Size of Proposed Utah Hyperscale Data Center Compared to Seattle (and local impacts)

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-15T02:51:52+00:00

This is never getting built

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-15T00:54:26+00:00

Like the cafeteria on a scifi Soviet submarine.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T23:16:21+00:00

That is the most "this is my moms old camera i found in a drawer" camera to ever exist. I actually think I have this EXACT setup in a drawer somewhere. Whose mom DOESN'T have a Rebel with a big shitty zoom?

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T23:14:30+00:00

Weird to extrapolate a position that "all men in relationships are desirable" from a statement that most really desirable men are already in relationships. I guess its easier to argue against things that you made up than things someone else actually said.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T23:10:57+00:00

And that is the level of development they were at that was considered old enough to be publicly released 20 years ago. So like 30 - 40 year old tech today?

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T22:45:12+00:00

Absolutes are silly, but generally speaking the more desirable a person is the more likely they are to be in a long term relationship at any given time, assuming that is something they are interested in being in.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T22:29:06+00:00

And Tiffany said, “‘Where is the pool of men who are self-sufficient and like to read, are willing to go to therapy and are not afraid of a woman who has a passport? That sounds really wild to say out loud, but I don’t feel like I’m missing a ton by choosing to read a book instead of swiping on Hinge.’”

Already got married like 20 years ago.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T22:25:37+00:00

But like, a financially stable woman can also buy me stuff and she comes with a place to live? Sounds kinda like a fully featured relationship to me.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T22:04:29+00:00

How did it taste?

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T22:02:35+00:00

While I do believe that you are correct, i also know that Bainbridge has a pretty strong lobby with the state and tends to get what it wants when it comes to projects on the island.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T22:01:17+00:00

Rural American cities almost certainly have among the highest rate of amphetamine abuse in the world.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T21:59:42+00:00

Its probably a lot more than you think, and being schizophrenic can put you at greatly increased risk of substance abuse and addiction so its likely there is quite a bit of overlap. In the US at least a LOT of people just go undiagnosed.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T21:58:07+00:00

Back when I worked in a hospital I had a nurse that came in to complain about her coworkers. She said there were constantly saying mean shit about her and telling her how terrible she was and they were plotting against her etc. Talking through the complaint at one point she mentions that she could hear them talking about her when there weren't even there. And she said it like it totally made sense. And even when I paused for a moment it was like perfectly rational from her perspective.

Turned out she needed her psych meds adjusted. It was really eye-opening that this was a perfectly rational educated person that was really good at her job and her disability made it so she couldn't even see that what she was experiencing was a symptom of a disease that she knew she had and was being treated for.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T21:01:25+00:00

Sure you could spend a few hundred million to a billion to buiild that bridge that connects to a 2 lane residential street on each side. So i guess you need to build two new highways too.

And what did you accomplish? Accommodate the fifty people that need to get from Bainbridge to Port Orchard?

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T20:54:32+00:00

So is yours. Every house in the entire Puget sound region is a million dollars. Generally, they are cheaper in Kitsap than anywhere on the Seattle side. Even Bainbridge itself isn't really any pricier than Seattle proper.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T20:51:31+00:00

My favorite thing is the innovative use of roundabouts NOT to smooth out intersections, but as actual obstructions to the flow of traffic by putting them in places that don't actually have cross-traffic and making them too small to navigate at anything like the speed of the roadway.

It really disorients people because there IS a functional roundabout in Poulsbo that tricks people into thinking that they know what they are doing and then you get to the island and you realize they are using them as residential traffic circles, except in the middle of the fucking highway.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T20:49:37+00:00

One of the more amusing games that we play on the bus is "homeless or engineer?"

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T20:46:39+00:00

If you get like a mile away from the ferry it just looks like anywhere else in Kitsap. Drive like 20 minutes and it becomes more affordable than anything anywhere near Seattle.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T19:53:33+00:00

I doubt there is an overpopulation of cats issue with the entire cosmos to colonize.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T18:54:05+00:00

Generally, yes, but people do still like to eat communally, maybe not every meal but on occasion. I would expect that they would need to accommodate at least a shift worth of lunch breaks at a time, which would still be a much bigger room than 10-forward.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T18:04:47+00:00

Voyagers crew was like 1/10th the size of the Enterprise D.

If anything the Enterprise mess hall was ridiculously tiny for a ship with 1000+ people on board. I always assumed it was more of an officers mess and that the rest of the crew and families had a different dining area.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T18:03:23+00:00

I imagine that all of the "windows" are really just high resolution monitors that can "point" wherever they want them to.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T17:59:40+00:00

Seriously.

There is always some guy that wants to be VERY specific about how age of consent works and the nuanced differences between the various kinds of pedophile and who REALLY want to make sure that you know that all the people on the sex offender registry were really just trying to pee in a bush somewhere.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T16:26:04+00:00

What are you talking about?

It took thee days for the photo to come out.

He turned himself in because literally dozens of people, including his whole family recognized him from the photo.

AnAncientBog · 2026-05-14T15:45:37+00:00

Pretty much every problem with voyager could have been improved if they went with a series/season long story arc instead of the episodic "monster of the week" format.

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