- The inflation is “temporary” and “small”. - it was on a global scale and America did the best of all G7 nations

- The laptop is a Russian plant. - trumps own intelligence service thought that at first. also secondly there was still no evidence on wrongdoing on there and the main witness was convicted of lying to the FBI

- The lab leak theory is propaganda. - it is, you have no strong evidence vs wet market.

- Opposing long term lockdowns is unscientific. - "lockdowns" are also called "quarantines" which have been used for centuries. Also who was president in 2020 when things were locked down?

- Biden is fully mentally competent. - more competent than trump.

- Defunding police is a great idea.- never actually happened, police spending went *up* during bidens term

- The GF riots were “mostly peaceful”. - They were!

- Judging by identity instead of merit is democratic. - You support DEI now more than leftists ever did. Also this was never law and biden never did it.

- Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate. - Vague as to be pointless. want to bring up a specific go ahead.

- The majority of Black Americans support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, and support illegal immigration. - those are all strawmans. here ill rephrase: they support police reform, want better public schools, voterID has historically been implemented in racists fashion (NC case) so you know we should be distrusting of it and who is doing it and why. Any republican proposing voterid i am going to suspect racists intent and we have historical basis for that. Also "supporting illegal immigration" just means "i dont want working people rounded up like animals on the street"

again, youa re just carrying water for the current admin. you can screm "both sides" into a pillow all you want and while i wont say you are a fascist but you are certainly supporting a bunch of fascists and doing their work for them. way to go.

How many people does a datacenter employ?

It sounds like trickle down worked for a single individual. I'm happy she's found greater income.

I remember just 12 months ago an orange guy in a badly fitting suit promising to bring prices down, and a bunch of fools believed him and voted for him.

Someone should ask those folks how that's working out for them.

Feel free to start your own version of Slashdot with whatever nationalist bend you like if you're not happy with how this place is being run.

I'm pretty sure you've gotten your money's worth out of Slashdot.

Some ISPs are way behind the times. I have a symmetrical 300Mbit connection from FiOS and it wasn't until a few years ago they supported IPV6.

ISIS is a direct result of a destabilized Iraq.

I don't think it's so much Australians, specifically Rupert Murdoch and fox news, but billionaires in general.

Billionaires work across national lines and have class solidarity. If it wasn't Murdoch it would have just been a different billionaire creating the propaganda that made us also crazy.

Post world war II the elite, the actual elite not blue-haired professor is running the women's studies department at a community college, but the actual elite decided they were all going to work together to benefit each other at literally everybody else's expense.

The trouble is that those people are incredibly incompetent at anything except manipulating the bottom 99%. Which admittedly they are quite good at.

But I think eventually all of this is going to get out of their control. In order to get a lot of the power they wanted they had to put religious lunatics in charge. I think in Muslim countries that's fine because religious lunatics aren't really in charge they're just giving lip service. In America those people are actually insane. Amy Barrett is a absolute lunatic.

I think best case scenario we get a conventional world war III. And I think it's highly likely that we're going to see nuclear weapons used.

Basically limitless greed and religious insanity is the answer to the Fermi paradox.

We're talking about AWS's us-west-2 region.

You can't just pull up stakes and move that. It was put there for three very good reasons: cheap land, plentiful hydropower from the Columbia River, and also loads of nice cold water for cooling from the same river. And, if they're serious about nuclear power it's very close to both the Columbia River Nuclear Generating Station and Hanford.

It's been there for a decade and is home to a double-digit percentage of all the stuff AWS runs. Context matters.

You didn't even read the summary, which specifies that someone who used to be a walmart employee is making 3 real estate deals a month now based on the local growth. Or that the city's budget is 20x what it was 15 years ago.

Does that sound like "nothing trickles down" to the people who actually live there?

Try at least reading the summary - it's right there, you don't even need to click anything.

It's amazing what having a government health care plan does for you.

Now only if everyone had that available to them - a policy vehemently opposed by Dick Cheney.

Unless you force US citizens to selll their homes and all move to extreme urban cities.

Why don't you drop this trope? I know it's a American attitude but things between the two wildest extremes do exist.

Do you folks from EU ever stop to think that we LIKE the way we live over here?

Maybe you should visit Stockholm. I hear the syndromes there are great!

Because some members of our species have not evolved sufficiently to understand what "enough" looks like.

It's the same mental disease that creates billionaires who already have more material wealth than ten generations of their progeny could ever spend, and yet they still have the drive to literally starve children in order to get tax breaks they don't need to aide in accumulating more wealth they don't need.

but this is the usual statement about how we need less car dependence.

Yes?

In cities where things are densely packed, we already use mass transit.

You don't really, not much. But also in, say, France, there are towns with 140,000, in a metro area of 400,000 with mass transit systems (trams).

The US is built around cars, not busses and trains. There's no magic cure. It would require razing down almost all of the entire country.

You already did that once, you can do it again! Many, many cities in the US were built before the car, and almost all of those were razed to make room for cars. You also have many laws in place that essentially prevent cities from being built that are anything other than car dependent. Those laws can be changed cheaply. It's not a panacea, but it is necessary.

Maryland is also across the Potomac River from Loudon County, Virginia; which lies to the west of Washington DC.

Loudon County, Virginia is where AWS us-east-1 region datacenters are, as well as AWS GovCloud.

Go to Google Maps and draw a line that goes west-northwest from Loudon County to the Atlantic Ocean, and then a direct line to Cork, Ireland - you will intersect with the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland.

No conspiracy here, just as straight of a line plotted on a sphere that they could manage to reduce material and right-of-way costs.