Data centers are our generation's version of nuclear power in that they seem to be supported by anybody with any brains and are exclusively hated by the most self-satisfied, uncurious retards alive.
I’m getting a lot of replies to the effect of “But where would all the service workers live?”
1. NYC spends more money subsidizing low-income tenants than any other city in the western hemisphere, yet every other city (which spends far less) manages to have janitors and fast food workers too. In fact, they generally seem to have more of them. So clearly there’s no direct explanatory power there. (And it isn’t the low-income residents that make NYC distinctive.)
2. The people who live in NYCHA and other deeply-subsidized living arrangements largely are NOT the service workers you’re thinking of. Substantial numbers of them are old people or parasites (but I repeat myself). Trust me, I’ve been to the outer subway terminals in the early morning. NYC’s working class *already* commutes in from the suburbs.
@tracewoodgrains It just shows how low the barrier is to influencing the state. Major white pill. Just try, there are almost no barriers and there are a ton of opportunities literally nobody even tries to take
Data centers could gain a lot of community support by subsidizing or paying 100% of local citizens power bills.
Would cost about $20 million annual
Peanuts for gaining massive support.
A statistic that sounds fake but isn't: Not one single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker.
It's not because they stopped writing. It's because The New Yorker has refused to publish them. The publishing industry has blacked out a generation of male writers & then they wonder why boys don't read.
If you flipped the gender, and made this about “riding dirt bikes” instead of reading, I think you’d find your own argument unconvincing. Men, generally, enjoy reading quite a bit, but I find nonfiction is a lot more popular, and the classic tend to do well, but modern lit are explicitly designed for a female audience, just look at their share of published writers relative to men. I don’t find this to be bad necessarily, but if I want to catch cat’s I’ll use fish and if I want to catch fish I’ll use worms ya know? I think a talented female author would have no trouble getting boys to read, hell even at the level of children’s lit we would be dishonest with ourselves to not recognize the success of JK Rowling for example
@Captain_C2@uncledoomer Nah where we’re at the divide is about ~35 and under all zyn, everyone older switched to dip, and the real old heads who drive trucks still have a sack of red man
When the last several Harry Potter books were released, we had midnight book launches attended by millions. Children, in some cases very young, finished these 700 & 800 page books in a single day. And now people are telling me I made it up, that this couldn’t ever have happened.
Annualized, this is about 6% of the workforce.
Every year, 6% of the ENTIRE US job market gets turned over to foreigners, while natives get fired and struggle to find jobs.
Ever wondered why you can't get a job? This is why.
@Jacob_presents@teovito Do you think you could get some level of similar improvement with something like, a week without, then no phone on the weekend etc