Texanus Giganticus

@trinity2pointO just bought one of those cool see through drink mini fridges. Top rack is at the highest setting so you only have ~2 inches clearance. Peptides go there, protein shakes and energy drinks on the other 2 shelves. Works great (for me)

I love your collection 😂 I got a small one - “Coolbox” - for my morning and nightly stuff and stuck it in a bathroom cabinet. I actually really like it and it hardly generates heat. Only thing I don’t like is condensation builds up in the box after a few days and you have to wipe it out (not exactly air tight and it’s in a room w the shower). Otherwise, perfect.

@TRobinsonNewEra Argentina has the opportunity to offer the most hilarious asylum grant right now...

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after an extradition request from the UK government

@iAnonPatriot why is the Phoenix fire department in Yosemite?

Woman gets heat exhaustion only 2 miles into a hike at Yosemite and has to be AIRLIFTED out. The group she was hiking with may be responsible for the $70,000 helicopter bill. Insanity. lol

man... my property, I'm surrounded by old men whose women got sick of it and left them, and they're out their falling apart trying to make their subsistence farming larp a reality. one guy finally had a stroke another, his wife lives 130mi away in Houston for ~40 weeks of the year. but these guys won't give up the dream. your land needs to be strategically located near things to keep them entertained, or they will leave you and you have to choose between your dream, or your wife.

So many people love the “idea” of leaving a city & getting a homestead or farm. Then they arrive & after about 6 months the wife hates being in the middle of nowhere, with no friends, surrounded by 🐜 and 🦟, 10 miles to a grocery store & they’re ready to pack up and leave.

@celestialbe1ng if I don't have to put up with it, why would I? Someone like that adds far more stress to my life than they add benefit. I don't need your supplemental income. I don't need softening you to be a full time job.

Men don’t hate strong women or girl bosses. They hate themselves bc they don’t have enough aura to make those women soften in their presence. When you have skill and ooze aura, any woman (even the toughest Ronda Rousey type) is going to be a soft lamb with you in private. Skill issue

@seanjwestwood very few legacy datacenters use water cooling, and most DCs are legacy. bullshit statistic. the new ones on hundred acre campuses being used for raw compute to drive AI are in their infancy, and use considerably more per DC than a classical air cooled server complex.

Water use is just not a credible argument against the growth of AI data centers. It is misinformation.

@seanjwestwood @corygabrielsen then you should be precise datacenters are large consumers of water whether or not there are larger. they should not be going up in areas where water resources are already strained. where water scarcity has been a discussion since AOL 2.5 where some wells have already run dry

@corygabrielsen I think precision matters in policy debates.

Coincidentally, neither do you. I do know that I've seen you screeching all over your timeline clamoring to bring in an unlimited number of people from overseas, and that you have a personal financial interest in us doing so. I also know that a receding population isn't necessarily a permanent state, and that the long term benefits of returning to the demographics that the country enjoyed up until the 1980s outweigh any transient benefit of your portfolio going up by 2% on payroll reduction.

@couchsecurity @novogratz You have no idea what an America that’s shrinking will look like

We need to rethink our stance to being so anti-immigrant. While correcting open border policies was necessary we are way over correcting. America needs 2mm immigrants a year. This year we are probably zero. We need both labor and highly educated immigrants. We should give green cards to masters and PhD grads from top 250 universities. It’s insane to educate the world’s best and brightest and push them out. Another issue that needs to be and should be bi-partisan

I've made my decision: I'm supporting Argentina in the World Cup Final

@IterIntellectus it certainly proves the arrogance of people in the tech industry. we are overnight experts on everything. weve entered into a water scarcity discussion that has been going on since before AOL shipped its first free trial CD, and proclaimed ourselves gods. As we did with medicinne

the whole debate around data centers only proves what an utter failure public schools have been

@Post_Thirty nobody is worried about Indians having luck with their women. absolutely nobody.

What I have ironically found, being around Latinos, Slavs, and Ethnics, is that they are brash, say politically incorrect things, mess around with you, but aren't genuinely racist. Hang out with them enough, and they'll accept you as a brother. It's why Indian dudes become friends with Russian and Slavic men so frequently. Meanwhile, some White French or some White English guy will be all PC, overly nice, and morally self-righteous to your face. Then, if you are an Ethnic guy and they notice you having any luck with their women (White Brit or White French), their racism and bad intent come out. They will never look past your skin color and will always see you as a stereotype.

I definitely like the feather indians a whole hell of a lot more than the dot Indians, this is my kind of thinking, this is some shit I would come up with, and I have to go a full 7 generations back before I can find a single drop of native blood! burying alive is another good one, but I will not discuss the details of how you keep someone alive long enough to make it proper punishment.

I understand your shock. You're probably a very good person. But let's for a moment consider what was done: "A 13-year-old Italian girl was brutally raped in a public toilet in Catania's Villa Bellini park by seven Egyptian migrants—while her young boyfriend was beaten and forced to watch helplessly." Every day I pray to the Great Spirit that today might be a day in which I find myself in a position to react to something that like occurring. A good death is something we should all desire in the same way we desire to lay down with a beautiful woman, or embrace our own children. If we cannot be there so as to prevent something like this happening, we MUST find a way to prevent it from happening in the future, if it is within our power. So we take these men who have done this, and we record it as they are scalped, as their tongues are cut out, as their eyes and ears are removed, along with their fingers, toes and finally their balls and penis. We must make a RUIN of them. Then we send them back, and we pay the governments of the nations they are from to broadcast the footage of their mutilation on their television channels, with a simple warning... if you come to our nations and do this to our children, this is what we will visit upon you.

@cremieuxrecueil @ekyalb You just pivoted from "datacenters are perfectly good neighbors" to "you don't have a right to land that you don't own, so I don't care if you don't want them there And the court agrees with me" in a very short span. then you'll be confused why there's opposition

@ekyalb "the people whose property sits right next to that land who want none of it." They don't have a right to land they do not own. I believe in overturning Euclid v. Ambler because I believe in property rights and the U.S. Constitution.

Data centers barely use any water, barely use any land, and they lower electric bills.

@cremieuxrecueil then there should be no issue confining them to urban and suburban areas. The companies building the datacentes that are at the center of discussion can afford the real estate, and the resources they draw away from supporting urban populations are insignificant.

@Legal_Fil because the water scarcity discussion totally didn't exist until it involved something tech bros are interested in

A reminder that these folks have no idea how anything works.

You have a bunch of these nerds who are masturbating to the idea of a utopian future where AI removes the need for any of us to ever do anything that is unpleasant or that we don't like. I've been in the banging-out-code business for over 20 years at this point, people in my industry are arrogant. I mean we become experts on everything overnight, or so we think. whether it's politics, warfare, hydrology, medicine, we are so impressed with the smell of our own farts that we believe any topic we pick up we become experts on within minutes. we really do think that we are super humans who are creating this sci-fi future where everything is perfect and all problems are solved. I like Elon but he's one of those people too. The irony of this is the massive need for expansion is largely because people like me suck at their jobs. they spend almost no time optimizing their code for efficiency and resource utilization, they don't do that until something breaks. code isn't designed anymore from the ground. up to use as little as possible, people jump in, solve a problem, and then when something runs out of CPU cycles or memory, they might go back and optimize or they might simply clamor for more resources. it is usually the latter. we need these massive data centers because the world is full of retarded Java devs who believe the solution to every problem is "up the heap!"

Sooo the citizens of Georgia who don't have water pressure because of a data center are just lying? Also, what exactly do you need the data center for? What more information could you possibly need to store for regular, everyday business. Unless you need the data centers for storing logged location data of American citizens. Which is completely unconstitutional.

i have nothing but respect for whoever created the AI datacenter water psyop it must have required an enormous amount of planning to trick that many, often smart, people into believing water is an actual issue - absolute peak social engineering chess

I mean the data centers aren't draining lakes, but lakes are indeed being drained - Lake Corpus Christi is a perfect example. you can look around for that discussion. It would be one thing if there were no pre-existing concerns over water scarcity. but before any of you uttered your first words about AI, people in the Mountain West and Great Plains have been fighting battles because their aquifers are at risk. That's not some Chinese psyop, that's been going on for at least as long as I've been alive. I think most people would look at the situation with Lake Corpus Christi and say "well yeah, I guess I can see why people wouldn't want a data center there that relies on that lake for cooling". but when it comes to an aquifer, or groundwater in general, it is out of sight out of mind.

I mean what gets bandied about is mostly a straw-man but I know people who have had data centers move into their area and now their utilities have skyrocketed, they have to avoid doing laundry during "peak times" and the data center somehow gets first priority over the residents. So yeah, they aren't "draining lakes" but they are also ugly, wasteful, being dropped in areas that don't have the infrastructure to support them with little to no thought and I'm not particularly convinced that they serve any useful purpose. Why make your town or county measurably worse so that Meta/Palantir/Open AI etc can collate and sell your personal info more efficiently?

The water scarcity problem isn't new and it didn't simply start out of nowhere with the datacenter discussion. that's likely where most tech bros first started paying attention and entering the discussion, but that's not when it started. You talking about rural areas that are already dealing with water issues, now a datacenter shows up and wants unfettered access that they claim is going to be insignificant because it's a closed loop system. You have farmers and ranchers whose wells are drying up or who are having to put meters on their wells, who are being told that the aquifers that they're tapped into are at risk, who are then being told that the data center that's going to use considerably more water (yes, even in a closed loop system) is a non-issue. You've just spent $10k per tap to drill deeper wells, that you have to meter now, then learning that a data center might come in and lower the water table further. This didn't happen in isolation. where my property is we've been fighting a neighboring county who wants to slant drill under our dirt to access a shallower water table because a foreign-owned ranch doesn't want to have to pay as much to tap a deeper well. we're not adding datacenters to the pile. spend the money to buy the real estate in the cities and suburbs. You can get your power and your water at an appropriate cost instead of trying to take shortcuts and avoid oversight - which is exactly why they're doing this shit in rural areas, it's every bit as much to lack of oversight as it is the cheaper real estate.

hey @googlephotos You should probably add the ability to flag someone that you have identified or tagged as being dead. random popup reminders of family members and pets who have passed away presented with captions like "look who is here!" are a little morbid.