• 0 Posts
  • 263 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle








  • The US federal government by law has to follow what names the United States Board on Geographic Names tells them to, and the executive order demanded they change it. He could have changed it to the Gulf of the King Donald Trump That Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With Epstein Honest, and that would officially be the name for it every US federal employee would have to use.

    Nobody else has to use it though, but most companies follow what each local government says to not have issues with borders and stuff.








  • There’s one exception - when they are self-sufficient, or even net positive, with renewables.
    One example is the Google datacenter in Hamina, Finland. They build it in an old unused paper mill, built their own renewables (3/4ths of their required at this point), and they use the cooling loop for district heating for the city. That extra heat provides around 75% of the required heating, meaning the city could stop relying on their old natural gas heaters so now the district heating runs on renewables as well.

    It’s easy to be an energy neutral datacenter, simply pour enough money to building new renewables that wouldn’t have been built without your contributions, and you don’t tax the power grid.





  • No real drama (for Alex at least).

    They wanted to make a car channel but LTT couldn’t finance it due to the recent allegations/drama and resulting revenue loss, were allowed to try it themselves but due to an employee no-compete clause it caused issues and they were given the option of either stopping or getting fired with a huge severance package and stuff. It was essentially a silly legalese way for LTT to pay them to go be solo youtubers chasing their dreams.

    As they say themselves, getting fired was a positive thing.