Speaking from experience here, there are vastly more people employed just to build datacenters than there are to fully staff one. Hundreds of engineers, consultants, general contractors and construction laborers to build the datacenter versus maybe a dozen people at best to staff a football field sized datacenter. If datacenters go away those builders will still have jobs because they’ll just pivot to building schools or hospitals or whatever else is needed at the time. Heck, even the IT guys who work on the racks could pivot and find another role somewhere else.

The only people who will be out of a job when the AI bubble pops are the hucksters pushing it.

I’m aware they are different people, but it would be the kind of mafioso-style revenge that be somewhat fitting for someone as shitty as Trump.

Watch him do it and Trump gets Khashoggi’d.

Active listening?

Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.

That’s just another line item for the American taxpayer. Hardly Trump’s problem.

They already are! The government signed exclusive military contracts with OpenAI to develop autonomous weapons. Half of these AI companies are being propped up with taxpayer dollars in the form of government contracts or subsidies, or the promise that there will be a taxpayer revenue stream coming their way in the near future.

I think he means the rate of unemployment, not unemployment benefits.

I know, I read it wrong at first too.

Please god let it happen because it would be so fucking funny.

“The Galactic Senate now recognizes the representative of the Trade Federation…”

Of course Trump as admitted as much that all the machines in key states were rigged in his favor.

Thank you for saying this. I feel like sometimes I am the only person in the world who remembers that Trump said out loud that Musk “knows about voting machines better than anybody”. Like, isn’t that suspicious? I understand that the Democrats ran a bad campaign, but to lose in every single swing state after Trump had already been president once and was grossly unpopular at the end of his first term, there has to be something more to it than just her stance on Israel/Gaza and not running a primary.

And of course, the Dems take the high road and don’t demand investigations so that they avoid comparisons to election deniers on the right that ceaselessly parroted baseless conspiracies throughout Biden’s term. Almost as if it was planned all along…

I want to believe that my fellow Americans aren’t collectively stupid enough to actually pick Trump a second time. I really, really want to believe.

You can safely ignore anybody who unironically uses the term “BlueMAGA”. I’ve literally only seen it used by extremely hostile people with zero sense of political nuance.

I’m from the US and if comedy roasts are a cultural phenomenon then I wasn’t aware of it.

Yeah, I don’t get them either. Best case scenario you can have a mild chuckle at the people you consider friends who know you the best exposing how they really see you after being given an invitation to do so and then living with that knowledge for the rest of your life. Worst case scenario all of the above, minus any lighthearted levity, but add in deep-seated insecurities causing you to become defensive and driving a wedge between you and your loved ones permanently.

I wonder if this is at all related to Trump’s bizarre comments he made a few months back about visiting Fort Knox to make sure all the gold is still there.

Similar vibe. I’m not fully convinced that any billionaire is truly looking out for working class interests, but Steyer at least has a historical track record that we can point to and use as a benchmark for what to expect. There are no good billionaires, but in a world where more and more billionaires are running for office themselves or backing non-billionaire candidates all the time, he’s probably the least bad of them.

Trump blubbers about “lawfare” to the tune of $1.8 billion and then does this…

Is at least in a feudalistic society. The farmers would own the their own land and there’s not much the big corporations would be able to do about that.

Sadly, in the feudal age peasants and serfs did not own the land. They worked the land and paid rent to their lord, who actually owned it.

The land is the “means of production”, and the landlords exist solely to extract value from it.

In the modern era, the digital ecosystem is a new means of production. We are the digital tenants, and they are the digital landlords. Nothing has changed, although for a brief period of time in the 90’s and early 2000’s the wall street capitalists didn’t think the internet was anything more than a fad and things were good, but e-commerce was just too lucrative for them to ignore forever.

Every week is like groundhog day. Trump declares victory, claims that peace talks are underway, and then they drop more bombs, without any deal being reached.

It amazes me that there are still people gullible enough to believe that this isn’t another forever war for us and that gas isn’t going back down any time soon.

People who are starving right now due to economic terrorism can’t wait for next season’s harvest to eat.

His base are completely psychotic.

I wish people would press further on these answers. More mature how? In what way has Trump performed better now compared to his first term? Please answer with specific examples and as much detail as possible.

I hate that journalists are so willing to let people say dumb shit and then never hold their feet to the flame.