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Asking for help is not easy; it’s very embarrassing, especially for a family that used to live a decent life. My husband and I completed our university education with distinction, worked in respectable jobs, and were used to helping others, not asking for help. But the war has turned our lives into a nightmare; we lost our home, our sources of income, and even our ability to provide the simplest of needs.
I'm Hanan. For the past 13 months, we have been struggling to get healthy food and medicine for my child, whose weak body was attacked by infection, and for my elderly mother-in-law, who fell into a coma for several days and almost lost her life due to anemia caused by our inability to provide healthy food, as prices have risen more than 10 times. Now, we have run out of everything. While you are reading my message, my family and I are trying to survive amidst all kinds of suffering.
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i am SO glad people are explaining their choices because one of my favorite parts of what’s going on here is the huge variety of reasons and lines of thinking people are using all to arrive at the exact same answer
at this point so many of you have independently described similar personality traits for all the tetriminos that i almost feel like i could draw them as people
some wild shit going on in the notes that’s hard to pick up on if you’re not getting notifications every time someone says anything:
for some reason both people who prefer S AND people who prefer Z say they think Z would be kind of mean
people who Don’t pick the T overwhelmingly assume people who do chose it because it looks like a dick, actual given reasons for picking T lean more toward gameplay versatility, sex toy safety (i.e. they ALL look like dicks but T has a flared base), and personality
there’s a fairly even split on use of gendered pronouns for I, O, T, and Z, but people tend to use she/her for L, J, and especially S
there have been multiple unconnected instances of the phrase ‘triple t spin in the pussy’. this doesn’t really matter it just feels worth mentioning
by and large S and Z fuckers are MUCH more passionate about their choices than L and J fuckers
there’s been a tumblr-typical handful of ‘submissive and breedable’ comments, but as far as i’ve seen only the T piece has people explicitly and directly saying they want to get it pregnant. no idea what caused this. the art seems to have made it worse
You guys hear about that fossil hunter on the Chesapeake Bay who found a 100+ year old human skeleton inside a waterlogged plain wooden coffin? Second worst nightmare as a Chesapeake Bay/Hampton Roads mudlarker. Apparently he carefully excavated the scene, pieced the coffin back together, collected all of the remains and gave them to the sheriff’s office which was probably the best call because he’d found a human femur (thought to be part of the coffin skeletal remains) in the same area 15 years earlier and authorities hadn’t conducted a thorough search.
Costal erosion has already destroyed several small islands and flooded several burial sites (dating back to the 17th century) within the Chesapeake Bay. History is being washed away everyday and that is the bittersweet reality you see as a mudlarker or fossil hunter. As a fan of the Chesapeake Bay and old cemeteries, it makes me extremely sad. It also makes me pretty sad the archeological society doesn’t seem interested in conducting further research on the remains and the coffin as there are a limited number of cemeteries it could have washed out from. The person seemed to have died of massive head trauma and there was a very deep patina on the bones so I wonder if they were a Revolutionary or Civil War casualty.
But anyway. I’m glad they were found by someone who cared and seems to have cared very deeply.
Not to be a bitch but the idea that AI is uniquely environmentally destructive is simply false. Honestly it's naive at best and willfully ignorant at worst. Google used billions of gallons of water before AI came along, and it'll continue to after AI has been left behind.
In 2019 alone, Google requested, or was granted, more than 2.3 billion gallons of water for data centers in three different states
I'm sure AI has increased these water costs, but that's only because any new technology is going to increase water costs. AI isn't the root cause here; it's merely another component in a system that does nothing to encourage tech companies to find solutions to high resource usage.
It's good to be critical of huge companies like Google. It's good to be cognizant of the wasteful use of resources that goes into technology. But when we give in to blind hatred of a specific technology like AI and make it out to be the source behind these things, we lay a smokescreen for the corporate greed and broken systems that are really to blame.
If you're angry about the water use of AI, you should channel that anger towards learning and caring about the wider environmental issues at play.
But don't just blindly hate AI because it's the current boogeyman. There are deeper things at play.
...except every Google search only uses about 0.5mL of water, compared to the 500mL of water used for every 5-50 AI prompts.
Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infr
One year of training for a single LLM uses 126,000L of water. Now consider how many LLMs there are (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc) and suddenly that number is seriously rivaling Google's water use.
That's also putting aside the insane carbon emissions that come with training AI models (300,000 kg of CO2 emissions, or 125 round-trip flights between NYC/Beijing) and usage of AI (10x the current level of energy usage by small country).
The part that artificial intelligence plays in climate change has come under scrutiny, including from tech workers themselves who joined the
The training process for a single AI model, such as an LLM, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons
Yes, Google itself also uses a ton of water and has a lot of carbon emissions. But not only is Google is a single company that is broadly used, but when you consider how many different LLMs are currently in use and how each one damages the environment in colossal ways on their own, the cumulative effect of all those AIs is the concern, because left unchecked they will become worse than Google itself.
The conclusion here should not be "you can't complain about AI's usage if you use Google", it's "AI is making a bad problem worse and should not be allowed to exist in its current form". People are capable of caring about multiple issues, and especially if we recognize Google is damaging to the environment then we should not be allowing what is essentially another five Googles to run around doing the exact same thing, multiplying the issue 500x.
No one is blindly hating AI, we are hating it for being a dangerous plagiarizing misinformation machine that guzzles water/belches carbon at a rate that will very quickly surpass what Google does. Trying to make people less critical of AI by saying 'but other companies do this too!' is not the gotcha you think it is, you literally just sound like this:
#genAI is uniquely bad at water and power consumption actually #because of the insane amounts of data needed to run it #it's not that any new technology will use more water #it's that this SPECIFIC technology uses EXCESSIVE amounts #and for a poor end product too #I think we can all understand that there is some cost benefit analysis at work here #like yeah sure the AI that's being used to find cancer cells is probably a good use of all that water and energy #but the AI that hallucinates bloody pin-up models in lingerie when someone puts in a prompt for car crashes is perhaps… not the best use #but sure strawman the arguments against genAI and muddy the waters to pretend it's not uniquely bad #genAI as it exists now is a DIRECT PRODUCT of corporate greed #and criticizing it especially criticizing Google by name for making it impossible to turn off isn't giving anyone a smokescreen #"you're ignoring the corporate greed" #no I really think saying "Google is destroying the planet for genAI" isn't ignoring the greed aspect here come the fuck on
I dont k ow what OP is testing for or what most of the table says but whatever water they've sampled it has the same PH levels as seawater and there's enough mineral content for stalagmites to form inside the sample container. If line 2 is nitrates- the stuff produced by dead junk- then there's enough of it to make them sick.
So like. Whatever this is, and I hope to God it isn't someone's tap water, then as far as my untrained brain can tell, it is reading as a sample pulled from an unfiltered saltwater fish tank that someone filled with street gravel and didn't clean for a month.
Or like. The groundwater well behind an abandoned farm house in Missouri that hasn't been touched since 1953, possibly after a raccoon fell inside it
This is the kind of water you'd read about in an old dead British guy's expedition journal in an entry dated two days before the entire party died of dysentery
funeral procession (miss you forever) I - IV, 2024, oil pastel on paper.
drawings of photos from the 99 highway in my home province of British Columbia during the past three years of driving up and down from city to town at midnight to catch planes to get to funerals.