• DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1. Only a small amount of resources on earth

    2. Consume them all anyway

    3. Gasp “How could this happen?”

    The defenders of western civilization, everyone! Remind me how stuffing the piggies with more more more just to enjoy seeing those gluttons eat up everything is supposed to “save” us? Dawg, they’re just liabilities. I don’t care they’re “the winners” and this is “their reward”, they are a liability.

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      Okay than you can stay in the past and not use AI while we move on to the future and use it. Can’t believe you’re blindly believing the myth of water usage when the internet itself uses more. Maybe stop driving and stop being online then, lefty!

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      This is a common question because we’re taught about the water cycle, but it’s more complicated when you want to look at usable freshwater. Aquifers rely on water infiltration which happens less with heavy rainfalls because the water runs off before it can get absorbed. Warmer air holds more ambient moisture. Snow and ice packs that feed mountain streams melt faster than they can be replenished. Basically the answer is that the water will go to lot of places that we can’t easily get at it. But more simply, most of it will end up in the ocean before we can drink it.