@frogzone @dcc @phnt @cereal @jae

> i'll look at the top 500 "amazon-served" site

The list predates the existence of Amazon. It is a benchmark of the top 500 supercomputers, carried out twice a year since 1993.

> the people of the 1960s had valid concerns tho.

And they pointed those concerns at a tool that cannot be un-invented instead of at the perpetrators of the problems. If you're worried about nuclear energy, the same computing resources require less power to put the computers fewer hops from the backbone in a climate-controlled environment. The backbone itself exists for the sake of efficiency.

> gloomy, no. just accurate.

That's funny, if you talk to someone with depression and they do one of their "$x is completely worthless" speeches, they will say "Actually, it's just accurate."

I don't eat the blackpills no matter who is handing them out: my options are to lay down and die or do something to justify my continued existence, and I pick the second option every time. If you are dead-set on demoralizing people, though, at least demoralize the people that should be demoralized.