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Cake day: July 12th, 2026

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  • Nvidia is deep deep into the circular-financing scam - one recent example is they promised to provide two thirds of the money another company wants to pay for Nvidia chips. This demonstrates the prices are far far away from what real fair market prices should be, and that winners and losers are chosen in advance by negotiations between a few CEOs, not actual company performance. They’re unashamedly drawing attention to the fact it’s a bubble, and they’re still inflating it.



  • this is already done. about a quarter of the big panels on the International Space Station are radiator panels.

    they’re always aligned 90° away from the solar panels so the sunlight hits them edge-on and their faces are pointed towards empty space.

    a satellite with data-center level servers on board would need an absurd amount of both solar panels and radiator panels, so many panels that it would need to orbit much higher than the ISS, because of trace atmospheric drag.


  • They’re hoping Geordi LaForge is in command - he ordered the only saucer separation where the intention was to safely preserve the civilians, and where the separation itself wasn’t an untested dangerous high-warp maneuver. (The Arsenal of Freedom)

    Riker, on the other hand, separated the saucer in order to shoot at a Borg cube from two directions at once. (The Best of Both Worlds)

    Picard is the one who wouldn’t drop out of warp to do the separation. (Encounter at Farpoint)

    Riker also ordered saucer separation after a warp core breach was in progress and unstoppable. (Generations)

    Those were the only four times the Enterprise-D was shown to separate.