Thwompthwomp

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[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago

This is a pretty good article. Something I try to stress to my students. Technology is a major driver of culture and society, and understanding that complexity of relationships is important. It’s not developed in an isolated bubble, nor is any technology neutral or value-free.

I like that the article highlights community engagement. That is so very true. Otherwise some good-intended deployment can quickly become technological colonialism when the users might not be able to do system upkeep or it solves the wrong problem

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sucks you can’t charge it and have to instead go to a central bank to exchange minted coins for notes that you can exchange for the commodity that is the radio.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We noticed this when we went to a Texas Roadhouse. Their restaurant prices for steaks hadn’t gone up hardly at all and seemed very surprisingly reasonable, whole beef at the grocer is painful.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Ackushally he made an abomination that was both genders that he cut in half to separate the two genders. The “rib” is just a polite way of saying cut down the middle. And I think why the ballsack and taint has a zipper line. I don’t know, it’s all silly anyways, but at least get the deep lore right!

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Lure me into the post with pizza, stay for the woodworking talk. Well played! (The cutting board looks great!)

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/final-fonsi-ea-2251-rivian-stanton-springs-north-2024-12.pdf#page26

Does mention it is passed to a treatment facility, some is treated on campus, and other is stored.

So according to epa report it was not expected to affect local groundwater.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought I found something earlier that alluded to it, but Lemmys on my phone and doing any real research is always annoying on it. I can try to find something. I know they do release very significant amounts of wastewater though. But whether that’s all back on public utilities or how it’s but back in the ground is unclear. I’ll see I can find anything specific.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

But combine that with someone ~~dumping thousands of gallons of wastewater into the ground~~ basically across the street and weirder things are going to happen.

EDIT: Yeah, I don't think they are dumping water into the ground. Scratch that out. These datacenters DO use lots of water, as in millions of gallons per day, the concern there is more about how the public utilities and incentives were structured. [Quote for millions comes from Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI book, but the link was the the first data I could source, which looks less than that.]

I'm now thinking this article may be more about the person not liking the datacenter than it specifically affecting the well. Could construction cause some extra sediment to clog up the well intake? Seems likely.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the south it’s also more common to either not have a garage at all or have a carport instead of an enclosed garage. It’s just easier to leave your car or vehicle (tractor) out anyway. Combine that with, I need to sell this or work on it at some point, you park it in your yard and will get around to it someday. Or maybe your cousin might need it one day so you’ll keep it. It’s a bit of an ingrained impoverished idea that you “might need it someday” attitude.

I’m also staying with family that are regularly using tractors pushing 60? 70? Years. I’m not even sure how old they are, but it takes a bunch of parts and pieces to keep these things running. Luckily here though the scraps are either off in a barn or not directly in between the house and the street.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That’s for the whole bag though. Is that how people use these things?? Just down the bag??

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ha! Yeah, that’s too great to change :)

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I’m not sure how common it is, but anyone can book a performer. They advertise their prices for private shoes quite openly usually.

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