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Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
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Posted on 09/21/2024 9:52:17 AM PDT by aquila48

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To: dfwgator

Can’t you just press Control-Alt-Destroy?


21 posted on 09/21/2024 11:34:49 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: aquila48
Or just a pretext so Bill Gates can get his hands on fissile material? {snicker}
22 posted on 09/21/2024 12:25:19 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: aquila48

Sadly Trump is all in on the AI nightmare coming to the world. He sad so just a few days ago. Now we have to produce dangerous power and radioactive waste in order to create a world ruled and controlled by AI. And yes I am still voting for Trump, but he is not so perfect in every way. He is all in on the energy hungry Crypto as well.


23 posted on 09/21/2024 12:48:30 PM PDT by Revel
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To: aquila48

Yet another Babylon Bee headline that is not a Babylon Bee headline.


24 posted on 09/21/2024 12:48:45 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Revel

Funny how all the Global Warming/Climate Change freaks never talk about AI and Crypto’s impact.


25 posted on 09/21/2024 12:49:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aquila48

The only problem with restarting TMI is it will attract Jane Fonda. I live about ten miles from TMI, and the only thing glowing is my personality.


26 posted on 09/21/2024 1:02:50 PM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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To: Revel

“And yes I am still voting for Trump, but he is not so perfect in every way. “

Have you ever known one that is? Trump is far and away the best we got right, and I’m a hell of a lot more worried about the Kamel and her Puppet Masters getting in than AI. (and she would be even more pro AI).

“He is all in on the energy hungry Crypto as well.”

And you think the Chinese are not? Like nuclear bombs, the genie is out of the bottle so you better learn how to live with it and to be the best at it.

And like any other thing invented by man, AI is a tool - how we use it depends on us.


27 posted on 09/21/2024 1:03:04 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Daveinyork

‘The only problem with restarting TMI is it will attract Jane Fonda. “

And a remake of “The China Syndrome”

“I live about ten miles from TMI, and the only thing glowing is my personality.”

But most ignoramuses think thousands died, where in reality no one did. The radiation was very well contained and little escaped.


28 posted on 09/21/2024 1:35:50 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Theoria

What’s easier to turn off by government force. A dozen or so refineries concentrated in a couple of geographic regions that all have plant gates where LEO or troops could just show up at them and stop the trucks from leaving and turn off the valves to the pipelines too. Or thousands of distributed power plants scattered all over a continental sized area. In reality the current refinery system could be shut down simply by the government saying stop shipping product to X regions or group of people’s or we will nationalize you. Every refinery operator would comply immediately. It’s self soothing to think the governments can’t shut down any energy system it chooses too. What they cannot shut down is the sun if you have an off grid capable solar system even if the grid is down by force or disaster when that giant thermonuclear fireball in the sky come out every 12 hours or so you have power and no one short of smashing your panels and burning down your battery bank can stop that. Dotgov already has proved during Katrina and also Harvey they can and will shut down gasoline distribution and retail sales. My Tesla doesn’t need permission to get electrons from the sky. As for “kill” switches every car after 2026 will have one and every car with any OnStar,Bluelink,Fordsync,Volvo on call every one of them has a kill switch already regardless of if the service is on. Again if dotgov wants to stop someone or a group of someone’s they have the means to do so. Or just get LEO to run plate readers of a list of no drive database, the computer would alert when a banned vehicle is seen and issue a stop and arrest flag. Dallas PD has plate readers when a APB is put out all the cars on the road start looking for said plate , same for Amber alerts the tech is already here.


29 posted on 09/21/2024 2:01:52 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: aquila48

A friend of mine worked at TMI during the melt down. Even his personality doesn’t glow.


30 posted on 09/21/2024 2:31:06 PM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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To: bigbob

>> Abort,, Retry Fail?

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31 posted on 09/21/2024 2:46:10 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: dfwgator

β€œ I don’t want to see my skin aglow.”

You do know there are two reactors there?
The undamaged one was working flawlessly until 2019


32 posted on 09/21/2024 2:48:12 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: aquila48

We do not need Crypto just because someone else has it. We need a stable currency backed up by a non-corrupt country. A Country which Trump is promising to fix. And we don’t need AI except in the military because that is the only place a right minded person could argue that is necessary even if it is not a good thing. AI in society is going to lead to so many bad things for the human race that it is just awful. Mankind always misuses anything they get their hands on. The bad always outweighs the good. It has always been in reality- that most important thing for mankind is to live in a world where there is purpose and spiritual fulfillment. We have already done so much damage to that in the technological world. AI will destroy that more than anything before it. Even if Trump can fix the country. AI will destroy the soul.


33 posted on 09/21/2024 3:21:05 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel
AI in society is going to lead to so many bad things for the human race that it is just awful. Mankind always misuses anything they get their hands on.

AI is here now. Russia and China are both learning how to use AI.

So we can't just not use AI.

It's like not using drones because we don't want to deal with it.

34 posted on 09/21/2024 3:23:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: GenXPolymath
Diesel[sun, veg power] and other possible energy sources is a possibility, but, anything that complies with government is suspect. The techno overlords who want the world to connect and be part of their ecosystems are striving for control. Old schools systems with redundancies are something to strive for.
35 posted on 09/21/2024 3:42:43 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: aquila48

Aren’t we suppose to alert folks when they are reading yet another BB article?


36 posted on 09/21/2024 6:00:23 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: aquila48

Some are saying the use of AI electrical demand will cause brown and black outs bonus round add all the EV’s and electric appliances demand the duh sign is linking.


37 posted on 09/22/2024 7:02:55 AM PDT by Vaduz
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