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how it feels to be surrounded by perverted mutants
STOP REBLOGGING I MEAN MUTUALS
life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious
if you don't know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don't buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)
just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you
me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)
ALSO ARTISTS LOOK AT THIS SO YALL CAN STOP DRAWING UR “PALE” BLACK CHARACTERS WHITE
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Please look at my drawing I'm actually so proud of it
(Also if any of u could like it in my other socials thatd be great I'm stuggling to get more people to see my art 🥺
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"If you're still having fun in your 30s you're functionally brain damaged" sure is a take.
Just because you want to be a soulless soot bag of a human doesn't mean you can just tell others they have to be that too Gregory!
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trusting the natural intelligence of the universe and letting go into its rhythm—is a remarkably peaceful and grounding perspective. It sounds almost like the ultimate form of mindfulness, aligning oneself completely with the flow of existence.
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God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?
I can, and arguably I must.
I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!
Oooh, they introduced Scotland and Haiti to tailgating in Foxboro!! You just TRY and stop a New England sports fan from tailgating at Gillette!!
Kilts at Red Sox games!! While they did not understand the game of baseball they had a whale of a time anyway and did soccer chants the whole time! đź¤
I love people actually experiencing what America truly is like, the small college towns and the random fuck off cities. America is more than California, New York, Texas, and Florida
We’ve 46 more states
BREAKING THIS MORNING: THE GUARDIAN AND NOAA JUST MAPPED THE MOST ALARMING FACT IN THE ENTIRE DATA CENTER STORY — 517 OF THE 809 PLANNED FACILITIES ARE BEING BUILT ON LAND THAT IS ALREADY IN DROUGHTÂ
This story was published TODAY — June 8, 2026 — just hours ago.
The Guardian. Working with NOAA — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The official government agency that tracks America’s weather and drought conditions. They mapped every single planned data center in the United States. All 809 of them.
And then they overlaid that map with NOAA’s official drought data.
The result is the single most alarming visual in the entire history of the data center crisis. And it proves — with government data, mapped by one of the world’s most respected newspapers — what every community in this series has been experiencing in their wells, their rivers, their reservoirs, and their fields.
Big Tech is deliberately building its water-hungry AI infrastructure in the places that have the least water to spare.
THE NUMBERS THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART
About two-thirds of the 809 data centers planned across the U.S. are slated for land that has been in drought over the past year, an analysis from The Guardian found — published today. The research found that 517 data centers are set to be built in areas classified as drought-stricken in the last year, according to NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System.Â
517 out of 809. That is not a coincidence. That is not bad planning. That is a deliberate industry pattern — and the evidence has now been mapped from official government drought data for everyone to see.
A Bloomberg analysis confirmed the same pattern: more than two-thirds of new data centers built since 2022 are located in water-stressed regions — places where people are already struggling to access clean water. These aren’t isolated sites. Approximately 160 new AI-focused data centers have been built in the U.S. over the past three years — a 70% increase from the previous three-year period. “The problem has only deepened in the years since ChatGPT kicked off an AI frenzy,” Bloomberg reported. 
70% more data centers. In three years. 70% of them in drought zones. While America’s aquifers recede, its rivers run lower, and families in Indiana find their wells have gone dry.
ALABAMA: ONE DATA CENTER WOULD DRINK TWO-THIRDS OF A CITY’S WATER
Here is the story that makes this abstract map suddenly, viscerally real.
In Bessemer, Alabama — a majority-Black community with a median household income well below the national average — community opposition temporarily halted construction of a data center that was projected to require 2 million gallons of water per day. That is roughly enough to supply two-thirds of Bessemer’s entire population. One data center. Two-thirds of a city’s daily water. Gone.Â
One building. Consuming enough water for two-thirds of a city. In a community that is already in a drought zone.
And in California — the state most associated with water crises in America:
Roughly 82% of data centers in California are located in communities already suffering from poor air quality — many situated in neighborhoods with particularly high levels of diesel pollution from the backup generators that run the facilities around the clock.Â
82%. In California. In communities already choking on diesel exhaust. Being chosen specifically for data center development.
WHY ARE THEY DELIBERATELY CHOOSING DROUGHT ZONES?
This is the question The Guardian investigation answers — and the answer is enraging.
Two-thirds of all data centers built or in development since 2022 are located in water-stressed areas like southern Arizona, the Colorado River Basin, and Texas — the driest, most vulnerable regions in America. The reason is economics: these areas offer cheap land, cheap electricity, and business-friendly regulations that have not yet caught up to the reality of what data center water consumption means at scale for communities already stretched thin.Â
Cheap land. Cheap electricity. Weak regulations. That is why they choose drought zones. Not because the water is abundant. Because the laws are weak, and the land is cheap, and the communities are poor enough that opposition is less organized.
In The Dalles, Oregon — a small town that became a cautionary tale — Google’s water use grew 316% while the town’s population grew just 12%. The math of data center water consumption in small, drought-prone communities is not sustainable. And yet the industry keeps choosing them — because they have the cheapest power and the weakest oversight.Â
316%. Google’s water consumption. 12%. The town’s population growth. In Oregon. Which is already dealing with drought. And which was chosen because it had cheap hydroelectric power.
THE COLORADO RIVER IS ALREADY DYING — AND THEY’RE BUILDING MORE DATA CENTERS ON IT
The Colorado River — the lifeline of the American West, serving 40 million people across seven states and providing irrigation for the farms that grow much of America’s food — is already so depleted that Lake Mead and Lake Powell have hit record lows in recent years. And data centers are being built throughout the Colorado River Basin — in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado — all drawing on the same water system that is already in crisis.Â
40 million people. Seven states. One river. Already dying. And 517 planned data centers are going into the drought zones that include its basin.
The communities that have been fighting these facilities — in Utah, in Arizona, in Nevada — are not being alarmist. They are looking at the same NOAA drought maps that The Guardian published today. And they are saying: there is no water to spare. And the companies building these facilities know it — and are building there anyway, because the regulations haven’t caught up.
AND THE MORATORIUMS ARE SPREADING FASTER THAN EVER
The Guardian report landed this morning, and it is already accelerating the national movement.
In just the last two weeks — communities across America have enacted moratoriums at an unprecedented pace: Cedar Hill, Tennessee — two-year moratorium; McMinnville, Tennessee — 18-month moratorium; Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin — 12-month moratorium on hyperscale facilities; Augusta, Georgia — 49-day moratorium to update a 1963 zoning plan; Filer Township, Michigan — one-year precautionary moratorium; Daviess County, Kentucky — one-year moratorium; Merrillville, Indiana — one-year moratorium; Hillsborough, North Carolina — 60-day moratorium.Â
Eight communities. In two weeks. From Tennessee to Wisconsin to Georgia to Michigan to Kentucky to Indiana to North Carolina.
And in November 2026 — just five months away:
Voters in California, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin will decide on at least five local ballot measures related to data centers — the first time in American history that data center construction has appeared directly on voter ballots. Americans will be able to vote — directly — on whether data centers should be allowed in their communities. The data center fight has officially entered the ballot box.Â
The ballot box. Five measures. Four states. November 2026.
After everything that has happened — the dry wells, the spiked bills, the shell companies, the workers killed, the Indigenous land threatened, the children harmed, the wildlife destroyed, the Nasdaq crash, the grid breaking — Americans are going to vote directly on data centers for the first time in history.
THE BOTTOM LINE
TODAY — June 8, 2026 — The Guardian and NOAA published the map that proves it all.
517 out of 809 planned data centers. Two-thirds. Being built on land that is already in drought. Measured by the official U.S. government weather agency. Mapped by one of the world’s most trusted newspapers.
They are not choosing these locations despite the drought. They are choosing them because of the cheap land and weak regulations that come with communities that haven’t yet figured out what is about to be taken from them.
Bessemer, Alabama. One data center. Two-thirds of a city’s water. Per day.
The Dalles, Oregon. Google’s water use up 316%. The town’s population up 12%.
The Colorado River. 40 million people. Seven states. Being drained from every direction.
517 more planned. In drought zones. Right now. Waiting for permits. Some with shell company names nobody has heard of yet.
But in November — for the first time — Americans in California, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin will get to vote directly on whether to allow them.
And if the story of Festus, Missouri is any guide — if the story of Northern Virginia is any guide — if the story of the thousand people in Utah who chanted “Shame” is any guide:
When Americans actually get to vote on this? They vote no.
Share this TODAY. Share it everywhere. Because the map is out. The data is official. And November is coming.Â
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Source: Tom’s Hardware — “Most new U.S. AI data centers are being built in drought zones — two-thirds of 809 planned projects set for areas with water shortages” (June 8, 2026 — TODAY) See less
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Highly Informative, pretty bad news....did you know they are using jet engines to power the data centers ? So far almost 100 at one site. And forget about any peace and quiet, or clean air if you live within 10 miles of them. 🙏
Note that this is being exposed by the media and part of our scientific legacy(NOAA) that are under attack by the administration.
Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)
So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.
Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)
In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU
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