Fanning the flames that have already started when people looked at their electric bills.

Even more so since half these data centers will end up bankrupt, abandoned, and stick the county taxpayers with demolition and cleanup costs.

The cognitive dissonance, it burns, lol!

"We didn't want him to create a space force!!!!!" - nerds

That always happens when you mistake fact-based rationality for partisan persuasion.

The problem with your arguments is that you love one party too much, and can't accept the reality that both parties are lying mud sacks, filled with leaches and clinger-ons and occassionally a man of wild ambition, including yours.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure your post was coherent.

Talking to your steaming cup again I see. Though if it has maggots in it, that means you're reheating it. Why would you do that? If anything, heating kills off the parasites you have such a soft spot for. And why wait for the maggots at all, especially considering they usually eat those same parasites?

Oh yeah? You can't imagine a scenario where someone would be upset about a data center but not an almond?

After signing the executive document, the room was in a good mood. At that time a reporter asked the illustrious orange leader what he hoped to achieved from Artemis.

The great orator replied, "Our dame? Big plans. 'Ar dame's gonna the moon and then Our eye on land, show Our Anne what for."

The room was silent, but the good mood was hardly diminished.

The point of free speech is that it doesn't matter where the idea came from, it's an open market of ideas.

If you think that energy guzzling, noisy, water draining data centers are a good thing, you are welcome to make that argument.

I tell you what I think and why I think it. I post on slashdot for fun.

Academics playacting as public intellectuals earn their salaries directly or indirectly from selling themselves as people qualified to tell you how or what to think, and they know it.

See the difference?

Yeah man. Just like back when mike pence rounded up the gays and put them on cattle cars. Dark times.

Citation required for every single thing you said.

No evidence I benefited from past nastiness any more or any less than any person alive today. The direct descendants of slaves are long-dead and the last people to come of age under institutional racial segregation in this country are past retirement.

No evidence the bag of crazy one finds in Robin DeAngelo (read her work, I did, and there's literally elementary school logic mistakes on every page), Ibram Kendi, or their many copycats actually does any good to anyone other than the consultants pocketing fees for their diversity training services.

Also no evidence that saying land acknowledgements ad nauseum, renaming columbus day, or prefacing all your statements with a header packet listing your ancestry and supposed guilt has the power to reach back in time and undo the slave trade or innoculate the natives against smallpox.

I was told to go along with race-baiting, race-essentialist, communist-adjacent propaganda so I voted for the guy who promised to fight it. And he is.

but ICE and troops hanging around poling stations and selectively harassing people

What's the problem?

If you're not a citizen, you aren't allowed to vote....why would you be anywhere near a polling station if not a citizen or worse....an illegal alien?

Scientists are fallible humans the way everyone else is. And my personal observation is that academic science is a magnet for several particular human failings.

At its best, the intentionally adversarial nature of the scientific process (in experiment, nature is your adversary; in publication your peers are your adversary) separates the wheat from the chaff.

At its worst (when money and personal reputation and prestige are on the line), it's far easier to go along to get along, get the grant, get the publication, get the recommendation letter. And bad ideas fester.

There are a lot of bad ideas festering in American universities. Not least of which is the idea that having the letters PhD after your name qualifies you to opine on $current_events with unquestioned solomonic wisdom regardless of whether you have any expertise in the subject or whether your next grant is riding on a particular direction of public opinion.

This would all be great if the police were benevolent.

Which county has benevolent police?