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Comment Re:Do the home owners (Score 1) 26

Presumably the homeowner is required to provide an internet connection. The servers will have a consumer grade connection, hopefully with unlimited bandwidth but possibly in violation of commercial use rules that many ISPs have. They may not appreciate latency spikes when the homeowner does some heavy downloading.

There was a similar scheme in the UK a few years back, where they wanted to use the waste heat from the server to supply hot water. Most people have a central heating system that heats and circulates water. I'm not sure what happened, probably long dead because it's not very financially viable. At least these guys can just dump a crate by your house, although they will still need power for it. Probably want a wired network connection too.

Comment Re:So, nothing really new here (Score 1) 44

Hitler's personal doctor had Jewish heritage. Dosed him up on addictive, mind altering drugs.

Supremacists are not above using people. It's the end goal that they focused on, not how they get there. It's at a racial level too, there can be outliers that don't undermine their beliefs.

Comment Re: It's not working, sir. (Score 1, Troll) 136

Of course not, but I'm trying to explain why people vote for populists like Trump, even when they don't really believe anything they say or that they will really make things better. Especially in a two party system, where both parties are right wing and nobody progressive gets much of a look-in, they don't see many other options.

You have to understand the problem to solve it.

Comment Re: It's not working, sir. (Score -1, Flamebait) 136

I don't think the Democrats are blameless here. Most of it is the Republican's fault, but under Biden the Dems didn't do nearly enough to undo things like the loss of abortion rights, or to really fundamentally fix the economy.

People are fed up with struggling and a lack of hope that things will improve much. While populists can never fix anything, they do offer easy solutions to simple minds, like building a wall or deporting all the people they claim are the problem. It's a failure of more moderate politicians to deliver radical change that enables them.

Comment Re:So, nothing really new here (Score 5, Insightful) 44

I think Musk is a supremacist. He regularly boosts supremacist accounts and their talking points on Twitter. He turned that whole platform into Nazis and other far rightists.

Nazis don't necessarily have to buy into the genocide part, they can simply believe in the supremacy of white Europeans and various extreme measures to make sure that group stays on top. That seems to sum up Musk's political views and actions as the head of DOGE. It's a common trope among neo-Nazi organizations to want to remove all DEI and the like, to create a perfect "meritocracy" where it just happens to be the case that they have a huge advantage. That way everyone else can fail and they say it's fair and natural, that the whites who succeed are just better. Of course we know what actually happens.

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