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  • Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power

    One of the more curious artifacts of the recent surge in data center construction has been filling these megaliths with hardware and then... not plugging them in. Either because turning them on would flatten the local electrical grid or because they're loss-leaders for which data cycles only cost the company money.

    So you've got this multi-billion dollar paper asset that wows investors while it gathers dust. And then you go off to build another one, because people will fling their unlimited borrowing power at you to reap another quarter of double-digit growth in speculative valuation.

  • the economy and stock market taking a huge hit

    Two things that have also failed to manifest, in large part thanks to the prolific state spending following COVID.

    Keep in mind, the event that really knocked over the tower of cards in 2008 was Greenspan's decision to raise interest rates (very sharply) in 2007. Trump's very obviously not going to do that. If anything, he's been working overtime to get interest rates lower, because he knows cheap money = high (raw) GDP growth and low unemployment.

    What we're seeing isn't recessionary. It's a glacial shift in the economic priorities of the US, from a post-Reagan titanic banking juggernaut to a post-COVID more-WW2-style global arms depot. The US economy increasingly makes cops and bombs and machines that assist cops and bombs. And there's no recognized upper limit for demand on these goods and services. Not under current geopolitical conditions, anyway.

  • I've had "AI Bubble Burst" on my bingo card since 2023.

  • Still feels like a hat on a hat. Unless you're on bleeding edge hardware doing something truly novel with the OS, I'm not sure why a selective opt-in log of various bolt-ons and patches improves your experience.

    Computers, at their heart, are still just a place you go to manage spreadsheets, email other people those spreadsheets, and pirate entertainment. So you're always left asking the burning question "How will this patch improve my experience with spreadsheets?" And 99.5% of the time, the answer is "It won't".

  • "I'm on the bleeding edge of Linux! I get the most advanced features the distro allows! Yeah, it may periodically brick my home system from time to time, but its worth it when I can get..."

    reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware

    "... which I literally cannot live without".

  • They bought it from their Western allies. Comic to pretend it was ever theirs to begin with.

  • Even better

  • There’s nothing in the released files that implies Clinton did anything illegal.

    I gotta wonder how you resolve a game of Clue if you've got the suspect, the room, and the murder weapon, but you still can't figure out who done it.

    Clinton has been credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple occasions. "I didn't do the sex crimes on the sex island with the other rapists" is a "I smoked but I didn't inhale" ass defense.

    If you believe it...

  • :-/

  • you are scientifically illiterate

    Because I'm not buying an overpriced humidifier?

  • The scam where I buy a shipping container at some point?

  • Lolz. All this hype about being independent of the US. But the moment Americans start butchering brown people, they can't resist

  • "People should be in the streets to stop the war"

    "Will a protest march stop the war?"

    "No! But... it's tradition, you know?"

  • Hardly a scam. There's nothing to insert money into.

    This is just empty hype

  • One problem maybe kinda hypothetically down. Ten thousand more to go.

  • The comic is very clearly about one problem

    More comparing Iranians to insects that I find distasteful

  • I wonder if all the women we kill will be allowed to be buried in bikinis

  • how do you enforce any jurisdiction on a satellite and what it’s doing.

    You threaten to disable it, which would be very easy give how fragile it is

  • Okay, but have you considered how cool it would be to put a data center in space?

    What if I told you that we have to BEAT CHINA to space?

  • Any time I see one of these comics, I do feel like I'm reading one extremely bad guy describing another.

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    Confucius vs Qin Shi Huang

  • Texas @lemmy.world

    Maduro's capture spurs day of rallies among optimistic Venezuelans in Katy and protesters in Uptown

    www.houstonchronicle.com /news/houston-texas/trending/article/maduro-venezuela-houston-demonstrations-21275655.php
  • Texas @lemmy.world

    Dallas County GOP drops plan to hand-count ballots

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/30/dallas-county-hand-count-election-2026/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    ‘Blind Into Caracas’

    fallows.substack.com /p/blind-into-caracas
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world

    Greatest Generational Talent

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Harry Potter and Harry Dresden are the same guy

  • News @lemmy.world

    Conservation groups buy Texas land for whooping crane habitat

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/22/texas-whooping-crane-habitat-coast-land-purchase/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Probes of racism in Lubbock schools have stalled under Trump

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/23/lubbock-racism-schools-investigations-trump/
  • News @lemmy.world

    ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group

    theintercept.com /2025/12/19/ice-bounty-hunters-location-surveillance-geo-group/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Democrats Return Henry Cuellar to Powerful Spending Post After Trump Pardon

    www.notus.org /congress/democrats-henry-cuellar-appropriations-committee-spending-trump-pardon
  • Movies @lemmy.world

    Animal Farm Official Trailer

  • News @lemmy.world

    New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics

    www.cnn.com /2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon
  • News @lemmy.world

    Texas screwworm plan draws ire from cattle industry

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/09/texas-screwworm-plan-cattle/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?

    www.teenvogue.com /story/some-democrats-are-helping-the-trump-admins-anti-lgbtq-tech-agenda
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Texas AG Ken Paxton sues EPIC to stop Muslim housing project

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/05/texas-ken-paxton-epic-city-lawsuit/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Donald Trump pardons Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar

    www.texastribune.org /2025/12/03/henry-cuellar-donald-trump-pardon-bribery/
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting

    www.404media.co /unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Texas education chief met with Turning Point USA to discuss group’s expansion in high schools

    www.texastribune.org /2025/11/25/texas-education-agency-turning-point-usa-high-school-chapters/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Warning signs appear on Mexican beach declaring area restricted by U.S. as Mexico rejects Trump offer to strike cartels

    www.cbsnews.com /news/warning-signs-mexico-beach-us-department-of-defense-property/
  • News @lemmy.world

    West Chicago brothers are on the front lines against ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’ And they’re only teenagers.

    archive.ph /qsazc