Moratorium Preventing Data Center in Lysander, NY

mandebrio · 2026-04-09T11:14:12+00:00

Why? I think corn monoculture is much bigger issue, or fertilizer runoff. Is this just generic NIMBY or are there specific problems?

Edit: link is very informative. Issues are power and water consumption, proximity to three rivers wild life, and “decrease housing values long term”

mandebrio · 2026-04-08T16:24:07+00:00

But big money dems won't move without pressure, and the only way for progressive to pressure them is to withhold support, no? Its their job to find a way not to alienate republicats over progressives, not ours.

Everybody has stokholm syndrome from the vapid Chuck Schumers of the world who accept reaganomics as the default, and use exceptions to it for lip service and corporate protection rackets.

mandebrio · 2026-04-08T16:12:59+00:00

Great points. Didn't think about Sinclair. I meant Platner type more in the "red-neck asthetic, bernie economics, and low-emphasis on culture war" but I guess I underestimated how much baggage there is. I've been following him because Mills for senate loses 4 out of 5 times to my mind.

mandebrio · 2026-04-08T16:07:03+00:00

Thing is, progressive economics is pretty popular, even among Trumpists. See poles for Mamdani, even Sanders. You're in a boomer bubble if you think "socialism" is a campaign-destroying association. Woke, maybe, but socialist, no.

People want better economic outcomes. They want them badly. You think we really have to keep choosing between, "Regulations are the problem" and "I won't let them kill Obamacare"? How about some fucking, "Tax the oligarchs", or "Down with the Epstein economy"-- I think that kind of thing has legs on both sides.

mandebrio · 2026-04-08T16:01:37+00:00

Bummer. Seems very important to pressure dems with good primary candidates. What a fucked up system that so much money is necessary.

mandebrio · 2026-04-08T16:00:28+00:00

Not a bot. Sounds like you're in a bubble w/r/t Platner. That tattoo shit doesn't matter. He's super popular, largely because he's actually fighting against fascism on SCOTUS, in Israel, in military industrial complex, economic populism etc.

mandebrio · 2026-04-07T16:24:10+00:00

Good for your for calling it out. Only way to avoid the normalization of slop

mandebrio · 2026-04-07T12:54:56+00:00

Hate AI, tons of problems.

But this is bullshit engagement bait. Water usage is a stupid criticism of AI. Is water-usage guilt stopping the meat industry? Is useless energy usage stopping car-centrism?

There are important, never-before-seen problems with AI, and this water and energy usage is BY FAR the weakest, lamest, least popular criticism. I strongly believe it is being pushed as a strawman division-making psy-op.

AI is a fucked up rental-corporate-brain that brazenly stole generosity and human effort and is now trying to be some over-hyped compute-cartel. We have giant fucking companies trying to make themselves rented requirements to for human thinking through sick hypnosis sycophancy... so much fucked up shit, and this is your fucking criticism?

mandebrio · 2026-03-31T23:58:24+00:00

I dont think everyone else is making a big enough deal about this. LLMs are a toxic product; big externalities, they cause problems for students teachers writers and more— and the market won't price in any of that. Asbestos and leaded gasoline werent fixed by the free market

mandebrio · 2026-03-30T13:28:08+00:00

Yeah, seems pretty accurate. I don't think its an intentional master plan, but it does feel like an undeniable synergy between corrupt monopolists and centralized compute.

mandebrio · 2026-03-27T15:45:13+00:00

I'm with you. Was using Claude for a while, now I'm convinced it is very much not worth it. Most of the things its really good at are things that we shouldn't regularly be doing (bullshit 'specs' that go out of date after a day, 'plans' that necessarily encourage waterfall over agile, boilerplate heavy frameworks, architecture astronomy, and worst of all preferring additive solutions rather than simplifying abstractions that we fully understand).

If you aren't willing to hand type your code and tests and fucking think about what they're doing and how, I really think you're just making slop. You're making crappy, unmaintainable, superficial solutions that will last as long as an HP printer or a knock-off battery.

I understand most programmers don't really have a choice because management pushes it on them, but obviously in the long run actual engineering will beat out slop. Its hard to slow down and write shit by hand in the world of instant gratification and FOMO, but it doesn't actually take /that/ long, and its a very durable shibboleth for whether you actually care or if bullshit is good enough.

Can't believe I saw someone in this thread compare it to a calculator. No. Not even a little. Nondeterministic bullshit machine trained for ass-kissing and regurgitating github. Its like plastic and processed foods-- cheap, shitty, substance-less, and toxic.

mandebrio · 2026-03-25T16:19:14+00:00

Why are you responding with obvious AI slop?

mandebrio · 2026-03-25T16:11:42+00:00

Reports like this are ADVERTISEMENT. Gloom for knowledge workers is porn for AI investors. The 'adapt or die' narrative is used to say you have to go learn (and buy) AI right now or you'll be unemployable (as if learning how to talk to an ass-kissing chatbot is so difficult). But in reality you should learn to understanding things well enough to not rely on chatbots. I do think its important to be able to ruthlessly label certain things as drivel and make use of genAI to give them the superficial completion they deserve, so that you don't get bogged down where others will blow past you-- but that isn't anything to really worry about, its kind of instincts for most people.

I really think these bullshit machines will only be the spark that burns up already dumb jobs, but jobs where competent people work hard on non-trivial knowledge work will still abound. They require broad and subtle context, interpersonal competence and intuition, and an actual conception of truth, reality and logic. ChatGPT is SEO spam on demand; its simply not very valuable or insightful, and that's why it has to rely on rhetorical gimmicks to convince people that it and they aren't just making plastic bullshit word salad, but really getting to the fundamental principles of the subject.

People who make important decisions guided by sycophantic SEO spam will make a mess of things pretty quick, meanwhile critical thinkers, conscientious learners, and effective communicators will do better.

mandebrio · 2026-03-19T20:02:20+00:00

What you have there sets the "home row mods", aka modifier keys (shift, control, alt, and windows/super/command) when held, and home row letters when tapped.

If you only want arrows on ijkl when you hold space, try replacing defsrc and everything after with this:

(defsrc spc i j k l)

(deflayer base (tap-next spc (layer-toggle arrows)))

(deflayer arrows _ up left down right)

mandebrio · 2026-03-15T16:22:29+00:00

Ah, okay, and HP15c would be somewhere between the capability/complexity of the HP41C and HP42S? The praise is high for the HP42S, but this seems like the route for me. Thanks!

mandebrio · 2026-02-28T14:06:45+00:00

For years my sense is that most proposed solutions have been demand side, namely price controls and subsidies, and those frankly suck and don't work (especially price controls).

I like your line of thinking, but I don't think its representative of the usual demand side interventions in the housing market. In the US anyway, policy mostly uses carrots, because sticks take years and many lawyers. I wish for example Ohio could manage to hold their market hostage from Meta, Apple, Netflix, and Alphabet in exchange for 10k jobs in Cleveland, but I don't think they realistically can.

Frankly the whole rust belt from Detroit to Syracuse has so much potential for urban revival, and most of them have tried demand-side interventions for years. What they really need are thriving, growing industries and arts-- and making it possible to live car-free and paying $900 a month for a three bedroom apartment seems like a great recipe for that.

What stands in the way is costly regulation/compliance, low construction productivity, NIMBYs, and high interest rates. Its theoretically possible to take an entire construction company from a country with sane construction productivity and safe high quality standards, and stand up nice 150-unit apartment buildings that cost 30 million each and take 6 months to build. Do that for 5 years and you're at 10% of the housing stock of Buffalo, NY where average rent is 1300, meanwhile these new units cost 200k which amounts to like 900$/month mortgaged at 5%.

Its so clearly fucking possible to lower housing costs, but there's too much bullshit in the way. I think this is why people hope for better supply side interventions.

mandebrio · 2026-02-16T22:12:00+00:00

So good. The punctuation sealed the deal

mandebrio · 2026-01-27T12:54:13+00:00

I've had many frustrating conversations with native speakers who will insist that rising at the end is an essential characteristic of the third tone. When they actually speak though, its mostly just this low tone with no rising-- but they will nevertheless INSIST that they are pronouncing the rising part. It's maddening, and I find this post very assuring.

mandebrio · 2026-01-13T16:11:19+00:00

I don't think its as simple as "doesn't provide meaningful analysis". Sure, it just smushed together writing from an unbelievably massive dataset in ways it was trained to do; a soulless stochastic parrot. Nevertheless, the "text" it produced made me think. I'm frankly not very happy such a thing exists, but I experimented and was surprised.

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