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Comment So dumb (Score 1) 44

It's a building full of computers.

Not the prettiest thing, but also not the devil's own workshop either.

Oh but it steals the water!...How?

Oh but it hikes up our electric bill!...No more than any other industrial user would.

Oh but it invites children into its gingerbread house!...That almost makes more sense than the other stuff they're saying...about a building full of computers.

Comment Re:MrBest (Score 1) 25

I still don't know why that guy is famous or what he even does. I did receive one of his chocolate bars as a gift and it was pretty good.

MrBeast got famous by making money on YouTube back when Google used to pay decent money for views. It is low-brow "Ow my balls!"-style reality content that mostly appeals to kids. He re-invested his earnings into further promoting his content and his other entrepreneurial endeavors (a partnership with a virtual restaurant concept that resulted in some some fairly mediocre burgers that were actually prepared at Denny's, and those chocolate bars you'd mentioned).

Also, if you think MrBeast's chocolate is "pretty good", you'd be blown away by the German chocolate at Aldi.

Comment Re: 100M is enough (Score 1) 128

If your internet is just a better TV to you, enabling you only to consume what giants think you should, then yes, you're right.

If you perceive the internet to be a truly democratic mass-medium, where symmetry between sender and receiver is built-in, and everyone can be a sender, not just a receiver... then no. You're not right.

Comment Yeah and? (Score 1) 51

Instead of copy-pasting a postdoc or grad student's verbiage as her own she cut out the middleman and cheated all by herself.

Much better in my opinion than copying off of someone else's cheating and claiming it as your own. We're not animals after all.

An incident comes to mind from about a decade and a half ago when I was in grad school and our research group was collaborating with a university on the wrong side of the planet.

One of their postdocs submitted a progress report that was almost completely copy-pasted from emails and powerpoints we had sent his way and claimed it as his own analysis. SOP over there if you pay attention to the way they write and present at conferences. Lots of focus on perfecting the form. Original work...not so much.

Comment Address the Addiction already. (Score 3, Insightful) 23

Great. So we've finally realized that addictive behavior creates shitty outcomes. Or we've at least remembered why we should have remembered that long ago. Now tell me what we're going to DO about the zombie horde of junkies in total denial.

You can tell a 3-pack a day smoker that smoking is bad for them. They could even agree with you. Does FUCK ALL when they no longer give a shit about that fact because addiction.

Even worse when we're battling a society desperately trying to normalize their addictions before anyone really starts calling them out for that shit. If you see an iPad junkie toddler screaming about no WiFi, check the iPad junkie parent for the root cause.

Comment Are you a Representative, or just a Politician? (Score 2) 44

Not specific to data centers, but too often legislators ignore the will of the people who voted them in. We could use more of this type of accountability.

A Representative, will often say they are. And know their actions will back up their duly assigned responsibility of representing a constituency.

A Politician, won't have to say much. Their lies will tell all, because their selfish actions will prove they represent themselves, not a constituency.

There's little need for term limits if voters were smart enough to differentiate between the two. We have elections every four years to enable the constituency to replace Politicians with Representatives. Of course, this also assumes other factors (such as gerrymandering drawn by race and allowing truly anonymous voting) aren't corruptly warping the results and outcome of democratic elections. As we're finding a bit too often now.

Comment Re: Welcome to The Future! (Score 1) 147

Well, yes, but the people still have the chance to punish them for it, even if they usually don't.

You've touched on a point that has always amused me. If you ask someone what they think about Congress, they tell you how bad Congress sucks. Opinion polls have Congress down with ambulance chasers and used car salesmen. Ask if they think Congress is a pack of crooks and liars, and they will readily agree. Ask them about their own representative though, and you usually get a much different answer. Like you said, all the other politicians are the problem, mine is great.

Not that most people really know. If the member doesn't make the news and they never need to avail themselves of constituent services, the vast majority only know their member from campaign ads. So, when someone says their member is great, they're really just complimenting the campaign's marketing department.

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