That is an increase but less than I was expecting. Looking at the water use charts at TWDB it looks like irrigation uses the lions share of water at over 55%, which is most likely for farming. Municipalities (people) are next at about 25%. Surprisingly cattle and livestock barely register. I would have expected more.

Still not a fan of it, but interesting to see the comparative numbers.

Just do what happened in Chicago. Build an absolutely beautiful building, load it up, then in a few years have the fucker buy it and slap his name on it.

Dropping a self driving car on existing roads is much cheaper than building out infrastructure for trains and subs, especially in most of car dependent America. Also there are still plenty of situations where those can’t get close enough to your source/destination especially if you’re elderly or disabled.

I’m not against railed transportation (quite the opposite, I love it and would like to see more of it), but I also am pragmatic and understand that, just like a train would never be used to cross the ocean, there are quite a few applications where rails don’t solve the “last mile” problem.

1. Paywalled
2. Who in the Denmark government are they talking to that even remotely thinks this a good idea?

“You’re encroaching on my freedom of movement!”

The second point is kind of true. I remember when Germany switched from the DM to the EUR, prices almost doubled overnight because they just swapped the currency symbol without paying attention to the exchange rate.

So join a different instance or deploy your own server. We don’t need a third alternative. All are interconnected via ActivityPub, so you can choose what blocks you want, who you want to federate with, etc.

If you’re choosing to sign up on someone’s instance you’re choosing to agree to how they’re managing it.

That’s frankly why I like Lemmy.zip, the only time they’ve defederated is for a technical issue was was causing the servers to crash. Beyond that, I’m treated like an adult capable of making my own choices of which instances I want to block or interact with.

“Evolve how we work” …. Notice it wasn’t “listen to the players” or “figure out what the customer wants”

Nope. Just a very thinly veiled way of saying “but we have to have AI and cut jobs!”

Sadly that’s a big problem. “Where did it get its data from?”…”Stack Exchange?”…”Cool, you gonna post new answers there or that it worked?”…”No”…”So where does it get its data from for the next thing?”

It becomes an oroborous loop that causes less and less information to be available. You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to understand. Not to mention a lot of things don’t have manuals or good documentation. It’s like Discord, but worse.

My thoughts on mid-tier Italian Restaurant prices. And you want $30 for pasta, chicken and sauce, why?

Which to OPs point is a socio-political problem. We have the technology and means to distribute it globally, or ensure it’s created closer to the need, it’s just not being done.

And you assumed yet again. Damn, you must have the whole world figured out.

Thank you for assuming what I do or don’t do, or what I’m plugged into or not.

That’s a hell of an assumption. Since we’re whipping out credentials, I’ve been in IT almost 30 years and I can tell you it’s not going to work like that.

To continue with the analogy though, how many architects create things that an engineer takes one look at and laughs at because it’s structurally impossible (hint: a lot). Knowing the deep parts of the code and how it works becomes even more invaluable otherwise you risk Chinese building practices (quick, looks good, falls apart quickly).

If by “publicly” you mean “any data source that it managed to connect to, public or private”, then yes….

Just make sure that they take them in on equal terms with no special treatment: conversion to the Euro, no special veto powers, full Schengen movement.

“Why?”
“Because we shouldn’t be sending money to foreign countries!”
“Okay, so does that mean we should stop sending arms to Israel?”
“…”

Fucking hypocrites

$omething tell$ me there are a few rea$on$ it could be….

But I may be wrong.

JD will start his own religion…. With blackjack, and couches.