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MrVilliam

@ MrVilliam @sh.itjust.works

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  • Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and prici…

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  • I wouldn't point to power companies as the sole culprits here. These data centers shouldn't be getting approval in the first place based on their power and water demand, but they promise more money and jobs coming to the area and these dipshits keep believing them.

    So long as fuel prices fluctuate, power prices will fluctuate. Some price variation is more for curbing costs than for padding profits. I'm not the guy running those numbers at my power plant, but I see power rates swing with demand and prices/MW. The past few days in VA were pretty demanding on us.

  • Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and prici…

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  • The thing to keep in mind with that 400kWh times 500 cars is that that is the amount of power used over the course of a month, but generated in an hour. My charger at home is set up on the beefiest breaker it can support at 240V 60A (but only using 48A because 80% rule for continuous load) charging at only ~11.5kW. So that 400kWh is trickled out across well over 30 hours.

    It's a good thing that modern homes are electrifying. Rather than exploding things on site at individual homes, we have power plants do that at scale and send the electricity to the homes, which is more efficient. Even better if wind, solar, or hydro are used. Also, modern electric heat pumps are capable of being effectively like 500% efficient since they are manipulating energy spikes of phase change to move heat instead of making it.

    Idk what you mean by your "place" being 16MW. Do you work at a power plant producing that or a data center using that or something else? In any case, the implication is that that 16MW is a rate of power, so at that continuous rate it would be 16MWh (16,000kWh) moved over the course of that hour. 16,000kWh every hour compared to my car needing an extra 11kWh in those hours that I'm plugged in.

    I'd say that 500-1000MW is pretty average for a power plant that isn't wind, solar, or hydro. The nuclear plant I worked at before was 2 units, each about 900MW, so 1800MW total. And that plant was built in the 70s, so imagine what we could be doing with modern nuclear innovations if we would just fucking build some new plants. If we assume each home uses 1000kWh in a month with continuous power usage (unrealistic, but easy math to make a point so let me cook), then that one plant from the 70s can power 54,000 homes. Cut it in half to allow for spikes and that's still 27,000 homes. That plant also just used the bay it was built on for it's circ water system, so it doesn't even impact water use by much. Bay water came in, went through heat exchangers to condense steam, and carried that heat back to the bay where a lot of fish enjoyed the warmer water, and the fishers enjoyed the congregation spot lol.

  • Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and prici…

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  • Electric cars aren't as big of a strain on the grid as big oil and gas would have you believe. Most people charge their car at home at slower speeds (compared to DCFC) and usually overnight when there's less power demand anyway. It's cheaper and more convenient this way, plus it flattens the duck curve which allows more stable and consistent generational load. I have a longer commute than most at about 90 miles round trip, and my monthly power usage is only up by about 300-400kWh/month. Average in VA is about 1100, but I was a bit below that before the EV at around 900-1000, now around 1300. That sounds like a lot but it really isn't. The power plant I operate generally puts out about 700MW, or 700,000kW. At that load, my plant could replenish the same commute as my car's needs for nearly 32,000 cars in only an hour, every hour. My home's entire month of above average power needs is met in an hour of operation... Along with over 500 homes with identical power needs.

    I can't argue with you about revoking incentives for solar and wind. What a stupid fucking move. I'm not going to pretend that putting solar panels on my roof could've ever achieved net zero for my home, but I could've relieved some grid strain during the day while simultaneously investing in cheaper overall energy bills.

    Speaking of cheaper energy bills, the EV also did that for me; electricity bill is $50-60 higher but I now have no reason to stop at a gas pump or pay for oil changes. Before gas prices spiked earlier this year, each commute in my RAV4 cost me about $10 in gas, plus some amount for maintenance that I'll just ignore for now. My commute when charging at home costs closer to $3.50. I'm saving about $100/month on fueling up. A lot of people have told me they'd never get an EV in a million years, and I get that it's not for everybody and I'm not forcing it on anybody, but for anybody with the ability to charge at home and who is generally just doing normal commutes and who is already looking to replace their car, I don't understand the aversion. If cost is the main factor, get a used one like I did since they're about half price, and stop looking at the luxury/sports models. If range anxiety is a factor, it shouldn't be one for most people. I limit my charge to 75% battery to extend my car's battery life, and my commute only drains it to like 30% even while blasting AC, and my car only has a max range of 250 miles when new! I even did a road trip last month and it was fine. I barely did any extra waiting to charge since we were already stopping for food or bathroom breaks anyway, even while my car's shitty 50kW charge rate (most modern cars can do at least 150, some around 350) left us with much longer charge times!

    There's a ton of propaganda against EVs, and it really took getting one for me to see how ridiculous so much of it was. Used ones are gonna get more expensive and harder to find as the truth comes out.

  • The current gaming situation right now

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  • Yeah, that's right when the story really gets going. Remember that scene and binge from there, and I'm sure you're gonna appreciate what the game is about.

  • The current gaming situation right now

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  • Have you finished it yet? It's best played through fairly quickly so you can remember different parts. There are a couple of frustrating encounters, but the story is top notch.

  • When somebody initiates a discussion, and then refuses to engage in said discussion

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  • I don't think that the criteria for what belongs in c/memes should be whether it's still a meme if downloaded and placed somewhere that isn't c/memes. That's like saying "I bought this champagne from France but poured it from its original bottle into another bottle, and now that there's no label designating it as champagne, it was never truly champagne to begin with."

  • When somebody initiates a discussion, and then refuses to engage in said discussion

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  • What if the contextualizing text is the title of the post? Then is the meme template considered a meme?

  • This might even some violate international humanitarian laws

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  • And I will bravely yuck the Nazis' yum.

  • Supreme Court won’t hear Trump’s bid to overturn Carroll sexual abuse verdict

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  • I hope his estate is forced to pay when he's no longer alive to fight this.

  • When somebody initiates a discussion, and then refuses to engage in said discussion

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  • A little pedantic, but fine. This one then?

  • When somebody initiates a discussion, and then refuses to engage in said discussion

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  • Ain't nobody headed to c/memes to see a fucking high five

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  • Mamdani connects primary victory to his party's past

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  • We didn't give tens of millions of people medical coverage; we forced tens of millions of people to buy medical insurance or else pay a tax penalty. I'm glad that it was at a discounted rate, but given the choice between paying for nothing or paying for shitty insurance, the decision was easy, but a lot of people really struggled to make ends meet as a result and it shouldn't have put additional strain on those families.

    The Biden moments were also good but ultimately half measures. Railroads should've been nationalized, cannabis should've been legalized, and student loans and absurdly priced tuitions should've been massively reformed.

    I'm glad to have seen something that wasn't just more horror on those topics, but they're a far cry from what The New Deal did for people.

  • ‘Thinking He Can Fool Everyone,’ Newsom Backs One Billionaires Tax But Not Another | “The misdirect here is that Newsom is opposing a WEALTH tax on billionaires in his own state and insisting he supp…

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  • I'm not interested in catering to anybody's feelings. It's just not necessarily a slam dunk win to run AOC in a national race with the electoral college in place to ensure conservatives and neoliberals keep power. Maybe once the boomers die off. Maybe if the electoral college were abolished. Until then, it's extremely risky, and it'd be foolish not to recognize that.

    As for the xenophobes, that messaging isn't necessary; the xenophobic fascist won the presidency. They're never gonna vote for a brown woman with a name that's hard to pronounce.

  • ‘Thinking He Can Fool Everyone,’ Newsom Backs One Billionaires Tax But Not Another | “The misdirect here is that Newsom is opposing a WEALTH tax on billionaires in his own state and insisting he supp…

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  • As much as I love AOC, I'm worried that there are too many people nationwide that are racist, sexist, ageist, and/or anti-leftist enough to be rabidly against her, especially with the target that right wing media unfairly paints on her. I'll vote my ass off for her, but there's a big difference between winning her congressional seat or even NY Senate seat vs an electoral college win when we already know that TX and FL will never pick her over any R. I don't even think she'd have a shot at PA, GA, or OH. She might get AZ and NV.

    I would love to see her on the debate stage, but I think the most realistic, successful path for her is to take Schumer's Senate seat for a term and then run for president, lose in the primary, but be part of that cabinet, maybe even VP. Or maybe she goes after NY Governor to prove executive leadership before running for president. She's proven herself to us, but we're a relatively small demographic.

  • Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’

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  • Maybe you're a capitalist, but I'm no capitalist. I sell my time and labor for vouchers to cover my food and housing. A capitalist owns my power plant and pays me to run it. But when the AI bubble bursts and the market crashes because it was glued to that bubble and power demand plummets from these data centers shutting down, that same capitalist who pays me will be demanding a bailout because deep down, they also want some level of socialism too. We all just want a safety net, and it's fucking stupid to pretend that it's holding us back to have that.

    Eat shit, capitalists.

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    Jeffries says he hopes Democrats remember after primaries ‘enemy is Donald Trump’

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  • I hoped that Jeffries would remember that, but here we are, talking about wanting his feckless loser ass to resign, and it's because he fucking sucks at standing up to the enemy. Get out of the fucking way, Hakeem. You're a shitty Obama impression, and he was a half-measure president who shouldn't have compromised.

  • Dems Must Talk Seriously About Supreme Court Expansion

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  • Easy. 330 million. Everybody is a scotus justice. "Oh no, we can't do that!" Why the fuck not? Everything becomes a popular vote, direct democracy referendum? Sounds great. "The people need leaders"? Bullshit. The "leaders" have had their chance and they've led us to ruin. "The people will be manipulated into voting wrong!" And that's different from corrupt politicians how? At least my way requires a majority to be duped and not just a handful of people to be bought.

    I'm kidding, but I'm also kinda not.

  • Senate Republicans reverse Iran war powers vote after Trump berates them at Capitol meeting

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  • His rabid fans started turning on him over higher gas prices caused by this stupid war. They could win those rabid fans over by confronting trump on this issue. He's 80 with one foot in the grave; if they can't grow a spine now, they never will.

  • Senate Republicans reverse Iran war powers vote after Trump berates them at Capitol meeting

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  • Imagine being intimidated by an 80 year old fucking moron with shit in his pants. What a bunch of clown ass cowards.

    Also, I thought this wasn't a war, and also isn't it over?