Also, home batteries and battery storage at public chargers can dampen the “shock” that the grid might face since it’ll deliver power from the local storage that will then recharge at a constant rate from the grid

Funny that you’re getting downvoted, because that’s already happened at least once… Good ol’ Ollie North!

“the nearest lake” really

If we’re gonna go non-credible-defense, why not add an airstrip to the roof of the data center, and it can manage it’s own protection!

can we make it a submarine data center?

Many also come with some kind of a philosophy that stresses self defense and essentially a ‘duty to retreat’ mentality: violence is always the last resort.

Can confirm, every sensei I’ve had pushed this mentality constantly. The people who joined to “learn how to beat people up” never lasted very long when the first thing we’d teach is “how to run away”

Priests read this as gospel at mass where everyone shows up to pray in public and will 100% gossip behind your back if you miss a Sunday or don’t look like you’re praying hard enough while there.

Fediverse doesn’t (as of yet) have a monetization path because of it’s “self hosted” structure - I put it in quotes because most people use large instances, but anyone can spin up their own and federate.

The big risk with this is that if it reaches a critical mass where advertisers see potential for profit, the mechanism that would be most convenient, especially with LLMs, is bots.

Say Toyota wants to promote their new car. They contract an advertising agency, who spins up a few dozen LLM agents trained on Lemmy data and instructions to talk up the latest new car. It might make posts, or just comments, but in all cases it will eventually promote that product.

All that for the cost of a few tokens, and the only giveaway would be the “AI phrasing”, if anyone catches it.

During prohibition era, there was a brick of dried grapes being sold as a nutrition supplement or something like that, but it had a “warning” sticker attached saying specifically not to dissolve it in a specific quantity of water, and if that were to happen, do not let a specific quantity of yeast to fall in it, and especially not to let it sit for 6 weeks, or else you might end up with wine, which is forbidden!

I can see a cheeky sort of company selling a phone with a little warning label attached to it…