I mean we have to think of the robots. Cutting off the water to their data centers would be catastrophic for them. Think of the robots people!!

Consenting adults at that

Judea was also tiny, it didn’t come even close to encompassing Palestine. Palestine was Palestine or some similar variation before the brief blip that was the Kingdom of Judea and after. And be wary, there’s a ton of Zionist rewrites of history to justify their own claims. They’re also constantly digging stuff up and claiming it’s “Jewish relics” or “biblical relics” even when it had zero to do with Judaism or the history of Judaism in the region. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Judaism doesn’t have roots and history in the region, I’m just saying be wary of the grasping at straws to justify bible stuff (remember many, many Zionists are Christian Zealots and obsessed with Old Testament (ie Jewish) stuff) and they’re constantly over embellishing to justify their ethos. The region is more notable for its nomadic trading and shepherd culture than for its singular “Jewish” identity. Many tribes were Jewish. Many were not. And during some periods those Jewish tribesman were more dominate than during others. The Levant has always been a multiethnic crossroads, not a one shoe fits all sort of place. Edit: [image link changed]

Anyone else catch his lawyers name… oh the irony.

They don’t value life. Period. Any life. Including their own.

I think this just means you’re from the Midwest

The American response to that is, “be happy you have a job and not living under a bridge like that guy.” And then they blacklist you in your industry and fire you without cause.

It would appear we’re being held hostage by a death cult

More like Gen X. The silent generation trying to kill us all. But sure, blame the kids.

They already harvest organs from prisoners in Alabama so…

As someone who has family in Gaza go back and listen to her again from my shoes. Every “sympathy” sounds like a thinly veiled threat. “Your pain will end when Israel is secure” was her primary messaging. Which we all know what that means.

Also, Trump is a symptom not a cause. He’s absolute ridiculousness and the world knows it, yet there he is with people taking him seriously. You think he magically rose and took all that power alone in a vacuum? If it wasn’t him it’d be someone else. That system is clearly beyond repair and Trump has proven it. Gloves off.

Sounds very reminiscent of Wisconsin circa 2011.

Ok? and Texas is 268,596 square miles (~ 432,263 square km) with 367 miles (~591 km) of coastline. Although I’ll give you that that’s tropical gulf waters not frigid fjords to pull from. I was just saying I don’t know the exact location in Texas of the facility everyone is buzzing about water shortages. But salt water can be used instead of freshwater because other places do it.

I just had another thought on this topic, since this is the Yucatán. The Golden era Mayans built up berms to build on for roads. They’re called sacbe/sacbeob and they were generally very straight from A to B. They loved grids. I imagine modern planners are well aware of historical contexts of the region as well, not mention potentially Mayan themselves. Beyond just the shortest route from point A to B is a straight line, there may be some other underlying context like someone suggested of ease of divvying up land and drawing contracts.

I left Mexico in 2016, so it’s been a minute. But urban planning was a big field with lots of hype for up and coming university students at the time. I’d imagine this is their handiwork as graduates now. I was also on the West coast. So, I don’t know much about the Yucatán or Vera Cruz etc.

I’m fairly certain the Green Mountain facility in Norway uses frigid fjord water to cool their center. So, it can be done. I’m not sure where the facility in Texas is located though. I’m guessing in a water-poor area nowhere near the coast.

Ahhh priceless

I mean technically he was assassinated by the aristocracy… so, yeah, if I had a political figure making reforms in favor of the little guy, over the capitalist oligarchs, and the oligarchs themselves offed that leader to “save me” from their “tyranny”— I wouldn’t be very pleased either. Dictator war machine arguments and public populism manipulation aside.

Urban planning and zoning. They’re just planning in advance for urban sprawl and congestion. Mexico experienced a lot of growing pains (and preventable deaths) when its cities boomed and they haven’t forgotten.

Side rant: Where I used to live they zoned heavily for green areas for water absorption during rainy season and for sewage management bc it was low-lying tropical climate. Unfortunately, one big foreign hotel greasing palms and they’re building on top of a wildlife sanctuary necessary to prevent catastrophic flooding. Bye bye city buses full of people down the canal. But hey, ‘Mercia! Tourism! It brought me solace their fancy pool foundation shatters almost annually like clockwork and their pretty glass balconies kept popping from earth settling. Didn’t save the neighborhoods they destroyed by filling in a river delta though. Kept waiting for the “big one” earthquake that would bring that sucker down for good.

Perhaps not, but we can all agree that’s a form of predatory capitalism and it’s unethical. Not to mention a massive invasion of privacy.