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Comment Re:f**k around, find out (Score 1) 72

Is it true that sperm donors make money hand over fist?

I was paid $35 per donation, and was allowed to donate up to three times per week.

So, $105 / week or $5,460 / year.

That would be about $10k / year in 2025 dollars.

The clinic was a ten minute walk from my workplace, so I'd walk there and back on my MWF lunch breaks.

Comment Re:Unfair title (Score 4, Insightful) 72

It was the sperm bank that didn't do the necessary checks

Was the test available at the time? Did other sperm banks check for this mutation?

and the sperm bank that shared his genetic material 200 times.

Way more than that. It was 200 babies, not 200 attempts. The success rate of artificial insemination is about 20%, so that's 1000 squirts.

Comment Re:f**k around, find out (Score 5, Insightful) 72

I was a sperm donor back in the 1990s.

The donors aren't "random".

They are screened for general health, genetic defects, and academic achievement. I had to show my college transcripts, provide a blood sample, and have a medical examination.

TFA describes a screwup that only happened because a test for the condition wasn't available. But many other tests were done, so the odds were still better than an old-fashioned insemination.

Many of the recipients are women in nuclear families, whose husbands have fertility problems.

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 192

Fonts for ease of reading are woke now. What a fucking asshole.

"The previous management replaced the stairs at the entrance of our building with ramps because ramps allow more people access and are the norm for all new buildings being constructed. Stairs are more professional than ramps so were are tearing out the ramp and putting stairs back in."

Yes. Fucking asshole.

I can understand fiscal conservative viewpoints. What I can't understand is why conservatives in general are (very nearly) all so nasty.

Comment What happens next? (Score 1) 76

What Happens When an 'Infinite-Money Machine' Unravels ...
Michael Saylor's software company Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy

(a) Declare bankruptcy.
(b) Use money to buy - I mean, lobby for - I mean get pardon. (Will work for 3 more years)
(c) Successively rename company: "MacroStrategy", "MegaStrategy", ... "MAGAStrategy".
(d) Goto "a".

Comment My small town - super timely article (Score 1) 117

They are planning on building an AI datacenter in an industrial park at the edge of my small rural town. This industrial park already has some massive industry in it - like one of the largest Gatorade bottling plants in the USA.

On Facebook I started seeing a lot of posts in our local county gossip group casting pure FUD on the datacenter. Namely that it would pollute the water with heavy metals, and most of all, everyone would be "footing the electric bill" for this plant. With the electric bill the claim is that if infrastructure has to be improved, that cost is passed on to everyone. I've been trying to find information to combat this misinformation but it has been difficult.

In our case, the power company is AEP, which has over 5 million customers. There is a new 20 MW solar far less than a mile away from this location, and another 75 MW solar farm being built out in the county. We also have two hydroelectric dams on the edge of the county. This industrial park was built to attract huge industry and has massive power feeds, two interstates within a couple miles, and even rail service. So I doubt it needs anything at all, but even if it did, AEP is such a huge company that infrastructure costs would surely be absorbed across their entire customer base?

Looking at the initial posts seeding FUD, I noted that the people weren't even in our state, let alone our county.

Now there's a bunch of locals all riled up over this because they just believe anything they see online, and the next County Board of Supervisors meeting is going to be quite heated. Although I think this is already a done-deal.

Comment Re:Is there even a veneer of plausibility here? (Score 5, Insightful) 95

So, in order to protect against possible military applications(known for their cost-sensitivity...); we are making the sale legal as long as El Presidente gets his cut? That's in character, sure; but what's the paper-thin excuse for that being a cogent policy idea?

Cogent sailed a while ago. Here's a quote from Trump announces $12 billion bailout plan for farmers hit by trade war with China (12m:16s) :

And this money would not be possible without tariffs. The tariffs are taken in, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars and we're giving some up to the farmers ...

Noting that's technically true, but nonsensical: Farmers need a bailout because of tariff / trade war that Trump started and he says bailout wouldn't be possible without the tariffs -- which are paid by U.S. companies and consumers. Once again, solving, or at least mitigating, a problem he started and proud of it. For example, China was buying tons of soybeans from the U.S. before he imposed tariffs, now they're buying them from Brazil.

Comment Re:I want tall, not wide (Score 1) 13

Or even better, 3:4. I use a central 16:10 30" (2560:1600) plus two 3:4 24" (1200:1600) on the sides. An useless ratio 16:9 on the top sits mostly unused.

You may find the LG DualUp interesting. 16:18 ratio, 2560x2880. No bezel, designed to be mounted in portrait aspect.

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