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  • Philly has been good at stopping the run, though. Tom Brady noted it during the broadcast, Cook runs that would get 7 or 8 against other defenses only got 3 against them.

    Now, that 2 pt conversion absolutely should have been a run, or at least a screen pass.

    This was a winnable game for the Bills, they just blew it with mistakes. Josh better get smarter in the playoffs. Maybe he should sit next week, now that the Bills have no chance at the division.

  • If God issues His Ultimate Recall vote on Trump, Vance immediately becomes President, and the office of the VP becomes vacant.

    To fill it, President Vance would need to nominate someone, who would have to be approved by both the House and Senate.

    But McConnell started a precedent that says that Congress can keep the position vacant by simply refusing to hold the vote.

  • Even so, a very good election night for Democrats in the upper chamber would only bring the Senate to 50-50, with a Republican VP serving as the tie-breaker,” he said.

    If I were writing the script, I would have the Democrats win that 50/50 split in the Senate, then have the President eat his final cheeseburger. Then, Schumer will invoke the "McConnell" doctrine to sit on the VP appointment and not bring it to a vote at all. We lived without a SC Justice for nearly a year, and they are much more important than the VP.

  • Or is it building the infrastructure to accommodate them the issue?

    It's this, but that's only part of the story.

    Datacenter companies are very efficient at building new ones now, once they have all the proper permits and can start building it can go from an empty lot to fully functional in a year or two. Maybe longer for the huge hyperscalar ones.

    Once they are online, their power demand is comparable to a small city, coming online all at once. But the local utility never had this demand in its plan, so they have to build more capacity to service it, and building a new power plant takes much longer. In the meantime, the demand will outstrip their capacity and the utility will have to buy more power on the open market. This drives up costs for all their customers unless the utility is allowed to charge these customers (whose existence has blown up all their capacity planning) more.

    As a side note, they often get advantages and tax breaks because they promise to bring jobs to the area. And the initial construction jobs usually are significant. But once the place is built, it's ongoing operations only requires a few dozen positions, many of them low-tech and outsourced like site security. The higher-tech jobs (like the network engineering) is often not on-site anyway. A shopping plaza would generate more jobs than a datacenter.

  • There's another aspect to this, that eventually the loans have to be repaid. That may involve selling assets, which would expose the seller to capital gains.

    However, if the loan is held until the owner of the loan dies, then the estate gets stuck with that bill. But the estate inherits all the assets at a stepped-up cost basis. The assets are still sold to pay off the loan, but very little will be owed in capital gains taxes.

    It's so common that it's referred to as the Buy, Borrow, Die strategy that the wealthy use to avoid taxes.

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