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Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean?
Like they could cool their shit, and desalinate water with the waste heat. Provide water to dry areas. Like Baja or Texas. Bonus points if they could run off renewables. Seems like a win win
Shamelessly stolen and posted here for y'all
Ripped from [email protected] no idea who the original artist was. They are talented AF though!
Project Pat- Chickenhead
Keeping with the theme of early aughts hip-hop I'm seeing here
Tourism is bad.
10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It's time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.
And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they're doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.
And then they'll turn around and claim they're "helping the local economy" trying to justify it. It's colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.
And wtf is wrong with you, you can't relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can't be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y'all need to chill it with the air travel!
Effect of the number zero in European economies
The wiki says it was transferred to Europe via the middle east. It seems obvious the Arabic numerals we use today are so much easier to work with than Roman numerals.
Was there a noticeable uptick in trade simply because bookkeeping became so much easier? Was there a noticeable uptick in the complexity and pervasiveness of monied, as opposed to in kind, daily trade in all levels of society?
It seems like the humble zero hit the scene and next thing you know the Renaissance is getting under way.
Clean laundry is obviously the best place for naps.
I left this pic in a comment on another post, but she's so cute I figured it deserved its own post.
You are under surveillance!
It starts getting warm and she wants in and out dozens of times a day.
Apparently we're doing fierce AF kitty yawns?
She had to get shaved after a tree sap incident.
She had to get shaved
Her fur was getting too clumped up. Think she got into some tree sap or something.

