So when they said they would run the government 'like a business' they actually meant a Private Equity hostile take-over informed by 1970 McKinsey consultants.
While this sounds like good news it's very odd to me that a project the size of Caltrain would completely forget about regenerative breaking when calculating the electricity usage.
If you need an LLM on your home server, sure. If not, there are much more sensible home server options based on Intel’s N100 or Microsoft’s SQ3 chipsets.
Isn't this just the FPTP system? I mean what point is there in voting R in California or so.
You'd have to be a dogmatic believer of civic duty to stand in line for hour just to vote R or D in a state that will go the other way with 30% difference...
As if presidential elections are the only elections, or even the only ones that matter.
What the prior commenter meant is that in some jurisdictions it's pointless to vote against one of the parties because they win so overwhelmingly.
For example, I live in Massachusetts. The legislature is 95% one party. There's no point in being in another party, you'll never get elected and your vote won't change the outcome. It sounds like a dream if it's "your" party but without inter-party tension there are a lot of shenanigans that go on.
Your municipal and state elections are, by a wide margin, the most consequential to your daily life. Congressional representatives have a moderate importance.
Who is elected president has the least impact to your daily life, and to the laws and politics of the country, of any person you ever vote for. It's actually tiny, even if some people would like you to think it's everything.
There are down election solutions, unfortunately most are as likely to succeed as the electoral compact. Non-paetisan definition of district boundaries for US and state legislatures, and ranked choice voting for these and more local elections.
Gerrymandering is a cancer on our democracy. Unfortunately it is self perpetuating.
> Isn't this just the FPTP system? I mean what point is there in voting R in California or so.
The problem is that it's also "what point is there in voting D in California?"
All this great shit the D's talk about never seems to manifest in the states they solidly control.
(Also, if you're hung up on the fact I'm bagging on the home team, that's just the state the parent poster mentioned, mentally invert R and D and substitute a southern state).
> Surely even in the UK food is a bit more than just a way of not dying.
It definitely is. Most people I know care about having good food. It does vary a lot with income and region. The biggest problem is long working hours and people not having time or energy to do anything more than buy ready meals.
While people in the UK tend to eat worse than people in the rest of Europe, we eat better than Americans and food here is "rich and varied".
I am puzzled by GP's comment about having cheaper rent by not having a kitchen. I have never even heard of anywhere you could rent here that did not have a kitchen - its really must be bottom end room rental (and even there shared kitchens are normal).
I did say "at home", I still ate out plenty. I just don't find the effort/cost/reward of being able to cook at home worth it.
When traveling, I eat plenty of local and varied food. The problem of cooking at home is exacerbated when traveling though. Having an adequate kitchen for cooking is even more troublesome.
Going out to eat every meal gets pretty tiresome after doing it for years. The food available for takeaway isn't great. Fine for a few weeks or months, but eating it for years definitely kills you faster.
Having a healthy, 0 effort meal available at a moments notice is great.
It's day 8. Good luck all.
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