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There might be a case for worrying that if enough large companies and the government leadership stay united there is enough power and money concentrated that there is no need to respond to public sentiment or elections.

Wasn't there a clip where a reporter asks about fed reserve independence and trump says that jerome powell will have to obey his orders concerning interest rates?

Anybody have any idea if the doge team erases or disables system or application logs?

The VIX is sometimes described as the "fear index"

Odds on cutting taxes and funding social security by securitizing all the governments assets.

There it is. The internet. opmreply.com

Anybody have any idea if the doge team erases or disables system or application logs?

I have been unable to find anything out about the crypto miner hillcorp says its going to deploy at Endicott gas field. It is supposed to be run by TA infrastructure, but I can't figure out who they are...ASIC crypto miner is pretty specialized I would think there would be a website.

I asked grok to blueprint a Cabin and it simply can't do it. I asked it to use a flat roof, asked for a cut list, bill of materials, plywood schedule, fastener schedule, told it to use 24 inch centers, it failed at all of this.

So we are going to rely on generative ai for weather forecasting?

Once starlink is integrated into a bunch of critical government systems we will find out how good the security really is. I doubt the software stack has been independently audited with the intensity needed.

The administration thinks atc is a problem...wait till they find out what happens when there are no accurate weather forecasts.

30 years ago it was common to drive across the river ice here. Now I can go down here and stomp through the ice.

"Climate change must be a hoax because all resources were placed by God for man's exploitation. " Meanwhile the snow pack and river ice is starting to melt a month early. The resulting wildfires are probably going to look like an actual act of god.

I used to accept the thesis that meme stocks were an isolated phenomenon driven by individuals behaving neurotically. That is shifting...

Right now Nvidia is selling guns into the war without taking a side, but how long until the company goes right wing sycophant?

The antenna array at HAARP is not an attempt by government blasphemers to resist the intentions of the creator of existence who intends to destroy minorities or other cult members in a cathartic rapture.

This DOGE effort is making me wonder what jobs ARE considered useful and exist in these ideologues minds.

Since the anti trust and securities law enforcement is gone now has there been an attemp to consolidate everything? Somebody must have a way of tracking the volume and number of announced and completed m&a over time.

The Javier Milei & Elon Musk chainsaw memes are going to cause accidents when their fan base decide to actually use a chainsaw overhead or with poor grip. Chainsaw kicks are not fun....

Reading "The Bonfire of the Vanities" Is it an indictment of the state of the society when these characters are more functional than live people? At least when they do something harmful and their psyche gets hurt they try to scapegoat or deny rather than say natural law told them its fine.