cyepler
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cyepler
@cyepler
Married with two children, interested in all things nautical. All in on Tesla. SpaceX
Manchester, CT Katılım Aralık 2008
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@LibertyCappy Cool table but I would need the halls of my ancestors to put it in🤣😎
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@CNviolations Nope
Step one is okay. Then take half that and add it so you get 15%. That is your tip.
Fixed it for you.
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@seymourbutz12 @DerrickEvans4WV I have looked at maps. I have lived out there. You are wrong. There have been conflicts over water for decades, long before computers existed much less data centers.
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@cyepler @DerrickEvans4WV Have you lived out there? Have you looked at the maps? No, you haven't. 400 Data Centers on the Mississippi. Everyone out there has seen worse droughts without barge traffic interruption States are already discussing water compacts, which was unheard of before data centers.
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These politicians buy votes by promising to tax the rich to pay for all their promises. The Feds are already spending $2 trillion more than they take in. If we were to liquidate the assets of all their billionaires, we could cover the deficit for just over four years. If you liquidate everyone over $30 million, you add maybe 7 years of no deficit. Unfortunately, these people already pay roughly 50% of federal income taxes (combining their individual taxes with the taxes of their companies). So the federal deficits would balloon without the taxes from these people.
Of course, they will have destroyed the economy and caused widespread unemployment as these individuals are the ones whose companies create the wealth in America. The situation would actually be worse because mass liquidation would cause those asset prices to drop, especially as the very people who could afford to buy them would be losing their money at the same time.
And let’s not forget Social Security, the Trust runs out of money in 6 or 7 years. With the destruction of American companies and the mass unemployment, that would happen even sooner. Having already stripped the rich of their assets, there will be no one to raise new taxes on. Benefits would have to be slashed or the general fund would have to pick up the slack, adding hundreds of billions to the deficit.
Making promises based on destroying the economy’s ability to create wealth to get votes is a losing proposition. Printing money to pay for this just adds inflation to our problems.
This is where the leftists go very wrong. Supply side economics was about growing the economy to increase the wealth available to all. Not that it would ‘trickle down’ in the form of higher salaries but that a larger, growing economy provides more and better opportunities than a smaller, shrinking one. The leftists think they can provide more for their supporters by stealing but instead they wreck the engines of prosperity through theft, by incentivizing the unproductive at the cost of the productive, and by destroying our currency by overspending and inflation.
The politics of envy do not end well. Whenever it is pushed to its conclusion, there is a collapse of society and a cataclysm of violence.
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It’s wild watching politicians run for office claiming to represent Americans while openly bragging about wanting corporations and entrepreneurs to “lose.”
The irony is that the prosperity, jobs, investment, tax base, technology, infrastructure, and opportunities they rely on only exist because people were free to build successful businesses in the first place.
They frame productive success as something shameful while simultaneously depending on it to fund nearly everything they promise voters.
And notice the mindset underneath it: not “how do we create more wealth, opportunity, and production?” but “how do we politically target the people who already did?”
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
The momentum is on our side. If we win, corporations lose.
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@seymourbutz12 @DerrickEvans4WV There is a drought in the Midwest and it has nothing to do with data centers.
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@cyepler @DerrickEvans4WV The grid is the least of the concerns. The amount of water being burned as coolant is a bigger problem. There's so.manu of these data centers pulling water out of the Mississippi that barge traffic has been faced with low water levels disrupting traffic.
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They always claim the workers should be in charge.
Has any auto union when faced with plant closures and layoffs, offered to take the plant and operate it as a worker coop? Never happened. Would fail if they did.
I have worked in exactly one worker owned company and even there, there was a management team who were never line workers.
Entrepreneurship and management are different skill sets from labor and even the ones who mouth off about it know this and never, ever put their money where their mouths are.
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How is this contradictory? It’s bad when big businesses and small businesses fuck over their workers.
Libertarians: Diligently Plotting@LibertariansDP
This is an interesting thing about the left. They hate big corps… But almost everything they push for helps ensure that big corps dominate.
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@DivinelyDesined @LimitingThe There are a lot of assertions in this post. The same thing was said about the eye. They weren’t true either.
If you have to lie to make your point, or even if your premises are simply wrong, it makes your conclusions questionable too.
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Scientists are baffled by this.
The Bacterial Flagellum is composed of 20-30 unique parts.
Combined, they total over 30,000 parts that make this little motor run.
It can hit rotation speeds of up to 100,000 RPM, then stop & reverse direction in a quarter of a turn.
It can propel a bacteria up to 20 lengths per second, which when scaled up is about equal to 225mph in a car.
But this motor only works when all those parts are perfectly engineered and working together.
Take away just one of those 30 pieces, and it stops functioning.
That means it can't evolve gradually.
None of the pieces do anything outside the system, and the system only works with all the pieces.
Bacteria require this motor to move - without it, they would quickly die.
How can anyone see something like and still deny that Life is Divinely Designed?
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Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒
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@SpaceX @shawnwows Congratulations on an exciting launch! Amazing work by the SpaceX team!
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There's 8 billion people in the world, if he gave everyone a billion dollars he would still have 343 billion left
Melo ⭒@wyomelo
As of today, Elon Musk is worth $351 Billion
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@RockChartrand She looks dead into the camera and straight facedly knowingly tells a bald lie. Know them by their actions.
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Her luddite desperation is showing.
Every major technological leap gets treated like an existential evil by people whose politics revolve around fear of production, scale, industry, and profit.
A temporary construction issue near a private well suddenly becomes an argument against the entire existence of data centers, AI infrastructure, and technological expansion itself.
Acyn@Acyn
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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@AntiWokeMemes Please be courteous to your dog owning neighbors and keep Muslims away from our dogs.
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TRENDING
A Utah physics professor just compared the proposed Utah Stratos AI data center to the explosion of 23 atomic bombs a day.
The numbers check out.
- Stratos Campus: 16–17 GW thermal load/ 1,468 TJ/day released
- Hiroshima = 63 TJ
- That's 23.3 bombs/day of heat!
So cow farts and your car are bad but toxic boiling cauldrons designed by mad scientist to run AI to make humanity obsolete are good…


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@AntiWokeMemes No
Reparations for what? No living blacks were slaves. No one living owned any slaves.
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