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What are you trying to say though? What you said has nothing to do with my comment.

You said it was "terrifying to America" and "No one wanted it".

That's your opinion. It's your opinion that you stated as a fact. I think a lot of people wanted it. I personally know many people who were excited about it and wanted it. It may be terrifying to leftists, but certainly not to America as a whole.

> he never revoked their press badges or used government powers to stifle their ability to report on him

He absolutely did. The selective memory of those who are so vehemently against Trump just makes that side seem ridiculous and disingenuous.

The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists, more than all previous administrations combined.

The Obama Justice Department seized the records of phone lines that Associated Press employees used. AP confirmed that the records were from personal home and cell phones of reporters and editors, as well as phones that AP used in the press quarters of the House of Representatives. ABC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Committee for Freedom of the Press, submitted a letter of protest to Attorney General Eric Holder about the raid.

> if you chose to send mail using a "private company", it's that's company's "free speech right" to inspect your mail and throw it away if they don't agree with the contents.

That's somewhat true currently.

If you ship mail or packages with UPS, FedEx, Etc they are allowed to open and inspect what you send. The USPS is not allowed to do that, not without a warrant. When people ship drugs via mail they use the USPS for that reason, that it's more difficult for them to obtain warrants to discover suspected drug shipments while a UPS or FedEx will happily open any package they suspect may not be legal to send.

> was terrifying to America during the election. Terrifying. No one wanted it.

If you can't separate your personal opinion from a factual statement like this, you're not someone worth listening to.

>Was Israel essential for Trump being willing to attack Iran, or would he have been willing to go it alone?

Yes to the first question, and no to the second.

> Livestreams himself gratuitously raping & killing innocent children on Oct 7

That literally never happened. No matter how much as they (& you) claim it did, and want it to be true, not a single shred of evidence ever substantiated those claims. In fact the prisoners of war that were captured all claimed they were treated fairly, even given the squalid conditions their captors were forced to live in.

I do, sometimes. But when I can always get them it's less of a "treat".

There are a few things I only get intentionally when traveling for work so it's something to look forward to and brings something positive to the trip.

Honestly that's one of the few things I look forward to when flying these days, and a serious consideration on picking Delta if other factors are equal between airlines.

> a haven for American pedophiles/criminals who end up fleeing the country

Only Jewish pedophiles & criminals. Israel will not let in random non-Jewish criminals to flee prosecution, only those who are provably Jewish are granted citizenship and non-extradition.

> how common it is for super market to use obsolete software (especially for the part which carry some security risk like something with remote control).

It's a near guarantee. I've been in dozens of power plants where the engineering workstations or operator interface terminals are running Windows XP or Windows 7. More than zero of which were not properly air-gapped. If those sites (with sizable CapEx budgets) delay upgrading for various reasons I would expect grocery store chains to keep whatever they have running until it's broken to the point of not being fixable without a complete overhaul.

> They explain it in the next sentence: "We strongly oppose rhetoric that threatens other human rights and freedoms."

Except they are clearly taking a stance in opposition to Swedes' freedom to decide how they want their country to be governed.

> They aren't even severing the relationship with the provider, let alone censoring the person.

Which is what makes it the hollow virtue signaling I said it was. I never claimed they were being censored.

> It's a shame that refusing to consort with fascists is conflated with "being political".

It's because they are a political party, and he was donating to it. There's no better definition of being punished for a political opinion than being punished to donating to a legitimate party.

And their not "fascists", it's a Swedish nationalist party. Naming everything you don't like as "fascist" is a quick way to have your opinion dismissed as crazy.

>While Tor defends free speech, not all speech is equally compatible with our mission.

"We support free speech, unless it's speech we disagree with"

They decided it's more important to virtue signal their political ideology than actually working toward a shared goal of security and privacy.

> allows the government to keep people drugged and complacent

Drugged with a topical ointment and complacent by having less acne? This is a one-year trial for patients with mild-to-moderate acne. Let's not blow this situation out of proportion. This trial seems rather narrowly scoped and overall a positive idea for well understood treatments that hardly need an MD to begin with.

If you want to get into conspiracy theories of a government wanting a drugged and compliant citizenry just look no further than the sudden push legalizing THC across the country.

> Are there upvoted ticket/issues or community threads asking for it? I don't really know, it's an honest question.

Many, going back years.

> courts to decide if his grapheneOS wiping his computer after wrong unlock codes is him obstructing

He didn't provide an incorrect code, or no code at all, he provided a duress code intended to destroy the device. There's a huge legal difference.

It's complicated, and depends on the hardness of the water entering the system from the water supply as well, since blowdown is ultimately to control the level of dissolved solids in the water so it does not contrate enough to start coming out of solution. Rarely if ever is true demineralized water used in open loop cooling systems; it's simply too expensive to produce to then "throw away" into evaporation.

The previously stated 80/20 isn't a bad general estimate, but it varies depending on the specific site. 10%-25% of makeup water being lost to blowdown is a reasonable range.

As for papers about it, I was only able to find a few in my brief search, but they don't land on a single number since it depends on the ratio of dissolved minerals/solids in the circulating cooling-tower water compared with the incoming makeup water, which varies due to acceptability for the process and due to the incoming water quality.

This short PDF on "Mechanical Systems Water Efficiency Management" from the EPA goes over the concepts pretty well though

- https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-12/documents/ws...

This document from the US DOD (UFM 3-230-13, Industrial Water Treatment Operation and Maintenance (2026), Chapter 5) says that most cooling towers operate at 3-10 CoC, with 5-7 CoC identified as a cost-effective range. Where CoC is Cycles of concentration described in the previous PDF, and a higher CoC means less blowdown and better water efficiency, with the trade-off of a greater risk of scaling, corrosion, and biological/water-chemistry problems.

- https://www.wbdg.org/FFC/DOD/UFC/ufm_3_230_13_2026.pdf

Veolia also has a "Open Recirculating Cooling Systems" handbook that shows some good examples with real numbers in table 31-1.

- https://www.watertechnologies.com/handbook/chapter-31-open-r...

That's a perfectly valid concern, but isn't specific to data centers or their construction. That's like being mad at a factory that produces pens because you don't like what people are writing with them.

>What's preventing them getting cool water from a lake and draining to it again to cool down?

Some do, but most don't since the requirements for using cooling water are relatively strict due to the pipes, equipment, and heat exchangers the water flows through. The water used needs to be free of any biological contaminants (such as bacteria and algae), maintain proper pH levels, and are often then treated with other chemicals such as biocides.

Lake water certainly can be treated to the level needed and used, it's just often cheaper to buy domestic water from the local utility than to construct and operate a small scale water treatment system along side the industrial process.

> Where is water going after usage since there is literally zero water consumption?

Most of the water is "consumed" via open loop evaporative cooling systems, so the water is never really "used" as in destroyed or anything. The majority of it is evaporated and returns to the land as rain and the rest is returned via sanitary drains, to city sewer systems.