Beelbeebub

Maybe the Ukrainians should respond in kind and submit their own text for Trump to urge Putin to accept by Thanksgiving.

I'm reminded of Ron Burgandy in "Anchorman" who reads whatever is on the teleprompter

Genuinely the happiest I think I have seen Donald Trump for over a decade.

For someone who, on paper, is winning at life he always looks fucking miserable.

Waitrose are canceling Christmas too!

Look at this plate - the word Christmas doesn't appear at all!

Disgraceful

I blame Sadiq Kahn.

"I'm not a spineless politician desperately aping the immoral policies of a cruel opposition party - I'm coming up with my own cruel and immoral policies"

Isn't the flex she thinks it is.

Ditching this - even though the panic over immigration is simply a narrative whipped up by the right wing media - is fine, no biggie.

Ditching the income tax pledges - even though things have materially changed and sticking to them seems to be spooking the bond market - absolutely not.

Tbf, what did you expect from someone whose handle is "bitcoinbro"?

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Strong, whatever this is, energy.

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄

Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?

It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage

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I agree, but the ball is in trumps court.

If *he* decides to litigte then *he* opens the door to discovery.

So could the BBC make plain their scope of discovery - should they become a defendant - so as to deter Trump, which is the actual end goal for the BBC?

Presumably the rights of a defendant for document discovery etc would apply to the BBC should Trump actually sue.

Wouldn't this give the BBC pretty unprecedented access to various documents and witness statements that trump would rather keep under wraps?

Would this not be some sort of defamation of the BBC?

Attacking it's integrity will have real and probably quantifiable financial and reputational consequences.

I assume Trump is protected by presidential immunity in the US, but presumably not in the UK.

... and he does have property here...

Unfortunately at cost to thr bbc (us) and even if costs were awarded Trump never pays.though maybe the BBC could have his beloved. Golf course seized by the baliffs.

Zero but for the US, as it's so big, the sun can be shining somewhere for as much as 20 hours per day in the summer and 16 hours in winter. So the night is relatively short.

Domestically batteries easily cover this.

What are the maintance requirements and challenges specific to solar that are harder than maintaining the comomex machinery used to find and extract oil and gas in the north Sea, Siberian tundra, Alsakan wilderness and the Arabian desert?

Wouldn't defamation cases in Southern florida be brought before the US District court where a certain Judge Aileen Cannon sits?

I'm not sure the BBC could rely on a fair interpretation of the law before her.

When the UK, a country that joined the US in a decades long war, ostensibly on the back of the dodgy "WMD" premise says "yeah this is too sketchy for us" - you know the US has gone way over the line.

Shouldn't the greens now be there as a distinct group?

Given their poll numbers are in the same ball park as the traditional 3.

Like waste plumbing and banking - if it's exciting someone's about to get covered in shit.

I can see that we will walk away from all of this with a much better understanding of what LLMs can do.

Unfortunately, I think that understanding may be "not as much as some tech bros thought they could".

Whether or not we also generate any "leads" on what the next step should be is not certain.

... But if the build out is allowed to be fossil fueled it will be a negative.

.... If it was a condition that the power demand from these data centers was 100% renwable and that grid upgrades to cope were also part of thr "planning permission" there would be a credible case that the bubble might result in a net good of alot of renewable capacity build out....

... which the private companies would dodge anyway.

There could be a benefit if we get the knowhow to build & deploy SMRs out of this but again that knowledge is won from a decade or more of hard slog, and does anyone think the bubble will last that long?...

...with nuclear (which I agree might be useful) - my worry is that the time lines for construction are too long to be complete before the bubble pops, leading to many half done projects, plus even if the state inherits a brand new plant "free" the real costs are in the cleanup...

... which would be bad as they would not only drive up fossil fuel consumption (and hence exploration etc) but also still require fossil fuels once the bubble bursts - indeed the presence of so many idle turbines might spur the "well we might as well fuel them" argument...

... But I ha bet been able to find any articles about the power build out for AI being particularly renewable focused (again this would be bubble benefit).

I can see many articles about the demand for gas turbines soaring due to demand from the AI bubble...

I have to admit to having only speed read the article the first time but I didn't remember anything about the power build out being solar...

All I found in a search later was this, which says it would be good *if* the build out was solar (and nuclear) - which I 100%.agree with....

... for building nuclear, is hastily building a load of nuclear plants before going bankrupt and passing the clean up risk to the state a win for the public?

Doesn't the capacity to make nm scale chips take ages to bring online? Will the bubble be here long enough for the capacity to get built?

As for power, if it was putting in solar or wind that would be true. But they seem to be going for gas turbines and nuclear.

Putting aside the time scales...

... I heard somewhere that the chips used for "AI" are so optimised for the task they are useless for general computing or server use.

Can the particular chips and servers used to build these "AI" data centers be used for anything else?

The fibre bubble resulted in lots of, at the time, redundant fibre, but a fibre can carry any data

If the data centers can only do "AI" they will be useless afterwards.