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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in PhoenixEnglish
2·5 days agoI recently watched a video about the first electronic synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and was housed in the basement of an entire city block in NYC. Several decades later, and it would fit in a suitcase, with far more functionality. It worked, but it was huge and unwieldly, to the point of being completely impractical. It needed to wait until the technology caught up to it, and made it a truly viable instrument, and not just a concept.
Data Centers are like that 1897 synthesizer. It works, sure, but at what cost? It’s expensive in every way, from the building costs, the energy costs, the environmental costs, etc. We have a concept and a prototype, but not a truly viable product yet. Maybe in a decade or two, with a proper goal in mind, we can get there, but right now, Data Centers are just that big, dumb synthesizer that takes up a city block.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’English
5·5 days agoIntelligence and the drive for ruthless power aren’t necessarily connected. For these dumb MAGA Apes, ruthless power is just a toy to play with.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Thomas Massie loses, proving that deficit hawks and foreign policy doves aren't welcome in Trump's GOPEnglish
2·5 days agoLisa Murkowski, won on a write-in campaign in 2010, when a Tea Party Republican (Proto-MAGA) won the primary. She is in the Senate to this day.
2010 was the election in which a bunch of Tea Party candidates beat Republican incumbents in the primary, and then went on to lose in the general, flipping a few seats. Murkowski was one of the few survivors because she was a rare winner of a write-in campaign. I suspect that the MAGA candidates that have won their Primaries, aren’t going to fare so well in the General. Trump may have traded a few solid Red seats for Blue seats.
These guys always have a plan, but it’s always a bad plan.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Efforts to Contain Ebola May Have Been Hindered by Lack of U.S. InvolvementEnglish
3·5 days agoWell, yeah, because Obama was black, duh.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’English
37·5 days agoWe are ruled by the dumbest dipshits on the planet.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Viral ‘Last Breath Of The Confederacy’ Speech Puts Louisiana Man On Political MapEnglish
16·5 days agoAnd before that, they were the Nazis. The point is, every era, going back to the beginnings of civilization, has this same demographic segment of Sociopathic lunatics who want to take over the world, and force everyone else to do their bidding.
A healthy society recognizes the serious dangers that those people pose, and never allow those people to gain too much power. But now and then, a society let’s down their guard, and those people rise up and take power. They’ve had different names over the years - Confederates, Nazis, MAGA, etc., but they’re all the same people. We just made the mistake of letting them off the leash.
We’ve seen what these people have done in the past, how much blood they’re willing to shed to keep power, so we can predict what they’ll do in the future. The worst of MAGA is still ahead of us, and it is going to get much uglier before it gets better. For one thing, he has no intention of leaving after 2028.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Watch Trump tell reporters he could 'run for prime minister in Israel'English
10·5 days agoHe’s got his eye on the Gaza Riviera that he and Kushner want to build. It would be much easier if he were the Big Boss. He’s got to get rid of Netanyahu first, he can’t count on outliving him.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fundEnglish
13·5 days agoThe real treasure in the settlement is that it gives forever immunity to Trump and his family from all tax issues, and probably everything else. You know that if they try to charge him for anything, he’s going to claim this agreement covers it, even if it has nothing to do with taxes.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Republican Senators Are Livid at Trump’s Endorsement of Kenneth PaxtonEnglish
2·5 days agoThere are Democratic districts in those Red states, too, and a whole lot of flips that they aren’t expecting. I want those Blue seats in Red , too.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Republican Senators Are Livid at Trump’s Endorsement of Kenneth PaxtonEnglish
2·5 days agoHe has no intention of leaving after 2028. That’s going to take violence, and we better start preparing for it now.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•‘He’s Just Stealing Your Money’: House Dems Launch Bid to Block $1.7 Billion Trump-MAGA ‘Slush Fund’: “It’s illegal and corrupt as hell,” Congressman Don Beyer said of the president’s self-dealing $1…English
1·6 days agoNobody has read this “settlement” yet. The money isn’t the worst part, that’s just the distraction from the part that says it grants full forever immunity for Trump, his family, and his henchmen. This gives them full legal authority to do literally anything they want, for the rest of their lives.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…English
1·6 days agoThe ocean is already warming, and these guys want to heat it up even more? Didn’t these guys watch Day After Tomorrow? Because this is how we start a new ice age.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
Technology@lemmy.world•China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…English
1·6 days agoI got some future waterfront property in the Appalachian Mountains.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Tom Steyer for Governor of California by Robert ReichEnglish
5·6 days agoI normally have a standing rule to never vote for a billionaire for any political office, but if it comes down to a Democratic Billionaire, or a MAGA, I’m not going to vote for the MAGA.
We have to remember that the biggest reconfiguration of the government to serve the people was FDR’s New Deal, and he was one of the richest people in America at the time. Occasionally, there is a wealthy person with empathy, who understands the needs of his fellow citizens. I wouldn’t count on it, but sometimes it’s all we have.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war as Cassidy, after primary loss, flips to support itEnglish
1·6 days agoHopefully Cornyn flips as well, now that Trump slapped him, too.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Kamala Harris comes out swinging for Supreme Court expansion to take down ‘red state cheating’English
2·6 days agoI used to think they need to add about 4 seats to the Supreme Court. I no longer think that.
Now I think they should add 20 seats, and they should have term limits, age limits, and rolling election dates. Every president should be able to appoint a few seats, but never enough to change the overall direction of the court.
One bad faith president shouldn’t be able to negatively influence policy for decades after he’s gone.
I’m glad she’s reaching for something that the Dems have avoided for years. MAGA has been gaming SCOTUS for decades, and the Dems allowed it, approving their obviously corrupt choices nearly every time, and it’s about time they started fighting back.
Dems need to stop trying to be MAGA Lite, and do far more fighting back, and embracing the issues that should be defining them - Universal Health Care, Student Loan Forgiveness, Free Day Care, Free College, Federal School curriculum, etc.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump discloses thousands of stock trades, some in companies directly influenced by his policiesEnglish
1·6 days ago“Technically he can do this, but it is fundamental breach of trust.”
That’s all Trump needs to hear. “Technically” does a lot of heavy lifting in his world. “Trust” not so much.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeto
politics @lemmy.world•Three Decades on the Supreme Court Is Too LongEnglish
1·6 days agoI used to think they need to add about 4 seats to the Supreme Court. I no longer think that.
Now I think they should add 20 seats, and they should have term limits, age limits, and rolling election dates. Every president should be able to appoint a few seats, but never enough to change the overall direction of the court.
One bad faith president shouldn’t be able to negatively influence policy for decades after he’s gone.
I like that idea. He could drain off enough votes to ensure a Democrat victory.