American unity was very, very high after 9/11.

I genuinely can’t imagine keeping my pets off the couch or bed.

Not at all. The default stance would be “I do not care one way or the other if someone has access to MAID.”

By taking a stance against MAID, you are in fact deciding that they should not be able to die now. No one is asking you to personally do the killing, but you take umbrage with the idea that it would be accessible to people, so you are therefore deciding that they should be die now, but later.

You are missing the point. You are doing that right now. You are deciding that they shouldn’t die now, but later. You are deciding when other people should die.

Denying someone MAID is also deciding if the person should live or die. You just don’t like the “or die” part of that decision.

Please don’t let your cat outdoors without supervision. It is devastating for both the lifespan of your cat and your local ecology.

I mean, I don’t doubt that some people are shallow enough that they hate it for only that reason, but I don’t believe most people hate it for that reason alone.

Personally I just found it an underwhelming final trailer. But I don’t like PvP games, so that’s not surprising that I’d be underwhelmed.

It’s an action RPG.

I’m moving and my friends can either come along or be left behind.

Edited to add, I didn’t expect Lemmy to feel so strongly about my friends. The fact of the matter is that I created my current discord community and friend group. I run the TTRPGs they all play twice a week. So they can come along to whatever I switch to, or stay on Discord and figure it out for themselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but I’m leaving Discord either way.

So who is going to stop him from enacting them anyway?

And nothing will be learnt.

Oof.

They in fact said “bitches”.

Thanks for highlighting the differences.

Thanks for the warning.

It’s basically a different game from the original. The gameplay loop is similar sure, but it doesn’t even resemble the original.

Everything they said (lied) about being in the game at launch has now been in the game for a while, and they just keep going with new content. And always free.

Do you think that AI doesn’t use data centers? What do you think that the huge surge in building data centers is for?

Literally at the top of the article I linked:

With larger and new AI-focused data centers, water consumption is increasing alongside energy usage and carbon emissions.

Also from the article:

A medium-sized data center can consume up to roughly 110 million gallons of water per year for cooling purposes, equivalent to the annual water usage of approximately 1,000 households. Larger data centers can each “drink” up to 5 million gallons per day, or about 1.8 billion annually, usage equivalent to a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people.

And worse:

Data center water usage closely parallels energy usage and carbon emissions. As data centers use more energy for their typical data center operations and to meet AI requests, they consume larger amounts of water to cool their processor chips, so as to avoid overheating and potential damage. Similarly, as energy use increases in data centers, so do carbon emissions.

So, no, it’s very much not only about the power for the data centers, although that is one component. And it’s fantastic that you live in an area with renewable hydro power, but that doesn’t help data centers built in areas that aren’t served by renewables.

32GB RAM

Wow you can get the ram for $1,799, what a steal!

Thank you for sharing, this looks like it has potential and its brand new. Love you FOSS nerds.

https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption