One can also purchase aerosol can extension poles for use with spray paint.

You have my blessing.

I want utopian space communism, but I’m not going to hold out for only that ideal when I can support alternatives that are better than the current system.

I’m one of the stupidest men alive and even I have more awareness of the state of US politics than most American liberals. You mention that ‘vote blue no matter who’ is the height of idiocy and receive responses about how not voting is for idiots.

Of course it is, because not voting isn’t the suggestion being made, but it certainly is a useful straw man for the absolute broomsticks who can’t swallow the fact their beloved Democrats are just as complicit in the American political charade.

The primary is no guaranteed method of change. The DNC is a private club. A primary vote could literally be 100% for a single candidate and the DNC could pick an entirely different candidate with no legal repercussions.

Remember that if you criticize the Democratic party and don’t ‘vote blue no matter who,’ you’re a Russian operative undermining the US election process. It’s not that you have a fully functional brain and see both sides are actually all on one side. Russian operative. Only option.

/s, fucking Americans

Now you’re just being stupid. As much as I disagree with all the libs lambasting you here, you’re just an ostensibly more progressive version of daft.

For what it’s worth, much of the rest of the world agrees with you. What you’re saying is quite obvious outside the influence of 24/7 US propaganda. I lived in the US for nearly a decade and was astounded by the fervent support for the Democrats despite their steady march to the right and betrayal of their constituents in the name of bipartisanship.

Your two parties employ the good cop/bad cop routine on a national scale. Should you opt for the good cop over the bad? Absolutely, because anyone who refuses to engage in damage control is an idiot, but you mustn’t forget they’re both cops and on the same team. The good cop is only being helpful because they want something, so they’ll do as much as they need to get it and will ultimately side with the bad cop over you to please their bosses: American oligarchs.

Be smart with your vote and choose the good cop, but don’t stop there. Work to kick both cops the fuck out, end your police state, and wrest control of the country from the oligarchs orchestrating the entire farce.

They’re making a joke by using a logical fallacy known as a false premise.

You mean you’d rather have a train set?

Except contextually that makes no sense. The utility was already aware the data center would be using the water, they simply cocked up the process. Theft of service is utilizing a service with no intent to ever pay. It’s clear that wasn’t the case here.

Understand, I’m not defending the data center. I hope the damned thing burns to the ground. I just have this quirk where I care about the truth of situations, not exaggerating every possible angle so we can pretend it’s worse than it truly is. That’s the kind of hysterics the US and many other legal systems engage in, exaggerating charges to maximize penalties against their citizens, instead of seeking the truth of the matter. It’s wrong when they do it, and it’s just as wrong when we do it.

I think it’s our pal Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Stupidity more than adequately explains that one.

It took me a moment to figure out what you were on about. You actually think everyone on .ml is a Marxist Leninist? Do you think everyone on Blahaj is trans? Are you truly that much of a muppet?

I can’t believe it: a ragebait screenshot with a mix of accurate and inaccurate details that make a bad situation look even worse. You all have frontal lobes, fellow apes. Use them to think critically, because there’s a REASON memes like this want you to react emotionally and it’s not in your best interests at all.

Tl;dr: the data center’s usage is an issue, the local governments that facilitate and even encourage this behaviour are arguably even worse.

Truth: this shit hole data center used 30M gallons of water over the course of several months without being billed for it.

Rage Bait: they did it “illegally.”

Truth: the data center fully intended and was allowed by local government to use that water in the course of its construction, but weren’t billed because they didn’t inform the local utility of one water hookup, and the utility cocked up by ignoring the usage for that hookup and failed to bill the center for the usage on its second hookup. The data center did exceed their usage limits, but that’s not illegal: they simply pay penalties for the overage. The local utility waived these penalties because they’re spineless.

Rage Bait: the exceedance caused a drop in water pressure.

Truth: the locals experiencing water pressure drops receive their water from groundwater while the data center uses surface water. Given groundwater recharge rates are painfully slow, the data center’s usage did not cause the issue, though the pressure complaints led to the investigation that found the billing issues.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/data-center-used-30-million-gallons-of-water-without-initially-paying/

Seriously. Sorry Steve, Ava took your job and booked 12 meetings. 8 were done flawlessly. Three were set between 1 and 6 am. The last meeting with a competitor’s legal team was set and Ava so helpfully forwarded the company’s confidential internal documents for everyone to see.

Savings!

I lived in the US for the better part of a decade, yet still can’t understand why so many Americans still don’t understand their own political system, despite being heavily engaged in it on a personal level.

They treat politics like sport and repeat the same tired talking points, like vote blue no matter who. This is literally the behavior that got their Republican party into such a mess - they voted red even if brain dead. Now their own party continually works against their better interests, but they keep voting for them because they can’t let the “social communist Democrats turn the US into a homosexual Muslim hellscape” or whatever.

They’re not voting for the change they want, but to prevent the other guys from making the changes they don’t want. This has been the cycle for decades and things keep getting worse.

Wake up, Americans. The rest of the world sees it. Why can’t you?

Now this, THIS is absurd hyperbole. When you have to make massive assumptions about someone to make your point, you don’t have a point - you’re just making shit up.

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Unless you know the OP personally, I think you’re conjuring issues about them to complain about.

Your comment is also lacking in useful information, but with the added flair of entitled condescension.

No one here owes you anything. You’re on the internet. If you want information, look it up yourself instead of whinging on about how someone else didn’t do the job for you.