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Never forget that the side you don't like might one day have the power you gave the side you like.

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this is the map they use to determine congressional districts
Salt Lake, Utah
SL,UT
Is anyone seeing some of the roads being curved when you’re not looking directly at them? What’s the name of that optical illusion?
Cafe Wall Illusion and yes
if it works it works
Hi no I'm pissed off about the age verification laws and bills again. So many grown adults out there going, "The internet should be safe for my children," with all the brazenness of someone walking into a bar and saying, "You need to stop serving alcoholic drinks because I want to drop my children off here all day while I'm at work." Except at the same time they're also demanding that arsenic be added to all the drinks, including the ones being served to children
That would be some real professional development there.

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Many have discussed the rapid decline in trust and esteem for institutions of higher education. Most settle on the fact that it is a problem
??????????? 2+2= fish @klubbhead
Calling troll!
I don’t know, the Nazis were socialists which is a far left ideology.
You do realize that Hitler killed socialists and communists along with the Jews… Right? National Socialism was not a far left ideology. National Socialism is a widely accepted political misnomer, and Hitler literally talks about his disdain for socialism and left wing ideologies in Mein Kampf. Nazisim was not a far left ideology, plain and simple.
Borrowing from @redbloodedamerica for a bit.
The Nazi Party believed in strong centralized government. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party was collectivist. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party operated on a redistributionist economic model.
✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party was pro-Union and pro-worker rights. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party was pro-regulation.✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party was pro mandatory profit sharing. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party wanted to abolish interest on debt and usury. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in child-labor laws. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party was pro-entitlements. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in free public healthcare. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party did not believe in a free press. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party was anti-capitalism.✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in compulsory public education. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in free higher education. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in replacing organized religion with state religion. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in conscription. ✔ Leftist
The Nazi Party believed in censorship of books they didn’t agree with.
The Nazi Party believed in child-labor laws. ✔ Leftist *The Nazi Party believed in eugenics.✔ Leftist *The Nazi Party believed in euthanasia. ✔ LeftistThe Nazi Party believed in forced sterilization. ✔ LeftistThe Nazi Party believed in communalization of private property. ✔ Leftist *The Nazi Party wanted to abolish “unearned income” (aka: property income) ✔ Leftist *The Nazi Party nationalized several industries. ✔ Leftist *The Nazi Party believed in large public
you’re such a faggot
Not an argument.
The only reason Fascism/Nazism and Communism were/are at each other’s throats is because the former is strongly nationalistic, while the latter had an internationalistic leaning right from the start.
Socialism is literally in the name of the German Nazi party what were these retards doing in history class? Hell I could do you one better cause my grandpa who was a Jew in Germany literally hated the fuck out of socialists for that exact reason
“They killed socialists!1!” Yeah, they killed anyone who opposed their ideals including Nazis who didn’t think Hitler was the best, which was a lot of people. That’s how dictatorships work, assholes.
Leftists: Communist cannot kill communist! Trotsky’s ghost: Errr ..?
A Leftist is someone whose attitude to reality is:
"Ambassador of Aloha"
Beautifully put.

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Doing the shush finger thing at the start didn't register as funny until the 2nd time through the video
In context, I would assume they interpreted it as "don't react."
I don't do controversial here, but peta having absolutely no idea what it's talking about should be a well established fact by now so I don't see this as controversial at all.
Humanity has spent thousands and thousands of years breeding these animals to create wool and if you want to call that wrong you're welcome to do that, but this is where we're at now regardless of it was or not.
So they need to get peeled every so often, because if they don't many many bad things will happen to them including death.
I have numerous videos and images on this page of llamas and alpacas getting sheared and while some of them may not be to happy about it, the people doing the shearing do their best to not harm them because if they do they don't get hired again.
At least it wasn't one of their furry artists doing it this time
Alpacas and especially llamas can be quite aggressive. I think if being shorn was so traumatic, there'd be a lot more injuries.
You can see the animal is stressed at the start but then relaxes and stops complaining. The neck is not even being restrained at some points.
If you ever watch professional pet groomers, the cats and dogs can be a heck of a lot less chill about the experience.
Now shearing alone is a lot harder, but even so that animal is going to be with her afterwards, and if she hurts it, it will remember, and she's not so big as to be unworried by an angry alpaca. It's not trying to kick her and as far as I can see, those legs are free.
while Donald Trump extremely does not deserve to be on money, a $250 bill would be a win for cash transactions and thus for financial privacy.
OTOH, America extremely deserves to have Donald Trump on its money.
Bit of a "scourge of god" thing going on?
Bit of that, certainly.
Also it would be very funny, also he's a great American who loves America and the American people (as opposed to a lot of people who love what they imagine building after they dismantle America for parts), also @daisukitoo's other reply:
This would make Donald Trump's face the symbol of unethical, clandestine financial transactions.
also there's a kind of real life Scrooge McDuck vibe about him that's fitting for the American national character. My opinion of him is complicated.
he's a great American who loves America and the American people
He's really not, though, and he really doesn't.
...I don't mean this in a "check out my counterintuitive lefty definition of patriotism" way. I mean that he openly despises large sectors of the country, including traditional touchstones of American patriotic identity, in a way that has no parallel in any other US politician of comparable stature. He's the guy who flubs and flouts military ritual observances, and basically insulted John McCain to his face for his veteran status. He's the guy who makes a point of tearing down the architecture of Washington, DC. He's the guy who doesn't even bother pretending that he values Every Citizen, as opposed to valuing Those Citizens Who Support Him.
And you can say that all of this is symbolic frou-frou, which is true, and that symbols can sometimes get detached from the things they're supposed to symbolize, which is also true.
But - it's all of a piece with everything we've already known about Donald Trump forever. From way before 2016! He values money and celebrity and success and nothing else! He spits on everyone that he considers a loser, which definitely includes most Americans! He is cosmopolitan enough to think of those foreigners who swim in his circles as His People - enough to marry one! He would absolutely have been a part of hoity-toity New York sophisticate culture, if the sophisticates would have had him!
(This is the thing that gets me about Trump, emotionally, more than anything else. Sure, OK, you can invest in own-the-libs culture-war victories all you like, but do you not care that this man is a cultural parasite who will happily grub for your vote but wouldn't bother pissing on you if you were on fire?)
He wants to be the best President, but also he's a reality TV narcissist. That may seem like a contradiction, and actually it is a contradiction, and this incompatibility causes all sorts of tensions, many of which are not productive or reflect a failure to achieve harmony, and others of which are destructive (such as the fight over Greenland). He's an American character, but there's a throwback 1800s vibe to him that I need to read more history to identify.
Anyhow, Donald Trump should be on the $250 bill if and only if he dies while in office, either by natural causes or by unnatural ones. In that case, putting his 1980s businessman split-term populist face on the bill is fitting, including because doing cash transactions in $250 bills is kinda shady. If Donald Trump survives his second term, then he should not be put on any U.S. currency, except for a limited-release commemorative Trump coin used for fundraising by the Federal government. This coin should be legal currency brought back periodically for sale to fans, but only if sales are profitable.
I think @samueldays would agree with me on the currency part.
Nearly every president we've had in contemporary history has been an egomaniacal narcissist. The difference between Trump and the others is how it's expressed.
Trump is an egomaniac, unquestionably. He wants to Make America Great Again so that people will say "wow, Donald Trump made America great again, he was the best president ever and we should put his face on a bank note and build him a monument in DC and put his face on Mt. Rushmore and gush about him in our history books." To this end, he promotes policies that he thinks will genuinely strengthen America. He's doing it for his own personal ego boost, yes, but the end result is - at least hopefully - a stronger America.
Folks like Biden, Obama, Bush Jr., Clinton (both Hillary and Bill), etc., are also egomaniacs, but their focus is different. They want power and status among their elite clique of globalist technocratic government elites, and do not want a stronger America or an American population that is better off. They hold us in open contempt and often outright hatred. They get their ego boost from grinding us under their heels and convincing us to thank them for it.
TL:DR: they're all evil egomaniacal narcissistic shitheads, but at least Trump's egomaniacal narcissistic shitheadery is more likely to help the American people, even if only by accident.

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We'll see.
I'll believe it when I see it.
They said the same thing about the 2020 election. "It's all part of Trump's 4D chess master plan to get the crooked Demonrats to implicate themselves and drain the swamp in one fell swoop!" We saw how that went.
Alarming pattern found Data Centers & water usage.
The smartest way to accelerate the water crisis.
AI isn’t only turning our brains to mush, it’s sucking our country dry in the process.
Where is all this water going?
Most of these data centers are open loop systems which use cooling towers to evaporate huge quantities of tap water into the air. These are the kind that drain local water sources.
There are other systems like closed loop (70% more efficient) and direct liquid cooling (100%, just like your gaming PC) but these are more expensive so they'd rather drain your aquifer than pay more.
Im in HVAC and the amount of water they are talking about from evaporation is crazy. Most data centers will be using around 1 million gallons of water per day. Most data centers will use traditional air condensers. I would be more concerned with the amount of energy consumption that equals the amount a town of 50,000 people will consume.
So, for the traditional AC, this is only for legacy datacenters. The ones hosting companies' servers that I've spent my career in only get up to a density of about 15kw per rack. Most are much lower. AI datacenters get up to as much as 125kw per rack. That's why we need to specify.
Here's a slide I found comparing some of the more advanced cooling types. It talks about the different rack densities each can support:
But yeah, this doesn't even address electricity usage and heat output. If they don't generate their own electricity, AI datacenters will increase electricity rates for surrounding communities just because of increased demand. And there's so much heat generated they can create Heat Islands that raise the ambient air temperature by several degrees for miles around.