I fully agree.  There's some muddled aspects to Waco, who shot first and that kinda stuff, and one can 100 percent critique the FBI for pushing a doomsday cult too far with tear gas, but to act like Koresh was some innocent hippie dude living on his own not hurting anyone is frankly nonsense.  They didn't deserve to…

This article and review also seemingly and weirdly letting Koresh off the hook. Sure, the ATF and FBI screwed things up, but to suggest that “dark gray areas to every claim on every side” is nonsense. Koresh was an awful, far-right, fundamentalist creep that needed to be stopped.

Im interested but the original show had a weirdly positive spin on Koresh. Like the guy had an arrest record for quite a few not great offenses, his religious group did kill some people prior to 1993, there was a bizarre leadership battle involving resurrecting a dead body, and its worth noting some survivors of Waco…

Not to mention, their main election fraud “proof” came from a random woman who emailed Sidney Powell and said she had info that votes were changed.

Davis reportedly told both sides that the central question for the trial was whether Fox knew the election denial claims were lies, but aired them anyway.

Can you imagine the reaction from Fox News and social media if we tried banning harmful substances like leaded gasoline, leaded paint or CFCs in 2023 rather than the 70s or 80s? The MAGA crowd would hold rallies where the attendees spray cans of Aqua Net into the air. Mike Lindell would hawk cans of lead paint on TV…

While this seems like a slam dunk thing that Mayor Pete should do ... I’m wondering what actual effect it might have?

I bet on Game Of Thrones “The Golden Wedding” means something else entirely.

WHAT!? You mean falling water transfers heat better than a large pool?

If only we had the technology to recycle and reuse this water that’s become heated while cooling the data centers.

To bad this water evaporates into the sky and never comes back.

I wonder how much water the production and distribution of this article consumed? Computing uses energy. Computing at scale consumes water. Therefore this article could be written about every computing task. AI processing is computationally expensive but also provides value for that expense. At least it’s not crypto…

Your link to “filling a reactor cooling tower” actually shows the reactor vessel itself filling with 185,000 gallons.  Also, a hyperbolic cooling tower, which I’m sure the reference is too, is only filled at the bottom to a few feet.  The vast majority of the tower is completely hollow.

The litter problem is real. Those fucking things are EVERYWHERE.

At least in Chicago, these are very popular on Bears’ game days amongst people walking to Soldier Field. People sell them out of coolers on corners and the neighborhood is covered in the empties on Monday morning. So I’m going NIMBY here and backing a ban.

(also folds web page, forgets to print it out first, laptop goes black and begins smoking...)

<folds webpage>

A master. And unafraid to pull punches.

He’s worshiping that all ighty ollar in the sky, now.

And the world loses another Idiot. RIP, good sir, and thanks for all the snappy answers.