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dhork

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  • Delaware court upholds voting by companies in small town's election

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  • How much property? You could just register 1 sqcm of your lawn to each corp....

  • Delaware court upholds voting by companies in small town's election

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  • However, plaintiff has not demonstrated ⁠that this policy violates the principle of one person/entity/one vote.

    Since when did we ever have a principle of "one entity/one vote"?

    This is a gigantic loophole, simply live in that town and register a corporation there and you can vote twice.

  • The Miller Doctrine | Stephen Miller is in large part dictating U.S. foreign policy, with a mindset of unilateral violence on a maximum scale.

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  • The Miller Doctrine:

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

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  • If Democrats win control of the House, then it will happen earlier, because once the VP becomes President, the VP position becomes vacant, and can only be filled if both houses of Congress approve. And Democrats would likely use the "McConnell doctrine" to sit on any appointment made by President Vance and not act on it.

    That would effectively give Democrats an extra half vote in the Senate, because there would be no VP to break ties. And the next Democratic House Speaker would be next in line if, somehow, President Vance also leaves office.

    So, once the returns are in (with good news for Democrats), if the plan was to shove Trump to the side it will happen before the new House takes over, while Republicans can still pick a new VP.

  • Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store

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  • Also known as the "Kristi Noem Rule"

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    Trump's revenge politics comes back to haunt him

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  • You might have realized this already, but if you didn't, this posted eleventy gazillion times

  • Tourists Boycott U.S. at Record Rates After Trump Takeover

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  • The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

    THE DAILY SLOP (AS I LIKE TO CALL IT) IS TOTALLY WRONG ON THIS, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM SHITHOLE CUNTRIES WANT TO COME HERE, SO MANY THAT WE CANT KEEP THEM ALL OUT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER....

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    Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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  • For the same reason why they let so much water evaporate. They could convert some of that heat back into electricity, just like they could run closed-loop cooking systems, but it would cost more money than it would save. There's no financial incentive to do so....

    .... Until regulators start insisting! These datacenter folks have gobs of money, we shouldn't be shy about requiring them to not ruin the local environment.

    It would be best to do it on a national level, otherwise these folks will just shift the development to someplace without the regulations.

  • ‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

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  • Why are people acting surprised? This is exactly what DOGE intended to do.

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    China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…

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  • How many AI datacenters will it take to boil the ocean?

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    Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers

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  • It’s effective in terms of cranking out software. I’m talking about skilled senior engineers managing this directly. They know what they’re about. But at what cost?

    Those senior engineers became skilled by starting out as entry-level engineers who didn't know all that stuff, but learned from the senior engineers before them (and by writing a lot of bugs that hopefully got caught by code reviews.) Now, companies are using AI as an excuse not to hire entry-level people.

    15 years from now, we will find there are no mid-level people to promote, because they never got their entry-level job and are now waiting tables.

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    Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard

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  • Total guess, but probably $100-150/mo or so to rent 1U (and redundant power), and probably an installation charge (and a charge every time they need to touch the hardware for any reason). There may be extra charges for the uplink.

    Unless you have a need for that specific hardware to be there, it would probably be cheaper (and more maintainable) to go rent a virtual server somewhere.

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    Meta's $10 billion Louisiana data center is getting $3.3 billion in tax breaks—more than seven years of the state's entire police budget

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  • I bet those politicians are getting some sweet bribes gratuitues

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  • I won't even get contact lenses, I ain't letting them putting a chip in my brain.

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    Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard

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  • Those datacenters are already built, though, and consume a fraction of the power of the new sloppified AI stuff. You can get space in one right now, if you want

  • Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B slush fund for allies

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  • Not necessarily, I think the courts were already making noise about the original thing:

    The settlement is also expected to stave off a concern raised by the judge overseeing his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, who has ordered Trump and the DOJ to justify by next week why the case should be able to proceed. In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams questioned whether Trump and the defendants -- the Treasury Department and IRS -- are "sufficiently adverse" for the case to proceed.

    "Moreover, although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. Indeed, President Trump's own remarks about this matter acknowledge the unique dynamic of this litigation," she wrote.

    I think the judge might have been about to start the process to throw it all out, which is why Trump (and his Justice Dept cronies) came up with this "settlement" idea

  • Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B slush fund for allies

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  • The silver lining here is that even Donald Trump has his limits. He seems to acknowledge that ordering the Treasury to pay him $10B directly might go too far. Or "sort of looks bad", as he put it.

    Of course, forming a commission to hand out 1.7B to his friends is just as bad. The Courts will probably strike that down, too, and he will whine about it.

  • Nebraska Democratic Senate primary winner says she’ll drop out to support independent in general election

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  • If the Democratic brand is so toxic that candidates in certain states are better off running without it, that sounds like a problem with the party itself.

    I wonder if that's the real reason why that "2024 autopsy" is not getting released: it shows that the Democrats are toxic to most average voters. (And not because they are "not progressive enough....")

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    Donald Trump Is Going For His Third ‘Dentist Visit’ This Year … And It’s Hard Not To Speculate

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  • John Fetterman is a US Senator from Pennsylvania. He was already one of the more conservative Democrats, but he had a stroke during his Senate campaign, and when he got better he took a sharp right turn.

    At this point, whenever there is a vote where all the Democratic Senators except one vote in a bloc, that one lone holdout is often Fetterman.