ProfessorScience

Its supply and demand. The AI data centers are paying their electric bills, but at the same time they represent a significant increase in demand for electricity, so electric companies can raise their prices.

But first they have to finish the hearing on whether water is wet.

I agree. He should have been tried, and convicted, and put in prison. It was a miscarriage of justice that he was not. But even if all that had happened, it shouldn't make someone ineligible for office, otherwise it could be abused by a corrupt government. Ideally it would make someone unqualified in the eyes of the electorate, but... well I wouldn't count on it these days, unfortunately.

And despite that Trump was allowed to run for president!

I wouldn't want criminal charges from preventing someone from running for office. Otherwise someone like Trump, once in office, could just get his justice department to file charges against any candidate that he didn't like. It is a failure on the part of the voters to have elected him despite the criminal charges (although not the only failure, certainly).

Just the first two syllables would be Worcester, which is also a place.

I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.

I don't have much hope that they will get the justice they deserve.

I'd love to see the "religious right" wake up a bit to what being "conservative" has actually come to mean. The current level of cognitive dissonance has been a long time in the making.

Another vote for Kobo here. I have a Clara 2e that i really like. It can use Overdrive to get books from the library, or you can just load books yourself either over USB, or download documents using its built in web browser. The browser would also let you look at an online planner, I guess? There isn't one built in. The slow screen updates make using the browser pretty impractical for the most part, though.

Blowing up the boat in the first place.

Nice. I'm happy to see RCV more in any context. Get it into the conversation, if nothing else.