That is because to be the most efficient they have to constantly adjust the deadzone temperature. Its not just monitoring but active control. This is based on local air temperature, humidity and stock levels. To be even more efficient they put a thousand fridges online so that a small team can do the work of a much larger local team.

So the real reason is that to increase profit margins, they consolidated lots of workers behind a few and did this via the internet. A common story the world over.

Yes, we know it was called the The South American Blackout of 2019.

The temporarily embarrassed millionaires will never have that dream fulfilled but they can finally become bed ridden masters of chips. What a waste.

Couldn’t they find a picture of earth? I mean the Deep Space Climate Observatory takes a photo of a single side of the planet every hour or so.

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

Yep… That tracks. Why is it that almost always the bastards who get to the top. I mean, I know why but it still sucks.

It might have its issues but what about Wetherspoons?

Oh I am naughty… Might be using some RAM right now 😉

You know in a small way they probably do. Nothing raises nationalistic pride quicker than an attack on the home land. They can yern for the good old days of 15 flags on the front porch while rabidly defending the Raytheon powered death cult raining down on the middle east.

slop@home

I don’t eat meat but will consider giving that up briefly to a fine Bezos steak with some Altman jus.

… ewwww. I need a shower after that.

Wolves are tired of the forests and year to frolic in the cities.

A big part of this is Nvidia twisting their arms. “Buy this many billion dollars of GPU’s or we cut you out of future GPU purchases. This way we can both look like hyperscalers.”.

Intel used to do that same thing to OEM’s. Force them to buy junk like Pentium D chips so that they could have priority access to Core 2 Duo/Quads of the time.

This was the idea of Sun Microsystems ‘Sun Ray’ desktop in the late 90’s.

A thin terminal that ran almost entirely on the network. Maybe this is why Ellison ended up buying them all those years ago.

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

A few years back I opened MS paint on Windows 98 only to see that it was using 22KB of RAM. It was then only expand based on how big the picture was. Oh how spoiled we were.

I also remember when I worked on PC restoration in about 2007 running Firefox on a PC with 128MB of RAM, yeah to a took a long while to start up but once it was all settle, that thing ran smooth.

How much rent do these folks take up in their minds that they have to concoct these kinds and things and put the effort into make this stuff?

Credit to them, doesn’t look like they used AI, and now they can justify their search history for folks in drag. ;)

Well there is the policy of… ummm… let me get back to you on that.

The scary thing is how well it works on some people.

Ha, now that is a fun predicament.

I have a friend that had a daughter a few years back, he regretted it from day 1 as he basically lost his old life and wasn’t a fan of his new one. He has hated it at worst, tolerated it at best for the last few years. And yet, he has said to me “I think I am going insane, I hate ever moment of this… so why do I want another kid?!”

A lot of close friends with kids all say the same thing, they love their kids and they take great care of them, but if they knew then what they know now and could go back in time, they would make sure it would never happen.

One couple had their third about 2 years back and made sure that they would not have a forth because they were already financial strained. About 6 months after their third was born we were out and the mother turn to the father and says “I really want a forth now!” a brief pause then “And that is why past me was smart because past me stopped me from doing that.”

Biology is gonna do its thing.

I think it makes for a nice hot take but it need some nuance.

Personally, I am not against kids at all but I am against kids within this system. It seems like for many when they think “Yay kids!” That is as far as the thinking goes, unaware that 20 years later those kids will be welcomed into the daily grind as just another meat cog for the machine. Again this is personally, others don’t have this concern and I am sure many can easily justify it.

The “no kids FU billionaires” is that same “yay kids” attitude flipped. It is an extreme end on a valid issue.

The reason why billionaires are starting to get very interested in the demographic and population issues is because they know that it will spell trouble for their power structure, it is the same reason why they are cuddling up to any authoritarian leaning government as a means to try and cling to power. So a knee jerk reaction is to feed into their fear, it can be fun, but short sighted.

Is this what they mean by ‘Line must go up’? 😕