First they bosted tape production, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't tape production.

given that there's nothing there to understand.

Putin is way behind the curve on this one: Ukraine has reverted to destroying distillation towers, pumping stations and oil depots. So the data centers are probably safe for the time being. The real issue they'll have is surviving in many kilometers long fuel lines during the Russian winter.

Jay in Kyiv says it best: These are the sort of problems you face when you invade a peaceful and much smarter neighboring country.

The simplest explanation is that it's designed to hand out large sums of money to criminals and black ops groups.

Not least because he's posted it dozens of times before.

It's funny to see political ads by people running against data centers in this election cycle.

If you want the truth about why "affordability" might be a problem for you, look no further than this summary ("...would need the green light from those major mobile carriers...") and extrapolate that to essentially everything that costs too much, because that is exactly where it's coming from. Whether it's incumbent hospital networks deciding whether to permit new competitors in their territories, or incumbent universities deciding whom they will and will not permit to be accredited, and thus be eligible for government subsidies, government-backed debt, or any number of other examples where incumbents have wheedled themselves control of some measure of government apparatus to limit and control competitors.

In any case, none of this is "Capitalism." Actual "Capitalism" does not involve this sort of dysfunction. It certainly has other dysfunctions, but private-interest incumbent control over government gatekeeping is not among them. That's a different problem, and rational people don't confuse it with "Capitalism."

And all of this exists because every time one of your ancestors felt some frustration or suffered some grievance, real or imagined, they called the cops and created another opportunity for some wonderful new bit of "fairness" to be enacted into law. That's what you're really paying for. That's the price of your romper-room world, and why your elders have the jaws of a vise cranked down on everything today.

https://theins.press/en/news/2...

Who are you and what have you done with rsilvergun?

Broaden your scope: Both the America revolution and the US civil war were consequences of prosperity. Subsisting people spend little time pondering pamphlets or worrying about ratios of atmospheric trace gasses. The Left and its simple minded and reactionary hair-shirt solutions to all problems are certainly their own worst enemy. That's a key point as well: the enemies they imagine, including all the churches and all the fictional Nazis that live in side their heads are nothing by comparison.

Of course you believe this. You have no concept of actual warfare. Your whole worldview is what you've been fed by comfortable, secure establishment media that hasn't dealt with an actual military threat in about 80 years.

No son, job loss and "disinformation" are not worse than kinetic warfare. You're a poster boy for the consequences of excessive peace.

This is the language of someone that's never been more than a few hours away from a source of food.

Taiwan is a island of people that don't want to be enslaved by a totalitarian hell state, and China will not hesitate to nab Taiwan at the very first instant they think they can pull it off. All your 8-D chess thinking is just you filling your head with shit. Stop doing that to yourself.

The only reason Taiwan hasn't been blockaded and starved into submission is that China lacks the 2-3 additional aircraft carriers and naval air wings they'll need to ensure the success of that mission. That's it. No other reason. And you're likely to live long enough to witness the truth of that.

When that day comes, do yourself a huge favor: recall this discussion and take it to heart. If you do, the good news for you is that perhaps you'll be able to salvage some of your remaining years free of the cognitive damage you've indulged.

I doubt that. This isn't the nifty fifties and we don't moral panic over blowjobs anymore. Clinton was poking girls with cigars in the Whitehouse and the Bezos beams dick pics around to women. Jenson could handwave this, and she can't "Me Too" him because she's a spy that did it for her government.

There is no alternative now, and there won't be an alternative for years.

Globalstar is far too low bandwidth for Ukraine's needs. Amazon doesn't have the ambition or nerve to risk building anything that approaches Starlink in the kind of time frame that is relevant to the Ukraine conflict, and they don't have the vertically integrated launch platform with the airline-like capacity and reliability of SpaceX to make such ambitions affordable, and they don't have the ambition or nerve to build that either.

Love him or hate him, for better or worse, Musk has the ambition and nerve to do these things. That fact is everything: the essential, exclusive ingredient. And Bezos et al. don't have it. You may wish they did, and regret they do not, but don't kid yourself.

The valuation is what mystifies me. Maybe, before Starlink, a constellation of 25 communication satellites was worth a few billion. Maybe $10 billion with IP, lucrative contracts and whatever spectrum they hold. After Starlink?

No. Just no.

Globalstar equity holders have played this one well.

I missed the part that said it involved leftists, fats, or lesbians.

Yeah, let's ressurect a 30-year-old flame war!