When a data center is done with the water it is not potable anymore and it is extraordinarily expensive to make it potable again. To the point where it might be cheaper to do desalinization.

None of this is necessary but it is cheaper and these data centers are already unprofitable right now and not replacing enough wages to make them profitable.

So yes molecularly speaking the water still exists but it's not in a state usable by human beings and we do not have the capacity to put it back in that state.

None of this is necessary but it is marginally more useful to the billionaires and that is the only criteria that matters anymore.

We gave up all agency in our communities and government in exchange for a handful of petty moral panics and a rapey game show host.

They are actors, not supermodels. They can always scan other willing individuals and then make a composite of the features they want to make a new "actor". The appearance of an individual is just about the least important part if they want to replace you with AI. That said, I understand it and would vote the same way.

At this point, I'm a bit confused why they don't generate a large amount of motion capture data to create segments, actions, reactions, etc. before stringing them together into what they want and then use the result to puppeteer a digital avatar. The stringing together part can be made easier by using unsophisticated motion capture by novice actors and feeding it into an AI to select a small pool of relevant motion capture data which you can select the most fitting part from using descriptive labels. I have no interest in putting actors out of work but it just feels like the people that are trying to put actors out of work are doing a shitty job of it.

It's an area of law the could do with seeing clarification. If stuff like this happens you should be due a refund on your bricked hardware, lost app purchases, lost media etc. It's particularly bad with consoles and Steam, where you can lose many years, even decades of purchases due to an error on their end.

Same when the mandatory TOS changes and you can't agree to the new terms.

Formula E is more interesting, because they are still a long way from there limits of the human drivers, the cars are all the same, and the "gimmicks" like fan boost and on-track power-upa actually make it more interesting.

I'm just wondering what people expected, and if there are articles in China about how ChatGPT parrots US doctrine, and Grok is a Nazi.

Let them?

One of the reasons why much of the world, especially the developing would, is moving away from the US and its soft power is because the US thinks it gets to decide how fast and how far they can develop.

Zeiss must be very upset that the Chinese have been pushed to develop competitive lenses even faster.

To be fair the US has been shafting its partners since at least WW2, it's just that now the lack of economic lubricant is really starting to make it painful.

It's a variation on the 4 stage strategy.

https://youtu.be/3hua1pkDmJc

1. Say you don't believe them.
2. Say it's technically true but nothing to worry about.
3. Admit that they caught up, but it's just a copy and they can't improve on it.
4. Tariffs to "protect" Western industry that has been left behind.

Maybe that's why Trump is buying stakes in US tech companies now. Whatever they are doing seems to be working.

It actually says a lot that those are the most recent thing you have the beat them up over. Let's judge the modern US by the standards of its response to AIDS and civil rights in the 1980s and 90s.

There is plenty to criticise China over, but if you look at the COVID protests a few years ago it is pretty clear that things have changed a lot.

I thought you had to somehow resurrect the ghosts of the murdered to get furies. Am I remembering my Roman mythology wrong?

I think it's much more likely these companies know damn well they're hiring dodgy employees and they just don't care because they are cheap.

For decades companies have used plausible deniability to hire illegal workers it just makes the news because it's North Korea. Normally though we all just look the other way and pretend like nothing happened

For anyone to actually care about climate change. If you're an environmentalist you need to fix your local economy first before anything else.

And it doesn't do any good to explain why climate change is going to make the economy worse. Nobody wants to hear your explanation. They want to hear that somebody is going to make groceries cheaper and rent cheaper. If you're not telling them that they've already tuned you out.

Remember when you're explaining you're losing.

What you're going to get is unpredictable weather caused by disruptions in the water cycle.

So for example a whole bunch of trails you want to walk are going to be closed because heavy rain washes them away. On the other hand you also probably are going to have droughts. Because you're going to get big sudden rain storms that do damage to the trail you want to walk followed by little or no rain...

There is no upside to what's happening here no matter what the oil companies tell you.