hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Right, we didn’t have Nolan wells discussions. We had lots of Charlie Kirk discussion, because culture wars relevance. We talked about the assassination without letting the Luigi mangione phenomenon have much presence on the forum.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Why are we talking about Lindsay Clancy so much?
Obviously, it’s a hot topic in the news, people who normally have heated discussions about The Bachelor are talking about this trial instead. But the motte isn’t one of those groups. Why is this particular social media brain rot such a big deal to the motte? Not criticizing, just noting- we didn’t talk that much about Johnny depp/Amber Heard.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
To what extent is anti-data center pushing big tech into further GOP alignment?
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Something like a quarter of England’s residents were of Irish descent before immigration picked up, no? These people seem to be counted as ‘ethnic Britons’- maybe the term has no meaning except not wanting to see brown people.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
For an empire, to be ‘ethnically’ part of the main ethnicity is eventually meaningless- there was not such thing as an ethnic Roman in 400 AD, either. Sic semper imperium.
That doesn’t make it cosmic justice or revenge for colonialism or whatever bullshit. It is simply the way things are; thé ethnic component of Britishness or Americanness is gone. You want to maintain ethnic purity then you don’t get to be the empire, you have to live under it.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Cheaper childcare is, literally, nothing*. It's a subsidy for moms to work, which is why progressives are OK with it.
*in high income countries
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because female hysteria is a real thing. That our society chooses to pretend women are as mentally/emotionally strong and healthy as men doesn't invalidate that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The steelman is the claim that she was being abused and her husband made her psychotic. As far as I know, there is no evidence for this; it's pure pop-feminist misandry.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC- I'm not a chiller tech but a more general commercial HVAC technician- most chillers use a cooling tower where at least one stage of cooling sprays the water through the air to cool it down by evaporation, but that the water losses are fairly low- because this is usually condenser cooling water and most of it is returned to the system.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Then for anyone not American, there is the problem with these companies having ties to the Trump administration. An administration which seems to view every relationship as entirely transactional and that will use its leverage aggressively to get whatever it wants out of others.
Well yeah, America is becoming an Empire. What did you think an Empire was?
And this applies domestically as well; woke is in retreat in large part because US state ideology is just generally in retreat. The imperial state cares about what it can get(and votes might be part of that deal), not about what the people believe.
A non-Trump empire would do the same thing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There were totally poor, racially segregated areas with high interpersonal violence in Till's time. That interpersonal violence is what killed him, after all.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
nearly all cross-race rapes between Whites and Blacks involve a White female victim.
Note that this may simply be because rapists do, in fact, want to have sex with their victims- and white women are generally vastly more attractive than black women. It doesn't necessarily mean that blacks are more violent(there is another set of statistics you'd need to use to make that argument).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But datacenters obviously will get built, even if people don't like it- tying grid improvements to them is the best way to make sure grid improvements actually happen.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Add a workplace cafeteria paying $30+/hr. Add some nice grounds taking a few full time gardeners.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
These guys need to offer $30/hr to wash dishes in the cafeteria. Yes, it's way above market, but it's the equivalent of spreading money around from a helicopter- people like it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Making datacenters build grid improvements is a real idea that's been floated around.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
My understanding is that the thing that made the Emmet Till case bad was that we will never know if he did or didn't do the thing, and that is because he was denied due process of law, and that is the principle problem with vigilante justice.
Now accusing a prominent liar of lying is not vigilante justice.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
No one wants a faithful adaptation of the odyssey. It’s be an NC-17 art film, which fair enough, there’s an audience for… but it would also have a much longer runtime than clockwork orange.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
This seems like normal low-IQ people ranting and raving about hot topics. But this time, thé people on the other side are weird ultra-wealthy lizards with business interests that regularly get accused of being slightly evil by both sides of the aisle.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Because the thing they’re on the internet for is porn, and not other things?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
These migrants understand very well how not to rape women- most of them are not sexual predators within their own families. They simply choose to do it anyways.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
You can assimilate people from other cultures, but it requires making them give up their culture. The UK seems unwilling to do this.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I propose an experiment- confucians create missionaries who travel to spread the word of improvement through education, respect for elders, hierarchy, etc to all the most savage primitives of the world. I predict that the sentinelese and new guineans will improve themselves.
Islam is, I agree, an interesting case, partly because it would be the textbook example of bad culture even where the ethnic group it affects is otherwise quite capable. But we don't need to look that far. Anthropologists- most of whom are progressives or marxists and don't like Christianity- have extensively studied the difference between primitives who have been converted by Christian missionaries and primitives who remain in the service of dumb idols. And, like, there isn't a space program from third world Christianity, but they generally compare favorably to their coethnics who continue to worship demons instead. You don't seem to see that with Islam, despite extensive Islamic missionary activities in Africa.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I am aware that some people are simply too stupid to learn. But there are real problems with many schools serving mostly blacks, with terrible instructional methods, unwillingness to make students learn, etc- an attitude that Scott(pbuh) describes as 'success through fraud and very low standards'. But I've met many black people and they aren't actual literal retards. They can count. They can read. They understand synonyms, they understand that they would be hungry if they didn't have breakfast.
'The average black will never learn differential calculus' is a different statement than the level of dysfunction you're describing, and poor pedagogy is a known thing that their community suffers from.
Thé going rate for general maintenance in a data center is six figures.
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