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But who's gonna save Niran??

Self-indulgent bonus gif:

Fei, looking at Pete's gaggle of kids except Pete isn't even present: Aren't these those kids from the ritual? Why are they here?

Niran, sitting with the kids gathered around him like toddlers gathered round their mother: what do you mean?

Fei: aren't these Pete's children?

Niran, glancing around: I adopted them

Fei: you... what?

Niran: I adopted them when they came to help clean our house

Fei: clean your... you have a house? Wait, our? Our as in multiple people? As in you and who?

Niran: Pete, obviously, you think I'd buy his family home and then kick him out of it?

Texpost by "fossilizeddude". The post reads:

I'm not understanding the AI hype. I read this morning that there isn't enough electricity in the world to run all of the data centers everyone wants to build (and probably not enough water for cooling either). AI makes mistakes all the time... so much so that even a Google response carries a disclaimer. The data centers cost more than the employees did, and for responsible use humans still need to vet all results. So why are we wasting the money and trashing the environment to do it?

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Niran: no, why the hell would you think that?

Pete: ...