Data centers in Northern Virginia are using “absurd amounts of water”
“The region is the world’s largest data center hub, with over 300 facilities processing almost 70 percent of global digital information, each using as much as 5 million gallons of water per day. And because cooling methods often rely on evaporation, the water does not go back into wastewater systems. “Data centers rank among the top 10 water-consuming industries in the United States”
The little people are realizing that stored media are important. We want our own copy of our favorite songs so the enshittifiers and hackers cant fuck it up.
How long before serious shit abandons the cloud entirely rather than deal with the drawbacks?
I'm a big fan of regulation, but I bet we can kill data centers entirely by eliminating demand.
Guns 'n Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Def Leppard: Hysteria
Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic
AC/DC: Back in Black
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall
Led Zeppelin: 1-4, Physical Graffiti
Beatles: Everything
Cypress Hill: Black Sunday
A3: Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Happy 2B Hardcore: Vol4
Van Halen: 1984
The Who: Hooligans
Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell
Beck: Mellow Gold
Tool: Aenima
Wu Tang Clan: Enter the 36 Chambers
The Pharcyde: Bizarre Ride 2 the Pharcyde
I need one person who isn't lying to me. I've never had that. Everyone I've been close to, all my family, were lying to me about who they were and who I was all my life. Now, my only source of information is the internet, and I don't trust it. I missed the memo where everyone on the internet became honest and honorable; I still see it as an unregulated wasteland of bullshit and scam artists.
So--is anyone willing to be my only person? It's a burden, I know, and even creepier because I don't believe internet people are real until I've met them in meatspace. I was "friends" with "Juan" for fifteen years, loaning money back and forth and talking on the phone, and he was a federal construct.
I need answers I can trust to the following questions:
was there a big solar flare causing Aurora Borealis recently?
Brilliant proposal by German politicians: Let us place air defence systems inside NATO, and have these systems save civilian lives by shooting down missiles over western Ukraine.
This is pretty clever because
Russia cannot bomb these systems as that would be an act of war against the entire NATO alliance.
The systems cannot trigger a war with Russia themselves, as they are not attacking Russia.
Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.
If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.
@Rhube@bookstodon
SF isn't superior, but it is harder to write.As is mystery. Fantasy and horror require the least skill of any genre to write.Any time you write yourself into a corner you can simply change the rules.Hell, zombie stories are like "the aristocrats" in that there's no actual story on which to hang the rest. They're a jazz riff.Far as I can tell, time travel is the hardest to do well.
I do stand by "story comes first". I'm versatile; I think like a creator. I can enjoy a book that's just a montage when it's well done. Brautigan has his moments. Story is the engine of a novel, of a play. It's the framework upon which all else is draped, it's the reader's reason to turn the page. And the story is a lot easier to write in fantasy and horror than scifi and mystery. I've done enough composition to know.