She will vote straight Republican in 3 months. Dont let these people fool you. Generations of hatred and racism isnt going away overnight even if they lose everything. They would just blame it on minorities like they have for decades.
This is your friendly reminder that data centers DO NOT actually need water. They need a cooling system and are using water because it’s the cheapest way to do it.
remember when everyone was like “we cant raise minimum wage because inflation” and now the price of everything doubles every two years and minimum wage is still $7
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.
Because high speed rail reduces reliance on cars, which reduces demand for gas, which would reduce gas prices, which would reduce prices of goods and services, which would cut into profits of the ruling class.
Data centers on the other hand are instruments of AI financial fraud.
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.
It was a really beautiful testament to the human spirit that during a global pandemic we all turned against each other, abandoned the environment, and decided to price gouge everyone
Terrifying thread.
Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.