Did they score 4 touchdowns in one game?

He seems to be obsessed with the purity of bodily fluids, just like Jack D. Ripper. Even looks a little like him.

Most of the “New York” area datacenters are in New Jersey, anyway…

My daughter just gave me shit at that age

I bet there are congressional staffers whose only job is to come up with clever, marketable acronyms for bills

We need datacenters to enable all the Internet stuff. If you buy stuff online, binge TV shows, or rot your brain on social media, your phone is communicating with some back-end server in “the cloud”. And the cloud is all in datacenters now, because they are all connected to the Internet, and each other. So if you want to host an Internet service where everyone can get to it, even if it’s just a virtual server on a cloud platform, that virtual server lives in a datacenter.

The reason it is all hitting the news now is that AI hardware takes much more power than a standard Linux server. So new hyperscalar /AI datacenters require a lot more power than older ones. And in areas without sane regulations, datacenters can go up much more quickly than new power plants can go up. So, if local governments and regulators aren’t looking that closely, new datacenters can quickly drive demand that the local utility can’t service without buying more power on the open market. And unless the datacenter is required by local regulations to pay the the higher price for that extra load, the cost is divided across all consumers.

Also, this increased power consumption inside each rack comes with additional cooling requirements. Old datacenters can make do with air cooling, but these new ones all use liquid cooling. And the cheapest way to do that is evaporative cooling, which “uses up” all the water we’ve been reading about. (There are closed-loop methods that don’t “use up” water, but they are more expensive so the datacenters don’t use it).

So, really, it’s all a scaling problem. One datacenter doesn’t cause that much of a problem. But they grow in clumps, like a fungus. Dozens of datacenters in a small area can cause environmental havoc.

If I am reading the article correctly, the point of the lawsuit is not that they used AI to make their staffing decisions. It’s that the criteria they asked the AI to use to make those decisions directly disadvantaged people who were on approved leave for medical reasons, and whose jobs were supposed to be protected by law.

It’s an important distinction. These decision makers delegated their staffing decisions to a bot. But bots are not people. If the instructions given to those bots resulted in actions that violated the law, the decision makers need to be held accountable, I the same manner they would if they made those decisions without AI assistance.

Actually, all “standard” time means is that the time is somewhat related to the sun being directly overhead at noon. I say “somewhat” because once you carve the world up into zones like that, the sun will never be directly overhead at noon except maybe in the middle of the zone.

Did you know China has only one time zone? The entire huge country runs on Beijing time. The far west of the country sometimes doesn’t see a sunrise until 10 AM.

So, there is really nothing “standard” about Standard Time at all.

If we see Donald Trump give that big speech on Thursday in a sweater I will think we fell into the time vortex

In the weeks following a series of Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere, Trump and his allies in the GOP have relentlessly hammered on the idea that the nation was under siege by “godless Communists” who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” rhetoric that echoed McCarthy era red-baiting to many critics.

These “Godless Communists” who are looking to “destroy the traditional American way of life” are doing it by winning elections. So, what Trump and Johnson are saying is that we should send the military after these office holders because he doesn’t like their politics.

I’m old enough to remember when everyone agreed you needed 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate

You never needed 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate. What you need 60 votes for is to decide to stop arguing and hold the actual vote, which has only ever needed a majority. Voting for cloture doesn’t necessarily mean you intend to vote for whatever is being discussed.

Edit: it turns out this was a cloture vote to begin with. So it needed 60 votes anyway.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00195.htm

As I understand it, the way the IRS is structured, if you take in money from any source (documented or not, legal or not), that counts as “income” unless there is an explicit rule saying it does not, and they want their cut.

But, like anything else they do, they only care about significant amounts. If you find a $1 bill (or even a $100 bill) on the ground, nobody is going to audit you over it. But, if $10k drops out of the back of a truck into your lap, and they find out about it, you might expect some uncomfortable questions.

How would they find out? Well, banks are required to report large cash deposits and withdrawals. So if you show up with an extra $40k one day and put it into the bank all at once, the teller may ask you why, and report whatever your answer is to the government. (And if you space it out over 40 deposits of $1k, that is also suspicious and may be illegal if the authorities determine you were doing it specifically to avoid reporting).

Historically, this has been a way to get at organized crime syndicates. Al Capone was a famous mobster who ultimately went to jail bit because of his illegal activities, but because of evading taxes owed on them.

But, because it passed with a supermajority in both houses of congress, it just became law anyway without the president’s signature,

Um Ackshually, the bill would have become law without the President signing it regardless of the size of the majority. The Supermajority matters because that’s what it takes to override a veto.

What probably happened is he wanted to veto it, but his advisors reminded him that Congress had enough votes to override it. And he couldnt let Congress have the last word on it. So, he decided that not signing it would be the best move, depriving Congressional Republicans of what might be their last chance for a major legislative signing photo-op. But while loudly complaining about his steal-all-elections bill, he could at least pivot the conversation back to where he wanted it. And then when the housing bill finally becomes law, there is no big ceremony or to-do about it, just a bunch of nerdy socialists talking about it on their social media…

They have no idea how to coordinate a blockade effectively. But they know how to sound all tough and convince their supporters that they are kicking ass, even if all the missiles are gone and we can’t do shit anymore.

Want your chance to win $100,000? Just pick the first six cities that will get obliterated in the upcoming nuclear war. We call it the “Big Bomb Parlay”…

That is a very thorough analysis, which relies on international law, legal precedent, and common sense.

But, have you considered that Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck, and does what he wants? If he wants to charge a 20% fee for going through a body of water he doesn’t own, who’s gonna stop him? He will just go and do it, before anyone has the time to type out the word “adjudicated” on their phone.

They havent disabled the checks and balanced entirely. They still exist, but Republicans refuse to use them. Democrats had 4 years to fix it, though, and didn’t. If they do gain an advantage in Congress in the midterms, I hope they can use it.

Another impeachable offence. Let’s add it to the pile…