water-data-dude

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by water-data-dude 7d ago
There's some scenarios where it could. One plausible one off the top of my head is: climate change makes the flow of the Indus (which has its headwaters in the glaciers of the Himalayas) less reliable. Two nuclear powers (India and Pak
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by water-data-dude 14d ago
For what it's worth, the picture at the top of the article is a textbook example of very high accuracy!
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by water-data-dude 20d ago
I feel like setting up cameras pointed at the houses of influential people with public web feeds might help push some privacy reform.
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by water-data-dude 21d ago
What are your thoughts on January 6th?
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by water-data-dude 21d ago
A lotta highly processed foods combined with most people seeming to be unaware of the impact my friend FIBER has on your poop, in terms of both stool solidity and speed of evacuation! Seriously, if you spend a lot of time going #2, adding a
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by water-data-dude 23d ago
I read that book when I was probably way too young for it, and that incident made me spend a lot of time staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night. I'll have to dig into it more!
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by water-data-dude 25d ago
A few months prior to the midterms is exactly the right time for this sort of action. If the voters keep seeing prices increase because of Trump's tariffs, it increases the odds that the republicans will lose the legislative branch and
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by water-data-dude 28d ago
"Free" as in "free to play by our rules or suffer"
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by water-data-dude 1mo ago
Sampling bias. Most of those millions of people are white, cis, straight folks who present as the gender they were assigned at birth. The odds of something horrible happening are much higher if you don't check all of those boxes. It&#x
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by water-data-dude 1mo ago
An excellent illustration of Chesterton's Fence
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by water-data-dude 1mo ago
For most of my life it's felt like we've been moving away from this scenario, but lately it's felt like we're sliding back towards it
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
TMDA (too many damn acronyms)?
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
For anyone interested in the history of water in the American West (what's different about the west, and how did we get here?), I recommend the extremely interesting and readable book Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner.
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
I was never rabid about it, but I thought prediction markets were a cool idea for a while. I didn't anticipate all of the crazy second order effects.
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
It would be great if it worked that way, with the people living nearby getting concrete benefits from the new data center. Instead, they typically just see an increase in their utility bills.
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
The only time the Sunshine Protection Act has passed the senate was when gosh danged Tom Cotton wasn't there[0]. I swear, he's in the pocket of Big Time[1]. [0] https://www.mediaite.com/politics/that-daylight-s
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
You can read an explanation of the status codes on the icann website. The explanation for clientRenewProhibited was interesting: "This status code tells your domain's registry to reject requests to renew your domain. It is an unco
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
In the US it's been turned into a culture war thing, because ignoring the problem benefits some already wealthy people who think they'll either be insulated by their wealth or they'll dead before it's time to face the co
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by water-data-dude 2mo ago
India and Pakistan are both reliant on the Indus River for their agriculture. The Indus has its source in glaciers in the Himalayas. As those glaciers disappear, the Indus will deliver less water, and deliver it much less reliably (melting
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
I started listening to an audiobook of Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust with the best of intentions. It's high quality literature, and it unquestionably has artistic and human-ness value! However...it's become my "
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
"I haven't encountered a rare edge case, therefor the rare edge case must not exist"
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
I'm interested to see if this is the whole story[0], but on the surface it sure is infuriating. [0] this article and a bsky post by the author of the article are the only sources I can find other than the website itself - which is defi
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
I'm a big fan of WaterFox! I switched when Firefox decided to add a ton of AI crap without providing a "turn this crap off" button (you could force it, but I don't want to fight my tools). Really good experience, been re
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
I know that if I lived somewhere urban it would feel welcoming. I know there's a large LGBT community there already. I know that there's gay clubs and stuff like Texas Furry Fiesta. But the urban areas aren't passing the stat
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
As a gay dude I will never take a job in Texas. Companies may enjoy the lax regulatory environment and favorable tax laws, but there are many bright people who - for one of a NUMBER of reasons - will never move there. It is repressive and f
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
I'm talking about the wealthy building private end of the world bunkers
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
America can do anything the UK can do, but bigger and better!
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
If things ever get bad enough that the wealthy need underground nuclear bunkers, the underground nuclear bunkers aren't going to be enough to protect them. The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where
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by water-data-dude 3mo ago
Humanity's working on it, lol
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by water-data-dude 4mo ago
Don't you think it might be harder to replace the people who work for free, as opposed to replacing paid employees? The unpaid labor is...unpaid.

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