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  • Headline is damn near misinformation…

    But that’s the guardian’s fault:

    “In the face of rising demand and surging prices, I’m proposing a two-year pause on authorization of new datacenter tax credits,” Pritzker said. “With the shifting energy landscape, it is imperative that our growth does not undermine affordability and stability for our families.”

    He wants to cut off new credits (which is good) but he’s a fucking billionaire and this plan would be a huge benefit to the ones who got in first.

    We didnt even have time for this before we found out just the noise of data centers fucked people up.

    Pausing shit ain’t enough, but no billionaire will ever put the people over profits. And Pritzker decides every single second of his life that he’d rather be a billionaire instead of our ally.

    Stop expecting him to be


  • In all seriousness it’s gonna be bad.

    FEMA ain’t gonna be able to handle anything that actually happens, but at least this hurricane season will be right before midterms.

    It won’t get republicans to vote D, but it’ll depress their turnout if he leaves them “out to dry” right before midterms. But what would be worse for Republican turnout than him not helping, is actually trying to help (at least red states he likes) and failing miserably.

    It’s not that I’m cheering for future suffering. I’m realistic it’s gonna happen, and I’m hoping the silver lining is republican voters realize Republican politicians don’t give a fuck about them.









  • Most likely the fae were Homo floresiensis or a similarly sized cousin who had emerged from Africa before us and had a head start.

    There’s story that fit the fae almost all over the planet: small, connected to nature, intelligent but incomprehensible, speaks in tongues at times, enforces “totally random” rules very strictly, even as far as making weirdly specific “laws” that could result in marriage and potential offspring that shares traits of both parents…

    The few places they arent evil or treated like a Boogeyman, is the ones were similar people were slaves or “helpers”. But in all stories they were capable, self sufficient, and human like. They just weren’t tall and looked “off”.

    But in all cases, eventually with the spread of humans they were pushed out, retreating away from humans.

    It’s way more logical than the only thing remembered about AI has nothing related to AI by any logical stretch of the imagination


  • Well, Lemmy isn’t big enough for that…

    What we do have unfortunately is more than a few people who spin up 5-10 accounts and when they get offended they can easily flip thru them on an app and manipulate votes.

    It’s very obvious, but it seems like admins have given up trying to stop it. If they ban the accounts the person just makes 5-10 new ones again.

    So I just block them when I notice now. But even that’s still better than corpo bots that are actually organized and spreading a message, here its almost always just well intentioned idiots.




  • For over 20 years now…

    The first investigation was early 2005

    But this was an international ring, other countries had other sources as well, and have for just as long.

    Look at Jimmy Saville in the UK, everyone knew but no one said anything till he died, and then some random henchmen were all that went down.

    Epstein and Saville weren’t the only ones, and others are almost certainly still operating as open secrets right now.

    That’s the real reason every government is slow walking this. People implicated in the Epstein files, would snitch on people from other rings. Those people would snitch on the rest of their ring. And then another start it again.

    It’s basically how the aliens from Solar Opposites works, and it results the same: exponential growth.

    If people on the Epstein list are prosecuted then virtually every trafficking ring and every other shady thing billionaires get up to will also likely come out. Everyone of them would sell the rest out to save themselves.

    And that’s why we need to do it before they die, and they can still be pressured to snitch.


  • It’s been a minute since I learned electrical stuff, so I might be off on details.

    Like maybe a pretty steady amperage from the cord and it’s regulated inside thru resistance or something more complicated?

    But that’s the general gist of why not all parts of the equation can be static.

    The advertised Wattage is also “max” it can use/produce.

    Like a 850watt power supply can handle an 850 power watt draw, but if all the computer is doing is playing YouTube, it’s going to draw a lot less amps, and produce a lot less watts as a result. If it needs more watts, it “pull” more amps to make them

    Steam turbines are actually self regulating because of this. The more power being used, the more amps are automatically produced. Once you spin it up it manages its own speed.


  • Amps are the variable part of the equation…

    There are other parts of the equation, every one being constant would make every electrical component binary. Either full power or no power.

    That’s why we really only see variable amperage on battery charges to force a slower charge rate for the health of the batter. On something like a radio, you could think of the volume knob as amperage control. The more power, the louder the sound comes out of the speaker.

    A steady amperage current would “lock” the volume at one setting forever.