I mean I don’t think data center will add anything good to where they are built, but usually they have a closed cooling loop and do not need water to cool.
Of course construction, concrete and so on needs water.
Just to get some more knowledge out there
You don’t know what your talking about, most data centers use evaporative cooling, not a closed loop with a radiator.
Huh, I just looked it up and apparently (according to CNET) 44% of data centers use closed loop. That’s still not most, but it is more than I expected.
Tbh, I still think water use is a red herring. The electricity use absolutely bonkers.
The water use is a distraction. These companies pumped so much money into grabbing onto the counter narrative and controlling it. There went with “the water use! AI is so bad it needs to be regulated (away from the plebs)!” Meanwhile they are sucking up the world’s compute and hoarding AI for themselves which is the real and actual problem.
Go look for yourself. They are running it out of berkley where that lesswrong dude has a big campus thing.
I didn’t look it up and got the info from YouTube and people online and so on. And I thought it was more than that.
I mean, use a cup. Data centers aside, it’s fucking weird to leave the water running for 5 minutes while you brush.
A cup for what? I am so confused by this entire post. Why would I need water while brushing my teeth? A little bit before and after. But during? Theres no use for that. Do other people brush their teeth entirely differently than me?
Americans using sinks in movies have been confusing me throughout my entire life. They seem to open the faucet when they enter the bathroom and only turn it off if they leave. They leave it running when they brush their teeth, talk to someone or stare into the mirror.
Same thing with fridges. If they take something out or put something in, the fridge stays open, sometimes during entire conversations. I don’t understand it. Even if you don’t care about the wasted energy, it gets cold (US fridges are almost freezers) and leaving the door open for so long gives the killer enough time to stand behind it and scare you to death when it is eventually in your convenience to close it.
A cup of water you filled befor to rinse your mouth after brushing.
I would guess that you “need the water while brushing” because they spit into the sink and to wash that away immediately instead of rinsing the sink and spit out toothpaste foam after finishing brushing.
Not something I do but I could imagine people being particular about it for some reason.
You aren’t supposed to rinse your mouth after brushing, so even that is bizarre.
I refuse to believe that anyone brushes their teeth for 5 straight minutes. No way you’re more than doubling the recommendation just for fun
My toothbrush counts 2 mins, good enough for me. I’ve lost a bunch of teeth to pregnancy, don’t need more than that.
to pregnancy?
She gave birth to the next Mike Tyson.
But in seriousness, pregnancy fucks women up. It’s a huge strain on the body so I wouldn’t be surprised if someone’s teeth got weakened by pregnancy.
I do like… 3-4 minutes.
I brush 8 minutes every night with 2 minutes each quadrant. Fuck cavities. Mornings are 4 minutes though.
This has to constitute over brushing which is also bad and leads to cavities
Also, be careful about damaging gums. You think cavities are bad? Wait until you hear about gum surgery!
We really can’ t win against cavities, can we?
It’s a soft brush and my enamel’s still okay. I just don’t want cavities or plaque buildup so it’s my way of playing it safe.
Have you considered actually asking a dentist, or even googling this online? “Nothings gone bad yet” isn’t really the endorsement you’re selling it as. If you only brushed once a day for 2 minutes, you’d probably also be “still okay”. Doesn’t make it a good idea.
Sounds borderline OCD lol
That seems excessive to me but do what you like. I don’t have the patience for that
I’ll get watching a video or something and might do it for longer than that. It’s probably really not good for my gums.
It’s very unlikely to be bad for your gums unless you’re brushing directly on them every time you brush. The main thing id be worried about is brushing off the enamel, but that generally only happens if you’re brushing way too hard with harsh bristles.
Brushing on the gums is what you’re supposed to do, because it’s the crease between the gums and teeth where plaque and food can accumulate.
Yeah I have a friend who has marks on her teeth from brushing 3x a day in high school with apparently hard bristles
You have to know that’s not typical, though, right?
People keep the water running while brushing their teeth???
This one was so crazy to learn about as a kid, because I genuinely couldn’t believe people needed to be taught this.
I lived most of my life near a huge river (it spans 3 countries) and when I wasted water, my mother beat the shit out of me.
You’d be surprised how ignorant some people are about things that should be common sense.
Are you on Arrakis?! You’re recycling your pee, aren’t you? Tie your stillsuit boots in slip-fashion like Muad’dib.
This whole thread is blowing my mind. The Colorado River is drying up, using 26% of it’s water for alfalfa, largely for export, and here we are,
“Doesn’t everyone know to conserve that extra 1/2 gallon when brushing their teeth!?”
I never think about it in terms of conserving water. It’s just plain stupid to keep the water running when you don’t need it.
You don’t need water while brushing your teeth, do you? By your logic, why not keep the tap running all the time? I seriously don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
It’s not about conservation. It’s just, why have the water running when you brush your teeth? I wet the toothbrush, brush my teeth, then rise the toothbrush. What do you need water for while you’re brushing?
This whole thread is blowing my mind.
Probably not hard to blow given you’re apparently too fucking stupid to turn your wrist twice a day in a way a toddler can figure out and too fragile to not lash out about it when people are surprised.
This isn’t even a conservation thing; the sensible default is to turn off the water.
It’s the same as bringing back your shopping cart just FAR easier. I see it as a litmus test for people
97% of its water for agriculture in general. In deserts. Home water usage, all homes, including watering a lawn, use less than a percent.
I brush my teeth while showering so yes
My wife does this and leaves her electric brush in the shower, and I knock it down every.single.time and it goes down very loudly and it’s extremely annoying. Those fuckers are heavy, and sometimes it smashes my foot.
Clean teeth shower gang ™️
Dozens of us!
Do you shower twice a day to brush your teeth enough?
As a shower brusher myself, I have two toothbrushes. A shower one, and a sink one for when the shower doesnt align with needing to brush my teeth.
Having grown up in the tropics, at times we’d be asked to conserve/ration water in drought, other times told to use as much as possible if catchments were getting too full. Really depended on El Nino / La Nina.
It’s weird turning on all the water in your house and sitting down to watch TV. Though I have had it happen before where the dam was being purged a bit, everyone was running water, so the river the dam water normally drains into had risen above and spilled into the drainways and it started coming back up through the bath and sinks 🤣
I grew up near a massive river back home. So I get that, but my issue is with those who live in a controlled water supplies and just sit there brushing their teeth while the water is running. It just feels wrong to me. Hell, I go as far as turning off the water literally when I move the dish I just washed from the sink to the dish washer when I wash my dishes. I do that with every single dish. It literally feels physically wrong to me. 😂
That’s wild, thanks for sharing! 💜
I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.
😂 this got me
Sounds like mild schizophrenia…
Ha, this happens to me when I’m high. I love how odd sounds can be turned into music in that state.
Sub conscious pattern recognition is what tripping is all about. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has experienced this.
Can you change the genre by varying the flow rate?
Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.
That’s really interesting. Is there a name for it that you know of?
Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.
I have done so my entire life, water has been cheap here, and I currently don’t pay for water used in my apartment, I have a utility bill, but water is included and I only pay a fixed amount every month for the utilities in my apartment.
I realize it is wasteful when I think about it, but in general I don’t think about it.
With all due respect, this is such a narrow and selfish way of thinking. Allow me to say, it’s really shitty. What a shame.
But… Why? You just stand there and watch the water run uselessly for 2 straight minutes while you brush your teeth???
Its calming like a mini waterfall. You can sense yourself as an ultra rich for a brief moment. Mental satisfaction is totally worth the price
I would find the sound annoying
No, I brush my teeth.
I don’t understand this consumerism mindset.
I guess that’s why temu is so popular. Consume and waste because you can, not because you need. Just to tell yourself that you’re doing great in life.
Eh, fair I guess, I just don’t see any weird with this, granted I live in Sweden where water is abundant so my frame of reference is different.
Cleaning our drinking water is quite a complicated process. I think it’s pointless to just waste all that energy because you can afford to. And with seasonal droughts becoming more and more common in Europe…
Here in Sweden we seldom carry water when out camping in our inland, there is so much clean water comming out of the ground that it is unneeded.
This is changing, but still mostly accurate.
Unfortunately, there’s more to clean water than just the source.
Waste water needs to be cleaned in a complicated multi step process
We were talking about drinking water, not waste treatment. Two very different processes.
Lol cleaning drinking water in countries like Sweden is not complicated or energy intensive.
Ever wondered what happens with the waste water?
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Could you perhaps make a habit of thinking about it from now on?
I promise you this, if I remember, I will think about it and try to better myself.
I don’t believe in making unrealistic promises
“in between brush strokes”? As in keep turning it on and off while brushing?
Yeah, what?
>apply toothpaste
>wet brush
>brush teeth
>free style the water tapI always had a discussion with my ex about the order. You and I apply toothpaste first, then water. She would apply water first, then the toothpaste, so it wouldnt rinse away. Glad to see more fellow toothpaste-firsters.
You shouldn’t wet the brush at all, the toothpaste is supposed to mix with your spit. Water will make it have less fluoride.
Bro really out here rawdogging his toothbrush.
Yeah, I do the same thing. It doesn’t really make that much of a difference, but you definitely don’t need water until you want to rinse out your mouth.
I thought that technically you werent supposed to rinse after brushing?
I always say “fuck the man” and rinse after… but, I dont think you are supposed to.
I don’t rinse out my mouth either, just spit out the foam. Rinsing just gets rid of the fluoride (and xylitol.)
But I wanna wash my brush a little bit before using it
That’s fair, it did take me ages to get used to not doing it
Hope you don’t flush with the lid open ☹️
Never, but do you think a quick rinse would get rid of poopoo bacteria? :D
This presumes that data centers offer no value in return.
When in fact, they return negative value.
No value to you maybe. The rich keep getting richer
Won’t you think of the ad delivery system? And what about the profiling? Eventually, governments we’ll be able to pluck rabble rousers off social media to quell the public from rioting.
High value, just not for any of us.
Even Sesame Street was putting out PSAs about this.
But while I’m brushing my teeth
And having so much fun
I never let the water run
No
No
I never let the water run
Barney
Oh fun take. Enjoy paying the repairs for sewage issues. Sorry the water has to flow. Spend four times you pay a year for water to repair your shit drain and then tell me about conservation.
Do you not wash your hands?
What the fuck are you talking about lmao
1kg of flesh requires 15.000L water, if you cared about water use you wouldn’t eat animals.
If I eat people, it actually saves water.
While their marketing slogan of “eat the rich” is very good, it should be noted that it is not recommended as a sustained diet, as they are very often quite high in fats and full of preservatives and bad chemicals
I always wondered how lizard would taste.
I eat ass. And I don’t use a fork and knife. I just get in there like a caveman.
You don’t care about the environment
Bruh and you are one of those annoying vegans that do nothing but tell everybody how terrible meat is.
I get it but people like you are just annoying as hell
I just don’t like the hypocrisy.
I don’t like distraction from a topic.
Which was clearly not related to eating meat.
Given your vote count, seems I’m not alone.
Congrats on being annoying?
Hope you contribute something, somewhere, someday.gl.
It was about water use, so it’s on topic.
Top kek #1 troll ytmnd.
I’m pretty sure a more useful measure of this is calories per unit of water than straight weight/mass. Which tbf is a metric meat will probably still be less efficient by.
There’s also like multiple factors of this, if you’re growing meat at industrial scale then you are farming crops specifically to feed the cattle so its doubly wasteful; but not everything is like beef, goats grazing on mountains where you can’t plant crops easily can feed a family with minimal labor, and they produce more than just meat. Ideally you wouldnt be raising cattle for just the meat.
Soy yields roughly 2,12 calories per liter of water, whereas flesh yields about 0,16 calories per liter of water.
Your other comments are more about animal agriculture and not about water usage (which is what this post is about) but to address all of your arguments I will say that I think it is wrong to cage, impregnate and kill others for the simple fact that they experience the world just like you and me in all the ways that matter to whether it’s ethical to be inflicting these things on them.
Right, what are your thoughts on hunting wild game?
I think my comment already covers that
I think it’s wrong to […] kill others
Wrong because why would we have a permit to kill (wild) animals?
… What?
Not the OP, but in my opinion we don’t have any rights to kill animals, whether wild or not.
Lmao. If I eat a kg of delicious flesh a week that’s only 15L?
Way better than I thought, tbh. Plus what about if I go in the woods and sustainably hunt an invasive species? I’ve helped the natural environment, and ethically sourced 200lbs of meat.
what about if I kill invasive species
Humans are an invasive species so that’s not the qualifier that justifies killing someone.
Historically it has always been very common to kill invasive humans.
Historically it’s been common to enslave humans so I don’t think whether something is common means it’s ethical.
Sorry, a species introduced by humans that’s turned out to be an ecological disaster.
Any thoughts on the morality there?
I feel like if you’d argue to make an invasive species less fertile I could maybe agree but you seem to be arguing to kill them with the ulterior motive of eating their corpse.
Yes, get rid of humans.
Fortunately we’ll wipe ourselves out of existence in the not too distant future.
Why don’t you start right now?
I think we have already started as a species. However, offing oneself is a lazy, fatalistic solution one should not recommend to anyone. Instead I’d suggest trying to find more peace and love in the universe and live happily ever after.
Some y’all living in Dune.
