but in places like New Mexico and Texas, they're building these data centers in deserts. If you evaporate a gigaliter of water in these areas, it's not staying in your watershed. It's going to move at least 300~500 miles, in regions where cattle ranchers and farmers have been struggling with water already for decades.
Counter point, maybe don't farm in a desert or grow almonds there.
You can eat what comes out of a farm. You can't eat what comes out of a data center.I can live without almonds, thanks.

Why did you bring this into the conversation? Did someone say it was bad everywhere but it was ok on Jan 6th?
Probably b/c Jan 6th, and a persons reaction to it is highly indicative of one's political bias. All those people screaming ACAB, were eerily silent about Ashley Babbitt. Heck, there's still normies convinced a dozen Capital police were beaten to death by angry mobs on that day. So when the people screech about the "carceral state", yet say nothing about Jan 6er's sitting in jail awaiting trial/charging, a person's reaction to Jan 6 proves as a barometer of their particular level of political hypocrisy.

Wow, I did not think blue no matter who individuals still existed. It will be interesting to peer into the mind of one such as yourself.
The Republicans absolutely need to be sat in the naughty-boy corner for a bunch of election cycles till they flush the whackos that have commandeered the party. But its not enough Part of the problem is that the Democrats also need to think long and hard about who they serve. Trump should have been *impossible*. In a healthy country nobody would have voted for a raging whackadoodle like him.
Oh we're getting close to taking some accountability for creating an environment where Trump could win. Shows promise.
Then you throw in a pandemic that utterly upended everyones lives and left the economy a lot more precarious,
Now you've missed the plot. The lack of trust in govt. and institutions? That was fueled by the constant streams of lies, "2 weeks to flatten the curve, 2 months and then everything will return to normal. Lock downs have 0 negative effects. Falling off a roof while testing positive for COVID equals another COVID death, etc."
Then get some constitutional ammendments to ensure that the executive will never ever ever be capable of corrupting democracy, justice, the public service, and the rule of law ever again.
Don't worry your DSA brethren will get rid of all of that and create a unicameral legislative committee.
It NEEDS to be a party OF the people FOR the people and BY the people
Don't worry Tovarish, we will root out the kulaks!

Like a broken clock, you are partially correct. The people should be afraid of anyone trying to dismiss political thought they don't like as mental illness. That is a cheap and easy way to stifle debate. Unfortunately, your assertion that social justice is an automatic good, has not been proven. As C.S. Lewis once wrote. "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Dude... any thoughts where the L-F-P comes from? LiFe are the first two letters, and Phosphate is PO4.
Amen brother, it is truly staggering how the grand parent post got modded +3 insightful. Wow, /. has hit the skids hard.

Look at European democracies where coalition governments are the norm, where the system is designed to prevent any one party gaining complete power. Planning is longer term, and there is more certainty in future policy direction.The only certainty in Europe is gridlock, and a nearly religious adherence to half baked Green policy ideas.

Now we got to the time of the cretinous people who honestly believe "the five scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'". This means that instead of trying to ensure that their government is doing sensible things and ensuring that their country develops, they instead set out to destroy everything. Not cretinous, they just can't count(it's nine). Anyways, the modern equivalent would be I'm a consultant, and I'm here to help fix your diversity problem.(See Sweet Baby Inc, Codes of Conduct etc). Also the classic the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

I'm really shocked over everyone screaming over here, apparently defending telecoms selling your location data.
This is merely evidence of hyper-partisanship, in this case TDS, but yeah, Trump could cure cancer, and some people would become pro-cancer just out of spite.

Pedantic correction: Nebraska has a unicameral legislature thus cannot be a trifecta. Also how does Ohio fit in West?

there is no reason for ag engine makers to target California It is a massive market.
Not for corn. You don't replant almond trees every season, Plus California loves using people(typically migrant workers) to do the work of harvesting.

Stargate effectively had a single gimmick, the underdog vs incredibly powerful enemies and somehow winning. This resulted in a trope I called "Stargate Syndrome". The Underdog, in order to beat the uber-powerful enemy needs to become more powerful to defeat them, once this happens they need to create another, even more powerful enemy which the heroes need to become more powerful to defeat and then they need an even more powerful enemy to keep the series going, so on and so forth. SG1 started fighting fake gods with high tech and ended up with all the tech fighting almost literal gods.
Yes, power-scaling is a problem and the Stargate Syndrome was first seen in StarWars books(EU, now decanonized). It's why all of them involve Luke being taken out off screen, b/c a Jedi Master really solves a lot of conflict very easily. DBZ had the same problem once you defeat an enemy that can destroy a planet, the next enemy needs to be to destroy 2 planets, until it becomes a galaxy-wide threat etc. But the Stargate as a literary device, allowed for interesting examinations of what if and the human condition. I am surprised the current activists at Amazon did not see it as a great way to shoe horn in some political messaging w/ all the subtlety of a brick through a window.

Ukraine has already "gone to Moscow" with drones and missiles. They can hit targets over a thousand miles into Russian territory. Apparently they've also cut off Crimea. That's the actual target - not Moscow. No telling how long it will take for them to gain operational control of Crimea, but the groundwork is being laid now. Crimea is all but cut off from resupply, and now it's just a matter of starving out the Russians while picking away at their remaining defenses.
Drones and missiles don't hold land, the way armored columns do. As for Crimea, say the Ukrainian's retake it. That doesn't solve Russia's warm water port problem, so expect them to fight over it again. It's happened before.

Several years ago Ukraine was talking about going all the way to Moscow, so this isn't a new thing. They've always planned on winning.
As long as Russia has nukes, there will be no "Road to Moscow" moment with columns of enemy tanks driving to Red Square. The Russians remember what the Red Army did at the end of the "Great Patriotic War" and have no desire to see it visited upon them.

There are also paint types (the chemical used, not the colour) that are high reflective and drastically reduce ambient temperature as they absorb infrared light and reemit it as visible or ultra violet light.
That's quite a trick, perhaps I can use it to power my perpetual motion machine. B/c the usual trick is to capture higher energy photons and reemit lower energy photons.

How did you "just get" something that has yet to be released?
You saw the second part of the grand parent's post and you did not think they were lying? What part of " I am in Europe and our economy is not systematically being destroyed." rings true to you? Unless somehow the Russia-Ukraine conflict is over, the neo-caliphatists have returned home, and the greens have ended their suicide pact against industry.