Waste of time and energy. People forget how much activity happened in that area over 20 years during the Iraq/Afghanistan fiasco that didnt achieve anything. Same story will repeat because the chimp troupe cant handle that level of complexity no matter what toys they have. So its like spending time collecting data on ants, that have learnt to speak and have declared they are going to control the weather. There are better things to waste a life and career on.
Readit Newsgotwaz commented on China Deploys 30k-Ton Liaowang-1 "Floating Supercomputer" to Gulf of Oman defencesecurityasia.com/e... · Posted by u/swed420
> You are also forgetting that Sun can be blocked during times of rains and Wind is unpredictable as well.
We already have wires that cross continents to smooth out supply variations. It's exceedingly rare you get no sun and no wind over entire continents for an extended period.
> You are forgetting that markets operate after work and the late night culture and so many other things.
I'm not forgetting it, they just use less power.
You can see this easily in charts of supply/demand throughout the day: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook#section-net-demand-tren...
> A lot of energy in general is still needed during nights and would we be still burning coal for that?
Again, batteries.
Its not just about enough sun and wind capacity. There is already over supply in lot of the world. But the supply curve doesnt match the daily DYNAMIC demand curve so grid ops still dependent on coal and gas for different reasons. It becomes about what happens during unpredicted demand spikes, or when congestion on those wires happens whose load gets priority? which producers get curtailed? etc etc That moves probs into the political domain. You can watch daily grid ops live and see the probs. Wars and the weather randomly take down wires and substations all the time. If you can move people and factories to follow the wind and the sun then maybe you get demand and supply curves to match easier.
gotwaz commented on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package techcrunch.com/2026/03/07... · Posted by u/Arcuru
Isn't Google a trillion dollar company going gangbusters toward its next trillion dollars?
Well currently they make about 1500 bucks a year of every american household just selling ads. Make much less on the rest of the world. So it really just boils down to what the upper limit on ad sales to the american consumer is.
gotwaz commented on When interfaces become disposable chrisloy.dev/post/2026/02... · Posted by u/chrisloy
Interfaces strip away Identity. Lot of products are built around monetizing identity.
I believe he's using porn to inflate Grok usage.
And we geniuses complained about news feeds and so on being "addictive".
This just adds another addiction to X, where all elevators are "going down"
X going down is a good thing. Its not just about addiction. Its about giving everyone a ham radio and allowing everyone to broadcast on the same frequency. Such a system was doomed to fail just like we saw in the early days of radio broadcasting before processes about coordinating who gets to broadcast and when became formalized.
gotwaz commented on China is the real threat, Taiwan says in rebuff to Munich speech reuters.com/world/china/c... · Posted by u/DustinEchoes
Of course it is.
Unfortunately, the major European players have generally proven to be utterly lacking in geopolitical foresight and incapable of acknowledging (much less taking credible action against) imminent or active threats until they smash down the front door, and as they did with Russia, China is no exception.
If Europe is to become the independent power bloc it loudly proclaims it will, it needs to understand that they need to expand their horizons beyond their immediate periphery. It cannot simply continue to pretend that the the affairs of the world outside of the EU borders are immaterial like they did in 2014.
Why? Switzerland has survived hundreds of years longer than the EU dealing with larger powers and bullys quite smoothly. "Expanding horizons" to survive is already a failed concept from colonial experience, and extremely unpredicable in modern times as Putin has already proved to everyone. If "smashing" takes 4 years just to struggle to take 4 poor provinces and inflicts massive damage to self, who wants to follow that path? Only morons who will get bogged down just as Putin has.