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They do have an option to turn it into a 2 door 5 seat SUV style setup so that's something.

https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/

I found that article really informative, TLDR: a lot of water is recycled and recirculated yes but not all. Also they sometimes evaporate water for cooling, and eventually the water does need replaced. I think the concerns were mostly scale and water increasing in conductivity over time.

I quite like Costco. And Winco. I really gotta do some research and make sure they're not secretly shitty, but they've both been pretty great for me.

EDIT: Ok well I did some reading.

Costco is owned by shareholders mostly. It pays better than most other grocery stores, has a small amount of unionized stores, and also negotiates a non union employee agreement thingy for other employees. Not as protective as a union tho. They also have a few lawsuits and controversies regarding egg/meat production, specifically in treatment of hens at one point. They've paid some fines and committed to only producing cage free or whatever eggs. Some still claim the farms are cruel, but I didn't see any more results on lawsuits yet. They have a couple cases of "fucked up and had to recall food" as well as one case of an employee dying in SK from heat stroke. They were found at fault in that they didn't strictly enforce the breaks and water rules that were required for summer workers.

Overall, Costco seems better than most, but with some real flaws and things I hope they improve on.

Winco doesn't have a lot of info, it's privately/employee owned, and they don't have a controversies section on wikipedia lol. Their history mostly just talks about how they were established. Winco generally seems to pay its employees better than other big grocery stores (ballpark $16 vs $13 for walmart for example). I think the other big thing is they do an employee stock option thing so there's that too.

Oh. This is their vision quest optional ad thing. Not that its great but these exist on desktop already, and can be completely disabled in settings. This post just now reminded me that they made that, I turned it off and completely forgot.

They also say that the option to disable it will exist on mobile too. Its shitty that there are ads at all but this is about the least offensive option I've ever seen. Can't promise it won't creep out and get worse later but yeah.

Can I just say your thoroughness here is a real fucking impressive skill. Thank you for sharing.

I feel bad for the minority of owners who may have bought before Musk was so obviously shitty. I didn't really think of him as anything more than the usual tech ceo until the "calling a rescue diver a pedo" thing.

And I mean it's likely a very small minority, but I think a more focused protest would be artistically altering cars on sales lots, or on factory lots. Obviously a lot harder to do, so like, any tesla over no tesla? But I'd prioritize the newer models, and ones that tesla still owns or will likely have to pay to reimburse, gets you the bonus of costing them more money outside stocks/sales.

It was a quiz about historical figures in LGBTQ+ history. And they called it indecent. What a bunch of fucking idiotic bigots.

Well yeah, just next election replace him.

Primary the fucker. I'm tired of these shitty halfassed center obsessed babies who spend their time trying to appease republicans instead of standing up to them.

The term server used to refer to a computer, running something like a web page. People connect to that specific server.

In discord, a server is just a name for a community, a label for your group. You can change channels, add new voice chats, change the icon, set up rules, bots to enforce rules, roles, pings for those roles, etc.

But at the end of the day those files are stored with discord, on discord's "servers" as in traditional server infrastructure. If discord decides all servers must serve a number of "sponsored posts" in general chat, for instance, you can't just not comply. Your server is part of their infrastructure. They can do what they want when they want. If discord decides to go paid only, you can't keep your server free, as another example. You cannot self host the actual files or software that makes up your discord server.

There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it's not terribly unlikely.

Most of the time, 60. But it depends.

Competitive FPS/action games I want 120, story games with FPS 60, anything turn based or slow paced is probably fine at 30 or 40. It also depends on a lot of other factors. On my handheld (steam deck like) I aim for 30 or 40, but my main PC always shoots for 60 or higher.

That and I usually tune my settings so I get a bit more than 60, then lock the framerate to reduce stutter.

Hell ya

Segregate and control the lessons. A public school probably can't teach the US is a Christian nation or that being gay is evil, but a religious private school...

Hopefully we can at least move to a safer state when our current lease runs out, moving is just expensive chaos is all, and our lease is for another year and a half :/ Worst case we just hop in the car and leave but that's less than ideal.

As a broke disabled trans person, who isn't getting out of the country let alone shitty red state my SO and I are in anytime soon, yes please. I should've gotten a passport when I had the chance but here we are...

I couldn't figure out how to edit it while it was "removed" so I just deleted it, it probably isn't really helpful for me to have a post on this that is, in essence "I won't misgender you buuuuuut" and dump all my misconceptions and realizations about irrational anxieties like y'all are my therapist. I agree with you, no matter what I believe respect requires using somebody's preferred pronouns.

Pokemon doesn't have direct control of the mechanical system by which pokemon cards are traded. They also don't get a percentage cut whenever a pokemon card is bought/sold on their storefront, and they don't take pokemon cards as payment for games, software, and computer hardware. Valve facilitates, profits from, controls, and could ultimately shut down, these online casino spaces. They actively choose not to, and participate in using loopholes (see the xray scanner). Ideally, yes, the government fixes this. Realistically, any solution that isn't going to take years, and be easily bypassed with a VPN, or just having your company be based in a "sanctuary" country, is going to lie with Valve. Either self enforced or forced by the US govt, they have the means to kill gambling easily because they control the accounts involved, the systems used to trade said items, and the virtual currency players earn. Even something as simple as adding age verification would help. They don't have to stop, just accept responsibility for having an in game slot machine that spits out items that have real world value, and follow laws and measures to protect minors.

So yes. i hold Valve, a massively profitable company directly facilitating and profiting from its illegal gambling industry to the point where the casinos openly sponsor pro teams to a higher standard than the company that prints pokemon cards, which can be bought and sold and gambled with like any physical good in a physical game of chance.