@kevinolearytv Why are Americans against data centers and AI infrastructure?
1 - The consume vast amount of energy
2 - They create a lot of noise and heat
3 - They produce nothing of tangible value to anybody in the local communities
4 - They are being used to surveil and subjugate us further
Why is there suddenly such an aggressive push against American data centers and AI infrastructure? After seeing a major spike in coordinated opposition campaigns around our Utah projects, we conducted a digital audit and traced a large amount of the activity back to an organization called Alliance for a Better Utah, which has been pushing misinformation throughout Box Elder County about our data center developments. What’s even more concerning is where the funding appears to originate. After reviewing IRS Form 990 filings and tracing the network behind it, the money appears tied to Chinese linked funding channels connected through an organization called Arabella. Think about the incentive, if China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, why wouldn’t they want to slow American infrastructure down?
@BIGBADCAPS@forallcurious Ask yourself, is it rational to expect a short X post to explain what was going on in the scientific field for over a 100 years?
It's max irrational to expect everything dumbed down to 3rd grade level like the world revolves around you.
@forallcurious All these replies and not a single rational answer outside of “it’s science and math! Duh!”
I don’t know. That might not be enough for me
🚨: Earth has officially completed 'HALF' of its lifespan: it will end with the Sun swallowing us in the future.
Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and its total estimated lifespan of 9 to 10 billion years.
The Sun has only left 5 billion years!
@PeterSchiff@JDVance@TheDamaniFelder Garbage take. You sound like a corporation, screw the next person trying to purchase a home, my bottom line is all that matters.
@JDVance@TheDamaniFelder What about the right of homeowners to sell their houses to the highest bidder? Or the rights of people who prefer renting a house to buying one?
The American Dream doesn’t belong to the highest bidder on Wall Street. It belongs to the American people, who work hard, save up, and play by the rules.
I applaud President Trump’s leadership on this issue and urge the House to pass this bill.
A Russian student who disappeared in the Himalayas in 2021 during a solo trek was discovered four years later by National Geographic journalists as the guardian of a high-altitude Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
24-year-old Alina Vetrova left Annapurna Base Camp and never returned. A rescue operation lasted three weeks, but an avalanche left her presumed dead. Her parents held a symbolic funeral in Novosibirsk.
In early 2025, however, a crew filming a documentary about lost monasteries discovered a young European-looking woman dressed in monastic robes and speaking fluent Tibetan and Nepali in a remote mountain temple at an altitude of 4,800 meters.
It turns out that Alina, who had lost consciousness from altitude sickness, was found by hermit monks, who cared for her for several months with herbal infusions. When she regained consciousness, the passes were already covered in snow - the descent was impossible until summer. During these months, she began to study Tibetan medicine and meditation.
According to the abbot, Alina had developed a rare gift - she could accurately recognize medicinal mountain herbs by their aroma, which the monks took as a sign of a reborn soul. She was given the name Tenzin Dolma and began training to succeed the monastery's apothecary, a position not held by anyone for 40 years.
Alina is now in charge of a collection of over 600 species of high-altitude plants. She wears a traditional burgundy robe, her head is shaved, and on her wrists she wears ritual yak bone bracelets, which she is allowed to wear as a sign of status. A dot of saffron paste is applied to her forehead daily during the morning ceremony.
When journalists ask her if she wants to return, Alina replies in Russian with a strong accent: “I’m already home. The mountains do not let out those they choose.”
Her parents have flown to Kathmandu. The meeting is scheduled for the end of the month.
@RjNol No you idiot. No one got rid of the blimps. They were outperformed by quickly evolving airplanes in every category, speed, payload, versatility, cost.
Saudi Arabian Desert.
Discovered thanks to satellite imagery, what "EXPERTS" to be ceremonial routes, dating back approximately 4,500 years (between 2600 and 2000 BC), are filled with thousands of keyhole-shaped funerary structures, stone circles, and other geometric patterns visible only from the air.
Flying over the area by plane, it would be difficult to find this place, so I understand why they got rid of the Blimps.
⚠️ Definitely DO NOT point a 1000nm wavelength green laser at Flock cameras. It totally won't damage the sensor and render the camera ineffective.
So please don't consider it, okay?
@Notstandindowns@_Mr_Richard Let's go back,
Why did you assume that you're wrong?
When did I counter a point you made?
(Before the ad hominem you made).
Italian olive oil is one of the most adulterated products in the global food supply. Estimates suggest 70 to 80% of "extra virgin olive oil" sold worldwide is either mislabelled lower-grade oil or cut with cheaper seed oils.
The fraud is run by organised crime. The 'Ndrangheta operates olive oil adulteration rings that generate more profit than cocaine trafficking. They import cheap oil from Tunisia, Morocco, and Turkey, relabel it as Italian, and export it at premium prices to people who think they're buying authenticity.
Or they cut extra virgin with refined olive oil, lampante (lamp oil grade, unfit for human consumption), or seed oils like sunflower and soybean, then sell the mixture as pure extra virgin to supermarkets and restaurants.
The Italian government knows. The EU knows. Occasional busts happen, the headlines run for a week, the fraud continues. The margins are enormous. The penalties are a rounding error.
Even the legitimate stuff has problems. Intensive olive cultivation in Spain has eroded hillsides, drained aquifers, and contaminated groundwater with pesticide runoff. Traditional groves are being torn out and replaced with high-density intensive plantations that demand irrigation in arid climates, heavy spraying, and mechanical harvesting that wrecks the soil.
The waste water is highly polluting. Every litre of olive oil produces 1 to 1.5 litres of effluent loaded with organic compounds, phenols, and residual oil. It gets dumped in evaporation ponds or discharged with token treatment.
Your £12 bottle of "Italian extra virgin" is probably mislabelled Tunisian oil cut with sunflower, possibly sold by organised crime, definitely draining a Mediterranean aquifer, and generating toxic waste at the press.
But it's from plants. So it's definitely healthier than butter from a British dairy cow grazing on rain-fed grass three miles down the road.
@Notstandindowns@_Mr_Richard Yes. Many times. Studied apologetics and their vehement defense that "turning the other cheek" and "giving your shirt" is no different than committing a genocide.