I stop that?

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  • A friend of mine's cat does a less aggressive but similar thing. They now have a ritual every morning and every night, where she gets out a paper towel, the cat jumps into her lap, and she rubs/scrubs away at her ears for a few minutes. My assumption is that my friend's cat has a mild allergy of some kind.

    Assuming that it is an allergy: My personal philosophy on this sort of thing is that I'd rather prevent / minimize the allergen from reaching the cat, rather than letting the allergen reach the car and then treat the symptoms: allergic reactions cause inflammation, which can increase your risk of other health issues later on.

    My personal suggestions, in the order I'd make them, due to the effort or side effects involved:

    1. I'd try gently rubbing the inside of your cat's ears once or twice a day, maybe with a tissue or paper towel. Hopefully this will help reduce her desire to scratch while you're working on diagnosis.
    2. Cats can be allergic to their litter, particularly the dust, clumping agents, or fragrances. Don't switch to a corn-litter, as that's a common-ish food allergy in cats, plus if you have one allergy, you're likely to have others. There are litters marketed as hypoallergenic, but I'm not sure how truthful those claims are. You're looking for one with no fragrances, no clumping agents (an older-style fragrance-free clay litter might work), and minimal dust. Note that some cats get annoyed at litter changes, so you may need to mix old and new litter in increasing percentages over like a week for her to accept the new litter. Once it's full switched, give that a couple weeks and see what happens.
    3. If the litter-change doesn't work, try transitioning your cat (transition over a week or so to avoid stomach upset) to a hypoallergenic cat food. Give it a couple weeks and see if things are better. If it is, then it's likely some kind of food allergy; you can look over the ingredients between the hypoallergenic food and her regular food, to try to determine what she's allergic to so that you can switch her to a less expensive or more readily available food. [You'll want to check wet food, dry food, and all treats.]
    4. If it's not a food allergy, it could be an environmental allergy (the litter is an environmental allergy, but it's also the easiest thing to change). Does the problem get better and worse at different times of year? In that case, it might be something like a pollen allergy (indoor cars can also have pollen allergies). You can get the cat tested for those, not I'm not sure it's worth it because I'm not sure what the allergist would recommend. My suggestion would be to vacuum and dust the house thoroughly, especially the areas where the cat spends much of her time to get rid of any allergens currently present. This does include things like cat trees, cat beds (wash it if possible), etc. Once that's done, I'd put pillowcases or similar small pieces of cloth in her favorite nesting places, and wash those weekly using a fragrance-free laundry soap. I'd install HEPA filters on your HVAC system, and consider one of those room-purifying air circulator units if needed. Doing one thorough cleaning, putting down a washable barrier layer that gets washed regularly, and limiting pollens getting into the house should significantly reduce environmental exposure, particularly if she's an indoor cat.

    I agree that Benadryl is an option, but I'm leaning against it being your first option because it doesn't work in all cats and, like I said, I prefer addressing the cause and not the symptom. But if it is an allergen and you can't figure out the root cause, then Benadryl may be your best option. If you go the Benadryl route, check with your vet for dosing, frequency, safety and side effects (or they may have a recommendation for another allergy medication as well).

    Good luck, and please let us know how you get on!

  • A refugee’s deportation rattles a deeply conservative town: ‘What Trump has done is not Christlike’

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  • Several people from town and church have told Stephanie they are “not gonna vote the same way next election”. “People who’ve been conservative their whole lives are even showing up at liberal protests against ICE raids,” she said.

    I hope we get a next election that's free and fair. I hope they don't vote that way in the next election, or any elections after that. But I'm not holding my breath on either account

  • The Right Is Now Transvestigating Charlie Kirk and His Wife, Erika

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  • I don't think they're going after Charlie, I think they're going after his wife. And I think it's because they don't want her stepping into Charlie's shoes and becoming a competing influence in a crowded world (though honestly I don't think she has much of a chance because she's a woman and maga is entirely too male-centric). But she's just starting to try to pull together a power base, and suddenly, miraculously, she's accused of being trans. If she doesn't fight the rumors, they'll get more outrageous and if she does fight then, she loses momentum. I'm not sure who's pulling this, but if I had to place a bet, I'd guess Fuentes.

  • Trump Freaks Out Over Epstein Emails in Furious Rant

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  • Trump has sued almost everyone over almost everything - but he's never sued anyone over accusations of child sex abuse.

  • I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew

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  • He made a post on reddit like five years ago, doing a brain dump on various features and stuff.

  • Democrats Caved in the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster

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  • The fact that the Democrats want to keep the filibuster to keep progressives in check just makes their cave-in even worse.

    Also, by acknowledging that this was the reason for their submission, it makes it first what we suspected: despite his denials, this move was orchestrated by Schumer, and the "defectors" were specifically chosen because they were either retiring or not up for re-election for so long that other "good deeds" for the manufactured to give them cover when they are up for re-election.

    At this point, I'm only staying with the Democrats so I can pull them as far to the left in the primaries, after that they're on their own.

  • Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds

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  • Yeah, we already knew that, ffs they tried to slip a backdoor nationwide ban into their proposal last week. I am so sick of their shit ...

  • I think I'm suddenly very allergic to my cat maybe? What gives????

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  • Also putting his mattress and pillows into an allergen case.

  • Democrats reach deal to end government shutdown before Thanksgiving: report

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  • I wonder if the bill still has the nation-wide shadow abortion ban in it. I bet it does ....

  • Democrats reach deal to end government shutdown before Thanksgiving: report

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  • God. Fucking. Damnit!

  • Duffy: ’15 to 20′ air traffic controllers retiring daily during shutdown

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  • 20 a day right now, and that number is going to escalate. They're working without pay, bills and rent/mortgage are overdue, savings are disappearing, and trump has said he thinks government workers who are working through the shutdown don't deserve to be paid for that work when it ends. It's a cascade effect, where every retirement increases pressure on those who remain, some of whom will also chose to leave, increasing pressure, etc.

    At some point, there isn't going to be much to stop the cascade, and we were already short on ATC recruitment before all this.

  • US flight cancellations rise as Sean Duffy warns travel could reduce to a ‘trickle’

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  • Hey, how about banning private jets, that would lower the load.

  • Air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

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  • ”Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown [...] We hadn’t seen that before."

    Well, none of the other shutdowns have gone on this long. I'm also struggling to remember any shutdown that's gone on for any length in an economy this clearly bad and heading further downhill. Nor has there ever been a shutdown where the head of the government has said they won't be paid in the end for time worked. It makes perfect sense for the ATC's to prioritize themselves, their families and their finances over a system that consistently and chronically under-values them, over-works and over-stresses them, and has explicitly declared it has no loyalty or concern for the people who work there.