To run all sorts of cloud and internet traffic. Things like Youtube, Steam, Amazon Web Services, and so forth require a means to store, process, and transfer data. It is no different from the importance of industrial farms, warehouses, and factories. All of them are unpleasant but important, if we want a capable civilization.

In any case, the placement of a datacenter is the sort of thing that requires proper planning. Some water tables are better suited for sustaining the existence of a datacenter, while other water sources are key to ecosystems or communities. The problems with datacenters isn’t that they are datacenters, but rather their implementation is shoddy and shortsighted.

I wouldn’t want my nation’s celebration to be associated with this piece of orange shit anyways.

Good. While infrastructure like data centers is necessary, they should go through environmental and zoning considerations, alongside the consent of neighboring communities. The reckless construction of these places is also suspicious as fuck. Why do the wealthy need them NOW?

Personally, I feel that the rushing of datacenters is in service to Palantir, the ICE war machine, and the bunkers that the elite reside in.

I suspect that the relatively small size of European nations has made it much easier for them to have coherent protestors. The politicians have to be in physical proximity to their constituents, which puts their skin on the line if people snap. Getting enough angry people to surround bad leaders is a key ingredient to a healthy democracy.

“Hypothetically, how far would a catapult throw a CEO?”

“AI” -> “CEO’s bonus”, when we put it through the translator.

I often thought America was dying, but I assumed it would be a slow descent into senility and infirmity. Now it seems more like a game of Frogger, being played with our everything.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he accuses members of congress and governors to be supporting immigration, such as Ilhan Omar. Thus, stripping them of wealth and trying to force his enemies to go with whatever he wants.

Kraft Mac & Cheese, rice bowls, canned beans, canned chicken, and cup ramen.

No, when the American Civil War was ended without ending all of the enemy leadership. Giving clemency to traitors who are fundamentally evil, was and is a foolish thing to do.

If there is a 2nd American Civil War, it is a lesson worth remembering.

The job market was already ruined, AI is just an yet another excuse that corporations trot out. The heart of the problem is that corporations do not care about society, simply existing to line the pockets of a few people within their ranks. Nothing else matters to them. Country and humanity are equally worthless in the eyes of the elite.

My opinion remains unchanged: The Regime is throwing away pearls, and raising rot-ridden swine in their place. If a civil war comes, Hegseth and company will be ended by the people they cast aside.

Spotted the Christian destined for Hell.

I always go for a custom build myself. Got a Thor NAS chassis, I am just waiting for de-dollarization and the AI bubble to pop, so that I can use my Euros to build a top-shelf PC. Debating whether to pick up the motherboard now, since that is more unique component that can potentially stop being available. A Threadripper CPU and the RAM would be more generic.

Make sure that they are red. That would make the PC become 3x faster.

My CostCo is selling a gaming PC for $1,300, with 64gb of DDR5 and a RTX 5060. If that is a decent deal, go pick one up before the oil shocks start to really hit.

PayValve, if Gabe wanted to be on the nose and take the piss out of Paypal.

I would be alright with this. Gabe could make a fiscal platform that lets everyone escape MasterVisa’s grip, only charging 1% or thereabouts on every transaction, with barely any moderation. That would let Valve to benefit from other storefronts like GOG, JAST, and DLSite, while also freeing Steam from content restrictions, plus giving freedom to buyers to just get what they want. It is win-win for everyone who isn’t MasterVisa or Collective Shout.

Plus, Gabe could establish stronger ties with Europe and Asia, which is good if the US balkanizes in the coming decades. It protects from de-dollarization, since Steam would be able to easily allow Americans to use foreign currencies that become more competitive.

As I see it, the development of anti-capture systems aren’t about actually preventing capture. Rather, they are to delay the inevitable and to make it so that when a “reset” happens, the good parts of a civilization aren’t too damaged when replacement happens.

Ideally, the next civilization(s) to arise from the ashes should inherit the best bits of whatever came before.

The public should own all of AI, and corporations should be forced to ask the public to lend compute. AI is a powerful tool, and if we give the elite ownership of it, they will someday cut society loose: By killing or enslaving us all, and using robots to autonomously fulfill the wealthy’s wish to be truly free of responsibility.