@brad I imagine for the same reasons that every handgun on screen for about a 20 year span was a Desert Eagle: someone really liked the look and it spread like a props department virus.
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Does Elon Musk actually think the vacuum of space is a good cooling solution for an orbital datacenter?@gwynnion Everything that comes out his mouth is a ploy to get him more money or power. Usually both.
Orbital datacenters are just an attempt to grift the hyperscalers, desperate to grow and flush with money they can't let sit still or the economy shudders. "Give me a few of those billions, and we'll put your GPUs in space. It's cold there!"
The folks actually making decisions in tech rn would *absolutely* fall for this, over the protests of their own engineers.
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US AG Pat Bondi saying prosecuting the Epstein perpetrators would collapse the system is saying the quiet part out loud: the Epstein class are the ones in charge and they're all complicit to some extent.@gwynnion Some crimes are Too Big To Fail.