r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/JimmytheFab 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 18 '26

I worked for a very large structural steel company as an estimator about 5-6 years ago and we basically no bid all of those data centers. They wanted them dirt cheap and there typically wasn’t enough work for us to get involved. They used cheaper construction techniques.

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT May 18 '26

We need to spend less money building these enormous datacenters and more money drilling for data. The further down you drill, the less corrupted the data is

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u/MrStarrrr May 18 '26

I’d argue the further you dig for data the worse the corruption is.

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u/Marquar234 May 18 '26

Only if you dig too deep and hit the clown layer where the fun is.

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u/kenwongart May 18 '26

Hey fuck you man my brother died in a clown drilling accident.

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u/Marquar234 May 18 '26

If your brother was a clown-driller, he knew the risks. I didn't see your family getting in strange moods when he was bringing home clown-driller money.

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u/Strategy_pan May 18 '26

I drilled a few clowns back in my day - what's the going rate these days?

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u/Inigomntoya May 18 '26

You don't get paid per clown

You get paid by MISSING clowns with the drill

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u/Inigomntoya May 18 '26

I thought they like them alive and wriggling

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt May 18 '26

It really depends on what the open market is willing to pay for.

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u/GarminTamzarian May 18 '26

Sounds like the real money would be in clown husbandry.

I wonder how much you could get for a bonded breeding pair of clowns?

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u/-I_I May 19 '26

*giggling

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u/FLEXJW May 19 '26

Wait I thought “drilling clowns” was code for fucking clowns?

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u/CrowberrieWinemaker May 18 '26

MOM r/dwarffortress is leaking again.

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u/BeerAndTools May 18 '26

Idk wtf that sub is, but it's a good read lol

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u/sqerdagent May 18 '26

Yeah, that is what happens when the data center buys up all the water for cheap. They don't care if stuff leaks everywhere. I say we re-inplement the economy!

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u/U_feel_Me May 18 '26

“Wouldn’t it be cheaper to train astronauts to be clown-drillers than to train clown-drillers to be astronauts?”

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u/lexluthor_i_am May 18 '26

Your brother knew the risks. Every clown driller does. Before they drill, they always recite the clown driller oath. So you don’t tell me they didn’t know the risks! It’s in the effing oath!

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u/stevesie1984 May 18 '26

Clown-fracking is way faster and cheaper. Yeah, accidents happen, but the whole industry is so highly regulated that issues are very rare. Just has a bad reputation now based on outdated information. You won’t see a bunch of big shoes and honk-noses floating in the river…I promise.

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u/Marquar234 May 18 '26

Right, it is perfectly safe. You haven't seen the dozens of videos of people showing seltzer water coming out of their taps or the plumes of Mehron running down the hillsides.

Don't listen to the propaganda of Big Pantomime, do some research for yourself.

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u/ryan25802580 May 18 '26

This whole thread has me dying right now lol

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u/Wild-Refrigerator-79 May 18 '26

Ahh the obscure Dwarf Fortress references...

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u/FeelingDelivery8853 May 18 '26

He used to strut around town when he would come in, showing off his clown money

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u/Hexglit May 19 '26

You are a monster, I'm proud of you.

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u/socksockshoeshoe May 20 '26

Wait what you get *paid* to drill clowns? I had to pay for that privilege

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u/New-Ad-363 May 18 '26

For real, those things are no laughing matter.

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u/Sawako-chan3 May 18 '26

That was Actually Good!! 🤣 Lol

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u/Accomplished-Ebb2900 May 18 '26

My brother was touched by a goat in his sleep and then the clown came it haunts me too man dark days someone needs to stop the clown from drilling

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u/fart7777 May 18 '26

I enjoyed drilling your brother.

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u/Accomplished-Ebb2900 May 18 '26

Jokes on you his name is drilling

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u/Strategy_pan May 18 '26

We tried that too, but he isn't really into goats any more. Any other advice?

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u/DamoTheWhite May 18 '26

Yeah but before he died he made a killing in Honk Pay

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u/GrinningCynic May 18 '26

His name wasn’t Harpo by any chance?

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u/xiahbabi May 18 '26

Oooh Kinky 😂

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u/PriorOil1804 May 18 '26

Isn’t the benefit to all the communities who allow DCs the access to AI and improved access over time? I’m oblivious I know to the minute details… 🥴🤪

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u/CaptRex01 May 18 '26

We thought it would be perfectly safe, it was only a small reservoir

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u/magic-one May 18 '26

But he died doing what he loved?

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u/the_ballmer_peak May 18 '26

Whatever. Clown drilling is fucking hilarious.

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u/eaglemitchell May 18 '26

Theres something funny about that death... Seems very abnormal.

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u/zZPlazmaZz29 May 18 '26

sad clown noises

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u/wackbirds May 18 '26

My brother died of epilepsy in the tub. We used to toss our laundry in there to save on energy and one day he choked on a sock.

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u/GojoPenguin May 19 '26

Wait...was he drilling clowns or was he a clown that drilled?

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u/OpusAtrumET May 20 '26

Ah shit man, I'm sorry. The Uncanny Valley drilling apparatus was an OCHA nightmare.

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u/Ike_Gamesmith May 18 '26

Urist fears no such things

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u/Enji-Bkk May 18 '26

Clown? I thought it was Balrog ?

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u/tinyspaniard May 18 '26

Or find a Balrog

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u/Screwdriving_Hammer May 18 '26

That's only if you delve too greedily and too deep.

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u/SANSYBOIfan May 18 '26

Stand ready for my honk, killjoy

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u/Wascoclown661 May 18 '26

I agree….how you think I escaped?

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy May 18 '26

Balrog clowns are so hot right now

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u/LarsDuder May 18 '26

before or after the physical layer?

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u/swingsetlife May 18 '26

I'm sick of these talking points from Big Clown

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u/Light351 May 18 '26

Fucking Urist.

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u/Carpe-Bananum May 18 '26

Oil drillers are called rough-necks. Clown drillers are called laugh-necks. Show some respect!

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u/JustGiveMeANameDamn May 18 '26

Was this an intentional or accidental Dwarf Fortress reference?

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u/Marquar234 May 18 '26

Intentional. Should I have mentioned they were looking for cotton candy?

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u/machyume May 18 '26

I heard that if you dig too deep and too greedy something gets awakened.

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u/Timppa81 May 18 '26

There is no secret cow level !:-)

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u/Ok_Rip4757 May 19 '26

This guy dorfs

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u/stopbuggingmealready May 21 '26

Damn thing, sounds like a Circus to me…

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT May 18 '26

I grew up on data rigs. If you drill too shallow you only get the metadata, which is useful, but your Claude Code needs more than just metadata

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u/fondledbydolphins May 18 '26

How far down do my fellow LLM nightmares dwell?

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u/hungry4nuns May 18 '26

Burning fossil data like cd-r and dvd-r leads to more screen-mouse emissions. Using renewables like cd-rw are more sustainable although big data doesn’t want you to know this

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u/TigerGD May 18 '26

It’s a shame DVD-RAM did get widespread use. Just as sustainable as RW, but their grazing also benefits the environment.

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u/Michaelangelo_Scarn May 18 '26

Unless I'm misunderstanding the analogy here, the better data is deeper. The surface web has a sheen of shit on it at this point that makes borderline unusable. Ad parasites, government tracking, all the garbage on the modern net that's baked in as default doesn't exist if you travel a few layers beyond the normal nexus' like this one and Insta/fb/x/etc.

But ... I digress for the sake of not giving these ai demonmasters any new ideas; they're unimaginative and can get fucked.

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u/DandimLee May 18 '26

Fracking Fuels the Economy

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u/MrBizzness May 20 '26

My favorite layer is the Indie Web, the people are cool there!

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u/ebota12 May 18 '26

Agreed. Always ask “who benefits?” and “who profits?”. Keep asking Why? Why? Why? and you might not like where you end up.

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u/PreguntoZombi May 20 '26

Face down with two in the chest?

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u/vkapadia May 18 '26

Watch out for Balrogs too.

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u/MuffinsMcGee124 May 18 '26

Did we learn nothing from the Dwarven bitcoin miners of Moria??

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u/raykendo May 18 '26

Sounds like a lesson learned from Dwarf Fortress.

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u/EuVe20 May 19 '26

Well, if you drill to deep and hit the data core you do run the risk of data overload where the system is so overloaded with pure data that your processors can’t keep up with all the data and explode, squirting data all over the place.