The central, most important point of Masley's essay is that all the papers Jordan cites in the video either (1) say more or less the opposite of what he claims they say, (2) have nothing to do with infrasound, or (3) are not scientifically rigorous. Maybe you would know that if you hadn't "skimmed!"
My point is that it is hard to agree with you that you are capable of knowing when you're being lied to when you refuse to read the explanations of how and why you're being lied to.
The Masley essay you refused to read specifically takes pains to point out that the Memphis xAI data center you're referring to is bad and should not be allowed to exist in its current form.
For reasons that have nothing to do with infrasound.
You admitted that you were unwilling to read the essay making the case that you're being lied to because it was too long.
They are different in degree but not fundamentally different in kind. Bad science leads to public misunderstanding leads to bad policymaking.
Are all subjects fair game for YouTubers to "raise questions" about? Vaccines? Great Replacement Theory? Whether or not Kamala Harris is a cannibalistic lizard person? Are YouTube videos "raising questions" about those things just objects of harmless curiosity and idle amusement?
He is carrying water for the people who *are* shilling for the fossil fuel industry! Their talking points and his talking points are the *same ones*, and they are both bad science about infrasound!
Bad science about infrasound has the potential to absolutely obliterate what public support exists for the expansion of wind power, and if the fossil fuel industry is successful in that, they will come for all the other renewables.
Rick has completely destroyed the realities of untold billions of sapient beings because he treats entire universes as disposable—if he fucks this one up, oh well, on to the next one. He was always a bad person but the portal gun transforms him from a run-of-the-mill shitty father into GigaHitler.
I have soured on Rick and Morty for a whole bunch of reasons (one of those reasons is "I'm not in my twenties anymore"), but one thing the show did well is demonstrate that if multiverses were real, the ability to hop between universes makes it more or less impossible to be a decent person.
The ancient Hohokam of the Phoenix area are in fact famous for both their extensive irrigated agriculture and their ballcourts.
I *live* in the water-stressed Southwest. Have done for nearly my entire life. I like it here and don't want to move. The alfalfa (and cotton and lettuce and . . .) uses something like nine times as much water as the actual human beings and you're telling the human beings that we're the problem.
You are the person who said "cities shouldn't be there." But like . . . a city is just a place where a lot of people live. If you think Phoenix should just dry up and blow away, I think it's on you to say where the people who live there should go.
Absolutely without question, yes.
I mean, fair enough, but we could ban every golf course west of the 100th meridian tomorrow and it would barely put a dent in the West's water scarcity issues.
All residential usage combined is a single-digit percentage (8%, last I checked) of Arizona's water use. The same is true for every water-stressed state in the West. Pitching a fit about lawns and golf courses and the Bellagio blames the wrong people.
It isn't basic common sense at all! 70% of Arizona's water is used for agriculture, mostly on crops that have no earthly business being grown there. (It takes a third of a U.S. household's daily water usage to grow one (1) head of cabbage or lettuce!)
I mean, doesn't it? What would you say is the "right" number of people to live in Maricopa County? If it's fewer than live there now, where do you propose those people move, and by what legal, political, and social mechanisms do you propose to make them do it?
the spring training home of the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks is literally on Salt River Pima–Maricopa land
no, the Ancestral Puebloans probably did not use as much water per capita as present-day Americans living in the Southwest do
no, I do not think "accept a 13th-century standard of living or get the fuck out" is a correct political position
This is veering dangerously close to some real nasty "noble savage" territory.
Water scarcity in the southwestern United States can be solved in one step: charge farmers residential rates for water, instead of giving them something like a 96% discount.
I don't think we should entirely depopulate one quarter of the United States, actually.
a mile ± 100 feet, lol
They're not in a different time zone. The clocks read differently, but they're in the same time zone.
Claude knows the correct answer
Then they should get better AI tools!
An Athletic article asserting that the Colorado Rockies are the only MLB team in the Mountain time zone, apparently forgetting that the Arizona Diamondbacks exist
AHHHHHHH
THIS ISN'T TRUE
THIS HASN'T BEEN TRUE FOR NEARLY THIRTY YEARS
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THIS
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The Jordan video is a Gish gallop. The fact that debunkings of Gish gallops are lengthy and detailed should be blamed on the, uh, gallopers.
it is, if such is possible, even more fake than the water thing
