It’s not that Australia is “in the future”, it’s that local time is oriented toward when the sun is up. I am posting this at 1050 Saturday US Eastern Time, which happens to be 1450 Saturday UTC and 0050 on Sunday Sydney time, but it’s all the same actual time.

Publishers have a choice to make: either release at the same time worldwide in UTC and have to pick which markets get it in the middle of the night, or release in stages worldwide and put up with the fact that one it gets released on one market, enterprising people will figure out a way to play it from anywhere. If it’s an online game, and they are already planning worldwide access, they probably are planning their server rollout regionally, and can turn on the servers in each regio at a different UTC time if they want to.

Are we tired of all the winning yet?

She’s not his type. She’s 49, that makes her about 35 years too old for him.

The author of the post that Trump is the “most powerful man that ever lived” is probably correct. Think about it: the US has the largest military in the world, and can project power anywhere. Historically, while this power has been built up, in America the ability to wield it has been carefully constructed so that it has to go through several layers of responsibility before being used, and different parts of government can perform their own checks on that ability.

Then Trump comes along, and many of those checks and balances dissolve. Somehow, he has successfully aligned enough of our government to his agenda that he can launch a war (and lose it!) without being held responsible for the result.

That is Trump’s superpower - the ability to do whatever he wants, with impunity. That’s not supposed to happen in our modern society, but he figured out how. Perhaps the key is having no shame, so he can ask for things that no other politician would think is appropriate? But with that kind of power, he really is ruling like a king, with the largest military in history (and all those nukes) at his command. Who’s gonna say “no” to him at this point? He got rid of everyone who might.

Indeed.

And Clinton should know, she is an expert on campaigns that are terrible mistakes…

Sigh. Donald Trump did not become President (Twice!) by listening to experts…

He wasn’t asking, he was confirming it.

I wouldn’t go that far. All the websites, apps, and electronic services we use every day are hosted in some datacenter somewhere. I’d say we get value out of that.

They didn’t become a political football until the AI companies drastically increased how much power and cooling each rack used. I don’t think we’re getting enough extra value out of stuffing AI in everything to justify the added environmental cost over more standard, non-AI web services.

Baron Von Shitzenpantz

Why does the DoD get to decide who are the Christians and who aren’t in the first place?

No, if you call it “austerity” you are at least trying to hide it behind a veneer of self sacrifice. These folks aren’t even doing that anymore.

No, it’s not. “Austerity” implies that everyone does without. It’s not that at all, it’s simply vindictive. They want to subject people they hate to “austerity”, while carving out exceptions for their friends (who they think deserve it more, anyway).

Trump floats

I was gonna post that that was doubtful, but then I Did My Own Research and discovered that morbidly obese people have an easier time floating

Aren’t they losing a ton of money, though?

surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage

Oh, my sweet summer child.

“They” didn’t invest trillions of their own money in it. They invested a few million, built up some hype, and got other people to invest more, so now their millions are billions. And they are smart enough to sell before it all collapses.

They make their billions even though it’s garbage. Heck, they make billions because they know it’s garbage before everyone else does.

The thing with laws is that Congress can always change them by passing another law…

… but from what I’ve read, the current text of Joe Wilson’s bill carves out an exception for “living and former Presidents”. So, if this passes, we may get our Obama $420 bill someday…

Here’s a link to a news station not run by a fascist enabler

https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/trump-250-bill-proposal-sparks-backlash/

The reported push by Trump administration officials comes despite the 1866 Thayer Amendment, which makes it illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official U.S. currency, bonds or other financial notes. Additionally, current law limits U.S. currency to specific denominations and a $250 bill is not on that list.

No, they definitely would sit on the appointment if it’s someone dumb.

They might take what they think is the “middle ground” and let a “compromise candidate” through. But I hope they remember that Merrick Garland was the “compromise candidate”, and Mitch and Lindsey still shit all over that pick.

The way I look at it, it’s a shared resource. You are just as “entitled” to the space as the person behind you.

If I need the space, I will try and use it. But, I will move back slowly, and stop if I meet any resistance. There is nothing worse than having someone slam their seat back into your laptop (or worse, onto your knees…)