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Comment Re:But yet... (Score 0, Troll) 57

It isn't just the fat bastards fault, it's the entire GOP. They have underfunded public education since the raygun era and have been trying to fund xtian private schools to further starve it. It's also why they've defunded PBS and other education-related resources. Having an ignorant and dumb population (think MAGA) makes controlling people much easier when the ability to think logically and to reason is lost. It makes people vote against their own self-interests which is why congress can continually vote for lower taxes on billionaires and against programs (Social Security, health care, education) that help the lower and middle classes.

Comment The natives are getting restless (Score 1) 64

This is interesting. Microsoft is currently preparing the site for a large data center on the border of my city and San Jose. In an area that has had power issues for years and is undergoing yet another dry winter. Will it actually get built and come online and, if so, will it be consuming an outsized share of resources such that we peasants revolt when we have brown outs when the summer temps break 100 or we have a cap placed on water usage? Stay tuned.

Comment Re:History Repeats (Score 3, Insightful) 99

Near as I can tell is the only lesson learned was by investment bankers who promulgated that debacle and what they learned was they could lie, cheat, and steal all they wanted and the DoJ and SEC would not do a goddamn thing about it. In fact, they bank rolled firms deemed too important to the economy by subsidizing their losses with taxpayer dollars to prevent them from going under and no one went to jail. Cryptobros saw that and thought "I gotta get me some of that!" and so paid off trump and the GOP leadership to put themselves at the head of the feeding trough.

Comment Rules for stinky passengers (Score 1) 159

Is anyone aware of an airline that won't allow a person with overly offensive BO to fly? Have you ever seen such a person refused boarding? What about getting kicked off the plane after boarding? I'm talking really, really offensive smells. Think Andy Defresne crawling out of a sewer pipe smelly. I've never encountered anything near that bad but it must surely have happened.

Submission + - Merely a stop on the road to irrelevance

sizzzzlerz writes: The US is doomed. Science and medical discovery has been mortally wounded by trump and the GoP, home grown manufacturing and industry has been decimated by wall street and the oliogarchs, and now education, already devalued by politicians who need a dumbed down population is being neutered by machine and AI slop that only gives answers without the knowledge to know what they mean.

Comment Data centers will become a focal point for water (Score 3, Interesting) 118

Factor in the large data centers with their massive cooling requirements, water shortages will become even more severe. And that doesn't even address the electrical requirements to run these facilities which have their own needs. A number of them are currently being installed and planned for areas in the southwest where drought conditions have been in effect for years.

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