This is the answer, it's why Long Walk/Running Man type stuff read as a evil reality show more than a draft metaphor with younger gens.

basically American agriculture massively dwarfs everything else in water usage. it's like 80-90 percent of all usage.

gonna have to do ag reform if you want to fix the water. sorry. they’re the problem.

for instance, GPT-3 took 700,000 liters of water to train. That sounds like a lot! It is roughly the amount of water used to raise the amount of beef that *two* Americans eat in a year.

There was a set of polls recently where "talking about I/P" was actively the last thing anyone wanted to hear about on a list of topics.

Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!

Much like most of the press, the wrecker left thought re-electing Trump would make them relevant like they were 2017-2019, & it's gone just as well for them as it did for the press.

"why do we need so many stimulant prescriptions now that we've reduced smoking rates"

also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.

In other words they are not arguing that the hardship of the epidemic pushed people to the GOP for mystical reasons of out of abstract despair, opioid addiction drove voter demand for touch on crime policies that Republicans were offering.

This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.

Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.