Notices by Gabe (gabe@mendeddrum.org)

@ryanc now show them
ping 4.2.01002
For extra lulz

@lilithsaintcrow

Then operational money goes to utilities (electricity, water for cooling, some ancillaries like local employees). Effectively the same thing as above, just different companies.

The lion's share at all levels stays on the companies. It either services loans (interest or principal; often just the interest) or gets used to buy back own stock or to gamble others'.

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@cks the differences are predominantly useful for online arguments with people who don't understand that it's /sbin/vim, /usr/local/libexec/pico and /export/hda3/tmp/emacs

@lilithsaintcrow there are multiple orders here.

Building datacentres first pays for the land, the physical building, the infrastructure (power lines etc) and equipment. Those each go to other companies, so partially to people's wages, the rest to bank accounts for "investment" (stock market gambling). The companies are Intel, Nvidia, various Chinese manufacturers for rack enclosures, cables, transformers, batteries, cable trays, etc.

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@bellinghman @LAGilman not that I'm aware of. Easter (Sunday) starts before and incorporates sunrise; for modern day lifestyles many churches will have that celebration at midnight or even just lateish Saturday evening, but that's not really correct for the purpose or symbolism, nor of course the Origin Story. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday start at midnight.