What I will say is the driving force on this will not be from the legions of post-qanon conspiracy theorists. They'll instead head over to the antisemitic conspiracies that are increasingly gaining traction on the far right, and drop Epstein there.

(Nancy Mace has life experience that drives her on this issue and MTG has a surprisingly shrewd sense that once Trump is gone much of the reality distortion field will drop, and it's best to have staked out some perceived maverick opinions)

Nancy Mace is different for reasons, and maybe MTG for other reasons. And it will stick with the center. But QAnon for example was primarily a machine that could excuse anything trump did as part of a secret plan to bring justice to atrocities.

I bristled at the accidental lost causeism and then I realized oh, they're just clueless

It's obviously a "Dallas dream season" reference to Bobby Ewing in the shower but crucially in that case someone else wakes up and finds him in the shower, Bobby Ewing does not "wake up in the shower". I have never watched a single episode of Dallas and even I know this.

That's not a real will stancil tweet

We used to call this "catch and release" for reasons I can't remember back in the day and it was seen as running a tight ship

Electricity is more an issue, but all these data centers are serving up Netflix and TikTok when what we used to do is get into a one ton combustion machine powered by 6,000 explosions a minute to pick up a physical disc that took more energy to make than months chats.

The average American uses enough water for 800,000 chatbot prompts. per day. That seems insane because normally we don't think about the amount of water it takes to make a single sheet of paper or (if you're in for a wild ride) to produce a hamburger or pair of jeans.

But the simplest takeaway is this. Anything you do on a computer is going to have less water and electricity impact than anything you don't do on a computer, by orders of magnitude.

The unfortunate thing is most of what you hear about water, electricity, and AI is misinformation. I say unfortunate because since the reality is so far removed from the story people are hearing if you say that you'll sound like a crazy person.

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