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Prepare to hear this phrase repeated again in the near future:
"These effects have been larger and longer lasting than anticipated, but they will abate, and as they do, inflation is expected to drop"
Fed, Treasury bosses up inflation forecasts as Dems seek trillions for progressive agenda | Just The News justthenews.com/government/c…
Tieing infrastructure improvements to fast-tracked datacenter approvals is a great strat for cash strapped municipalities.
"We'll let you build your tax cash-cow but only if you build a water plant..."
It's not often that you get access to an easy button like this.
This is harrowing stuff.
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/u…
As a boy I read Henty's account of the Spanish seige of Haarlam and have never been able to forget it.
Don Frederick decides that the walls must be mines and orders his men to start digging. The Dutch respond.
"Both parties worked with energy, and it was not long before the galleries met, and a desperate struggle commenced under ground. Here the drill and discipline of the Spaniards availed them but little.
It was a conflict of man to man in narrow passages, with such light only as a few torches could give. Here the strength and fearlessness of death of the sturdy Dutch burghers and fishermen more than compensated for any superiority of the Spaniards in the management of their weapons.
The air was so heavy and thick with powder that the torches gave but a feeble light, and the combatants were well nigh stifled by the fumes of sulphur, yet in the galleries which met men fought night and day without intermission.
The places of those who retired exhausted, or fell dead, were filled by others impatiently waiting their turn to take part in the struggle. While the fighting continued the work went on also. Fresh galleries were continually being driven on both sides, and occasionally tremendous explosions took place as one party or the other sprung their mines; the shock sometimes bringing down the earth in passages far removed from the explosions, and burying the combatants beneath them; while yawning pits were formed where the explosions took place, and fragments of bodies cast high in the air.
Many of the galleries were so narrow and low that no arms save daggers could be used, and men fought like wild beasts, grappling and rolling on the ground, while comrades with lanterns or torches stood behind waiting to spring upon each other as soon as the struggle terminated one way or the other.
For a fortnight this underground struggle continued, and then Don Frederick—finding that no ground was gained, and that the loss was so great that even his bravest soldiers were beginning to dread their turn to enter upon a conflict in which their military training went for nothing, and where so many hundreds of their comrades had perished—abandoned all hopes of springing a mine under the walls, and drew off his troops.
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It's worth noting that all of Henty's works are avialble on Project Gutenberg.
gutenberg.org/files/6952/695…
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Sneaky Pete. Saying this on the morning of election day is the equivalent of putting a story on page 10 of the Friday evening edition.
If Abdul wins, this goes in the memory hole. If he loses, Pete gets to claim that he did his part.
BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg says that Abdul’s comments and association with Hasan Piker are disqualifying.
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I'm making a list of confidently wrong people who I can safely ignore.
"No space data centers in our lifetime" is going to age like, "Flying machines which do not fly" and "Rocket don't work in space because there is no air to push against."
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).
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Bro answers his own question before it's even asked.
You are not paying for a plumber's time.
You pay for a licensed, bonded, insured solution factory that drives to your house on a platform loaded with $10k worth of tools led by a guy with years of experience.
Since a higher % of y'all said 'do it yourself'.
Fair. Plenty of people can’t. Renters, older homeowners, anyone without the tools, anyone with a leaking tank at 6 AM.
The question was never whether it can be done. It’s what is inside a $1,210 labor line for a two hour job.
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I'm convinced that there is no better proxy for scrying the future of a country than its commitment to cheap energy generation.
Even birthrates are, to some extent, downstream of energy since children are an energy intensive endeavor.
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Little did we know that many of those who posted, "Je suis Charlie" meant it as an acceptance of fate to be.
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The combination of love for, and distance from, the church means Kirk usually has incredibly insightful takes. This one happens to be a miss.
The calculus behind serving for women changed when the minimum age was reduced to 18.
Young women go out to solidify their understanding of the gospel, have an adventure and mature all before age 20.
The real difference is the, "Finding yourself" years are replaced with, "Defining yourself through service."
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Everyone is dunking on HR in the replies, but I'm convinced this is a feature not a bug.
For example:
-Open job postings are cited by management as an indicator of growth
-"We're actively hiring for this role but we need you to keep putting in the extra effort till it is filled"
"Since no suitable candidates were found we decided to outsource..."
All this is lost if you just hire someone.
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This is a good rule that should be applied more broadly to other key hardware that make up our electrical infrastructure.
The FCC and DOE just turned power inverters into national security hardware; the implications for grid design are not obvious yet. spectrum.ieee.org/power-grid…
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"There were no fights..." is the tell here: youtube.com/watch?v=fGnakQeb…
My wife and I decided to get a divorce.
There were no fights, just two adults who realised they drifted apart from each other.
This is probably the hardest thing I had to go through.
First of all, telling our girls...seeing them so sad was heartbreaking. But we are still a team as parents and will do everything for them!
Also we have to sell our house, the house I wanted to live in forever and raise my kids in...
Going back to a smaller appartment will be rough.
I still have a lot of to handle, that's why I wasn't active here on X.
I'm really grateful for all the people who reached out and asked where I was 🙏🏼
This women will always be a part of my life, she gifted me with two perfect daughters.
I wish her all the best, great memories were made in those years!
I'll be back soon. Thank you everyone 🙏🏼
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Between the gratuitous CGI usage and nostalgia-slop soundtrack there is zero percent chance I see this movie. Looks worse than A Wrinkle in Time 2.0
That said, it's getting hyped so I'm sure it will make money.
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This is probably the most disturbing way I've ever heard this issue framed.
The decision to carry and raise a child can shape every part of a person’s financial life. @JessicaValenti joins Vox’s @AsteadWH to explain why abortion belongs in Democrats’ affordability message and what the party misses when it treats reproductive rights as a social issue.
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This reminds me that I need to drive down to Cullman for Oktoberfest this weekend.
We are back on the road after the Oktoberfest weekend in Cullman! Our next destination is Dallas, TX for Oklahoma vs Texas on Saturday. We have five days to get there, so the plan is to spend some time exploring Arkansas along the way.
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