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Water Rationing’s Un-Moos-ual Suspects. Why Journalists are Quitting. And GamerGate for Game Theorists. Plus more! #178

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Adrian Monck
Sep 07, 2023
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1️⃣ When Water Rationing Comes, Who’s to Blame?

In America’s West, the answer comes on four legs.

The water-sucking steak-makers.

America’s West faces a water crisis. Golf course sprinklers? Casino water features? Guitar-shaped pools? Nope.

Cows.

Wade Davis has a book out describing how the romantic pursuit of steak is …

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