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[–] 25 points 4 months ago (1 child)

And Zuckerberg is going to prison for using biological warfare when?

Oh, right, capitalism, I forgot.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Please I hope they consider that Meta is releasing their own betting platform. This will enrich shareholders and increase value for our customers. We’ll tear down every tree, contaminate every body of water, and head shot every gopher if we have to.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Erm. Shut down the data centre completely until forever.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    This will make them stop and think about how can they lobby to loosen up the contamination laws.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium

    Just one single bacterium?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne's sanitary sewer

    Wait, wut. So they didn't dump it into the watershed. They sent it to the water treatment center.

    Isn't the sanitary sewer's job to clean black water? Like they already get water with poop in it (and all the bacterium that comes with literal feces). Why is this a problem?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    "It's already the garbage man's job to take away my trash, why can't I throw away my old batteries and fluorescent bulbs?"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Mercury from fluorescent bulbs isn't normal trash and can't be cleaned. We're talking about bacteria.

    Your analogy would be better if they were dumping heavy metals or viruses. They're not.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I haven't ever run a water treatment plant and I'm suspecting you haven't either.
    They're probably designed, like semiautomated residential waste collection, to operate within certain parameters that are relatively inscrutable to outsiders. And honestly I'll trust the person who decides to work in wastewater reclamation over anybody operating a data center.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed the reuse system offline for months of cleanup.

    I am guessing the fact that the reclamation and reuse systems required months of offline-cleanup after a rare "metal-resistant" bacteria was detected suggests that their processing abilities are tailored towards common harmful bacteria, with detection to alert issues from uncommon bacteria.

    Say a pest exterminator is used to using an air rifle to deal with a rat problem (it's a shit example, but work with me here). Turning up to a rat infestation that also has bears with only an air rifle probably means running away and coming back with a new technique.

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    [–] 40 points 4 months ago

    Meta contaminates life in general with many of it’s services

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    and... where is the water going now? how long can you not discharge it? until nobody is looking? are they required to clean it? i swear the god this place is run by dumb shits at every level. I'd move to fucking sweden if it wasn't so damn far away and COLD. get it together peeps in november freaking vote, make you grandma vote. if that dont work its time for revolution we can't wait any longer they animals and the plants can't wait any longer either.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    I just spoke to one of my county leaders about discharge last week and they repeated the beautiful story that the data center told them about treating the water to the state standards. I asked who exactly is ensuring the adhere to the standards, just because they can do it doesn't mean they will. And he had no answer for that, kept talking about other things.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does Sweden like black people? Asking for a friend

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    It's meta, there was bound to be faeces

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Meta are assholes.

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