But.. but.. I was drinking home brew.

I'm not really a pro-jobs guy (IMHO 100% unemployment is a fantastic goal), but I'll take a shot at this one.

Lay it out to me how data centers bring jobs.

Widget manufacturer wants to be able to take online orders, so they host an e-commerce site at a data center. Now they can take orders. They hire people to help make more widgets faster, in order to keep up with customer demand.

A data center is well-connected, so a VPS there makes for a good, fast seedbox. People can use it to torrent all their TV and movies, saving money that they're now able to spend more on hookers and blow. Sex worker and cocaine mule demand increases.

A televangelist wants to solicit indulgences on TV, where people in need of salvation can call in with their credit cards to buy indulgences. The problem: TV is semi-obsolete and many lost souls prefer internet streaming over broadcast TV. Solution: host the video in a data center. Now virtual parishioners, their souls having been saved thanks to the ease of watching sermons on their own time rather than the televangelist's allotted TV broadcast time, are free to engage in more economic activity instead of having to pray and meditate all the time. Instead of volunteering their time at a food bank or rape crisis center in order to ease their guilt, they're free to choose more economically productive things such as entrepreneurship, where they end up hiring workers to make them more money, which in turn they can send to the televangelist to become even more saved, resulting in a virtuous cycle.

A neighboring province has taken the lead on several money-making industries, viciously out-competing us. So we send quadcopter grenade-dropping drones, fixed-wing FPVs and other killbots to murder their workers, blow up their factories, etc, so that our businesses can become relatively more competitive and grow (hire people!). But in order to keep our terror campaign effective, we need a repository of strike videos so that we can review which targets were destroyed vs merely damaged or missed. To where do we upload this video? You know the answer: a data center.

Data centers are just another tide-that-lifts-all-boats tech that can support all (or most) other industries.

what if it isn't a scam.

If it isn't a scam, then the weird exceptions (e.g. enterprise equipment and phones) will soon be removed, the president will announce that he'll no longer accept bribes and is therefore shutting down all the bribery-focused projects (e.g. the ballroom, Trumpcoin) so that manufacturers no longer have any way to get themselves exempted through backdoor processes, and the president will remove any government-imposed trade barriers that interfere with US router manufacturers acquiring overseas parts and selling to overseas customers.

You might be right. These things could be announced any day now. We'll see.

Also if it's not a scam, then I think we're likely, though not necessarily, going to see government investment into things like pfsense/opnsense and similar projects, in order to bolster consumers' resistance to supply chain attacks and quasi-monopolies. But that's less certain than the obviously-necessary changes mentioned in my first paragraph.

From OpenAI's engineers' perspective, the purpose of ChatGPT is to write things that appear to be similar to what humans have written, or would write. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI should have no liability. ChatGPT is for novelty purposes only, and it's as dangerous as Magic 8 Ball.

From a different perspective (including, possibly, OpenAI's own marketing team's perspective), the purpose of ChatGPT is to help solve problems, give people advice, etc. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI should be liable for what it "says." ChatGPT is more dangerous than Magic 8 Ball.

But from a user's perspective, the purpose of ChatGPT is whatever you want it to be. The ethics of this perspective are that OpenAI's liability is hard to determine, therefore, this perspective is wrong and reality should be shoe-horned into one of the above perspectives. ;-) Well, ok, I guess ChatGPT is about as dangerous as a BASIC interpreter or a screwdriver or a rock or a 30 JuggaloWatt mining phaser, which can be anywhere from not-dangerous-at-all to hey-you-just-murdered-ten-thousand-nuns-and-orphans. Since this is the hardest case to analyze, of course we're going to go this way.

The President is the closest of all elected officials to the People

No, the president is elected by the states. Members of Congress are elected by the people.

Some have voiced an opinion that the president should be elected by the people, but so far, we have not yet amended the constitution to permit that.

With this attitude, we are never getting our flying cars. I'm starting to think The Jetsons was fiction.

"More human than human" is our motto.

Why do people still use this framework?

Because they already have it.

I hope you find something good soon.

culturally, they are incredibly laid back and think hard work is a waste of time.

Nice. Speaking as a New Mexican, these sound like my kind of people.

I hereby challenge any Filipino to a laziness contest, where loser buys us both margaritas. You have no chance. When I get around to it, I will eventually crush you with my inactivity.

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

I sure don't believe the "completely anonymous" part.

The thing is, I like slave labor, when the slaves are machines. I want to work Bender 24 hours a day, and if he complains about it, I'll deny him his alcohol ration! Fuckin' clankers and skinjobs don't have any rights to infringe.

The catch to that, is that over here on my side of the ocean, I don't see and can't inspect Bender working way over in China, so I can't be sure the drudgery is experienced by the 6502 in Bender's head. How do I know he isn't just relaying commands to his servos and motors, which were sent by the teleworking Apu in India, doing the Waymo thing?