It's easy to think about. Google reported a global average power consumption of 3.7GW in 2024, so you can think of this deal as representing an expansion of something like 10-15% of that 2024 baseline, if you assume 50% capacity utilization.
For homicide this is very correct. You could live dead center in the statistically most violent block of Chicago and still cut your personal risk of being a homicide victim by 1) not being a criminal, and 2) not posting diss raps to your 11 followers on Soundcloud. There are not really dangerous neighborhoods but there are dangerous social networks.
And not having any vehicle problems, because you usually only are rolling through bad areas to get to better areas. Most people in violent cities have no occasion to stop in violent areas. On one occasion I was forced to work overnight for critical hospital operations in a bad part of town, on my way back my tire went flat and when I was distracted fixing it the locals noticed I was weak and they put a gun to my head.
There's a gigantic global industry of telling people that a far away place they've never been is bad and dangerous. This industry exists to make people overlook the objectively bad and dangerous place where they actually live. This plays out on global and national scale. For example, my family who live in Oklahoma City are constantly yapping about some fearmongering they saw about San Francisco, when their city has like 4x the homicide rate, traffic violence, poverty, substance abuse, even manmade earthquakes. But they are plugging into a 24x7 stream of disinformation.
If you visit some place outside your local city, you might experience a broader swath of people, culture, and beliefs. That makes you a dangerous person. You might start questioning why you've only been told one thing. Sadly, just traveling within the US can get you some exposure, but it's mainly just variations of the same thing with perhaps some external influences that have been absorbed. It's nothing like going to abroad and experiencing totally different cultures.
Scary social media videos about those foreign lands is just another tool to dissuade people from wanting to expand their experiences. If you research into some of this global industry, you'll see a lot of the influencers are spokes from central hubs of propaganda sources that shockingly are financed by the same people.
Absolutely. Every country's local media will try to get people to stay home and spend money locally, and not complain because elsewhere is much MUCH worse!
It also makes it easier to dehumanize people in-case of a conflict.
This isn't limited to far-away places. There are plenty of influencers and social media shills that specifically parrot how bad cities are - to people who live in those cities. Hyper-local news outlets that no one outside of the city would read are filled with crime reports and people giving all kinds of warnings. Even decades ago, local news would excitedly report on crime because it draws viewers.
Almost every single large city subreddit needs to have some kinds of rules restricting crime posts, because people love to post every single act of crime that happens and it eventually takes over the sub. Then "alternative" subreddits are created and the cycle continues.
Scaring people has always been profitable, social media just lowers the bar. It's not just old people anymore.
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I almost fell into one of these traps. It was a guy walking around the dead San Francisco mall and talking about how it was DEVASTATED and SF was COLLAPSING. I had actually been there recently and yes, it was pretty empty. The Youtube algorithm seized on this and started showing me more videos.
Except one of the videos was on a street next to me. The video was just the one guy walking around two blocks that were empty, but looped over and over for 20+ minutes. So it was clearly nonsense.
I checked his channel again. It has paid subscriptions and a PayPal link. He gets minimum 50K views on every single video, with some hitting 800K. He makes two a month. That's an easy income.
Everyone hates people who are not them. I live in a pretty plain middle class neighborhood just Southeast of downtown Dallas (oakcliff). People here talk about the absolute cesspools that are the... safest neighborhoods with good jobs and consistently top rated public schools in North Dallas only because they're also the wealthiest. They just can't stand people who are not like them for some reason.
To be fair the wealthy neighborhoods of North Dallas are notorious hotbeds of crime. It's just not the types of crimes that get reported on right-wing TV.
you'll have to give me some examples. My boys are 16 and 14 and have fortunately managed to get in to the top magnet HSs in DISD (TAG and SEM) but if i had to do it over again, and had the means, I'd choose to raise my kids in Preston Hollow/Highland Park any day.
I don't know anything about Oklahoma City but I'm pretty confident that SF is a shit hole having lived there up to 2024 and seeing it first hand every day. Any stats that claim otherwise are lying.
Strava is an example where to enjoy all the features of the platform you have to use the app for some and the browser for others. Neither has all of them.
He didn't say they weren't ? He said youtube keeps recommending 'cringe' shorts no-one wants to see. I can sympathize with him - I have the youtube recommends the same 4 videos over and over again in multiple categories issue, and the 'lots of shorts I don't care about issue'. Though, shorts at least get refreshed/rotated more often then the stupid suggestions.
The subscriptions page was changed about a month ago. It now shows the videos in the top as "Relevant", which includes a list of videos from the ~12 days that are being suggested to you. After that is a real list of chronologically ordered videos, but videos are not listed twice. This means if the video appears in the first list (as "relevant") then it will not be shown in the second list.
The end result is that the subscriptions page now shows videos "in order", but the order is wrong. My current subscription page shows a video from 14 hours ago, then a video from 9 days ago, then one from 5 days ago, then 6 days ago, and then 1 day ago.
Honestly, I feel like `yt-dlp` does a better job of this with this command:
My subscription feed now has a row of 3 videos labeled "priority", then a row of 3 videos labeled "latest", then a row of "Shorts," then it appears to continue on with the "latest" but there's no label.
This is from memory so I may have got something wrong. And I could be an A/B test subject as this has been new as of a few weeks. There's also a "More..." fold or two in there.
This pattern does not represent how I use the product. I do not watch shorts and I don't know how or why they mark things as a priority. I want to know what's newest and the time ordered list being deprioritized in the UI and fractured makes that worse.
Recently I cleaned up a SMB client's Workspace users after archiving their data (former employee accounts that had been languishing). In the space of a day or two I did the following for half the ~20 total accounts:
- Moved to no 2FA sub-organization
- Reset password
- Disabled security check for ten minutes
- Logged in as the user in a fresh browser profile
- Exported data with Takeout
- Deleted the account in the admin console
I fully expected to hit some kind of roadblock or delay or for alarm bells to go off for the other admins, but nope, I literally "absconded" with hundreds of gigabytes of data and nuked half the org in short order.
There is a Workspace Admin option to export users' data but it warns of an automatic 48 hour delay to let "other admins take action" if something is amiss. The client wanted the task done before getting hit with the full monthly license fees again so I had to go the manual route.
Granted, out of paranoia, I was using the client's office VPN as my traffic egress so maybe that helped.
Changing your account recovery and 2FA settings then immediately trying to recover your account from an unusual country should temporarily lock out your account, every time, and this is what all normal users want.
I’m absolutely flabbergasted by the performance left on the table; even by myself - just yesterday I learned Gentoo’s emerge can use git and be a billion times faster.
The time spent by emerge is utterly dwarfed by the time spent to build the packages, so who cares? Maybe it's different if installing a binary system but don't think most people are doing that.
If you can emerge in 2.86s user you can do it right before you emerge world, meaning it's all "done in one interaction" (even if the actual emerge takes an hour - you don't have to look at it.
Whereas if emerge is taking 5-10 minutes, you have to remember to come back to it, or script it.
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