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  • AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns

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  • Nah, the bubble will have popped by then. Honestly, most people will probably be using fewer resources because the post bubble recession could be severe.

    When people finally realize that AI, robots, big space rockets, and self driving cars are not feasible and/or not enough to sustain our infinite growth economy, it's going to be kinda like realizing you forgot your parachute just after you jumped out of the plane.

  • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

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  • And so it begins...

  • Just give me someone to vote for who is normal

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  • The right in the US only says what their cult leader tells them to say. If he says the government is bad (which he often does when he's not the one running it), it's bad, but when he says it's good, (which he often does when he's the one running it) they say it's good.

  • Myles Garret

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  • Great. Because the NFC West wasn't good enough already.

  • More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives

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  • So it's kinda frustrating to hear people calling for others to go first.

    That's not necessarily what I'm calling for. I want us all to go together. But we can't all go for a solution until we all agree on the problem.

  • U.S. World Cup hotel bookings are disappointing, and Trump is a major reason

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  • I don't want to be here and I live here.

  • More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives

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  • The really frustrating thing is nobody seems to want to do anything about it.

    Like so many things in America, education is very unequal. We have world class schools, and we have very poor and inadequate schools. The people who live in the areas with the very good schools think the people who live in the areas with the very poor schools should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and fix their own damn schools, and if they don't, well, that's a them problem not a me problem. Unfortunately, it actually is a you problem, because, turns out, all of us are likely to be negatively affected if large numbers of Americans are fucking morons.

  • KDE wins

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  • I like Gnome. I like KDE, too. I actually think they're both great, in their own ways, but I personally prefer Gnome.

  • Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

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  • This is partly why I'm interested in the Slate truck. Your car can't spy on you if it doesn't have the tech needed for spying.

  • World almost certain to endure record hot year by 2030, UN warns

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  • Global heating is already estimated to be taking one life every minute, with the toll likely to rise unless emissions fall rapidly.

    I think it's going to be a while. We're still committed to the infinite growth paradigm and infinite growth requires infinite energy.

    There's debate about the feasibility of green growth, but the fact is green energy is already helping to fuel growth. It's a relatively small percentage of the overall energy mix now, but green energy will grow, and so will fossil fuel energy. We'll have green growth and fossil fuel growth, and probably nuclear growth, too. As long as we keep growing, we'll need it all.

  • In Homeless Crisis, California ‘Is Waging a War on R.V.s’

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  • The RVs are a symptom. Going after the symptom doesn't necessarily do anything to address the underlying issue. But the underlying issue is systemic, which makes it very difficult to fix.

    Real estate is the primary source of wealth for most people in the US. To bring down housing costs would necessarily mean bringing down home values, leading to many people potentially losing a considerable amount of their personal net worth. And I'm not talking about billionaires, or even necessarily millionaires. I'm talking mostly about people whose net worth is in the hundreds of thousands, with the vast majority of that coming from any equity they might have in their home.

    There's no viable solution for fixing this that doesn't result in those people losing at least some net worth, at least initially. Not that I can see, anyway. We need to do it anyway, but I understand why those people aren't enthusiastic about it.

  • The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries' train system for the U.S.'s 'D' rated infrastructure | Fortune

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  • What I cannot understand is how so many of my fellow Americans actually like it this way. And I get that a lot of it is ignorance and status quo bias, but you don't have to visit, or even know about, the places with great transportation infrastructure to know that ours sucks.

    You're only options to get anywhere are drive or fly and both suck and are expensive, uncomfortable and inconvenient. I mean, I've never visited any of the world's great transportation areas. I've never experienced that first hand, but I've sure as hell driven around the US and I absolutely fucking hate it. Traffic, asshole drivers, crumbling infrastructure yet somehow also constant road construction, getting anywhere in this country is a pain in the ass.

  • Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

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  • I think "renewable" has become a buzz word that people don't think critically about, so a lot of folks don't understand how important it is for an energy source to be renewable.

    Once you've pumped an oil well dry, it stays dry. It doesn't refill with oil, at least not on human timescales. But the sunlight that solar panels used to generate electricity today will be replaced with new sunlight tomorrow. And that daily renewal of sunlight will continue for many, many millions of years.

    It seems so obvious to me.

  • ‘Senators are not happy’: How Trump pushed the GOP to the breaking point this week | CNN Politics

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  • This is the first I'm hearing about this "anti-weaponization fund." This country is so cooked.

  • Florida biologist fired over Charlie Kirk post after his death wins $485K settlement

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  • The state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission fired biologist Brittney Brown in September after she reposted a meme on her personal Instagram account that claimed Kirk wouldn't care about children being shot in their classrooms.

    I mean, I'm sure he didn't care.

  • Removed

    Me irl

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  • It means no worries for the rest of your days.

  • U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding $5 billion a day since October

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  • With more dollars on the market chasing the same amount of goods (e.g. oil) the price of everything denominated in dollars would shoot through the roof.

    Yeah, but that's what I've never quite understood: how would it put more dollars on the market than there was always going to be anyway? I mean, the idea was always to pay back these bond holders. Weren't the dollars that will be needed to pay back bond holders going to have to be created at some point regardless?

    The total Federal debt is $39 trillion, but there's only something like $20 trillion actually in existence, if I'm not mistaken. Even if we collected every single existing dollar out there through taxes, we'd still have a shortfall of almost $20 trillion.

  • U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding $5 billion a day since October

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  • It does feel like flushing money down the toilet, doesn't it? Then again, I'm not a Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security recipient, nor am I a member of the armed forces. They might disagree.

    But why shouldn't I want to get something for my money? If I pay Medicare taxes, why shouldn't I get Medicare benefits, for instance?

  • RFK Jr. fires leaders of group that sets guidelines for preventive health screenings

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  • This is what conservatives want: medicine based on various opinions at the state local level so that you can't know what is true.

    Yeah, but not all states are going to just pull nonsense out of the air to base their policies on. Many states, like the ones you mentioned: California, Oregon and Washington will at least try to establish policies informed by experts.

  • RFK Jr. fires leaders of group that sets guidelines for preventive health screenings

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  • States must set their own guidelines. The Federal government has become unreliable so we shouldn't rely on it.

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    Canada PM's Speech at the WEF

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    I love the new Corvettes, but they kind of break the game

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    CNN Exit Polls - This math is odd...

    www.cnn.com /election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0
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    Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

    www.cnn.com /2024/06/25/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
  • Oddly Satisfying @lemmy.world
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    Removing a sticker without any glue left

    imgur.io /t/oddlysatisfying/CJ6iBpZ
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    This handwriting ???

    imgur.io /t/oddlysatisfying/KveYCJR