Thank you. Glad to know I am not the only one that got triggered, lol.

Yep, when it’s all staged, you want your actors standing around on-stage not off-stage…

One thing I will say is here in the desert, we don’t actually want them either. Water is already an issue. Power costs are already an issue when you’re cooling your house all summer/heating it all winter. Data centers provide minimal jobs for the amount of resources they use in a community and the downsides have been discovered in a number of places around the country too (ranging from noise to increased costs to resource shortages). Keep your data centers off our cactii!

If it’s anything like our city, they literally come in and try and get it through under complete NDA such that the city officials aren’t allowed to discuss who they are doing the project for. And they had obviously co-opted the city manager somehow—he fought valiantly to get it passed in the face of the entire city council and mayor. Plus, a third party does all the brokering to act as a further shield from knowing who the ultimate client is. We got wind of it here in time and just stopped Project Blue for AWS here in Tucson by all showing up at all the meetings (the idea of a massive data center that uses like 2k acre feet of water a year in a desert in a drought is hilariously terrible and dystopian).

Also, I should add that the actual result of us stopping them in Tucson is that they will now try and get it passed in either unincorporated Pima County or in a smaller satellite city somewhere around us. So it remains to be seen if they still manage to ram this extreme water and power usage through in spite of the wishes of the residents or not…

(And I should also add, this is a pretty heavily Democrat-leaning space—about the only one in AZ. Republicans hardly even try and run here some years.)

Huh. Doesn’t change the fact Trump is in the Epstein files. Investigate them both!

This really says it all. I don’t give a crap who’s in the Epstein files—they should all be investigated.

“Wow, you’ve got the whole room tarped up—you guys doing some painting later?”

“Be wary of a man who owns a pig farm.”

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Ah, good to know in case I ever have to upgrade to wireless!

Well, I was gonna recommend the Razer Death Adder Elite, but they don’t seem to make it any more. Maybe the Death Adder v3 or even the Essential? (The Essential is on sale for $20 on Amazon right now, it seems.) I see that the entire line is wireless now… not sure how I feel about that.

As for the why, I really like the way the mouse fits my hand, the wired Elite version has been a tank at home and at work for years now, and the only down-side I’ve encountered is that it comes with the lights in some stupid pulsating mode and you have to install the software at least once to turn that off. (It remembers it in firmware once you disable it though, so you can move it from computer to computer without having to disable on each computer.)