Let’s just say there are some far better funded, far more idealogically frightening regimes than the wacko nk crew.

Straight up not the regime I’m worried about

Our most reliable allies

That’s litterally the grift .

There is almost no possible way for Fresno to not suck

Oh I’d argue its offering us quite a “reflection” of who we’ve become as a nation…

Bat Lady it is then. Thank you Ma’am.

Ugh. Such an utterly disappointing slate for that seat. California is bad at this.

I’m like, almost going to be a bit shocked if the country even lasts the 2 days till the event.

With your permission @ickplant@lemmy.world , can I refer to you as my “Batperson”?

As in, if it ever comes up that I need expertise regarding bats, can I be like “Oh yes yes indeed. Let me consult my bat expert on the matter…”

As long as you aren’t wearing a plastic raincoat right now, we’re good.

Bruh with a piano version of the opening to NGE?

10/10, no notes.

Thank you for over sharing.

Half of lemmy who have either been pirating or freebooting since the mid 90’s:

are you telling me someone would just go on the internet and make things up?

Congratulations 🎉👏

Neckussy

Apparently it made enough financial sense to do these prior to the AI boom when data center builds were more calculated risks that needed enough traffic to justify them. Deciding to put them in space is just pure AI bubble hype though… It’s not nearly as sexy to say “we’re building AI data centers at the bottom of the ocean so they can be close to subsea fiber optic cables and get free cooling!”

My understanding of undersea datacenters were that they were high visibility pilots which never resulted in any materially significant number of installation. Not any different than whats going on with the space borne hype. Them being below wave action isn’t relevant. They could be at the bottom of a lake for all that matters. The at-sea datacenters are just as much goofy hype as the spaceborne ones.

Subsea data centers already exist and work way better but they aren’t as flashy.

I mean this is also one of those fools errand thing. I think every sailor knows that anything in the ocean is a constant battle to keep it from corroding and getting absolute beat to piss. They make almost as little sense as space based data centers.

The issue with data centers isn’t their existence per se, at the end of the day they’re basically a high energy consumption warehouse, not that dissimilar than a large refrigerated storage facility. The problem with data centers is the politics they represent, how they are being rolled out, what they are being rolled out for, and who they’re being built to benefit.

But at the end of the day, building something that requires regular upkeep, access, maintenance, cooling, etc… it will never make sense to do those things in a place which is more expensive than a place in which it is less expensive to do those things. You don’t need to take even one mental step further into a prospective approach if it doesn’t make the process more affordable in some manner.