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Nothing’s changed for them; the whole point of their battle was never to save any planet but to make sure regular people do not have abundant nor cheap energy.

IMO the prior answers were vague, snarky, or both.

Straightforward: “genAI” correlates between lots and lots of chunks of information which in the terminology are “parameters.”

Each comparison is small but the number of calculations is staggering, and so processors which do them are big energy users, as are groups of computers offering these services all at once.

The reason it’s “too much” and is driving tech companies to buy up energy We Can’t Have is ostensibly because they want to run genAI all over the place on phones and TVs and search engines and cars and stoplights (to what end, that’s a different story).

I think they’re BSing. I think the current ‘wave’ if you will isn’t capable of doing what they say they’d like to do, and the real situation is that having successfully driven nuclear down they now want to buy it up before someone like a Trump comes along and actually makes energy abundant for serfs like us; I think the whole point AI or not is We Can’t Have It.

Whatever these no-name bands are, they’ve now proven

- They support pedos and criminals and not self-defense; and
- They’re trying to suck up to leftist music producers for SJW credits

Since the primaries in 2016 started coming in, and the political class realized the people detest them as much as they detest us, they’ve made a constant stream of “Trump is so (whatever) we must break every norm, rule, and law.”

The only thing Trump is so (whatever) is that he’s us and not them, and that’s enough.

Nonetheless these muhammedans who are so grateful that Hezbollah is getting damaged didn’t do anything about them themselves. Taquiyya in extremis.

Elissa Slotkin (CIA)

(Like so many of the 2018 crop of Democrats)

I have the opportunity to travel in both typical ‘red’ areas outside of the cities and also into downtown and other ‘blue’ areas (e.g. in the last 4-6 years were flying LGBTQXYZUIOP flags, “In this household we believe” signs, cars with lefty bumper stickers everywhere).

The blue die-hards who are flying some sort of lefty virtue signal daily are sporting Kamel signs. There’s been a flurry in those areas of RFK signs (can’t tell from a sign if they’ll follow his lead to Trump or do a protest vote of some sort) who are almost certainly not Kamel-a voters. Generally reduced signage from 2020 and 2022. IMO, in a nutshell, they’ve used up the pot initiative vote and are running dry on the abortion-paranoia gig.

Nearly every ad for Dems is attempting the scare tactic on abortion. A few try the lie on “Project 2025” and they seem to have given up trying to sell a “Trump Tax.”

Out in the world, people are bringing out their 2016 and 2020 Trump flags, signs everywhere. Uniquely for 2024 I see a few American flags and even a bold Trump flag in hardcore left neighborhoods that four years ago had Pantifa blocking streets.

Lawfare continues over basics like identifying a voter for a ballot. We’re doing OK. Yes on signatures on ballots, no getting RFK off the ballots. Massive work on poll workers and other key positions, which I think hit a brick wall in Wayne county/Detroit, the heart of the steal.

IMO this is the key for MI; if Ds can’t generate unlimited ballots they lose. There’s no doubt that actual, live, eligible American voters in MI would elect Trump and Rs for statewide positions.

The tool you want is “disk management” to change drive letters, partitions, etc.

This is one of many sites the leads one to open it: https://www.howtogeek.com/787213/5-ways-to-open-disk-management-on-windows-10-or-11/

Yes. If/when Trump wins, and he takes office, the destructors have a whole litany of false flags, impeachments, obstructions, crises, and other events lined up to halt or even reverse what he and we want to accomplish in our Republic.

“Tell me something, it’s still ‘We the People,’ right?” — Dave Mustaine, 1986

That cat situation already provokes John Wick parallels…

They seem upset that something has escaped the thought bubble. Suddenly it’s feudal lord, monopolistic, foment ethnic cleansing, unlearn. They don’t seem to have figured out that when MSM ‘fawning’ turns into ‘frothing’ these ultrarich kinda notice and, being beyond FU money, they don’t tend to jump back into the herd.

Kinda like how Trump was the media’s darling until .03s after he announced his candidacy in 2016, after which he instantly became Hitler in their eyes.

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For those not tracking, the conclusion of that poem is

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Well. As usual Joe likes to spill the secrets under context of imbecility.

Dumb article. If you assert that an EV gets poor economy AND assume that everyone with them always uses the commercial fast chargers, voila the math goes one way.

A typical newer model gets 3.6 or up, not 3.2. Home electricity is on average $0.164 per kWh in the US. Plug those numbers in and the equation flips.

Now, from cold behavior or range or tire wear it’s fair to count real cost issues, but “gaming” the numbers is foolish. That’s like adding up the cost of coffee assuming people only go to Starbucks and including the price of some pastry in the mix.

>What in the hell is “pre-crime gun confiscation?”

So-called red flag laws. Person A doesn’t like Person B any more, or is a leftist fanatic, so they report Person B as a danger to himself or others.

In absentia (what 6th Amendment?) a judge hears the request. The answer is always ‘yes’ because the judges are leftists, and even if they aren’t exactly zero judges want to be on the hook in the papers in the event Person B really is a bad guy. Person B has no idea this happened.

Now, without a charge, any evidence, or a jury, officers are dispatched to Person B’s address to take any and all weapons (what 2nd or 4th Amendment?). If they’re fortunate the officers won’t decide that little details like knocking or not just shooting their way in aren’t too risky.

Voila, disarmament by fiat, especially against people who had a relationship gone sour or who come to the attention of rabid leftists. And, of course, anyone *else* who might like to use their 1st Amendment keeps their head down too lest they get the same.

As usual with these things they’re passed by crisis; which is to say like the “on the radar” shooters, a known serious threat is left until it turns into violence and the ready-to-go red flag bill is trotted out while emotions are high.

Looks like the Mazda rotary in duplicate. Cool.

Agreed!

Fatalism is a Hindu and Muhammedism thing and has no place in Christian life.

We are called to trust and also act. Very many references from “dominion” in Genesis to the “parts of the body” analogy in Corinthians. We are here by His will and to do His will, not to slough off and let whatever happen.

Will this be the first ever actual 922r case brought to trial? (regarding the inflammatory wording chosen, 922r’s wording is “adaptable for sporting purposes” but trying to write THAT for consumer reading requires several paragraphs.

Heck, there are whole SITES dedicated to explaining this cryptic law and counting the bits and pieces necessary to make an SKS compliant.

Maybe he tossed in a TAPCO part just to make sure, before he committed a ton of felonies on top of the gun felonies he’d somehow escaped in past, he wouldn’t be “non-compliant.” Ha.

I’ve commented about the WFH vs. office thing on its immediate merits and drawbacks enough. (click my history if you care).

The question we, as veterans of 2020, should be asking is why suddenly so many left-leaning executives are dead set on getting people clustered together just now. Not as soon as possible after the C19 thing was “over” and not last year either, but especially importantly now.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/next-pandemic-not-if-but-when/

“I’m optimistic that we will never forget that lesson—that respiratory pathogens are spread from person to person nearly entirely indoors, which means that making our buildings safer should be part of the frontline defense in pandemic response.”

or “As long as we invest” and “invest in and accelerate technological change.”

not “which means that ordering people to pack in like sardines and to spend as much time as possible in close proximity to others is really stupid.” Never that. With WHO and Gates and Soros and Schwab slavering over the next chance, just right now is when you must absolutely get back in that cubicle and into that conference room.

NYT: 100% anti-MAGA articles since the day Trump descended the escalator.

Obligatory CYA from NYT to cover Kamel’s ads. See, the candidate says, the NYT and WP and CNN all agree Project 2025 is Trump and Trump is Project 2025 and both are whatever we say they are. Don’t ask what they are.

>Retirement is boring.

Haven’t tried it but retirement as in nothing to do all day sounds hideous.

I can imagine a bunch of volunteer-type things I’d like to do if I had the time but I can see them running dry or turning into the same level of work with no reward, fast. I’ve seen volunteers treated with a thin veneer of politeness over a core of contempt and want no part of it.

Retirement as in running one’s own “hobby”-sized business, or consulting, leaving room for the things there was no time for in pedal-to-the-metal work, sounds appealing.