@GemAlarm@lemmy.world Sent you a PM.

what did I do?

They’re paying for every kilowatt-hour they use, same as us. They are just a different ‘class’ of ratepayer (i.e. a bigger customer). The reason prices go up is not entirely just because of demand, but because there’s not enough supply, and the prices go up to cover for the cost to build it. The way I understand it is that some board has to decide how to distribute the increase in rates across their customers in order to meet the extra revenue, and the higher classes of ratepayers know that if their rate went up, that would be millions lost. So they hire lobbyists to convince the grid company to shift the cost to residential tax payers, and since neither you are me is going to march to the electric company and demand a fairer distribution, they end up shifting ‘some’ of it to us.

There was an article I read a while ago that kind of explained it. Basically, the increased datacenter demand forces the grid operator to build more capacity, which requires money. I think there are meetings where they decide how it is distributed across all their corporate and resident ratepayers. Basically the lobbyists argue that the since this new capacity technically benefits rate payers in the form of more capacity, they should take a share of it. Even though none of us are actually going to be using that capacity…

And it doesn’t help at all that the grid companies are monopolies

Maybe I can add but not all GPUs of the same model are built the same. Some are built without fuses and other protection circuits and could fail earlier. Northwestrepair makes videos about these GPUs taking about some of the different manufacturers. Maybe join his discord if you want to get more info?

The actual non-AI article about the dam: https://www.axpo.com/ch/en/energy/generation-and-distribution/solar-power/alpinsolar.html

Here are some images of the dam sourced from Axpo encoded from 117MiB to 626 KiB (720p AVIF)

this comment should be at the top. My dumbass didn’t realize this was an AI image

I encoded the actual images down in another comment

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• necrophilia (if target process is not dead, program kills it)

Oh man

And then once you reach that level you realize the item is trash

This hits close to home since my dog actually escaped the Chinese meat market. As far as I’m aware it’s actually a big problem over there. They were owned by an (assuming) wealthy family then stolen and sold. They were part of the batch that were seized / stolen back (tbh I’m fuzzy on the details). We’ve since given her a happy life and a family, but I feel a little morbid that fate could’ve swayed the other way and they would’ve been someone’s dinner.

Just carry around your aluminum Radiation Shield ^TM around you when you go out into the tree-less suburban desert, problem solved

I have brave on Ios and if I’m correct it’s just using Apple’s safari webkit anyways. It’s been a few years since I compared browsers but back then it was the least shit, including firefox and firefox private.

I vaguely remember talking to my parents in 2013 about Slenderman xD. Somehow conjured the idea that I saw him in the woods lmao

I love Reuben’s but damn, that’s too much meat