Yeah, I was just playing around being annoyingly pedantic. I agree with your original statement, for what that’s worth.

You say “bigger privacy problem”, but gov’t and big tech says “bigger opportunities for us to commit further fuckery.”

for a in {1..20}; do shuf -i 1-1200 -n 1;done

She is an awful public speaker.

Le sigh.

Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day, equivalent to the water use of a town populated by 10,000 to 50,000 people. -source

One of the more “out there” arguments I’ve read in recent times was a guy arguing basically that data centers don’t make water go away because of the water cycle. That water can’t really be destroyed. It made me feel the same way as when people respond to the killing of the earth with “The earth isn’t going anywhere. It’ll still be here and in a couple million years it will be fine.” Fucking psychos.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Well that’s annoying. Sorry, I did a search and that popped up and let me watch without logging in. VPN maybe?

I prefer the simple classics:

I see Comorants all the time where I live, but it’s kind of trippy watching these little birds being as comfortable underwater.

Here’s the link for anyone who cares.

Yep, most reporting from inside Iran puts the number killed as significantly higher than that.

That is pretty cool. I have never heard of similar here, but I would love to time a visit to Norway to participate, out of decades of appreciating Tom Waits.

That is not ideal.

I thought it was canon that his parents were big Styx fans and his middle name is Roboto

Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future starts with a very similar setting.

I first read about it years ago and you captured my reaction perfectly.

comin’ straight from the underground

Men, if you don’t want kids, get your tubes tied. Most insurances cover it. Just do it. Don’t wait for the “right time”, just get it done.

That one is freaking wild.