AI Power Consumption Surge Strains US Electricity Grid, Coal-Powered Plants Make a Comeback
"Unable to keep pace, some utilities are scrambling to revise projections and reconsider previous plans of closing fossil fuel plants… Some older coal power plans will stay online, until the grid adds more power production capacity. The result could be increased emissions in the near term and risks of rolling blackouts if infrastructure continues lagging behind demand."
So now, on a burning planet, we're going to center all of our energy resources and human ingenuity on tech for incels to synthesize nonconsensual pop-star porn
Another image widely shared by pro Israeli bots and accounts on #Twitter and #Instagram
This is so ridiculous that proves that almost everyone sharing this have never talked to a Muslim or seen a Muslim pray or even asked a Muslim about it before sharing it.
Wearing shoes and glasses when praying is just so ridiculously stupid that only an idiot would believe its authentic.
I am so beyond exhausted. It is absolutely ridiculous that in order to even try and get help you have to put yourself in a position where you're unable to do the work you're already being paid for, let alone look for or take on more work, so you get into an increasingly desperate situation trying to get help because you're in a desperate situation.
A popular response to anticapitalist discourse is that capitalism is intrinsically good but it was corrupted at some point in the recent past and whatever anticapitalists are complaining about is really due to that fall from grace rather than capitalism itself. The election of Ronald Reagan is popular for this.
People who sincerely believe this are so historically illiterate that it's impossible to have a serious discussion with them so I don't (usually) engage, and when I do it's disappointing. But if they could talk sense about it what I'd really want to hear from them is when do they think capitalism got good? A fall from grace implies a prior state of grace and when was that for capitalism?
For hundreds of years, since its beginning, capitalism was fueled by slavery, murder, torture, armed robbery. Marx's famous characterization of its birth as "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt" is an understatement. When did this end, do they think?
I mean, explicit slavery is mostly illegal, although that only happened generally within my great-grandparents' generation, so not that long ago, but slavery was pretty seamlessly replaced with systems of exploitation that were and are only visibly less violent. This has to be the case because the profits never shrank. When did capitalism get good in order to be able to get bad in the 1980s?
Anyway, yes, this is a subtoot. Since they're incapable of responding sensibly I'm shouting it into the void instead.
read about what dams did for the Cree people of Mistasini, Quebec. their traditional hunting grounds were destroyed so that the Quebec government could profit from hydro-electric generation.
@MLE_online is that what "signal reflection" means?
are there any mirrors nearby? serious question, cause mirrors can reflect radio signals. i found this out in my last place, which had sliding mirrored closet doors in every bedroom and the wifi never worked very well. our router was exactly in line with the closet doors, and if i opened my closet, the wifi suddenly worked better.
I'm beginning to think that some people who make ignorant comments about kolektiva and its users are doing so based purely on their subjective impression of the word "kolektiva".
what RD4Anarchy said is pretty much it. it's the fear of communism created during the cold war, indoctrinated in western liberals by both USSR and western nations' ruling class and media. there is just new stuff to scapegoat now.
it's not new at all. i've been encountering that kind of reaction since the 90s, and that's only because i was a teenager with an internet connection, not because it was new, and i did it myself for a long time before i decided to think about and find out what the words mean.
Around 12% of all people living in #Munich took the streets today to protest against right-wing movements. Too much for our police to handle. The peaceful demonstration was halted after 40 minutes. We will come again!