@stephenrodrick @ChristineX2024 @RollingStone Can you explain, in detail, hie he could do worse than the current mayor? Thanks.
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Almost all government policy is wrong, but...frightfully well carried out
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@ChristineX2024 @RollingStone If you mean 'right over the target' in the sense he's a candidate who should be taken seriously and evaluated on, uh, his accomplishments you are absolutely right!
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I wrote this one...@RollingStone
"Spencer Pratt is a quintessential American. His entire life has been fueled by an unfathomable level of self-confidence, despite a data set that suggests he may not be good at anything."
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.
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It’s been 6 months since I suggested to the airline that we change up the music that plays while passengers board.
I have not heard back & have yet to hear “Enter Sandman” or “One” on a single flight. I feel under-appreciated around here.
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What’s your favorite men only movie (hard mode no LotR)
Disparu@disparutoo
Finally, The Mary Sue provides a useful list.
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@theliamnissan JFK started defunding mental health care back int he 60's...but do go on...
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Listen Republicans, if you could lock people up for being crazy in America Donald would be in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary right now. Also you bastards defunded mental healthcare. This is all on you.
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So this latest White House shooter was a mentally ill man who had many encounters with police and thought he was Jesus Christ.
Only in America can a man like that obtain a gun. Thanks, Republicans
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@A10TheHog Probably the best explanation as to why they needed the upgrade and what went into it:
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The B-52 is getting new engines, why not the A-10?
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! 😅
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@MetamateDaz California spent 20 Billion to fix homelessness in the State. As a result of their efforts, the homeless population doubled in size....sometimes money is not the cure all
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I genuinely don't understand people like Bezos and Musk.
If I had billions of dollars, I would just start fixing everything. Homeless veterans sleeping on the streets? Not on my watch. Hungry children going to bed with empty stomachs? Hell no.
They could be making life better but instead choose to build spaceships and data centers to pump stocks and destroy the planet
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@CBarrett47 Yes. But is the grid vulnerable or is it stable?
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The US Department of Energy mapped out all of the current data centers, data centers under construction & data centers currently in the planning stages.
We’ve heard for years how vulnerable our grid is. Now we are supposed to believe that it can withstand all of this new demand?
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@ingelramdecoucy @RantyAmyCurtis She’s one of my favorite people on this hellsite but yeah, they don’t handle summer well
20° C =68 °F 😁
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Summer starts
European: *dies*
Bryan Beal 🎧@bryanrbeal
The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns
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The math on this project gets worse every paragraph.
9 gigawatts of computing power. Utah's entire statewide electricity demand peaks at 4 gigawatts. A single data center campus consuming more than double the output of every home, business, hospital, and factory in the state combined.
But 9 gigawatts is the input. Natural gas turbines run at roughly 55-60% thermal efficiency, which means the other 40% becomes waste heat. Total thermal load dumped into the surrounding valley: 16 gigawatts. That's where the "23 atomic bombs" number comes from, and it's actually conservative because it's continuous. Not a one-time detonation. Every single day. Forever.
Now look at where they're building it. Hansel Valley is a natural topographic bowl in the high desert. USU physicist Robert Davies described the cooling infrastructure as "a 400-acre hair dryer blowing hot air into the valley, 24/7/365." Atmospheric inversions trap that heat overnight. His preliminary analysis projects nighttime temperatures rising 8 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit across the basin.
Desert ecosystems survive on nighttime cooling. That temperature drop is what generates condensation, the primary moisture source for plants and wildlife in arid environments. Eliminate the dew point cycle and you've permanently altered the hydrology of an entire valley.
The valley sits on the north shore of the Great Salt Lake, a watershed already in collapse. The lake is expected to hit a record-low elevation this year. Every degree of warming accelerates evaporation. The data center's water contracts alone total roughly 13,000 acre-feet, enough to supply 20,000 households.
Kevin O'Leary said he heard about this opportunity five months before approval. $100 billion buildout. No confirmed hyperscale tenants. County commissioners blocked public comment and fast-tracked the vote.
The race to power AI just proposed building the largest private power generation facility in American history on the shore of a dying lake in a heat-trapping bowl. And the physics doesn't care who wins the vote.
All day Astronomy@forallcurious
🚨This AI data center in Utah produces the thermal energy of 23 atomic bombs ─ EVERY DAY! It spans over 40,000 acres.
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A lot of those subsidies go to keeping fuel less expensive, but noone like to talk about that...
I didn't say renewables are the problem. I think Solar is a great secondary power source, while Hydro, geothermal and Nuclear would be great primary sources to rely on, I can also see why natural gas and coal would still be used in some areas.
But it's currently; ~$2 to send a panel to a landfill, and in the US alone you are looking at 1 million tons of panels per year in the US alone reaching end of life and being sent somewhere that's not a recycling facility.
and theres only what, 10 of those in the US. If recycling panels were cost effective, even with subsidies, there'd be quite a few more facilities, yes?
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@Apelham8 @ChrisGloninger The Fossil fuel industry is subsidised to the tune of $6 trillion per annum globally, and most of the time they avoid having to clean up their own spills and other mess. Yet somehow renewables are the problem. I think your bias is showing.
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Coal ash: 1.1 billion tonnes a year. Contains lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury.
Solar waste, total, by 2050: 78 Mt of mostly glass.
You picked the wrong waste stream.
(nice AI image btw)
Peter Clack@PeterDClack
This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight. Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go? The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill. Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground. Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking. When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem. The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade. This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.
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A big part of Midwest culture is throwing a party in the garage
Graduation party? Garage
Easter? Garage
Grandma’s 90th? Garage
Memorial Day Weekend? Garage
Just need a space to hold 20 people? Garage
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@ErinIshimoticha @SpaceX If it's a Nationalist dog whistle, why can you hear it?
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Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒
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I’m not trying to brag or make anyone feel bad, but the landline phone in my bathroom now has call waiting and a second line
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@ingelramdecoucy "Tell me about the delivered Vente Mochas, George..."
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Modern retelling of The Grapes of Wrath except instead of the Dust Bowl being what drives the Joad’s to head for greener pastures it’s a limited availability of DoorDash drivers in their town that’s leading them all to starve to death
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@theoriginalzigs @Nessakins_ I was 8, and everything you posted earlier didn't apply to about 75% of the people I grew up around. Then again we were in a college town...
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Yea my parents really enjoyed each having to work a 50hr workweek to pay the 13% interest rate on their starter home when I was a kid in the 80’s. Get outta here with this revisionist nonsense.
Crispr (Third-Worldist) 🌍📉@CollapseAnime
boomers who spent the 80s and 90s drunk driving from work to cheap restaurants to eat 5$ steak dinners on their way to drunk driving home to their cheap houses bought on one income want me to eat cut up hot dogs on crackers
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@Nessakins_ First of all no 2 boomer parents worked. Maybe your mom volunteered in the library at your school. Second boomers bought their houses for 32k and were making 18k. Third their interest rates were in the 9% range and the bank was paying 6%
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I'm old enough to remember that McDonalds was indeed a treat for a special occasion when I was growing up, ie: a birthday or something.
I'm also old enough to remember my mother, my aunt and my grandmother canning fruits and vegetables all summer in the backyard, and my father smoking meat and fish.
Not ironically, my wife and I have recently started doing this again.
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
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