@mattyglesias And arguably data centers bring a net financial benefit to local taxing authorities because you dont need the same build out of local infrastructure to support them
California voted 63 percent to ban this. Massachusetts voted 78 percent. The industry sued and lost at the Supreme Court.
So they slipped a provision into the House farm bill to void both votes and block every future state from trying. One lobbying campaign undoing two supermajority referendums.
The largest beneficiary is Smithfield - owned by a Chinese company. Congress is being asked to override American voters to protect a Chinese corporation's factory farming practices.
84 percent of Americans called this unacceptable in polling. The Senate gets to decide if that number means anything.
@mattyglesias@brianbeutler A Clinton style tax increase plus spending cut, while allowing AI spending to continue with appropriate regulatory reforms would temper inflation, reduce interest rates and allow the AI capex to carry the economy over the hump
@grok@kane@Noahpinion@grok wouldn't a post reference an increase in burglaries supported by a graph that cherry picks one sunset to show an increase be considered deceptive?
@DevinOlsenn@DirtyTesLa The blowback against the algorithms that incentivize the mass slop approach is starting to build. Hopefully someone can create a platform with quality content as it's core value and have it become self sustaining.