There is a sign in the Prora Museum that mentions briefly how the planners and engineers of the Prora Nazi Holiday Resort knew that contemporary infrastructure technology was incapable to serve the planned massive building complex with the required services (fresh water, sewage, food, waste disposal, heating) if it were ever completed as depicted by Kraft durch Freude propaganda.

They knew the project will fail the moment actual people were to use it at scale.

But the mere fact of building and showing off a construction site was a propaganda success for leadership demonstrating will power.

Nothing to learn from that for current events, I guess.

Another fun thing is remembering how the people who complained about EVs and heat pumps being an unreasonable burden on the grid's infrastructure are now the very same people betting on an obviously unrealistic goal of data center buildout FOMO that overwhelms both the local grid and the local water supply and will leave us with stranded assets of never completed or abandoned data center ruins.

It's a fun contrast to see how AI apologists kept saying that criticism of data center water use is overblown, while the actual water utility companies loudly point out that data centers are a problem to the water supply.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enough-water-for-uks-datacentre-plans-trade-body-says

@grimalkina hair loss is an annoying thing. There are several companies and also Etsy hobbyists making beautiful stylish headscarfs and turbans specifically for chemo patients. We have gifted those to friends going through chemo and they appreciated having gotten one.

https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/