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@WillManidis To me the problem is more that water and power consumption are being subsidized to bring the datacenters into municipalities. Those costs get externalized which artificially raises utility costs for others and lowers the price of LLM usage. That’s unsustainable.
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@reallytanman Prevent accidental spills? But with a drain right outside?
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The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.
In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.
So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.
An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.
The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.
The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.
France Safety Travel@francesafetytra
What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?
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@jackccarney @iamsebetancur I was just researching the mom pipeline after checking out fb for the firstime in a while. Noticed multiple real local moms pumping “natural whitening toothpaste” with 100’s of real mom comments
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@iamsebetancur Yessir, I’m building an army of mini mom creators to pump it out
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This is the end result you get when you have 1.4 billion Indians roaming around the world with the same exact names doing the same exact jeetery.
At some stage, you’re basically forced to audit them by spreadsheet just to uncover a single redeeming trait.
Pankaj@the2ndfloorguy
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@pepequantxbt @raypeatfan Relax minnow mind, you honestly couldn’t comprehend the information I’d bless you with if I decided to learn you on it. Forever doomed to an input related model of health.
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crazy how many fools you see get to the "top of the ladder" struggle with mental health...
theo von, bourdain, tyson fury, rolly romero, tyson, mcgregor, etccccccc.
but what do you think came first?
"mental illness" drove them or byproduct of top of ladder?
Timcast News@TimcastNews
"I’m having a long month, I’m trying not to take my own life.” Fans of Theo Von are expressing concern for the podcaster after he experienced a rough night filming his Netflix comedy special.
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We use 80,000 lbs of beef tallow per MONTH at @Masa_Chips
And we have spent a long time trying to find the best.
The one we settled on is 100% grass fed and finished. And rendered at lower temps to reduce oxidation and prevent that beefy smell.
And now you can use the same great tallow at home, courtesy of @goldenagefats
Use it for cooking, use it for your skin, use it to make candles— the options are endless


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@345marcel @SolBrah Coffee/caffeine is only a substantial difference maker in people feelings or human bio, when there super cleanos.
Heavy stoners (even if clean now), alchoholics, etc wont have the bad effects of quitting or being on caffeine heavily
As straight cleanos
Does that make?
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@DudespostingWs Are those his world champ titles tatted on the leg?!
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@KlunderThunder1 Went to high school with him. Freshamn hockey goalie as a senior doesn’t get much worse. Take a look


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i average 45k views a tweet...
that's a full stadium - yet i feel like i can recognize the same 100-200 accs replying to my tweets
the silent majority watch without engaging
i know because i was one of them, i was printing in the shadows & lurked on twitter in my free time until i decided to start posting
if you rarely interact with tweets, reveal yourself - reply to this tweet, i'm tryna see something
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@tolibear_ Divorced housewives been pouring glasses of wine in a better version of these for years 😂
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