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#1
Tech Won't Save Us / Data centres may soon burn as ...
Last post by RE - Today at 03:55 AM
Worth keeping in mind every time you use  ChatGPT.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454324-data-centres-may-soon-burn-as-much-extra-gas-as-california-uses-daily/

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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#2
General Discussion / Hundreds of Hudson Valley fami...
Last post by RE - Today at 03:24 AM
It ain't just the Big Apple and other major big shities.  The homeless are everywhere now.  Motels have become homes.



https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/hudson-valley-families-homeless-living-hotels-19874371.php

Hundreds of Hudson Valley families with children are homeless and living in hotels, report finds

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#3
Local News / Alaska Climate & Weather Newz
Last post by RE - Oct 29, 2024, 06:03 AM


First Snow of the winter has arrived!

The fluffy white hexagonal crystals of the crystalline solid phase of H2O are dropping from the sky at a steady pace here in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, exactly 1 week before the "election" of a replacement POTUS to take over for the brain dead senile walking corpse currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the capitol of the Fascist States of Amerika.  Looks like we will get an accumulation of at least 6" here in Anchorage, and as per forma with the first snow, Happy Motorist who manage every year to forget you have to slow down and triple your following distance behind the CO2 spewing atmosphere wrecker ahead of you to avoid ending up in a wreck yourself.  As of 8PM last night, 64 crashes had already been recorded, with another 40 vehivles in "distress".  I think that means they got stuck, not that they're worried about whether there will be liquid hydrocarbons available to fill the tank available for the remainder of the loan coupons still outstanding from its purchase.  Here in Alaska and the rest of the FSoA right now, the power packed energy dense lifeblood of the industrial civilization is still flowing copiously out of the gas and diesel pumps of convenience stores and truckstops, as 99.999% of oblivious drones believe it will be for the rest of their lives, along with the juice flowing through the copper wires strung around town delivering power to run their refrigerators and big screen TVs and information and electromagnetic signals  being delivered back and forth  in flurries of bits more dense than the white crystals currently sharing the airspace with them.  The FSoA is not Cuba, here in the Belly of the Beast both the hydrocarbons and dollars are still moving around with enough lubrication to keep the civilization humming reasonably peacefully.  It remains an open question how long it will take to disappear here after the triage of 3rd World countries dropping back to 17th century living as they undergo Demand Destruction, unable to access the credit required in the trade of oil for debt.

As it happens, the snowfall coincides with an appointment with my Prosthetician, who I am having update my prosthetic leg which no longer fits on my stump well enough to use at all, and weven when it still did fit wasn't very useful because I couldn't get it on and off without help and also caused phantom pain in y missing limb.  I am having him change the attachment system so perhaps I can use it at least on the occassions I have to venture out into the world, which in general is only for doctor's appointments or to buy cancerettes.  Everything else I get delivered, purchased online primarily food from Fred Meyer (a Kroger affiliate) or Amazon for everything else.

Last winter was record setting for snow, with small mountains of it pushed around into piles that didn't all melt off until into May this year, and which by January had turned most roadways into Canyons between 6 foot high piles on either side covering the sidewalks and bringing any movement by foot around town to a complete halt.  Hopefully this year the new mayor will do a better job managing the snow removal, which was a huge issue in the campaign.  Not counting on that though.

Finally, the arrival of November and snow marks my 2 tear Anniversary living in the Post Acute Care facility that warehouses 100 or so residents fortunate enough to be sufficiently disabled that medicare & medicaid together along with all your retirement income minus $200 in money they generously allow you to keep for personal expenses each month.  Needless to say, $200 doesn't last very long these days if you buy anything at all.  With the extreme shortage of Affordable Housing in Anchorage, as well as a similarly extreme shortage of Home Health Care workers, it remains an open question as to whether or not I will ever leave this place to live independently again, or be stuck here until I die,  Fortunately, unlike the Assisted Living Grand Guignol Kafkaesque nightmare facility I was stuck in for 7 months after the amputation of my leg, this place has a reasonably professional staff as well as decent enough food I can stomach eating.  It costs a fortune, but for a lucky few of us the socialized medicine system is working and covers the bill.

There is also other ongoing good news as I continue to work diligently on my TOP SECRET project to fund the SUN Foundation, and hope to be able to get off the ground by Spring of 2025.  K-Dog is working with me helping with the website, and I hope to be able to let the rest of you in on the project before the end of the year, but for now it needs to remain a closely guarded secret.  Suffice it to say that if all goes as planned, there will be enough money generated to develop a SUN Communal Living Center/Doomstead and I will be able to get out of here to live there and manage it.  Time will tell.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2024/10/27/first-heavy-snow-of-the-season-is-possible-for-anchorage-starting-late-monday-says-weather-service/

First significant snowfall of the season hits Southcentral Alaska

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#4
Community News / - Soon to come.
Last post by RE - Oct 28, 2024, 04:24 PM
This is quite exciting and very good newz!  ;D

Podcasts livestreams are definitely the way to go in the late stages of our civilization collapse.  Text driven forums and blogs simply don't appeal to recent generations of Homo Saps who are weened on video and get their first Smart Phone as soon as their hand is big enough to hold one.

As soon as we are up and running I will announce it to the Diner YouTube subscribers which shoulld give us an instant start up  audience for the Podcasts.

Hopefully we can be ready to do a podcast by Election Day.  That would be a great Kick Off event to stream.

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#5
Community News / Soon to come.
Last post by K-Dog - Oct 28, 2024, 02:30 PM
Check it out.  This is a view of my browser with twitch chat from my own stream.  I am on 'twitch' as kdogkeith.  The chat in the window is re-posting from the stream chat.  I load the chat independently so people will be able to confirm they are not being shadow-banned and ranting to themselves.  But that is not all.  The major reason is to make this new Diner menu offering interactive.  Interactivity being the point of all this nonsense.



A user types in twitch chat and it is sent to my streaming software where I post it into the stream video.  Once on the stream it is there for all to see.  You don't see all messages because I stopped and restarted the stream before I made the screenshot.

Diner podcasts are in the works.  I know better than to do You-Tube first.

* The normal way people stream is to buy add-ons to do this kind of fancy shit.  Problem is commercial-add-ons reflect a cultural hegemony the Diner wants no part of.  I do not want to disrespect Uncle Karl or myself.



The streaming software.  I had my lens cover over my camera.  Connecting a camera to Uncle Karl is a problem I have yet to solve.

On the left is a screen preview waiting to be sent to the stream.  A collection of stuff being streamed if streaming is active is on the right.
#6
Tech Won't Save Us / USGS Finds Enough Lithium to M...
Last post by RE - Oct 28, 2024, 06:49 AM
DIG, BABY, DIG!!!



Arkansas is notoriously lax with Environmental Protection, so I expect the Strip Miners will have a field day with the Caterpillar Back Hoes and Front End Loaders digging through all the topsoil in this region to get at the Lithium.

Of course, they still need the Diesel to power the Caterpillar heavy equipment.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/USGS-Finds-Enough-Lithium-to-Meet-Annual-Demand-Nine-Times-Over.html

USGS Finds Enough Lithium to Meet Annual Demand Nine Times Over

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#7
Resources / ‘There is no money’: Cuba fear...
Last post by RE - Oct 27, 2024, 01:30 AM
If this was happening in just about any other western industrialized country, the society would be in complete chaos by now.  The fact there hasn't yet been any mass scale looting and violence (at least reported) is amazing.  Of course, there's probably nothing in the stores to loot. lol.  Also no electricity to run any electronic gadgets or fuel for the cars, making them worthless hunks of metal.

You have to expect a mass exodus pretty soon.  How many more Cubans can Florida take?

This is definitely a great canary in the coal mine to watch.  Who will be the next significant country to hit the collapse wall?  I don't count African countries in this, except South Africa.  Euro, South America and SE Asia.

I could see Greece, Argentina or Thailand hitting the wall in the next couple of years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/26/cuba-power-grid-failure-financial-crisis

'There is no money': Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis

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#8
The Sixth Extinction / - Global Birthrate Decline
Last post by RE - Oct 26, 2024, 04:30 PM
Quote from: monsta666 on Oct 26, 2024, 10:33 AM
Quote from: RE on Oct 22, 2024, 08:40 PMHowever, economics doesn't explain the statistics, and the exploding percentage of recent generations to  self identify as Lezzie-Gay-Bi-Tranny-Queers.  Back in Boomer years it was ~1% of the population.  Today it's >5%.  That's a 500% increase.  What do you attribute that to?  Also, based on media TV, its even bigger than that.  Every show has at least one or 2 main characters as some non-binary gender variant.

Being openly gay in the Middle East will get you the death sentence. Can you guess the number of people self identifying people as gay in that region? Almost 0%. What people say and what people do is two different things. When the stigma to identify as something other than heterosexual is less then more people will admit to alternative sexual orientations. I am guessing the true numbers is something in the region of 10% which is actually higher than the figure you quoted at 5%+.

Whatever the case, even if you run with my higher 10% figure this cannot explain the decline in birth rates which has gone down by over 50% since 1960 (in the US at least). Something else is at foot. My suggestion is those declines come from the increasing cost of childcare, less stable jobs and the lower social pressure to get married. These things factor higher than the rise in the LGBTQ community.

No doubt, the surrounding attitude of the society affects whether people will report accurately and openly admit to alternative sexual behavior.  However, I think there is a positive feedback loop involved here.  The more tolerant and open the society is the more children and adoleescents are exposed to the behavior the more likely it becomes they will choose such behavior.  I think our society is tacitly encouraging more people to choose homosexuality as a behavior.  The question in my mind is whether this encouragement has been planned and orchestrated by the Illuminati?  The prevalence of the role models in the media leads me to believe this is a planned outcome.

In terms of what the true percentage is in Homo Sap of alternative sexual behavior, it's impossible to separate it from the society you are immersed in.  Since Biblical times and the beginning of the Jude-Christian era, sexual behavior has been highly restricted, repressed and controlled.  You won't find any "civilized" country that has had this level of acceptance of alternative sexuality, you have to look at pre-industrial cultures.

On the genetic level, we most closely are related to Bonobos and with no social restrictions at all would probably have similar sexual behavior.  Bonobos have sex all the time with either sex and with juveniles also.  Pedophilia however retains its ultimate taboo status while just about everything else is considered OK, including Beastiality.  If a woman wants to have sex with her Doberman or a man wants to hump his Poodle, it's just a choice, right?

Again, I do agree the economics are a much bigger factor in the dropping birth rate, but both factors are contributors.

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#9
The Sixth Extinction / - Global Birthrate Decline
Last post by K-Dog - Oct 26, 2024, 01:18 PM
As a total horndog, I can't imagine how sexuality can get confused.


I admit total mystification.  I might be from another planet.

A smile on a dog.
#10
Politics / - War
Last post by monsta666 - Oct 26, 2024, 10:41 AM
The public are not united in their hatred against the government. I mean the discord between Trump and Harris is testament how split the voting public in what is right. Due to this I cannot see how the public goes against big government to cause a lasting civil war.

The alternative scenario for a civil war is if the elites are on two sides of the fence and they are duking it out for overall control of the country. While there are some disagreement most are still in favour of the status quo so I cannot see a civil war being created under this scenario either. There needs to be so other factor that creates the condition where either the public unite against the government (or elite) or if the elite themselves split into two different factions. Currently I do not see either event happening so whilst there will be friction and conflict it will not escalate into a full blown civil war.