How so many companies have been seduced by this idea of operating vs capital expenditures for resources that you will never truly own defies belief.

I literally know of customers paying upwards of 400K a year to consume Azure resources on a month to month basis in perpetuity for systems that would litterally have a one time cost of 150K and maybe 20% of that per anum in support fees.

With technology and senior business leaders becoming this mind numbingly stupid is it any wonder the elites prefer a world with less than 5% of it's current population?

This is exactly why it is equally baffling when elite puppet masters parade some celebrity like Taylor Swift or Megan the Sasquatch in front of gullible voters to sway their voting preferences. Do these common folks have ANYTHING in common with said elites? Anything at all?

Ever seen one on a cruise? A resort you can afford to stay at? In a seat next to yours at a sporting event?

These people have NOTHING in common with your average plebs yet the average plebs go right on supporting whatever narrative they are fed by these elites to their own detriment.

Quote from: wizer on November 03, 2025, 02:34:09 AMThe few available options that are environmentally friendly is the production of energy via nuclear energy, solar and wind power.

Sooner or later the oil's going to run out anyway. 

I think big oil played up the nuclear scare and frankly set us the fuck backwards.  We should have pushed nuclear fission until we achieve nuclear fusion full throttle.

And now Bill Gates realizes AI needs power so he's okay with flipping on climate change.

QuoteThe few available options that are environmentally friendly is the production of energy via nuclear energy, solar and wind power.

Sooner or later the oil's going to run out anyway.

Nuclear is environmentally friendly and it won't run out. Natural gas is environmentally friendly and it won't run out either. No, it does not come from dinosaurs.

Solar and wind power are the least environmentally friendly sources. They have a massive environmental cost because the rare earth minerals needed for wind turbines and solar panels come from mines in developing countries. They are very very non renewable.

Wind and solar use up more of another important finite resources too - land. They require a lot more land than wind or solar to provide less energy than natural gas nuclear or hydroelectric.

Quote from: Thiel on November 03, 2025, 01:04:28 PMNuclear is environmentally friendly and it won't run out. Natural gas is environmentally friendly and it won't run out either. No, it does not come from dinosaurs.

Solar and wind power are the least environmentally friendly sources. They also have a massive environmental cost because the rare earth minerals needs for wind turbines and solar panels come from developing countries. They are non renewable.

Wind and solar use up more of another important finite resources too - land. They require a lot more land than wind or solar to provide less energy than natural gas nuclear or hydroelectric.

Capturing methane from landfills is a far better use of a land for power tradeoff than wind farms.  And landfills are a necessity... windfarms are not.

Coal is perfectly fine to use as well. Coal fired powerplants built in the last 20 years have catalysts and scrubbers just like cars and trucks. What about the waste? Put it back where you got it from ITFP!

We have such a coal fired power plant right here in Springfield, IL.

Quote from: Shen Li on November 01, 2025, 10:27:22 PMI don't get why C02 is driving white people to antidepressants. We see it as a problem and not an imminent armageddon if we don't lower our emissions. However, every problem is a crisis to whites.

Much of it is out of the left and there are plenty of studies to support this. And the left has much to fear, particularly as their more extreme elements are getting booted out of their Soros-funded safe spaces and on to the street where there isn't anywhere near the amount of access to the 24/7 fear-porn getting pumped out on the regular from CNN, MSN and the like.

I'm not saying the problem is unique to the left, though they did already account for the lions share of mental illness. Now they understand their status as a relatively protected class is under imminent threat and their already overstressed cranial porridge is going into meltdown. And getting pilled up is easier than drinking a bag of cement and hardening the fuck up.

Fuck 'em, they're losers. If they could catch a clue and make an effort to actually better themselves, I might offer a few of them a hand up.

Quote from: DKG on November 03, 2025, 07:21:48 AMIn 2022, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reported the highest levels of coral cover across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in over 36 years.

The coral has increased, though has on and off been subject to bleaching. The cause of which has been attributed to fertilizer runoff and rising ocean temperatures. That may or may not be the case of course, "experts" have been wrong about shit in the past and the same might be true here.

Practical upshot; Australia's reef is still there and still supporting an abundance of marine ecosystems, much as the Arctic polar icecap has increased 25% in size since its 2012 lull and polar bears are obstinately increasing their population in spite of the gloomy pictures environmental scientists have been banging on about for decades.

I reckon if you're going to go to the mat on a topic, you should at least do some research on it first. Part of the problem with the environmentalists is they prefer FUD to fact. And part of our problem is that we don't make enough fun of them when they get it wrong.

QuoteNatural gas is environmentally friendly and it won't run out either. No, it does not come from dinosaurs.

Back in Canada I know people with post grad degrees who don't know oil and natural gas come from marine sediment made of the remains of algae and plankton. They think it comes from dinosaurs.

Quote from: Thiel on November 03, 2025, 01:04:28 PMNuclear is environmentally friendly and it won't run out. Natural gas is environmentally friendly and it won't run out either. No, it does not come from dinosaurs.

It looks very much like it's bacteria-produced. So yeah, anything left undisturbed for long enough under the right conditions would become oil, dinosaurs included.

Nuclear is a lot cleaner and safer than it was. Yay technology. The only problem I see with nuclear is provisioning, it is great at producing power demands for a static load, dynamic not so much. Perhaps storing the excess energy produced at times of low load for later release into the grid is a solution and there are a number of methods by which that can be achieved.

Quote from: Thiel on November 03, 2025, 01:04:28 PMSolar and wind power are the least environmentally friendly sources. They have a massive environmental cost because the rare earth minerals needed for wind turbines and solar panels come from mines in developing countries. They are very very non renewable.

Wind and solar use up more of another important finite resources too - land. They require a lot more land than wind or solar to provide less energy than natural gas nuclear or hydroelectric.

Correct. But when have you ever seen an environmentalist address the troupe of elephants in the room when it came to just how pollutive the supposed "green solution" is, both in terms of its implementation and its ultimate disposal once it reaches EOL? As far as they are concerned, if the pollution is largely hidden (ie: location, time, etc) then it's not a matter for concern.

Fun fact; it is theoretically possible that we might solve the entire world's energy problems by populating the Sahara desert with solar farms. Only a couple of problems with that, one being financing the build in the first place, it literally costing more money to do than is currently in circulation on the entire planet. Oh, and the difference in albedo in that neck of the woods would create a raft of issues in Amazon basin (including it's eventual drying up, but hey.... green energy for all, right?

Much better to plod along with what you know works until you have a system in place that trumps it. Some people are a little too fucked in the head to recognise that though.