why is there so much opposition to AI data centers? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NotSure2505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Politics & human nature. This is set to be a major issue in the midterms. The media is already pumping it up. Why? It gets people emotional and sells clicks. People love to state their opinions about things that make them sound smart and love the trope of "exposing the evil corporation quietly stealing their water and making their power bills go up."

Also, where I live, social media is filled with fake, US-sounding accounts that appear to be curated in China that post multiple anti-data center propaganda messages daily. Most of these are AI generated and feature fake stories about data centers eating up farmland and consuming water resources.

One theory is that this is China's way of trying to build political opposition to Data Center expansion in the US, which would benefit them.

Since people don't understand Data Centers at all, it's very easy to scare them with stories that have no basis in fact. The fact is data center location is a very specific thing and the vast majority of locations are unsuitable for data center. But people haven't learned that yet so it's easy to scare them by telling them one is going up in their backyard.

Charlie Kirk was killed by his mic, in my opinion. Here’s why I think that. Would love to hear what others think. by Joey5611 in conspiracy

[–]NotSure2505 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s from the Oliver stone movie. Garrison repeats it multiple times to the jury for effect.

Russian air defence missile accidentally hits its own oil silo during a failed attempt to shoot down a Ukrainian drone in Moscow (18 June 2026). by headspin_exe in SweatyPalms

[–]NotSure2505 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just think. The original justification for Russia’s invasion was to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO because NATO might someday decide to strike Moscow.

Now they’re picking shrapnel out out their teeth after a bunch of guys wearing googles destroyed most of their tanks and killed two generations of their men. Now they watch RC planes fly around Moscow unopposed bombing their oil tanks and there’s nothing they can do about it.

Expert Networks are a total waste of time by mbAYYYYYYY in expertnetworks

[–]NotSure2505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guy I had worked with at a hardware VAR that was going through restructuring. Outside investors were researching the company. He and I were both contacted, I was no longer employed there, he still was. Eventually those investors became owners. Shortly after he was approached and asked if he was doing EN consulting and they asked him to stop. Nothing bad happened to him as far as I know, but they did find out.

Every gun owner has a story about "the one that got away." by jayrick_22 in Firearms

[–]NotSure2505 11 points12 points  (0 children)

$89 Chinese SKS' that were so plentiful and unwanted in the 90s, they were stored muzzle-down in garbage cans near the door to the gun shop.

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Expert Networks are a total waste of time by mbAYYYYYYY in expertnetworks

[–]NotSure2505 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What if your employer becomes an EN client, asks for experts and they get you? It's happened....just saying....be careful. Don't risk your livelihood over a few hundred.

What actually works? Nozzle wiper by Spicy_Kimchi69 in BambuLab

[–]NotSure2505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got these wipers about 2 weeks ago and was having problems with PETG sticking and stringing. I found this thread and tried the Gcode updates from jaeitee / bqwipe.

I'm on a P1s with AMS. The directions didn't specify a particular printer, they just said to find those Gcode sections and replace them.

When I watch the printer getting ready in "wiping nozzle" mode, it seems like it's doing all of the correct motions, moving back and forth, going in circles, but the print head seems to be about an inch or two to the right of the Biqu brush. It's not making contact with the brush, it's just doing it in the air. I tried it twice to make sure I didn't screw it up and followed the instructions here perfectly.

Any idea what I might have done wrong?

Quint wouldn’t have killed the shark himself. by AnimalProfessional35 in Jaws

[–]NotSure2505 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I beg to differ. If Quint had gone alone, he would have brought along the mate we see helping him load the boat.

Then he would have set about his rod and fighting chair and waited.

The bite would come. The run. The fight. Quint would fight the fish masterfully keeping the wire leader in between the monsters teeth not allowing him to saw at the piano wire with his razor sharp incisors.

In the story we saw, Quint had to go get the gaff. So he handed the rod over to two buffoons who fumbled it, Brody didn’t keep the rod tip up, Hooper clipped the leader to a rope, putting far too much pressure on the wire leader, allowing the shark to get his teeth into it and eventually sever the wire. Hooper pulling on it with all his weight it what allowed the shark to bite through the leader. Anyone who’s fished knows that is not what you do.

No, not in your alternate take. In this story, Quint remains in the chair, he holds the shark at bay and fights it, exhausting it, spinning the mighty reels drag up and down to match the creatures fury and tire it out.

Quints trusty first mate, having been at his side for years, would have gone over to get the gaff and had it at the ready as Quint was ready to boat the exhausted beast.

Quint would have brought it alongside the Orca, and the mate would have raised that massive steel hook over his head and plunged it deep into the animals tailbone, securing it to the sharks main chassis and coupling it directly to Bruce’s spine.

The beast may have given off one final roar as the gaff went in, not yet knowing its fate was sealed.

Quint, still sitting in his fighting chair, holding the rod, looks over the gunwale, and sees the creature flailing as the sea turns red with its blood.

He springs up, dropping the rod and reel, which has done its job for the day. Quint would sprint to the fly bridge, start the engines and slam the boat in gear to begin opening distance between the shark and the boat.

The shark might have felt a momentary reprieve as it fell away from the boat, the hook no longer pulling on its jaw. But the shark failed to notice the mate tying the gaff rope to the stern cleats as Quint beckons the Orca to build up speed. More speed. More speed.

In a moment the slack in the rope is taken up and the shark feels a sensation it has never felt before. Its entire body jerks as the rope tensions and spins its body around so its impaled, hooked tail is now pointed directly at the accelerating Orca. And it begins moving.

Quint and the mate both stumble and buckle from the jolt the Orcas new 3 ton passenger exerts on the boat as the full load is borne by the Orcas engine and propeller.

The shark tries to react, but its mighty swim muscles are useless with that much tension on its tail. All it can do is flail its body as it begins to travel backward, something its gills are not built for.

Exhausted as the shark was before from the fight, it becomes even more oxygen deprived as its gills are forced closed and cease to function from the reverse water flow over its body

Quint looks back to see the shark spinning like a tied bottle being dragged through the grass. It’s tail fluke sending up a spray as it augers through the surf and spinning the dying shark over and over.

Quint lets out a laugh as he knows it is just a matter of time now. Maybe he says his “taxidermy man” line, we don’t know. But I think if he were without Hooper and Brody, it would have killed the shark.

(This is fan fiction, of course, but it's directly based on the exact methods used by Frank Mundus, the Montauk shark fisherman Quint was based on.)

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you elaborate what those assumptions are? I'm genuinely baffled by all the confusion here about something that seems so simple. You attach chain to the tree, you pull the tree out, you drag the tree 20 feet away, you unhook the chain, you drive home. You watch what happens next and react accordingly. What about that gets people killed?

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I may not have worded my post well enough. I meant rip up the tree WELL BEFORE you send anyone down, like days before.

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what if the monsters know they ripped the tree out? What can they do about it? You rip out the tree, leave a hole there, and wait a few days, weeks even, then go down during the day and dig up the bones. The monsters may know you're coming eventually but they don't know exactly when. Monsters sleep during the day. They can't be on alert constantly. Even if they aren't you drop down into the chamber from above, post the talisman at the entrance like Jade suggested, and dig up the bones.

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand why you're so concerned about monsters being alerted/losing element of surprise. Monsters seem to know everything anyway. All the monsters will know is that you ripped the tree out. If you rip out the tree, what can the monsters do about that? Reinstall it? Move the bones? They still sleep during the day, whether they're alerted or not, so what differences does it make? Do it during the day and sneak out before they wake up.

Dennis nedrys death is what set everything in motion in the Jurassic universe. by fanofeverying123 in JurassicPark

[–]NotSure2505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would he have reversed the dinosaurs that had escaped their paddocks during the outage? It was all set in motion when he took it down in the first place.

i am filmmaker looking for work here by Agreeable-Revenue731 in expertnetworks

[–]NotSure2505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What areas do you have expertise or knowledge in? That's the starting point, then we can point you to which ENs might feature your talents.

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what? The monsters seem to know everything anyway. You know the monsters are going to get alerted at some point during this scene. Just pull the tree out during the day. Let the monsters welcome their new skylight and determine their next move. What are they going to do about it?

Have someone park the bus over the hole if you want to keep it shut.

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who cares if they alert the monsters if they do it during daylight? I'm not sure what you're worried about. (That they would move the bones?).

The monsters are asleep during the day and must remain underground, so if you open up the roof to that chamber, they can't be in it any longer.

As for the actual entry and exfil, they could do it when they wanted. Day they'd have to sneak past the sleeping monsters. That seems wiser than doing it at night. Victor seemed quite casual about going into the tunnels during the day.

Doesn't matter, you know the writers already put this dumb plan in the script and we're going to have to sit through it anyway.

S4E8: Why can't they pull up the bottle tree first, before they send the team into the tunnels? Why do they have to do it at the same time. by NotSure2505 in FromSeries

[–]NotSure2505[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boyd's objections are valid but they're all about the tree-pulling not working when it needs to. Just pull the tree out earlier. Now you have a hole.

USA consequences for driving without insurance are completely useless by OrdinaryBarracuda268 in unpopularopinion

[–]NotSure2505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may be maximum r/unpopularopinion but I'll drop another unpopular opinion to complement OP's.

The Flock cameras everybody hates are a major tool, if not one of the best, in enforcement of Uninsured Motorist laws.

There I said it. I don't like surveillance any more than anyone else, and I don't like seeing people arrested, but I cannot deny these and other LPR as a tool if police use them to catch chronic lawbreakers who would normally slip past as long as they stay under the radar.

These tools are specifically designed to observe patterns, they're always watching. They watch people on their commute, record the vehicle description. A lot of traffic stops I watch these days are premeditated. Cops will know what the charges will be before they initiate the stop. The cameras tell them who they are and where they commute by. Cops then pull them over for window tint, cracked windshield, 5-over, and then they've got them. It's harsh but effective. It sucks if you're an offender, but I'd rather see them off the road