They will require the requester to prove they control the standard http(s) ports, which isn’t possible with any nat.

It won’t work for such users, but also wouldn’t enable any sort of false claims over a shared IP.

Eggs are interesting because they are generally a very cheap food for what they are. If you can’t afford to spend much on food, eggs are generally still within your reach. Without cheap eggs the options for nutrition for people without much money are significantly curtailed.

They also drive news because they have dramatic surges with bird flu, which happens every few years.

Unlike other products, they tend to recover from the surge prices to reset things so the next surge still looks dramatic.

It’s funny because while some of it has to do with work to make Linux desktops better, a non-trivial amount of it is how worse Microsoft has made it to deal with Windows.

Canadian conservatives would hate it. It would foul their apparent momentum in also getting control like the conservatives did in the US.

I think another complicating factor is that military folks are moved around so much that they wouldn’t have the same loyalty to wherever they happen to be. So it’s likely to be quite bad, just staying that generally the military itself would split.

As to technically reporting to the president, well all bets would be off, since the act of secession is already a rejection of the current government and rule of law. There wasn’t any legal framework for the revolutionary war nor the civil war to happen, and yet they did.

Despite all this technicality, I’d really not want to see the nightmare of how this would play out in practice. Of course I could not see it happening until the GOP got too greedy and fully shut down elections or go too far away from free and fair elections. Ultimately confidence in elections serves as a release valve for anger with the government, and messing with that invites disaster.

While I agree it would go poorly, the way this would happen in theory is that the state would take their contributions to the federal military with them, and for California that would be a pretty sizeable chunk. So it’s not just local police and national guard.

That’s generally because it’s ridiculous and often right in the heels of some big illustration of how Texas benefits from the other states.

If the federal government did withhold aid, then that would perhaps be part of a scenario where California is tossing money at a government that will not reciprocate.

Now it may be premature, as this might just be posturing and even if they made it rough, there is every reason to hope that in 2 years than shift . But if this was a real and durable situation, I could see it being their only path to get some more negotiating power.

Wait, everything is canon after 2012, so like I can just say the Ewoks were behind everything and it’s now canon because I said so after 2012?

Usually I’ll see something mild or something niche get wildly messed up.

I think a few times I managed to get a query from a post in, but I think they are monitoring for viral bad queries and very quickly massage it one way or another to not provide the ridiculous answer. For example a fair amount of times the AI overview just would be seemingly disabled for queries I found in these sorts of posts.

Also have to contend with the reality that people can trivially fake it and if the AI isn’t weird enough, they will inject a weirdness to get their content to be more interesting.

Both California and Texas have struggles with energy costs. California with their constantly high rates, and Texas with their spot pricing occasionally royally screwing people.

I’d say their example is just an oversimplification to keep it understandable. Ultimately fuel based energy has a lot of the same concerns. That natural gas facility costs money to keep viable even if, hypothetically, zero fuel were being burned in some given week. The power lines need repairs, maintenance, upgrades, and expansion over the potential capacity, not actual usage. You have fixed costs alongside the marginal costs. The marginal costs certainly make sense to map directly to usage based rate, but fixed costs are significantly covered by those usage rates as well rather than bumping up the “basic charge” sort of line item on a power bill.

Seems like in such a case, it should be a different mix of base fixed monthly bill versus usage based rates, to more accurately reflect the cost structure in play.

For example, in my area it’s about $15 a month even if you use absolutely no electricity, that’s just the base charge ostensibly for the infrastructure required to deliver power, should you want it. It might make sense for this number to be increased rather than raising $/kwh rates.

Suppose the counter would be that at least with the rate increase, folks in more dire circumstances can cut back to avoid the increasing costs (which might be a bit of a feedback loop…)

I feel like it’s not great to say “Congress is already prepping” instead of “Marjorie Taylor Greene is prepping legistlation”

Even if you see it as a ploy, there’s an underlying truth to it, and even as he may wish to not fall for the ploy, he probably can’t help but to face the reality that drives the ploy.

it wouldn’t be the first time he had screwed the EV market at large in order to be the top dog in a smaller luxury niche

Ultimately, you talked yourself out of your first point, and this is apt, at best Tesla might get a few federal vehicle purchases to go electric rather than ICE, but a trivial volume. Musk doesn’t seem to be pushing anything that would broadly elevate the EV industry, and the likely problems for EVs he seems to think would net benefit Tesla anyway

But again, with immigration, Musk and Vivek are the only dissenting voices in a sea of xenophobia,

Hardly counts, the recipients of H1B aren’t the ones that were ever likely to get the inhuman treatment that Stephen Miller would see dished out. They want an indentured servant class, and H1B is closest to that.

You think they would get to vote?

Unfortunately, this time around the majority of AI build up are GPUs that are likely difficult to accomodate in a random build.

If you want a GPU for graphics, well, many of them don’t even have video ports.

If your use case doesn’t need those, well, you might not be able to reasonably power and cool the sorts of chips that are being bought up.

The latest wrinkle is that a lot of that overbuying is likely to go towards Grace Blackwell, which is a standalone unit. Ironically despite being a product built around a GPU but needing a video port, their video port is driven by a non-nvidia chip.

I think a fair number of self-proclaimed “neurodivergent” folks just like it because: a) They think it’s a free pass to be an asshole b) They think it indicates some sort of superpower with no downsides and that they are superior to “normal” people.

Knowing some clearly sincerely neurodivergent people I tend to be highly skeptical when people assert that status in an interaction where I wouldn’t otherwise be able to tell.

Well, they have friends, but after spending about a year not seeing them in person, they are used to just meeting them online. At least anecdotally that’s what I’m seeing with the kids of my group, that going out is a hassle and online is good enough. When they do, it’s maybe a total of three or four people hanging out, no big parties to speak of.

On a related note, the schools I know of pretty much stopped having dances other than the prom. In fact, from what I hear, the ability for students to socialize broadly has been pretty much tanked since the pandemic (stricter schedules, no more lockers, and various other measures instituted to avoid congregating students after pandemic and those policies seem to have stuck, presumably because it makes the students a bit easier to manage. It’s been a cause for concern for me about their social development, as while I never was big on those events, I at least remember a lot more downtime on school grounds that our kids don’t seem to get.

Not just them, frankly we haven’t really been seeing folks in person nearly as much since the pandemic. There are certain special occasions, but we almost never have a “random” visit for no particular reason anymore.

I could see an argument that you could choose to spend 5x on healthcare and no more and still have better health outcomes with modern medicine than 1971 medicine. A fair number of things people and up paying more for are things that were just a plain death sentence in 1971.

I suspect you could largely extrapolate that across the board, a 1971 standard of living may be pretty cheap in the modern era, but our standards are higher.

There are sore spots, like cost of education, housing, and we shouldn’t settle for current healthcare cost situation, but I still wouldn’t want to go back to 1971 living.