AI had nothing to do with the FAA outage. It was a network issue resulting from a transition from copper to fiber.
Way too many stupid liberals have AI Derangement Syndrome (AIDS) and they are starting to act just as bad as the MAGA types with regards to their refusal to believe evidence even when it is right in front of them.
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I’m going to say the unpopular thing out loud: supporting a moratorium on data centers isn’t progressive; it’s lazy!!
I am so tired of folk pretending that they are doing or being a certain way because they are out here following trends of how voters are responding to polls.
If you are going to call yourself a leader, then lead, especially in hard moments.
So let me start by stating my position on data centers.
I believe that data centers and clean energy transition are the Industrial Revolutions of the 21st century. Simply saying you want a moratorium isn’t progressive; it’s the equivalent to people arguing to maintain the horse and buggy when Henry Ford started building cars.
Also, the moratorium argument sounds like “not in my backyard,” and it just ends up in some poor(er) community’s backyard.
The true progressive position should be “yes, we want data centers, but only on our terms.”
The current way data centers exist in this country is that they can simply do what’s legally required, but if so-called progressives stop screaming about moratoriums and start creating strategies to change policy, then we could say data centers can no longer exist with what’s legally permitted; instead, they must do what’s technologically feasible.
This means that data centers that are supposedly creating the most innovative technologies ever known to humanity would now be required to apply said innovations to protect people and natural resources.
Instead of waste heat, we would be building data centers that connect to geothermal networks that could extend farmers’ growing season and/or capacity, give people free hot water, and heat and cool houses, which would lessen their energy bills.
Instead of telling data centers to bring their own energy, we should be requiring them to build clean infrastructure that is owned by the community in which they will exist, and the data centers should be required to purchase that energy from said community.
We need to stop worrying about job displacements from data centers also, and start having the conversation about ownership. These data centers will not employ a lot of people, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. I believe we have more people on Earth than we ever had and we need less workers (because of technology) which means either we are saying we are okay with people being unable to have their basic needs or we need to get serious about a universal basic income, and data centers offer a beginning. If we required that a portion of the profits from the data centers had to be distributed to the host community then folk would be better off.
And lastly, we should require the retooling of populations, at a cost to the data centers.
Ownership is progressive, not moratoriums. Lastly, everything about negotiations with data centers must be tied to the deeds so that we aren’t simply negotiating a data centers entrance into our communities, but their existence and their exit.
If anyone has question on any of this that sounds like “pie in the sky” hit me up and I’ll share info.
Please don’t any of you internet activists come at me for nothing, because I am actually doing this in real time and nothing is made up.
Watch how, in a couple of years when the rest of folk catch on, people pretend a small town in Eastern NC named Enfield, didn’t lead the way
Liberals are not friends of the working class.
Case in point : Rather than nationalize and expropriate AI and then put it to use for the benefit of society, this dumb petite bourgeoise liberal named Chrisy is more concerned with maintaining her ability to extract rent.
You can bitch all you want but generative AI is never going to go back in the box and there is NOTHING you can do about it.
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If you're going to complain about the environmental impact of AI, you had better not be a meat eater. Livestock causes 30-100x the greenhouse gas emissions of data centers and 200-500x the water.
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Another dumbass meat eating bourgeoise liberal who thinks AI is the big polluter when her meat eating habits cause 100x the environmental damage.
Liberals are insufferable.
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Wait until you find out what percentage of Levantine DNA Palestinians have.
His mother was born in the land of Israel. Ashkenazi DNA is 60% Levantine (meaning from the land of Israel). We were conquered by the Romans colonisers who drove us out of our land, and renamed it from Judea to Palestine.
The most common last name in the Palestinian authority is Al Masri - which mean Egyptian. Also common last names there - halabi - from Aleppo Syria , Hijazi (area in Saudi Arabia ) and so on. Mark Twain visited the holy land in the middle of the 19 century and described a completely empty land. Most of the “Palestinians” came as labour immigrants from the neighbouring lands during the late ottoman time and British Mandate. Palestinians can’t event pronounce “Palestine” because there’s no P in Arabic. The only people who called themselves “Palestinian” before 1948 were Jews - “Palestine post” and “Palestine airways” were Jewish Zionist owned during the British mandate . The Arabs of the land simply called themselves Arabs , and referred to that region as southern Syria. The British named that land Palestine after they took it from the ottomans , because that was the roman colonial name of the land. Before the PLO was invented by the Soviets in 1964 (when Gaza and Judea & Samaria were in Arab hands ) there was no Arab / Islamic association to that name.
We are called Jews because we are from Judea , and Arabs are allied that way because they are from Arabia.
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Why do we need military bases in the Middle East at all? We need to get the fuck out of the Middle East.
Israel isn't an ally. They stole our nuclear secrets. They attacked the USS Liberty. They siphon billions of dollars from US taxpayers. They harbor criminals including pedophiles from the US justice system. They knew about 9/11 and didn't warn us.
Israel also got us involved in a war with Iran that has doubled fuel prices for the average American and made everything more expensive. Iran didn't attack the US. They weren't the ones behind 9/11. Iran hasn't done anything to us and the only reason we are attacking them us because they serve as an obstacle to Israel's territorial ambitions.
I hate to break this to you, but Israel is our only ally in the Middle East, the one that gives us Intel about terrorists who are about to attack US military bases or commit terrorist attacks on US soil. IOW, Israel saves your American ass every single day.
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Ya’ll bitched and moaned about the lack of paragraph breaks so here is a slightly edited version that includes them:
What the Cornell case reveals more than anything to me as a neutral gay guy observer of the gender wars is that now more than ever young women are moving like faggots.
Like Diva what do you mean you STARTED the night consenting to a Ketamine fueled threesome? I’m sorry, but if you put yourself in a situation like that you can’t be surprised when you end up in a gray area vis-a-vis consent —- everyone there that night was fucked up.
Had this exact scenario happened to a gay guy —- and stuff like this does all the time —- nobody would have considered it rape. When I was in my early 20s, partying all the time and waking up next to some dude I barely remember even meeting I didn’t consider it rape in part because I put myself in that situation and in part because he probably didn’t know who the hell I was either.
I understand why women feel differently because men are more physically powerful than them, can be dangerous etc. But we can’t have this double standard wherein an intoxicated woman cant consent to sex but an equally intoxicated man is 100% fully culpable for his actions.
If women want to have wild crazy casual sex then fine but I think society, and especially their gay friends, should be brutally honest with them about what these kind of situations look like in practice because they are obviously far too naive and sheltered when it comes to this type of stuff/male sexuality etc.
Nobody’s getting treated like a lady at the k-fueled orgy and when you’re 4 hours in saying something like “yeah sure you can do lines off my naked body” you should know that WILL register as implied consent to a drunk frat boy because in the (intoxicated and horny) male mind if you’re down for some kinky shit like that with him then why would regular sex be off the table unless you very explicitly say otherwise?
Also, if you’re gonna put yourself in these situations —- you need to be prepared for what to do when things go off the rails. You cannot rely on a drunk guy you just hooked up to take care of you. Trust no one. Put your foot down. Call an uber. Share location with a friend before you go, get them to check in at a designated time, etc etc.
Gay guys do this kind of stuff when they know they might be heading into a sketchy sexual situation and not to be a dick—- but women should too if they wanna start their nights moving like weho circuit queen.
We need to be real with the girls about this kind of stuff for their own good.
You are not a leftist if you support Hamas. If you are shouting long live Hamas, you are either a paid actor or a misguided moron.
Hamas is an organization that has its origins in the petite bourgeoise elements of Palestinian society. It was propped up and funded by the West in a large part to counter the leftist PLO.
Hamas does not care about human rights and they don't care about workers rights. Their only objective is establish a capitalist backed Islamic Caliphate.
The world is not binary. The fact that Israel is committing a genocide does not mean that Hamas suddenly become the good guys. It is possible for both Hamas and Israel to be bad.
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The fact that we are still allies with these people is proof that the United States does not give a damn about human rights and is in no place whatsoever to criticize Iran over their record.
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Anojan Sivarasa, a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu, has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia over a social media post allegedly amounting to blasphemy. Anojan Sivarasa from Kalmunai, Batticaloa, in eastern Sri Lanka, was handed a death sentence on Sept. 17 by a Saudi Appellate court on charges of posting comments deemed insulting to Islam and Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. Sivarasa got into an argument with a friend on Facebook, which led him to post a comment about the Prophet in response. He later took down the offensive comment and also issued a public apology. But a screenshot of his comment was translated into Arabic and sent to his employer and the authorities in Saudi Arabia, which led to his arrest and death sentence.
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The Cornell Case is just another example of bourgeoise liberal identity politics designed to divide, conquer, and distract from the very real abject rape of the working class by the capitalist class. Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, and the rest of those cronies are nothing but self-serving politicians and the only reason they give a shit about any of this is because it is an election year.
It's a basic and well established concept in law that you are responsible for the consequences of your drinking. If you give people verbal permission to have sex with you while you are drunk, that is on you.
We don't allow people to use being drunk as an excuse for drunk driving. We don't allow people to use being drunk as a excuse for battery. We don't allow people to use being drunk as an excuse for beating up their partner. Why should the standard be different here?
At this rate, every man had better start carrying around a breathalyzer to make sure anyone he has sex with is 100% sober and he better record the results because that is the invariable outcome of this lunacy.
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This meme making the MAGA rounds looks good.
It’s shows Trump in a stolen Brigadier generals uniform, shitting his pants, not wearing protective headgear and surrounded by an absolute military disaster where his HQ is destroyed by his own Navy bombing him … 💯 accurate.
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WILL SAUDI ARABIA SURVIVE?
The Houthi/Iranian advance in Yemen spell serious trouble for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. MBS seems frozen in fear or denial about what’s happening.
BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front: The former OPEC leader is being reduced to a paper Oil barrel that will need Iran & Houthi Yemenis permission to make any future income.
1) Iran has effectively cut off the kingdom‘s ability to export oil from either of the east or the west.
2) MBS does not appear to understand or is hiding from the fact that Iranian/Iraqi/ Yemeni Shia Muslims will determine if the KSA can generate any future oil revenue and how much.
KSA may become a defacto vassal state to Iran’s asymmetric combat power. Thank Donald Trump for this.
3) Saudi/UAE backed militias in Yemen were just sources of graft with 80% of units being manned by ghost soldiers. Whole units are defecting to the Houthis and/or running. The Yemeni leadership will soon fly off to Dubai or their KSA Villas ala Afghan Gov.
4) The RSAF is slowly responding to Houthi moves well after they’ve seized their objectives. The KSA army, air & naval forces are cowering from men who fight in flip flops. The only way to stop this is a full scale invasion of Yemen … and they won’t. The KSA armed forces is a paycheck, not a job.
5) The Western half of Yemen and likely seizure of Aden will place Iran in the drivers seat for dictating the flow of all economic traffic from Europe to Asia.
6) MBS in Egypt may be a Hail Mary to get EG/KSA alliance to storm Yemen fm north and pin the Ansarallah forces down or force them to give up the Bab Al-Mendab.
7) KSA can no longer depend on the USA for anything, except to sell weapons that won’t help their wh defense. They thought they bought Trump but they only purchased his brand, not America’s loyalty. They’re just like every other subcontractor he screwed. Want revenge? Cancel the Trump golf course/residence in Riyadh.
8) Netanyahu, Kushner & Trump are waiting in the wings for KSA to be so weakened they are forced sign the Abraham accords and demand they start sending oil up to the Trans-Israel pipeline and export via Ashkelon. It could happen.
All because men with flip flops & rifles took Moka.