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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Lunduke's video on this latest issue
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 06:41:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-09-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-09-30 2:50 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-09-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2024-09-29 1:54 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-09-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-09-28 5:09 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/27/2024 7:27 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>>>>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Use your ad-infested, back-door infested Windows crap and enjoy it. I'll
>>>>>>>> keep using Linux, thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got Copilot PLUS!*  Kidding of course, this is why I'm feeling so
>>>>>>> great about openSUSE.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/copilot-plus-pcs
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You want Windows 11/12/13 and CoPilot+ running on an ARM CPU so bad you
>>>>>> can taste it.  No need to deny it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joel needs AI to tell him that he's one sexy motherfucker. So far, AI
>>>>> has preferred to commit suicide rather than say such a thing.
>>>>
>>>> I have absolutely NO desire to have anything AI anywhere near my computer. I
>>>> just read today that AI server farms each require more electricity than
>>>> whole cities. So much for the "green revolution." Wonder why the Climate
>>>> Screechers aren't screeching up a storm about this?
>>>>
>>>> This is not the article I saw, but it's all I could find with a quick
>>>> Internet search...
>>>>
>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/
>>>>
>>>> Even the Woke should like this article as it's printed the Washington Woke
>>>> Post.
>>>
>>> In case you're not already aware, Microsoft is looking to relaunch the
>>> Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to power their data center... but you
>>> should definitely trust them when they tell you that they're not
>>> gathering data on you.
>>> <https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai>
>> 
>> I became aware of this because of all the AI server farms they're building
>> in northern Virginia rural areas. Apparently they think they have the right
>> to claim eminent domain on farmland to build the power lines across
>> Maryland to power these server farms. The reason this bothers me is because
>> part of my childhood was spent in that farmland in Maryland. Beautiful
>> country.
>> 
>> It pisses me off that they find a remote area to build these AI server farms
>> and then demand that the states bend over backwards to supply power to them
>> — which will cause the price of electricity to rise all over Maryland. And,
>> of course, the worthless politicians bend over backwards to give them what
>> they want, despite what it costs to the average Marylander.
>> 
>> What should be done is that these AI server farms should be built in the old
>> rust-belt zones of crumbling cities, like Baltimore. Where the
>> infrastructure is already nearby, and it wouldn't require miles and miles of
>> new high voltage electric lines. But I guess that's not good enough for
>> these entitled bastards who are building these damned AI server farms.
>
> I guess now we know why it was that Bill Gates bought all that farmland 
> in the United States. We figured it was to kill off the local farmer, 
> but it looks like that will just be a secondary consequence. I'll be 
> honest, finding out that Gates was looking to revive Three Mile Island 
> and create such massive data centers was enough for me to abandon 
> Microsoft's software entirely, but I've said that before and I know that 
> I will eventually come running back. Sadly, I'm getting the impression 
> that like me, people will eventually swallow this crap and adopt it 
> rather than fight what is obviously an operating to obliterate privacy 
> once and for all.

I'm glad I'm old. This world is going to hell in hand-basket. But Microsoft 
is definitely in my rear-view mirror.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien