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getagrip_already

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5. What does electricity use have to do with kidnapping?

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 7, 2024, 03:29 PM

Aug 2024

Just asking.

But what if for example, you had a server farm that was running some completely legal operation and you suddenly had your door bashed in at 3 am, your dog shot, and a flash bang thrown into your kids nursery?

All based on your electric bill.

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Privacy concerns? Are you kidding me? What if it was a person being held against their will, or some other thing SWBTATTReg Aug 2024 #1

What does electricity use have to do with kidnapping? getagrip_already Aug 2024 #5

I would think that such an operation like this, a server farm, would have alternate backups, and more than SWBTATTReg Aug 2024 #6

Why? getagrip_already Aug 2024 #7

The server farm that I aware of, a small one, did indeed have a different infrastructure, and all of it was enclosed SWBTATTReg Aug 2024 #8

Im thinking more of bitcoin mining, or some ai app gen getagrip_already Aug 2024 #9

Ahhh...makes sense, requires a different kind of setup from what little I've read about bitcoin mining. Don't SWBTATTReg Aug 2024 #10

Mining is extremely compute intensive getagrip_already Aug 2024 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author Bev54 Aug 2024 #2

Electricity is a government sting operation. bucolic_frolic Aug 2024 #3

legalize it and focus on weed contamination with pesticides instead of protecting weird unnatural monopolies Blues Heron Aug 2024 #4