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- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•That Mummy for Sale on Facebook Could Make You IllEnglish2·4 days ago
You clearly need to buy mummies whose blessings and curses were written and wrapped along with the body using serif fonts.
Most lemmy instaces let you choose the font
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•U.S. Oil Industry Earned Over $130 Billion in Profit During Iran War13·6 days ago
Returns on their billion dollar bribe
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico1·7 days ago
Water that salty is corrosive. You can’t just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It’s cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico1·7 days ago
I’m not looking for a silver bullet. But part of success is demand avoidance. And creating demand at the scale the datacenters are doing is going to make it far far harder to get to zero.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico1·7 days ago
Partial offset doesn’t stabilize temperature. It’s going to need to be 100%
They’re not even trying though
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico1·7 days ago
A single new datacenter in the pipeline from Amazon is going to consume above 7000MW. Landfill can and should be burned in useful ways, but it’s not going to supply anything like what the tech industry is planning to use.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•Kennedy to Allow Broad Use of Unapproved Peptide Injections16·8 days ago
The problem is not that they can’t work; some do. It’s that an uregulated supply chain for an injectable with no requirement to demonstrate safety or effectiveness is a recipe for a mix of dangerous products and snake oil
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•New US Data Centers Projected to Emit More Carbon Than All of Mexico4·8 days ago
Brownfield development would be perfect for data centers, but it’s slower and costs more.
There isn’t undesired water or electricity sources available at anything like the scale the AI companies want though; these things use truly huge amounts of energy

- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•Two Blocks in Pennsylvania Show Why It’s So Hard for Campaigns to Reach Voters | In a competitive House district, residents get their election news from under-the-radar sources — or no sources at all.2·8 days ago
It’s more that the news used to be funded in part (or whole) by advertising. Basically a newspaper was an ad delivery mechanism, with the news part being there only to get you to look at ads. Without that, news is unaffordable for most, so you end up with people just disconnecting.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push15·9 days ago
I don’t regard a registration requirement from a very tiny source to be a problem.
Everybody can read it.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push24·9 days ago
It literally only requires registration, not money. Deal with it
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push24·10 days ago
It does if you register. Small news outlets got to be funded somehow.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff81·12 days ago
I spent a lot of time knocking on doors for Harris. In the area I was, people wouldn’t trust her because of skin color and gender. They just couldn’t get past that.
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtoNews@lemmy.world•What the U.S. Is Really Doing in Venezuela: Suppressing democracy and extracting resources at the expense of its people2·12 days ago
That’s really insane, given how people I know left Venezuela because of a lack of food
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass3·12 days ago
It affects how many accomplices need prosecution
- silence7@lemmy.worldOPtopolitics @lemmy.world•DOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Certification if Republican Loses3·13 days ago
That’s a half seat worse than if a Democrat is seated
Be really nice to build some local community so that you can both self host and have this kind of support if you need it
The original link is a gift link, but some (not all) people get asked to register in order to access it