@thevirginallen@BaldingsWorld Here's a decent article on it:
https://t.co/6RumslVa5s
Good question! The internet feeds on hysterical content that breeds page views. Crazy stories are milked until their last drop of ad revenue. It has also become a popular political position so reporting becomes irrational.
@thevirginallen@BaldingsWorld The author that started this contraversy confused cubic liters for liters, so journalists started reporting data centers use 1000x more water than they actually do.
Someone should make a game where you have to restart a 50 year old industry in a civilization that has forgotten how to build big things by mass-manufacturing stainless steel vessels that can magically generate billions in revenue when you put cosmically-born spicy rocks in them, all with the goal of maintaining AI supremacy in the west, while lowering the cost of electricity far enough to bring nations out of energy poverty and supply abundance to the world
@LegacyKillaHD Yea makes tons of sense the guy was about to dump leaks on reddit (if mods gave him permission) but then in the same day decided to go completely anonymous, set up a crypto coin, a website, started distributing leaks across various offshore mirrors, and wrote a manifesto.
Absolutely incredible…
Mark Cuban: "California is run terribly. The taxes are insane. That’s why people keep moving to Texas."
Mark Cuban (10 minutes later): "Vote for James Talarico. Turn Texas blue. What have Republicans ever done for the state."
until 1987 (!!!) doctors were still taught that newborn babies were basically unable to feel pain.
this means that until less than 40 years ago babies underwent major surgeries without anesthesia.
some were only given a paralytic to keep them still, since when they cried or tried to move doctors thought it was just an instinctive reflex
so, until basically yesterday, babies were being paralyzed and tortured because “the experts” had the biology completely wrong
but sure, what they tell you nowadays is definitely correct and doubting them is foolish
This is remarkably typical.
For women who took out student loans in 2009, for example, the average debt load didn't drop below principal until well past 2020.
Men, on the other hand, generally start paying them down not long after graeduation.
All of Appalachia, even its poorest communities, are massively safer than any majority black neighborhood in the entire country. It’s not socioeconomic factors.