Jeez
How many atrocities is this company responsible for? Counting just this week’s headlines, it’s already unconscionable.
how the fuck does a data center pump out a rare germ? Seriously. Isn’t the water meant for cooling computers?!
Nice and warm water, good place for it to thrive. The cooling towers in Arizona sometimes has stickers warning about legionnaires disease.
I remember when that futurism site was a weird news site about utopic things. Now it’s dystopic as hell, and this scares me a lot, because if even they don’t have good hopes for the future, things are REALLY bad
Yeah, it scares me too. Though it does give me some comfort to exist in communities like this, where people are well informed of the kind of fuckery done by big tech and other asshole corporations, and thus are not surprised by this kind of news. Although it’s pretty grim that we all recognise how fucked things are, it’s within communities like this that I often find my will to live be bolstered.
Maybe it’s to do with the average political inclination of folks here, or maybe it’s just that Lemmy has a high concentration of creative, nerdy people who find joy in making or sharing cool stuff. Or maybe I’m just so burnt out that I’m desperate to construct and/or clutch onto anything remotely meaningful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Regardless I find it reassuring to see so many people trying their damnedest to forge something good — not in ignorance of the world being on fire, but precisely because we need good reasons to live now more than ever.
Sometimes I find myself thinking that I wish I could put my head in the sand and find some bliss in the ignorance of it all. I don’t really want that though. Real hope is built on a comprehensive understanding of the problems we face, with a hearty dash of some potentially irrational defiance.
It became sentient
“When the board shared that it found a substance in the city’s wastewater — not public drinking water — Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite,” a Meta spokesperson told Cowboy State.
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the ship was towed outside the environment.
Interviewer: Into another environment…?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No, no it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment.
Interviewer: No but from one environment to another environment…?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment.
Interviewer: Well what’s out there?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Nothings out there!
Interviewer: There must be something out there…?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: There is nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.
Interviewer: And?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And
20,000 tons of crude oil. truckloads of deadly bacteriaInterviewer: And what else?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And a fire.
Interviewer: And anything else?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But theres nothing else out there. It’s just a complete void.
does that normally happen?
Our Amazon processing centers are all set to discharge “treated” 95-degree water into our waterways. Board of Supervisors isn’t concerned. Good times.
95-degree water
F or c?
First one, then the other
Zuck and the entire board should face both civil and criminal charges.
Wow, good thing this company has a squeaky clean reputation otherwise or this might tarnish their reputation.
What reputation?
Wooooosh
Let me explain my comment because apparently it flew over your head: OC used sarcasm to highlight that they in fact have a horrible reputation. I made a joke to extend on OC’s joke highlighting the fact that they might not even know what a reputation is, let alone reflect over their own.
The best jokes need explaining.
A joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process. A bad joke is still a bad joke, but the real joke is someone who is whooshing something because he just didn’t get it.
Does a good joke start with a dead frog or does the frog have to die during the process of dissection?
Town ? So people are fine right ?
Bacteria? If it came from the computers, it should have been viruses.
/s
Cant vote against datacenters if you’re dead. Also, fantastic way to remove the parasites taking up energy for their useless pursuits, like daily life.
Cool. Charge Zuck with Attempted Murder.
What is the highest-leverage attack on this kind of installation? Like most people don’t have access to cruise missiles (though if you do, please do the thing!), but I’m thinking ventilation intake. Like take a can of expanding foam (ie, GreatStuff), duct-tape an M-80 to it, light and chuck it into the ducting.
take out the water supply intake by pouring two common products into the water intake lines before the pumps.
- roof sealant
- hydraulic cement
the roof sealant is viscous and sticky. it also cures while wet. it will gum up the pumps and turbines and make them sticky.
the cement will bind to the sealant and cure rapidly, seizing the rotation of the pumps and turbines.
it will be impossible to repair them and will need replacements. they may have replacements on site so you also need to puncture the cooling towers. bird shot from a shotgun should thoroughly shred the radiators.
if fascists can get away with shooting power distribution hubs then why can’t we shoot data centers?
Just get a shit load of meth heads and tell them how much copper there is in these fucking murder centers
Or maybe put the address on Craigslist and say you’re moving and there’s hella free copper, RAM and graphics cards.
What doesn’t Meta infect?
It loves to metastasize, like cancer.
