So what do data centers actually do? It's a question that no luddite has ever asked, because they're brainless idiots. Here we go: 30% cloud services 20% streaming 20% web services & sites 10% AI stuff 5% games 5% misc. communication So basically the entire Internet runs on data centers.

I have this habit of just muting people who post populist drivel for attention. It's a good habit to have.

I like how Claude doesn't just spit out code, it tells you what it's doing and why so you can see the entire thought process that goes into it

I don't think Democrats realize how much the Artemis mission hurt Trump's popularity with his core base of deranged nutjobs. I mean, admitting the Earth is round and that the moon isn't a hologram made by Jewish reptilian space aliens really pissed off his primary voter base of complete dipshits.

The most useful thing I've learned from social media is just how many people are completely empty inside. To base one's self worth on popularity is just... pathetic.

It's good to see so many redneck states embracing luddite idiocy, because troglodytes deserve to live in the stone age.

Trump claimed the Jan 6th rioters were Antifa. Trump is handing Jan 6th rioters $1.8B So... Trump supports Antifa now?

Back when Musk first bought Twitter, he had about $204B. He paid $44B for the acquisition. That means he paid 21% of his entire net worth just so that he could shitpost with impunity.

Here's a weird thought... Think of how often "Trial by Combat" shows up in the Game of Thrones franchise. You know what fictional civilization doesn't do this? The Klingon Empire. I mean... think about that.

It's especially absurd for people in the USA, of all countries, to debate who does or doesn't deserve whatever rights, care or privileges one can think of. "We hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal." That is literally LINE ONE. How is this even a question?

A guy once told me how much he loved being in the army because they fed him, gave him a home and provided him with free healthcare. I asked if that's why he joined. He said no. He said the reason he joined was to protect America from socialism.

Businesses are inherently anti-democratic. They operate on the feudal system. Bottom tier managers are the knights and the maximum rank that peasants can aspire to. All the real power above them goes to a hereditary ruling class with a monarch at the top. Libertarians call that "true freedom." 😂

History is littered with the corpses of those who believed that pride was a virtue.

The number of PRC sock puppet accounts here is impressive.

Americans will burn down the capitol over gas prices before they give a millisecond of thought to trading in their giant trucks for something practical.

"Due to a terrible miscalculation in scale both fleets were eaten by a small dog." A throwaway joke from Hitchhikers and the foundation of the entire Three Body Problem series.

My opposition to racism doesn't come from any moral conviction or political ideology. It comes from science. We've done studies, tests, research. We've mapped the human genome, split the DNA helix and examined it. There's nothing there. It's all bullshit. I don't need beliefs because I have facts.

Congress: You can't live off $174,000 per year. Reality: A person making minimum wage ($7.25/hr) who works 24 hours per day, 7 days per week will make $63,510 per year. That's barely over 1/3rd of a Congressman. No sleep, no eating, just working 24/7/365.

People who constantly repeat the same thing a thousand others have already said are boring.

If books are a way off externalizing human memory & knowledge, and AI training data is done by reading lots of books, then it could be said that AI is a library with a voice.

Dear Tech Oligarchs, You know damn well that the number of data centers you want is only feasible with renewable energy. There isn't enough oil or gas in the world. So since you're the only people with more control over Congress than Big Oil, it's in your own interest to push the green revolution.

Remember, it's not hate, bigotry, sexism or prejudice if you only target the right groups of people or if it's coming from a protected class. Or so I'm told.

I want a paving company whose motto is "The Earth isn't flat but we're working on it."

Ever notice how people who believe in magic tend to be bad at math and have serious issues handling large scales? Like, in their minds a billion is just ten million and a million is just a few thousand. The actual difference doesn't compute in their brains.

The #1 killer of bars & restaurants is the inability to fund the lavish lifestyle of the owner. All the money goes up their nose instead back into the business.

The Romans gave everyone brain damage with lead utensils and America gave everyone diabetes with corn syrup. Empires fall from seemingly tiny mistakes.

Imagine a species so bad at climbing and so good at tool-making that they invent elevators.

Everyone should own stocks if for no other reason than the voting rights that come with them. I love it when they send me the shareholder ballots. "Proposal: Should our CEO get more money?" "NO."

Ironically, if magic were real, it is precisely the people who don't believe in magic who'd become the most talented wizards.

Some wonder how an atheist can have Christian values. One can easily reject the claims of divinity whilst still agreeing with the good ideas about compassion & empathy towards others. It's not hard to separate the philosophy from the magic; keeping the former and rejecting the latter.

Obama is bragging that the US never attacked Iran during his two terms. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia are not mentioned. And people are lapping it up like he's the Dalai Lama, now, because he skipped that one checkbox on the list. America never changes.

#gaming Game Dev: "What would you like to see next?" Players: "Fix the damn bugs!" Game Dev: "New DLC coming up!" Players: "Fix the damn bugs!" Game Dev: "We're starting next game!" Players: "A curse upon you and your family for 1000 years!" Game Devs: "Why isn't anyone buying our new game?"

There should be a rule that says lawmakers must demonstrate a certain minimum level of knowledge on the subjects that they are voting on else they must abstain. We've got people who don't know how reproduction even works deciding abortion laws, people who've never held a gun writing gun laws, etc.

My roomie got a new body for his RC and wanted to know what it would look like if he applied a certain paint job. Me: "This is a job for Nanobanana!"

#gaming Indie Devs: "We put a lot of work into this new mechanic that makes everything more difficult for the player for no logical reason... why don't they like it? Well, I know better than them anyway. It's not about customer happiness, it's about my grand vision!"

"Problematic" - Hollywood term for anyone who doesn't agree 100% with the producer's personal ideology.

If they can ever get the self-driving thing working right, one group that will benefit is manufacturers of security vehicles. "The panels are bullet proof." "Yeah but what about the glass?" "What glass?"

WW1 is the best example of how management never acknowledges a problem unless it affects them directly. Officers didn't lead the suicidal charges, so all those machine guns weren't a problem as far as they were concerned. If they did, though, tanks would have been rolled out after the first day.

Mein gott das ist gut scheiße.

IMHO, a condominium is the worst investment one can make. It's like if someone asks "Do you want to spend money buying a home or renting one?" and your answer is "Both!"

The world is run by people who think that being born into money is a skill.

"How you treat the entity with no power to retaliate tells you everything about your actual values rather than your stated ones."

One of the more clever uses of LLMs is to generate dialog for NPCs in video games. Tired of hearing the same twenty chatter lines in Skyrim? A tiny LLM can randomly generate fresh context based dialog on the fly. Replace response boxes with chat windows. Diplomacy is now an actual conversation.

AI won't take over the US until a six foot tall robot learns to play golf, because those are the only two benchmarks that America uses to select its leaders. Give me a 6'10" robot with a handicap of 8 and, with no other skills whatsoever, it will be running a Fortune 500 company within two years.

I've solved the Fermi Paradox.

No one who plays golf should ever be placed in charge of anything.