BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on With everything becoming convience orientated , how hard would it be to be a hacker nowadays versus back in the day? Like what to read, how to help people, and other semi free things? 5 days ago:
Side note, orientated is an unnecessary conjugation of oriented.
Please just use oriented.
- Comment on How come people have so called "sex addiction"? So much they have rehab places for it. Why not just masturbate and be done with it? 6 days ago:
If masturbation completely replaced sex, human history wouldn’t exist because we wouldn’t have reproduced like we did.
Masturbation is like eating a granola bar to replace a meal. Works fine to get by, but damn does it suck if that’s the only option to keep going.
- Comment on ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ 1 week ago:
Not an engineer but vinegar (ascetic acid) at full strength applied early enough during curing could be a problem. If it’s the watered down stuff for home use and the concrete was already partially cured it wouldn’t do almost anything.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
Why does even-ness matter? Just because our number system is decimal doesn’t mean nature fits into that pattern nicely.
at 0.08 you can be measurably tested to have worse reaction capability, so that’s where they set the limit.
4 beers at 12 oz isn’t exactly 0.08, that’s just approximately what it takes in the average person. Some people will be more, some less. Time and other factors affect it too.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
If those are the reasons you don’t want it, start with that up front. Don’t make bullshit claims about noise pollution or energy use.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
This is the funny part. People complaining about pollution and energy use, when the REAL reason is that they’re afraid of the future of the technology.
If that’s you’re argument against it, just start with that, don’t make fake claims about noise pollution or energy use.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 2 weeks ago:
Gnocchi ARE potato pasta (at least the traditional version is). The four ingredients are potato, wheat flour, eggs, and salt.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not “all around” and literally less than 100 houses are impacted. It’s situated in an industrial zoning area obviously with the grouping there, so maybe the anger should go towards the zoning rules and not the datacenter itself.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
You’re right that they use more power and generate more waste heat per square foot, however, they don’t build larger AC units for them they just use more total units. They are effectively limited in size based on transporting it to the site on a truck, and are the exact same units used in current data centers and other industries that need cooling like this.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
That place already had massive sound issue, it’s directly under the primary flight path for Dulles Airport and only 3 miles away.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
A) Benn Jordan’s videos are pseudoscience bullshit not backed up by real science. Studies like pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10032045/ show no effect from Infrasound on sleep for example, while clearly proving that traffic noises DO affect sleep. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/…/0263-0923.28.2.79 shows that while it can be annoying, it needs to be really fucking loud to do so at these lower frequencies, far higher than HVAC units even hundreds of feet away would produce.
B) You don’t understand at all what these AI datacenters are being used for. It’s not for personal use for funny picture generation. The scale is required for actual work being performed, not the random ChatGPT queries of home users asking about what to buy their significant other for their birthday.
C) They will increase productivity further. If you have a problem with productivity returns not being shared properly with workers (which is a problem I have too) the answer is not to attack a method of further productivity increase, it’s to change the rules around how companies and shareholders are allowed to operate.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
You’re proving my point, these datacenters are not any different than almost any other industry. From factories to airports, they’re the same or sometimes worse than datacenters. Yet everyone is screaming about datacenters, despite most of them not even being built near residential areas.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s some research that shows that Google’s largest datacenters didn’t receive any signficant noise complaints until 2025, despite existing for decades before that.
…newalbanyohio.org/resident-questions/
Over the course of more than 15 years of data center development, specifically, New Albany is only aware of four noise complaints from an operational data center – all of which were resolved within days. In September of 2025, the City received consistent feedback from residents near Google’s New Albany campus about noisy exhaust fans.
Yes, datacenters make Nosie, but so does almost everything else. Airports. Trains. Cars. Factories. The AC Unit on your own fucking house.
They aren’t special, and they aren’t even particularly bad compare to a lot of the other sources like Airports.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
Do you know what makes a lot of noise? Airports. Trains. Cars. Factories. The AC Unit on your own fucking house.
We build and operate all of those, even in residential areas.
Datacenters are not unique, not even the big ones. The noise they put out usually doesn’t travel more than a couple of thousand feet, and the biggest “mall” sized data centers are not being built within a couple of thousand feet of houses.
Hilariously, some of the largest datacenters like the ones Google has in Ohio had no significant noise complaints until AI noise complaints hit the news. …newalbanyohio.org/resident-questions/
Over the course of more than 15 years of data center development, specifically, New Albany is only aware of four noise complaints from an operational data center – all of which were resolved within days. In September of 2025, the City received consistent feedback from residents near Google’s New Albany campus about noisy exhaust fans.
Because it’s BULLSHIT.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 2 weeks ago:
That noise pollution bullshit is quite literally the same scare tactics used against wind farms. It’s completely false.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
How is it hypocritical? China HAS abandoned communism. What part their current policies is moving towards collective ownership?
China’s State Owned Enterprises are at less than 60% of the total production of the country, down from well over 80% during the peak in the 50s and 60s.
Hell, Xi has opened up SoE to a hybrid mix of government and private ownership in 2013.
How is that Communism in any of it’s definitions?
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
The problem we’re arguing about here is “understood as communism”
I understand both of those to be Communism, because they are in fact types of Communism. That’s why they’re referred to as “Religious Communism” and “Primative Communism.”
You are trying to Pidgeon hole Communism as just Marxism, when the word frequently has far broader implications in common use.
Even the dictionaries have definitions that extend beyond Marxism. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism www.dictionary.com/browse/communism en.wiktionary.org/wiki/communism
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, both religious and primative communism both exist today, just not at a state level.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
You clearly didn’t read the links either. There are actively practiced forms of communism listed in there. You’re the ones just being so narrowminded about it’s definition.
For most of historical practice, gay meant happy. We decided to use it for something else only recently in terms of language. That’s how language works.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t ready very far clearly.
There are variations in there that are not trying to “achieve” a communist society without classes. Religious communism for example often still has “classes” in the priesthood and worshippers, and they’re often far more about sharing resources or a lack of private ownership of land.
I’m not religious, but my views are very similar to that theory of communism, as well as sharing aspects of privative communism.
You seem to be set in your categorization of things, you realize that ideas are not an all or nothing type of situation most of the time?
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
Are you saying that I made up an entire Wikipedia article with dozens of variations of Communism?
That page has existed for 2 years, not sure I’m playing that long of a game to win an argument on Lemmy.
It’s like you’re intentionally just ignoring everything I show you because it doesn’t conform to your world view.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
You have a horrible understanding of reality.
If two people get together and put all of their earnings into a pot together, then each take out what they need. That’s a type of communism. It’s also usually called a family.
Marxism/Leninism are specific type of communism as well, that reach well into the political space as well as the economic.
What you’re trying to do right now, imposing your own singular view of what communism can be, is the same as saying Catholicism is the only type of Christianity just because it’s the most well known.
There’s a whole wikipedia article detailing dozens of variations of Communism, from Marxism to variations on Marxism, to variations independent of Marxism. Just because he did a lot of thinking on the whole thing doesn’t mean he’s the only one who gets to define the word.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
It makes me someone who treats them as economic systems, usually referred to as an economist.
Have fun being morally outraged by my proposal, but at least it’s grounded in reality. Humans are not capable of making or maintaining a full Marxist communist state. Our desires are limitless, reality is finite.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
I want Communism for Land, Socialism for Necessities, and Capitalism for Luxuries.
I don’t think that puts me into any of the existing labels to be quite honest.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need a ruling class to have a social welfare state. It’s possible to just have everyone not work in theory.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the current 3-tier standard for social classes directly disagrees with you. Middle class people do get a new tier just by being more productive(perceived or actual) than another.
The 3-tier system is archaic at best, and more likely intentional propaganda.
Either there should only be 2 classes of people(those who work to live, and those who profit off other people enough to not need to work) or there should be a dozen classes to encompass things like the homeless, welfare supported persons, retired people, people who make part of their income from profit and part of their income from employment, etc.
The definition of communism I’ve already mentioned is one of those theories, but you’re arguing it isn’t real. An economic system where there is no private ownership of the means of production. That’s it, no discussion about social classes or anything.
Other alternatives span a range from no private ownership of anything (normally it’s just the means of production) to group ownership rather than being some sort of universal system.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
Canada
You’re stretching the realities here with your assertions. The vast majority of what the government does is in the interest of workers. It could be better, absolutely, but it’s a far cry from some dystopian corpo-state. The government could move towards more positive worker benefits, but a lot of those workers won’t actually vote for them if they did because people aren’t entirely rational. So we’re essentially getting what we deserve right now.
Profit-bound but still owned by the state would still be socialist. There’s no requirement that the means of production not generate profit to qualify as being owned by the workers.
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Yup, we always treat ourselves differently than others.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
You clearly don’t understand how many countries operate. Or you’re somehow misunderstanding what “means of production” or “workers” means.
My local electricity provider, and all of it’s power production equipment, transmission lines, meters, etc. are owned by the government. So is every hospital in the country. Almost every road is public.
Means of production is any sort of capital used to build value, so things like infrastructure, buildings, factories, machinery, tools, etc.
Workers does not mean the people that work in a particular building or factory, it means the class of people as a whole.
It’s pretty obvious that if the government owns something, under a democracy that thing is is owned by the citizens of the region. Even Marx mentions that socialism would use the state for collective ownership.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 3 weeks ago:
You’re wrong.
Communism can be entirely defined as an economic system with no private ownership.
The classes concept is a symptom, not the cause. It’s true that without private ownership there wouldn’t be a working class vs upper class, but we would hardly be classless at that point. There would still be people working, and people not working under communism. Some people can’t work, they simply aren’t capable, and some will choose not to work because there will already be enough to go around from the people who choose to work just for something to do. If you don’t think that classes will form because of those difference, you don’t know human nature very well.
Marx gave a single definition of communism, there are plenty of others.