I miss how freakishly smart the intern I mentored some years ago was. Her brain was big, y’all.
Day: January 21, 2025, 5:07 PM
Loop
Hi actually field engineer here, modern data centers use closed loop systems to prevent water loss, or use sewer water systems for cooling or even glycol loop systems. Ecologists are not engineers or technicians https://t.co/G4Ap6FLCad
— UcKema – Nixons Strongest Contra Inflation Soilder (@uckema) October 5, 2024
That is correct. Modern data centers are closed-loop and “use up” very little water.
Older data centers were open loop or flow-through, but those are not built any longer and nearly all have been phased out.
Herent
If I’m inherently evil, then I have no reason to even attempt to be a good person. Not an ideal outcome, right?
Luckily, I have ethics and morals apart from what anyone declares or thinks about me. But this is such a stupid thing to believe. Feminism has really screwed itself.
File and Rank
Most of the rank-and-file RTO advocates get super-incensed when informed that you’re not at work to socialize with them, but to get work done.
For them, it seems work is primarily to schmooze and yap aimlessly but has nothing to do with actually working at all. These are the same motherfuckers who would come by my desk 10 times an hour to “chat,” meaning that I was not able to get my extremely-cognitively-demanding work done while I was actually in the office.
Fuck them and fuck RTO.
Wanting
There is a paragraph in this Kat Rosenfield piece that I want to fully excerpt here but I won’t as it’s worth reading the build-up as well.
This is something I’ve been saying for a while. Women simply cannot selectively choose when they want to be treated as children. It’s all or nothing. If you want to be treated as a child only when it suits you, that is not on offer; you will also be dealt with that way when it comes to rights and responsibilities as well.
Feminism in the past decade or so has advocated that women hold power with no accountability or responsibility while blaming the results of even their own predictably-disastrous actions on men who had nothing to do with their self-caused fuck-ups. Outside of absurd exceptions like Trump, that’s not how power works or will ever work.
So now women must choose: be treated as little kids with no agency (and thus few to no rights) or own your own bullshit, and take responsibility for your own actions.
Which will it be?
Bush
The problem with the modern Democrats is they insist on bringing a butterknife to an M242 Bushmaster fight.
And that goes about as well as you’d expect.
Grooved
That’s the stuff, right there.
Blu’s playing reminds me so much of Stevie Wonder’s long-time bassist, Nathan Watts. Compare and contrast what Blu is doing with what Nathan does in a song like “Contusion.”
She’s always playing around with counter rhythm in a way that is so brain-breaking that someone can do that so musically.
Mater Real
Hargraves: I want you to think about who has the most macho army in the world—or at least the image of it. Russia, right? They pride themselves on this macho bullshit. But they invaded Ukraine, and guess what? Russia is losing 5-6 soldiers for every one Ukrainian… ego doesn’t mean anything.
Effective intelligence, control, coordination and communication are the factors that matter. And having enough materiel of all sorts, too, of course. But even with all the materiel in the world, without those first four things I mentioned you’re gonna do nothing but lose.
As the Russians are discovering.
It’s MAGA’s problem now. Living with the consequences imposed by a woefully uninformed electorate. Most people know nearly nothing, and the nearly nothing they do know is wrong.
We are approaching the end of the era when the only response to a natural disaster is “to rebuild.”
China crisis looms as Europe’s gravy train stalls: ‘nobody is making money.’
France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped.
Tech CEO praises worker for selling dog so they could return to the office. Another CEO shows what it takes to rise to the top. Let Luigi out. He has some business to attend to.
Microsoft Office being rebranded again. Fuck, that’s stupid.
Trump reinforces use of his ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. 100% agreed with this policy. These are economic migrants, not asylum seekers.