Eduardo Galeano, born on September 3rd in 1940, was a Uruguayan journalist and author known for, among other texts, his work "Open Veins of Latin America", which the editors of Monthly Review Press called "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx".
Galeano began his career as a political cartoonist and journalist - at fourteen, he was contributing political cartoons to the socialist newspaper "El Sol". At 20, he was the managing director of "Marcha", a storied weekly in Uruguay.
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Galeano is perhaps best known for his book "Open Veins of Latin America", which details how, through five centuries of plunder by European conquistadors and American corporations, the region's abundant natural resources had been extracted to enrich a few local elites and many foreign interests.
The editors of Monthly Review Press, which published the U.S. edition, described the book as "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx." President Hugo ChΓ‘vez gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to President Barack Obama on his first diplomatic visit to the region.
"The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth."
- Eduardo Galeano
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Been learning about chillers since I wanna break into HVAC and just getting my head around them. Instead of using air as the medium of transfer they use water which neat but yeah it's coming back to me how while more energy efficient they are the lose of water is concerning. Cooling towers while they get a majority back it's still something to consider since they tend to use a municipal source for the water.
More smarter people have already mentioned the effect on water being drained from these especially with these chillers cooling AI servers but idk it just hit me that I wanna join up for this. AI growing means more chillers means more water being drained and areas being squeezed out for resources.
If it was just for the preservation of food, medical supplies more vital things I feel like I can get down with it but automation that will only enrich the capitalist class I'm feeling kinda dirty. I might be being an idealist about it all but it's got me thinking about the ethics of it all.
Oh is that how those "AI" server farms are consuming water? I've been seeing those headlines and thinking of closed loop watercooling like you'd see in a normal high end computer and getting confused where the consumption comes in
yeah while the majority of the water is recovered some is lost in cooling it through evaporation. That bit adds up on larger scales and with resources going towards capital's needs vs people's yeah capital is always gonna win. If you hear of cooling towers then water is lost in the cooling down of the water and then replaced. Also was it evaporates it eventually needs all replacing since all that evaporating leaves a lot of build up of minerals so even more water lost. If they did a closed loop system with no or minimal water loss then they'd lose the energy efficiency they had over just replacing the water.
Is it possible to use non-drinkable water for cooling, or is will whatever else is in there be bad?
These chillers have to content with minerals deposit build ups from what I learned so not really, most of the maintenance is dealing with that tbh. The more build up the less efficient it is and it starts to lose its edge over regular air transfered cooling. I'm still just learning of this all but yeah it brought my mind back to environmental racism like with factory farming
If it is something you like it is better a comrade gets paid for it and uses the skills for the good things when they come up
I do really love learning about it ngl and here's hoping after the fall of the capitalist class it'll be reapproriated for good. Still until I get into it it's just musings