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  • secondary water usage, ie, what water is being used in the generation of electricity for their data centers. A process that I expect isn’t even really under their control in most cases, electricity is bought from the grid.

    Good things large companies aren’t looking into their own power generation.

    Oh wait…

    Also, the government is corrupt and companies have an outsized influence on where power plants appear and how much they generate. Even in a less corrupt system industry would have a large impact.

    And even if you were 100% correct, that water use still matters in how it affects the environment and available water supply. All water use is part of the calculation of whether or not lakes dry up and communities are destroyed.











  • Gonads do not include the vagina or penis. They are not gonads, and do not need to be touched to spay or neuter. Gonads are only the primary sex organs like testicles and ovaries.

    The big benefit of removing gonads is that the body no longer produces as much of the respective sex hormone. This means you don’t need to take estrogen or testosterone blockers for HRT, and the dosage of hormones can be lower. If you ever lose access to hrt, you don’t get the full brunt of having your built in hormones take over.





  • They want the benefits to popularity modding brings, but without them not being able to capitalize on it. The free modding scene far outstripping their paid mods hurts their ability to sell them, thus frequently updates to force the community to be on the backfoot keeps them in line.

    The same tactic is employed with Minecraft in their transition to frequent, small updates that break compatibility over larger, less frequent updates. They want to funnel people into their paid mod system on the “Bedrock” version of the game, but “Java” edition has a wealth of extensive mods that really put their efforts to shame. Breaking compatibility isn’t the only reason they do it; frequent updates create a hype cycle to keep the game relevant, but it is a factor for the money people.







  • Not really. It’s an alliance of rising imperial forces against the Americans dollar with the goal of creating a multipolar world, but I wouldn’t say that’s inherently more stable than one very powerful empire dominating everything. If anything, the neoliberalism mandated by global capitalism America championed is why the world became so unstable.

    The extreme inequality causes artificial scarcity which drives people towards extreme nationalist ideologies. The increased nationalism that makes countries like China, Russia, and India more dangerous is thanks to that global economic system which encourages the worst in humanity. Local efforts at controlling capital are inherently undermined by it, as economic incentives demand fewer protections to compete with the rest of the world.

    BRICS isn’t responsible for that, and if anything the deepening of economic ties between these empires will encourage them to seek peace with each other. As America becomes less and less relevant, the old tensions between those countries might cause it to collapse, but that won’t be the fault of it. Rather than it increasing or decreasing stability, it’s just a symptom of change rather than a driving force.