# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 204
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4360 "2025-03-27T21:48:58Z")
I just see a box that says, “Bluesky.” ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4361 "2025-03-27T21:49:46Z")
Same here. ETA: text now added, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4362 "2025-03-27T21:50:37Z")
Y’all are fast. Edited! I figured copying and pasting the text was easier than figuring out how to host an image of the post. Posted it here rather than than the original thread because it would be a thread shit there, whereas here, it’s absolutely on point. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4363 "2025-03-27T21:52:35Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > in a computer that drains reservoirs, Huh? What does this mean? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4364 "2025-03-27T21:54:17Z")
I have a question as well: Who made that post? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4365 "2025-03-27T22:00:39Z")
If you log into Bluesky, you can see the original post. I don’t have a personal connection to the poster. It showed up on my feed, and I thought I would share it. Follow the link for more! As for the connection to reservoirs, one of the many issues with AI is the consumption of water from municipal water sources by data centers. > **[AI's Challenging Waters](https://cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Challenging-Waters)** > > AI's Challenging Waters ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4366 "2025-03-27T22:37:43Z")
Lol, alright. Seems like a stretch to me (obviously you weren’t the one who made the original post, I’m not saying that _to_ you). As the linked article notes, Google’s data center is a massive consumer of water, and that’s the data center that holds Gmail and Drive, nothing to do with AI. In fact, that BlueSky post probably lives on a water cooled server somewhere. So the user could append to their post: “I was so upset by this hypocrisy that I used a reservoir draining computer to complain about it.” I mean, BlueSky presumably lives on a data center, too; ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4367 "2025-03-27T22:50:39Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Which Festrunk brother are you? Your musings in the mmp are giving off serious vanity project vibes. Sorry it took me 12 hours to get around to responding. I had two orgies and some fine dining to attend meanwhile, so your pitiful bleatings passed beneath my notice for awhile. To answer your question: Both in fact. I wasn’t aware you lurked the MMP. Certainly your right to do so. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4368 "2025-03-27T22:53:23Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > As for the connection to reservoirs, one of the many issues with AI is the consumption of water from municipal water sources by data centers. Odd choice of thing to complain about when we’re always hearing about the shocking amount of electricity AI uses. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4369 "2025-03-27T22:59:25Z")
Depends. In some places electricity is abundant and water is not. In other places it’s the opposite. It makes sense to bitch about a scarce resource going to an arguably dumb use. A plentiful resource, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4370 "2025-03-27T23:12:55Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > Odd choice of thing to complain about when we’re always hearing about the shocking amount of electricity AI uses. That’s because the post is specifically about Miyazaki, who has done a lot of volunteer work cleaning up canals and reservoirs in Japan, and who has reflected this interest in some of his movies. It’s not the most damning complaint about AI, but its one that’s almost tailor made to get under Miyazaki’s skin. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4371 "2025-03-27T23:23:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > That’s because the post is specifically about Miyazaki, who has done a lot of volunteer work cleaning up canals and reservoirs in Japan, and who has reflected this interest in some of his movies. It’s not the most damning complaint about AI, but its one that’s almost tailor made to get under Miyazaki’s skin. Ah, I didn’t know that. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4372 "2025-03-27T23:24:34Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Shitty imitations of Ghibli by crap-ass AI junk barfers suck festering goat anus. Or in other words “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself” [Some guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleDieInside/comments/8gq3qh/this_is_an_insult_to_life_itself/?rdt=51367) who’s opinion on AI image generation probably isn’t relevant ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4373 "2025-03-27T23:29:22Z")
As I said in the other thread, I’ve never heard of it, my wife had never heard of it, both of my Gen Alpha kids are into Japanese culture in various degrees (though as much as an 8-year-old and 10-year-old could be), and I took one to a Hatsune Miku concert, and neither of them knew of it by name. _shrug_ I’m not surprised more people on the Dope know of it, but I’d guess maybe, _maybe_ 10% of my friends have heard of it. I don’t recognize the names of any of the movies mentioned here, and the last thing I ever watched anime-related would have been Voltron (which I know comes from a mish-mash of Japenese original sources, hence lion Voltron and vehicles Voltron and all that. Oh, wait, I did watch Robotech when I was a young teen.) I don’t think it’s that difficult to go by life not knowing what it is. Similarly, a poster was made fun of by **Darren** for not understanding the acronym FAFO (“fuck around and find out.”) While I am familiar with the phrase, because I cruise Reddit and Youtube comments and all that and spend way more time on the Internet than I should, I, too, had never seen that expressed as FAFO. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4374 "2025-03-27T23:33:36Z")
It’s a dickish move to make fun of folks like that, but Darren can be kind of a dick sometimes. That aside, I’m gonna fansquee over _Princess Mononoke_ every chance I get. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4375 "2025-03-27T23:46:14Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > That aside, I’m gonna fansquee over _Princess Mononoke_ every chance I get. They just released a new IMAX 4K restoration in several theaters, I’ve never seen it but am going this weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4376 "2025-03-27T23:49:52Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It’s a dickish move to make fun of folks like that, but Darren can be kind of a dick sometimes Maybe so, but I’m often reminded of just how elderly this site of the “hippest” skews. At 52 I’m a whiper-snapper. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qxW8Keb69W8/maxresdefault.jpg "Grampa Simpson - That's right, I did the Iggy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxW8Keb69W8) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4377 "2025-03-27T23:55:19Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Maybe so, but and then you go dickish. Maybe just stop after “so” next time? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4378 "2025-03-27T23:56:18Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > They just released a new IMAX 4K restoration in several theaters, I’ve never seen it but am going this weekend! Awesome! I took my daughter to see it when she was thirteen or fourteen, and she was every bit as blown away as I was. Seeing it IMAX sounds fucking incredible. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4379 "2025-03-28T00:29:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Maybe so, but I’m often reminded of just how elderly this site of the “hippest” skews. At 52 I’m a whiper-snapper. I’m younger than you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=203) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=205)