AlcieToo

Can anyone explain exactly what purpose data centers serve, outside of holding ram to support chat bots, agents and manage manufactured engagement on social media?
Why is the computing power we had prior to the insistence that these physical warehouses of computing chips, manifesting health and wellbeing concerns for communities who house them, not adequate?
What benefit does society gain from building these all over?
Explain to me like I'm a child in 3rd grade.

My kid got an Ascended Heroes god pack in the spring and this Gengar looked super clean so I risked sending it to PSA on June 18th.
I just got it back today. Haven't shown him yet because he's playing a little league game, but he will be super psyched.
Going to put it in a mystery pack for him to reveal to himself. His first PSA 10 he pulled himself. Yay!

The Russian data centers and subsequent bot farms destroyed by @ZelenskyyUa have returned us to the beginnings of COVID.
That peaceful time during lockdowns where nature returned, people learned how to make sourdough bread and were generally kind to one another, cheering on humanity through the darkness.
Thank you for the peace. Even though it won't last forever.

I thought my intrinsic need to be technically correct about almost everything was extreme. Some of you have way too much free time that you feel like you have to be right about even the smallest of things.

Damage to data centers in Russia has also exposed the astronomical number of people who have absolutely zero understanding of how banking and crypto operationally function.

Perhaps we will make it the next 3 weeks without opinions from the static and things will return to normal for a moment.

You don't know me...
You don't know me...
You don't know me......

Friday vibes in a crazy world.

How do all of you have so much energy to go out into the world and achieve things?
And I'm over here just trying to live.

Hard to find peace with everything going on in the world.

4am seems to be the time my brain likes to dump all of the traumatic things that have happened in my life into a REM stage processing event so I can physically experience all of that shit again while I'm sleeping.

"My daughter wouldn't put herself in that position."
Bet.
Why do we have to teach our daughters not to put themselves "in that position" instead of teaching them, and our sons, to just not take advantage of people in precarious situations?
Be better.

For those of you who have a difficult time understanding consent, here's a short video to help.
The part starting at 1:20 helps explain what to do if someone is unconscious when you try to offer them tea and what you should do in that situation.

Is there a limit on the number of accounts you can mute and block here? I feel like I should be hitting some sort of limit soon. 🤔

You told us to make women strong willed, mindful and able to protect themselves.
Gen-Z women are the result of "girl power".
Now you are offended that they are so easily able to discern who is a creep or not and reject them outright, and that is an issue?
Maybe don't be a creep.
You are the thing we taught our girls to protect themselves against.

Some posters are very knowledgeable and doing work that is needed.
Those findings should be in an article, not a massive post or thread.
If you can't communicate your thoughts or findings clearly in 180 words or less you will lose the attention of your audience.

You were my world for a season.
Magic that enflamed my soul,
Launched it to the cosmos
And watched it descend back down
To the cool blues of the ocean.
You were the smile that graced my lips,
Secretive. Certain. Knowing.
Wrapping around my heart.
Keeping me warm from the coldness of existence.
You were my reason some nights,
For continuity and sanity,
Belonging and safety.
Then there was silence,
Pain. A type of death.
Of self. Of want. Of need.
And sadness, because I knew you were hurting and hiding and questioning.
Sending yourself into a mental space which compounded your feelings