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I honestly think that the whole Memphis/Colossus debacle is what lead to the datacenter backlash. Before then I'd just hear rumblings from people complaining about bitcoin miners, but data centers in general were not seen as an odious land use.

Then Elon goes to Memphis, buys a warehouse and fires up 30 jet turbines in the parking lot, and you start getting reports about the incessant noise and being able to smell it from 5 miles away.

It seems like there's a fundamental problem with realizing other people have agency and if you fuck them hard enough they will fight back.

> Meta (Instagram) certainly pushes one side in India. I am sure of it.

Watching all the techbros trying to crowd the stage to get in the shot with Modi when he went to SF was a precursor to them all crowding around Trump.

Right so instead of enforcing the ECOA the CFPB will be used by this gangster president to go after institutions that wouldn't do business with his criminal associates

Yet another example if the collapsing rule of law in the American klepostate

Again "debanking" describes a lot of the ECOA violations the CFPB was previously investigating.

We'll see who Trump's CFPB actually stands up for. My guess is that it's not going to be "ordinary people payed in crypto" and entirely Jan 6ers, crypto scammers and criminals who paid the president bribes.

This is a good bet especially because his CFPB has already made an administrative rule change indicating that they will not be enforcing the ECOA anymore.

They did not "ignore debanking." CFPB was responsible for investigating violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which it did vigorously until its rules were rewritten in 2026 to essentially gut the law by agency rulemaking edict.

The whining about "debanking" was in reference to crypto companies that were being tied to illegal transactions, and Jan 6 insurrectionists.

As is typical for this administration, the hard day-in-day-out work of the CFPB has been gutted so regular Americans no longer have protection against predatory financial firms, and instead the agency is being used for a witch hunt against people who were following the actual laws of this country in ways that hurt this president or his friends

I've always used Joker. Never heard anything bad about them or had any problems.

Not a fish but..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

There are far less dangerous dam designes. Again if you read the article or watch the video the weir creates a hydraulic "trap" downstream of it from which escape is essentially impossible.

Many of these weirs are extremely dangerous to swimmers. When I was young there was an incident on a nearby weir (obsolete lowhead dam) where one person got trapped and drowned and then four people who jumped in to rescue him also drowned.

https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machin...

> They shut down model x and s production to retool those Fremont lines for Optimus robots.

Another narrative that also fits the facts is that demand for their cars is so bad that they had to idle the X and S lines at that factory and they used Optimus as an excuse.

If demand was booming they'd set up a new facility to manufacture Optimus rather than dismantling a car factory

This was a "the cybertruck will be a boat" style claim.

Clearly some time between 2018 and now he decided he'd have to actually have it done and ordered his people to make a stunt car with thrusters.

Ok $690k or $4.20M

There's no way he doesn't go for meme pricing on this stunt

A lot of railfans are the same way. I think there's a aspect of on the spectrum style nerds who are really into rule following

Add to that the hall room monitor effect and also the fact that the stakes are rather high for hams (look at what happened to CB radio)

> They're explicitly advertising selling exactly that car

Priced at $420k I imagine.

> Plus, whatever you think of Musk, this is really fucking cool.

Evel Knievel did some cool things at well. In fact he made a rocket car and even flew in it!

He also didn't lie to people and collect deposits promising he'd sell them a rocket car.

Ok I looked this up because I found it very strange.

Inconel would not be a good choice for an automobile frame. Not only is it expensive and heavy it also can be pretty brittle. You want a frame that's strong but ductile so that it will absorb impact energy.

From what I've been able to find, Tesla uses inconel in some battery components. This makes sense because the thing inconel is really good at is staying strong even when very hot. This is why it's used in turbines and jet engines.

This thread points out that inconel is not unused in the automotive world, high-end ICE cars have used it for their exhaust systems. Another advantage of inconel in this application is that it's highly corrosion resistant:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/inconel.50251/

So in summary: Tesla uses inconel where it makes sense to use it (to deal with high heat) and so do other automobile manufactures.

I felt the same way when they were calling the Segway skateboards "hoverboards" and referring to back to the future.

The previous era was "it would be destabilizing to hold this company accountable". This was described in the book The Chickenshit Club

The new era of unaccountability just has a different rationale

Another interesting thing is they don't have to use low level employees as accountability sinks anymore (ex: Wells Fargo). They've managed to automate the accountability sink!

This basically. Change election after change election but nothing changes except the country keeps getting worse and more corrupt.

You can see the same thing playing out in Brazil

Who was? Dyatlov was one of 6 convicted and received a 10 year sentence which was the hardest penalty but he was released in 1990 so he only served maybe 3 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Dyatlov

What he did was not illegal and he was not charged. Four cops came to his house to intimidate him but left when it did not work

It's possible the Azerbaijan/Armenia thing and lack of outcry or attention helped Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, Sudan/Darfur, etc get rolling.

When you have revanchast or expansionist power see another one "get away with it" they think to themselves "now is my time to do some dirty work."

Don't let a guy with a survival bunker decide what "bad things" humanity should accept.

I kinda idealized Marc. Not so much the other ones.

One thing about Marc's biography that I couldn't square: he was supposedly working for NCSA while an undergrad at UofI. My experience as an undergrad is that you could maybe get a guided tour of one of the labs. You may be able to get in the building if your professor worked there or something. The idea that a lab like NCSA would hire an undergrad for anything beyond menial work defies my experience.

Earlier I took it to be that he was such a genius that they decided to Doogie Howser him. But know that we know he's an idiot, that theory doesn't really stand up.

> No attempts to monetize have been made or will be made

I'm disappointed. A true commitment to the bit would involve a shitcoin rugpull or some attempt to frontrun the news of a crisis you manufactured.

The logic for a "small" reactor is that it's one that can rely on passive cooling in the event of a shutdown so that it doesn't have to be actively cooled to avoid a meltdown.

The "modular" part is the idea that you then produce more of them lowering unit cost and install many more than is typical at a site.

This also potentially allows you to have more control of plant energy output and respond faster to grid needs.

Recall that the fukushima meltdown was caused after the cooling failed. The reactor building survived the tsunami and the reactors were shutdown. The problem is the diesel backup generators used to run the coolant pumps were flooded.

I started working in the 2000s.

I assumed that the culture changed at some point between the 1960s when it was normal for a corner office to have a full liquor bar in it (according to mad men) and the 2000s.

After the 1980s I guess

Brand USA was hip during the Obama years.

> 10-15 years ago it was expected you would have 1-2 glasses of wine at lunch as a front office guy / banker while talking shop. Now you will get a trip to HR unless meeting a client or in a place that still allows it.

It's been like this in America for decades. Even places with "beer on tap" the expectation is you don't drink until after the work day. If you were pulling the tab at lunch you'd get a talk from your boss and eventually HR

More Americanization of Europe?