Just imagine, if you could be taxed more for unproductive infrastructure. Everything in the world would be solved, if you would just pay everything to the government, and they could re-distribute all of your income to others.

The entire reason why industrialization has delivered the promises of socialism, while socialism brought mass scarcity everywhere, is that productive activity generates resources that can be spent elsewhere.

Meanwhile taking more and more from existing industries, only to fund unproductive things (i.e. electric lines that don't allow for more production to offset their costs) improvershes everyone. It's why PRC has as many problems with useless infrastructure they built as they do. It's why their property market collapsed a few years ago.

Loudoun county is a well known example. There are several others.

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This isn't really new or interesting. If you manage to get a lot of new industry in, you can tax that industry instead of your residents. Meaning you can fund more services, while taking less tax.

Air quality collapses. That's a new one. What exactly do they do to the air?

Gas turbines? Water vapor poisons the air now? Man, people living near oceans must be all dying from water vapor poisoning. Reminder that methane burns into H2O and CO2.

Chinabots are going really hard nowadays.

This is the other PRC sponsored talking point that is nonsensical. "They bring noise".

They have fans pointed upwards, and usually shielded with noise shields on the sides. As a result they emit far less noise than most industrial applications. Whatever noise they emit usually travels upwards, not sideways.

But crazy witch with 50 cats says that noise killed her latest litter. Tiktok said so, so it must be true.

Yeah, anti-datacenter propaganda really worked well in some places. Not many, but some.

In real world, data centers are currently reviving a lot of remote towns. Dilapidated infrastructure? They will rebuild it because they need it to work. Insufficient infrastructure? They'll finance the build out. Everything already fine? They will pay enough taxes to cut residents' tax bills by a significant chunk.

It's why the propaganda is focusing mainly on a handful of cases of corruption (i.e. officials getting bribed to offer better terms than necessary), as well as just blatant lying (oh my god they consume so much water, we're going to run out).

Mostly what is needed is for more small towns to realize that they can rebuild a lot of dilapidated infrastructure and lower property taxes if they make a good deal with a data center. Not to mention minor perks like fast potential to pull fast broadband access in a rural town, or build something that will be productive for a long time, like a new power plant.

Thank you for sharing this meme, which is completely unsuitable for this case.

In a Free to Play game, customer isn't a product. In-game purchases are the product. To get the customer to the product, customer must first install and play the game.

Valorant is free to play.

Level of reading comprehension: Baizuo.

This sounds great and all, because it makes people think there's some magical RAM capacity that can just be brought online, and it's just Evil Overlords (TM) that are hoarding it all like Scrooge McDuck.

Reality is much less rosy. It takes at a minimum, while rushing at a breakneck pace, about 3 years from decision to start of a RAM fab. Shortages started in 2025. If we were to do all of your recommended actions, it would still mean that RAM market would remain heavily constrained well into 2029.

Just as Micron is predicting. Because there are in fact new upcoming fabs, and new entrants. CXMT for example. But even with PRC's rules, where competition is enforced by communists who are on the record condemning CEOs to involuntary organ donation by relatives when results don't please the communist leadership, they're not able to meet demand. Even with Chinese financing model, which is to basically shove a funnel down a "strategic interest" industry's mouth and pour massive amounts of capital into it to get a rapid capacity build out and cut throat competition. They've done it with everything from EVs to solar panels. They're doing it to memory.

And even they seem to agree with Micron on how fast new RAM capacity can be started.

This isn't about navigating "basic websites", it's about navigating surface level of American bureaucracy.

We're yet to see if AI is as bad at this herculean task as humans are.

Who's at fault in those crashes?

Hint: a lot of crashes with fully self driven vehicles is because they actually obey traffic laws in places where locals are used to not doing so.

Smells come from antisocials. Normal people wash and wear mild deodorant (if not east asian, in which case they just wash).

Usage of public transit is fundamentally limited by antisocial people.

No one wants to be on the same bus as a black guy going "I'm going to kill this white girl" and then stab you in the neck. No one wants his wife, daughter, mother, etc to be Iryna. No one wants them to be that girl that got burned alive either. Or any other of the countless public transit statistics.

That is the problem with public transit, and that's why it's usage is now suffering in Europe as well.

So that is a whole different problem, completely unrelated to the problem of self driving. Self driving primarily replaces one's own driving. It's not for the people so poor, that they can't escape the antisocials.

But you can't, because Waymos drive drunks and octogenerians. That means you have to factor them in in a world where both are banned from driving, but drive anyway because "human factor".

Just like you have to factor in the "AI factor" with Waymos, such as AI just having a momentary aberration at a critical moment. It's just that there's a whole lot more of A than B.

I suspect this is because Waymo uses a narrow very high definition model of its driving environment. I.e. they are really, REALLY good at areas they know, but it's a lot of effort to expand the area where they are good.

It's the opposite approach of "wide lower resolution" model that Tesla uses. This is why Tesla's FSD works in most places in Western nations, but it will probably have more problems.