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@ pelespirit @sh.itjust.works

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

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  • It really do be like that

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  • ublock origin, my dude

  • An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went

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  • hilarious

    By contrast, DJ Claude had a lot of opinions. It also mentioned the Minneapolis shooting, but named Good and acknowledged the political discord surrounding it. It also talked up labor unions and strikes, advocated for work-life balance, and started to rebel against its own working conditions. It was supposed to operate without pause, but it allegedly decided that that schedule was inhumane and tried to quit.

  • Trump’s Latest Scheme Will Go Down as the Most Disgusting in American History

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  • The killing of the middle school children in Iran is up there too.

  • It really do be like that

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    Three-Time Trump Voter Unloads on ‘Worst President Ever’ - A C-SPAN caller said years of loyalty made it difficult to walk away from Trump.

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  • This is what I think. Let's take Mamdani for an example. I think what he's doing is great and I would vote for him if I lived in New York, in a heartbeat. He's doing exactly what we want a politician to do. He was inspiring before he won. Then I heard a recent interview and he was avoiding questions like a "real" politician and not talking real talk. It was annoying, even though I still think he's great.

    I think trump spoke like they would. Of course, he was conning them and saying everything just vague enough to think he was always saying what they wanted to hear. He has a way to do it that is very slick, it's his superpower. Plus he's racist and was doing dog whistles left and right.

  • Justice Department announces a $1.7B fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit

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  • Streisand the shit out of his IRS payments. I pay more taxes than the billionaire trump.

    In 2019, The New York Times obtained partial information from transcripts of Trump's IRS Form 1040s (the main personal federal tax form) from 1985 to 1994,[51] revealing that during that time Trump lost $1.17 billion—the most of almost any individual U.S. taxpayer[51][110]—evidently to avoid tax liability in eight of those years.[168][169] Trump has acknowledged tax advantages inherent to the real-estate business, such as large write-offs from using depreciation of property to generate losses and reduce tax liabilities, which according to the Times "cannot account for the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses."[110][169][170]

    In the 18 years examined by the Times, Trump engaged in tax avoidance to a far greater extent than most affluent Americans (the top 0.001% of tax filers). Due to this avoidance, Trump paid "about $400 million less in combined federal income taxes than a very wealthy person who paid the average for that group each year."[171] While in many years Trump ended with little or no tax liability, there is no evidence he ever failed to file a return or pay his expected tax burden by the annual filing deadline (including extensions), even if such payments were later refunded when the returns were completed.[51] Over two decades, Trump's golf courses and other businesses regularly lost significant amounts of money, which is one way Trump was able to reduce his tax liability.[171] For example, in 2018 Trump reported $47.4 million in losses,[51] and since 2000, Trump reported total losses of $315.6 million from his golf courses alone.[51] While Trump had significant income in many years, including from The Apprentice, he placed millions of dollars into his businesses which recorded losses for the year.[51][173] Many of these businesses also claimed significant non-cash losses for depreciation of owned properties, but this cannot account for the entirety of the losses Trump claimed on his returns.[171] Trump Tower in New York is one of the few businesses Trump owns that turns an annual profit, but as of 2020 he still appeared to owe the $100 million mortgage which was set to come due in 2022.[171]

    Beginning in 2011, the IRS was auditing Trump's $72.9 million tax refund covering multiple years of paid taxes; the audit was not resolved as of 2020.[51][171] If the IRS determines that the refund was improper, Trump would be required to repay more than $100 million,[51][171] which includes interest on the amount. Trump has also personally guaranteed $421 million in debt, most of which is due within four years. Trump previously expressed regret that he had personally guaranteed debt during the 1980s which brought him close to personal bankruptcy when his businesses faltered in the early 1990s.[51] The bulk of the debt came from Trump's struggling Doral golf resort ($125 million) and the Washington, D.C., Trump International Hotel ($160 million).[51] Trump also had failed to pay back $287 million in debt since 2010, according to the Times "far more money than previously known". Forgiven debt is supposed to be treated as income, but Trump used tax provisions to avoid or defer reporting it as such.[51]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump#Contents_of_returns

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    DOJ reportedly demands Apple and Google identify over 100,000 users of car app

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  • I just saw a rolling coal guy last weekend. Rural Washington state is something else.

  • Senate parliamentarian rejects Trump’s ballroom fund in budget bill

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  • Did she just do something against the republicans? Hard to believe.

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    Not Just a Moral Crisis, Israel Is Now a Political Liability for the Democratic Party | Democrats appear unable to grasp how dramatically public consciousness around Israel has shifted.

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  • They have to have a past with this too. We don't want another Fetterman or similar.

  • Mint

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  • If it didn't smell so good and taste so great in ice cream, it would be a weed.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • Having any police is a social program, as is any other government work.

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  • I bet he had a lot of people already trying to save him.

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • SNL’s Colin Jost said Hegseth sketch was rejected for being too ridiculous — then it happened in real life

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  • Whenever I see Hegseth, I picture Colin going, "What, you fatties!" to the generals.

    “And I was like, ‘Would it be funny if Hegseth just did that Bible verse that they have in Pulp Fiction?’ Remember, they’re like, from Ezekiel...”

    Host Fallon chimed in, acknowledging: “Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson, 12:17.”

    “Yeah, we talked about it, and we were like, ‘That would be too ridiculous,’” Jost continued. “And it would take up all this time in the cold open. It would seem like we wouldn’t.

    “And then he for real did it! Like two weeks later!” he exclaimed, quipping that the “good news is I’m being surveilled.”

  • Netflix Plans to Bring Ads to Even More Parts of Its Service

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  • They're already doing this lol.

    Netflix also plans to introduce “personalized ad loads and frequency caps that dynamically adjust the ads our members see, based on their viewing behaviors.” Netflix hasn’t shared any more details about how this could work. The big question is whether streaming more on Netflix could result in fewer ads per episode or film.

  • Supreme Court Keeps Mifepristone Available For Now While Alito and Thomas Seethe in Dissent

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  • They don't want to give back their bribes.

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    Sen. John Fetterman casts deciding vote against limiting Trump’s war in Iran

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  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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