clarissa

may you get the housing you expect poor people to live in 🙏

Long-term infrastructure problems caused by decades of austerity and exacerbated by a death-cult of conservatives?
Nah, that doesn't make me feel good.

Let's instead claim it's all because of projects that haven't even happened yet sending their energy demand back in fucking time

Now I'm fun-mad!

Honestly hilarious to be blocked for saying "but the conservatives are killing our renewables and grid improvements and that's the primary cause"

This is why I don't bother talking on the internet anymore because people don't want to hear about reality they want to be facile like anti-vaxxers

Hell, people can't even blame data centers consistently. Most of the build out in the last few years was because of our shift to remote work and online services since 2020.

But no one is proposing we give up remote work and YouTube forever.

It's just plastic straws all over again. People have a new culprit for environmental problems that they feel good about. It's a simple problem. It has an easy solution.

There's no complicated trade-offs

People don't want to drive less or stop eating fish, they want to ban straws

This is like people blaming datacenters for water loss in the southwest. Half the Colorado river diversion is for farming animals! Everything else is a rounding error

We're literally just straining gnats and swallowing cattle!

God but this isn't the primary reason your power bills are getting worse

Our power generation and transmission infrastructure is crumbling and the Trump admin has been slowing down improvements and repairs to the grid, they're killing our renewables

The folk logic is focused on the wrong culprit

It's such a weirdly fun movie

I will attack and dethrone god for that

😍

oh phew

Oh god did you eat it

I honestly love coconut but I still think it's overused

We should probably just pick a little round table as a stop gap very soon

Oh no this is such a good story

......???

god it'll be sick with an actual sink and a pocket door instead for smaller footprint

Oh I just thought you forgot Piss in a Can: Gamer Fuel

y'know, the super caffeinated drink you like because you're a real gamer

I wasn't gonna judge

<3

I think that's from The Office. I can almost hear Rainn Wilson's voice saying it

big mood

???

incredible

we keep digging and digging and digging

It's the old dril tweet about turning a dial labeled racism and looking back at the audience for approval, forever, except there's now a second dial labeled "transphobia"

in all seriousness this is a pretty good survey article that has enough plain language that you can get the gist without a medical research background

The potential impacts of micro-and-nano plastics on various organ systems in humans Humans are exposed to micro-and-nano plastics (MNPs) through various routes, but the adverse health effects of MNPs on different organ systems are not yet fully understood. This review aims to provide...

Yeah not inflammation in the cleanse diet sense but in the actual biomarkers sense:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Okay in all fairness I guess over the last few years there's been a lot of research in mice showing that basically every system that accumulates enough microplastics does experience inflammation and some kind of degradation of function

So we don't *know*-know about humans and dosage but...

I remember there was one viral story years ago that was like "fellas, this might be affecting your sperm count" and I feel like it snowballed from there

and it's the necessity that kills me, like cis men talking about being misogynists until having daughters your reaction is just "okay, sorry, it took *what* to convince you to not be a piece of shit to others?"