They have shown themselves to be utter frauds on the very single issue they pretended to care so much about.

Blondi and Patel especially show how completely unserious the Republicans were about child sex-trafficking. They only showed lots of concern when lots of idiots fell for that Pizzagate/Qanon horseshit because they thought it would be the Democrats that are the perps.

I keep asking - have the Republicans even met their own party? It’s full of Republicans. And they think the Democratic Party is going to have all the pervs?

She literally said he’s the greatest President in American history.

Why aren’t you guys even talking about THAT?! At this hearing that’s totally about this other thing!???

Also Blondi: did you guys even apologize to President TRUMP (she has a weird way of saying his name; she sounds like a cult member talking about their cult leader FFS) for investigating his crimes?

Or checks the state of Dow Jones and uses that as a jumping-off point to praise a useless dumbass like Donvict and say he’s the bestest president that ever did presidenting and did you guys even apologize to him yet?

The best part of the hearing was when the Democratic woman who pointed out that of course we are asking questions about what YOU and the DOJ did in relation to Epstein, since that’s what the hearing is about. Blondi tried to pretend she was really baffled that people were not talking about all the shit she wanted to distract with, LOL.

Isn’t this the point?

That rep for the Epstein Class had every intention of going there with her little burn book to show that she’s still Donvict’s gal and to give a middle finger to any decent person in the country. If the victims are harmed in the process, then that’s perfect, because with the conservatives cruelty is the point.

This is the real reason he wanted to have “free speech” on xitter. Free speech for him to say lots of Nazi stuff.

I live in Colorado and so probably different heating/cooling circumstances, but people also don’t seem to be thinking about future costs of energy either.

Now, it could be that things turn around, Donvict is out of the picture, and we have a huge boom in solar and wind and through legislation or just from the market being saturated, prices drop. But given the way that things are going right now thanks to the utterly insane Republicans, all I see is those guys fighting against the future in every way possible while they stand aside and let Donvict and his criminal family just grift their way to billions of dollars of ill-gotten gains.

I can see it doing well for heat in the winter. That’s how Cheyenne Mountain worked. DC can be so miserably muggy in the summer, so I sure hope they have a way of keeping that bunker livable for humans if it’s dual-use.

On the GPU thing, I was under the impression AI hardware were ASICs, but I didn’t look into it. I guess if they are GPU and were sold off to add to the power of Folding@Home (at one point, it was the largest supercomputer but not sure of the state of things now) and maybe really supercharge a lot of research…

I don’t expect many people to wake TF up to that fact.

In fact, even among the people you’d think would be more aware as a general rule, I will often see (mind you, this is usually coming from what is probably just an overly vocal minority and/or paid trolls there to try to disrupt and delay, but I’m sure this serves to push away would-be allies and make people generally feel helpless at the state of things in the opposition):

People playing oppression olympics. Lectures aimed at a portion of the left that aren’t considered maximalist enough, or are thought not to tick enough “intersectional” checkboxes. Demands for age limits on politicians (WTF?). Demands for term limits (same thing: WTF?). Some portion of the left saying people (like Bernie Bros) are being misogynist or racist because they want to focus on issues of class. Single issue voters that will bow out if a Democrat says even one thing about that issue that pisses them off. People not realizing that, in the real world, you basically have two choices. The better choice may only support about 60% of what you want, maybe even less in some cases. You ain’t getting a pretty pony when you go to vote. You are voting to try to maximize the good and minimize the damage, not create a utopia. That’s life. I remember when I was 14, too. But I got better.

This last one is probably the most difficult and I struggle with this myself (believe that) - and it’s this: not giving people a path for redemption. Sure, someone might have been a three time voter for Donvict and maybe even a bit racist and anti-woke and have stupid ideas about trans or whatever. But sometimes, just maybe, some people grow up. Or have an epiphany and change. Should we make them wear a scarlet letter for life? Or when someone shows that they genuinely want to do better, do we welcome that? When they get that first glimmer that, oh, this is all about class and setting us up to quarrel with each other over the dumbest of stuff (race, gender, age, religion, nationality, language), how can we help them on that path?

Imagine making money on kidnapping and imprisoning children.

For example, I have solar on my house.

I was looking at the same. Some naysayer I know was saying it would never pay back before the panels “failed”.

Of course, he was assuming that the panels would fail with 100% certainty at a certain period of time. He was also assuming that electricity costs are going to stay stagnant. If I have a battery backup installed, that obviously rejiggers things, and I’m assuming they not last very long, either at least when it comes to the timelines one talks about in regards to things like houses.

I am definitely not going to assume that, LOL. That hasn’t even been true in the past year alone, nevermind what some of the more negative predictions have for how costs will be impacted by things like data centers.

It’s weird, because I’m watching and reading about how many investors seem to be “quietly” shifting into more international funds.

If you even look at ETFs like VTI (closely matches S&P 500) vs. VXUS (International):

VTI went up 11.3% in the past year. Hey, that’s beating inflation and not terrible.

But: meanwhile, VXUS went up 30.8%.

In the past, it was usually the other way around. ETFs that track things like the S&P tend to outperform ones that track the rest of the rest of the market.

I wonder what is different about the past year?

Also, I keep seeing articles like this. https://harveylawcorporation.com/why-more-americans-are-leaving-the-us/

They’ve been doing the starve the beast scam since forever.

Thank you. No fan of Donvict, but people tend to overlook MMT in all these discussions about debt.

Blondi was talking about the Dow Jones when she was trying anything and everything to distract for her coverup on behalf of the Epstein Class.

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So fElon’s illegal and fake “doge” didn’t dismantle CBO? Seems like an oversight.

Gallup == pussies.

So they are kidnapping more people.

I thought they were winding down this stupid “operation”.

I know these people are deeply moronic, but damn, it seems like all the cooling needs for something that is supposed to also serve as a bunker would be very, very stupid. DC is a freaking swamp in the summer. I would understand build-outs in places like Iceland where they can power them with geothermal and cooling might be a lot less problematic…

Also, I honestly have no idea how long the supposed need for all this AI processing will even be around as a general rule. I thought they were already admitting they were running up against limits on finding data they could train on and the kinds of returns they were getting. Not to mention that breakthroughs in chip design/algorithms etc., might make all this hardware very moot and I guess I don’t know if it could be repurposed for things (such as SETI or protein folding or crypto) or if it really is single purpose only…