I’m sure they do. Probably using an AI model to calculate it tbh

The article alludes to it: “The United States does not lack flat, open land away from population centers on which to build data centers. However, AI hyperscalers prefer to locate their campuses near existing infrastructure so they don’t have to spend massive amounts of time and resources building everything from scratch.”

It costs a lotta money to run electricity and water to the middle of nowhere.

Also, companies are doing research to specifically build in areas where they believe the local community is not politically empowered to prevent it from being built. This guy goes into some more depth st this timestamp: https://youtu.be/1CpVmPh3BDE?t=831

Seems more foolproof to just ban killing people directly tbh

I dislike hypocrisy as much as the next person. So I feel where you’re coming from. At the same time, the wind turbines are generating power that everyone benefits from, whereas these things are consuming power for a product that very few people actually like or even want to exist. So I think its fair to say that maybe the noise is tolerable when you’re getting something you actually want out of it. Also, wind farms are usually built further away from large population centers, whereas data centers are because it’s cheaper to build them in areas with lots of people around. So the concern does seem a little more irrelevant to wind farming as a whole than data centers.

Blaming pharmacists for things they have no control over, nice. Biggest brain

NooOoOO fashion is only for shallow dummies that aren’t like meeeeeeeee

It was a philosophical question posed about a technical matter.

Okay, succinctness aside, I get that you’re trying to imply that the kind of person who still uses Chrome is basically asking to be mistreated (I think?) - but the author’s point about climate impact depends on user count, not user personality.

68% of all browser traffic, with Safari at a close second with 17%

Yeah, unfortunately as hard as I try I can’t see many good ways to protect kids from religious parents as fully as I’d like without too broad of a law. I think that protections specifically with respect to gender and sex could be implemented under the same sort of umbrella as other forms of child abuse though, at least.

Yeah, some countries have better disease control methods than others ;)

It’s tempting to shrug this off as not my business, but if this kind of entity becomes widespread enough, then you can get into situations where a future government, more radical than what we have today, could feasibly mandate people to use these types of networks

So the actual text in these posts is probably fake but I’m sad to say I’ve known two guys who act like this. Its not a ton, its not a majority of the guys I know, but like. Two is a lot for being THIS moronic. And they both seem like nice enough people at first. One of them is married to a pretty nice girl who just didn’t see it until it was too late. RIP.

That said, posting this kind of stuff kinda irks me since it can end up making that reality seem more imaginary than it really is. Plus, people like me who have had that experience in real life don’t need internet posts to teach them that this is the way it is, and people who haven’t had that experience in real life probably aren’t going to update their perception of reality based on posts like this. So these posts still kinda end up useless despite being fairly representative of reality.

They will buy their products and services from each other. That can still form a working economy. It would function just like any slavery based economy of the past, just with more slaves than usual

No no, see:

Disagreeing = being defensive And being defensive = knowing you’re wrong

Ergo. All people who disagree with me secretly know they’re wrong Q.E.D

So defensive!

There’s no L here my dude, just you demonstrating incredibly poor reading comprehension. Its okay though, you’re probably just upset because deep down you realize you were wrong

I do not listen to Rogan, I hate Rogan. I’m assuming you’re being sarcastic but, yknow, may the record show that I do not like Joe Rogan one bit lol

No, that’s a misunderstanding. I am not making that equation at all. And even if that was the way you wanted to read it, you’d have it backwards. The person criticizing Rogan is the one I “would be equating” with theft and murder. But, of course, I’m not saying that either. You’ve simply misunderstood me.

I was giving an example of someone saying something that attacks something that’s important to me, namely, my property and my well-being. And using this to linguistically illustrate how, even though I definitely believe that my property and my well-being are something that’s right for me to maintain, I might still get defensive about it when someone attacks it.

In my example, the thief is the attacker and I am the defender. In the original context, the Rogan-criticizer is the attacker (of a belief, basically) and the Rogan-listener is the defender.

My point was to show that people get defensive when something important to them is attacked, regardless of whether they’re “pretending not to know its bad” or not. I certainly am not pretending not to know that my well-being is bad.

I know its tempting to want to take every opportunity to dunk on the Rogan listeners and be like “lol, they’re getting defensive because deep down they know they’re wrong!”, but that is just a nonsensical way of thinking. Especially when they’ve already given us a legitimate reason to dunk on them, which is that they like to listen to a moron.

Does that help clarify what I was saying?

Huh? Is this how people interpret defensiveness? That’s wild to me. If someone told me they thought it was a good idea for them to steal all my stuff and kill me, for instance, you best believe I’m getting defensive. People get defensive when you attack something they want to defend.

Edit: to be clear, all I’m saying here is that people can get defensive about something without secretly thinking its bad. I despise Joe Rogan and I think his listeners are dumb.

Woah woah woah, normie?! Okay I’ll try not to take offense 😅 Someone can be non-normie and still express themselves in a straightforward manner. I think for myself quite a bit, so please don’t assume otherwise just because of my writing style. I actually understand your post just fine, it’s just obtuse and more difficult to understand than the typical post. Not difficult to understand because of its conceptual content - difficult to understand because of the stream of consciousness presentation. I could write like that too, I choose not to. But I think its fine if you want to write that way, it’ll just find less success in this community, methinks.

People will compare unusual text to a writer in an attempt to make their ego feel as though they recognize something others don’t. Other people are too stupid to understand something even a little outside a stylistic norm. Just depends on the person. Me - I don’t think you’re stupid, but writing in that style doesn’t impress or confound me either (To be fair, almost no writing styles have ever impressed or confounded me). I’ve known some people IRL that are a lot like how you seem to be, they’re nice fine people.

Anyways, I don’t think you’re getting downvoted because people don’t understand you, I think it’s because:

1. You’re writing like this is your personal journal, with no concern for giving us context. (“His bike” - who is him?) Some smarter people won’t mind this. But the conceptual content of your post isn’t enough to be make the smart kind of person feel engaged either. I mean, it’s relatable problems dude, but we all feel that way pretty much. It’s a good vent but that’s about it. Bringing me to…
2. Although the shitpost community (in my opinion, annoyingly) says that “anything goes”, including specifically venting like your post is…the practical reality is it’s mostly for funny images that are a bit nonsensical or trollish, not big text posts.
3. The vibe of your post sounds like you’ll shrug off any criticism or thinking that isn’t already very closely mirroring your own, and nobody wants to bother having that kind of discussion. Both parties want to be listened to.

Anyways, for what it’s worth, I do think money affirmation has truth to it. Despite my lack of being impressed earlier, you can write well (I’m just not impressed by good writing, doesn’t mean yours isn’t good lol). Personally I think there’s no harm in making enough money to have a more comfortable life when you’re doing it in an artsy expressive way like writing which puts positive feelings out into society like you said. You could probably reach more people that way than by juggling, which maybe is worth considering. The money, just because its an outcome, doesn’t have to be the purpose.

So yeah, no hard feelings, I only hit your original post with the downvote because I want to preserve the vibe of the community. It’s like if a guy is playing a good EDM track in the middle of a bluegrass concert, its not like the music is bad, its just important to keep the concert on topic. I hope you find a cool way to keep sharing your thoughts somewhere. I don’t know you well enough to say what’s the best way to do that, but I’m sure your doc and your fellow weirdo have good ideas.