“mainstream news outlets” that are supposed to be for the people

There’s your problem. If you start with a false premise, all your subsequent logic is invalid.

Start with a dead-flat surface, like a surface plate or pane of glass, and some high-grit abrasive papers, at least 220. Disassemble everything, including to take the frog out. Run the sole over sandpaper on the flat surface to see if it’s flat; back down to lower grits if it’s really bad. Do the same with the machined surfaces of the frog.

Simple rust removal with a wire wheel, steel wool, naval jelly/Evapo-rust. The flat-sandpaper method is not ideal for removing rust from the lever cap and blade, because they’re flexible enough that pressure distribution can change the metal removal pattern.

My domain’s mail is hosted at https://purelymail.com/ $10/year. They seem to run on AWS hardware, so it’s not free of US big tech. It’s dirt cheap, but I’ve never had any problems, either receiving or sending. They have very clear instructions for getting your domain’s mail set up.

Imagine if you could completely undo your worst screwup for a penny but keep whatever you had gained as a result. It wouldn’t take long to become a complete psychopath.

The models will survive those bankruptcies. The models will get bought up for nothing by the next wave of AI companies - companies that won’t waste money creating new models or planet-scale data centers, but will still let people outsource human, creative work to digital slaves.

If OP takes the job, they should thin about tactics to poison the data set. Systematically add useless moves to the tool paths. Home after every segment. Random speeds. Extra coordinate changes. I’m sure they can think of other bad-but-works processes.

Eh, I can see revenge killing Hegseth after he’s irrelevant, but Treasury? Better give the secretaries of education, transportation, and housing permanent secret service details, while we’re creating a royal court.

Dude’s got like a dozen houses. He’ll be fine.

This is the best answer. At just 2% inflation, by the time you’re paying off that 30-year bond, it only costs 50%. Government can stay in perpetual debt, pumping money into the private economy, and inflation effectively pays off the debt.

Six hours of repudiating Trump, then right back to the anus. Just like Jan 6.

I see it now: open for published; filled for written/planned, but not print at the time of the volume; and written/planned in groups of 3. I am, apparently, late to the party.

You know, I never noticed the different skulls on the spines. Is their number and fill status meaningful?

62% of Americans “own stocks,” mostly through retirement-program index funds. Nvidia is about 7% of the S&P 500, so it follows that most Americans do, in fact, own shares of Nvidia, whether they know it or not. If you have a 401k, you probably have to go out of your way to avoid it.

The real trick is picking a private key that gives you human-readable phrases in the public key.

I read a lot more about water pricing than labor. 500 workers to grow $800M crop doesn’t sound like straw that broke the camel’s back, although I’m sure the farmers resent the threat of having to pay a fair wage. I read it as the inevitable consequence of trying to grow high water-use crop in a desert, especially in the middle of a war pushing up diesel and fertilizer costs.

Looks like the EIA is figuring the total bill for some ‘typical’ customer, so you get the actual per-kWh cost plus the fixed service cost divided by whatever they think ‘typical’ use is.

This is the actual residential tariff sheet: https://www.georgiapower.com/content/dam/georgia-power/pdfs/tariffs/r.pdf

$0.082/kWh most of the year, $0.087 summer, rising to ~$0.15 if you use over 650 kWh/month (which is a lot: my 3 br house tops out under 600 in Aug). Taxes & fees around 20%, so effectively $0.098 & 0.104. The kicker is the fixed service charge of $0.46/day = $16/month after taxes, effectively a 5.6 kWh/day minimum. That’s the part they’ve been raising. Commercial & industrial users pay proportionally less fixed fees, so their ‘typical’ kWh cost is lower.

So, I live in Georgia & I’m happy to see Dems on the PSC, but electricity here is 8 cents per kWh. There were some big cost overruns adding nuclear reactors to Vogtle, but them and Watts Bar are the only people to add nuclear since 1990. Relative to a lot of other states, it’s hard to argue Georgians are being gouged.

And I really would like to know what’s in the data center deals, especially what happens when the data center goes tits-up 3 years into the life of a 40-year power plant

President Blue coming in in 2029 making a show of pulling down the curtains to wall in the Michelle Obama conference room, the Jill Biden first aid station, Melania Trump coat room, all the way back to the Martha Washington coffee room would give Trump an aneurysm. Doesn’t get much more Ozymandias than seeing your crowning monument parceled out to a bunch of wives, while you’re still alive.

The ballroom is basically just a 50’ tall missile-proof warehouse. It’ll be easy to fill with stacks of cubicles for the First Lady’s staff or even a replacement movie theater.

“They” lost a lot of seats to the progressives, too. All these new representatives join forces with the returning progressives, and the corporate establishment won’t look quite so inevitable.

Maybe it’s time for the Democrats to go through the equivalent of whatever internal civil war process put Mike Johnson in the chair.