Making smash burgers so I have an excuse to use the infrared thermometer (pan must be around 500 F)

Interesting how so many of the pro-data center arguers on Tumblr make it impossible to rebut their arguments by disabling replies, asks, and messages, and blocking anyone who disagrees with them. I can’t speak for other parts of the country, but there is no justification for using potable water to cool data centers where I live (a desert that has a 50 and 100-year water plan because this resource is so precious). They want to point fingers at golf courses, I tell them our golf courses use grey water, they throw a tantrum and block me. They say something about water parks, I point out that we don’t have those because our water table cannot accommodate them, they block me. They argue that because existing data centers haven’t increased the household cost of water that it’s somehow ok to rape our water tables and further drain the Colorado River, which already no longer reaches the sea. They do accounting wizardry to show, look, on paper we’re actually not using much water at all (while downplaying the fact that they are transforming the water from potable to not and discharging it further downstream than it needs to be to contribute to our water table).

All absolute cowards enforcing the increasing wealth gap in our country and acting as attack dogs for the ruling class, while smugly acting as if they are somehow intellectually superior to anyone who has qualms about resources from lower income communities being used to enrich oligarchs.

Maybe I could become a morning person if I woke up before everyone else and things were still quiet at the beginning of my day and I could go for a walk to watch the sun rise

There is a massive hole inside me that I’m pretty sure no one and nothing can fill. But regardless, we ball

Another waiting room with no magazines 🙄

I found some Tokidoki perfume I bought in like 2013 that as far as I recall has barely changed its scent somehow? And it’s not listed on Fragrantica or anything?? Is this a magic elixir of some kind

I feel like a middle-aged teenager and it’s making me weird. Or maybe it’s the other way around

Feels like we’re not supposed to talk about this but I’m having a very difficult time lately coping with the fact that I’m aging and not young anymore, not in a looks-oriented way, but in a “the world I grew up in is gone and things will never ever be the same and it’s seemingly inappropriate at my age to do a lot of things I used to do” way