Also where do we stand on ‘renegotiating contracts for large load customers’ mentioned in the April 10th ST article

This feels like celebrating that the sun rose in the morning

Mayor Wilson responds to pitch of building large data centers in Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said Saturday the city has not authorized any new facilities and will explore a potential moratorium.

okay but also, where would we have built these in the first place www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I joke about Rob Saka’s well known hatred of traffic control devices but also, like, this is pretty bleak if we’re willing to accept injured or killed pedestrians and cyclists in the name of motorist convenience!

Not that you could ever say that out loud without getting accused of emotional appeals

Also

Where is Boom going to assemble these planes, IS there even a contract manufacturer for that??? I doubt COMAC would offer slots!

I joke about Rob Saka’s well known hatred of traffic control devices but also, like, this is pretty bleak if we’re willing to accept injured or killed pedestrians and cyclists in the name of motorist convenience!

Not that you could ever say that out loud without getting accused of emotional appeals

I know that engines come from vendors and so do a boatload of other components but also final assembly… you kinda need like… Everett or Toulouse or Shanghai Pudong-levels of floorspace

COULD you even do that along the entire supply chain?

how much is Duffy charging to put in a good word about my supersonic airliner company that recently pivoted to gas generators for hyperscale data centers and also Can’t Build Aircraft Yet, What, Are We Gonna Contract Manufacture These?

Is this like potion crafter but with writing?

THERE’S NO SUPERSONIC COMMERCIAL PASSENGER JET THAT ISN’T A SCAM

THE BIGGEST SCAM COMPANY ALREADY PIVOTED TO A DIFFERENT SCAM, AI POWER GENERATION

“It’s not THAT the wind is blowing… it’s WHAT the wind is blowing”

If a tornado can send a straw through a tree: yeah uh… haha… hahahaha… haaaaaah

I hate saying this but I would absolutely put money down on internal folks saying “This is contra to Vision Zero“ and folks in department management telling them Not To Get Political while vetoing things in favor of… well, political demands

The "AI water crisis" is useful to many people because it deflects attention from the real causes of our water crisis.

i'm starting a side business as a tour guide for new york's worst sodas. i know which corner stores have the dustiest and most expired sodas, but my real ace in the hole is the one with a really loud fridge that doesn't work and stores room-temperature bottles that reek. $35 for the stinky pop tour

It took me getting an adderall scrip to realize “oh yeah this is why people do uppers”

If it’s powdered coke it’s probably done in a spreadsheet

Repost to scare Rob Saka

cue me leaving places because “Actually we need to see into your metaphorical bedroom“ is sometimes considered sensible policy which… uhhh… if you wanna claim libertarian bona fides…

I’d say do this and add congestion pricing

Why does my toking need metrics
Why does it need telemetry
do I have to meet KPIs for reefer consumption

This is one of those ways of trying to work around the paradox of tolerance but it is absolutely a paradox of tolerance problem

”everyone’s feelings need to be acknowledged, validated, and taken into consideration” how about no

”I don’t want politicians to lie to me but they should also lie so that they can get elected” those are mutually exclusive

“The candidate has to convince the voters to vote for them” is why I don’t run for office because ‘collective sacrifice will be neccessary to maintain the status quo’ is electoral suicide to say.

Doesn’t matter if it’s financial or cultural or psychic sacrifice

Allow me to correct myself here: The examples of decibel I was using are above 20hz. Infrasound is below that per the appropriate ANSI standard

I also live on a stroad!

I’ve had the displeasure of standing in the same room with a generator the likes of which are used for peaking power or backup power at a DC, it’s loud as hell! It’s not sending out vibrations that’ll discreetly kill people!

Cool so you want to drastically investigate things we have all over the place, i’m down with that, but do you wanna pay for mitigation measures or reconstruction or are you just gonna vanish into thin fucking air like what always happens when we ask you to kick in funding