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Data centers are the leading cause of a 76% increase in the cost of electricity for America's largest power grid over just the first 3 months of this year, according to Bloomberg. The 13-state grid managed by PJM serves 67 million people, and costs have spiked this year. This time last year the cost of electricity on this grid was $77.78 per megawatt-hour. Now that cost has almost doubled to $136.53 per megawatt-hour. Bloomberg attributes that skyrocketing cost to the "booming demand from artificial intelligence data centers, which require vast amounts of energy and are putting a significant burden on America’s aging power grids." Full story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/….
King Charles III has announced a ban on LGBTQIA+ conversion therapy and classified the practice as abusive.
Tonight, after a year of screaming about holding ICE accountable, 144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to pass CORCA, a bill that grants DHS and ICE sweeping new power to collect American citizens' personal information under the guise of combating retail theft.
Trump’s CDC has announced hantavirus cruise passengers are free to go out in public and do not need to quarantine. Around 40% of hantavirus infections are fatal.
Black immigrants haven’t coined a single slang or ebonic term let’s cut it tf out lol
Part 1: A basic overview of the autonomic nervous system & why learning your own autonomic nervous system is so important (in my clinical opinion) for healing, connecting with your body, & strengthening your intuition This thread includes 1 blog post & a 3-part video version:
Here’s part of the video version here
Here is a preview of the video version
When people are stressed and/or overwhelmed, their prefrontal cortex turns off That’s the part of the brain in charge of critical thinking, creativity, emotions, motivation, etc That’s why people aren’t noticing the signs of danger that you are aware of & warning them about
And that’s not including how trauma, depression (a type of dorsal vagal shutdown), anxiety, etc also affect memory, learning, and mood Non-related COVID stress/trauma + pandemic trauma + effects of COVID is an onslaught, a jumping
This just rewired my brain.
