That sucks. Sorry about your luck.

I think OP is talking about all of the future data centers that are allegedly being build despite nobody even knowing where. Nvidia has agreed to pay OpenAI $10B per gigawatt of datacenter for 10 gigawatts of datacenter build up over the next few years.

Unlikely that will fully materialize, but that’s the current outlook.

IDK, I think turning them into paintball arenas would be pretty sweet.

It’s a joke from the early internet when video porn took too long to download.

Reminds me of viewing porn in Acrobat so you can use the little hand cursor.

I think about this comic a lot. Especially the line “anything non-obvious is false.”

There’s a certain type of person who has never done a brain teaser or any critical thinking in their life and assumes that their first assessment of a situation is true every time. And there are a lot of these people.

CRT televisions could give off a small amount of X-rays.

Really captured Nicholson’s character. Great art.

Beware of Geese bearing gifts.

Dude’s right leg briefly bends backwards before it becomes his left leg and his right elbow is bent completely behind his back somehow after he hits the ice already. Edit: actually, i think his right hand disappears behind him and materializes out of his hood.

I wonder what the other 599 attempts looked like.

Edit: Ok, here’s the ad:

Here’s what else I found:

• Family in car: Girl in the back has no headrest.
• Rear shot of car: Wrapped gifts on the roof while it’s wet enough to warrant wipers. Presents aren’t secured by anything. Presents somehow bounce up off the rear of the car when it’s a hatchback.
• Guy on bakfiet (bike): pushes the right pedal straight down through the crank arm. Rear fork somehow bends like 45 degrees between the down tube and rear axle.
• Carolers: Despite the matching hats and jackets, dude in the front’s song book is twice the size of everyone else’s.
• Teddy bear: Teeth (gross). Woman on right wraps her hand around behind Teddy’s head, but that hand becomes woman on the left’s hand.
• Santa on sleigh: White car passes by in the background, but red car behind it somehow disappears. Maybe it somehow is driving on the sidewalk behind the parked car?
• Tree: Tree physically grows taller and larger when tie is cut. Fire in fireplace isn’t moving. Guy’s right arm briefly disappears. Actually, it looks like they might have manually spliced two takes here because there’s a weird slice around the man’s chest.
• Outside of the house: There’s apparently already a Christmas tree behind the family that you can see through the window. Also, the space with the bookshelf in the previous shot doesn’t exist here as the front door is right there.
• Sliding to a halt: The tracks in the snow left by the guy’s hand and armpits make no sense.
• Snowfall: cyclist to the right has a reflection, person behind them doesn’t. Cyclist randomly stops pedaling right at the end of the shot (maybe not, hard to tell).
• Ice ring: See above. Also dude middle-right stops and reverses without moving his feet.
• Falling from roof: Lights move and stretch weird, also house has two different styles of bay window. Also, looks like it might be a townhouse in which case, why is only one entrance fenced?
• Tram: Everyone in the tram is facing the camera. Nobody’s on their phone? There are a few frames where the door is 100% closed, but the woman’s feet are still standing on the inside floor of the tram instead of dropping to the pavement.
• Dining table: So much going on. Is that some kind of hibachi grill/fondue set in the foreground? I’d be more concerned about that catching fire. Nobody is reacting to the fire appropriately. What the hell is even on fire? Is that like burger patties on a grill?
• Cookies: Why are their crumbs everywhere if these cookies were presumably put in as dough. Also what the hell kind of cookies are they? Are they supposed to be gingerbread heads?
• Grandparents: Gramps got a stump for a hand the grows fingers. WTF card game are they playing?
• Up-close faces: Not much to say about these unless they’re supposed to be the old people from the previous shot, because they clearly aren’t.
• Bicycle spray: Cars parked on the sidewalk. Car passes through bicycle parked on the right which is also parked in the street.
• Baking: Girl has no reaction to explosion. Lots going on in the background. Is that orange juice being stored on an open shelf? Wine/martini glasses hanging upside down from nothing? Dude’s got some kind of industrial kitchen grade mixing device behind the girl and yet can’t operate a Kitchen-Aid?
• Cat in tree: What the hell are the people in the background doing? They start to take cover immediately. Drone changes from four arms with rotors to some kind of square shape with rotors at each corner after it hits the tree. Not sure what the thing falling off the left side of the tree is supposed to be.
• Tree lighting: Guy in the background reacts before anything happens. Girl on the left reacts despite looking at the floor/being asleep? Design of the table to the left changes when the lights go out. I wonder if this is another splice job where they needed to go through manually to make the lights-out synchronized. Also, why is this man plugging this in in the middle of the room anyway?
• Outdoor shot: Road layout has issues. Cars are driving right by cars parked the wrong way. Lamp posts are in the street. There’s a bizarre window jutting out of the roof across the street.
• McDonald’s entrance shots: I could be convinced these are real. The guy is the same person from the tree explosion who was probably comped in, so maybe it’s a real actor.
• Couple at McDonald’s: The girl kind of mimes drinking her drink. Guy in the background is clearly holding a mug
• Carolers again: There’s a weird fade with one of the building surfaces middle-left behind the carolers. This might be another manual comp (makes sense with the branding). Lamp behind them looks like a combination lamppost/sconce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTomb

I’m not sure what you mean about the premise of “wool” in the story though?

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I just didn’t buy the impact of the cleaners. Like it’s supposed to be a mystery why they choose to go through with it, but we find out they go through with it because a VR helmet convinces them that what they saw through the cameras was a lie when really the VR helmet is a lie. So like…what’s the point? If you can make VR helmets, why not build a robot to clean the cameras? If you still need a scary death sentence, just kick people out of the silo and watch them die due to exposure as they clamor to get back inside. The result is the same: outside scary, don’t do anything that gets you forced to go outside.

Making a lie to cover up another lie seems like a very roundabout way to solve a lens cleaning issue.

As for the rest of the wool references, puns do not metaphors make.

The only Kindle book I’ve ever returned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg&list=RDVMBylNJQEbg&start_radio=1

The Silo series. First one was okay though the protagonist could be a bit of an idiot at times (I’m freezing, I should light these small tires on fire. That’ll keep me warm for 2 minutes while I choke on the smoke), but as a hard scifi, the series never answered enough critical questions (how do they get clean air?, is there really an oil deposit under Atlanta?). Also, the entire premise of how “wool” enters the story is so contrived, I failed to catch why it was necessary both in-universe and from a storytelling standpoint.

The second book was a prequel and the back stories of one of the characters was so fucking boring and predictable I just started skipping his chapters.

I read Wikipedia for the third book.

Scalie crowd.

Oooh, I kind of love that. Like there’s a classic robot uprising, but the whole robot rights and robot sentience thing is just a smoke screen to weaken the opposition’s resolve. It’s all just a billionaire behind the curtain.

I wouldn’t say it’s that bad. At least not where I live.

Mostly I see completely half-assed attempts at walkable infrastructure such as:

• Sidewalks that just end
• Bike lanes that say “lane ends, merge with traffic” on a 45mph (72km/h) road right before an underpass with no shoulder.
• Crosswalks only ever mile or so, so you either have to walk a mile out of your way, or get yelled at for “jaywalking.”
• Bike lockup outside a furniture store that’s surrounded by 10 acres of parking lot where the nearest residence is like 10 miles away.
• 3ft wide lanes with person figures painted on them on the side of the road because a white line is enough to protect pedestrians.
• 3ft wide bike lanes on the inside curve of an uphill 45mph road with sharp turns and a steep concrete embankment on the side.

You get 8 seconds to cross eight lanes of traffic.

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