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"What I do not understand is who is paying for these data center that get so hot they need water cooling?
I do ask the AI a few questions once in a while, but there is never any mention of getting billed?
If they charged, I would not do it.
So I do not get the financial model?" R5 #440

Good question.
I can't find a link to the information, but it seems Google ran at a $loss before they figured out the revenue angle of advertising, subsequently reportedly with earnings exceeding any OPEC nation, or Apple.

The threshold, the change that will transform A.I. forever will occur when humans are rendered extraneous to A.I. operation.
That does not mean humans will be out of the loop, forfeit control.
Instead merely that human slowness and other limitations will no longer handicap artificial intelligence.

Katie bar the door?

 

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intro:
Assassination of Charlie Kirk
2025 assassination in Orem, Utah, U.S.
Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10, 2025, while speaking at an outdoor campus debate planned by Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization he co-founded and led. Kirk was a close ally of US president Donald Trump and a highly influential figure in the MAGA movement. Wikipedia

headline:

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy​

Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars
Adam Gabbatt / Mon 20 Jul 2026 06.00 EDT
A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it.
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

www.theguardian.com

 

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Trump faces Republican rebellion over Daylight Saving Time as Senate bill nears dead end​

GOP Sens Tom Cotton, Mike Rounds and James Lankford are among those pushing back on permanent Daylight Saving Time​

By Alex Miller Fox News / Published July 21, 2026 10:02am EDT

US House passes the Sunshine Protection Act​

President Donald Trump wants Congress to pass legislation that would give Americans a break from a twice-yearly nuisance, but the sun will likely set on the push in the Senate, where the issue is deeper than politics.
The House passed its bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, last week to allow states to voluntarily observe Daylight Saving Time year-round, but the legislation is hitting a brick wall in the Senate.
And it’s not the party aisle that’s defining the debate, it’s a horizontal line running through the United States that divides northern states versus southern states.

Trump faces Republican rebellion over Daylight Saving Time as Senate bill nears dead end

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House, but Senate opposition from northern-state lawmakers over children going to school in the dark looms large.

www.foxnews.com

Is "Spring forward / Fall back" the way Americans should live? - OR -

Should we at long last give Trump something to be victorious about?

 

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Trump faces Republican rebellion over Daylight Saving Time as Senate bill nears dead end​

GOP Sens Tom Cotton, Mike Rounds and James Lankford are among those pushing back on permanent Daylight Saving Time​

By Alex Miller Fox News / Published July 21, 2026 10:02am EDT

US House passes the Sunshine Protection Act​

President Donald Trump wants Congress to pass legislation that would give Americans a break from a twice-yearly nuisance, but the sun will likely set on the push in the Senate, where the issue is deeper than politics.
The House passed its bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, last week to allow states to voluntarily observe Daylight Saving Time year-round, but the legislation is hitting a brick wall in the Senate.
And it’s not the party aisle that’s defining the debate, it’s a horizontal line running through the United States that divides northern states versus southern states.

Trump faces Republican rebellion over Daylight Saving Time as Senate bill nears dead end

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House, but Senate opposition from northern-state lawmakers over children going to school in the dark looms large.

www.foxnews.com

Is "Spring forward / Fall back" the way Americans should live? - OR -

Should we at long last give Trump something to be victorious about?

Calling it "Daylight Savings" never made any sense because daylight is simply shorter in the winter.
So there is no way to increase the daylight in winter or summer, since what you could gain on one end would be lost other the other end of the day.
I think the goal was to start the day earlier in summer so farmers could take advantage of the earlier start of the day, but that makes no sense to me since farmers can just get up sooner in the summer on their own, and don't need any clock changing.