>> Datacenters are massive contributors to local property taxes

Driving up tax rates for the non-data-center residents doesn't sound like it will help them.

>>To support a 2.2-gigawatt project, the "unnamed company" would likely fund massive upgrades to the local power grid and fiber-optic networks, which benefits every other business in the county.

LOL. The "unnamed company" is going to do whatever they can to avoid that cost and push it onto the other users in the area.

>>Then how about the terrible taking 40,000 acres of farmland out of production? That's going to threaten food security, right?

Are the "unnamed companies" buying up corporate owned mega farms, or small, family owned farms? small scale farming is already being killed by huge corporate owned farming, why should we encourage accelerating that process? Oh yeah progress, and capitalism, have to keep growing and consolidating at any cost.

>>They are where work gets done. Ida Huddleston has every right to refuse a sale, but these kind of BS articles frame her refusal as a "win" for the community.

I guess that depends on how you define community. If your definition of community is, "large, remote company abusing locals to create wealth that goes somewhere else", then sure, this " helps " the community.

>>In reality datacenter construction creates thousands of high-paying trade jobs (electricians, HVAC, steelworkers) and hundreds of permanent technical roles. My neighbor, who is a union electrician is currently in Oregon working on a datacenter.

You don't even see the irony in your own comment. Your neighbor has a temporary job and isn't spending most of his earnings where that job is located. He temporarily spends money on lodging, food, and maybe some clothes and tools. Then 18 months later, moves on to the next job. The locals are left with a loud, bright energy and water sucking computer warehouse with few local employees

>>I used to live in a paper mill town and it stank. But the locals told me it smelled of money. Time to sell up, take the cash, and be happy knowing you're helping progress!

Why did you leave? It sounds like living in a stinking shit-hole where someone else makes all the money is your perfect home. Selling out and subjecting you neighbors to living next to a 21st century paper mill doesn't sound like community building to me.

It has been foretold that it will be otters

Or, an even worse idea, he DOES know what he is doing.

If only we could figure out a way around that limitation

oh, wait

As much as the marketers would like us to believe it, I'm not convinced any current LLM is much more than an extremely complicated if/ then /else tree. I was waiting for the part in this article where the "AI" was only fed data from a smell sensor and actually did an analysis, but we didn't get there.

Now that you've just gone off the rails by plastering me with a bunch of slurs that have no basis, it's clear that you're just here to stir shit and fling it around. I don't know what cult you think I'm in, but your repeated attempts to put me in one just means you don't have the slightest clue about who I am or what I believe. The world is shades of grey, maybe some day you'll be able to upgrade from black and white.

Thinking more people should be treated fairly by society, that they shouldn't be degraded, marginalized, punished, in many cases beaten and killed, because they are different, THAT is what you call antisocial?

The rest of your post just tells us that you don't even recognize the exact thing you are railing against are the core ideals of the MAGA base.

Do both sides have followers that go to far, hell yeah. Should the "Tolerant of people and ideas you disagree with" slider be set closer to Less or More, I would prefer More.

Per the Constitution, currency is also supposed to be backed by, and redeemable for gold or silver; as well as being managed by the Treasury Dept., not the Federal Reserve. The founders appeared to understand that fiat money would eventually become a hidden tax that would allow the government to have unchecked spending power and tried to keep that from happening.

Somehow that was overruled by a law, not an amendment

Crypto many or may not even be considered "currency", depending on how you want to define currency. It isn't generally accepted for payments, especially for taxes or fees owed to the government, which would be a more strict definition. If you want to define currency as any medium of exchange, then you can't say the government has a monopoly as anyone can exchange their time, knowledge, labor, or goods in a transaction for the same.

>>It's difficult to maintain communism because without an enormous amount of education, training for critical thinking and media literacy it's easy for a charismatic bastard to come along and trick people into all sorts of nasty things.

Sounds suspiciously like capitalism

Sitting next to a table with used dishes makes you unhappy? If the restaurant has a host/hostess seating you, they generally aren't going to put you at a dirty table unless it's very busy and in that case usually quickly clear the table while you are sitting down. If it's a "seat yourself" situation, don't sit at a dirty table.

Source: 5-6 years as a cook and waiter

I'm having a hard time figuring out of you are talking about hacking groups or the executives of US healthcare companies.

If I only had mod points to vote this up Reddit administrators have been trying to gaslight the world about Aaron Swartz' role in the founding of the site for years now. They seem to think repeating the lie enough will make it true.

George Carlin had a raspy voice with remnants of a New York City accent. This has neither of those. I haven't listened to any real Carlin lately so can't really compare, but the pacing and tempo seemed way off as well.

If I heard this without the "this isn't George Carlin" intro, I would probably label it as a computer speech generator reading some Carlin inspired attempt at a comedy show.

I guess I'm old school too. I store objects in a hierarchy that I create and curate. If I lose track of an object, that's on me. In an automated system that tracks objects based on a externally, to me, applied set of metadata, I expect to lose track of more objects.

An old gnome email client, and Gmail, both try to do this with "tags" or whatever they call it this week. Leaving the tagging to me didn't seem any different than creating a tree of folders, other than being left with an enormous mess of an inbox. Now I'm supposed to believe a program that doesn't understand my thinking is going sort and tag things in a way that I understand?

[X] Doubt

In sports, just like the corporate world, it is often the case where a poor leader can be the cause of poor performance. Poor vision and strategy comes from the top. If you have poor strategy and a great team, you are probably not going to do well. It also tends to be difficult to fire the whole team and hire a new one.

Also In both cases, firing some middle level manager may or may not lead to a change in performance. They may not have a real say in the higher level strategy, and they aren't doing the actual work, so they're not able to have a large effect on overall performance.