Congress is all about "think of the troops" when increasing the defense budget (its a lie, I know), but as soon as the troops mildly inconvenience their corporate overlords its just fuck the troops.
Be nice to Israel while they continue breaking the ceasefire agreement sweaty
That's my feeling as well. I doubt they'd risk a full on invasion without an extensive air campaign first. In which case it's be pretty grim for Cuba as they have no modern anti-air systems as far a I know.
A very serious economy you've got there
My economic diplomacy vs. their economic terrorism
I'm pretty sure things are going to go down the subscription route for most of these things anyway, if they aren't already on one. Just more SaaS on top of already existing SaaS.
Lol, thats cringe. Also still has a weird fucked up angel at the front. Then again maybe its biblically accurate, or what AI thinks is
Ummm... yeah. A doctor. Red Cross... And is that Epstien?
I figured I'd check a couple of alternatives since they (at least the big tech companies) all make these changes more or less at the same time. Like back when they decided to change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
Edit: Oh... even zooming in the towns don't appear on Apple Maps. Wow.
People joke that Germany copied America's homework (Manifest Destiny, Nazisim), but now they're even copying the inability to build/maintain infrastructure?
I'm not entirely sure, but I'm checking on Google Maps and at the same zoom level it seems about the same. Although I noticed you have to zoom in quite a lot to get the names of towns to populate vs. Israeli towns.
Edit: Was able to upload the third screenshot zoomed in so that Lebanese towns populate. Added one last one from OpenMaps for comparison.spoiler
Remember folks, America is above corruption and money has no influence on public policy. This is democracy baby!
Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend "hundreds of billions of dollars" to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating "superintelligence." The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple domains. This is something of a holy grail for Silicon Valley tech types.
The first center is called Prometheus and it comes online next year. It's being built in Ohio. Next up, there's a data center called Hyperion that's almost the size of Manhattan. This one should "be able to scale up to 5GW over several years." Some of these campuses will be among the largest in the world, as most data centers can only generate hundreds of megawatts of capacity.
Meta has also been staffing up its Superintelligence Labs team, recruiting folks from OpenAI, Google's DeepMind and others. Scale AI's co-founder Alexandr Wang is heading up this effort.
However, these giant data centers do not exist in a vacuum. The complexes typically brush up against local communities. The centers are not only power hogs, but also water hogs. The New York Times just published a report on how Meta data centers impact local water supplies.
There's a data center east of Atlanta that has damaged local wells and caused municipal water prices to soar, which could lead to a shortage and rationing by 2030. The price of water in the region is set to increase by 33 percent in the next two years.
Typical data centers guzzle around 500,000 gallons of water each day, but these forthcoming AI-centric complexes will likely be even thirstier. The new centers could require millions of gallons per day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times. Mike Hopkins, the executive director of the Newton County Water and Sewerage Authority, says that applications are coming in with requests for up to six millions of water per day, which is more than the county's entire daily usage.
“What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth,” he said. “We just don’t have the water.”
This same worrying story is playing out across the country. Data center hot spots in Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and Colorado are also taxing local water reserves. For instance, some Phoenix homebuilders have been forced to pause new constructions due to droughts exacerbated by these data centers.
Guess Brian Thompson didn't bring his moral vest to his visit to NYC. Oh wait, that's right. He never had one because his job is to be immoral for the sake of chasing the fantastical ever growing profit margin.
Rest in power, Comrade Castro
I'll allow myself to get hyped just this once. Funny thing is I've recently been thinking of rewatching season 1.
The piggies can show their ink now? Wonder what sort of interesting ink they've been hiding
Banning Russia from team sports and making individual athletes go through a 2 year vetting process. Not political
Russia hosting its own international sports competition after the Olympics. Political
Right up there with bragging about being able to hack into CCTVs in Iran only to then panic and start taking down webcams when Iran showed they were able to do the same.