If your profit margins vary significantly between countries and the deviation from the expected appears to line up nicely with financial transfers from a high tax country to a low tax country:

A) The high tax country should make that illegal

B) The high tax country's collections enforcement should give your corporation a financial colonoscopy followed by a fine equal to twice what you 'saved'.

In the US, in the majority of regions, it appears to serve the desires of the wealthiest members of society regardless of the expense to the remainder.

In no sane society would datacenters be prioritized over supplying water and power to citizens, nor would standards and enforcement be so lax as to leave water and power supplies unsafe and unreliable so private operators can have better profit margins.

The reason you pay taxes is to support a community that provides common benefit. When there is no benefit - and even if you're incredibly wealthy infrastructure benefits you by providing a nicer country to live in - you have to start to wonder why you're paying taxes.

It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.

So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.
They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.

The base of both parties is mostly against all of this.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Even after all this time, I am somehow surprised that the compromised Supreme Court had to incur Trump's wrath to protect him from trying to fix the election in ways that would disproportionately disenfranchise his own base.

Two generations from now, it will be a struggle to convince students any of this actually happened. It's just too stupid to be credible even as I'm living through it.

A post-pandemic boost is plausible, but you cannot trust any numbers from the current US government, especially when it's facing slaughter in the upcoming midterms.

A long time ago, back when you had to go to the Unemployment Office every two weeks to turn in your paperwork and get your check, I was told that by a clerk. So far, I've seen no reason not to believe it, even though I've seen supposedly authoritative claims that it's not true. It's the type of thing the PTB would deny even though it's true.

When I was young, I thought older people who shrugged these kinds of things off with "when it's my time, it's my time" were irrational. I'm past the half-way mark now and I get it.

I am not going to spend my life on min/maxing my health, because no matter what I do, I'm going to die. If I exercise, first I'm spending my time on something I dislike, second I will likely end up with joint issues and instead of cancer I'll just be in chronic pain.

There are limits, and I'm sure I'm making these choices at least half-blind to the odds, but I'm making the choices regardless. I eat decently but not a health-optimized diet, I make sure I move around enough that I don't lock up, and I make sure I don't get too fat to be active when I choose to be active, but I enjoy life more with my brain than my body.

If that means I lose one of the 80-90 years I'm likely to allocated given my current health, I'm absolutely at peace with that outcome. Unless science can tell me that changing my habits will give me decades more life, it's just not worth it to me to change my lifestyle over a significant but ultimately small shortening of my potential lifespan.

No, it means that they've lost their jobs and their Unemployment Benefits have run out. The various government agencies responsible for these numbers assume that if you're not receiving government handouts you've left the workforce and they stop counting you as unemployed.

But I've never believed the unemployment rate was a valid measure of economic health. The numbers are fudged in too many ways.

How many people are able to work, want to work, and can't find full time employment above poverty line wages? That's what you need to look at.

I cannot agree more with this sentiment. It feels outright insulting to asked to read LLM output in a context where it is *supposed* to be human feedback. Tell me what you would have told the LLM to say, I can take it from there. I don't need you to LLM it up, because it will bury your point in a bunch of crap.

Could it provide useful info? Maybe, but I can do that myself if so. I want *your* thought on something, however incomplete it might be.

Let's figure it out together:

test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:5:14: error: expected expression before ';' token
    5 | int x = 1+;

Apparently, Oneplus is a syntax error.

That and Russia has suggested destroying the orbit if Starlink doesn't stop enabling terrorist attacks by NATO proxies on its people.

The AI cut-off dive bomb tactic is a blatant warcrime.

Space Data Centers are in the same category as fully autonomous self-driving cars within eighteen months that he 'promised' in 2019.

You can watch the 'Autonomy Day' video on YouTube. People financed Model 3's on the promise of renting them as robotaxis while they were at work.

Physics is a hard stop on false promises.

It's OK to back difficult challenges with no underlying physical impossibilities that's engineering. Radiating heat into space is a physics problem.

I didn't believe the robotaxi promise then and I don't believe the space data centers claim now.

If there's a new topological physics breakthrough then let's see the paper and get the Nobel Prize gears turning because that would revolutionize technology on and off planet.

I'd love to see it but I don't believe it.
   

I look forward to Musk overcoming the limits of insolation in Earth orbit, the latency induced by the speed of light, and the Stefan-Boltzmann law.

This is just as good an idea as the submarine he ordered built for cave rescue: it appeals to idiots who don't give any thought to the problem but think the proposed solution is 'cool'.