Valid.

I recently watched a video about the first electronic synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and was housed in the basement of an entire city block in NYC. Several decades later, and it would fit in a suitcase, with far more functionality. It worked, but it was huge and unwieldly, to the point of being completely impractical. It needed to wait until the technology caught up to it, and made it a truly viable instrument, and not just a concept.

Data Centers are like that 1897 synthesizer. It works, sure, but at what cost? It’s expensive in every way, from the building costs, the energy costs, the environmental costs, etc. We have a concept and a prototype, but not a truly viable product yet. Maybe in a decade or two, with a proper goal in mind, we can get there, but right now, Data Centers are just that big, dumb synthesizer that takes up a city block.

Actually exchanging currency for a product is so old school. Now they just need a stock price, make an announcement, and the price goes up, and those in the know make a fortune. Nothing was sold, nothing changed, there was just an announcement, and those who know the announcement is coming, or are actually making the announcement, get to cash in. It was worth one thing yesterday, and it’s worth more today, and that increase is very real money.

There are lots of smoke and mirrors tricks to manipulate stock prices and make money going up or down, and people thinking of new ones every day. Now they’re just creating their own money out of thin air.

And none of it requires any products to be sold.

Who woulda thought that the lesson they’d take away from the Holocaust would be to Pay It Forward?

Well, yeah, he’s MAGA. They’re ALL pedophiles, and traitors, and corrupt, and racist…

That’s the trophy? Ugly as Hell.

The money is just a distraction. The real value in this “settlement” is that it gives forever immunity for Trump, his family, and their henchmen. It literally makes them fully above all laws, for the rest of their lives.

I think that’s what they were trying to say, and it just got garbled.

I tried to not swear when my son was born, but that lasted about 3 days. After that, I always spoke freely in front of him.

Today, he’s 27, and NEVER swears. He just doesn’t do it, never did. His friends don’t swear much either. They all saw it as another unseemly thing that older people do.

The ocean is already warming, and these guys want to heat it up even more? Didn’t these guys watch Day After Tomorrow? Because this is how we start a new ice age.

I got some future waterfront property in the Appalachian Mountains.

Or just eat an orange. You don’t have to be sad.

If Trump is saying it, then it’s a lie.

I wonder if it wasn’t some sort of “bank,” from the pre-currency barter days. You could exchange your extra grain for credits that you could use to buy fabric, or arrowheads. The pits are where the items would be stored, sort of like a neolithic shopping mall.

Or maybe each pit belonged to a specific person, and they could store their personal valuables, where they were covered, and guarded.

It’s worse than that. I’m my area, they found that the company that manages the cameras had timed them to film a little longer than the yellow, so they were capturing a small, but significantly higher number of fraudulent violations.

Then when they added cameras to school zone signs, it was found that they activated outside of the official school zones, also giving them a huge profit windfall.

These companies are predatory and parasitic, and EVERY time they do this stuff, they manage to make a mistake that benefits them, at our expense.

Seth is my favorite late night host. His Closer Look segments are great.

So many financial businesses these days don’t really seem to have a product, just a stock price, and they make it go up and down, and bet on it, and that’s all it takes to make money. None of it is real, but it contains pixels on a screen, so it exists enough to buy real products, and that’s all that matters.

It has one potential use: to increase profits by replacing the jobs of millions of millions of workers. That is the sole reason that these C-Suite Executives are excited about, not considering the fact that their jobs are among the easiest to replace by AI.

We are essentially a coiled tube, surrounded by a system maintenance apparatus.

He’s definitely going to run. EVERYBODY is going to run, and the Progressives are going to do the best.