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dondelelcaro

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  • Technology has come a long way

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  • Most farms should be corporate owned in the US if for no other reason than to be a liability shield. The question is who owns the corporation and whether the workers are being adequately compensated.

  • wat

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  • The shadow moving is more akin to bandwidth of transmission rather than speed of transmission. You still have to wait for the photons (so speed of light) for the information to arrive, even if the "speed" of the shadow appears FTL.

  • Nebraska Democratic Senate primary winner says she’ll drop out to support independent in general election

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  • The thinking is that as an independent he'll receive more votes than as a Democrat, as people who don't like the Democratic party but dislike the Republicans more will vote for him in addition to all Democrats who would never vote for the Republican candidate.

    The Republicans thought so too, which is why they ran a spoiler candidate on the Democratic primary ticket.

    All of these shenanigans are happening because FPTP voting is absolute trash and should be gotten rid of immediately if not sooner.

  • Nebraska Democratic Senate primary winner says she’ll drop out to support independent in general election

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  • they still need to award a participation trophy to someone on their team.

    That's not it. The point was for her to win and drop out so there wouldn't be a Democrat on the ballot at all to dillute the vote. If she hadn't won, there would be a Republican plant running on the Democratic ticket.

    There are plenty of bad things to castigate the Democratic party for; we don't need to invent them.

  • me_irl

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  • In most places in the US, the assessed value of homes that have been owned for more than a decade is significantly less than the market value of a home.

    The property tax burden therefore falls more on new home buyers rather than existing home owners. Eliminating the tax on the first portion of assessed value would make this existing imbalance worse, especially if the same amount of tax needed to be raised.

    It's a tricky problem.

  • me_irl

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  • A refund based on assessed median home value would tend to penalize new home buyers over existing home owners, even if the existing home owner has a house that would sell for higher. Property tax assessments rarely keep up with home valuation.

  • another windows zeroday, the repo text is hilarious

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  • A facade, even.

    Like an old Western set. All front wall, nothing in the back.

  • JUST IN: House Democrats File Bill to Form 25th Amendment Commission to Assess Trump’s Mental Fitness

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  • This is slightly incorrect. Congress can pass a law forming a body which can then determine if the president is unable to perform their duties and invoke section 4 of the 25th amendment.

    Passing such a law would almost certainly require a veto override, and even then, Congress would still need a two thirds majority of both houses to make section four stick.

    This bill's primary purpose is to force Republicans to be on record that they are just fine with whatever unhinged things Trump is doing. Just like the war powers bills.

  • Supply and demand

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  • There are only so many places where grid level pumped storage hydroelectricity works, and the capital and environmental costs are non negligible for most new locations.

  • More than 400 TSA officers have quit since shutdown began

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  • That's the same as asking "How many deaths have seatbelts prevented?"

    Just like measuring the effectiveness of the TSA, it is possible to measure the effectiveness of seatbelts.

    So yes, you can come up with an estimate of how many excess deaths TSA prevented. (Especially since the government tends to try to convict people who were trying to kill people.)

  • Fetterman hit with brutal 108-point polling swing: ‘He is below the lowest of the low’

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  • The only thing that changes is that more power shifts to the civil servants,

    And most importantly, power shifts to the lobbyists who help advise on how to write the laws to maximally benefit their clients. It's yet another carve out for billionaires and those who control extensive capital.

  • missile test U.S. Launches Minuteman III ICBM With 2 Reentry Vehicles in GT-255 Nuclear Deterrence Test

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  • Apparently planned years in advance.

    This launch, designated GT 255, was scheduled years ago, and is not in response to world events.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • The law defines a public webpage as a covered app store. Anything that can run doom and view a webpage is potentially covered.

    It's way overbroad and unclear how it could be implemented, and likely to be challenged in court if it even gets that far.

  • Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’

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  • I don't know the details, but I'd expect an object store was being used (GCP Cloud Storage) and then the question is what the object retention policy is on each stage of the processing pipeline. It's possible that they had to go to the underlying storage, but it probably didn't even take that.

  • Some programs really teach you to save regularly

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  • Please turn on coredumps, get a backtrace, and file a bug (and even better, fix the issue if you can.)

  • Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap

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  • The only way a chatbot can accurately answer basic level questioning is if staff has put in time to do the documentation. If they have, you frequently don't even need the chatbot because simple web searches will show up the question and answer or one of the major chatbots will have already indexed the documentation and can answer the question for free.

  • Bondi letter to Walz requests access to Minnesota voting and welfare records, repeal of 'sanctuary' policies

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  • NSFW

    Another ICE murder in Minneapolis

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  • Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) voted for it. They should be primaried and vilified. Jefferies didn't whip the vote, but he did vote against it.

    Now it's important to pressure senators to not pass the bill.

  • Accidentelly run out of disk space when executing apt upgrade - Debian doesn't boot anymore

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    For $18.65, famous artist designs racial justice windows for National Cathedral

    www.washingtonpost.com /religion/2023/09/23/national-cathedral-kerry-james-marshall-windows/