I worked at a nascent telco that was laying thousands of miles of fiber around 2000

Their stock took some hard hits, myself and a large percentage of the staff was laid off, and they only survived through competent merger and acquisition strategy

From a business standpoint, they certainly suffered from a bubble, but their fiber is still in the ground and they will exist for decades on their massive buildout 25 years ago. I suspect these datacenters will behave in a similar manner, there will be a bust, but the infrastructure owners will profit from it for decades, even if stock and bond holders, and employees take some losses in the mean-time

You mention consistent rends in semiconductors to reduce size and energy, but ignore the fact that the sheer mass of installed computing equipment has continued the entire time that this reduction in chip size and energy consumption has been going on

While there is an element of hula-hoop hysteria in descriptions of the continuing data center buildout, they will build out new datacenters as long as there is money in it, and IMO there will be demand for AI personal assistants for the mid-term 15-25 year horizon

TBH, I always found Fluffy Bunny to be the most threatening, while CDC was obviously going for lulz

That should clear things up

IMO, RFK jr thinks he is part of a "ruling class" that will continue to get great health care regardless of how poor the care given to (or even expected by) the "proles", who are actively being shoved down the class structure from middle class, to lower class, to slaves

Here is where you fall off the cliff

Children are given vaccinations not only to protect them, but to also protect those vulnerable people who they come into contact with

I n addition, while there are risks to any vaccine, they are far outweighed by the risks that COVID19 expose to pregnant women and their fetus

The problem with going against FDA recommendations, is that insurance companies will not pay for treatments not specified by the FDA, these are referred to as off-label use and come out of your pocket

Aside from being really bad choices for individual health, they are applying mis-information to fracture people's belief is things that serve us in providing a safe and healthy society.

That only works if there is excess labor laying about and the tariffs are high enough to make manufacturing wages competitive with working at McDonalds (which IS a manufacturing job)

Most available labor is already soaked up in America

Um, no

There used to be a lot of fabric mills and clothing manufacturing in Massachusetts

They were Union jobs, and you could raise a family on those wages, with one working parent

Those jobs got destroyed by Republican, anti-Union, states creating "Right to Work" laws, which convinced manufacturers to move their operations to Southern US states

However, once those companies figured out they could easily relocate to reduce costs, they moved to Central and South America, abandoning those US workers

Eventually, they all moved to South Asia and will likely stay there until yet another region proves themselves to be a less expensive option

You would have to drop US wages to starvation levels in order to convince companies to move back here, or have tariffs of 10,000% to offset for US wages

It amuses me how people who make a lot of money think they can drop everybody else off of a cliff and get by themselves

The six figure welding jobs that you are referring to are welding pipes in remote areas where you have to live in drug-filled man camps and use amphetamines to stay awake on the job

90% of welding jobs in the US pay about $20/hour, where you can work on a shop floor welding trailer frames.

Comparing US wages to India wages for manufacturing is just delusional

High tech workers in India make as much in a day as most US IT workers make in an hour, and manufacturing jobs pay waaaaaay less

This will ONLY make sense in America when you can live an $5 a day

You are dreaming

Manufacturing has never been fun, and overtime has been pretty much destroyed by anti-union 12 hour day shifts that pay the same no matter how many days you work

Apparently, there are a lot of jobs opening up to pick fruit and vegetables, maybe some slaughterhouse work

They'll set up square dance and 4-h programs for all

Is anybody going to mention the $25B set aside under Biden to upgrade ATC? and then cancelled by trump?

THIS is not a first or third world problem, this is s trump problem

I'm not your comrade, tovarishch! (apologies to South Park)

russian propagandist is russian propagandist

Sorry if I ignore your bullshit

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