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They slow down the flow of water a bit but for areas that are somewhat steep that is probably more of a benefit than a drawback.

Slowing a river down raises the water level, which can risk flooding. Every section of river has to let through a certain amount of water per second, and slowing the water down means you need a bigger cross-sectional area to get the same throughput so the water level rises. This can create a feedback spiral because a higher water level slows the river down further because there is less height difference with further upstream and thus less force driving the water downstream against the friction of the riverbanks.

Luckily it seems these turbines can be removed quickly, so unless the engineers fuck up they shouldn’t increase flood risk.

And what does “valuable” mean, in this context?

They are a corporation in capitalism. Please stop being facetious.

If they don’t get enough money from an advertising deal to be able to afford a short background check, they shouldn’t do the advertising deal.

It’s up to Proton to make a public apology and change their policies so they don’t give money to fascists. Until then, they are a company that gives money to fascists.

Why the fuck would you want a parking lot at a hospital? Imagine surrounding a place where every second matters and where tons of people have physical disabilities with a massive field of useless metallic obstacles that everyone has to move around and can get murdered by. Can you imagine someone who needs to be driven having to walk all the way across a parking lot because the spots closer by are all full. Can you imagine being blind or old or anything else that makes you unsuitable for driving but perfectly capable of taking public transit and having to ask someone for help and cross a fucking parking lot to get medical care?

Or… Imagine instead if the default way of going to a hospital was to take the subway, with a level boarding station right beneath the hospital with elevators that can take you immediately to the right department. And in the rare cases that someone needs to be driven to a hospital, the taxi or ambulance doesn’t need to dodge the hundreds of people who were perfectly capable of walking or the giant metal boxes they leave behind.

They also don’t factor in the greenwashing of using solar panels to cover wasteful cars, when it would be much better for the environment to not have a parking lot to put solar panels over.

It sucks that for the past 50-100 years, places have been built somewhere on the scale between favoring cars to outright hostile to any other form of transportation. On the plus side, most of these places are so shoddily built that it is cheaper to tear them down than to maintain them. So destroying suburbia and replacing it with walkable neighborhoods is actually quite profitable for everyone except the car industry, not to mention beneficial for everyone living there.

On the plus side, this isn’t a problem with AI, this is a problem with AI companies having more investment money than they know what to do with. The moment the hype fades and they don’t want to hemmorage money scraping every wiki on the internet thousands of times per day, this traffic will go back to a far more sane amount.

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“Ridgid” is a brand!?

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Things will get more expensive as the consequences of US foreign and domestic policy pile up. If your family can’t afford you to take a pay cut, understand that your family will be under water within the next few years regardless of what you do, and prepare accordingly. Given you will not be able to get what you need with money, how can you increase your chances of getting it through other means?

For me, at least, the easiest option is to join solidarity networks. Unionizing, sharing appliances, dumpster diving, learning trades and skills from each other, cooking communally to reduce waste and save time, squatting, etc.

And if you can’t afford to live given that, you’ll be far from the only one. So maybe join the others that are trying to change the system.