They’re probably going to hold new elections to replace the republican reps in jail now or they won’t have quorum.
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caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world's most malnourishedEnglish
1·6 months ago…quickly followed by “Why are there so many refugees trying to get into our countries?”
Between this sort of thing and pursuing policies that accelerate climate change, it’s almost like they’re trying to create misery to exploit.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump loses his mind over pushback to Qatar jet dealEnglish
831·6 months agoTo be fair, the trump crew don’t observe any real security anyway, so all of the more competent competent competitors likely already know our secrets.
I mean, assuming that trump doesn’t just tweet them out, he’d absolutely sell our secrets for some graft.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from BroadcomEnglish
2·6 months agoThere’s Openshift Virtualization included, which is based on the upstream kubevirt project. You’re essentially running VMs in containers and managing them (mostly) like the other container workloads in the environment.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Tesla’s European death spiral has no end in sightEnglish
25·6 months agoBecause Tesla stock is essentially a meme stock and always has been. It’s not based on the actual boring making of cars, but rather the strength of musk’s bullshit powered reality distortion field.
There’s always some vaporware next big thing that he pitches, but never actually delivers on which is used to justify their ridiculous valuation.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Continues To Push Idea Of Replacing Income Tax With TariffsEnglish
7·6 months agoI’d rather have it replaced with a sovereign wealth fund…
I’d rather not have it replaced with a
sovereign wealthtrump slush fundThe reason that sovereign wealth funds have cropped up recently in discussions is that trump really, really wants to have an unaccountable slush fund like his authoritarian buddies.
It makes like zero sense for a country like the US
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20kEnglish
1·6 months agoSupposedly, there’s a display on the instrument cluster for the backup camera.
This would assume that their goal was to bolster American manufacturing in strategic areas or something along those lines. The evidence suggests that this isn’t their goal.
What that goal might be aside from autarky is a good question.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.English
21·7 months ago25 mins of flight on a charge, and that’s not going to be at max speed , so we’ll ballpark it to 15 miles of range perhaps and that’s assuming no “traffic” or delays on landing. Not terribly practical like pretty much all of these flying car concepts.
Oh, and if anything goes wrong, you’re likely dead.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research findsEnglish
301·7 months agoWe can fix this! Quick, destroy the FDA so the problem will never be seen again!
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current techEnglish
3·7 months agoOddly, the DNC’s position on the republican candidate in the circus that was the 2016 primary wasn’t likely all that influential or determinative.
trump figured out that running a political campaign as entertainment and leveraging the power of, well, just lying about everything was possible in the modern media environment. republicans had been working for decades on tilling the ground for an authoritarian that they could manage, but got themselves owned instead. Oops.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL former director of NASA said the Shuttle is what kept us from being on MarsEnglish
6·7 months agoThere wasn’t the public interest or unlimited cash that the Apollo program had to work with, so this was never going to realistically happen in the 80s or 90s, shuttle or not.
Given the technology, there’s no way that we’d have gotten the relatively quick sugar rush like we did for the Moon landings; it’d have been a long, very hard, and very, very expensive slog to get people there.
There’s approximately a zero percent chance that the level of public enthusiasm for such an endeavor would have supported the amount of money and effort needed to make it happen.
Heck, we even cut the Apollo program short because the public quickly got bored with it once we had the big shiny.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL former director of NASA said the Shuttle is what kept us from being on MarsEnglish
11·7 months agoThere wasn’t realistically the public interest or unlimited cash that the Apollo program had to work with, so this was never going to realistically happen in the 80s or 90s, shuttle or not.
Given the technology, there’s no way that we’d have gotten the relatively quick sugar rush like we did for the Moon landings; it’d have been a long, very hard, and very, very expensive slog to get people there.
There’s approximately a zero percent chance that the level of public enthusiasm for such an endeavor would have supported the amount of money and effort needed to make it happen.
Heck, we even cut the Apollo program short because the public quickly got bored with it once we had the big shiny.
After all of the sketchy contracts that musk seems to be getting under this regime, the next administration should nationalize SpaceX. With their corrupt self dealing, perhaps give him a dollar or so for it.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock dealEnglish
10·7 months agoSince it’s a money hole just like all of the other “AI” companies, who’s funding xAI and what are they getting out of being a slush fund for musk?
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•AP photographer testifies on White House’s ban: ‘We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories’English
413·7 months agoI don’t know why not being lied to in the room at the WH would be a big loss for their reporting. Maybe just investigate and cover what they’re doing and tell folks that?
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Man I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixtiesEnglish
6·8 months agoI don’t think that it’s like a patent where the holder has to defend it; Oracle can decide to go after a license violation if they want to.
I’d imagine that if a real competitor or someone with deeper pockets shipped it, they’d be hearing from the throngs of lawyers that oracle keeps on staff in short order.
That’s because Tesla’s stock valuation was always based on “revolutionary new shiny thing!” rather than “making and selling cars”.
musk has to constantly come out with a new reason why the stock justifies a valuation so insanely high (was worth more than all other car companies combined). “Full self driving!” “Robotaxies!” “Fully automated manufacturing!”, etc….
That’s also why musk can extort $50B payoffs from Tesla. So much of their value is based on his BS powered reality distortion field that they’re terrified of what might happen if he leaves.
Now, there’s huge risk inherent in banking everything on the very stable genius musk as they’re learning.
caffinatedone@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sellEnglish
1·8 months agoThe EV1 was too far ahead of its time. The tech wasn’t there and to even accomplish what they did cost far more than they could hope to sell it for. An estimate that each EV1 cost GM around $100k to make in the early 90’s (so around $200k in today’s dollars).
Battery tech has progressed massively since then and makes all of this possible now (even if it’s still expensive).
“collapse of trumps efforts to restrain netanyahu”… right. If netanyahu did this against US pleas, then why is the US shooting down the Iranian reprisal? Seems like they’d take trump more seriously he didn’t just support them regardless.