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dhork

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  • OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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  • I'm not an accountant, but you can certainly balance books while showing a loss. Double-entry bookkeeping simply means that every transaction has two parts, and "balancing" simply means that all the transactions cancel out properly.

    I joke with my accountant friends that their entire job is counting to zero.

  • Experts alarmed as Trump launches broad-front attack on US voting rights

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  • Sigh. Donald Trump did not become President (Twice!) by listening to experts....

  • OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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  • That's quite easy, the books are balanced, there are just more debits than credits. "Balancing the books" doesn't mean that the net result is zero, it means that all the money going in and going out is accounted for.

    OpenAI can keep bleeding money as long as there are fools willing to fund it in exchange for the illusion of future profits.

  • Christian right calls James Talarico "demonic" — for quoting Jesus

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  • That's because the problem is not whether or not he was exact in his quotation. He could have been reading those passages directly from the book and they would have still had a cow.

    And the article actually nails the reason why quite well: those passages are inclusionary, and really points out how these Nationalist Christians are distorting that message. They have turned their form of American Christianity into only caring about abortion, guns, and how evil immigrants and trans people are. But the Jesus in that book loves everyone, unconditionally, and calls his followers to love everyone too.

    If Jesus were alive today, the Nat-C's would have sent him to CECOT already. (It doesn't help his case that he's a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew....)

  • Eric Trump messaged UFC insider asking if White House fights were 'rigged': report

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  • He wasn't asking, he was confirming it.

  • The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown

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  • I wouldn't go that far. All the websites, apps, and electronic services we use every day are hosted in some datacenter somewhere. I'd say we get value out of that.

    They didn't become a political football until the AI companies drastically increased how much power and cooling each rack used. I don't think we're getting enough extra value out of stuffing AI in everything to justify the added environmental cost over more standard, non-AI web services.

  • Keir Starmer raises eyebrows as he proudly declares himself a 'gooner'

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  • Seems kind of tame for British PMs, at least Starmer hasn't fucked a dead pig, as far as we know

  • Nintendo will pay a $40 million fine for faulty Joy-Cons

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  • In German, wouldn't that all be one word?

  • President Trump roundly booed by New York crowd at NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG

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  • Baron Von Shitzenpantz

  • Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian

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  • Why does the DoD get to decide who are the Christians and who aren't in the first place?

  • SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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  • They didn't reject adding SpaceX, they simply said they would not change the rules to add it early, like the other indexes are. Those rules include a minimum time listed as a public company, a certain percentage of shares being floated to the public, and some profitability. I doubt SpaceX ever gets there.

    Some of those other AI companies might make it through the gauntlet, though, and be listed eventually.

  • The Trumpian "War on Fraud" Is a Trojan Horse for Austerity

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  • No, if you call it "austerity" you are at least trying to hide it behind a veneer of self sacrifice. These folks aren't even doing that anymore.

  • The Trumpian "War on Fraud" Is a Trojan Horse for Austerity

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  • No, it's not. "Austerity" implies that everyone does without. It's not that at all, it's simply vindictive. They want to subject people they hate to "austerity", while carving out exceptions for their friends (who they think deserve it more, anyway).

  • Trump floats replacing 250th anniversary concert with massive MAGA rally after artists pull out

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  • Trump floats

    I was gonna post that that was doubtful, but then I Did My Own Research and discovered that morbidly obese people have an easier time floating

  • I couldn't believe how cheap it sold for

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  • Aren't they losing a ton of money, though?

  • Bessent: Nothing 'untoward' about Trump appearing on $250 bill

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  • The thing with laws is that Congress can always change them by passing another law....

    ... but from what I've read, the current text of Joe Wilson's bill carves out an exception for "living and former Presidents". So, if this passes, we may get our Obama $420 bill someday....

  • Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait

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  • Here's a link to a news station not run by a fascist enabler

    https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/trump-250-bill-proposal-sparks-backlash/

    The reported push by Trump administration officials comes despite the 1866 Thayer Amendment, which makes it illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official U.S. currency, bonds or other financial notes. Additionally, current law limits U.S. currency to specific denominations and a $250 bill is not on that list.

  • For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers

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  • Note = loan in this context. OP is saying he doesn't want the burden of a monthly payment on a new car, and would rather buy a cheaper car that he doesn't need to borrow for. (Although these are becoming harder to find, at least in the US....)

  • Trump to get 'routine annual' medical exam 7 months after last visit to Walter Reed

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  • No, they definitely would sit on the appointment if it's someone dumb.

    They might take what they think is the "middle ground" and let a "compromise candidate" through. But I hope they remember that Merrick Garland was the "compromise candidate", and Mitch and Lindsey still shit all over that pick.