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Comment Re:Understand the NYT's and the ex-agent's agenda (Score 3, Informative) 33

Your understanding of what happened is very wrong. The people the US sent to El Salvador to be tortured were Venezuelan.

While no US citizens were involved in this particular atrocity, Trump and Miller:
- Sent 238 people to the CECOT concentration camp
- Ignored any due process to send them
- Ignored court orders that were issued while the planes were still on the ground
- Pretended we were in a "war" in order to use the Alien Enemies Act
- Sent people who were in the US legally (about 75% of them were)
- Sent people who had absolutely no criminal record (at least 50 documented cases)
- Never reported their names; the US literally disappeared them
- Paid El Salvador to take them
- Made proposals to send US citizens to be tortured
- Freed a convicted murderer as part of the exchange that Venezuela arranged for its citizens

The people sent to the CECOT concentration were repeatedly beaten, tortured, and sexually abused

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The US is still deporting people to third countries, i.e. countries that the deportees have no history with or ties to. Deportees like these have been killed, arrested, and tortured.
https://refugees.org/tcdtracke...

Comment Re:"have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 1) 76

Orion is still in orbit around the earth.
Citation needed.

OTOH:
"NASA's Artemis II mission stopped circling Earth"
"After the spacecraft leaves Earth's gravity, there's no way back but to swing around the moon as planned."
https://www.livescience.com/sp...
https://www.google.com/search?...

Comment Re:"have left Earth orbit" ?! (Score 1) 76

"NASA's Artemis II mission stopped circling Earth"

"After the spacecraft leaves Earth's gravity, there's no way back but to swing around the moon as planned."

https://www.livescience.com/sp...

Couple days ago I came across an article with some specific numbers; I'll post it if I re-find it.

Comment Re:Farm pasture versus concrete buildings? (Score 5, Informative) 71

From the summary:

"Recognizing that surface temperature could be affected by other factors, the researchers chose to focus their investigation on data centers located away from densely populated areas."

You'll have to look at the study data to see if that completely addresses your concern, but unsurprisingly the professional researchers have put some thought into what controls a study like this might need.

Comment Re:Farm pasture versus concrete buildings? (Score 4, Insightful) 71

Since concrete buildings and paved parking lots are part of the urban heat island effect, yes it does.

The question could be phrased more generally: how much of the *data* heat island effect is because it's a data center and not another type of building.

The answer, apparently: a lot.

Comment Re:Farm pasture versus concrete buildings? (Score 5, Interesting) 71

From page 5:

"These results are dramatically impressive, especially considering that the typical LST increase caused by the quintessential example of compound of anthropogenic activities - the urban heat island effect - has been estimated in the 4 and 6 [degrees] C interval. This apparent step function emphasize the clear effect of AI hyperscalers on their surrounding areas, so much that it can match the impact of "islands" of higher temperatures: therefore, we call this the data heat island effect."

Comment Re:Wil QR codes be around for centuries? (Score 2) 40

One of the advantages of QR codes is that they are based on visible images. They'll just need a camera and some simple software.

Including a spec, maybe in pictographic form like the Voyager record's description of a phonograph, would make it very likely that someone in the future could interpret a QR code.

Provided, of course, that they have an electron microscope...

Comment Re: too bad (Score 1) 312

Hey, you're the one who introduced militias this thread, with numbers and citations and everything. I was mostly pointing out how absurd the ubiquitous attempts to redefine 'regulated' are.

Since Congress can define who is in the militia, the sequence could go like this:
- make everyone a member of the militia.
- assert Congress's Article 1 power to arm the militia, and define the exact arms that militia members are allowed to keep and bear.
- halberds for everyone!

Unlikely of course, but expect to see something like this when someone attempts to buy some M777s or their equivalent.

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