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  • So, I've seen this "centibillionaire" title a few times, but I believe it should be hecto(a?)billionaire if I have my metric prefixes correct.

    E.g. a centimeter is a hundredth of a meter, so a hundredth of a billion is 10mil.

    Shout-out to !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

    Or maybe I'm out of the loop on the joke.

  • Because he can't see past correlation to causation.

    ... Not that any sane person actually expected better, of course.

    But the fact he's caving on auto manufacturing tariffs means he is correctable. A good, if meager signal. Although, I can't imagine how many showers I'd need to feel ok about whatever I had to say to or do to sway him.

    On second thought, fuck those corpos too. They're not doing it for the right reasons either. If it happens to protect a few jobs in the short term, then good, I suppose. But I don't for a second expect there won't also be layoffs to further pad executive bonuses in the name of "shareholder value".

  • Here's what I sent my rep:

    Congressman Panetta,

    As a constituent, I find the so-called "Take it Down" act terrifying especially in light of the President's casual mention of personal use during his address to the joint meeting.

    I have not seen any indication on your position as yet, but please actively campaign against it, and pressure our close neighbors Ro Khanna and Jim Costa, who are on the record supporting it to withdraw their support.

    The only use this bill has for the authors is to limit freedom of speech and press.

  • Fire dragon here and yeah, sometimes Google won't even let me log in either.

  • Why don't they have free will?

  • I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Here's our gray cat making our pup feel trapped.

  • Do we now pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the republic crumbling in his hands?

  • How about: there's no difference between actually free will and an infinite universe of infinite variables affecting your programming, resulting in a belief that you have free will. Heck, a couple million variables is more than plenty to confuddle these primate brains.

  • So what I'm hearing is that peanuts and vitamins are gonna be cheaper?

    And all it costs is several thousand lives in countries most Americans couldn't pick out on a map, and a bunch of anxiety for peanut farmers.

    What a great deal. Nobody could have made a better, more Christ-like deal.

  • Seems satisfactory to me.

  • To a significant extent, they do, contracting for construction of generation and transmission (very often renewable), at least at the largest scale.

    But, it's (mostly) all on the grid.

    With demand like that, it's not like there isn't significant negotiation with the local power company, especially because they're frequently built a significant distance from existing large power infrastructure.

    Heck, all the big 3 cloud providers signed deals for nuclear generation in the last few months. https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powered-data-center

    Here's just one more article about these sorts of investments: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/google-has-a-20b-plan-to-build-data-centers-and-clean-power-together

  • Further evidence that the only thing the Elon has is money. Not an original thought in there.

    That makes Trump the actor on third-hand thoughts.

    Such power.

  • I'm five drinks in and this is still what jumped out.

  • Today, yeah, I'll push my rep to vote for her in 2026. Goodness knows he won't be...

  • Oh, I know.

  • Cops of Lemmy?

    I assume so, but obviously I hope not...

  • It's a science at this point.

  • This particular photo makes me think he did the "grin and bear it" so long he forgot what smiling feels like, so now he has to inflict that on the world.

  • The first photo when I Google the guy isn't all that far off...