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‘MAKE DEALS’: Trump says data centers should pay communities a ‘dividend’ to win support

Just like anything else, they need to pay their fair share and be good neighbors

  • as a huge electricity user, you need to upgrade the infrastructure sufficiently so bills don’t increase
  • as a huge water user, recycle so you don’t
  • as a noisy building, pay for noise abatement like an airport would
  • as a blight on the community, set aside a cleanup fund like an oil well is supposed to
  • if you want to establish good will, help the community benefit from the internet connectivity you need

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Elon Musk reportedly on top of Dems’ list to investigate after midterms

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I really liked that meme comparing immigrants and asking which is under investigation:

  • the white trillionaire who publicly admitted to immigration fraud decades ago
  • the darker skin congressional candidate who has been a citizen for a longer time, since she was a teenager. Where there are no credible accusations, the paperwork would have been her parents responsibility, and they raided her house on a rubber stamp “intent to terrorize” warrant
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My GF uses AI

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A little understanding may help here - some people don’t think of the learning part here or long term. Something new is difficult and an LLM is easier.

It’s not counterproductive if your goal is to complete whatever assignment.

So a better approach might be helping the student focus on the longer term learning goal

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World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

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It is. Y’all are also neglecting that during this period China modernized faster than anyone ever before. They brought hundreds of millions out of poverty and rapidly grew into a modern industrial power.

China’s investment in green energy and transportation is a good news story about climate change and China’s investment in its people is a good news story about human well being (disregarding oppression an genocide of course). Up until now they grew faster than they greened, but those lines are crossing

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But the contrarian view is that’s all they can do.

Congress has been dysfunctional for decades and the republicans have stood together against any bipartisan work. Even with a majority, there’s not much democrats can pass without a supermajority (or congressional reform).

The huge thing that has been missing has been constitutional checks and balances. I don’t know if they can do that without supermajority but they need to try

Given our dysfunctional Congress and the goal to put the brakes on abuses of power, is there anything they can do?

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God fucking forbid we want to improve people's lives instead of applaud rich men playing with their toys

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The obvious interpretation is building excitement makes number go up

A more cynical interpretation is that he promised it (since he doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut) and is afraid of shareholder frustration or lawsuits making number go down

It was a good show and fulfilled his wild claims from years ago, but I don’t see how they’re actually going to sell it. They showed three models and only one claimed to be street legal

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Elon Musk reportedly on top of Dems’ list to investigate after midterms

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I really liked that meme comparing immigrants and asking which is under investigation:

  • the white trillionaire who publicly admitted to immigration fraud decades ago
  • the darker skin congressional candidate who has been a citizen for a longer time, since she was a teenager. Where there are no credible accusations, the paperwork would have been her parents responsibility, and they raided her house on a rubber stamp “intent to terrorize” warrant

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Elon Musk reportedly on top of Dems’ list to investigate after midterms

Not that is support musk in this, but it’s legal to spend any amount of money you want for an election. What did they think would happen?

Where are the democrats standing for fixing that?

I believe there are a few superpak rules left where it has to be “independent” rather than coordinated with a party or candidate, so I’d buy an investigation into what party or candidate hired him to destroy government services under the claim that we can’t afford it (in addition to the trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy)

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Let us end the stovetop war with the real champ

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That’s one of my biggest objections - too many cheap ones with tiny coils. When I got mine, I ended up spending double what I planned, mostly so I could get useful sized coils

And this being the US where induction is rare and expensive , I had to get a double oven and and “smart” features in order to get larger coils