But I seem to remember them all being pretty crazy expensive for what you got. I guess it would be probably quieter than the equivalent Windows PC or hackintosh but most of the models I see out in the wild are the really expensive ones that would have sold for $5,000 and up

A quick search shows 5 million gallons daily. The Southwest states are currently fighting over the Colorado River or what's left of it and everyone wants to build data centers there because they get very few natural disasters. I think some parts of Arizona get big dust storms but those are easy enough to deal with. And the rest of the Southern United States doesn't even have those.

Remember it's not just about how much water an individual data center uses it's about how much water is available to that specific community.

Never mind the fact that we are seeing dozens of these data centers built. A large city might use 100 million gallons a day so the 10 data centers you might easily see near a large city could guzzle 50% of the water.

All of this because the rich don't want to have to pay people and they don't like to have to pretend to be civil to consumers or employees

We can build wind and solar farms or if we put them next to cities we don't care about nuclear power plants so it's at least possible to meet energy demand even if it's unlikely as long as the right wing are in charge since as always who's going to pay for it right?

But you can't magic water out of the sky. Climate change is fucking up the water cycle. So we are in a drought and that is probably going to continue.

Data centers want fresh clean drinkable water and they want to fill it with deadly chemicals because that's the cheapest way to cool their data centers. The chemicals are necessary to prevent the water from gunking Up their cooling systems however it means you can't recycle the water. The data center could recycle that water but that costs money and they are already blowing through it like crazy.

Even if individual people still have water in their pipes, which is by no means a guarantee anymore, farms are going to be short on water and that means food prices are going to go up. And that means the price of everything goes up because you have to pay people enough money that they can eat enough calories to at least survive or they start to get violent.

And yeah I'm sure there's a bunch of people who own guns looking forward to occasionally getting to shoot somebody in cold blood. Most people I know who own a lot of guns think that sounds awesome.

But when it's not just the occasional punk kid but is a systemic problem what you're going to find is was hungry people find themselves a demagogue and organize themselves into a military and they come at you. And your stash of knock off AK-47s isn't going to stand up against a organized military force of any size.

Remember you have to shoot every single one of them but they only have to shoot you once.

The mods don't block a lot of the box because they want the engagement to grow there forums. Reddit doesn't mind the bot engagement either the problem they're having is that it's become so obvious that it's infecting their data sets and their advertisers can't pretend anymore that the leads they're getting are worthwhile. So they have to clean things up a bit or their business model is at risk

Modern bots can get past most captcha unless it's a huge pain in the ass that starts to impact users.

Reddit has a problem where it adds too much friction it loses users because it's not as useful as site as Facebook.

I'm an introvert so Facebook isn't my thing but people I know who are extraverts or just want to find hobbyists with the same niche hobbies make a lot of use of Facebook to do that. And it does work for that purpose.

But Reddit doesn't have any of that and the bots have kind of made the discussions almost useless.

Honestly I would love the bot spam to go away. Because a lot of the political forums require accounts with high karma and long tenure non-political forums get really low effort shit posts like hey remember this game from your childhood isn't it great upvote me!

So it kind of wrecks any meaningful discussion or nerding out.

The trouble is all that is good for engagement so nobody really wants to take it out completely. What Reddit really wants is to be able to tell the bots from the real people so that they can continue to sell the data the real people generate and advertise to them

Let me guess you passed the test right? Well I guess that just proves how much smarter you are than I am...

There's a major problem with the social media sites that there is so much bot traffic and it is getting so sophisticated that it's making its way into their main data sets and advertisements. It's becoming too obvious to the advertisers and data brokers that the data is being filled with bot traffic.

If this continues sites like Facebook and Reddit won't have dated sell or advertising that they can even pretend it's worthwhile.

This is why you see all those age verification laws. They are heavily pushed by Facebook because Facebook needs to know who you are. In the past they could do this pretty easily but with modern it deep fakes it's becoming very difficult. Age verification works around that letting them track you perfectly. Also think of the children.

Reddit isn't popular enough or useful enough that they can get people in Mass to verify their IDs. They know this and because of it they will try their best to limit the amount of push they do at least until mandatory age verification is everywhere.

Even then that's probably going to be bad for them because readdit again isn't all that interesting or useful so they're bound to lose users.

They've been undermining the postal service for decades now. Doing stuff like requiring them to fund pension plans 30 years into the future and blocking off sources of funding and requiring them to be profitable despite the fact that they are a government service...

And you can bet your ass that if or when they kill the postal service the private alternatives will shoot up in cost like you wouldn't believe.

Leading to arrest. So far it's been white people so the victims are at least alive. One of them was poor and couldn't afford a lawyer so they spent 6 months in jail before their public attorney got enough time to prove they weren't the person reported.

Dumb people think the computers are smarter than they are. And so they think the computer is infallible because dumb people already think they are pretty smart.

And the entire country of America right now is being run by dumb people top to bottom. Hell with the police we intentionally screen out intelligent people because the job is generally fairly boring and people who aren't dumb have a bad habit of quitting after a few months of expensive training. I've had a few buddies who thought being a cop might be a easy job with decent benefits so they went in for it and couldn't pass the psych exam not because they were crazy but because it said they were too smart to be a cop.

You triggered bro?

Fun fact when everyone started wearing red hats right winger is complained about all the dirty looks they got. I mean they were throwing there a lot in with a well-known rapist and pedophile. And this was before Trump announced he would go to hell.

You do know those dirty looks that everyone wearing the Red hats complained about, what they were was you see, those were microaggressions.

So every time you go out in your red hat and you take it off and put it away because everyone keeps looking at you funny you are in fact a victim of a microaggression.

So congratulations you're officially a blue haired girl. Welcome to the club.

The same company that banned people for linking to the British Holocaust Museum (HMD.Org.UK) claiming the links were violations of the policy on "dangerous individuals and organizations." Zuckerberg is a pedophilic little-boy-raping sick-trash Nazi.

Is how America keeps its economy from collapsing. We've known this for years Eisenhower talked about it.

Voters will not accept socialism or giving money to people who didn't suffer for it. If you get anything good in life American puritanicalism dictates that you should be hurt in proportion to that. It's kind of like those old Star wars novels with the Yuuzhan Vong. Including the part about how the ruling class doesn't actually engage in the pain.

It goes back to the basic animal concepts of fairness. You see somebody get something and they didn't work as hard or suffer as much to get it as you did and you immediately get angry. It's a knee-jerk reaction that appears to be programmed into mammals and maybe even some birds and reptiles.

So getting back to the point in order to keep the American economy functional after world War II we set up a military industrial complex that guaranteed a certain number of cushy high-paying jobs for some Americans and so they could spend that money in the economy. As an added bonus America got to project Force and build an empire with all the benefits including various forms of tribute and several members of the ruling class got to get even wealthier off selling weapons. Because as always most of the money went to the top.

So that's why China can make missiles cheap. It's not just that they are making them cheap it's that they're telling us what the actual cost is.

Too long didn't read giant military is how America does socialism. And as usual it's the least efficient way to do something so we Americans are all in on it

In the 70s and 80s, the threat from a handful of countries was: "We can destroy everything". With developments in Russia, Ukraine, Iran and now China, the new doctrine is: "We can destroy anything"... and that's not just from a few large states, but potentially other actors who are both willing to send these things, and do not greatly have to fear retaliation.

The phrase fascist is meaningless is a thought terminating cliche you are using to avoid engaging with the reality of fascism. It's a mantra you chant to yourself so that you don't have to think about it or to consequences to yourself or your family.

Fascism is extremely well defined. You can look up the definition your self on Google.

It is best exemplified by the phrase, fascism requires an in group which the law protects but does not bind and in out group which the law binds but does not protect. But there is a much more formal definition. Specifically it is the blending of corporate and state power to preserve an oligarchy and is composed of multiple points and tactics that you can find listed out pretty easily.

None of this matters to you because you have already used your thought terminating cliche so you don't have to think about any of this. You have your armor of God as it were. The tools you use to avoid thinking all those nasty thoughts that would make you go through the painful process of deconstruction.

Eventually the leopards are going to eat your face but by then it's too late.