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[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 33 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I drove past the construction site every day. They call it "The Barn" after hiring a marketing firm to come in and try to make it more appealing. It's massive and just gets bigger and bigger. iirc they got permission to begin construction before it was approved, then the zoning drama began. There's now a razor wire fence around the perimeter and the area is patrolled by state cops during the day. Clearly they know the situation.

The worst thing is I constantly get targeted ads about the construction. The ads say "we'll pay for the giant increase in energy consumption" and "it'll help reduce costs for everyone!" which is obvious horseshit. What costs are gonna go down, how will they be reduced? Energy costs? Fuel costs? Taxes? The marketing firm knows people are stupid enough to believe anything, even sentences that don't make any fucking sense.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

oh this sucks man.

they are already losing AI race to china: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/why-china-s-deepseek-qwen-and-moonshot-are-a-worry-for-us-ai-rivals

why even make people suffer from high electric bills

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Interesting read. Here’s a link without the paywall: https://archive.ph/20260507223322/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/why-china-s-deepseek-qwen-and-moonshot-are-a-worry-for-us-ai-rivals

Edit:

Anthropic has accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and another Chinese AI lab, MiniMax, of “industrial-scale distillation attacks” — illegally extracting capabilities from its proprietary Claude model using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to gain an edge

Anthropic’s says:

Illicitly distilled models lack necessary safeguards, creating significant national security risk

So open weight models are a national security risk? Guess we’d all better pay subscriptions, let the data centers be built, and let a couple companies building proprietary models have a monopoly to protect our security, then. 🙄

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 hour ago

If ONLY there was SOMETHING the Residents could Do when their Voices are VIOLENTLY Ignored by Rich People and Politicians! OH WELL make sure you FOLLOW the LAW or Go To Jail POORS!

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 9 points 3 hours ago
[–] Miller@lemmy.world 24 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that the vast sweep of the common people have any power over the decisions that govern their lives at all, beyond the doomsday power of revolution. Which is hardly ever used because of the mess.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

I have told the leaders of my county they were unwise to give our water supply to Amazon. The balance of wealth and power is staggeringly on the side of Amazon. They could buy and sell our entire county 100 times over but somehow our board of supervisors thinks we are going to get a fair deal? Idiots.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I've been rewatching Community and the more I watch it, the more I feel like Britta's "dumb" comments are real.

"If voting had any effect, it'd be illegal!"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 hours ago

That line is actually a quote from "Red" Emma Goldman.

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Voting has the effect of allowing the population to feel they are steering the ship when actually they are swabbing the decks.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 45 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Unless those infrastructure promises are built into law and enforced, they're lies. Why do we have so many superfund sites and leaking abandoned oil wells? Because industry gets to lie and destroy as they please before using lawyers to evade responsibility through the courts until residents give up or die.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

America was founded and created by lawyers and landowners, so they could acquire more land the British government denied them access to.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Burn it down over and over. Napalm it. Vandalize the trucks and equipment. Sabotage the shit out of it until their insurance costs just aren't worth it.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No we only let police use their helicopters to bomb citizens not businesses

This actually happened btw

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 34 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Join the crews working on it. Mark out and soften up a secret access point for a plucky freedom fighter.

[–] hitstun@feddit.online 19 points 5 hours ago

Pour sugar in the concrete mix.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Somebody help me out here. What's the opposite of "construction" again?

Direct action 😁

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sounds orderly, doesn't it?

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

mercans dont have any political or legal power anymore

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

We never really had any to begin with all the way back to the founding. It is just now those in power do not give a fuck and tore off the mask.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Now all that high tech electronics jacking from the first Fast & Furious movie doesn't look so dumb lol.