SacredExcrement

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Most politically literate WSJ commenters

This is news? The US has been saber rattling with them for decades, I'd be shocked if they didn't have something ready

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

One of the more underreported topics regarding 'AI' is the massive amount of power they consume.

I work for an electric utility that a few years ago was in talks of having another merger, just a couple years after the last, to give an idea of how thin things were.

Now? Said company will be adding gigawatts of additional generation over the next 5-10 years, multiple new large plants, almost solely because of this phenomena. Population growth has been static in this region, and no major plants have been shuttered, the growth is almost solely due to this crap.

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

So basically don't fix the problem via the method that Republicans would absolutely fix theirs

That's literally liberals' MO

"We can't do good thing because it would set a terrible new precedent!"

Conservatives immediately set new precedent by doing something atrocious that liberals could have slowed, averted entirely, or at least taken advantage of if they did the good thing

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Liberals: We must defeat conservatives at all costs!

politician that is nominally left of center is winning

Liberals: frothingfash WE DON'T ENDORSE COMMIES DRAG THEM DOWN

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

"We need to save money, cut a few billion from science"

gives military 1 trillion dollars with no declared war occurring

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Fittingly for the burgerland president, he looks like he got scooped out of a deep fryer

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

By 1996, Yakov [her husband] was an accomplished cancer researcher and co-owned a computer company, ECI Technologies, with Rita. However, that year, Yakov filed for divorce; he claimed that Rita was abusive and spent too much money, while Rita asserted that Yakov was having an extramarital affair with a woman in Israel. Federal agents later asserted that Rita went to Israel to collect photos of Yakov with another woman, then used the photos and illegal phone taps to blackmail him. Police asserted that Rita feared a costly divorce and giving up control of ECI.

Would've been easy

But everyone being friends doesn't benefit the MIC, or the surveillance state, or fascism in general really, so

[โ€“] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A somewhat surprising amount of it is also Lenin being very catty about political figures in his time lol

I would simply not serve a rabid white supremacist

Seems pretty easy tbh

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