Amazon provides their own numbers, and the rest is reported. The hed is not Amazon’s. It’s called sourcing.

Look, I’m not a fan of “AI,” but I do care about the quality of reporting, and Kyle is solid. I know it’s en vogue to immediately bash anything that’s not flaming vitriol, but learn some media literacy instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction because Amazon is a source. That’s going to happen when covering Amazon. Where else do you expect to get those data?

Let’s say this is total horseshit, which it may well be. Do the other figures provided still tell the same story assuming Amazon is understating water use by an order of magnitude? Yep. If all you care about is water use, railing against golf courses and calling for an end to lawn watering is going to be more effective.

If all you care about is AMAZON BAD, then your response makes sense.

I didn’t post because I think all is fine and dandy, but what I’m gathering is the issue is local moreso than aggregate. People are up in arms in Temple over planned bit barns.

I tend to trust Ars. Consider the source. Though I fully expected a response like this.

I totally forgot about McSweeney’s. Good to see it’s still up. Also, great piece.

So it was an income stream.

Months is just trying to optimize your first run. Then, you discover mods.

If you have your life affairs in order, you could try Factorio. Your friends and loved ones won’t see you for months.

It’s a shame I’m not out in Westlake. Running into Louis Rossman at HEB would be fun.

We can’t all be Avis. (Orville references welcome.)

I’d counter that I trust my data going through Sweden ahead of letting an American conglomerate gain access.

I would counter that I’m saving $1,500 a month by living in a van. As a cost, the VPN is a rounding error.

I mean, I’m using Mullvad. I don’t have the hardware to host my own VPN in a van, so this is my best approach. Could I host Wireguard locally? Sure. With access to alternating-current power.

The dek gives the game away. The “future of the workforce” is all that matters. Why had we been doing all this gaining of knowledge in college all this time?

Are you sure you can’t? Because when my phone was stolen last month, I came to terms with how much the modern world needs one to have one.

Damn. Well, thus ends this excursion. At least I didn’t end up in Iran first.

Google allows you to save passwords across apps, whereas a password manager remains in the browser.

I’m fine with that timeline. The rollout in Austin hasn’t been the smoothest – though in faiirness, we now have so many Waymos in town that they keep having issues like knowing what to do when encountering an emergency vehicle. They aren’t going around killing people, but that’s a pretty low bar.

If swiping were effective, dating apps would have no business model, because people would pair off and cancel. This “revolutionary” change is being instituted solely for Bumble’s bottom line and can’t possibly be more effective because that would kill revenue.

Remember: The current crop of dating apps do not exist to help you find love. They’re extraction machines running off of FOMO.

Solar on a van has been my life for couple of years. Of course, now diesel’s expensive enough in Texas that fleeing will run $1/mile.

So, $5 per litigant after legal fees, assuming the DOJ doesn’t step in and claim to be the defendant.