Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

"In 2023, U.S. data centers consumed 17 billion gallons (64 billion liters) of water directly through cooling, and projects that by 2028, those figures could double – or even quadruple."

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Trump To Receive Nobel Prize For Getting Zelenskyy To Wear A Suit (Satire)

From The Babylon Bee

OSLO — The Nobel Committee has officially announced that President Trump will be awarded the prestigious Peace Prize for getting Volodymyr Zelenskyy to actually wear a suit.

Aug 20th 2025 11:36am EDT

Source Link: babylonbee.com/news/trump-to-r…

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In der Nacht zum Donnerstag ist es größtenteils bewölkt. An der See kann es später zu dichten Wolken und etwas Regen kommen. Örtlich besteht erhöhte Nebelneigung. Die Tiefsttemperaturen liegen im nördlichen Binnenland bei 7 Grad, sonst bei 11 Grad und auf den Inseln bei 16 Grad. An der See weht zeitweise mäßiger bis frischer Wind aus Nordost bis Nord, sonst ist es schwachwindig. /LL

_Absolute Proof That Whiteness Means Capitalism_

The left's apparent bigotry against whites (and men, and heterosexuality, etc) is actually all about delegitimizing the groups who most strongly favor individual liberty, limited government, private property, merit-based resource allocation, and the free market.

The left considers all those things to be the essential elements of what it calls "capitalism"; the meaning of that term to the left is NOT the same as it is for everyone else.

FTA: Sometimes the left says the quiet part so loudly, only the most dense people will refuse to listen.

Such is the case with this clip.

When the left says “whiteness,” they are not talking about skin color.

They’re talking about SYSTEMIC RACISM, or the SYSTEM that upholds RACISM.

That system is capitalism.

karlyn.substack.com/p/absolute…



Learn to curse like an adult

Full monologue: You low corrosive fecal horror, you maniac bastardly turd! I would rather drink stale urine from Norman Fowler's arse-pit than remain one moment more in your defilant company. You're filth, you're cack, you're the oooze of a burst boil, I abominate you, you towering mound of corrupted slime. Your every utterance is like the hiss of a fat maggot in the putrid guts of a decomposing rat. Your face is fouler than the un-wiped inner ring of Satan's rectum.

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Keeper Will Focus on Letting Players Relax and Experience its Strange World and Unique Story

Creative director Lee Petty spoke about how one of the core design principles of Keeper was to present unexpected things to players.

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GRAPPI Louis, tailleur, anarchiste italien réfugié à Genève.
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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

Link: databricks.com/company/newsroo…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Sal, the Head Chef in our Kitchen made a couple varieties of Wraps for my lunch and he did it early because I have to take my lunch with me today.
I'm heading out to Long Lake with the Geologist as he is taking more readings in the area we are looking for underground openings we could potentially lose our lake in. Better Safe than sorry.

He and I are having lunch together today. There is a beautiful look out spot near there. The lake will hold around 400 acres of water when filled and the deep area will be about 35 feet to 40 feet deep. There will be a beach along one side and there will be fishing all around it.

We are building a Recreational area there for all of us at the Ranch to enjoy. But first, we have to dig it out and fill it.

Part of the dig has already been lined with Bentonite Clay to seal the bottom. We drilled a 6 inch well, 600+ feet deep just for filling the lake. The well will keep the lake full, all the time.

There will be a spill way leading to an area we want to plant tall Bamboo that will not freeze out in the winter. We'll see how that works!

New U.S. Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel haaretz.com/us-news/2025-08-19…

Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code

Link: github.com/automazeio/ccpm
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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Microsoft Won't (Or Can't) Reveal ROG Xbox Ally X Price Yet But Report Says It Could Be $900

Microsoft announced the release date for the ROG Xbox Ally devices today, confirming they will release worldwide on October 16. However, the company has not disclosed the price points, telling fans to sit tight for a bit longer for pricing and preorder dates. Additionally, a report has emerged that claims the price of the most ...

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Who's gonna be at GEO600 on Saturday? That's when the 10th Open Day at our gravitational-wave detector GEO600 will take place.

ℹ️ geo600.org/openday2025

Just drop by GEO600 south of Hanover, Germany, between 12:00 and 16:00 CEST, talk to our researchers, and get insights into a cutting-edge research facility.

This year, there will also be an information booth for our distributed computing project @einsteinathome.

#SciComm #Astronomy #GravitationalWaves #Hanover #Sarstedt

A Windows Update could potentially damage storage drives.

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Chat, how do I get autistically into coding? Like, I do it as a job but I'm not passionate about it, and it concerns me because it's definitely going to stunt my ability to learn and improve at it (90% of tech discussions in this sphere go over my head). Like, I want to become one of those super opinionated autists who sees "good enough for the time they gave me" code and starts screeching like a gibbon. How do I do this?

I'd like to hear more about Planned Parenthood's baby-making factories. I wonder if they're being used for body parts, experimentation, who's ordering what, where the labs are. Are they modifying genes like they did with animals? Which race and gender they're raising, and if AI is helping them. Everything they do is evil and nefarious.

‘Microsoft-powered genocide’: Staff protest death tech contribution to Israeli war machine presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/19/7…