Marginalized people, poor people, disabled people etc. are always the first to warn society about an impending crisis. And they are almost always ignored. Yet, when everything collapses, they are the first to be abandoned. This is an unacceptable moral injustice.

I am so FUCKING over being chronically ill.

as a former chef, here's a table for telling how much garlic to use based on how much the recipe asks for: 1 clove: 2 cloves 2 cloves: 5 cloves 3 cloves: 1 head 4 cloves: one 8oz jar peeled garlic 5 cloves: 3 costco bags o' garlic 6 cloves: you're gonna need to start a farm to make this recipe.

My much younger BIL was staying with us for the summer. I asked if he wanted to go run errands with me, you know, groceries, dog food... "No thanks, I hate collection quests."

I finally whipped my rope ends and it is so much easier than I thought! My pretties! 😍

I joined some folks for DnD and everyone else is transfem. I feel like a token masc lol repping both he and they pronouns on my own 😂

In the United States, there are 15.1 MILLION vacant homes, including rentals. 10.5% of the country’s total housing inventory lies vacant. There is no housing shortage.

yes, AI training and generation really does use fresh water that then can't be used otherwise it doesn't just circulate it e.g. oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-... seeing a *lot* of barely used blow-in accounts just happening to swoop on anyone raising this with literally recycled bitcoiner arguments

How much water does AI consume? The public deserves to know

Air pollution and carbon emissions are well-known environmental costs of AI. But water consumption is also an issue.

i've started just saying "twenty gallons of water" immediately and flatly whenever someone tries to tell me how they used ChatGPT on some work project and boy it's pretty effective to dissuade people from using ChatGPT

I think bodies are stupid, being exhausted and then refusing to sleep because too exhausted. What is this bullshit?