10 countries that we know of

The US was attacked once on its own soil 25 years ago and will never shut up about it

Meanwhile, it has bombed 10 countries since 9/11, none of which were responsible

Which one, the ‘55 year old divorced dad’ fit or the ‘I want to look “quirky” but not put effort into it’ fit?

Kinda shocked he resisted the urge to make half of them statues of him

Commissioner says fuck the troops, I don’t make the rules

OTOH, I’m pretty sure he’s always been this big of an asshole, he’s just getting older and continues to get exactly what he wants

Why bother trying to hide it when it doesn’t matter

Instead of talking about bands you’ve never heard of, she uses slurs you’ve never heard of

Similarly, Pinochet’s coup in Chile/the overthrow of Allende happened on Sept 11, 1973

Most Americans probably can’t even FIND Chile on a map

This country would burn itself down before going through the rationing it dealt with in WWII, to say nothing of how the military would react

My understanding is the utility is not taking losses (yet), but rather are taking out loans for the build-out of the more significant parts of the infrastructure, with the idea being they will be re-paid with the incoming revenue from the data-centers themselves

How well that works is going to be almost entirely dependent upon whether or not AI stays common enough for those data-centers to remain open, sooo…

I’ve been polishing my resume

So I do actually work for a utility that has a LOT of data centers being put in near it.

The plan, as it stands, is massive capital expenditure outlay (read: spending a ton of money).

We’re planning on adding 2-3 combined cycle natural gas plants, I don’t even know how many solar farms, and 3-4 battery storage facilities, along with significantly expanding our transmission grid (though we are trying to put a lot of the generating facilities near data centers to cut down on the need for transmission lines); basically almost doubling our generating capacity over the next 5 years.

Revenue to support this is supposedly only going to come from the companies themselves, and from what I can tell, the contracts were written in such a way that the companies are responsible for making minimum charge payments for 10-20 years even if they should default (but the companies themselves are Google and other similarly sized firms, so I’m not sure how well enforceable those will be should these firms really decide to cut bait…)

It makes me deeply uneasy; not to mention, most of the supplied power isn’t coming from completely green or renewable sources, and we are keeping our coal plants operational instead of phasing them out, which was supposedly the original plan before AI became so ubiquitous. And that is to say nothing of trying to get all of this shit, substations, transmission lines, and plants, in the ground in like a 5 year window, in an area that has been extremely low growth for longer than I’ve been alive.

At Fort Hood too lmao

Yeah, iirc if it gets low enough they’ll actually be fighting one of the times you return to the rig

It’s a whole cabinet of people who have Main Character Syndrome

“I’m too important to be abandoned”

“Believe women!”

Woman claims Biden did terrible things to her

“SHE’S A RUSSIAN ASSET WORKING FOR TRUMP”

Reading the label of the chemical I am about to spray all over my crops or trusting Lying Machine 2000

Not just a Europe thing unfortunately

Western econ classes don’t teach much in the way of actual structuring, they teach math and how Keynesian economics should work if everything were in a frictionless, airless vacuum (spoiler: reality is not in a frictionless, airless vacuum)

You learn things in the abstract, but because so much of it is tantamount to haruspex, you don’t learn much in the way of practical application. So I suppose to many people who spent years studing that, the notion that economics should actually be able to be taught and understood in a more grounded manner seems ridiculous.

Thing happens in the US

Americans everywhere: “What are we, a bunch of filthy slurs?”