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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • The math on this doesn’t really check out. The USA uses 322 billion gallons of fresh water per day. A hyperscale datacenter uses only 5 million gallons per day.

    There are about 1,000 hyperscale datacenters in the USA, so that comes out to 5 billion gallons of water every day.

    That’s 1.5% of our annual freshwater usage, half of which is in closed loop systems and not going anywhere, and the other half being returned to the atmosphere where it will rain back down as fresh water again.

    And of course, the water cycle doesn’t really care about national borders or annual evaporation rates so much, and there is about 1 quintillion gallons of liquid fresh water available worldwide, so its not like sequestering 5 million gallons really offsets the available freshwater needed for hydration and agriculture.









  • Doesn’t matter, that’s not what we are talking about here. You don’t have to use a face of a real child.

    Oh, you wanted to pretend it is? Cheating doesn’t work with me.

    Despite your shit attitude, AI nudification is, in fact, what we are talking about. It’s what the OP article is about. Actual children were exploited and harmed.

    You have decided to change the subject to “what if the child porn is 100% synthetic?”, which is a different thing than what everyone else has been talking about, but is fucked up just the same.

    When confronted with the near universal attitude that CSAM is morally reprehensible, you have decided to lash out in anger and act like nobody knows what you’re talking about.

    Don’t worry, we get it. You make fucked up pedo shit with Stable Diffusion on your gaming PC, and you get scared every time you see the very real consequences. You think you can change our minds about it by talking down to us, as if being against child pornography was a remotely controversial take.

    And you are downplaying the very real crime against very real children the OP article describes because you are compelled to defend your own disgusting habit.

    Seek help, and don’t fucking look at child porn. You’re doing irreparable damage to yourself. There are resources available to you: https://troubled-desire.com/











  • This isn’t surprising, it’s inevitable.

    If you folks knew how common pedophilic fantasies are amongst the general public, you would be shocked. Just look to cultures like Japan and Russia that don’t strongly condemn such things, and you’ll find it’s about 15% of the population. It’s only less in the West because of the near homicidal stigma attached to it that makes people vigorously hide that part of themselves.

    Fortunately, this also shows that the vast majority of those people don’t offend.

    We also tend to define pedophilia as “anything sexual involving a minor”, while reacting to it as if it means “violent rape of a toddler”, so no shit, we sexualize youth all the time, the 18 year mark is a legal and social formality, not a hard limit on human attraction. Adults will find themselves attracted to teens, and they won’t reveal that because who the fuck ever would?

    If anything, the issue isn’t that people have these attractions and fantasies, it is that some portion of those people can’t separate fantasy from reality and are willing to hurt a child to get what they want, or they are sociopaths that consume child porn without feeling disgust for witnessing horrific child abuse.