A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/konflikt-um-wasser-italien-und-frankreich-wollen-schweizer-wasser Current news in Switzerland:
Italy and France want Swiss water France and Italy rely on Switzerland for their agriculture: water that is increasingly lacking. The Confederation is negotiating with France and Italy.
Bullshit. Water usage isn't meaningful it's propaganda spread by left wingers
Kyle Hill made pretty comprehensive debunk video about it.
Paolo Bacigalupi is to the climate crisis what William Gibson is to cyberpunk. Stories like The Water Knife and The Tamarisk Hunter feeling a lot closer to reality everyday. But then again, fighting over access to water is a tale as old as time.
Can't believe I'm about to find out what happened to the rest of the world outside Australia in the MAD MAX universe by living through it myself!
They're trying to deprive you of your ability to have thoughts.
It's between countries as well, let's not forget that in the background of the current situation, Iran is also facing a major water crisis.
It's about the cheaper method of cooling, there's no need for them to have to waste water if they recycled it correctly. It's really a war about the latest hot investment getting all the socialist policies from the government versus people being milked through do-or-die capitalism by a government that only does the bare minimum to fulfill their obligations to them.
water is cheap and electricity usually (ignoring hydro solar and wind) consumes about as much as the datacenter does directly to produce.
only does the bare minimum to fulfill their obligations to them.
They oftentimes can't even do that, I'm afraid. ☹️
Between states too, considering the water situation in the western US
i think maybe you should look into socio-economic class differences if you think this is new. i can give you links to some great literature on the subject?
Urgh
yeah, real life sucks
Nah, it's way easier to just make up profound sounding pronouncements like "the water wars have already started" than to actually read something or challenge your misconceptions.
You're right of course. People have been fighting over access to water since forever.