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Comment Re:Possibly (Score 1) 148

The point of free speech is that it doesn't matter where the idea came from, it's an open market of ideas.

The point of foreign trolls is to rage-bait and create (or exacerbate existing) divisions among Americans: Divide and Conquer. They do not care about the topic, only that the divisions grow -for "a house divided against itself cannot stand." *

* quote from Abraham Lincoln, who borrowed it from the Bible.

Comment Re:Idiocracy (Score 1) 165

Except that your vote only counts if you live in a purple county in a purple state (or one of the tiny handful that split electors).

Consider getting your state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, no voter will have their vote cancelled out at the state-level because their choice differed from plurality sentiment in their state. Instead, every voter’s vote will be added directly -without distortion- into the national count for the candidate of their choice. This will ensure that every voter, in every state, will be politically relevant in every presidential election.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). The candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC will get all the electoral votes from the enacting states. This guarantees that the candidate receiving the most popular votes nationwide will get enough Electoral College votes to become President.

The Compact has been enacted by 18 states and DC (CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, VA, VT, WA). These places together possess 222 of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate the Compact.

Comment As expected (Score 2) 33

Kalshi spokeswoman Dani Lever said in a statement: "Despite the Ninth Circuit's opinion, we still believe the CFTC regulations as written do not prohibit sports contracts, and in any event, the CFTC is working to clarify those regulations. We will be seeking further review."

There is nothing unusual about states having regulations in addition to federal regulations.

Alcohol is federally regulated. It is also subject to state and local regulation.

Submission + - China is secretly fueling America's data center rage (axios.com)

alternative_right writes: The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet.

The posts included content on how AI strains the electricity grid and increases utility prices and "cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense."
It's unclear what, if any, action X will take to suspend or delete accounts from the bot farm.
X, owned by Elon Musk, whose billions rely on data centers to boost his AI enterprises, did not respond to Axios' request for comment.

Comment Brilliant! (Score 5, Insightful) 130

A National Emergency Declaration that says we cannot purchase the critical equipment that is in such demand that it takes 6 months to 2 years to get already? We will just step out of line and let it go to whomever else wants it.

If there were available domestic suppliers of this equipment, all of the production would already be spoken for. There is unmet demand NOW.

[Oww, my balls!]

Comment Re:Suspected Iranians (Score 2) 76

Well, we (the USA) are at war (unofficially!) with Iran. So for Iran to attack the USA is justified. All's fair in love and war.

If it were some other country attacking us, it would be an act of war. We don't need a war with another country right now.

It is much easier to just say it is Iran and not look to hard.

It would be nice if we did something to proactively secure our critical infrastructure -but that would cost money, and we need all the money to buy more bombs and gold plating.

Comment Re:ok stupid question (Score 1) 50

This is the value of the CEO network.

One company was harmed by the actions of another company. The second company CEO knows the board members of the first company, and so they agree to not make a big deal out of it, but that privately "you owe us one". The publicity raises the value of both companies stock, and thus they can justify to the shareholders the lack of legal action.

Comment Re:The only books they're destroying... (Score 1) 106

I actually work with a few charities that do just that.

They are surprisingly picky about the books they accept. Shipping is not free, and it takes effort on their part to distribute the books. They pick and choose what they feel is appropriate to send, depending on their exact mission/goal. They have no interest in a box of Nora Roberts latest romance novels or James Pattersons latest thrillers.

As a book person it is painful to say, but when you have seen the same book fifty times and have half a dozen copies collecting dust on a shelf you realize you just don't need another copy. Excess copies of books are just paper that has not been recycled yet: The best you can hope for is that it becomes another book that someone will read.

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