Honestly I'm shocked that most Americans say political violence is never justified, even in the abstract. Your country was founded in revolution! Was the civil war, the emancipation of millions, not justified political violence???

Full agree we're using way too much water as a society, especially in these literal deserts! The Colorado doesn't reach the sea anymore!

I do wonder if fixating on individual use, or (in absolute quantities) small users like data centers is helpful when agriculture uses 80% of the water supply.

The average person uses 80 gallons of water a day, which means this entire data center uses as much water as 247 people.

Honestly, seems like a good deal? Not obviously an environment catastrophe.

Gotta switch to the matching winter version! Which is also excellent

Well, you can get funds and ETFs which try to filter the worst offenders out, and they're barely more expensive than just buying the SP500.

If anything, they're a way for you to vote with your money that ordinary people didn't have at all until recently!

Should note it's not Guantanamo *again*, because we never stopped. It's still an active operating illegal prison. This is *another* Guantanamo, because one concentration camp wasn't enough for us.

But also, most people in England live in the South - there's about 15 million in the North, and the other 40 million in the South. Kind of makes me wonder whether the North is overrepresented in football?

No! It's not the bedrock at all. The deeper theories are quantum field theory and general relativity. Newtonian physics is just a good approximation to those, sometimes.

Oh I totally get how cars have immense costs (building roads, using space, pollution...), as you say, and that walking is cheaper to society. Are all four of the stats here factoring in the cost of the traveler's time? That sounds like a much harder stat to compute

How does walking cost you a dollar? The others I get, but walking is free, right?

Where's the town in that photo!? That's basically all parking lot!

Songkick is really good for this! You can put in locations to track and connect your Spotify, then it'll tell you when bands you like are in town. Works well for me!

The sentiment really chaps my ass as a former engineer because technology has already saved you! It continues to save you again and again and again - the miracles of vaccines and wastewater treatment and a thousand other things are the bulwark holding back an incredible amount of suffering

Maybe I'm missing something, but is that a bad thing? To me it makes sense that a city should have control over its ports and crossings, no?