The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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Lengthy but readable article about leopards, faces, vibes and stuff. Worth a look.

I think I'm getting the hang of the latest Evernote. If the text is cut off at the margins, try hitting the ... button on the top right, and choosing "Fit to Window". That works for me, anyway.

 

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It may still seem odd that democratically elected Senators would be eager to abandon their own political power in order to serve as Elon Musk’s barely tolerated vassals. No doubt some have doubts or are not happy with the situation. They may be worried about primary challenges; they may fear MAGA death threats.

But I think the deeper reason that people like Ernst bend the knee is that they are committed to the politics of white identity and white supremacy, and they believe that their political goals are better served under fascism than under democracy.
 

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The US Navy paused a sexual-assault prevention and response training due to Trump's executive order on "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Radicalism" with no timeline for resuming.


As a reminder: the Trump-Harris gender gap.

 

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Trumpty Dumpty is damaging the NSA at large scale and is a threat to national security.

The NSA is planning a "big delete" of websites and internal network content that contains any of these 27 banned words by Trump's executive order:

Anti-Racism
Racism
Allyship
Bias
DEI
Diversity
Diverse
Confirmation Bias
Equity
Equitableness
Feminism
Gender
Gender Identity
Inclusion
Inclusive
All-Inclusive
Inclusivity
Injustice
Intersectionality
Prejudice
Privilege
Racial Identity
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Pronouns
Transgender
Equality
This list has unwanted consequences, because e.g. privilege escalation is a well known term in the security world which has nothing to do with DEI. Also documents with "bias" or "inclusion" are to be deleted as well. "Bias" is important in context of RNG and cryptography, while "inclusion" is part of various security category terms.

The NSA is busy trying to identify mission-related stuff before the delete happens, but has not enough work force to do so. A manual review is impractical. So they are skimming through the data they got right now with search technics and "data science development program interns" in order to reduce false positives.

The NSA is expecting an "unintended downtime" of "mission-related" web sites. The total impact is yet unknown.

 
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And in other batshit insane news, after Kanye West proudly declared he loves Hitler today, he is also claiming he fucked Ivanka Trump

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Update: Kanye West's Twitter account is now history, but not for this reason. West has also been posting tons of porn, which flooded lots of people's timeline. Many people complained to Musk.

Musk then replied to the complaints: "Given what he has posted, his account is now classified as NSFW. You should not be seeing that anymore."

As response West thanked Musk for allowing to express himself, and deleted his account. For now.

 
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Trumpty Dumpty is damaging the NSA at large scale and is a threat to national security.

The NSA is planning a "big delete" of websites and internal network content that contains any of these 27 banned words by Trump's executive order:


This list has unwanted consequences, because e.g. privilege escalation is a well known term in the security world which has nothing to do with DEI. Also documents with "bias" or "inclusion" are to be deleted as well. "Bias" is important in context of RNG and cryptography, while "inclusion" is part of various security category terms.

The NSA is busy trying to identify mission-related stuff before the delete happens, but has not enough work force to do so. A manual review is impractical. So they are skimming through the data they got right now with search technics and "data science development program interns" in order to reduce false positives.

The NSA is expecting an "unintended downtime" of "mission-related" web sites. The total impact is yet unknown.



 

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Trump has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, because producing the one-cent coin does cost more than 2 cents.

Quote: "Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time."

 

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Trump has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, because producing the one-cent coin does cost more than 2 cents.

Quote: "Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time."

Honestly, getting rid of pennies is probably a good idea. Several other countries have done it.
 

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Congress needs to unionize cuz that’s not Captain Orangade’s job.
True. A lot of what he's done is very clearly not in his authority, even though a broken clock is right twice a day....

Does that mean I have to 'round' $4.99 up or down?
Don't be silly, corporations will round up! And I don't think this will affect electronic payments at all.
 

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Honestly, getting rid of pennies is probably a good idea. Several other countries have done it.
We got rid of our half-penny pieces back in 1984. Adjusted for inflation, that's apparently the equivalent of 1.6p or 1.7 cents today. We still have 1p and 2p coins, though the Royal Mint mints them (and other coins) only when they're needed, not every year.



In contrast, I see that both the Philadelphia and Denver mints have each, in recent years minted over 3 billion 1 cent coins annually.

Coins in the UK (and I assume the US) are capable of remaining in circulation for decades, so I asked ChatGPT what on earth happens to all these 1 cent coins (the Royal Mint produces coins only when they're needed and hasn't minted any new 1 or 2 p coins for several years).

Chat GPT suggests they do, in fact, get lost or stuffed into coin jars (unless it's hallucinating again, bless its little silicon heart).

 

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We got rid of our half-penny pieces back in 1984. Adjusted for inflation, that's apparently the equivalent of 1.6p or 1.7 cents today. We still have 1p and 2p coins, though the Royal Mint mints them (and other coins) only when they're needed, not every year.



In contrast, I see that both the Philadelphia and Denver mints have each, in recent years minted over 3 billion 1 cent coins annually.

Coins in the UK (and I assume the US) are capable of remaining in circulation for decades, so I asked ChatGPT what on earth happens to all these 1 cent coins (the Royal Mint produces coins only when they're needed and hasn't minted any new 1 or 2 p coins for several years).

Chat GPT suggests they do, in fact, get lost or stuffed into coin jars (unless it's hallucinating again, bless its little silicon heart).

They're just pot metal so they probably have a wear rate, too.

Hong Kong and China have an interesting currency problem; it is really, really bad form/luck/karma to put old money in the red envelopes that are gifted to friends and family for the Lunar New Year. So, every year, there's a flush of crisp new bills around the start of the year and, I imagine, a huge crunch of gathering old bills for disposal.
 

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Any Aussies in the room? I think they got rid of pennies. When a dollar comes down to a nickel, what's decided there?