It’s a long, hot summer. And the National Drought Group of DEFRA has put out an official press release on how you can help save water. [DEFRA, archive] You might think the issue involves the govern…
“Nope, sorry saving water, they all go to dev/null.”
My boss is now looking for the developer called null.
E: fun fact, we will not have this problem in the Netherlands, not because our water supply is well maintained, I actually do not know much about that. But because our electrical networks are so invested upon by years of neoliberalism that we are now reaching the point where the maintainers were warning for years ago (according to people I spoke to who worked in that industry, so low N, and im not a journalist etc). There just isn’t enough capacity, esp with more and more people installing solar(*). So people who are building datacenters are trying to leave the Netherlands, or at least that is the ‘risk’ now. So well done government and everybody, but foreigners and fatbikes… (I wonder if somebody is tracking poweroutages over time in the Netherlands (ow and fatbikes are a risk for younger people, it just gets a weirdly high media attention, prob because poc kids)).
*: one more point for the ‘you can’t individually get yourself out of structural issues’.
Boss: “did you read my email?”
“Nope, sorry saving water, they all go to dev/null.”
My boss is now looking for the developer called null.
E: fun fact, we will not have this problem in the Netherlands, not because our water supply is well maintained, I actually do not know much about that. But because our electrical networks are so invested upon by years of neoliberalism that we are now reaching the point where the maintainers were warning for years ago (according to people I spoke to who worked in that industry, so low N, and im not a journalist etc). There just isn’t enough capacity, esp with more and more people installing solar(*). So people who are building datacenters are trying to leave the Netherlands, or at least that is the ‘risk’ now. So well done government and everybody, but foreigners and fatbikes… (I wonder if somebody is tracking poweroutages over time in the Netherlands (ow and fatbikes are a risk for younger people, it just gets a weirdly high media attention, prob because poc kids)).
*: one more point for the ‘you can’t individually get yourself out of structural issues’.