Nuclear reactors use most surface water, not ground water.

Datacentres are no pickier. You can even cool a datacentre with saltwater, you just need a heat exchanger.

Also, closed loop does not evaporate. The loop is not closed if stuff escapes from it.

You're arguing with the actual terminology used in the nuclear industry. "Closed loop" or "closed cycle" designs have the water pumped in a cycle through cooling towers. The towers lose water to evaporation, taking heat with them, but the rest of the water is returned to be reheated again. "Open loop" or "open cycle" designs have no cooling towers. The water is heated and just discharged hot. They consume much more water (over an order of magnitude more), but most of that is returned. Closed loop are more common, but you see open loop in some older designs, and in seawater-cooled reactors.

"How often do you think I print?"

Seemingly not very.

I've printed many hundreds of kg on my P1S, thanks.

I do not consider having to write data out to a card and transport it back and forth between the printer and the computer to be the pinnacle of convenience. That's something that would be considered embarrassingly inconvenient for a 1980s printer, let alone a modern net-connected device. And it's designed to be inconvenient for non-cloud prints for a reason.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

Pizza's not even that hard to make at home. The dough takes a bit of practice but once done a couple of times it's dead easy. There are also really good pre-made and/or frozen pizza crusts you can buy if you don't want to put the work in, then the rest is just spread the marinara, sprinkle cheese and add whatever else you want to it before throwing it in the oven for a few minutes. I can go from zero to burning the roof of my mouth in 30 minutes.

Genuinely the Mach-E is not a terrible EV; it's decidedly average in every metric but it's not bad. I drove one for a couple of weeks on a business trip and it was fine (yes, I drive an EV normally too).

Thing is they completely fucked the marketing on the thing. Calling it a Mustang was ALWAYS going to be a terrible decision because that name alone comes with a metric ton of legacy baggage that the car didn't need. That and the Mach-E name is just awkward as hell and sounds weird to the average consumer. If they really wanted to use a legacy name that doesn't have all the baggage what about the Fairlane? Yeah, there are some who wouldn't like it but it's an easy-sounding name that would've fit quite well and those people who would complain about the nameplate would all be over 60 by now if not over 70 (last Fairlane was produced in 1970). Or heck, the Mainline, Falcon... or hell just own the electric thing and just call the damn thing the Ford Thunderbolt (a sub-model of the Fairlane in fairness).

Or I don't know... maybe make something new up? They pay people to do this shit, I'm amazed they fucked it up so bad.

CloudFlare was an aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation. Now it's an AI-powered aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation.

Why don't I feel excited about it?

Crypto grift, AI bubble and psychopathic billionaire CEO.

Yes, that's because there have been a lot more stupid humans doing stupid things to databases for a lot longer than AI agents.

So tell me: if AI is no safer than people, what's the point of replacing humans with AI?

and animate it eating your face when the AI agent wastes your entire database.

The people in charge of IT.