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MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally
www.axios.com
... Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday opened with speakers who made racist, sexist and crass remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris and Puerto Ricans.
- - - It concluded with speeches from Trump, his wife, Melania, and billionaire Elon Musk arguing that Trump's the hopeful, optimistic choice.
Why it matters: Crude comments at Trump rallies aren't new. But many speakers at the rally unleashed rhetoric unprecedented in modern American history so close to an election. ...
Sugar Ray - Someday
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt...
...
Someday, when my life has passed me by
I'll lay around and wonder why you were always there for me
One way, in the eyes of a passerby
I'll look around for another try and fade away
...
Then there seems to be this, which I have only seen so far on more obscure sites...
AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%
www.tomshardware.com
... Addition is simpler than multiplication, after all. ...
OK, that view seems to originate around this ...
Addition is All You Need for Energy-efficient Language Models
arxiv.org
So, apparently, not a published paper.
Worded diffeerntly...
Dido - White Flag (2003)
www.youtube.com
@#4 ... Prescient? ...
Big Tech companies to invest in nuclear energy for AI needs (October 2024)
www.nbcbayarea.com
... The demand for energy to support the increasing need for artificial intelligence content is rapidly growing, leading several tech giants to consider investing in nuclear power to meet this demand.
Microsoft, an AI leader, is also leading the charge in transitioning to nuclear power. The Redmond, Wash.-based company said it will restart a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
"I think the Three Mile Island deal, where they're restarting Three Mile Island, is a great step, but we need to do more," said Josh Smith, the energy policy lead at Abundance Insitute. "That's gonna look like reforming regulations around nuclear and making it easier to build new plants." ...
Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - There'll Be Some Changes Made (1990)
www.youtube.com
Two great guitar players just seeming to be having fun providing music.
Neck and Neck, a fav album of mine.
Bloodrock - D.O.A. (1970)
www.youtube.com
Instead of lyrics, I'll proffer...
D.O.A. (song)
en.wikipedia.org(song)
... "D.O.A." is a song by Texas hard rock band Bloodrock released by Capitol Records in early 1971.
Synopsis
The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has, temporarily, survived a mid-air collision. In his dying words, he describes in graphic detail what he remembered of the collision and his current condition: his arms have been severed, his co-pilot is already lifeless beside him, blood is rapidly leaving his body and pooling underneath him, and a paramedic indicates that no medical intervention can save him from imminent death. Ambulance sirens are heard at several points in the song; at the end, the music slows down and drops in key, simulating the narrator's loss of consciousness and death.
The initials D.O.A. stand for dead on arrival. ...
The ambulance siren at the end of the song, it just shuts off.
Yeah, back in the day, this song made a deep impression.
Wow, the playlist here this evening is presenting some interesting tunes...
Fools - Life Sucks Then You Die (1985)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
My house burned down in a flash of thunder
My wife ran off with a one-legged plumber
My crops fell dead when the riverbed went dry
My dog got squashed by a pickup truck
My son ran away and got hooked on drugs
My daughter's knocked up by the class of '85
People say that life is good
It don't seem good to me
I'm lost without a paddle
And I'm headed up ---- creek
People say that life is fun
But I don't know why
As far as I can tell
Life sucks then you die
...
OK, an oldie...
Alvin's Harmonica - Alvin & The Chipmunk (1959)
www.youtube.com
Yeah, the Chipmunks were a thing back then.
Fortunately pop music has moved forward since then.
@#103 ... I'm just asking LL to not disrespect readers with such ridiculous gaps...
Yeah, but it took a long (quite a long) while to get to that request, no?
OK, the journey to this point aside, what are the supposed gaps of which you speak?
Are those gaps a comment formatting issue, or a comment content issue?
If the former, what do you suggest? (and, yes, I do know HTML. In a prior life I brought a company from dial-up access to the web access.) That aside...
But I guess my main concern here is... why do you seem to be so focused upon formatting over content?
That's the question I'd like to see a response to.
Another from the current playlist...
Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day (2001)
www.youtube.com
Yeah, I went to that instead of a happy face.
This describes the "frame" that I have mentioned and commented upon in the past.
There are other factors as well...
For example...
The order of the questions asked can affect the answers to the questions.