ELI5 If Trump is a supposed billionaire why does he keep promoting cheap crap to get money?
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    Foreign nationals, let alone foreign governments, are not allowed to give money to political campaigns in the United States. Actually illegal. Bill Clinton got in trouble for it

    Don’t forget the Trump Hotel during his presidency that took huge “bookings” from foreign nationals during his presidency. The “Law and Order” party naturally jumped all over this as a violation of the Constitution…, oh wait.

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  • OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman
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    Sam Altman is demonstrating the power of AI. He’s showing how a single CEO can fire the entire company and continue to develop the product to be even better than when humans were involved.

    “OpenAI. No real humans involved!” (TM)

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  • Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat?
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    Easy.

    The dog on the right is wearing pants. Two covered legs = Pa(ir) + nts = ‘Pants’.

    The dog on the left is wearing quants. Four covered legs = Qua(d) + nts = ‘Quants”.

    Two different clothing items.

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    The Earth’s orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, and therefore the Earth speeds up or slows down depending on where on its orbit it is at the time

    That's it! Thank you.

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    So can someone who is more familiar with this subject answer, “Are these pictures taken at the same time of day with or without seasonal adjustments to time (Daylight Savings Time, etc.)?”

    I understand why the sun would move vertically over the year due to the tilt of the Earth, but what causes the horizontal movement?

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    Wait. Is that one turtle per dimension, one turtle per universe, or one turtle that lives inside each black hole that’s really just a wormhole to another dimension/universe?

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  • PG&E bills to rise as California regulators approve 4th rate hike this year
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    Wasn’t one of PG&E’s recent justifications for an anti-solar maneuver “solar isn’t fair to poor people”?

    Exorbitant electric bills are fair to poor people I guess?

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    I know this sounds made up, but it isn’t. I had to talk down a family member who accused Democrats of supporting “after birth abortions”. My response:

    “No X, that’s called Infanticide. It’s illegal in all 50 states.”

    Don’t know if he still believes it, but I encouraged him to look it up online and he later conceded.

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  • Tabasco on pizza: Yay or Nay?
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    Don’t let other people tell you how to eat.

    If Italians had been gatekeepering 500 years ago, they wouldn’t have tomato-based dishes today.

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  • Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"
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    Sure, Microsoft is happy to let their AIs scan everyone else’s code., but is anyone aware of any software houses letting AIs scan their in-house code?

    Any lawyer worth their salt won’t let AIs anywhere near their company’s proprietary code intil they are positive that AI isn’t going to be blabbing the code out to every one of their competitors.

    But of course, IANAL.

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  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
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    No, this can’t be. They took all of our personal information so they could use AI to tailor ads to exactly what we wanted at any given moment.

    /s

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  • I'm looking for "fat"? keycaps similar to what Matias uses for Esc, Ctrl, Option, Cmd and Space keys on their [ErgoPro](http://www.matias.ca/ergopro/programmable/). What search term should I use to find similar keycaps? I've tried "tall", "fat", "oversized", "big", etc., but I only find extra wide (in the X direction) or extra tall (in the Z direction) rather than in the Y direction. Any help welcome.

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    What search term to use for "fat" keycaps?

    I'm looking for "fat"? keycaps similar to what Matias uses for Esc, Ctrl, Option, Cmd and Space keys on their [ErgoPro](http://www.matias.ca/ergopro/programmable/). What search term should I use to find similar keycaps? I've tried "tall", "fat", "oversized", "big", etc., but I only find extra wide (in the X direction) or extra tall (in the Z direction) rather than in the Y direction. Any help welcome.

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    I distinctly remember saying, "Beef".

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    The blood center is getting aggressive...

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    Has Huy Fong Sriracha changed color? Saw a bunch of bottles at the store today, but instead of their usual brick-red color, the sauce was almost brown. I checked the expiration dates on a few bottles -- the date was June of 2026 (or there abouts, don't remember the exact date), so they weren't expired. Anyone know if these Sriracha bottles are unusual, or is Sriracha brown now?

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    Grass, weed, tree, just some of the sources of pollen that can send our allergies off. In my experience, I’ll react (itchy eyes, etc.) for a day or two, then it will wane. Certainly the pollen I’m reacting to doesn’t magically disappear in a day. What processes do I have to thank that allow me to suffer only a relatively short time? Are the allergen in pollen unstable and break down quickly on their own? Are there bacteria or other life forms that are helping to break the allergens down? Tearing eyes and draining noses want to know!

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    In the Dune universe, when a laser weapons hits a shield, both are destroyed in a nuclear explosion reaction. So instead of building nuclear weapons, wouldn’t it be easier to tie a timer and a “parachute” to a laser gun and drop it from orbit onto your enemy’s city?

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