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86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejects Al data center offer of $15 million to sell his land. Instead, he sold development rights to a conservation fund for $2 million

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1r9yg5w/86yearold_pennsylvania_farmer_rejects_ai_data/

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Va. state senator pushes for water testing after 243 million-gallon sewage spill in Potomac River
https://virginiamercury.com/2026/02/20/va-state-senator-pushes-for-water-testing-after-243-million-gallon-sewage-spill-in-potomac-river/

A photo of the sewage spill near Cabin John from late January, shortly after the rupture was discovered. DC Water officials expect it will take weeks to bring the problem under control. (Photo courtesy DC Water)

#memes

An image of three girls: one with no mouth, one with an eye mask, one with headphones.

Caption: Law when rich people are involved. Mute, Blind, Deaf.

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Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

Link: https://electrek.co/2026/02/20/tesla-has-to-pay-historical-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47090584

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This needs to be shared on its own for visibility. It’s more difficult to trust Ars Technica after this. I DO respect them for publishing this but…

Frankly it’s getting increasingly difficult to trust any news source.

In the journalism world, fabricated quotes is an egregious offense.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

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So far, @xubuntu has a single wallpaper submission for the 26.04 community wallpaper contest.

Calling all digital artists! Would you like to have your work featured on a popular Linux distribution? Xubuntu is holding a contest to select six winning images to be featured in our 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" release.

Submissions are due by March 4th. We'd love to see your work!

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/xubuntu-26-04-community-wallpaper-contest/77213

#Xubuntu #DigitalArt #Wallpaper #OpenSource

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A soldier shouts, "We need air support!", while an airplane responds, "You can do it!" in the sky.

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Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA. Just complete groin kicking. They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one. It didn't. It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency
statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render
the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the
power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S.
694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it
any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power
through vague language, or without careful limits.

(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the
pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void,
prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B).
Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs
or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it
consistently has in other tariff statutes.
The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The
term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control;
to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief
what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government
cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the
power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and
IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax
within the quotidian power to “regulate.”
While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that
the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and
the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not
do

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Opening a business where I trade cephalopods for stuff

Calling it “Squid Pro Quo”

movim/movim at selfh.st

A federated, decentralized social platform.

https://github.com/movim/movim?ref=selfh.st

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They found some voter fraud. According to the Georgia State Election Board, Elon Musk's America PAC broke the law by sending pre-filled absentee ballot applications in November 2024 and by failing to make it clear that they were not official government documents.

Looking forward to the FBI raid.

https://www.threads.com/@blueatlgeorgia/post/DU98CA7DsiU

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US Supreme Court rules against Trump’s tariffs in 6-3 opinion, dealing blow to trade agenda
https://virginiamercury.com/2026/02/20/repub/us-supreme-court-rules-against-trumps-tariffs-in-6-3-opinion/

The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)

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Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes.

Absolute legend. More truth bombs in sports please!