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  • This shows the percentage of specific types of data centers but fails to mention how many are in each group, and what the cooling systems used on the most recently built data centers are. Right now AI specialized data centers are what are popping up everywhere with massive scale and that chart specifically shows that most use some form of closed loop cooling? Did your report show specific numbers of those datacenters per category and the energy/heat generated? Otherwise just a base percentage of each type obscurs a lot of context here.







  • Honestly life probably still sucks for the hyper wealthy. Is it a more comfortable suck, sure, but they just get stuck into other patterns of unattainable goals. While there suffering is most likely self inflicted, i.e they base fulfillment on being the most powerful/wealthy yet never are able to attain it, they still never truly reach what they deem fulfilling lives. The fucked part is their greed and need for power ends up wrecking other life’s who may have sensible goals of fulfillment, like being able to survive without being constantly on edge living pay check to paycheck. Now those goals could be attainable if those at the top weren’t wrecking havoc on the world chasing unattainable fulfillment and making the most basic fulfillment which should be attainable unattainable for the masses, yet here we are.


  • “Good you” is the perfect response, its just a more personal version of Hi or Hello, no need to over think it. As for the second part if you know the person hows it going can just be a conversation starter, its meant to ask what are you up to, i.e. is there a light topic we can have small talk about that isnt going to be too involved. You can respond with something along the lines of “I’m doing good, such and such happened the other day that was nice, how about you.”


  • But whatever you do, if you can’t handle being expected to respond to “hey hows it going?” with some variation of “not bad, you?”, for the love of Christ, please don’t willingly seek out employment where a key facet of the job is doing just that, or at the very least if you do, save the blinking and acting like Im inconveniencing you for asking a normal-ass question like “Is this the line to pay?” If you can’t even handle that, that is not at all the fault of the person on the other side of the dialog.

    Not everyone has the opportunity to get something that isnt customer facing. Most jobs created today are low wage service positions. People are tired and jaded at a world thats leaving them with a fucked up environment, no social safety nets, dwindling job prospects, increasing costs to live without rising wages, rising authoritarian governments all over the world. I get that those positions should have a bit more tact but I also empathize with those young employees who feel like the world has turned its back on them and so they are just doing the bare minimum to survive. The world is becoming less caring for its inhabitants are you really surprised those growing up in that environment are mirroring the treatment they get from the world back to you?



  • Most indie devs end up using tools like unreal engine as they are not developing engines in house like what used to be the case for AAA studios. Hell even most AAA studios end up using unreal as well now do to how good it can look if you have the best hardware out there with minimal effort. This unfortunately means a lot of games run into console power bottlenecks, hell it even is a problem with PC players, some games even run like shit on 5090s. Considering the current gen was sold as supposedly 4k ready gaming systems this over reliance on unreal for its beautiful but severely unoptimized graphical capabilities means a lot of games run like shit on consoles when people are using them attached to 4k tvs like they had been advertised to work well with.

    I will say if they didnt push for a next gen though it would benefit all gamers pc and console alike. It would force the devs for these games to start actually optimizing for the hardware out there and realize they dont need to turn on every bell and whistle in unreal to make a fun game. It would be so nice if games could go back to using reasonable minimum specs. There isnt a need to have photorealistic graphics if only a handful of people can even run your game, the gameplay is much more important as is having a stable framerate. Not to mention games before nannite, ray tracing, etc all looked phenomenal anyways once a little tlc was put into crafting the shaders and textures, if we took a step back from all the excess now we would have games looking amazing and performing great on all variations of hardware.


  • If having shortcut remaps wasnt useful or it was a legal nightmare, all the big ides would not have the ability to change their shortcut mappings to match other ides in order to make transitions easier for developers. Its a huge win for accessibility to ones software and basically just comes down to putting your shortcut definitions into a config file that can be swapped and allowing others to create maps to be added. I cant imagine that being the biggest hurdle, even if all the devs for gimp did was abstract shortcut definitions to a config file they could then allow others to submit PRs to add additional options for users to choose from.


  • Probably because historically the patriarchy took away women’s rights to be able to choose mates and had years and years of arranged marriages. Then couple that with women being in those forced relationships who could not chose their partners looking for comfort outside of the inhumane treatment of forced marriages and you get societal pressures that taught women they dont get a say in romantic relationships and as such them showing interest had to be covert as it was typically to those outside their prescribed marriage and if caught they could at the very least be socially disowned or at worst be literally killed for it. So yeah im not surprised women have a tendency to be less obvious about it its only very recently in human history that they got to have a say in finding partners.



  • At this point this isnt about the files its about manufacturing a situation for trump to try and interfere at a more broad level for elections. If they are not fixed in his favor all the shit he has done is going to come back and bite him once dems gain control. And before anyone criticizes that the dems wont do anything for the people you are correct, they are going to go after this not because it helps people but because without it the oligarchs and elites in this would loose control to progressives coming to platform on actual change and justice.

    Just like why the US ended slavery, it wasnt about freeing the slaves it was that eventually those slaves would fight for freedom and if they weren’t the ones leading those movements they were going to be taken out and that was not something the elites at the time could except so begrudgingly they backed ending slavery. This situation is similar and the epstien files are a manufactured problem to act as a proxy now. Bringing those people to justice is this genration of elites freeing of slaves meant to disrupt the growing collective action against the wealthy.

    Right now we have people hating the billionaires and what they are doing to the world. If the ruling populace wants to maintain control they need to have some sacrificial lambs that they can feed to the masses. They needed a Trump and epstien situation, a group of individuals so vile we would be blinded to all of the injustice every other billionaire and politician has been doing to the common people. This way when they are able to bring “justice” to their manufactured situation people feel like they have gotten some power back, that they were listened to and it overshadows all the other injustice thats become to them. It diffuses the collective because the naive people will buy into this “justice” and think they dont need to fight anymore, dissolving the collective action that would actually spark change and remove those at the tops control.

    I think trump is finally realizing now he is only but a puppet in this situation but one that got control of one of the most powerful positions in the world, he knows that once his term is up he will get thrown to the wolves quickly and he is fighting tooth and nail with his loyalist to make sure he stays in office till he is dead so he never has to face the end result and accept the fact he got got by the other elites who always viewed him as an outsider. They used trumps need to appease and be viewed as one of them for years, the reason for epstein wasnt for black mail it was to find someone so vile they could use them to be the new slave owner that these folks could “free” to disrupt collective action against the rich.


  • So you use cash to get a burner phone for any online purchases or sites which need them? You kept your phone turned off and away from you when you bought that burner? You only carry the burner when entering large corporate store chains which are fingerprinting the devices inside? You have gone through all databrokers to see who is aggregating information and device ids on you? You magically know every single big techs obfuscated domains for tracking cookies and block them the moment they are registered?

    I think you are extremely naive about how easy it is to tie this information together by a databroker who is not restricted on what information they can aggregate and sell back to companies like meta. Sure meta may be blocked direct access on your network but they are buying that information from another data broker and tieing directly to you based on the contact information thats been gleemed from others who shared contact information with a meta product.


  • While my personal belief is that relgions should be abolished and I would much prefer no relgious individuals ran for government positions trying to ban someone off of thier beliefs like that with how prevelant relgion is today would just be setting bad precedent that could be turned against a population when you have people like the pedo in chief out governing the world. I will say any devout relgious person running would have me question how unbiased they could be as truly believing in fairtales and myths just already shows a severe deficiency in critical thinking skills.

    With that being said I would still vote a sock into office over the domestic terrorist group that is the republican party. Perfect is the enemy of good so if this indivual at least truly believes in separation of church and state I am not going to dwell on their cognitive dissonance regarding religion as it seems to be helping keep them objective and move us in the right direction again.