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Nah, cut 2~3 cm of the bottom of the tree and keep it sitting in water, it'll last 2+ weeks easily and it's not easy to set fire to a live hydrated tree, even when it's pine.
Now putting real candles on the tree is a slight risk factor, but if you get the old fashioned or cheap kind, the candles will burn all the way down and slightly bake/singe the pine needles, and that makes your house really smell like Yule!

But that's the root of the problem, 99$ of all billionaires are sociopaths that will never have enough, always needing more; and capitalism is built on extraction of wealth.
There are billions who don't have enough, because the filthy rich are incapable of ever having enough.

Tesla's on "full" ""auto"" """pilot""" will plow right into what looks like a road. Mike or Mark Robber tested various self driving cars against a painted curtain with boxes behind it, Tesla's not only failed to stop, they would disengage auto-pilot a split second before colliding, so doesn't count as auto failure.

What would we do without AI! /s No actually, the YouTube ai is actually decent at summarizing videos, although I couldn't get it to make a less lengthy version.

The video presents a theory that Trump is not building a ballroom at the White House, but rather an underground data center (0:45-0:51). The speaker supports this theory with several points:

Inspiration from Oracle's Underground Data Centers: The idea originated from research into Larry Ellison's Oracle building nine-story deep, missile-proof underground data centers in Jerusalem for Israel's data sovereignty (1:30-2:10). The speaker notes the striking similarities in scale and cost between Trump's "ballroom" and Oracle's data centers (2:33-2:47). Project Stargate Context: The video connects the "ballroom" to Project Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative for government operations, defense intelligence, and federal data consolidation, announced by Larry Ellison and Sam Altman with Trump (3:15-3:23). This initiative requires significant infrastructure like servers, power, cooling, and security (3:24-3:29). Contractor's Expertise: The lead contractor, Clark Construction, specializes in building critical government facilities and has six redacted contracts for confidential client data centers (3:52-5:09). They also hold a NAVFAC contract that allows them to hide the true scope and cost of projects (5:29-5:59). Architectural Changes: Trump replaced the classical architect with Shalom Bares, who designed the post-9/11 hardening project for the Pentagon, including secure wedges, skiffs (sensitive compartmentalized information facilities), and bomb-resistant architecture (6:20-7:00). Physical Evidence at the Site: Satellite imagery showed massive steel caissons for deep underground construction and a heavy-lift crane permanently anchored for long-duration, deep excavation (7:21-7:55). Infrastructure Upgrades: Pepco filed emergency requests for massive power infrastructure work near the East Wing, including substation modernization, despite declining commercial real estate demand in downtown DC (8:00-8:54). DC Water increased capital spending and the Washington Aqueduct warned about data centers using Potomac River water for cooling (8:54-9:10). Donor Analysis (Supply Chain for a Data Center): Carrier Corporation is donating an HVAC system, and their website lists "Carrier Quantum Leap" for data center thermal management, suggesting they might be donating this more expensive system rather than a standard ballroom AC (9:41-10:32). Boxable (Paulo Timani), known for prefab buildings, has contracts for Class 5 military installations and their units come with Faraday caging (electromagnetic shielding) for skiffs, similar to the modular construction used in Oracle's data centers (10:50-11:56). Caterpillar (heavy machinery, excavators, industrial generators) and Union Pacific (classified fiber optic cables used by the DoD) are also listed as donors (11:57-12:29). Major cloud computing and AI infrastructure companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir, along with Booz Allen Hamilton (classified networks for CIA/NSA) and Blackstone (backup power infrastructure), are also on the donor list, while luxury brands typically associated with ballrooms are absent (12:30-13:03). The speaker concludes this donor list is a supply chain for a data center (13:06-13:11). Military Involvement: Trump himself stated that "the military is very much involved in this" ballroom project (13:16-13:26). Location Significance: The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) bunker, which is five stories deep and staffed 24/7 by military officers. Demolishing the East Wing provides access for expansion and integration of new infrastructure (15:28-15:45). Being at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue allows executive privilege to cover the project, exempting it from oversight (15:47-16:04).

The video concludes that while a ballroom might be built on top, it serves as a "lid" for the true project: a classified, protected, and unauditable underground data center for AI warfare infrastructure and continuity of government (16:06-16:18).*

Bullshit.
Take Christ out of Christmas and you get Yule. A far older tradition, with a big feast, gifts & offerings, yule-trees, lots of candles (or bonfires and torches or whatever), probably getting drunk, and a lot of hygge/cozy good times.
All the Christianity stuff in Christmas is just layered on top of the glorious solstice celebrations. The only thing I'd miss if I were to strip any Christian stuff from Christmas, is a couple banger Xmas songs & hymns.

I swore by Asics for a decade, always fit great and I rarely needed a different insole for my semi flat feet. But then ~3 years ago, they changed something and all their shoes were like any other sneaker - not good enough.

After trying a lot of different insoles, which at best kinda helped; I went the opposite way and started getting extra wide minimal/barefoot shoes. After 2 weeks of adjusting my foot pain went away.
It seems having practically no support, makes you build up your arch muscles.

Anecdotally: If your cat really likes you, it won't mind getting your scent on it's fur, even right after it's been grooming itself.

Can always say you worked for party city or similar. Or x-twitter for that matter, seems like they pretty much don't have a functioning HR department, so who's going to stop you claiming you did whatever there

If racing/anxious thoughts isn't the cause, you may have great success with the military sleep method: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/military-sleep-method

I was sure the version I'd read months ago, had you tense up the muscles before relaxing them section by section; but I could not immediately find any variabts which mentioned that part. I used to do the very lite version, counting my breaths. Worked pretty well, over the years - after getting my head sorted out first - I've built a habit of falling asleep in 5~15 mins. Used to often take an hour, occasionally 2~3.

On his vast experience and skills in...................slicking back his hair in the mandatory trumpy way and being one of daddy's crotch goblins?

Last I checked the US spent more than any comparable country on healthcare/capita, roughly twice the OECD average.
And, they have to deal with medical bankruptcies, using Uber instead of ambulances, insulin rationing, and whatnot