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Or a cargo ship. Or a yacht.

That’s kinda why I suggested “ship that would legitimately get close to CA coast”…

Almost all websites are running on servers in datacenters. You lose fun stuff, but you lose Lemmy instances, you bank goes down, commerce goes down, wikipedia goes down, most of the internet goes offline.

Offline is okay, you say? Not when banks can’t move money because it’s down. Not when stores can’t sell anything and you can’t pay by cards or get gas or groceries, and stores can’t restock because trucking.

People really need to be educated about what datacenters are and aren’t, because far too many people think they’re just for AI or just for a few things.

Modern society depends heavily upon them.

There may well be far more datacenters than you might be aware of. It is a pretty large web.

But also, for larger companies, their onsite facilities are… a datacenter.

Also, the thing about datacenters is that you need great and redundant connections with high capacity. It’s far better to have a bunch of datacenters than it is to have them all scattered around to companies everywhere.

This recent push back against datacenters is, at least to some degree, fearmongering and using anti-AI sentiment to do so. A LOT of the information people are pushing is wrong.

(That said, there are lots of valid concerns about some datacenters, and some projects are being done in harmful ways. I’m not completely pro-datacenter, but they are a large part of how the internet is run, and most of them have nothing to do with AI, and we’ve had them in large numbers for 25+ years… and we can always improve, sure)

I’ve been in several discussions and gotten downvoted for pointing out that almost every single website on the internet exists in a datacenter. You may know - thankfully - but many do not.

You know what else has apples? Ogres!

You lost me, bro

Put drones on ship that would legitimately get close to CA coast. Launch drones from ship.

I keep a container of it on-hand so I can make smaller batches of it - I typically mix with just sour cream as a chip dip. For salads, I tend to prefer other dressings.

haha, reminds me that in 2007 I was delivering flowers when gas prices spiked and I made the mistake of opining that it wasn’t all bad - for basically that reason. The owner did NOT appreciate my comments. lol.

Nothing came of it or anything, it was just a little awkward for a bit. And I did express sympathy for her costs. But she could have optimized deliveries SO much better - I tried to help - but she just didn’t care. Even though… it cost her much more gas. heh

She was a good person, just a little blind about some things. :)

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I’m not them, but our oligarchs spend tons of money corrupting politicians on both sides^[1] which pushes many Dems to be centrist and corrupt and serving the oligarchs. Truly progressive democrats are relatively rare.

this bastard and his admin

And all Republicans. And most Democrats. And the oligarchs funding/controlling the process. For a start.

Trump is all “i dont care / do u” about oil prices and killing US soldiers. So don’t hold yer breath.

Well, for me, I spent 15 years in a very small metro in the panhandle of Florida. When the community theatre folks hung out, a lot of the regulars would go to Applebees. The “edgy”/“outcast” would tend to go to Chilis.

Frankly, the bigoted stuff from the submission aside, both are… fine enough places to hang out and get food. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible.

I liked the Chilis because the ribs were pretty decent. Not amazing, but decent enough. My wife appreciated their battered chicken tenders, until they got rid of them. She’s autistic and that texture is better for her.

Applebees was more boring to me. I can’t tell you off the top of my head what I ever ate there, but it was alright.

In both cases it was more about hanging out with friends.

So really, to answer your question: Meh. lol.

And yes, I know it was rhetoical, but I have ADHD, so I answered anyway. :)

If I’ve told you once I’ve told you 37 times…

And it’s okay if they ain’t intersex, because havin’ a low lerbido or being uh-sexual ain’t no big deal, neither.

/jk

Before all the recent hullabaloo in recent years, I couldn’t remember which meant which way - because I could give two fucks - just let them be who they are.

Now I’ve had to learn a lot (which I don’t resent learning) so I can help stand up for their rights, and it’s really easy to remember. But it’s sort of like “biweekly” or “semiweekly” before you actually pay attention - both of those terms mean both something that happens twice per week or once every other week (although I tihnk biweekly more strongly implies twice per week, but it can absolutely be used for both).

Excuse me, that’s Applebees. Chili’s only microwaves some things and deep fries others.

Fuck that. heh.

I use a TV for my computer monitor and it’s perfect. I do not use any of the TV features. And it pisses me off when something happens to lose my signal and it switches over into TV mode because it autoplays some free channel that spouts fascist nonsense. I have to poke around for the remote (which is always around but never close because I only need it every month or few months) so I can cut that shit off as soon as possible. heh

Any video I need to watch happens via my computer, thanks, where I’m in control.