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I can pay $28 for 36 rolls of 3 ply 255 sheets per roll (quilted northern) or $27 for 45 rolls of 2 ply 473 sheets per roll (pom) at Sam’s Club

I quite liked Battlefield 1 and Battlefront II :(

But is it a crime to get a cat baked? 🤔

Using his wolf like fangs, unrelated to werewolves, he bites gingerly, slowly, cautiously, gently, carefully, methodically, sluggishly, and ever so gradually into your neck as he claims you for generations to come, in more ways than one

It’s shocking how many confederate flags there are in what was such a pro-union state

A complicated question to answer, I doubt anybody would have a definitively correct answer to it.

The answer is probably both really. It’s not like the internet has just stopped expanding and everything is going into AI now. But AI takes up an unproportional amount of the computational power. A data center can house servers for hundreds of different companies or even individuals, all doing different things with them. An AI data center can be dedicated to one singular company who rents out the entire space for hundreds of servers purely for AI.

Much like it’d be difficult to count every human on earth, there will probably never be a definitive number on how much is dedicated to AI. However, a study by the Electric Power Research Institute in 2024 estimated that between 10-20% of data center power consumption came from AI.

That seems relatively low, until you consider that 10-20% is compared to the 80-90% of power that goes towards literally everything else across the entire internet, and it keeps going up rapidly. For every 8-9 servers used for accounting data, sales records, research, communication networks, streaming services, security systems, medical records, multiplayer game servers, automated factory processes, and everything else in the world that computers handle, there are 1-2 servers dedicated ENTIRELY to JUST AI. And the proportion going to AI just keeps going up.

Imagine if among every single factory in the world, 10-20% of them were dedicated to producing nothing but ping pong paddles, and that percent just keeps going up, the growth of ping pong paddle production outpacing the growth of every single other product in the world that comes from a factory. What the fuck do we need that many ping pong paddles for? Are the ping pong paddles really doing enough to justify this massive resource sink??

Data centers are actually useful for a lot of things, handling traffic to websites, storing records, academic research, and whatnot. There’s a very good chance your medical records are distributed across various data centers.

AI is absolutely not one of those useful things, and is a big driving factor for the rapid expansion of new data centers which are sucking up so many valuable resources for something so useless. Data centers are not bad, AI data centers are bad

Your soul would still be owned by the devil in the meantime, whatever that implies

I think Alderaan would like to disagree

Wait I thought they were just talking about butter on a poptart as a joke…

My tiny dog is shockingly not like this

Quiet, very rarely barks, first instinct when meeting a new person is to roll over for belly rubs, and quite smart and well behaved all round

Best dog I could’ve asked for

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

It’s not like there aren’t other disposable cups used, but yeah, very common

But think of all the supposed swing voters that they’re winning over

Any day now they’ll start voting blue, I’m sure of it

Any day…

My dad taught me to score them. I find it strange, scoring them prevents the supposed thief from being able to get the tag off cleanly, so they wouldn’t want to apply it to their car because it’d look sketchy?

Unlike your totally normal and not at all now damaged and sketchy looking tags?

Quit paying unfair taxes to the crown

I assume that

1. based on age

2. fake

The unnecessary big red circle is the crux of all human souls

He probably didn’t even zoom in on it and immediately called BS assuming it was heavily maintained due to the spacing, I don’t think you can call that a “gotcha”

Going to jail as a poor person means you lose your job

Going to jail as a rich person apparently gets you a promotion

Interesting