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@Smirkley I can’t eat data

A 5-gallon water cooler jug of water produces about $132 in economic output from data centers, but only about 2 cents from almonds.

@__drewface Maximum AI development. Let the chips fall where they may.

Today I learned that the anti-AI folks are not doing okay, and we need to help them. I'm not sure exactly how to help them, because it kind of feels like the anti-america people. Like, how can I help you if you can't see how good the thing you have is? But we need to try.

AIのせいで毎朝起きた時から脳ミソがフル回転してて、頭おかしくなりそう 頭おかしくなってるだけだと勿体無いから、今のメンタルのうちに頭おかしい動画作って昇華させよう これがAI時代の新セルフケア

the anti-ai, anti-porn, anti-trans, and anti-markets takes are all related, all tied to some kind of nostalgic, romanticist, misapprehension of nature and evolution and they are just so goddamn wrong and off-base that they form their own wack polycrisis

@joejoediamondw1 @judithslutler69 @poetickate Nah it was funny lol I appreciated the imagery

@k1290c @judithslutler69 @poetickate as in like after washing it in the bathtub or something idk bro its late 😭

so this is called erotic transference and is an incredibly common experience and it means the therapy is working

@joejoediamondw1 @judithslutler69 @poetickate "rinse her hair" lmao

@judithslutler69 @poetickate and what do you think erotic thoughts look like? ohhh id love to hold hands... make love on a picnic blanket... rinse her hair... no bro its EROTIC he wanna FUCK her bro

@SR_eth @cafedujord SFHs are worse than high-rises tho. High-rise supremacy.

@cafedujord There is nothing wrong with SFHs amd you dorks that hate them will accomplish nothing but dwindling fertility and misery

It’s a single-family home, which is extremely on brand

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@Rob_Flaherty voters may hate AI, but how highly do they rank AI on their to-do list. my guess is not high. so maybe the money matters in the face of relative apathy.

This is why Democrats cowering in the face of Leading the Future money is totally insane. It's like an 80-20 issue where voters want pretty bold, progressive solutions. If you don't grab the issue, Tucker Carlson's gonna. x.com/brianstelter/s…

@lpcs43c @hecubian_devil "that operates under our contract" is inherently a limitation.

@k1290c @hecubian_devil My union gives me much greater ability to do that actually. If a job sucks I just drag up and go to another company that operates under our contract

Since the libs are already mad at me, I’ll poke the bear and say the anti-public-sector-union takes amount to effectively wishing for an end to the American labor movement—that’s just the reality when private sector unionization is ~6%. I’m sure I’ll get some “yes” chad face replies and quotes, but be careful what you wish for; liberal democracy under capitalism but without unions has often been pretty politically unstable! People want a democratic say in their economic life; unions offer this. Without unions, allegiance to liberal democracy itself declines, because people feel (reasonably) without resource to have a say in where they spend a third of their lives—at work. If you’re frustrated with the policy demands of some public sector unions, find compromises. Offer them something else in exchange! Do a little horse trading. Better yet, reform and expand American labor law through things like sectoral bargaining so unions aren’t so often in zero-sum situations where they feel obligated to cling to existing jobs for existing members, because they don’t have a strong path to organizing new workplaces and finding good new union jobs for workers that would be displaced by, say, automating trains.

@AutistocratMS @woke8yearold "change is mostly bad" yeesh. i guess you speak for the EU.

@woke8yearold It's actually perfectly reasonable. Change is mostly bad and should be avoided unless it's clearly vital for preservation of sovereignty. Most of recent technology has been socially disruptive and it's made the negotiating position of labor worse.

Opposition to data centers is exactly like opposition to fracking. It was a large change that people hated because there is a lot of general opposition to changes to the built environment. You can't reason with this sentiment because it is fundamentally irrational. "I don't like change near me" isn't a position you can reason someone out of it. We didn't listen to it on fracking and society benefited greatly. We did listen to it with nuclear power and did incalculable damage to the West.

@fourteenkitties @hecubian_devil *hire

@fourteenkitties @hecubian_devil not really. they very much do not walk, and they actively make it difficult for the employer to higher other workers.

@transraven332 @hecubian_devil that is a fair point. tho maybe nonapplicable to the OP's post about "public sector" unions, who are fighting not against a typical corporate boss, but against government and thus the "taxpayer" or citizenry on some level.

@k1290c @hecubian_devil They do quite a bit to change that relationship - they introduce a knife to the side of the employer the same way that the employer always has a knife to the side of a worker, and this is why all employers fight them so vehemently. They can use their power to force concessions.

@emissionite @MattMahanSJ sorry but i want someone who will make it impossible for homeowners to get insurance, and Becerra is that someone.

Xavier Becerra is an ineffective bureaucrat. A career politician since 1990 with little to show on achievements. His plan for home affordability? To sue counties and wag the finger. California deserves a governor who is a doer. @MattMahanSJ has the chops to be that governor.

@transraven332 @hecubian_devil by that logic, unions are not an answer because they do nothing to change the fundamental employer-employee relationship. whether or not an employee is unionized, they are still an employee.

@k1290c @hecubian_devil Unions are the only answer because otherwise workers have no control over their labor, only a choice of who controls it

@SpectreProXy @hecubian_devil the US already has a low unionization rate and labor mobility is pretty high. cheap housing that would make it easier to move around would help quite a lot. state benefits like universal healthcare would mean labor would be less tied to employer benefits. etc.

@k1290c @hecubian_devil how does increasing labor mobility happen without unions though? I mean I guess the government can try to buoy wages in some sectors or offer jobs guarantees or something, but I think most people who want to diversify labor mobility options beyond unions wouldn't be happy there

@stupidalert2 @hecubian_devil I wouldn't call that labor mobility. Besides quitting without having a job lined up seems foolish in most cases. U.S. is something like a unionless society and most people are employed. Collective bargaining doesn't seem to be that important in this regard.

@k1290c @hecubian_devil in a unionless world an ultimatum like the above would be met with an “go ahead” from the employer and then you’d just be out of a job. collective bargaining is key to preventing that.