Nothing. The average person directly uses about 100 gallons a day. An additional 30 gallons every two weeks is a 2% increase.

consequence of the bone-headed decision to make the winter solstice the *start* of winter and not the midpoint

www.npr.org/2016/10/28/4...

Which only happened because of Anthony Weiner's dickpics

Retro Studios once pitched this, but then it turned out the Japanese literally don't know what a bounty hunter is, they heard the term in Star Wars and thought it just meant "space adventurer" www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/04...

Well, is Star Wars not dead?

I have heard "it can't keep going on like this" is a common sentiment expressed by those experiencing their government collapsing into authoritarianism. Unfortunately, it can.

Maybe the good guy are never going to storm in and lock all the bad guys up and everyone will all agree this was all a big mistake we'll never repeat. Maybe America will just limp on for decades after, permanently crippled and a shadow of it's former self.

He was supposed to be weird and off-putting. He was one of those 00's "ironic" mascots, his creepiness was always the intended joke. And people loved it!

to be fair, scared people refusing nuance and insisting on only idiot hyper-reactions is 100% realistic

A disregard for truth is what makes genocide possible. Everyone is capable of genocide so long as they can tell themselves that what they're doing is actually perfectly justified.

So powerful he doesn't even get Cheeto dust on his fingers.

skepticism about the ways in which AI is pushed and the claims made about it as a omnitool is extremely justified; denying that it's a very powerful, remarkable, and *weird* technology at this point is more about a particular type of online affect.