You know multi-tasking is a thing. There’s more than one person in the office that can work on stuff simultaneously. And they almost certainly have someone that posts these types of things to the social media accounts.

Quit acting like there is only one person and they can only do one thing at a time. You just look like an idiot.

They generally avoid doing this brazen shit in states and areas that are more armed.

Not sure that’s actually the case. Most of the people that I know with firearms are either Democrats or former Republicans that have left because of the current Republican party shit.

But I’m also in southern AZ, relatively near Adelita’s district. AZ has been a weird purple-ish amalgamation shifting back and forth for decades now.

Republicans have an inherent belief that everything is zero-sum. If someone is getting something discounted, then they must be losing something or paying extra in exchange.

You are not wrong. It’s not even a theory.

Studies have shown that most corporate CEOs exhibit many psychopathic tendencies. It’s how they are able to rise to the top, they don’t give a fuck about anyone else, so it doesn’t get in the way.

Then they use the money from those positions of power to try and manipulate whatever sociopolitical ends they want. They buy media companies to manipulate what narratives are told to the public, and how certain situations are covered, spun, or ignored entirely. They use those companies to create artificial campaigns turning certain groups against each other as distractions. If people are arguing about “small” things, they don’t have time to notice the big things being done.

That would require thought being put into it. That’s a lot to ask for, clearly.

Most likely explanation… Modern monitors effectively have their own little PCs inside… that go to sleep when the monitor does to save power. Older monitors didn’t give a crap about power usage at all.

The meetings are only there when higher level decisions have to be made, or they need out of the box brainstorming. Because even the enlisted are trusted to be able to make determinations themselves, otherwise they wouldn’t have made it through the academy and been assigned. Theoretically of course.

Also a good reminder that this Justice Department failed to indict the guy that threw a sandwich at ICE twice, then reduced the charges to a misdemeanor to bypass the grand jury, and still failed to get a conviction.

Normally federal charges aren’t brought unless there’s a strong case. The Federal conviction rate is usually over 90% because they don’t bother going after things they probably won’t win. They seem to have thrown that out the window in their haste to target political enemies. Turning the entire department into a laughing stock for anyone paying attention.

The first step is ranked choice voting for everything from local to federal elections.

First past the post is literally the worst way to operate a voting system of your goal is to get an accurate representation of the populace.

The entire system was designed around landowners being the only voters. So that meant only rich white men. Who had the time, personal desire, and societal expectation to stay current on social changes and the economy. They also had every reason to vote whenever possible. The core electoral system is based around these expectations and has had very few changes since it was created.

As voting rights were extended to more groups, the built-in structure of the system wasn’t updated. The rich landowners have every reason to vote, and the free time to do so and travel if needed. The system relies on an educated voting populace, which was already an expectation of those that were allowed to vote.

Modern Republicans have used those built in structural expectations to their advantage. And since lower turnout tends to go their way, they try to force that however they can, and regularly have courts throw their egregious shit out. So for decades now they have focused on replacing judges with sycophants in every state and federal opening they can. If those judges won’t throw out the bullshit, then they can do what they want.

Just in time for China’s 400% increase in gasoline vehicle exports since their citizens are buying EVs instead.

You seem to have missed the massive sections of the Internet that effectively disappeared recently with AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare outages.

Not sure how since all of those happened in the last 2 months, and nearly every part of the internet was affected between all three.

If only people actually read the ORIGINAL Rolling Stone article instead of just regurgitated secondary headlines for clicks.

Because despite their own headline being similar, the actual article contents indicates that the cause is mostly from agriculture and drought. Measurements from the water leaving the datacenter are even lower than the measurements from some local wells a decade ago.

Technically the headline is right, it’s not a lie, there is a link between the datacenter and adverse health effects… but the context surrounding it is dramatically different than what they want you to assume.

Cool, agreed. They don’t pay nearly their fair share.

Yet here they’re being blamed for something that seems isn’t their fault. They’re not actively working to fix the issue, but considering they’re a tiny fraction (looks like only ~0.1% impact in the overall area according to some articles) of the cause, the articles attacking them seen a bit ridiculous. Amazon needs to pay for the things they do. Blaming them for shit that isn’t their fault just means losing credibility.

The Amazon datacenter is concentrating the nitrates more in the water that they use, yes, that is the nature of how the water usage works and evaporates. But the nitrate concentration was already above Oregon state limits in 1992, and some wells in 2015 had ~20% higher readings than the water coming out of the datacenter now a decade after that. That certainly doesn’t seem to correspond to the datacenter being the major contributor. And the original article says as much, saying it’s primarily from agriculture and drought.

I just want to point out… From the original Rolling Stone article:

In 1992, DEQ measured an average nitrate concentration of 9.2 ppm across a cluster of wells pulling from the basin. By 2015, that average had risen 46 percent, to 15.3 ppm. For some wells, DEQ found nitrate levels nearly** as high as 73 ppm**, more than 10 times the state limit of 7 ppm.

When that tainted water moves through the data centers to absorb heat from the server systems, some of the water is evaporated, but the nitrates remain, increasing the concentration. That means that when the polluted water has moved through the data centers and back into the wastewater system, it’s even more contaminated, sometimes averaging as high as 56 ppm, eight times Oregon’s safety limit.

So the average back in 1992 was already above Oregon’s safety limit, but barely below the national limit. The water coming out of the datacenter now is lower than some of the base levels detected in some wells back in 2015.

Not saying Amazon isn’t a part of it. But it certainly seems like they’re not actually nearly as big a part as the article wants to make you believe. The Rolling Stone article is 90% about agriculture and drought adding to the increase in nitrate concentration, but that doesn’t get clicks.

Another related article said the Amazon portion is approximately 0.1% of the total nitrate increase.

Theyre doing fuck all to make the issue worse. But they’re the big bad datacenter, so they get the blame. Facts are inconvenient, make Amazon pay for the issue because Amazon bad.

As the comments at the provided link point out… this is disingenuous… at best.

The original Rolling Stone article this is based on… says the vast majority of the increase in nitrate levels is from expanding agriculture in the area.

The massive inputs of fertilizer to grow crops and feed for the animals came at a price: the contamination of the Lower Umatilla Basin. In 1992, DEQ measured an average nitrate concentration of 9.2 ppm across a cluster of wells pulling from the basin. By 2015, that average had risen 46 percent, to 15.3 ppm. For some wells, DEQ found nitrate levels nearly as high as 73 ppm, more than 10 times the state limit of 7 ppm.

And…

As the underground aquifer became tainted with more nitrates, even the ostensibly clean water that the Port pulled from the aquifer’s deepest wells — which it used to service its large industrial customers like Amazon — became polluted. Soon, Amazon was using water to cool its data warehouses with nitrates as high as 13 ppm — above the federal and state limits.

When that tainted water moves through the data centers to absorb heat from the server systems, some of the water is evaporated, but the nitrates remain, increasing the concentration. That means that when the polluted water has moved through the data centers and back into the wastewater system, it’s even more contaminated, sometimes averaging as high as 56 ppm, eight times Oregon’s safety limit.

So Amazon isn’t directly adding anything, the nitrates are more concentrated over time due to basic evaporation as the water is recycled through for a while before it is replaced.

Amazon isn’t the source of the contaminants.

So yes, it is “tied” to the spike, because they are using already contaminated water from the area and evaporation exists. Everyone’s water use is increasing this issue unless they’re actively filtering nitrates, which no one does. Normally that would be handled at a municipal level, but these are mostly local wells where that’s not part of the system. Amazon is just a big company, and uses a lot of water so it’s footprint is larger. But a fraction of the water use overall, and definitely compared to the agriculture adding the nitrates in the first place.

They’re not. The cost skyrocketed as soon as student loans and grants meant a nearly nun limited supply of funds for Administration to legally grift.

Unless it went viral at ANY point, then they’ll milk it until it’s emaciated. See: Stranger Things.