They are brown.

They don't need much. They don't even use chairs there! A couple dollars, a bar of chocolate and a pack of Marlboros is a real treat for them. And they got rice, too?

Lucky bastages.

(Did I do that right maga maroons?)

Nobody who lives around homeless people is afraid of homeless people.

POSTED BY SNOOFY

Not sure if that is completely true. The homeless can be pretty scary. Especially to the elderly. They do scare away a lot of customers according to local businesses. But they can be easily handled most of the time.

But I'd definitely be MORE afraid of ICE for sure. They have $165 billion dollars to use against you and the entire federal government backing them up.

An individual is defenseless against that kind of power. It's what the constitution was supposed to prevent. In fact a central purpose of the United States Constitution, particularly with the addition of the Bill of Rights, was to limit governmental power and protect individual liberties.

Buy American, no tariffs.

#8 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

So do without or pay double and shut up about it? Great economic plan.

The tariffs haven't really trickled down thru the system yet and prices are already going up.

Thx America for the wonderful FAFO and for the upcoming "trickle down".

As to the topic of the thread and data centers.

Data centers that require huge amounts of energy should be required to build micro grids. Micro grids are great for the community and for taking pressure off the grid. Or at least the bare minimum show ahead of time where the electricity they will need is coming from and how much they intend on consuming.

Just like when folks want to connect to the water system. You cannot keep adding water consumers without doing the math or you will end up like Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Atlanta who are all facing significant water "challenges".

Re #2

The GI Rights Hotline normally receives around 300-500 calls per month. However, during the period of heightened activity in Los Angeles in response to protests, the hotline was receiving calls as frequently as every minute.

The increase in call volume suggests that some active service members are experiencing discomfort or concerns related to these activations and are seeking information and guidance.

fmr Pres. Ronald Reagan, November 26, 1988

#4 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Nice find. I will pass that on to Dear Leader immediately.

Sounds like it's time to excommunicate Ronald Reagan from the Republican party and charge him with treason.

How brown do you think I am?

#141 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

It's not about how brown WE think you are.

It's about how brown some random guy at ICE looking for that big bonus check thinks you are.

Trump has gone "full Sleepy Joe" on us!!

Time for the 'Biden is incompetent' folks to perk up!!

I wish a reporter had asked Trump what "LA would be burning like the part that didn't burn" means. I wish a reporter had asked the president if the DC crime wave he kept referring to was in the room with them as they spoke.

No one should be homeless unless that is their choice.

There should not be one homeless veteran in America.

The fact that there are so many says a lot about us as a people.

You're just going to waste it?

#130 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Personally I would love to see the streets of all America cities "cleaned up".

Legally.

The question is how will Trumpy abuse his authority this time?

There are reasons why it hasn't been done.

The homelessness crisis is difficult to solve because it's a complex issue with deep-rooted causes and no single, easy solution.

It requires a multi-faceted approach addressing systemic issues like lack of affordable housing, inadequate income support, and limited access to mental healthcare, alongside a robust emergency response system.

In other words it's gonna cost lots o money.

But hey Trumpy done bought it so Trumpy owns it now.

Personally I am just getting the popcorn ready to watch how Trumpy screws this one up, too.

You all need to shut the hell up.

#63 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Court orders are being ignored. MAGA loyalists have been put in charge of the military and federal law enforcement agencies. The Department of Government Efficiency has stripped Congress of its power of the purse. News outlets that challenge Trump have been banished or put under investigation.

Yet far too many are still covering Trump's assault on democracy like politics as usual, with flattering headlines describing Trump as "unconventional," "testing the boundaries," and "aggressively flexing power."

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

So.. You, sir, can GFY.

We will not shut up. And we will never surrender.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in (Los Angeles) and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our (Democracy) whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. (Thx Mr Churchill!)

We shall never surrender and we definitely will never shut up about it.

What happens when your grid goes down? You still have power or not?

My local grid is very stable. More stable than ever. But if the grid does go down I have a generator and a fireplace for heat and natural gas for cooking. We don't require AC here. We have the Pacific Ocean for that. Batteries were too expensive and require too much maintenance.

And the difference in what that solar system cost you and what it saved you.

That's an 20 year cycle and I am still on track to zero costs for electricity for my lifetime (and as long as the sun exists).

Any maint. and repairs figured in also.

That's 3 questions. But mainly zero maint costs as this system under contract until I pay it off. The company does any maintenance and pays for any failed parts or under performing panels (except for cleaning which I do myself).

Honestly I could have gotten a much better deal if I had waited. The deals are out there. But that's what happens when you are an early adopter of new tech. You pay premium prices. Regardless I still pay basically nothing for electricity and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future.

In fact due to global warming we have more sunshine than ever and right but I am making a profit (tho I don't expect to forever and I am not counting on it) as I get a check for any excess electricity fed back to the grid. And I am generating enough excess for a nice fat check from the redwood coast energy authority every year now after what pg&e calls "true up". But again I am not counting on that as all I really wanted was a true net zero which I am currently getting.

What you will find is opinions on several sides....

Perhaps but according to anything I have ever read consciousness itself has never been even defined much less understood. .

How is it possible that a bunch of particles that are devoid of consciousness get together and cause consciousness?

The best explanation of how consciousness arises from "a bunch of particles" so far is that it is an "emergent property" of matter. Though it still doesn't explain what it really is mostly I think because we just don't (or refuse to) understand ourselves or our place in the universe.

Emergent properties are characteristics that arise in complex systems but are not present in its individual components. For example, the collective behavior of ants in a colony, the ability of water to flow as a liquid, or the consciousness of a human brain or even Life itself are all emergent properties. These properties arise from the interactions and organization of simpler elements within the system.

While individual molecules are not alive, the complex interactions of molecules within a cell can give rise to "life".

Individual neurons do not possess consciousness, but the complex interactions of neurons in a brain can give rise to the individual conscious experience.

Which by the way is mostly just an illusion. The brain is more of a committee than an individual. We just are very good at fooling ourselves. Because we didn't need to know this just to survive and pass on our (good) genes. Which is really our only genetic requirement in life. Everything else is just the gravy.

"But this conviction is out of step with what we physicists know about the material world " or rather, what we don't know."

This is huge discussion.

But the last 4 words are what matter. And just because we don't know yet is no reason to assign it to a "God of the Gaps". You'd think we'd have learned not to do that by now.

Speaking of matter. Nothing Matters. A lot.

In any event, one of the most widely noted effects in medicine, the placebo effect (you get better in part because you think you will), does not have a materialist explanation.

Umm sure it does.

The body is very capable of healing itself. The body WANTS to heal itself. Often times we are our own worse enemy when it comes to helping our bodies heal or just allowing our bodies to do what they do best and have done for hundreds of thousands of years. Sometimes we are also terrible at giving our own bodies what it needs to thrive.

Sometimes if we can just get out of our own way the body can do miracles.

Re 9

Nope. I would never vote for an evil demon. I'd rather be sent to gulag in El Salvador.

Speaking of which. Trumpy does not even know I exist. And I'd like to keep it that way.

Thank you.

"You have an inept agency that gets it's predictions wrong over 50%"

Another stupidity statement without context.

Accuracy of predictions depend on many factors.

For example: The weather service is very accurate in the short term. But beyond 5 days, NWS weather prediction accuracy decreases, and 10-day forecasts are accurate about 50% of the time.

Not if it's white. In Trumpy's America if you are any other skin color you are also a waste of water.

But with Trump, he's 1,000% wrong, maybe 1,500%.

Numbers not even thought to be achievable.

#9 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

Funny you should choose those particular numbers.

But our Trumpy can actually achieve them!

TRUMP: "You know, we've cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%. I don't mean 50%, I mean 14 " 1,500%."

Coming from another moron that still thinks there is a pee tape and Adam Schiff has it.

#10 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Coming from the fool who believes everything Trumpy says.

Re 5

Exactly.

Everyone should have known exactly what Trumpy is by now.

The "unforgivable sin" to me is Americans decision to FAFO.

And now we (and our descendants) will all have to pay the price for it.

Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Soon to town near you.

Corky is a Christian. I am pretty sure Corky would have problem with aborting Jesus.

But if Jesus is a GOD then that would not (or should not) be in the realm of possibilities. In this universe.

Come to think of it, Obama was the first DEI recipient of the award.
#41 | Posted by boaz

Well being a DEI hire yourself I guess you'd be the one to know what a DEI hire is. But you are also a documented liar (just like your hero) so unfortunately for you that cancels out everything you say.

Of course they did it on purpose.

If you still believe otherwise then you'll believe anything ... I have some awesome Trumpy memorabilia to sell you! I'll let you have it for only twice what I paid for it. All the people know it's now worth way more. Trust me!

And I bet California has a lot of wiki pages..