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That's how it works in the US. We got our heat pump rebate on the condition that the contractor remove the original gas furnace rather than leave it in place as a backup.
@electrek.co @1br0wn
It'd be funny to watch them fighting like rats in a box... if we didn't have to live in the box.
It would not be difficult to publish a webpage which is continually updated with the complete list of his corrupt acts.
Reading about each of these things, or not reading about them, on separate occasions as individual stories presented idiosyncratically by different sources doesn't bring home the scale of it for people who really need it spelled out.
A one stop laundry list at a simple unchanging URL which lists them pointedly and succinctly, with full, credible citations, would be a useful thing to be able to point people at.
"English". I don't think even he knows what he means by that word.
A couple of years ago I wrote a tweet thread about how I'd begun to see people in the crypto and finreg spaces expressing excitement about the traceability of cryptocurrencies.
Thinking back to it as I watch Senators and crypto industry executives talk about how delightfully traceable public blockchains are. No pesky warrant required!
This on the day that Twitter/X's CEO resigned because Grok, which may or may not have been Musk posting under its name, repeatedly, publicly, and pornographically fantasized about her sexually, in excruciating detail.
You'd think they could have suggested you make sure you're sitting down first, then told you below the break.
"Ah yes, he have heart attack and fall out of window onto exploding bomb, and was killed in shooting accident." -- From Monty Python's "The Cycling Tour"
Somebody mentioned Douglas Adams over on Bluesky, and before the day was out found I had to re-watch the South Bank Show episode about him for the first time in many years.
It completely holds up, still brilliant, a lesser-known and absolutely worthy part of the DNA canon. There's no credit given for the original writing present in it, but it seems pretty obviously his own.
ChatGPT actually has permalinks; "Shared links" they call it. I can't wait to start seeing them used as citations in Wikipedia.
ChatGPT actually has permalinks; "Shared links" they call it. I can't wait to start seeing them used as citations in Wikipedia.
Happy Fourth, everybody
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4
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Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
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