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| Registered on: | 10/25/2008 |
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re: Where can we put data centers?
Posted by Bard on 9/14/26 at 6:18 am to Victor R Franko
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Building the largest data center campus in the US out in west Texas. Smack dab over the Permian Basin and will use NG right from the source. Large scale AI.
This makes me wonder why they aren't pursuing NW Alberta. There's a massive NG field there to tap into and the water table is only ~20 feet down. Yes, they would need to pipe the interwebz there, but that would seem to be a small price to pay for the savings on cooling and electricity. Heck, if they find the right spot they could even take advantage of some permafrost to keep things cool.
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re: Who would win in a fight?
Posted by Bard on 9/13/26 at 6:02 pm to lsubatman1
If they were of a single mind? Mosquitos. TL;DR, " Zerg"
Mosquitos can live anywhere from 2-4 weeks. From the time the egg is laid, to hatching, to full adulthood is about 7-10 days. A female can lay 100-300 eggs at a time.
According to the magical AI, it would take anywhere from 1,000-5,000 mosquitos to block a lions windpipe.
Doing basic math, only 5,000,0000 female mosquitos would need to hang back and lay eggs to breed another billion mosquitos. Just to keep the math easy we'll give each female one male mate, so 10M hang back while 990B mosquitos go after the 1B lions with the kamikaze-level dedication of suiciding by Wayne Brady'ing the lions to death.
Again for the easy math let's take the high end and say 5k mosquitos per lion (and all the mosquitos die in the process). That's 198,000 lions dead every week-and-a-half (ish). In ~150 years (depending on how successfully the lions can keep breeding), the mosquitos would wipe out the lions. Even if we up the amount of mosquitos it takes to kill each lion, the mosquitos still eventually win through attrition because of their higher birth rate and faster maturation.
Mosquitos can live anywhere from 2-4 weeks. From the time the egg is laid, to hatching, to full adulthood is about 7-10 days. A female can lay 100-300 eggs at a time.
According to the magical AI, it would take anywhere from 1,000-5,000 mosquitos to block a lions windpipe.
Doing basic math, only 5,000,0000 female mosquitos would need to hang back and lay eggs to breed another billion mosquitos. Just to keep the math easy we'll give each female one male mate, so 10M hang back while 990B mosquitos go after the 1B lions with the kamikaze-level dedication of suiciding by Wayne Brady'ing the lions to death.
Again for the easy math let's take the high end and say 5k mosquitos per lion (and all the mosquitos die in the process). That's 198,000 lions dead every week-and-a-half (ish). In ~150 years (depending on how successfully the lions can keep breeding), the mosquitos would wipe out the lions. Even if we up the amount of mosquitos it takes to kill each lion, the mosquitos still eventually win through attrition because of their higher birth rate and faster maturation.
re: Clancy Juror wanted to legislate from the jury box and change the world, instead of
Posted by Bard on 9/13/26 at 5:13 pm to GatorOnAnIsland
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During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.”
...to kill their children.
re: Just how stupid is 'comedian' John Stewart?
Posted by Bard on 9/13/26 at 1:04 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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This is gaslighting turned up to 11. He knows damn well this is exactly what the Democratic socialist party a.k.a. mainstream media has been doing for decades in America. He knows this. Even CNN has come out and admitted that they pushed the Russia collusion story simply for ratings. I’m sure it was also to put the thumb on the scales of public opinion , but their first objective is to bring in the money.
Why is he pretending to be this dumb?
A. To maintain the illusion.
Not at all. Well... sort of. What he's doing there is engaging in verbal irony. Listen to his tone and cadence, they are completely different from what he uses when he's being Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (his real name) versus the comedian/social-commentator/Hollywood/media persona (like when he's giving a speech about the health issues of the 9/11 responders).
He knows all the media here does it (just look at the recent "Black woman in Mississippi hanged by man" headlines a few days ago which were on most news sites and which purposely hid that the killer was black so the reader would infer they were white because... race-based rage-bait clicks), but when pressed he would likely name only conservative outlets like FNC or OANN.
re: Price changes over last year (August CPI report)
Posted by Bard on 9/12/26 at 9:52 am to Taxing Authority
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Pointing those out isn't "disloyal," it's objective truth and where we should be demanding MAGA remain standing.
You voted for Kamala didn't you?
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Lone holdout juror in Clancy case had a restraining order against him for DV
The news also said his landlord was trying to evict him.
And nary a link is to be found in your post. :casty:
re: ABC News: Man arrested for hanging of black woman in Mississippi
Posted by Bard on 9/12/26 at 9:46 am to Darth_Vader
Who needs journalistic integrity when you can just pump out rage bait then position yourself as the victim when you whine about the public not trusting you?
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The frick is this shite?
It's a narrative and consultation studio called Sweet Baby Inc. They're kind of like King Midas, except everything they touch turns to shite.
re: Wolverine - Official Gameplay Trailer
Posted by Bard on 9/11/26 at 1:44 pm to NighthawkDawg
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I'm pretty sure SBI doesn't nothing but act as an consultant
I'm going to disagree because here's what SBI does:
Script and Dialogue Writing: They help create or polish in-game text, character banter, and cinematic scenes.
Narrative Consultation: Studios hire them when a story feels incomplete, a world lacks depth, or characters feel underbaked.
Sensitivity and Authenticity Reads: They review stories to ensure non-white or marginalized characters are represented respectfully and realistically rather than as flat caricatures.
With that in mind, let's hear from Insomniac's Narrative Director:
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“Logan feels that yearning and he gets scared and pulls away. Sabretooth feels that yearning and it makes him hurt and want to lash out to exert that hurt outward. Hate and love are so hand in hand. You hurt me so I’m going to hurt you, and we’re still going to be linked because now the pain is shared.” -Insomniac Narrative Director Walt Williams
I mean... when someone says "Wolverine game" who doesn't think first of some deep exploration of a pain-sharing love language and the thin line between hate and a toxic love? :lol:
It's actually more work to dilute away from the core of what gamers are looking for with a Wolverine game: the desire to feel like an unkillable rage gremlin who can single-handedly solo an army then still have the time and energy to light up a cigar while he visibly heals after the fight.
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It was 25 fricking years ago. So by your stupid comment, I guess we should stop being friendly with Japan?
You certainly are overly defensive over a factually correct answer.
How much are the Saudis paying you?
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Steel Beams can't melt Jet Fuel
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The problem with this, is while this sounds great and F those people doing that shite but...
Give the government that kind of power and watch what happens, the same thing that has happened since the dawn of time...watch how quickly that gets expanded to allow the government to do whatever they want and take. other actually innocent people's shite without recourse. That will 1000000% happen.
Issues like this are a pendulum swinging back and forth between law enforcement too strong being oppressive and law enforcement being too light as to promote growing irresponsible behaviors. The pendulum needs to swing back toward stronger law enforcement for a bit to tamp this down before it can start swinging back the other way.
re: To all of you crying about Trump and the war,.
Posted by Bard on 9/11/26 at 11:32 am to idlewatcher
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I’d rather 100% Dem rule if it meant RINOs are out. Dems tell you what they’re doing. RINOs lie and don’t do shite.
RINOs wouldn't be out, they would just look more principled because they wouldn't actually be running on the batshit craziness of open borders, pedo-queens watching little girls undress, cashless bail, etc.
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What the frick does JD Vance/Trump have to do with 9/11? Asking for my retarded braindead friend. thanks
Their maintenance of friendly relations with SA, including not demanding they admit the Saudi complicity (just like every other President and VP since 9/11).
The juror whining about the bottle was a real low point in all of this. Imagine being so desperate to not blame the killer that you're willing to transfer their evil to someone trying to explain what they did.
When that "mental health problem" leads someone to planning out to murder their children and then following through with it, that "mental health problem" is not something which should be tolerated by a just and rational society.
There is no "rehabilitation" for someone that far gone and as such should not be allowed to remain within that society's borders (yes, permanently exile them to some shithole country or put them before a firing line, either is acceptable to me).
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women suffering from profound mental health problems
When that "mental health problem" leads someone to planning out to murder their children and then following through with it, that "mental health problem" is not something which should be tolerated by a just and rational society.
There is no "rehabilitation" for someone that far gone and as such should not be allowed to remain within that society's borders (yes, permanently exile them to some shithole country or put them before a firing line, either is acceptable to me).
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Fuel Oil: +52.0%
Gasoline: +27.4%
Gas Utilities: +4.4%
Electricity: +3.8%
Apparel: +3.6%
Overall CPI: +3.4%
Food away from home: +3.4%
Shelter: +3.0%
Medical Care: +2.5%
Transportation: +2.4%
Food at home: +2.2%
New Cars: +0.6%
Used Cars: -2.3%
But yea we can totally wait until after midterms to end the Iran war and then hand out $5K to everyone!
CPI report: Prices rose 3.4% in August, matching inflation expectations as the Fed weighs hiking
BTW, 30-year mortgage rates crossed over 7% yesterday and we have a new record of home sellers vs home buyers with a 58% gap. Inventory is no longer the excuse.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the part of the program where we separate the objective thinkers from the blind loyalists.
Handing out $5k to everyone would pour gasoline on that 3.4% dumpster fire of inflation.
Cutting rates in such an environment would do the same (although slower and over a longer period).
Not beating the screaming frick out of the IRGC so that oil moves back down exacerbates everything.
Pointing those out isn't "disloyal," it's objective truth and where we should be demanding MAGA remain standing.
Trump needs to be leading the charge against the growing influence of Islam in American politics, touting the coming benefits of Venezuela being removed from a brutal, communist regime, pushing the growth of deportations (especially as a means to promote self-deportations), blasting Putin for continuing the Ukraine War (which would effectively kneecap Dems since their primary stumping is to be anti anything Trump is for), etc.
He has the keys to deliver a strong GOP win but if he doesn't use them soon, he's going to tank those chances as voters begin to look at their pocketbooks as being a more immediate concern than illegals and pedos.
re: “Principled Conservatives,” What Are Your Serious Ideas For The Budget & Debt?
Posted by Bard on 9/11/26 at 10:59 am to LuckyTiger
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What are your serious, realistic ideas
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that people would support and that stand a genuine chance of being passed through Congress into actual law and policy?
Those are opposing forces. As such, they cannot co-exist.
We are living in the Tytler quote (a democracy can exist only until the citizenry realizes it can vote itself largess from the public coffers - paraphrased).
No one who wants to be (re)elected to office is going to push for enough austerity to matter. Not only would they likely face losing, getting such a measure pushed through would cause at least a recession due to the economy being so addicted on LARGE deficit spending each year just to get us ~2% GDP growth.
Even something which should be common-sense like just locking spending at $X for Y years in order for inflation to work in our favor long enough to balance the budget (or, heaven forbid, begin to make a surplus with which to start paying down some of the debt), would be met with intense but quiet resistance by those running for office who know that the easiest way to gain votes is to promise for government to spend more on things they care about than the opponent.
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Paxton will win by 5-7 points.
Agreed. I'm hoping it's a blowout so we can be treated to a few rounds of "how could the polls be so wrong" hand-wringing in the media. :lol:
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My assumption is that the lone wolf dude was trying to show everyone else the brutality of it to make a point.
They were already hell-bent on excusing her with an insanity plea that it's likely they simply projected her brutality onto him because what they saw was him doing the strangling action.
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