Good explainer on Trump’s proposed military bonus: he is repurposing already appropriated housing relief funds for the military. So yes, the money is there, but for a different purpose, and paying it as a bonus likely makes it taxable.
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How can this go on for years and years and years while everyone else is held to mostly the same rules as before? Why is it that Trump and his supporters have been given a free pass to engage in the foulest behavior imaginable, whether illegality, tyranny, corruption, or simply demeaning the dead?

The movie ends, Rob stands up, and Frank braces himself for the double-barreled shotgun blast. Rob walks up, tears all over his face, and says, quietly, "It's the best film Castle Rock has ever released. Good work." And then he left.

Class. Fucking. Act.

Rob Reiner was a capital-M Mensch. #RIP

Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.

You underestimate the heat problem, which is far worse. Computation generates a lot of waste heat, and in a vacuum neither conductive nor convective cooling is available. Only radiative, and, well, the math on that is "not conducive" to a datacenter.