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It makes sense, we need to tear down the cultural idea of "the deserving poor". The damage that homelessness does to our society is still bad, even if the homeless person is a jerk. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/7798436...
12.04.2025 19:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mr Musk thinks it should be illegal for advertisers to not do business with him. That is the opposite of a free market.
Can anyone claim to be surprised?
Breaking down allegations CPAC head Matt Schlapp sexually assaulted another man www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/strong-3. Oversimplification can create some catchy slogans, but reality doesn't roll like that.
13.02.2025 22:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A thousand years ago this Chinese gentleman went from pragmatic cat employer to doting cat slave with no regrets.
18.11.2023 08:20 — 👍 1680 🔁 679 💬 18 📌 30Seems to me that WB should be the last resort for any filmmaker. They have no interest in making movies.
18.11.2023 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could have granted clemency to a man who has spent 32 years in prison for a murder that another man confessed to doing. She denied him clemency, with no explanation
She did, however, pardon a turkey yesterday
Dream home
12.09.2023 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The facility was costing X more than $100 million a year. Musk wanted to save that money by moving the servers to one of X's other facilities, in Portland, Oregon. Another manager at the meeting said that couldn't be done right away. "We can't get out safely before six to nine months," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "Sacramento still needs to be around to serve traffic." Over the years, Musk had been faced many times with a choice between what he thought was necessary and what others told him was possible. The result was almost always the same. He paused in silence for a few moments, then announced, "You have 90 days to do it. If you can't make that work, your resignation is accepted." The manager began to explain in detail some of the obstacles to relocating the servers to Portland. "It has different rack densities, different power densities," she said. "So the rooms need to be upgraded." She started to give a lot more details, but after a minute, Musk interrupted.
They were somewhere over Las Vegas when James made his suggestion that they could move them now. It was the type of impulsive, impractical, surge-into-the-breach idea that Musk loved. It was already late evening, but he told his pilot to divert, and they made a loop back up to Sacramento. The only rental car they could find when they landed was a Toyota Corolla. They were not sure how they would even get inside the data center at night, but one very surprised X staffer, a guy named Alex from Uzbekistan, was still there. He merrily let them in and showed them around. The facility, which housed rooms of servers for many other companies as well, was very secure, with a retinal scan required for entry into each of the vaults. Alex the Uzbek was able to get them into the X vault, which contained about 5,200 refrigerator-size racks of 30 computers each. "These things do not look that hard to move," Elon announced. It was a reality-distorting assertion, since each rack weighed about 2,500
"You'll have to hire a contractor to lift the floor panels," Alex said. "They need to be lifted with suction cups." Another set of contractors, he said, would then have to go underneath the floor panels and disconnect the electric cables and seismic rods. Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved. "Well that doesn't seem super hard," he said as Alex the Uzbek and the rest of the gang stared. Musk was totally jazzed by this point. It was, he said with a loud laugh, like a remake of Mission: Impossible, Sacramento edition.
The moving contractors that NTT wanted them to use charged $200 an hour. So James went on Yelp and found a company named Extra Care Movers that would do the work at one-tenth the cost. The motley company pushed the ideal of scrappiness to its outer limits. The owner had lived on the streets for a while, then had a kid, and he was trying to turn his life around. He didn't have a bank account, so James ended up using PayPal to pay him. The second day, the crew wanted cash, so James went to a bank and withdrew $13,000 from his personal account. Two of the crew members had no identification, which made it hard for them to sign into the facility. But they made up for it in hustle. "You get a dollar tip for every additional server we move," James announced at one point. From then on, when they got a new one on a truck, the workers would ask how many they were up to.
Okay. This excerpt from the new book all about how Elon shut down the Sacramento Twitter data center is way more batshit crazy than even I expected. www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/...
11.09.2023 23:34 — 👍 1217 🔁 430 💬 99 📌 154Does anyone, left or right, really think a second Donald Trump term would be anything other than a revenge tour?
Come the next election, you can either vote for someone who will move the country forward or a self-involved megalomanic hell bent on getting even with the world.
Those are the choices
“Conservatives”: We need smaller government, less regulation, and less interference with the private sector
Also “Conservatives”: I am starting a Congressional investigation into beer ads being too queer
