Posts by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AhHnZVN9XScBWSJGFs by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-04-26T16:48:36Z
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@tomjennings I’d guess Android has a “video camera” permission you haven’t granted the site? Or maybe it can’t separate camera from microphone when collecting video, and you’ve only granted one?Just spitballing, I don’t know
(DIR) Post #AhS6NwGF4Xnin32M8u by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-05-01T16:06:33Z
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@ZachWeinersmith In 1999 Thomas Friedman published his Golden Arches Theory that no two countries that both have McDonald’s will go to war. This was immediately disproven.
(DIR) Post #AhsfLszl1UN3RLWYka by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T10:54:40Z
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If you think Republicans won’t overturn Loving, please recall that since the 1990s people had been saying Republicans would never overturn Roe(And educate yourself about the party of white supremacy)From: @black_intellecthttps://mstdn.social/@black_intellect/112391735232838571
(DIR) Post #AiYNHG3otCyucHe4Bs by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-06-03T14:36:12Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I recall Asimov or Heinlein writing about how NASA’s moon budget was small compared to how much women spend on makeup. Super-cringey of course, but that was just an ordinary day in the 1970s
(DIR) Post #AiktG66RxFQhsFsviq by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-06-09T14:38:32Z
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@jeffjarvis “I am no longer welcome in the church I loved.” Okay, now write about all the other people who were never welcomed, back when you loved it
(DIR) Post #Aiz4CR2UXlgAvK4oJU by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-06-16T11:39:38Z
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@ZachWeinersmith There are plenty of xenophobic right-wing nationalist groups in Africa and Asia and for some reason they never buddy up with them do they
(DIR) Post #AjMHzdPI24KOtz3Wds by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-06-27T16:32:33Z
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@ZachWeinersmith The 150-song catalog of the cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is amazing too! There’s a few clunkers in there but it’s some of the best comedy music ever on TVhttps://youtu.be/Oa_QtMf6alU
(DIR) Post #Ak5eBFN1ANavYxNaIS by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T13:43:01Z
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@futurebird @spacehobo I do recommend that book and its sequel, but be aware they’re hard science fiction, not fantasy
(DIR) Post #AkAg7MgzAl4yoPnNvE by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-21T12:34:47Z
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“A single data center can consume up to 5 million gallons of drinking water a day, enough to supply thousands of households or farms”15 acre-feet supplies “thousands” of farms how, exactly?From: @gerrymcgovernhttps://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112819562862310166
(DIR) Post #AkAg7O3i5kqp3BR2yu by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-21T12:38:38Z
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@gerrymcgovern The average farm size in Oklahoma is 467 acres. So one data center would supply one farm with 0.4” of water daily.There are 78,000 farms in Oklahoma
(DIR) Post #AkAg7P2gR3ck6Hxk1I by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-21T12:43:14Z
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@gerrymcgovern I Iiterally didn’t read a word of this article because the caption on the image before the lede graf was a risible, eye-roller, innumerate, knee-slapper of a lie.American farms extract 25 billion gallons of groundwater a day, billion with a B. That doesn’t count surface water. Miss me with the “uP tO FivE MiLLiOn GaLLoNs” propaganda
(DIR) Post #AkBAyRt9a4OQtuiPiq by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-21T16:32:34Z
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@gerrymcgovern I'm saying the part after the comma, the part you cut out of your quote, is a lie.Five million gallons of water per day is not "enough to supply thousands of [...] farms." That is an untrue statement.Right?
(DIR) Post #AkBAyTIiKWQvHTgLCa by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-21T23:39:05Z
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@gerrymcgovern I'd suggest reading these news stories for what they are: accumulations of adjectives to mislead you. Here for example: "massive," "strain," "fragile." It's "giants" vs. "residents and agriculture"!The fact is that alfalfa irrigation — just alfalfa, whose only use is feeding cows — uses more water than the entire commercial and industrial sector. And in the Colorado River basin, it uses not just more, but nine times as much. Who's the "giant"?https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=wffdocs
(DIR) Post #AkBAyV61efTKqhlEhc by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-21T23:48:35Z
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@gerrymcgovern Arizona has 280,000 acres of alfalfa, which uses 2.4 feet of water per acre per year. That's 600M gallons a day.U-Tulsa writes "If each data center uses 3M gallons of water per day for cooling" — they don't, the average is 1/10th that — "...that equates to more than 170M gallons of drinking water used per day." No, Arizona's 81 data centers, if mid-size, would use 24M.2% of one Arizona crop: alfalfahttps://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=ARIZONAhttps://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2023/08/08/big-ag-is-draining-the-colorado-river-dry/https://www.npr.org/2022/08/30/1119938708/data-centers-backbone-of-the-digital-economy-face-water-scarcity-and-climate-ris
(DIR) Post #AkBBKBUHEzS6P7Ra64 by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T00:01:18Z
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@cy Much!
(DIR) Post #AkBtOgZe02ApxVuXey by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T11:11:45Z
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@cy @gerrymcgovern Okay, let’s just grant all that. It sounds like we agree we should use reasonable assumptions like, not assuming farms too much smaller than most Oklahomans think of as a typical farm, and not counting a thimbleful of water as “supply.” What do you think the word “thousands” would have to be changed to, to make the caption not a lie?I’m thinking “several” would be perfectly fine and if it read “a dozen” I would be skeptical but I wouldn’t quibble
(DIR) Post #AkBtOhhpn4JrTCkb44 by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T13:46:25Z
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@cy Also, by the way, there’s geographic “room” for small farms, but economics make farming impractical very quickly as acreage shrinks, particularly for row crops which I assume are most of Oklahoma farms. A 200 acre farm is a small farm.My source on this is the farm-beginnings class I took a few years ago. It’s tough out there
(DIR) Post #AkBvqXk8cpnQaUEMe8 by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T14:12:18Z
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@cy Shrug. People like $1.49 hamburgers, and politicians like votes. I’m vegan, I’m opposed to ethanol, and I generally support organic farming, so I stand against all of this, but that’s what’s driving it. Can’t wave a wand and restructure society
(DIR) Post #AlDQFlrSVegRCH4lTE by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2024-08-21T17:16:26Z
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@mcc Where can I learn more about imparting classical angular momentum?
(DIR) Post #AsPiNxFsjh1X7f4B28 by jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social
2025-03-25T10:17:20Z
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@briankrebs What I haven’t (yet) seen mention of, is that this sets back the US intelligence community a generation.Goldberg says it twice: once that they were texting “related to actual and current intelligence operations,” and once that their texts if read by an adversary could “harm American … intelligence personnel,” in “shocking recklessness.”Who would risk serving their country in HUMINT overseas, knowing these asswipes are burning agents in group chats with randos?