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I use a large sketchbook as a mousepad. The sketchbook sits on a pillow to lift it to the appropriate height. Works great.

Data centers needed for AI are driving up electricity costs to surrounding residents, they use ungodly amounts of water to cool the systems and dump that now hot water back into the ecosystem, causing ecosystem collapse or into the municipal wastewater process, overloading treatment plants, children are using it to do their homework, potentially harming their ability to critically read and write (this is still being studied, and most evidence is anecdotal or still in review).

Electrical and water usage - Penn State U

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/ask-expert-are-data-centers-driving-my-electricity-bills

Other electrical effects of AI and water demand - DW

https://www.dw.com/en/the-hidden-environmental-cost-of-ai-data-centers/a-78789889

Deep dive into water usage by data centers - University of Georgia

https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/TP121/how-data-centers-impact-surface-and-ground-waters/

Pacific Rim theme song lives rent free in my head. An amazing movie. Also came out around the time I started paying attention to directors so it’s my “first” Del Toro movie and I have watched everything he’s made since.

I don’t remember any of the music from Arrival so I guess it’s time for a rewatch.

Someone took BlenderGuru’s tutorial too far.

You can peel the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, and rigor mortised hands.

The thing about arsenal is, they always try to walk it in.

For sure. I tell anyone that will listen not to use Healthy Paws for their pet insurance. Ever since they were bought by private equity, things have been a steady flow downhill. The most recent bullshit they pulled is dropping all pets over 10 years old down to 70% reimbursement and doubling the deductible from $250 to $500.

And I can’t just change insurance because pet insurance companies are still allowed to deny claims based on pre-existing conditions. I’ve moved my younger healthy dog to a privately owned company, and hopefully they won’t go to shit.

Fuck you, Chubb, may you all rot in hell.

Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr. Bean). The hijackers were targeting the WTC but somehow end up in the Thames instead.

The infuriating part to me is oop bought a sandwich IN CLEAR PACKAGING and is complaining about being ripped off. Like you could see the cross section before buying broski, this is all on you.

I was obsessed with bobsledding as a kid and played so much of this game. I think my parents still have the n64 in their basement, I should see if it works.

And they are 100% using AI to make the classifications. Last weekend I ordered a biscuit joiner and a pack of biscuits to go with it. The joiner got labeled a tool, and the biscuits got labeled “arts and crafts”.

I hate this change so fucking much that as soon as it went into effect I spent a good 30 minutes looking around my account settings for a way to switch it back. Have you visited your Amazon account settings recently? It’s a nightmare to try to find ANYTHING.

100%. I turned 30 and somehow that flipped a switch and now it’s one of my favorite hobbies

the things are single threaded so the hardware is still pretty cheap. Now a surger on the otherhand, prices are SKYROCKETING!

My guess is VP McJorgen told HR he needs another senior dev with Claude code experience. HR specialist McSmitty pulls up the job description for senior dev, sees 10+ yr experience and makes the job listing, completely unaware of the age of the technology.

I can excuse Scottsdale but I draw the line at Cave Creek.

When I was a in high school Staples ran a deal for a 64GB flashdrive for $64 (1/2 off). My mom and I each bought 1 and it was such a steal! I felt like the coolest nerd at school with so much capacity! I considered trying to install UT2004 on it to play at school (I never did but knew nothing about computers and thought it’d work at that age).

Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle. it has a gas engine and an ev motor. the ev gets charged through regenerating breaking our through a charger. you get the best of both worlds.

A decade ago I worked in lumber dept of Big Orange. Had a guy come in one day demanding special treatment, claiming “I spend $1000s of dollars every week here!”. That’s not the fee l does you think it is, most local contractors spend that much every week here. You aren’t special.

side note, it was always funny when Karens would get mad and say “I’m taking my business to Lowe’s!”. okay do that, I’m sure the $70 you were going to spend here will bankrupt us and then we’ll be sorry.

when 2 of our friends got engaged we had a party at another’s house. the two who got engaged love hedgehogs, so we bought a 50 pack of tiny plastic hedgehogs as a decoration. those tiny things were perfect for hiding all over the house. last summer we helped them move out of the house (about 1.5 years after the engagement party) and we found a good 10 of those little guys still hidden around.

the company is valued at $2b and this guy is asking for $12k to cover cost of repair and lost revenue. he should be asking for punitive damage as well.