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Comment Re:You don't need excuses anymore (Score 1) 41

At least we can take some comfort in knowing that the kind of persons who were convicted for their roles in the Jan 9 insurrection are also many of the the kind of people who are completely incapable of dealing with a million dollars cash payout and will spend it foolishly and end up impoverished and on welfare before they are done.

At least 33 are back in prison on child porn/molestation convictions, at least one with a life sentence, so there's that. Yessiree, a fine bunch of people. /s

Five years after January 6, dozens of pardoned insurrectionists have been arrested again

At least 33 insurrectionists who have been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes since January 6, 2021. The charges range from possession of child pornography to sexual assault, child molestation and aggravated kidnapping. Many incidents occurred before the pardons; only four insurrectionists allegedly reoffended since receiving their pardons.

Capitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children in Florida

And there are 132 entries (so far) in the Jan. 6th Insurrectionists Crime Tracker searchable database that tracks the crimes committed by Jan. 6th insurrectionists before and after their violent attack on our Capitol. This one's interesting as it happened months *before* Trump's slush fund was created, the other day, like he was expecting it...

2025/11/17: Johnson, Andrew Paul: "Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money."

I wonder if the person who modded my original post "Troll" knows any of this - or even cares - or is on the list. /s

Comment Re:You don't need excuses anymore (Score 4, Insightful) 41

Trump just created a 1.7 billion dollar slush fund ...

Someone on the news just noted that it's actually $1.776 billion -- 1776 get it. (sigh)

Ignoring all the other ways in which this isn't a valid "settlement" for his bogus lawsuit (against himself), and that the fund isn't authorized by Congress, etc... an arbitrary amount just illustrates how it's all bullshit. Having convicted Jan 6th insurrectionists, pardoned by Trump, getting paid, likely $1M each, by a 1776 fund for storming the Capital, assaulting police, menacing Congress, threatening to hang the Vice President and violently interfering with the peaceful transfer of power simply because Trump lost the 2020 election (after also losing 60+ challenges in courts) is insulting, un-American and antithetical to what this country *should* stand for. /rant

Submission + - Tofu brine could power safer batteries that last decades (techspot.com) 2

fahrbot-bot writes: TechSpot reports that a mixture most people associate with tofu production could soon help make safer, longer-lasting batteries. Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong and Southern University of Science and Technology have built a water-based power cell that runs on tofu brine – the mineral-rich solution left behind after pressing soy curds.

The design replaces the complex, flammable chemistry of lithium-ion batteries with an electrolyte that's as safe as saltwater. In lab tests, the prototype endured more than 120,000 charge cycles, an endurance record that far exceeds today's commercial standards. Typical electric-vehicle batteries degrade after just a few thousand cycles – even long-duration grid systems seldom survive beyond ten thousand.

In conventional designs, water decomposes at higher voltages, creating instability that shortens battery life. The tofu-brine solution suppresses that reaction, allowing energy to flow repeatedly without corroding the battery's internal materials.

The result is a cell that is neither flammable nor caustic – a stark contrast to lithium-ion counterparts known for fire hazards when damaged or overheated. Because the tofu-brine system uses benign ingredients, it could simplify end-of-life handling and lessen environmental damage from discarded batteries.

Study published in Nature Communications: An aqueous battery using an electrolyte with a pH of 7 and suitable for direct environmental discard

Comment Re:I managed to disable the AI (Score 3, Insightful) 76

I think you can bypass it by selecting the "Web" option under "More" after submitting your initial query. In any case, the more hoops they make people jump through to avoid getting gagged on their AI crap (like forcing the new "beta" graphs on Google Finance when not logged into Google or using Private browsing) the more reason to switch to something else, like DuckDuckGo or Startpage.

Comment Renewables (Score 2) 13

... including overall electricity generation, natural gas generation, and renewables.

Which include several nuclear power plants and the largest pumped hydro plant in North America.

Data center operators will probably love those.

Wikipedia notes these generation statistics:

In 2022:

  • 18 percent of Dominion's total electric production came from coal,
  • 23 percent from nuclear power, 48 percent from natural gas, and
  • 11 percent from hydroelectricity and other renewables.

Comment If there was any doubt ... (Score 1) 55

CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some "lower-value human capital"

The management platitude, "Employees are our most valuable asset" is bullshit.
To be fair, Winters is implying they have some "higher-value human capital", but that doesn't sound much better.

Of course, stuck in the middle are the "meh-value human capital" - which sounds like a Far Side comic.

Wonder if his employees are labeled like this on their paychecks? "Position: Low-Value Human Capital"

Comment Re:They never were. (Score 1) 53

... Here's a proper title:

Sony Scraps Plan for PlayStation Exclusives On PC

Um... Neither you, TFS and TFA seems to understand what "exclusive" means. A "Playstation Exclusive" would mean only on Playstation, so also releasing it on PC would be the opposite of that. Just sayin'. I know it's quaint these days, especially politically, but words actually have meanings. /pedantic :-)

Comment Let me guess ... (Score 4, Insightful) 101

The FBI says it intends to award the contract to a single vendor, ...

Like with re-surfacing the Reflecting Pool, Trump will "know a guy, that's done work for him" - that he'll later say he's never heard of - and it will end up being be a no-bid contract for $35M, that will end up actually being a large multiple of that, which we find out from a reporter who Trump will call treasonous and/or stupid - for pointing out inconvenient facts/truth. In any case, just another avenue for corruption, at our expense. /s

Comment Re:Wasn't he right though? (Score 0) 96

He was in government for how many years? If he wanted the statute of limitations altered, then surely that would have been the time to do it.

That probably would have been a really hard sell to Congress, even a Republican-controlled one.

It would seem to me that he didn't care about the statute of limitations until AFTER other people started getting rich and he didn't.

So sad Elon missed out on getting rich. :-) More seriously, how much more money does Elon need? /s

Comment Re:Mixed feelings.. (Score 3, Insightful) 96

I hate seeing seemingly intelligent people view this as "I hate that business guy more than the other business guy", as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".

Unfortunately, those rules won't really matter while the guy at the top rigs things in favor of "friends" (meaning sycophants). Yes, Elon lost in court, but he's got two and a half more years and a ton of "flatter the king" money to change things in his favor. Also unfortunately, our current business and political climates are just cults of personality where money gets you everywhere. Those rules are also about to get skewed even more by the $1.7 billion slush fund the IRS is setting up for Trump, for dropping his bogus, and probably illegal, lawsuit against himself, so he can pay people he thinks were wronged under Biden, like the Jan 6th insurrectionists.

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