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I remember some prof joked on their lecture, that they've been grilled once in EV industry after they presented the environmtal impact comparison between legacy car and EV that includes lithium mining, refinement, waste management cost and how many miles EV needs to offset such cost with its "green fuel" (spoiler: a lot). It was nearly decade ago and I don't know their formula holds today, but it's still plausible such negative externality being overlooked and remaining.

I'm in the picture, will it make me a princess?

Nuclear plant has been historically built nearby water body without water loss (evaporating). Shift to open system happened mostly in US due to regulation in response to marine environment protection. However majority of plants are still located in coast side (UK, Korea, Japan, Finland etc) using sea water, inland one still utilize river water (France).

For new US reactors likely employ open system so your water concern stands, though its open evaporation system is optimized better than unoptimized data center ones.

Closed watet system is expensive and less scalable construction wise.

Nuclear plant employs it because the water has direct contact to the nuclear fuel, containing radioactive minerals. It cannot be released outside without treatment. It is necessity than choice. Companies would've chosen open water system if regulation allowed to so that they don't have to pay the cleanup fee.

Nuclear plant has closed water system and usually dumps heat to nearby lake or sea. It ofc has environmental impact but less on freahwater usage compared to AI data centers that cool machines using freah water and in a way hard to recover water.

Tho when it comes to nuclear plant the elephant in the room is the hazardous waste it produces that takes next 100,000 years to settle. We're doing "let's fuck around bcs we won't find out in our lifetime" again.

Wind (and tidal) are affected by climate, may become unsustainable and imo the true free energy is solar.

Its symbolic move of defiance. Calbee has been queried by the govt for contradicting their "no shortage" claim.

Petrol firms in Japan suggested the cabinet to take measure in reducing demands bcs they knew the numbers better in April but govt ignored.

Calbee didn't retract their decision aftet queried. The shortage is true, it's a marketing to make it clear.

That sounds like FIRE than NEET but idk there can be overlap.

I get where you're coming from but texture in layman term is (microscopic) characteristic of the surface. You wouldn't appreciate crisp 16bit RGBA pixels in your mouth when you bite an apple.

People are righteously wary of this given how Google funding of Mozilla went over time. I don't expect to sudden pivot, but gradual shift to push AI features in 5, 10 years is entirely possible so I'll just keep my watch. Like it or not, 3D GenAI user's also exists (not sure how big are they or growing) and their primary tool is Blender so BF may see them part of the "diverse userbase" too.

Do techbros take inspiration from Magnasanti or take it as a challenge?

For small model bonsai series seems getting the spotlight. Natively trained on1bit and ternary 1.58bit, 8B runs on ~1GB memory.

Iran already blocked their own people from internet. They do to further to just silence Iranians abroad?