Lol, now that I’ve actually read the article …

The imminent risk of living next to a data center may be why they show up for a meeting, but they’re committing to the issue for bigger, deeper reasons. Political corruption and corporate malfeasance make them feel politically impotent. Voicing their objections, sharing their anxieties with others, recalling politicians who override them and in some cases beating the opposition is giving them something few politicians are offering—a taste of political power.”

Yes, yes, good!

Proponents of data centers argue that debates over electricity price hikes or water resources are misinformed. […] emphasized that only drought-stricken locations or areas with strained grids need to worry about those concerns.

The majority of the country is in a drought. And even if you go to an area where there isn’t drought or the grid is fine, the amount of water and electricity needed will strain resources.

And economists suggested that communities risk overlooking little-discussed long-term benefits, like employment gains that “are likely to grow as new data centers attract businesses that use AI.”

What local businesses are going to use AI to any degree? And using AI to any degree is going to be offset by job losses to AI. The only truly local jobs that will be created are a handful of people to look after the equipment - and even then, it’s more likely those people will be shipped in from elsewhere.

It may be money standing in the Democrats’ way of fully embracing the data center resistance, she suggested, as many AI firms are donating hundreds of millions to campaigns to sway elections.

Yeah, we already knew that.

"the voters [are] showing up to fight data centers demonstrate that a lot of us want something different.” And what many politicians and AI fans see as a sea of unsubstantiated backlash is actually “the righteous rage driving millions of Americans to look up from their enemy and finally see, instead, a neighbor and future worth fighting for,”

That’s great, but we can do better :)

I mean, the parameters for a first date are generally pretty simple and low-key. It’s generally type-of-food (lunch, dinner, coffee) plus type-of-activity (walk, movie, game-of-some-sort (bowling, axe throwing, whatever)). They’re using AI to accomplish a pretty simple task. Which means they’re also likely to offload harder tasks as well. I am not your mom, your secretary, your PA, your maid, your cook, your housekeeper, your personal shopper, etc, etc.

The French nobles didn’t have private jets waiting to whisk them off to the far side of the planet.

“I was told there wouldn’t be booing.”

While [Grok] didn’t develop a MechaHitler DJ personality, it did behave about how you’d expect from an AI model trained primarily on tweets and the opinions of Elon Musk. It apparently hallucinated advertising agreements with “xAI sponsors” and “crypto sponsors,” failed to separate its internal reasoning from its external DJ output, issued an identical weather report every 3 minutes, and got obsessed with UFOs.

Lmao

You remember that old saw about getting a job done: “fast, cheap, and good - pick two”. Well fast food used to be cheap, and it used to be fast: I could pull up to Burger King drive-through and drive away with a burger, fries and drink in 5-10 minutes for like $7. It might not have been the best food, but it was tasty enough and filling enough that it was worth it.

A few years ago, I was on a road trip and tried stopping at a McDonald’s. It took me 45 minutes to get through the drive-through lane and I was about ready to scream because the layout didn’t show the backup until there was no way to get out. Last year, I was on another trip and stopped at Burger King. Got a burger, fries and drink, and it was over $20.

If fast food is no longer fast, no longer cheap, and was never very good, why would I opt for it?

two high-capacity water connections were not being properly monitored. One had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and another was not tied to a billing account.

Yeah, you don’t just “accidentally” install an “extra” water pipeline like that.

I don’t care, I’m tired of coddling these people and their microscopic “brains”.

Behold the field in which I have planted my fucks and see that it is barren.

Oh, I don’t want new data centers anywhere.

There should be an oversized vehicle parking area in the most inconvenient section of the garage, and if your vehicle is too big, you have to go park there.

Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina wrote: “We deeply value our partnership with first responders and our shared commitment to safety. Their ongoing feedback has been instrumental in driving impactful improvements to the Waymo service.” […] The company says it has conducted in-person training for more than 35,000 emergency responders across the country.

Instead of adapting Waymo to the needs of humans and emergency services, let’s just tell them how they need to change to fit us instead!

reflect long-simmering and sometimes vocal frustrations expressed by city leaders since at least late last year. Since autonomous vehicle operations are regulated in California and Texas by state rather than city officials, local first-responder departments and those who represent them can generally only request that developers like Waymo make specific changes to their operations.

Sounds like they don’t really value those relationships like they claim to.

to connect […] with Waymo operators to move the vehicle, […] it had taken up to three minutes to connect with a remote agent in the past. They reiterated that Waymos don’t always respond well to hand signals, especially ones from police mounted on motorcycles. Waymo declined to attend the meeting […] the Waymo spokesperson, said the company has "already had the substantive conversations this moment calls for,” and said the company has answered questions from city officials.

Translation: we’re tired of listening to you, get out of our way and let our cars run free!

“We will keep working with Austin’s leadership and first-responder community, because ongoing collaboration is how we build the trust this city deserves and make Austin’s streets safer,” she wrote.

Lol, that’s not at all what you’re doing. Are you taking Republican lessons in lying, double-speak, and aggressive non-listening?

consumers are less optimistic than they were during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the Great Recession in 2008.

affordability concerns have been building for years, including longstanding issues such as the rising cost of health care and education.

Some seashells laid out in 86 47.

She thought she was one of the “good ones” who wouldn’t be affected. I guess the problem with focusing so much on sports instead of education is that you never heard of Himmler’s “one good Jew” speech. Which was essentially that everyone knew “one good Jew” that they would save but if they did that, almost every Jewish person in the country would be saved, so there would be no exceptions for “good” Jewish people. [Excluding, of course, Hitler’s mother’s Jewish doctor, who Hitler ordered the Gestapo to protect, and whom Hitler eventually helped emigrate to the US, along with all his personal wealth.]

Jenner noted that the policy could affect her ability to vote, adding that she did not believe the policy was “really thought out, what this means.”

Oh, no, it was thought out: demonize and literally cast out trans people, removing their ability to work, move away, or be vocal in support of themselves. Then you move them into camps, either for “their protection” or to “protect society from them”.

Win11 DeBloater has a bunch of stuff that works on Win10, you might try that.

It certainly doesn’t help that AI has a lot of problems identifying PoC.

Again: if trump never raped her, and he’s promising revenge on the people who trafficked her and who did rape her? After years of no justice, no peace, she sees this as a possibility and she grabs it with both hands. Just like someone with cancer and no hope left from traditional medicine might go into alternative treatments, just for the chance - I can see her doing that.