Or: imagine Amazon running the government. Could they possibly do any worse?

Bruce66423 commented: "Just for stealing a couple of suitcases from a car. Funny how the elite punish those who inconvenience them. Can you imagine an ordinary victim see their offender get that sort of sentence?"

An "ordinary victim"'s suitcases wouldn't be as valuable, frankly.

"at least that military is stopping a nuclear armed terrorist state from setting the worlds trade rules" Oh, they are? So the Strait of Hormuz is open again? Gee, I had no idea.

"What's true is that things get worse much quicker under one party than the other" Well then isn't that where the focus needs to lie, at least in the near term? "Meanwhile Republicans contest the results of elections where it's obvious they lost." Well there again, doesn't that put the focus more on one side than the other? It sure sounds like you're trying to avoid placing blame here.

"Troll"? I guess someone's not a Top Gear fan...

Well, "modern" is a relative term. Even as recently as 50 years ago or even less, a lot of piping was still copper.

..."Hey ChatGPT, put together a plan to kidnap or kill the people on this list, in such a manner and such an order that it looks random and totally not a co-ordinated conspiracy, mmm-kay?" I wonder how well that would work...

When you have that kind of information in your possession and you are negligent with it, you are guilty as hell.

...to finding out whether they really are saying "So long and thanks for all the fish!"...?

Yes, I'm sure they do; I'm suggesting that maybe instead of banning data centers altogether, the state and/or utility could... not let those upgrades fall on the public and instead require the data center builders to foot that bill?

Why does a... Light Emitting Diode need a backlight? Doesn't it... emit light?

People are building data centers because people are using the services that are supported by those data centers. Either make the builders of data centers (a) put as much (clean/renewable) energy on the grid as they use, and/or (b) charge them more for the electricity they use, so that the higher energy costs don't splash onto the general public. Maybe... progressive rates for energy usage?

The Schwinger Effect is frequently demonstrated experimentally on episodes of Wayne's World. sccchhwing!!

Hm. Interesting. I thought it had been dismantled by now.

...to tell us why this is a bad thing.