Back-to-back earthquakes: A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck near the northern coast of Venezuela ... read more
With a clean sweep of electoral wins for Zohran Mamdani's endorsees and nine out of ten victories for NYC Democratic Socialists of America last night, it's clear the socialist mayor and socialist movement are major political forces to be reckoned with. read more
Lawmakers in the state Senate took the final vote on these taxes on Thursday morning, sending them to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk where he's expected to sign the legislation before the end of the month. One proposal involves an increase in taxes on health plans, which experts say will raise rates for individuals with private health insurance by an average of $100 per year. This tax is expected to generate $2 billion annually to help fund Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance program for low-income residents. The second tax increase would impose a new sales tax on digital software, including programs like Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, Slack, and Workday. This tax, starting at 7.25%, could vary depending on the region of California where the software is purchased or used. The measure is projected to bring in approximately $900 million annually for the state's general fund. read more
Soon, however, the producers ran into obstacles. Officials from the county Beaches and Harbors Department and the California Coastal Commission told them they couldn't park their trucks overnight, light fires or drive on the sand. "We're a lifeguard show," "Baywatch" co-creator Greg Bonann remembers saying. "What do you mean we can't drive a truck on the beach?" Suddenly the show was at risk of becoming the wrong kind of symbol: this one, a victim of California's tangle of regulations. No one in power " not Newsom or L.A. Mayor Karen Bass " wanted to read the headline about "Baywatch" bailing out of Los Angeles. When elected leaders were summoned to the Fox lot to smooth things over, the show held all the leverage. "After a while, you have to sit down with the right people and say, Guys, do we want to have this show here or not?'" Bonann says. read more
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How much money was saved by not reporting a death in a National Park?
www.nps.gov
The National Park Service didn't notify the public or post a warning at the trailhead until June 19th, and only after journalists asked for the information.
They reiterated their warning on the 18th.
www.nps.gov
But posts Alerts EVERYDAY.
www.nps.gov
The National Park issues warnings not to climb back out the trail, but take an alternative that is less steep to get back up.
Why do you get suckered into obvious propaganda?
At some point people need to be responsible for their behaviors, the information is there, they just choose not to look. If you want things to be like getting your PPL I have no issue, it would keep out the idiots.
I'm Done, I'm Not in That ------ Political Party': James Carville
www.yahoo.com
Seems like Carville agrees with me, same with Corky's ------------ buddy Nate Silver.
But Corky is blind to the situation.
All those giga scale nvidia datacenters, time to start changing plans.
#4 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG
This is my issue with Datacenters.
NVidia is on a 6 month timeframe releasing new chipset. Not to mention Groq, by the time your replenish your datacenter its already out dated.
Groq, or inference processing is where its at for us mortals. I forsee home "AI devices taking over. No way this datacenter thing continues unabated.
Hello that's 1 token
using one word doesn't make any sense, it implies the wrong thing; Also what happens is the RAG's and Chat upload the context (secondary, and primary context) which adds to the tokens at a nonlinear rate.
platform.openai.com
Build an android app from scratch $3.00, start making changes and it goes non-linear.
If you can do 15000 words on 10,000 tokens you've had a massive efficiency breakthrough in AI
This is a matter of training, not hardware. With it though you will get mistakes, 15000 words becomes ~20-30,000 tokens.
#21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
pinklightrobot is lying ....
Tucker Carlson's mother, Lisa McNear Lombardi, was a free-spirited artist who mostly disappeared from his life when he was six years old
www.businessinsider.com
And no his father wasn't in the CIA either...
So is he a Democrat by Design ... FFS lyingliteBot you're worse than DonorBot.
And who do Brits blame? Immigrants. And that too is exactly what Putin and Farage was counting on.
#2 | Posted by snoofy
Same with the EU .. unmitigated illegal immigration will do that to a country or Union in this case.
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT heard chants of "send them back" and "shame on you" from MEPs as they approved the Migration and Asylum Pact.
The tougher rules will grant authorities much broader detention powers and allow for the creation of deportation centres outside the bloc.
Not all voted in favour of the changes, and a division emerged between Irish government supporting MEPs in Strasbourg.
www.msn.com
Spain and Italy at odds..
https://www.voiceofemirates.com/en/news/2026/06/20/escalating-european-dispute-over-migration-italy-
and-spain-disagree-on-deporting-asylum-seekers/
The UK economy has performed worse than the other 44 western nations since Brexit.
It was bad before Brexit.
tradingeconomics.com
Though it's a doomed job after Brexit, so maybe I hope he doesn't get the position
Have you ever watched Clarkson's Farm?
It will make your blood boil about how over-regulated that country is. Nothing will work until that gets fixed.
UK is a political economy, really is death by a thousand regulations ...
One final lesson to be taken from the show is that governments have to find a balance between facilitating and encouraging " or preferably just getting out of the way of " all those involved in doing a thing, and the laws and regulations tied around all of that so that one person's thing does not too much interfere with or destroy everyone else's thing. It seems pretty clear, made all the clearer by Clarkson's ventures, that we are now getting that balance dangerously wrong. Clarkson's farm is a noble venture that is, like Gulliver, tied down by a million tiny threads. As the show makes clear, each tiny thread in and of itself might seem pretty sensible and necessary. The danger is that as those threads multiply, the activity that produces all of our everyday miracles might yet find itself totally circumscribed.
moneyweek.com
~1/4 of EU countries are 50/50 about leaving ..
www.statista.com
Looking for justice from an all white jury is a sign of dementia.
#3 | POSTED BY FRESNO500
Whose jury was all white Fresno?
Getting your facts wrong and blaming white people is dementia.