Diatribe

@LarryJones 0 times. I got it once, maybe twice but I was never sick.

If u are unvaccinated, how many times did you get sick with COVID?

@MariannedKJ @Microinteracti1 Lol. No. That's because we spent trillions on nuclear weapons, naval power, air power and bases in actually significant European countries to afford you the luxury of your ignorance.

@stacarter @Microinteracti1 Hahaha. National defense? I’ve never in my life see a American soldier doing soldier things in my village here in the Netherlands.

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside. She couldn’t afford her bill. This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America. The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box. Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success. Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix. Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world. In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths. There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name. The first man’s country has the higher GDP. The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon. MAGA America calls that losing. Ask anyone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@slipsilv3r Lots of people out there whose lips get tired when they read. It's sad really.

I once got in an argument with a guy about information density- he said that video essays (and the like) are more efficient than text. I was astounded, "don't you read faster than people speak?" He said no, and that was the heart of the matter.

@aakashgupta Hopefully they are designing it to fit in Starship.

Lunar soil is 45% oxygen by mass. Almost half the ground astronauts walk on is breathable air, locked inside chemical bonds with iron, titanium, and aluminum. Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist reactor heats crushed Moon rock to 1,600°C, turning it into a molten conductor. Then it runs an electric current through the melt. Oxygen ions migrate to one electrode and bubble off as gas. Iron, silicon, and aluminum collect at the other. The economics are where this gets wild. Delivering one kilogram of anything to the lunar surface costs roughly $1.2 million. A single astronaut breathes about 0.84 kg of oxygen per day. That's over $300 million per year per person just to keep breathing, shipped from Earth. This reactor doesn't just solve the breathing problem. The metals that come out of the same process are construction-grade iron and aluminum. The silicon gets refined into radiation-resistant solar cells. The glass covers those solar cells to protect them for 10+ years on the surface. One machine, running on solar power, producing air, building materials, electronics, and rocket fuel from dirt. Blue Origin estimates this could cut lunar landing costs by 60% and reduce fuel cell mass by 70%. Their facility in LA already spans 60,000 square feet of lab space with 65 researchers. They're running an autonomous demo in simulated lunar conditions this year. The real constraint on a permanent Moon base was never getting there. It was staying there without a $1.2 million-per-kilogram supply chain from Earth. This reactor breaks that constraint at the molecular level.

@fire_starter457 Why were they removed from the program?

So much winning in Arizona! Thanks to MAGA, more than 400,000 Arizonans have been kicked off of SNAP, the highest figure of all states. Almost 50% of Arizona SNAP participants have now lost their benefits. Stop voting for Republicans.

@Rocco475171 @RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo AI data centers for sure use water for GPU cooling. So you kind of have to differentiate. The right solution from a water perspective is to make them use saltwater and just eat the extra cost of replacing components more frequently due to oxidation from salt water.

@stacarter @RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo Isnt the complaint they are using massive quantities of water for cooling ? I wasnt thinking Fire Suppression.

Hey just a thought but instead of supply chain disruptions maybe data centers???

@Ranger0291 Kind of awesome to see The Old Guard up there though.

If you’re wondering what is the most elite light infantry unit in the world wonder no more. The 75th Ranger Regiment stands alone, by itself with no competitor

@KuzanKuul @RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo You not being able to get a good paying job because you are lazy or stupid is not terrorism. That's you being lazy or stupid. You same idiots vote for the politicians that pass the taxes that make your life unlivable.

@RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo Well paying a living wage would be “not terrorism” so it’s really just meeting terrorism with terrorism at this point, isn’t it? Fighting fire with fire only hurts the side with something to lose, or in this case the side with more flammable shit

@Rocco475171 @RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo They don't use water for fire suppression. They use chemical/Halon suppression methods that are entirely housed inside the facility. You'd just make the toilets not work.

@RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo There a water valve on the street somewhere Same thing withe the power Not a DIY move but with the right people on your side

@RawChickenBeast @SnowHimbo And their security can rival secure military installations.

@SnowHimbo Data centers have almost no workers, and those that do have access get paid pretty well. Couple that with typically very robust fire suppression and you’ll not get very far in data centers. How about just advocating for “not terrorism” as a social tactic?

@evanwch We didn't make the rules. Feminists did over the last 25 years. If you don't like it, go have a discussion with your girls.

This is what I’ve learned over the past few days on X: A woman cannot consent to sex with a man who: * is taller or bigger than her * has more money than her * is smarter than her * is more than a few years older than her (even if she is over 18) * has ever treated her poorly * has any kind of economic relationship to her These conditions create power imbalances that make consent impossible They imply physical, economic, or mental coercion that remove a woman’s ability to choose sex freely and willingly Got it

@Luv_Xcuses World Wars. We are undefeated.

Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??

@Cartoon_Cynic @mistressdivy Were they converting from people to automation? I can see that being harder than a ground up automated build. Do you really think Kimberly Clark is going to rebuild the exact same thing? Probably not. China has fully automated warehouses that don't even run lights much.

@stacarter @mistressdivy I’ve worked in multiple warehouses where they tried automating processes. It didn’t work.

We're up to 6 warehouses set on fire now across the country and I feel like it's being severely underreported.

@kachinuel @PeterSweden7 Mengele was an actual German doctor.

@PeterSweden7 You guys recycle the exact same fake experts every single month. The insider usually turns out to be a disgraced former employee with a fabricated title. If 60000 people dropped dead from a shot, actual German doctors would be whistleblowing. Stop the fear mongering

This should be headline news EVERYWHERE. A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected. He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine. This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany. So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere? Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔

@Cartoon_Cynic @mistressdivy For an Amazon warehouse? Probably. For the Kimberly Clark type with huge pallets of the same product? Nah, it'll be fine. They hire people as long as they are cheaper than automation.

@stacarter @mistressdivy Yeah, warehouse owners *cream* themselves at the thought of automation…until they put it in practice and are shown how inefficient it really is.

@rushicrypto Which one is built by the government?

Can some explain why it takes years to build anything. Roads, schools, bridges, etc. but data centers are everywhere overnight!?

@TunesOnX @mistressdivy The burning of the TP warehouse was a "statement" according to you guys. I'm merely pointing out that burning down an unused data center doesn't really make any point to anyone with a few wrinkles in their brain matter. All that does is make a corp a bunch of insurance money.

@stacarter @mistressdivy 🤦‍♂️ I'll try one last time, not sure why... Did anyone die in the TP warehouse fire?

@TunesOnX @mistressdivy Ah so strawman argument. Got it. Your statement was "If I'm being honest, I wouldn't shed a tear if a vacant data center or one under construction was next..." I made no statements about TP warehouses. In fact, neither did you until this retort.

@TunesOnX @unhingedtulip @mistressdivy Again, data center employees are well paid. These terrorist acts are happening because people with no job skills who are easily replaced with robots are mad they aren't getting paid more. Those won't be data center employees.

@stacarter @unhingedtulip @mistressdivy Not from the inside