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  • I recently watched a video about the first electronic synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and was housed in the basement of an entire city block in NYC. Several decades later, and it would fit in a suitcase, with far more functionality. It worked, but it was huge and unwieldly, to the point of being completely impractical. It needed to wait until the technology caught up to it, and made it a truly viable instrument, and not just a concept.

    Data Centers are like that 1897 synthesizer. It works, sure, but at what cost? It’s expensive in every way, from the building costs, the energy costs, the environmental costs, etc. We have a concept and a prototype, but not a truly viable product yet. Maybe in a decade or two, with a proper goal in mind, we can get there, but right now, Data Centers are just that big, dumb synthesizer that takes up a city block.











  • Herbs.

    Grow a pot, or a clump, of chives, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, and a bunch of different hot peppers from jalapenos on up to really hot ones.

    Those spices will make the stuff you do cook at home taste much better, especially being fresh. Some of them, like chives and thyme, will come back next year. Stick them on a pot, and pring them in over the winter. Also, grow a LOT of basil. It grows slowly, and you can use a lot of it.


  • It’s worse than that. I’m my area, they found that the company that manages the cameras had timed them to film a little longer than the yellow, so they were capturing a small, but significantly higher number of fraudulent violations.

    Then when they added cameras to school zone signs, it was found that they activated outside of the official school zones, also giving them a huge profit windfall.

    These companies are predatory and parasitic, and EVERY time they do this stuff, they manage to make a mistake that benefits them, at our expense.