I’ve got a pair of these that I like. They do the job as described. They’re not great at anything else but I like them for laying in bed.

I’m completely confident that people 150 years from now will say very similar things about us and our contemporaries. Maybe that knowledge will help you chill the fuck out, even just a bit.

Oh quit whining and get off that cross you’ve prepared for yourself. You started this exchange by insulting my grasp of the concepts at play and blaming the situation on my lack of understanding. We both know that’s not related at all and all you’re accomplishing is making yourself feel better temporarily by looking down your nose at someone you perceived to be less intelligent than you.

Europe is going to be a shitshow in the coming decades no matter what direction voters are trending. We’re all talking about this as if it’s primarily a political issue and it just isn’t. Climate change is already fucking our shit up and that’s going to get exponentially worse. Desperate people don’t care about imaginary lines on a map.

We can’t even deal with a comparatively small amount of migrants without backsliding into the same kind of fascism that our grandparents had to invent nuclear bombs to subdue 80 years ago. There’s no way we’re going to deal with what’s coming in a rational way.

I think pre post-apocalypse is just the apocalypse. If you read the news these days that sounds like a pretty accurate description of the time we’re living in. We’re all just pretending it hasn’t started yet.

Hey now that’s not fair. AI can randomize your music playlists, summarize an email, write terrible code, steal others work, and completely invade your privacy.

What’s that? Oh, I guess you’re right, we could do all that stuff already.

Every once in a while they get faced with a line on a chart somewhere so unbelievably vertical that they have no choice but to look beyond next quarter. Power consumption going 10x in 2 years is one of those times.

The stance you’re are taking is exactly how this power grab by the courts becomes tolerated.

OK then don’t tolerate it. Or perhaps it isn’t that simple and that’s the point.

You can act like your superior insight into our predicament makes a difference but does it really? From where I sit it looks like you’re doing the same thing I am, albeit more pretentiously, and that is lamenting the fact that we don’t have an appreciable impact on the situation.

I agree that the ruling creates a major issue but the way you’re talking makes it seem like you don’t recognize that presidents have always (certainly in our lifetimes) been above the law. That was clearly not the intent of the founding fathers but it is also clear that the modern entity we call the US government never had any intention of handling things in a different way. I’m not sure exactly when we crossed that line but it was well before this Supreme Court ruling, that much is certain.

You say that as if it removes the possibility but I don’t think I need to provide specific examples of obviously foolish decisions ruining modern games. There are plenty to choose from.

What kind of resources does this guy have? I don’t think governments can even do proportional and instantaneous DDOS responses. I messed with the wrong dude.

They’re gonna block mod tools, just wait.

You realize the average video gamer is like 40 right?

He completed his transformation and became one with the desert in the form of a new type of semi-sentient cactus.

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What the fuck

I have no idea where that data comes from and that’s exactly the point I’m making. It doesn’t match my personal experience at all.

I build the infrastructure that these data centers need to connect to the internet. Our projected power consumption is at least tripling from last year which was itself double the year before, and that’s only the power draw for the fiber optic infrastructure connecting these data centers together. They’re also building a ridiculous amount of computing power in those data centers which is another massive increase in power consumption.

There are some kind-of green efforts in progress to mitigate a bit of the environmental impacts of that increase in demand but most of what I have seen personally is just more draw from the local utility company. I have serious doubts about any data that indicates that tripling power consumption is not a major environmental problem.

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OK, maybe not anything

Alternatively, “there’s too much color in this neighborhood”. Those racist pricks. It’s about time we exposed birds for their bigotry.