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Manjushri

@ Manjushri @piefed.social

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  • New Study Confirms Medicare for All Would Save 114,000 Lives and more than $1 Trillion a Year

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  • I'm pretty sure that's just a blip, a temporary roadblock on capitalism's path in those places. It'll only last until the right, or rather, the wrong people gain political power in those regions -- something that capitalists work towards endlessly. Once some morally flexible political elements gain power, the wealthy who put put those elements in place, will simply bribe them into deregulating everything they can which will allow capitalism to run its natural course.

    Things looked pretty good in the USA for a long time too. Then the capitalists started supporting political candidates that convinced the public that the very regulations that protected people and the environment were really bad things that were hurting people. They got voters to believe that deregulation would allow everyone to be millionaires and everything would be puppies and butterflies forever.

    We all know what deregulation really led to, of course. But as the saying goes, it's far easier to fool a person than it is to convince them they've been fooled. Getting people to admit they were fooled, especially against an endless barrage of propaganda from the capitalists, has been seemingly impossible. The fools, supported by their capitalist masters, are clinging to power and blocking all efforts to fix our problems. Probably because if the problems do get fixed, it'll be the final proof that the fools were fooled in the first place, and they can't allow that. They'd rather live out their days in squalor, breathing poison until they finally lay down in the graves they've dug for us all.

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    Flatmeat is all tuckered out after her first full day of doing nothing

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  • First of all, glad you're both alive despite your apparent poor decision making skills. Second, nothing? She did nothing? You are mistaken. She has been up to crime for the last day or longer. I can tell by looking... no. Must stop looking... or... may try... to... adopt...

  • feel really sad now.

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  • but oh boy was I fucking pissed.

    Sounds like you're still fucking pissed. Good for you. You should still be pissed.

  • A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

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  • Lol. Those flock cameras must be sending out a recognizable signal, right? Link this to a detector and it could automatically hide your plate when a camera is in range and then flip it back when. You leave range.

  • “Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes”

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  • You suggest that the main party candidates can't be?

  • Study: Male circumcision just after birth does not increase autism risk

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  • I can imagine. The only reason people think it's okay to do to infants is that they cannot complain about it at the time.

  • Study: Male circumcision just after birth does not increase autism risk

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  • The HPV vaccine is way more effective. Did you give you that?

  • Study: Male circumcision just after birth does not increase autism risk

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  • I like any kind of dick, but I still don't approve of pointless cosmetic surgery on infants. If he wants to be circumcised, let him grow up and decide for himself.

  • U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of minor

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  • Of two sexual predators. See my other post in this thread.

  • U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of minor

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  • Wait, is this her son with the man she married after he pulled his dick out in front of minors, including the then 17-year-old Bobert, in a bowling alley?

    It appears that might not be the only thing about Jayson that Rep. Boebert doesn’t want the public to know. In January 2004, when Jayson Boebert was 24, he was arrested for exposing himself to two young women at a Colorado bowling alley. His future wife Lauren Roberts (as she was then known), who was 17 at the time, was also present and was told she was no longer welcome at the bowling alley.

    Jayson Boebert pled guilty to “public indecency and lewd exposure” after that incident, according to The New York Post, and was sentenced to four days in jail with a subsequent two years on probation.

  • What level of cat fighting is "normal"?

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  • As others have said, cat fights are noisy. When your two cats fight, what does it sound like? Is it generally silent with some huffing and thuds as bodies hit the floor? If so, that is most likely just play fighting. If there is hissing and growling, then someone is pissed. If there is screaming and yowling, then you're staring down the barrel of a vet bill.

    Which situation you are in determines how to respond. If it's quiet, let them play. Keep the squirt bottle handy and only use it if tempers start to rise and someone growls or hisses. As someone else mentioned in this thread, you want their interactions to be positive. Don't squirt unless someone is getting pissed off.

    If they are growling and hissing at the start, then you need to separate them again and start over. As the goal is to make them like each other, try to put them where they can smell and interact. Something like a large dog crate might work as long as they are not both starting fights. The aggressor cannot start fights unless the second cat comes within reach. This allows them to see and maybe sniff each other while minimizing the chance one will hurt the other.

    While separated, or when loose but being chill and not fighting, give a little treat to each. Make sure it is something really tasty that they both like. Give first to the older cat, and then to the new cat. You don't want your old cat thinking the new cat is getting better treatment. If they are not physically separated, take care not to let them get in a fight over the treat. For example, pick up your older cat and give them a treat on a counter or something. Then set them down, pick up the other cat and repeat. Do it this way until you are sure the treat won't start a fight.

    When you give the treats, make sure that they can both see the other get the treat. Also, nobody ever gets a treat unless everyone gets one. That way, if you're consistent and maybe a bit lucky, they will start to associate the presence of the other cat with the treats and not with getting in fights. Do not give any treats to anyone if there was a fight of some sort in the recent past. You don't want to risk them associating treats with fighting.

    Good luck!

  • New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

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  • I concede that my grasp of the scale involved was unrealistic. However, I don't see a viable solution. The issue, I have realized, isn't how to generate the power, it's the scale of power needed to run these data center monstrosities.

    As you say, 7.65 gigawatts is a lot of power. According to ERCOT, Texas just set a new record for power demand in July of 91gw. So this plant, built to supply this one data center complex, will produce power equal to 8.5% as much power as the entire state of Texas required at peak demand this year (so far, anyway). 8.5% of peak demand for the entire state of Texas which, by the way, is the largest energy consuming state. Texas uses about 15% of the total power generated in the entire USA according to EAI.gov.

    So if solar and wind (with batteries, of course) would be very challenging, it is at least vaguely possible. Texas is a great state for wind, solar, and geothermal power. It already generates about 30% of it's power from renewables. Texas has a lot of sunny days and a lot of open spaces for wind farms particularly in the western parts of the state. I can think of worse ideas than covering all those oil fields with solar panels or wind farms. You wouldn't even need to stop producing oil. You can do both.

    Nuclear really isn't viable. Starting the approval process now, it would easily be 20 years before a new plant would start producing power. No one is waiting two decades to open their data center.

    The only other option to power these data centers, the one they are going with, is fossil fuels. That means multiplying the amount of toxic and greenhouse gasses being pumped into our air which is the absolute worst option for everyone on the planet.

  • New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

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  • You're not wrong. One of the newest reactors to come on line is reactor 3 at Plant Vogtle in GA. After as much as 5 years for the approval process, the reactor broke ground in 2009 and didn't start producing power until 2023. That's just shy of 2 decades from start to finish. As much as my wind and solar idea is flawed, nuclear is as much of a non-starter. These folks may want to open their data center a little sooner than 2045.

  • Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules

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  • Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules

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  • Some government leaders signed nondisclosure agreements early in the process

    How can this be even remotely legal. You work for the public you cannot reasonably be held to an NDA that requires you to not tell your BOSS what you're fucking doing!

  • New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

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  • Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to just put solar panels all over the buildings and parking lots, and maybe some surrounding fields, and an array of batteries to run off of at night? Maybe add some wind mills too, seeing as Texas generates a tremendous amount of power with wind already.

  • After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move…

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  • Utilities should, of course, be priced at the cost to generate, maintain, and distribute the resource. But this is America, home of rampant capitalism. Thus, profit is king. That means utility prices depend on supply and demand.

    Data centers use so much power that it creates a resource scarcity. So the utility company raises the price per unit that electricity is sold for in those markets.

    Everyone's bill goes up when data centers are allowed in and shareholder profits skyrocket. Since the shareholders are happy, the powers that be are usually unwilling to address the problem as it is only the peons suffering.

    It's actuality a little surprising that the government is trying to address the problem in this case.

  • Domestic Sisyphus

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  • Habit and expectation can be powerful things. Also, our brains often fills in what we expect to see. A quick, peripheral glance at the toilet while expecting to see it in one state (seat down, lid up, for example) could leave one thinking they did see it in that state when in fact they didn't get a proper look at it.

  • Domestic Sisyphus

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  • We keep the lids down on our toilets to keep the dogs and cats out of them. Never seen mold growing on them at all. We have plastic, slow-close lids though. Maybe regular lids are more prone to that?