https://thecurrentga.org/2025/08/26/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much/

Some use up the water through evaporation, so they constantly draw water. Some “consume” the water, meaning they have a closed system of cooling water, but that uses a lot more electricity than evaporative cooling, which also uses water to generate.

I absolutely loved BG3, and I I haven’t liked an RPG since Dragon’s Quest 2 back in 1988. I plan on picking up DOS2 in 2 weeks, so if you remind me I can let you know how the two games compare. BG3 was a revelation to me, opening my eyes to a completely new way of enjoying games. The writing was good, the game-play good, the graphics good. BUT!! If I play DOS2 and also like that, then I could give you that feedback.

I predict that this thing that is really great right now will become bad, so instead of enjoying it while it is good I’m just going to assume it will definitely go bad at some unknown time in the future and boycott it before it gets there so I can tell everyone I was right in the past.

Sounds logical.

Power source is only one impact. Water for cooling is even bigger. There are data centers pumping out huge amounts of heat in places like AZ, TX, CA where water is scarce and temps are high.

Sure. My company has a database of all technical papers written by employees in the last 30-ish years. Nearly all of these contain proprietary information from other companies (we deal with tons of other companies and have access to their data), so we can’t build a public LLM nor use a public LLM. So we created an internal-only LLM that is only trained on our data.

I’m normally not one to kink shame, but I’m shaming you right now.

Just started the second book in the Shadow of the Leviathon series, A Drop of Corruption, by Robert Jackson Bennett. It’s good so far, and I really enjoyed the first book in the series.

Just wanted to give a heartfelt thank you for posting the picture of Gary Busey’s suitcase.

Russia invaded Ukraine. If Russia wants peace, then all they have to do is, you know, stop invading? That’s not really a bias statement. That’s just basic facts that have nothing to do with empire approved narratives.

Or killed because they had a son who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, has been in and out of rehab since 17 years old, and has been homeless multiple times.

You can, and I find it fun. Some other reviewers don’t like it, and it can be clunky, but it is still fun for me to levitate someone and then slam them into a wall.

Much like trusting the US with a far right person in power, why would anyone trust Russia or China with their own far right people in power? They are only trying to “support” you if you can give them something they need, and the minute you ask for anything in return, the phone doesn’t answer. This isn’t exclusive to Russia or China or the US, this just how hugely powerful entities act around much less powerful entities.

I’m not, and I’m a huge soccer fan living in a host city with more than enough money to afford the insane ticket prices. I chose to get a refund on my deposit when they said how much tickets were going to cost.

Do you know what the word “activist” means? Do you know what the word “investor” means? Put the two together and you have your answer. This isn’t rocket science.

My answer every time that came up, which is about once a week, is protein is in nearly everything you eat. Peanut butter, bread, rice, oats, eggs, ice cream, pizza, beans, etc. Also, humans don’t need nearly as much protein as people think, unless they are athletes or have a dietary condition. Most Americans eat far more protein than they need.

UCLA protected violent criminals who attacked peaceful protestors. You can call them woke all you want, but protectors of antisemitism is a big stretch.

Strangled her to unconsciousness… so badly she needed surgery to fix her neck and is still physically recovering.

Thanks, that detail was not in the other story I read on this. If you go into the other thread on Lemmy about this, you’ll see people defending this action by the judge.

No, it’s the “he was charged as a minor as a 17 year old and fulfilled his 6 months of probation and education.”

Disagree for certain violent crimes and above certain ages. Young people don’t fully understand both what they are doing and the implications of what they are doing, that’s true.

However, at 17 nearly everyone knows it is wrong to choke a girl so hard she needs surgery to repair her neck, while filming the assault, and then raping her. And this wasn’t even an isolated incident that he learned from or that happened in a fit of passion that happens more when you are younger. This happened twice, both times with choking, raping, and filming. And apparently he didn’t even show any remorse about learning what he did was wrong.

So no, I disagree that it is always wrong to charge minors as adults. Or, if we are going to agree, then I want there to be harsher penalties allowed for minors who commit certain crimes.