Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on What is the difference between a Server Farm and a Data Center? And how or why do data center's produce so much waste>? 1 day ago:
The terms are kind of interchangeable. They don’t have rigid technical definitions.
But a server farm could be doing anything. Serving up websites, hosting cloud storage, rendering movies, providing financial exchange services, scientific analysis, genuinely anything you might want a bunch of computers to do.
The main difference is scale. You could turn a spare bedroom into a small server farm. Data Centers are massive complexes usually dedicated to extremely intense compute tasks. The most intensive computing right now being AI stuff.
- Comment on What are all the words for like elimination/destruction/annihilation 1 day ago:
EEXTEERMINAATE!!!
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 2 days ago:
$12K per person?
$500 per violation?
Those are absolutely deterrent numbers!
How much do you think they make with each violation?
These are inline advertising numbers were talking about here. They probably don’t make $5 violation. - Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 2 days ago:
I didn’t mean to imply this amount would be applied nationally. I merely wanted to put it in perspective. It’s not small amount relative to the number people it represents.
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 2 days ago:
no living creature can abide […] corporations are people
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 2 days ago:
This is just New Mexico
I’d be quite suprised if they made that much from New Mexico. It would be nearly $12k per person. - Comment on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 3 days ago:
Gotta have money to loose money
- Comment on Why don't people do Documentaries about the average person instead of someone who was in the news or pop culture? Like their neighbor or something. 1 week ago:
I don’t know. I’m pretty booring
- Comment on Why don't people do Documentaries about the average person instead of someone who was in the news or pop culture? Like their neighbor or something. 1 week ago:
Most people are boring?
Maybe it’s just me - Comment on Why is it legal for Trump to short stocks, then bet against them? I mean he gets a shitload of money. But what about the common folk? 1 week ago:
Because the insider trading laws have a specific carve out for elected federal officials. It’s crazy, but true.
- Comment on How can Waymo operate Chinese made automobiles in the US? 1 week ago:
As far as I know DOT certifies vehicles for sale in the US. Individuals can import any vehicles they want. Each state has its own requirements for registration. Because remember, people can build their own cars and as long as they meet the requirements for that state, they can be driven on the roads.
- Comment on How can Waymo operate Chinese made automobiles in the US? 1 week ago:
They aren’t banned from import. They’re banned from sale. If you want to import one you bought yourself in China you can do that.
- Comment on What was the most suggestive "out of context" public conservation piece you've ever heard? 1 week ago:
An incomplete piece of a conversation.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
There are lost of recopies for home made lube online.
For hand jobs, simple olive oil will work fine. Don’t know if it’s water based, but it clean up easy enough.
But still, what the bot for? - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Giving someone a hand job, is doing it from scratch.
What’s the sex bot for? - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
I’m not.
I’m asking people to not treat better as the solution. They way they do with rent controls and school loan forgiveness. Buying locally is fine to do, for you in your life, but it has no effect on the larger problem. Too many people pretend it does, or will. - Comment on How come killing a cat or dog is not more of an upgraded crime to murder? Alot of people consider their "pets" family members and such. Details inside 1 week ago:
True.
They are higher than people - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
I’m not criticizing people for doing little things.
I’m criticizing people for over inflating those little things. I’m criticizing people for telling themselves and others, those little things are going to “shake the system”. - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
I’m hoping it motivates people to more, if they truly believe in effecting change.
I don’t expect them to like me for it. - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Sure, but that has nothing to do with the post about it here.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
No. It’s more marketing, and coms.
Which is the least useful of the bunch. There’s already plenty of that on social media. Organizing is action in the real world, not online. - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
I’m pointing out that the “little things” don’t actually shake the bird cage. At best they just make some noise.
Besides, shaking the bird cage only annoys or maybe hurts the birds. You need to open the door to actually free them from the cage.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
That was just one, of a few suggestions.
Obviously not everyone can start a business. Who will work at your business every everyone else started their own?But yah, if you want to make big changes fast, you need to make big moves.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Those things are all good to do, because they support your local economy, and probably have better quality food for your own health.
But Walmart doesn’t care, and doesn’t view your local farmer’s market as competition. As you said they don’t have everything, and you still go to Walmart when you need to. I’m just saying be honest about your reasons. Buying from your farmers market isn’t fighting capitalism. It’s just buying better local food.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Now you’re organizing, like I suggested. But as you said that’s very difficult. And that’s even the more difficult goal to organise around.
Part of the fossil fuel play book in the 80’s and 90’s, was the idea of the "Individual Carbon Footprint’. They created that idea, specifically to shift the burden of climate change from them, to the consumer. They did so because they new the collective action need to make change that way, was far more difficult than pushing lawmakers to change the laws.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
If you play the “vote with your wallet” game, the biggest wallet wins.
Who’s wallet is bigger? - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Organizing, protesting, voting and voter registration drives, marketing and coms. Even starting a union owned business, or something similar. Those kinds of things make a difference. individual purchasing decisions don’t.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
The idea is capitalism. As in buying from large corporations. Whatever the price or profit, the topic was about who and where you’re buying from, not for how much.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Like I said, it makes you feel better, that’s fine.
But don’t pretend it’s fighting the fight. Though if you don’t pretend, it may not make you feel better. - Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Maybe. But price wasn’t the argument being made. That’s a non sequitur.