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Might get back into paintball
What a weird sequence of sentences to describe that no one likes data centers
people aren’t dropping their shorts…
cracks are forming…
That's exactly what I thought. Like wow, that part is in the headline? Lol
Lol, exactly. Someone was feeling frisky writing that headline lol.
I’m studying his body. I’ve never studied the body of a man before. It’s not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But I looked at his ass and then I looked at his legs. I said, “His ass—shit—it’s like, it’s like a pile of muscle.” Then I looked at his legs, and I said, “Man, his feet are big.” Then I looked at his shoulders, and I tapped him on the shoulder, and it actually hurt my hand. It was like a piece of steel.
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Don't worry, this administration will still drop their shorts. Hell, they'll remove their lower rib cage as well just to further please the billionaires.
remove their lower rib cage
Hahahaha now there is a line I haven’t heard in a while. I think Marilyn Manson came out saying he never did that to address the rumors that he did. However, could totally see this cult of an administration getting behind it if they were asked to.
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If you have an outlook or gmail, start migrating off those email services now, before microslop and google evaporate.
It's gonna happen fast when it happens.
Meh, if it happens to large swathes of Gmail users, and I lose everything in that account, I'd be ok with it. Like who fucking cares, honestly?
Not only would it give me a reason to leave all that bullshit behind forever, since I wasn't the only one, I'd have a legitimate excuse if I actually lose anything irreplaceable.
Google and Microsoft are profitable without ai. So I'd assume the bubble popping will not crash them
Exactly, they are too big to fail like the banks at this point. They provide too many essential services people need.
Ok, but you should still be migrating off of them.
Sadly need to keep one of those as a back up. I use proton as my main, but I've gotten a ton of feedback during my current job hunt that my email is going to spam, so I've had to send emails using my outlook backup.
I hate this world
I know I should be. It's a time issue. My gmail address is linked with my entire fuckin life. I guess that's how they trap you..
I had a similar issue when I migrated. The thing that worked for me was migrating one account to my new email per day. It makes the whole thing super non intimidating.
I do have a tip for you if you’re migrating anyways. Buy your own domain and use it for your email. That way you’ll never be trapped again.
I've never even considered buying my own domain. Would you - or anyone - mind explaining how that works for email? I'm kinda half tech literate. I'm at the level of someone who has Linux on their laptop but has to look up stuff every time they use the console!
But yeah, I've been meaning to migrate for years now. Your idea of one account a day makes it seem doable, thanks.
Basicly you buy the domain that you like. Cloudflare sells them at cost. Porkbun has a huge verierty to choose from. After you buy the domain you will have a control panel where you can configure “where” the domain points to.
After you find an email provider that supports custom domains and sign up they will provide you with where to point the MX (email part of the domain) record. Typically some site they control.
In the control panel you point your domain MX records at the address they provide and you can start receiving email at the email of your choice.
After you confirm you can receive email you should then add stuff to your dns control panel like DKIM and SPF so your email won’t be marked as spam. The email provider will give you specific strings to copy paste.
If the email provider starts misbehaving or you just want to switch it’s just a matter of signing up somewhere else and re pointing the domain MX records while you keep the same email. It’s a little more complicated but I means you truly own your email. That and it will typically cost a little bit of money.
Yes, but I don't see floods of users switching to better privacy options any time soon
And they'd probably get bailed out at our expense: too big to face consequences.
They don't pay that much tax to where I am from, so if the US wants to do so, have fun.
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What? No. This is ai data centers new build. Nothing about that would melt their current regular servers.
That money has to come from somewhere. Ultimately the debt service will hit their opex.
There's no scenario in which building data centers will make the company stop existing, they can just sell or rent what ai data centers they have and exit the business worst case.
Eh, probably they will be labeled "too big to fail" and the US government will go into even more money printing to keep them afloat. Making inflation even worse than it is.
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One thing I noticed while voting in the mid terms is how being anti data center is fairly bi-partisan even for maga dick bags.
Its NIMBY meets ethics. Pure coincidence.
The, we're going to spend 10 trillion dollars on new data centers and they will use all the water and power messaging for stock pumping while people see costs increasing and rising water and power bills was a pretty direct and understandable message. Remarkably fast turnaround though ,it shows how most concepts are ossified while this was genuinely new and people were willing to change their minds on it.
And yet Republican candidates and sitting legislators are pushing hard for them. They really don't seem to be reading the room well.
We're seeing the same thing in Canada, too. The typical alignment between corporations and the right wing seems to not be serving them well this time around...
They're reading the room just right, you just don't get who's in it. They're doing what they're told by their tech masters.
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Turns out a business plan consisting of »build a trillion dollars of server farms now, figure out who pays later« gets slightly less charming once the lenders ask for actual numbers. The AI industry wanted to disrupt every profession except the ancient art of checking whether the math works.
"We plan to shoot for the moon and land on a pile of money" classic Silicon Valley businessplan.
Considering how tech CEOs are acting, with their bunkers, bodyguards, remote islands and rockets, I'm not sure they planned to come back after leaving with all our money.
leaving with all our money.
Talk is they're planning on staying away while money and debts inflates away to zero and come back with all the deeds when the fighting stops.
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Isn't this also how the dot-com bubble sort of happened?
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Yeah, Google just destroyed 815 acres of forest for a new data centre in Finland without permission. It hasn't gone down well.
Especially not with Finns. They like their forest, about 3/4 of the population goes and disappears into the forest during summer holidays.
And then, they are also quite strict on The Rules Being Followed To Maintain Polite Society, so a corporation both destroying forest and breaking The Rules, well, that's not gonna end well.
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Petteri Orpo, said attracting investment was a “top priority” and “the value of the data economy extends far beyond direct investment”.
X doubt.
They probably gave them deals on electricity too. The Fins are getting nothing in return. Wow.
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