La Crosse's demographics and voting history is just marginally more for Democrats so I wonder what the justification is besides "nah"

This is my biggest fear these days. I have MS and because of the damage already, I can't be exposed to temps above ~85F (~29.4c) before becoming disabled.

I have been fortunate enough to be able to afford a 6KwH capable PV system and have now added ~55Mj of storage which would be enough to power a small chest freezer and hopefully keep a basement room cool enough with an inverter heat pump. Like I said, I have been very fortunate because that cost me a mid-luxury car worth of money in mostly upfront cash.

Which makes it feel like a crime what is happening to the PV/Solar industry in the USA because of corruption. For over a decade the cost of cells and even the inverters have been going down but who knows if that will continue now?

This is going to get so much worse. I am on the "foothills" or east side of the rockies and we're currently experiencing our version of a "monsoon" https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/co/denver From 8/24/26 today into September, the most precipitation is 0.05 inches (.13cm).

The entire month we have just under 1 inch of rain https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/co/denver/KBKF/date/2026-8

This is supposed to be the wet side of the Rockies and we aint got shit.

Meanwhile the watershed for the Colorado River is scraping along the bottom of the current model's worst projected scenario https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-plots/POR/PREC/assocHUC6/140100_Colorado_Headwaters.html?showYears=2026

This is, so far, the worst recorded amount in over a decade, including the droughts in 2018 and 2012.

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This is Vail's snow pack https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/site-plots/POR/WTEQ/CO/Vail%20Mountain.html?showYears=2026 All the the snow pack records across the water shed look like this where the actual amount is below even the minimum

"consultants" in that they are basically a mixture of cultists and also very aware their future is Microsoft or bust.

I fought and lost to get a simple LAMP box to run a web app for my squadron using software written by dozens of others in my specialty. We lost because a lt. Colonel with a guaranteed seat at Microsoft just said no.

this sounds like a half ass attempt to do what what Edgerunners did with Cyberpunk.

Only one out of 350k-380k commissioned officers is actually keeping their word and defending the constitution.

I wonder which of our allies we're going to start bombing first?

I remember when version 1 of cgroup went out to the world with 2.6(or was it 2.8)? I thought it looked interesting and had a couple ideas to try but I never found the free time. Next thing I know I am in the audience at PyCon listening about this Docker thingy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs

Me and two of the other DevDave's were here. Pretty easy to spot me, I am the sexy & suave one.

Fine, "I wonder which of our more reliable victims we're going to start bombing first?"

I don't think enough people inside of and outside the USA truly comprehend how bad things actually are already and where they're heading towards.

When I was really bored (everyday that ends with a y) when I was in service, I'd do random searches of the DOD email directory.

There were more than one person with the last name of Puddle in the US Navy during the 00's. I often wonder what their recruiters were thinking and if everyone was screaming at each other "Don't fucking tell them their title, not yet!"

Ah yeah, I can definitely see Mexico. Do they have any form of anti-air weaponry?

Oh wow, reading the wiki you linked, looks like that one exec really learned their lesson \s

On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy.[5] Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000.[6] Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal#2002%E2%80%932005

edit/update: Oh, wow so Sun Woo Lee actually really lucked out as Korea focused more on making an example of the Samsung heir apparent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong

8 months in prison sucks, I totally concede that. Yet literally the deal they made looks like they were asked "Would you take the fall and go to prison for 8 months and then get paid millions per year afterward?"

It's kinda insane to frame OpenAI as remotely equal to Apple with "two of the world's biggest tech companies".

Apple has multiple profitable revenue streams, hundreds of physical stores, that giant donut super villain headquarters, they basically own multiple factory towns in Asia, and on top of it they have an ocean of capital hidden somewhere for a "rainy century" scenario. I think their only consistent loss leader is AppleTv, right?

OpenAI's business is generating something embarrassing like $100 for every $1000 spent (just random exaggerated numbers as sarcasm).

This outrageously dishonest narrative is being pushed constantly everywhere and I am more than just sick of it.

I remember Reddit used to have the ability to show both upvote and downvotes. I miss that feature.

Yankovic is well into the "I don't fucking give a fuck" stage of life and could easily have just said "Fuck yeah" like a certain pot smoking rapper performing at a controversial political event or the comedians that are OK with blood money.

I am happy people like him exist.

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ah man that sucks. I kinda like XDA and polygon.

Doesn't the mob and other syndicates do something like that as well? Gotta do some time and not snitch to move up in the ranks.

That was such a wonderfully disturbed show.

Reminds of the SG1 episode where the super advanced aliens turn to humanity for help against a constantly adapting AI scourge because humans are skilled at solving problems in unpredictably stupid but effective ways.

As a veteran this is pretty much on brand. A joke at the VA is that half the reason they're so recalcitrant with declaring tinnitus and hearing loss as a disability is because everyone has some sort of measurable hearing damage from service.

For myself, I've had tinnitus for so long I don't remember life without it always being there.

Bill Clinton named an airport after Ronald Reagan, the guy who fired something like 10,000 FAA air traffic controllers for wanting to strike.

Biden told the rail road engineers who were almost literally begging to be treated like human beings they couldn't strike, here's more money you don't have any time to spend, and kiss my ass because "I am the pro-union" president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute

Newsom pushed through a age verification law. How can that work unless it is a national login page? Reddit, imgur, lemmy/piefed, and pretty much everything else would require a digital bouncer at the door because none of this is designed to keep a tiny fraction of the countries total population from being psychologically scared like all the rest of us have been.

Establishment Democrats have been enabling the Republicans for decades.