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He takes us to a creek downhill from a new construction site for a data centre being built by US firm Quality Technology Services (QTS).

George Dietz, a local volunteer, scoops up a sample of the water into a clear plastic bag. It’s cloudy and brown.

Well, maybe they didn’t have proper sediment control but a creek is a lot different than well water. Most people don’t drink out of creeks, sediment control is done more for the purpose of protecting fish habitat.

Hauls buckets of water to flush her toilet

What? You’re concern is sediment in your well water and then go haul dirty brown sediment filled water from the creek to flush your toilet instead?

Buy a sediment filter for your well water. Even people not beside giant data centres should have one just because it keeps the system functional and running better. It is practically a requirement to have one.

I think I would much rather watch a stardew Valley movie than a Minecraft movie

Lol. I have free healthcare and I played videogames every fucking chance I get because it makes me happy, but it’s pretty rare since I worked 278 hours in May.

And every book they don’t like the title/cover for

I’m not going to read something if the title doesn’t interest me. It’s also a great example of write headlines that are accurate and informative.

Everyone was calling it “stop killing games” instead of “stop destroying games” and I literally thought it was a petition to stop games with murder and violence lol never even got farther than seeing the title.

Definitely a good idea to switch over to stop destroying games if that wasn’t the official title already…

Nope, I’ve still got every phone I’ve ever had except for one that I gave away to someone who lost theirs.

Also with starlink even one company’s constellation is causing issues with astronomers and launches.

How bad will it be if there are 5-6 different companies with their own network floating around up there. And then other countries with their own network.

Proton estimates the average Americans data is worth $700 per year.

Sign me up for $1000/year privacy fee and you will make more money by doing absolutely nothing.

For things like language, math, and science you could probably have an AI teacher on individualized tablets or something that go at each child’s own pace in a classroom setting that’s just supervised by someone and can provide extra help / tech support when the AI goes on the fritz.

Then regular recess/lunch shenanigans and gym class, art, music, for the social aspect.

The AI could even be programmed to do team projects where you link your tablet with 4 others and they all help the group do a project

Eventually when AI advances and isn’t complete dog shit, that is.

I can see why patents are so long when you need to build like a billion dollar factory to make a product and mass produce it.

Digital concepts don’t take that much investment and once you have it you don’t need to invest in making more, it’s just there.

So yes, digital patents should be a fraction of the time that physical patents should be. Like 2 years instead of 20.

How is it that pokemon has a hold on things like animals allowing flight, but gliders allowing flight isn’t under patent?

Like, whoever did gliders first needs to sue Nintendo to change breath of the wild, no gliders allowed anymore.

I mean, the spacing looks like it would be pretty squishy if you had little wall separators between each spot

Tune in on Monday to find out new tarriffs make this announcement no longer valid

I found humankind to be very difficult to go the domination path, but I haven’t played since close to release.

It was very prohibitive to take direct control of conquered cities as the cost seemed exponential, and you had to constantly declare peace and then go right back to war or something if I remember correctly. It seemed like a silly system

The problem I mostly have is even when those costs are recouped most companies fight tooth and nail to keep the prices high and unaffordable in order to line the pockets of investors.

I don’t even mind microtransactions, but microtransactions DO NOT EXIST

$10 for a skin is not a MICRO transactions, that’s just a transaction.

The entire game costs $60 but ONE skin out of the thirty that already available or whatever is somehow $10? Why do people pay that? Why would they ever bother making a new game when they can design 6 new skins instead?

Why is that a problem? It gets rid of bias and would actually help minorities defeat bias in the court and get a more fair judgement.

Yeah honestly I don’t see a problem with this. If it’s his own words why does it matter if it’s AI speaking or himself? Even if it’s not his own words, he could just as easily say the same shit on camera, why does the person in the video needs to be him?

Why?