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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in PhoenixEnglish
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    I 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.cafetoLuigi Mangione@lemmy.world•Yes You CanEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That’s just the Free Market working like it’s supposed to. That company’s policies were so egregious that they eventually spawned a customer angry enough to do something about it. As a result, health insurance companies eased up on their restrictions for a time. That’s a perfect example of the Free market working the way it’s supposed to, and applying self-regulation

    The only problem was that it wore off, and the companies went back to their same egregious policies. That just confirms that we need to Luigi CEOs on a regular basis, until they decide that the extra bit of profit isn’t worth it.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafetopolitics @lemmy.world•Thomas Massie loses, proving that deficit hawks and foreign policy doves aren't welcome in Trump's GOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Lisa 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.cafetopolitics @lemmy.world•Viral ‘Last Breath Of The Confederacy’ Speech Puts Louisiana Man On Political MapEnglish
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    2 days ago

    And 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.