They have no idea what they have. No idea where it comes from.

They’ll run it into the ground regardless.

A lot of us did, and for free!

It’s automated incompetence. It gives executives something to hide behind, because they didn’t make the bad decision, an LLM did.

I swear these people have never been around a cathedral and thought about how it was built.

It’s easier to use a pseudonym on Lemmy.

So Reddit is the scumbag steve.

More than likely it’s even more petty than that: they just didn’t want to admit to being wrong.

Who’s going to host a place where you could be sued millions of dollars because someone posted libel on there? Not your next door neighbor.

Monopolies. That’s what happens when you’re allowed to patent software.

Break. Up. Windows.

With each bodyguard he adds one more person has the opportunity to do a funny thing.

No one said anything about a high entropy environment. Entropy is a tool for thinking about this stuff, and it extends beyond thermodynamics as entropy is an information theory concept too. The more fragmented things become, the harder they are to work with. When you use energy (or water) for an industrial use it creates fragmentation and makes that water harder to use (especially for a different use case, drinking). You can’t just pump it back into the aquifer. This is a directional thing, not about high or low in absolute numbers.

Just because water is cheap doesn’t mean it’s plentiful. We under-price water, as evidenced by the massive profiteering off of public water. These prices are inelastic and don’t respond to supply perfectly.

Also life can absolutely exist in a game of entropy. You’re pulling semantics with the closed system thing. If you want, then make the closed system be the whole solar system. It doesn’t affect my argument.

Using fresh water causes energy to be spent, that’s the whole point. Yes you can recover drinkable water from anything if you spend enough energy to do it, including the ocean, but we can’t do that as a primary means of getting water. Eventually it is a snake eating its own head with the amount of energy spent to obtain more energy.

It gets heated and then it’s unusable because the point of it is to cool things off. Some of it you can cool down and use again, by evaporation, but then you lose the amount that evaporated. When it goes back into the atmosphere it becomes polluted and you have to spend more energy cleaning it before it can be used by humans. Entropy always increases, the question is how fast you want it to increase.

(empty string)

whose fucking goddamn idea was that

As long as it’s the right people, I don’t really care. It’s about building community anyway, not consuming it.

They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.

Because humans are social creatures?