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When you make an urban park, you have to accept two things though. First, locally the city becomes more expensive. And second, it will occupy more space over potentially natural zones (over suburban area actually, that themselves will grow over peri-rural, that will push these, etc.)

If your goal is wildlife preservation or carbon capture, you probably want one more hectare in a forest rather than an hectare in a park inside a city.

Don’t get me wrong, I wanted more trees when I was living in a city. But the choice is between livable big cities or trying to make the cities as small impact as possible.

And also, water shortages have other causes, much more systemic, that I feel the datacenter scapegoat is a convenient distraction from.

You can cool chips with air, you can cool them with the sea or with non drinkable water. If they really get built in places where water is scarce, the problem is why the hell are they incentivized for that?

Water is plentiful and there should be no shortage of it. Where it is lacking it is either an environmental problem (desert areas should not be supposed to sustain cities) or a public infrastructure problem.

Seeing such a post upvoted on solarpunk gives me hope.

I don’t think the space race and space habitat is the way forward, but there is a future timeline that is sustainable and technologically advanced.

I am happy that some people still believe in it.

and save room for wild nature.

Arguably space habitat is the ultimate way to achieve that goal on earth :-)

Well, if you assume that the air recycling will be done by plants, you are going to have a need for a huge biosphere and probably for a lot of oceanic biome. If you plan on having an agriculture, if you plan on having pollinating insects, you are going to need a huge biomass.

You’re going to have far more nature than you will have humans.

This setting usually assumes that you have a fast transport network built in the core infrastructure. So being spread out is less of a problem, especially if you have free electricity through solar panel. That means that moving stuff around on electric motor is going to be basically free.

“Why are hard drives numbered starting with C: instead of A: on windows?”

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How long 'till this emoji disappears?

The real delusion in this story is that German is a language.

Now let’s talk about Dutch.

Franks were a Germanic tribe who took a slice of the Roman empire. We are just having cousins disputes.

Fun fact: Germany was founded in Versailles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_German_Empire_(paintings)

Some highschoolers in 2080 will have to study these memes in history class and they are going to be super confused.

Usually the claims that things are working without a government means that the head of the governments are caught in political games while the grunts keep the bureaucracy running like it should.

The problem is that it’s only stable if you’re happy with some level of conservatism. A bureaucracy has some inertia and can continue doing things without a head, but at one point it becomes unsustainable.

Change nothing lemmy.ml

This is a democracy vs authoritarian logic. Not a matter of territorial disputes.

Pollution. You use gpu and data center to generate an image. Rare metal, electricity

You use less resources generating an image than using photoshop for a few minutes

Author protection. Yes we can’t alway pay for artist and the outcome will be less paid work. And most of picture that were feed to ai come from internet.

Authors often use references from internet as well. The contribution is similar.

AI is mostly a tool the feed users what they want to hear

LLMs and image generators are different.