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I go to the same gym as a boomer orthopod with cave troll body physiognomy and definitely understand the sort of mind that would create this
it would actually be pretty sick to jump up then land in their backyard pool
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Sports... have changed
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Incredible things are happening in the "riding a board on water" segment of the action sports populace. Of course the concept of a hydrofoil board really took off after the infamous sunscreen photo:
Zuckerberg is riding a very expensive electric-powered one that has a tiny propeller on the foil, but it's also possible to go windpowered like in the top photo. Stand-up paddleboarding (aka SUP) is very popular and hydrofoil boarding is the next level. I have heard it is unbelievably difficult to ride these for longer than a single second without having your board tip dive into the water & eating shit spectacularly.
It is interesting to see what tinkering people are getting up to now that lightweight and relatively cheap/energy-dense batteries + motors are readily available. Quadcopters and e-bikes are only the beginning. Peter Sripol is a pretty cool youtuber who builds lots of things in this genre, mostly model planes.
the social mores of this place were built on the concept of bullying fascists for how they're objectively little fucking freaks lol this is just the libs stealing our methods
the only thing standing between the north korean people and their self-actualization leading to the overthrow of the regime and establishment of a wholesome liberal democratic country is a few servers running software written in a very specific part of California
IMO USians have overwhelmingly become too decadent to actually want to work those manufacturing jobs (see TSMC struggling to find anyone they can hire here) although it's possible such a process would reify internal colonies and be staffed by new immigrants, undocumented workers, black workers, and indigenous workers. That could actually create conditions for revolution inside the US.
Depends on whether you view those offshored manufacturing jobs as neocolonialism or not. If they are, then moving them back onshore means there will be less neocolonial exploitation.
Basically they can do this because the miners signed fixed-rate power contracts with the utility a few years back. So the contract says they only have to pay, I don't know, 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. If it's a high demand day and power goes to 50c/kwh, the utility doesn't want to be selling its scarce capacity at 10c/kwh so will bribe the miners with money, say, 20c/kwh multiplied by their usual daily kwh consumption. That lets the utility sell the electricity they would have sold to the miners at an effective rate (for the utility) of 30c/kwh to the public, who pays 50c/kwh.
An even more ridiculous thing the miners can do is just buy all the power they can at 10c/kwh and redirect it back onto the grid where they can sell it at 50c/kwh to the public (usually through a utility intermediary).
It isn't all upside for the miners, theoretically, since there's a risk that power could decrease in cost below their fixed rate contract sometimes. But given how shitty Texas' electricity grid is and how the state has no ability to actually incentivize building more capacity that probably won't happen. (actually these miners themselves were envisioned to be this incentive, love to set up a rube goldberg mechanism instead of just being like "build more power capacity").
This might not be strictly accurate, based on this statement in the article:
Pierre Rochard, head of research at Riot, says it costs roughly $30,000 of electricity to mine one bitcoin and last year Riot mined nearly 7,000 (implying an annual cost of some $200m). And Riot is just getting going. The company is building a second plant in Corsicana, south of Dallas, that will be double the size.
At current price of $54k/bitcoin that comes to $378 million in revenue per year, with $210 million electricity cost. I'm sure they have other expenses though. They don't seem to sell most of the bitcoin they mine, opting to hold it for the future (when it will be worth zero dollars 
).
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From "Why Texas Republicans are Souring on Crypto" from The Economist https://archive.ph/eIXGc
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This summer about 24,000 chinook were counted moving up the Yukon River at the border with Alaska. That's compared to historic lows of 12,000 and 15,000 the last two seasons, says Elizabeth MacDonald, a biologist and fisheries manager for the Council of Yukon First Nations.
The fishing moratorium has only been in place for five months.
"I don't want to sound too joyous, because if we were talking about the run like we're having right now, five years ago, we would have been devastated by the numbers," said MacDonald, who lives in Whitehorse. "But it is better than the last few years. I'm really grateful for that."
When data on the salmon run was first collected in the 1980s, between 100,000 and 200,000 chinook would enter the Yukon River, MacDonald said. Anywhere from a quarter to more than a third were destined to make that crossing into Canada.
it is true that the more people learn about kamala's actual policies the more they're like god damn not voting for that shit
as is well known, it is impossible to grow facial hair or use hairpieces to replicate them. so we can only use actors for this role who are currently sporting mutton chops
also lol at using a man with a gigantic jaw made of titanium to portray Kim, whose main caricature feature is a small jaw.
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