All I know is Hercules is weirdly mad about it.
Literally "you know who was a great president? Ronald Reagan".
In an era where people, right and left, are loudly cheering on a guy that allegedly murdered a CEO, this idiot advisor thinks the direction we need to go is defunding Medicare and further privatization of government functions.
This jackass wants Democrats to be a conservative party to respond to the existing conservative party. He literally wants to do the southern strategy again.
So let's be really fucking clear here on what Vivek and Musk want. It isn't more immigration. They want disposable tech workers that they can ship back to their countries of origin when they misbehave. They want the power dynamic they have over H1Bs that they don't have over US citizens.
What Musk and Vivek can't find isn't "motivated" americans. They can't find cheap american tech workers who have to take abuse or else they get deported.
This is, BTW, why right wingers focus so heavily on border control but not employment enforcement. You could end 90% of undocumented workers today if you penalized businesses found employing them. And it's real fucking easy to find those businesses. Go to just about any farm in the US.
The reason for boosting ICE funding is so a business owner can turn to their undocumented employees and say "If you don't fall in line, I'll call ICE and deport your ass". This allows them to issue all sorts of abuse at their employees that they can't get away with for US citizens.
This is why open borders or easy paths to citizenship is important.
Every single step that Luigi took, right before shooting the ceo, was legal. Everything the CEO and his company did to their customers is legal.
I'm all for changing the legal system in any way that would make it harder for unwell people to get guns or insurance CEOs to stop murdering and maming their subscribers through denials. We don't have the political will to change any of that so excusing me for not shedding tears over this CEO's death.
There was a literal mass shooting at a school the same day. I feel way worse for those kids.
Being against the death penalty and bemused at conservative political consequences is not hypocrisy. Maybe stop being angry at "the left" for not shedding tears and instead propose any change that would have prevented this.
Yup. The reason most of them are on death row is it takes literally decades of litigation before someone can be put to death (a good thing). By commuting their sentences Biden is saving the taxpayers millions.
Oh boy. He's actually a president I hate almost as much as Reagan!
The Clinton legacy was the complete dismantle of the federal government and privatization of core government functions. He's why we have private prisons and partial privatization of Medicare.
He was a conservative Democrats when those were still a thing. Gore was the political opposite of what Clinton stood for.
Clinton balanced the budget by ransacking social programs and aging a bunch of means testing to make qualifications what they are today. He's why public housing disappeared.
The only thing Clinton did that I like is cutting back on defense spending. He was otherwise a terrible president that unified conservative ideals of both the conservative Dems and Republicans at the time.
The only reason he didn't do more damage is the response of the Republicans at the time ended up being newt gingrich who drove the party further to the right and made it a party motto to obstruct everything that a Democrat wants to do.
Clinton move the Democrats right which caused Republicans to run farther right. The conservative Democrats that came in with Clinton still linger today with all the shitty notions of what government should look like. That's why Kamala ran the dumbass campaign that she did. DC is infected with the notion that Democrats need to be Republican lite. All this comes from DC morons wanting desperately to recreate the Clinton presidency.
You are talking about unowned and unadvertised housing. A new trend in the housing market has been people buying houses and putting them on air bnb while they wait for the value to appreciate. Several houses in my neighborhood did that.
That alone has taken a huge number of units off the market.
But then on top of that, there's been rent collusion with apps like yield star which has ballooned the cost of housing to unreasonable levels. Landlords have let units sit empty because they know following the yield star recommendations will ultimately maximize their profits.
Building housing helps, but so long as these factors exist no level of new housing can compete. We'd have to more than double the empty units to make a dent in the pricing from these speculative owners. Even that might be too much.
A similar phenomenon has happened in China. There are literally giant "ghost cities" because real estate is a speculative market.
From the preview, I'm guessing honey is shaking down retailers. If someone hasn't partnered with them then they'll do what's on the tin, apply the best coupon available. They tell the retailers they'll stop if they agree to a partnership.
Not really. I'm thinking of Dianne Feinstein who literally ended up being escorted everywhere with a gaggle of staff to keep the press from asking her questions.
Boomers are the most selfish and entitled generation.
The amount of power AI and Crypto require is orders of magnitude the amount of power required by pretty much any regular application. The company I work at uses somewhere around 2000 CPU cores worth of compute at AWS (and we have ~100 microservices. We are a fairly complex org that way).
Generally speaking, an 80CPU core system takes up ~200W worth of power. That means my companies entire fleet operating eats about 5kW of power when running full bore (it isn't doing that all the time). My company is not a small company.
Compare that to what a single nvidia A100 eats up. Those GPUs take up to 400W of power. When doing AI/crypto stuff you are running them as hard as possible (meaning you are eating the full 400W). That means just 12 AI or crypto apps will eat all the same amount of power that my company with 100 different applications eats while running full bore. Now imagine that with the model training of someone like chatgpt which can eat pretty much as many GPUs as you can throw at it.
To put all of this in perspective. 5kW is roughly what a minisplit system will consume.
Frankly, I'm way more concerned about my companies travel budget in terms of CO2 emissions than I am our datacenter usage.
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Wysiwygs were all the rage in the late 90s early 00s with a promise that the hard part of development was actually just doing the layout.
Tools like frontpage have been tricking incredulous entrepreneurs that programming is easy since at least then.