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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

higher assessments mean higher property taxes and housing costs and utility rates. close enough proximity to a datacenter can even hurt your property value! getting that new sidewalk on a 5 year timeframe instead of 20 (besides the promise possibly not even being the reality) suddenly seems less appealing.

Having a sidewalk in 5 years instead of 20 prevents someone from breaking their leg on a bad sidewalk during year 11. These are genuine quality of life concerns.

Newbie is like: data centers can cause property values to go down. Terrible. They can make property values go up. Terrible.

Pick a lane.

You never answered what a small city can do with a former storage unit lot since factories, Amazon warehouse, and data centers are all off the table. High paying LGBT coffee shops?

uziq wrote:

A rental storage site produces a lot less property taxes than a data center. Property taxes pay for municipal workers, schools, etc. Property taxes on commercial property can prevent tax hikes on residential property.

Okay so no factory. No data center.

What can we put there to produce jobs? Good jobs of course.

The water use misinformation should annoy you. You know these things used closed loop cooling systems.

They are taking an old rental storage site and turning it into a data center. If low income housing was built there would be anger. If luxury rentals were built there would be anger. Etc.

These are all shitty jobs.

Okay, how about a small factory? Nope, same issues with noise, pollution, water, electricity.

I had to walk out of a city council meeting. I got an hour and half in and I think it is still running right now.

The people inside were making a scene about data centers. There was yelling and screaming. A sitting city council member rage quit the meeting because it was so over the top. Absolute clown show by not serious people.

I gave up and walked out after a fresh off the boat Indian who just moved to the city started complaining about data centers in broken English.

I actually agree with this National Review article.
"How the Left Convinced Americans That AI Data Centers Are the Root of All Evil"
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morn … -all-evil/

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This is the same silly shit that prevented us from having cheap nuclear energy.

I am more concerned about the angel of death coming down from heaven.

This is antichrist behavior. Our Nero

Trump posting a picture of him dressed like Jesus blessing Jeffrey Epstein.

The issue isn't just the kids don't want to pay attention to me yapping about Stalingrad.

There is legit violence taking place in our public schools.

https://youtu.be/4wofemLpPC8?si=lchMcaZcnfxbRcI-

We have severely behaviorally messed up students. The kid that pointed his cellphone at me didn't do it because high gas prices. I didn't get cursed out by a different student because the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

https://youtu.be/XMhIUo2a1iE?si=GzTGzfl5az1gCRHK

Damn. those kids are really depressed about corporate taxes.

I saw Trump's walkout to the arena with the UFC president, the bald guy. The UFC president didn't look proud of enthused. I assume it was a situation where Trump wanted attention and the UFC is now in too deep to say no.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ufc/comments/1 … memorable/

I have my principal exam the 9th of May. After that I am going to start looking for admin jobs outside of my district. I don't want to teach anymore. Totally burnout.

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I am not angry at the system. I am angry at the students. The kids don't want to learn.

"Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit "was unprepared" to defend itself"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-k … s-us-army/

Active U.S. army people giving interviews to the press. I have never seen that in my life before.

"A mother mourning the son she lost in the Iran war says she told Trump: 'Go get 'em'"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi … rcna267473

Khork, 35, was one of 13 Americans killed in the U.S. war with Iran, which has paused while negotiators try to reach a peace deal.

He died on March 1 — the second day of the war — when a drone struck a port in Kuwait. Khork and five other Army reservists died in the attack.

This poor lady is grieving but at the same time Trump got her kid killed. And she would still lick his ass.

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Fuck her suffering. This helped bring Trump to power. Her kids blood is on her hands too.

What I think is most fascinating is that the U.S. seems ready to split tolls on the strait with Iran. Is that not like a total rejection of 200 years of Anglo-American freedom of navigation policy?

In the end, it was Trump who gave in—who accepted Iran’s 10 points (many of them objectively unacceptable) as the basis for a ceasefire and for negotiations to come.

"America accepts Germany's 14 points as a basis for negotiating an end to World War 1."

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Also, it was Iran and not the Saudis who stood up for Muslims being genocided by the Israel. Think about that for a moment.

I decided to just take a break from the reddit threads about this war. I am going to just follow the NYT feed even if it is bias.

I had expressed relief that people weren't being killed in Iran today in America's name. The responses were like "but what about the militas Iran is sending into their cities now." At this point I realized that the so called liberals don't actually care about the underlying violence and death but instead want to score culture war points. Disgusting really.

I logged out of my reddit account and don't want to go back. I am just going to go plan some charity event or productive activities for kids.

Jewish people matter too

Jewish Americans shouldn't be punished for Israel actions.

Try to act with compassion

Gas prices are still inching up. This reminds me of COVID. Trump goes on TV and makes the situation worse day after day.

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I am at the point where it isn't even about Iran anymore. News of economic damage in the U.S. isn't a negative. Like the Iranians, I am willing to absorb suffering here if it helps bury Trump/MAGA/Republicans.

The comments from conservatives about bombing Iranians is ugly. It really hardens my heart towards conservatives and their adjacent everything.

Looks like the Zoomers have their very own Jessica Lynch story to talk about.

Remember a few months ago how the U.S. government invaded Minneapolis and terrorized those people. Same government that wants you to fight this silly war.

I receive political training through various organizations. The big one I am connected to basically told us "Politics is now very vibe based. Social media presence and identity is more important than trying to convince voters of your platforms. If the voters identify with you they will conform to your views."

Ask them how they feel about the generals getting purged. Apparently the Army Chief of Staff didn't want to cosign an invasion.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear declined to label Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” in an interview with Politico published Sunday, instead critiquing the question as a litmus test among Democrats.

“That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party again,” Beshear told Politico’s Dasha Burns after being asked if he agreed with the label. “It’s trying to throw out a word and, ‘Are you going to raise your hand or are you not going to?’”

I was already leaning towards Gavin N. This just solidifies my opinion. I know Gavin has backtracked on his statements on Israel but at least he made them instead of talking about "Israel's right to defend themselves" 🤢

"Mohammad Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament and a key government figure overseeing the war, took to social media to mock the Trump administration as U.S. forces searched for a missing American airman from a downed fighter plane. “This brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?'”he said in a post on X. “Wow. What incredible progress. Absolute geniuses.”"

😂

I saw the government release a video of them proudly air striking a pickup truck they say was used to launch drones. We claimed we hit over 10,000 targets. I wonder how many were pickup trucks, tents, etc.

We apparently are running out of guided munitions. Trump asked for 1.5 trillion for war while planning cuts to social services.

Iran shot down an American plane. Both sides are looking for the pilots. Americans were led to believe that Iranian air defense didn't exist anymore and they were just firing drones and missiles.

A lot of the druggy issues aren't "there is a guy shooting up at the McDonald's." Many people are functioning addicts who are not reaching their full potential. "I need to go home early and get high after this important event."

Oil is up 12% today. Apparently we just need 2 weeks to flatten the drone curve.

Our news hasn't reported that letter at all. This is my first finding out about it and I subscribe to the New York Times.

I started reading this to help me quit marijuana. I may be getting promoted soon since I now have my paperwork and politics in order. I want to be able to pee clean and not relapse after I get settled into a new role. I want to be able to do more things in my community instead of getting stoned all the time.

I want to be the man I was always meant to be.

Day 2 of being sober so far. I have a vape in a jar in the cabinet above the fridge. I haven't used it today or yesterday despite it being there. But I am keeping it in case I have a girl come over and she wants to get stoned. I should probably throw it away but the fact that I made it two nights in a row without touching it makes me proud.

I had the urge to go out and get a beer at the bar down the street but am afraid of triggering the addict part of my brain. One beer leads to 'just one hit' and suddenly I am back on day 1.

'Addict part of the brain.' People are embarrassed of calling themselves addicts. It isn't something I tell coworkers and political contacts. But yeah. I am addicted to marijuana and I am working towards getting better.

Jon Stewart annoyed me in his response to the Trump assassination.

...by a hair’s breadth, we dodged a catastrophe.

“But it was still a tragedy,” he concluded, “because one of those first responders lost his life. His name was Corey Comperatore. He was a retired fire chief in the area. He had given his life in service to his community and he died literally shielding his family. He’s a reminder that in those moments of crisis, there are helpers and we can all make a choice to try and be one of those people.

Fuck all of that. What happened to this country in the aftermath of Trump coming into office is the catastrophe. Him and his supporters terrorize my community. I am as glad about the firefighters family seeing him die as many MAGA are at blowing up Iranians.

I voted and organized against Trump for years. Americans voted for this.

About 6 in 10 Americans "somewhat" or "strongly" oppose deploying U.S. troops on the ground to fight Iran, including about 8 in 10 Democrats and roughly half of Republicans.

I strongly support a full 2000s techno takeover of Iran. All boots on the ground matter. Give the Zoomers a chance to become legends.

I wrote a lot about the collective responsibility Americans may have for this. I deleted it out of my better judgement.

God bless the troops

Apparently there's another steam sale going on. I saw a headline in Google News.

The good old days when these things mattered.

I need to see the party affiliation of any American casualty before I make a moral judgement on attacks or acts of terrorism related to this war.

Airdrop some paratroopers onto that island we all just learned about and then get me their voting records.

I wonder if someday we are the historical Boogeyman to the Middle East people/Muslims. We bomb our way into around the Middle East, occupy the place, and leave in defeat like some modern day Mongols.

My girlfriend really wants to get a dog. 😩

At some point it might make sense to become openly antisemitic in regards to this war. Whenever I see a Jewish name under an article about the Iran War I assume it isn't with America's best interest in mind.

$200 billion more for Israel's defense.

Meanwhile the government is trying to get blood from a stone.

"McMahon sends letter to 9M delinquent student borrowers that Bessent is new debt collector — with $425B on the line"

behold my (charity) work

A lot of us know it is bad. We are trying our best to oppose it.

This is America's Suez Crisis moment. Our allies refuse to help us. Our own economy is shot too. How can you trust us to defend Taiwan when we don't have the heart to commit to this thing?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

haven't you denigrated these charity events? "i'm tired of spending time on these ingrates" or whatever.

Yes and then I get together and help the ingrates again.