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Fed-up North Dakotans, led by a group of women calling themselves the BadAss Grandmas, voted to amend the constitution and establish a state Ethics Commission six years ago. Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials.

But the watchdog agency has achieved less than the advocates had hoped, undermined in large part by the Legislature the commission is charged with overseeing, an investigation [...] has found.

The commission has not substantiated any of the 81 complaints it has received. It has dismissed 47, most because it lacked the authority to investigate them. Thirty complaints are pending, some for more than a year. Numerous tips don’t get investigated because the agency can’t proceed without a formal complaint, and complainants have said they fear retaliation if they file one, the commission’s executive director said.

“I certainly was hoping for something more rapid,” said Carol Sawicki, one of the North Dakota residents who sponsored the ballot initiative that created the commission. Creating an ethical culture in government is “going to take time,” said Sawicki, who is also treasurer of the state’s League of Women Voters branch. “Much more time than I wanted it to.”

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Ethics reform advocates say a vigorous commission is crucial in a state where politics and the energy industry are intertwined. A North Dakota Monitor and ProPublica investigation last year detailed how Gov. Kelly Armstrong, who has extensive ties to the oil and gas industry, could face significant conflicts of interest as chair of two state bodies that regulate the industry. Armstrong said in an interview last year that he doesn’t believe his ties will present a conflict of interest, but rather that his experience will benefit the state.

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Me go first:

• Most printer: we all know ...
• Keurig: a coffee pod machine that use one-time pod. They once refuse to use third party pod with a chip.
• Juicero: a luxury juicer that squeeze juice from repack pod (which you can squeeze by hand). The machine will only work with pre-pack pod. You cannot make the machine work with your own food or vegetable.

You know any ? Any product, startup, dead or alive.

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Morning all!

I'm going to be taking the site down for about 5 minutes, so that I can get a consistent copy of our databases (postgres + pict-rs sled).

Will do it at about 10am PST.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Twinkie_FaKtory on 2025-01-08 19:09:28+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/The_Crazy_Brew on 2025-01-08 16:35:20+00:00.

And it is suffering an endless news cycle about supposed leaks of the next piece of hardware.

I love my Deck, I can't wait for Nintendo's next console. But this madness has to stop.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/notedrive on 2025-01-08 15:29:34+00:00.

I saw it in another post and since there was a demo gave it a shot. Bought it after 20 minutes in the demo. It’s basically a Zelda style game, top down view where you progress room by room in dungeons with a small spaceship.

Controls are flawless, which is needed because this is also a bullet hell style game.

There are unlockable items, hidden doors, upgrades, unique boss fights, and plenty of other stuff to keep you busy.

I run it at 40fps and have not adjusted graphics. There is a story but it’s mainly told through beeps and whirring noise with a minimal amount of reading.

Turn off your lights with your voice, without an internet connection.

many people seem to be excited about nVidias new line of GPUs, which is reasonable, since at CES they really made it seem like these new bois are insance for their price.

Jensen (the CEO guy) said that with the power of AI, the 5070 at a price of sub 600, is in the same class as the 4090, being over 1500 pricepoint.

Here my idea: They talk a lot about upscaling, generating frames and pixels and so on. I think what they mean by both having similar performace, is that the 4090 with no AI upscaling and such achieves similar performance as the 5070 with DLSS and whatever else.

So yes, for pure "gaming" performance, with games that support it, the GPU will have the same performance. But there will be artifacts.

For ANYTHING besides these "gaming" usecases, it will probably be closer to the 4080 or whatever (idk GPU naming..).

So if you care about inference, blender or literally anything not-gaming: you probably shouldn't care about this.

i'm totally up for counter arguments. maybe i'm missing something here, maybe i'm being a dumdum <3

imma wait for amd to announce their stuffs and just get the top one, for the open drivers. not an nvidia person myself, but their research seems spicy. currently still slobbing along with a 1060 6GB

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