The microphone can’t be disabled unfortunately. The developers claim that all audio recordings are deleted immediately after the glasses provide a response, however their privacy policy does mention that some necessary personal data may be processed by third parties in countries like China, Japan, and the U.S.

Their privacy policy doesn’t actually say who has access to user data.

Look up the Rokid smart glasses. They’re pretty close to what you’re describing. Camera, AI assistant, live translations in over 80 different languages, auto transcribe, monochrome heads up display, and they look like normal glasses. They’re surprisingly lightweight for the amount of technology that’s in them.

A little pre warning though, they start at $599. There is also the Even Realities G1 smart glasses which are a little cheaper and do most of the same stuff, but there is no camera on them.

Meta are allegedly releasing an update for their glasses that prevent recording altogether if the glasses sense that the light has been tampered with.

Those do exist. They’re just expensive. Look up the Even Realities G2 smart glasses. They have a monochrome heads up display, conversation analysis, live translate, notifications from your phone, time, date ect. Oh, and there is no camera on them by design (the developers understand and acknowledge that a camera is a huge privacy risk). They also have an open SDK and developer tools so that you can make your own apps for them. They’re kind of like real life E.D.I.T.H. glasses.

Einstein’s elevator explains why acceleration can mimic gravity. It doesn’t, by itself, explain why a stationary cube would emerge with a large sideways velocity. That conclusion depends on additional assumptions about how moving portals transfer momentum.

It would be A because it’s the orange portal that’s moving, not the cube.

The only way it would be B is if the portals suck since the cube doesn’t have any momentum to begin with. The game clearly shows that this is not how portals work.

It would probably be A because of Newton’s first law of motion.

Hot take:

The Galactic Empire is portrayed as bad mainly due to it’s execution of power. The Empire’s ideals of order and stability don’t actually seem so bad in theory. Even the Mandolorian spin-off show supports this perspective.

Sky & is a

Online multiplayer games used to be fub but they have really gone downhill recently.

The most fun I have ever had in a video game was hunting a bear in RDR2 to make clothing with the pelt. It took several days but I think that’s what made finding the bear so satisfying.

There is currently no public breakdown of U.S. data center water consumption by AI vs non-AI workloads. However, AI appears to account for a minority of total data center compute and electricity demand today, suggesting its share of water consumption is also likely to be a minority, though the exact proportion is unknown.

However I can give some examples of cloud services:

AWS / Amazon data centers used roughly 2.5 billion gallons globally in 2025

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/amazon-finally-reports-its-annual-water-use-at-data-centers

Google data centers used roughly 7.7 billion gallons globally in 2024

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/data-center-water-use-black-box-google-trying-to-change

All U.S. data centers: about 17.4 billion gallons per year direct water consumption in 2023, projected to reach 38–73 billion gallons per year by 2028. That includes cloud, AI, enterprise, colocation, storage, etc.

https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/data-center-water-use

Correct. The U.S. doesn’t top the list per capita, but you’re shifting the goalposts and you know it.

Cry harder. The U.S. has more immigrants crossing their border with the intention to stay permanently per year than any other country in the world.

Exactly. Their employer doesn’t pay them a living wage, and refusing to tip sure as hell won’t fix that. Their employer couldn’t give less of a fuck.

Your mad at the system but taking it out on a server who didn’t do anything to deserve it?

Judging by your reply, it seems like you understand this but don’t care. That just makes you arrogant.

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck. It does.

You wouldn’t walk into someone else’s house and start ignoring their rules and boundaries.

When you’re in someone else’s home, show them respect, otherwise don’t go there.

Didn’t your parents ever teach you manners? I guess not.

Yeah, they get paid like $3 per hour. They need tips to make a living. I get that it’s a shitty system but that’s how it works. These are the things you need to understand before you travel to other countries and show off your ignorance.

People like you are the problem. The U.S. has a different tipping system compared to the rest of the world.

If you aren’t prepared to follow and respect another country’s customs and norms then get the f*** out

Anarchism isn’t strictly about being against electoralism. It’s more about the justification of power.

If a hierarchical system can’t morally justify why some should command and others should obey then it should be dismantled.

Why is the dog wearing an anarchism T shirt? That it not what anarchism is at all.