You mean you’d rather have a train set?

Monster Cable would have to find a new, useless luxury connection material. Platinum plated HDMI with carbon fiber strain relief boots.

Except contextually that makes no sense. The utility was already aware the data center would be using the water, they simply cocked up the process. Theft of service is utilizing a service with no intent to ever pay. It’s clear that wasn’t the case here.

Understand, I’m not defending the data center. I hope the damned thing burns to the ground. I just have this quirk where I care about the truth of situations, not exaggerating every possible angle so we can pretend it’s worse than it truly is. That’s the kind of hysterics the US and many other legal systems engage in, exaggerating charges to maximize penalties against their citizens, instead of seeking the truth of the matter. It’s wrong when they do it, and it’s just as wrong when we do it.

Certainly not shootings.

That driver is so stupid, being a fucking moron would be a huge step up. Who hits a yellow rectangle covered with flashing lights? Fucking hell, I hope they haven’t reproduced.

I think it’s our pal Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Stupidity more than adequately explains that one.

It took me a moment to figure out what you were on about. You actually think everyone on .ml is a Marxist Leninist? Do you think everyone on Blahaj is trans? Are you truly that much of a muppet?

I can’t believe it: a ragebait screenshot with a mix of accurate and inaccurate details that make a bad situation look even worse. You all have frontal lobes, fellow apes. Use them to think critically, because there’s a REASON memes like this want you to react emotionally and it’s not in your best interests at all.

Tl;dr: the data center’s usage is an issue, the local governments that facilitate and even encourage this behaviour are arguably even worse.

Truth: this shit hole data center used 30M gallons of water over the course of several months without being billed for it.

Rage Bait: they did it “illegally.”

Truth: the data center fully intended and was allowed by local government to use that water in the course of its construction, but weren’t billed because they didn’t inform the local utility of one water hookup, and the utility cocked up by ignoring the usage for that hookup and failed to bill the center for the usage on its second hookup. The data center did exceed their usage limits, but that’s not illegal: they simply pay penalties for the overage. The local utility waived these penalties because they’re spineless.

Rage Bait: the exceedance caused a drop in water pressure.

Truth: the locals experiencing water pressure drops receive their water from groundwater while the data center uses surface water. Given groundwater recharge rates are painfully slow, the data center’s usage did not cause the issue, though the pressure complaints led to the investigation that found the billing issues.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying/

I lived in the US for the better part of a decade, yet still can’t understand why so many Americans still don’t understand their own political system, despite being heavily engaged in it on a personal level.

They treat politics like sport and repeat the same tired talking points, like vote blue no matter who. This is literally the behavior that got their Republican party into such a mess - they voted red even if brain dead. Now their own party continually works against their better interests, but they keep voting for them because they can’t let the “social communist Democrats turn the US into a homosexual Muslim hellscape” or whatever.

They’re not voting for the change they want, but to prevent the other guys from making the changes they don’t want. This has been the cycle for decades and things keep getting worse.

Wake up, Americans. The rest of the world sees it. Why can’t you?

Now this, THIS is absurd hyperbole. When you have to make massive assumptions about someone to make your point, you don’t have a point - you’re just making shit up.

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Unless you know the OP personally, I think you’re conjuring issues about them to complain about.

https://a.co/d/09osT5Dh

Who needs fiction. This one is $399

I read “patented design crisps the outside of sandwich while heating and melting inside” and found its patented design also caused me to die a little on the inside.

It’s a thorn, equivalent to a th. Some people get all worked up over them using it like the bloke shat on their mother’s grave.

How could someone do something odd on Lemmy, bastion of normalcy?! It’s so unusual and offensive!

/s

LOL pretend whatever you need to cope.

That’s eight hours a day for five straight years. You sure love those cookies.

Fucking hell mate. Not a single shred of self awareness on you, is there?

My pleasure. They seem well intentioned but haven’t the slightest idea what they’re talking about.

Yes, you found the cost per credit hour that is paid to the university by the supporting financial source. The university makes money from tuition while making additional money from the work completed by students and faculty for the research funding. They double dip.

Teaching and research assistantships will also “waive” tuition fees and provide a poverty level stipend, allowing the university to brag about its charity while utilizing low wage grad students to replace positions formerly held by tenure track professors, who are already increasingly displaced by adjunct professors.