I suppose to be fair when it comes to data centres the NIMBYs are probably right.

Scott Manley did a video about this, and it's not quite so half baked.

Teams works?

Seriously, Teams is one of the worst bits of software I have ever used. It seems like it was designed to be unspeakably awful in every way. It's quite remarkable that they made it quite so shitty.

I haven't used Element, but I'd be surprised if it was somehow worse. Teams is like the absolute zero of usability, I don't think you can go lower than that without breaking the laws of physics.

GPUs usually have a serial number as well. They will ban not just your CPU, but also your GPU, and probably any USB device with a serial number as well.

TPM 2.0 includes rate limiting, and in most cases now it is actually an fTPM built into the CPU which is even more secure. This 45 minute brute force attack doesn't work.

Secureboot is not a sandbox. It is a certificate chain that validates that the OS bootloader, kernel, and basic drivers have not been tampered with. Malware used to replace the NTFS drive in Windows so that anti-virus software couldn't delete its files, and it effectively sandboxed the whole OS by controlling what it could see on the disk. That became impossible once Secure Boot was enabled, because the NTFS driver had to be signed with the Microsoft key.

If you care about security, you can use the same measure to make sure your Linux OS hasn't been tampered with. You can load your own key and sign your own kernel too, it's a mandatory requirement of Secure Boot.

The problem on Earth is mostly NIMBYs, and also a bit the time it takes to set up new electricity supplies.

It looks like the cost to orbit is going to decrease substantially, and solar up there can cover all the power needs 24/7, and so far Space NIMBYs have not had much effect on those mega constellations.

But after 10 million compute hours it's still setting up the board.

In 2026 you can just say democrats. We don't have to pretend the Republican party or anything else but batshit crazy religious lunatics and fascist psychopaths anymore. The Democratic party isn't perfect but we are so far past both sides bad at this point that you can just say Democrats and we aren't going to get upset. This isn't 1993 we don't have to pretend partisanship matters anymore.

As for the Democrats fixing shit not a chance. Not because they aren't going to try but because holy living mother of Christ where the hell do you begin? They are going to have their hands full, assuming Trump ever leaves office, just trying to keep everything from collapsing. And in 2 years the dipshit voters who put a pedophile rapist in the white house twice are going to vote Republican because the Democrats won't have fixed every single fucking problem in their lives that they caused by voting Republican.

70% of baby boomers voted for Trump and 65% of the older Gen x voted for him. There are days when I'm not at my kindest and I really wish the Boomer remover had done its job. I also wish the American left Wing would stop blowing off young men and calling them small dick mediocre rapists... It would be really nice if the left wing would stop bitching about patriarchy long enough to remember that not every single dude on the planet is a fucking rapist pedophile and that maybe they ought to do something about the fucking economy and jobs or at least mention it in passing in between blurting out dumb shit like defund the police and then having to spend 30 minutes explaining what the fuck that means to nobody in particular

Basically the center is too busy trying to fix the messes caused by the right wing and the left are too busy playing around with their dumb hobby bullshit. We don't have a chance of breaking up any of the trusts.

Although private equity is made the healthcare system bad enough that the doctors who have real money and real time for lobbying or starting to step in because it's affecting them directly.

Because there's less choice every year. They don't have to care about what you want or what you think. Because it's so much easier to just be the only game in town and if you don't like it well you can't even go fuck off to the mountains because they own that land too.

I remember reading a post from a guy who moved from super liberal Oregon to the land of the free that is Texas expecting it to be a lot cooler because there would be less government regulation and he'd be able to do all the cool stuff he wanted to do like drive his ATVs and go hunting and shit. Only to find out that any of the land worth doing any of that on was already owned by other people with a lot more money than him and there was fuck all for him to do in Texas. You didn't have to worry about following the rules when you were out in a public park because there weren't any. At least not the kind he was used to it from Oregon.

I guess what I'm trying to get out here is you don't realize what you lost until it's gone. We lost antitrust law enforcement and we still haven't realized what we lost...

They used to say this about gay people too, but in fact in both cases there is a biological cause.

In fact it would be odd if transgender people didn't exist, given that conditions where part of the body develops as the opposite sex to the rest of it are far from unheard of in humans. The idea that the brain would somehow be excluded has no scientific basis.

Has the "it was worse 1000 years ago" line every worked on anyone?

True. It's never just one bigotry.

We put completely incompetent pedophiles in charge of the military. We all knew it was a bad idea but 77 million of us did it anyway and about 7 million of us were denied the right to vote so we couldn't overrule the 77 million who thought it was a good idea to have a pedophile in the White House.

The guy running the US military was literally chosen because he was the only candidate who would not rule out ordering US troops to fire on American citizens on American soil.

Republicans know this is bad news but they don't care because the identity is worth everything to them. They gave up their families and their friends and their significant others for the Republican party so they're in way too deep to turn around now.

The one he was grooming to be his protege turned out to be transgender, and thus started Musk's descent into transphobia. It's not clear if he was always quietly transphobic, or if he just can't stand the thought of his designated successor being a woman.