Marcille Dungeonmeshi is a Marxist Leninist who has to keep her practice of forbidden black magic (dialectical materialism) hidden despite its effectiveness because otherwise the elves from the west (NATO) will get her
It’s insane how every headline is like ‘Cubas power grid collapses’ as if it’s something passively happening out of the blue. As if it isn’t the u.s. energy/oil blockade on Cuba causing this, as if it isn’t the u.s. cutting off Venezuela’s oil exports to Cuba, threatening others w punishment should they provide support to Cuba. But no the power grids just randomly collapsing no agent no nothing according to these headlines and articles. & perhaps they’ll make the very astute observation that it seems like the u.s. created the conditions for this to happen (who would’ve thought?) but only as an afterthought, sandwiched between two paragraphs about how disruptive and unfortunate and pitiful these blackouts are, with quotes cherry-picked to exploit the Cuban interviewees’ pain while maintaining the myth that this is all happening in a vacuum and there is somehow no rightful resistance against the empire
i can not explain why tumblr continues to purge the most vulnerable of its userbase other than malice. it is unreasonable, unfair, and unjust. it is also an inane way to run a website. on top of that, it directly gimps tumblr's income. why would anyone pay for badges or blazes if they might randomly get deleted the next day? i truly can't wrap my head around the way tumblr admins make these (or any) decisions.
i've sent feedback in the form of a support ticket (via tumblr.com/support) as well as messages on the official blogs. i recommend you do as well. @ing the staff or changes blogs are easy to ignore and have never gotten a response, historically. kick a stink but leave a paper trail. they had to settle this same bigotry within their moderation in court in 2018 after the "porn ban" that disproportionally affected the same demographic. this could be just as problematic for tumblr, and I mentioned that in my message. if this continues, there might be legitimate grounds for another discrimination lawsuit of some kind, so we need to be furious about this. this is completely unacceptable and appallingly insulting behavior for a website that claims to be "the queerest place on the internet".
The Oregon data center situation is a really good example of how anti-ai sentiment on this website has such a totality over the average users mind that they don't understand articles put in front of them. People on this website will refuse to understand actual situations that are happening because they want to be more mad at AI.
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscar
The article again for people who missed it but to summarize the issue
>a rapid boom of agriculture in an otherwise arid and less than optimally fertile region has resulted in a ton of water pollution from the fertilizers necessary to keep the agricultural industry there profitable
>the people in charge of cleaning the water struck a deal with the agricultural farms that they would provide polluted water for them to spray over their crops as a way to cut down on fertilizer costs
>this polluted water then re-enters the water table, and this is particularly drastic for winter spraying where there is no crops to absorb the extra nitrates
>the reservoir and water tables at this point are so intensely polluted that there isn't clean water left
>enter Amazon
>amazon uses water to cool off their data centers
>normally this would not be a problem. data centers do not "pollute" the water they intake
>however, since hot water tends to evaporate somewhat, this results in any pollutants already in the water to become more concentrated
>because the water table is already so polluted, Amazon can't source clean water and must use nitrate polluted water for their data centers
>this causes a discharge of more nitrate concentrated water which is putting additional stress on the waste water systems and requiring more spraying
>data centers are not causing the problems but are exacerbating it
>these data centers have been in the area for over a decade, because data centers are used for more than AI
>the presence in agriculture, the data centers, and the waste water solution were all orchestrated by about five to seven members of government all working together to make as much money as possible in a bunch of nakedly corrupt moves
>this includes the waste water treatment body blackmailing the state government to let them continue to do winter sprays or they'll dump their nitrate polluted water into the water system
>all the while this has resulted in a bunch of health complications such as cancers and miscarriages
>the people trying to expose this are being targeted both by government and by under the table actors
>the whole situation is fucked and the state government isn't moving to actualyl fix it
This is a very complicated situation. Here is what the average tumblr users knows about it
>AI data centers cause cancer
do you see? do you see why this pisses me off? do you see why I said that I think anti-AI sentiment is going in the wrong place? Stopping AI will not stop this situation or make it better.
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