“Nah, we what we need is more data centers powered by giant gas turbines!” ~fucking billionaires.

Hope. Because, they’ll need it.

Sucks that the beaches are eroding, but that happens everywhere.

Fuck em.

Among cities within 25 miles, San Clemente leans more Republican than 25 of 35 neighbors. San Clemente runs about 31 points more Republican than California as a whole. California leans Democratic overall, while San Clemente is one of the few Republican-leaning pockets.

San Clemente, California had 62,226 residents on July 1, 2025 (Census Bureau estimate); median household income $140,062, median home value $1,721,005.

Oi. I had mine in my hall closet, looks a lot like yours, including the Noctua cooler and stack of hard drives. In spite of adding a vent to the top of the closet door, and a big gap at the floor it still got too hot. I ended up moving it to the spare bedroom.

The one I have that looks like that is bluetooth.

Put it in your coffee.

I pay some attention to them. A movie called “Dirty Grandpa” I want to be R rated. Because, a PG rated “Dirty Grandpa” isn’t going to be very dirty, I think.

But, Hail Mary Project can be rated anything.

It might as well have been a yard, considering how the definition came about.

We all made it out unscathed, after about eight summers of doing it together. We were all in our twenties, and believed we were immortal. I haven’t been in many years, and won’t be going again. It probably IS foolish today with the options available, but still something is lost when we’re never incommunicado anymore.

Being comfortable away from civilization.

I mean, very few people go off into the woods anymore without some way to communicate in case of emergency.

In the mid-80s I’d go off backpacking with friends for a week or ten days, and the only hope we had if we something went terribly wrong was the occasional park ranger, or other hikers. We might run across four or five other people on the trail per day, but some days no one at all. We’d set up camp by a pond and be the only ones there, and probably for miles in any direction. We never thought about it, because there wasn’t the option of taking a GPS, or phone, and we didn’t bother with a radio because we never needed one before, so we just never thought to take one.

It was fine. We had skills, we were prepared, we had each other. We had experience. That’s all we needed.

I suspect that is very rare now. It would be considered foolish. Fewer and fewer people have the experience of being that disconnected anymore.

There are dozens of us!

At least.

Or, this guy:

Perkins Builder Brothers

Dale Philips

William Spaniel

Finish Carpentry TV

Techmoan

Learn Linux TV

TechLinked, but only Riley.

Anton Petrov

Ryan King Art

Louis Rossmann

Just Have a Think

Technology Connections

This Old Tony

Undecided with Matt Ferrell

Joe Scott

Putting these things on workers in a warehouse to boost “productivity” is some dystopian nightmare shit.

Billionaires today: “How can we get even more work out of one person?”

Billionaires soon: “Is there some way we can just put their brain in a robot? And, would that brain still have any rights, or would I just own it? Could we just grow the brain in the lab? That’s all we really need, until we get the AI thing working right.”

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If I told you my thoughts on this, my comment would be buried.