You won’t have a democracy by 2027, let alone 2028. Your constitution is dead.

Uh… cope.

What’s prop 50?

I hope it can be done without more violence.

I hope the sky will rain pizza and world peace, but realistically nah.

But are they paying for this energy or is it AI companies doing so and waiting for the golden goose that will make it all worth it?

Mathematically, sure, but in real world terms no. For example you can’t go to a developing country and set up not-using-AI power plants. Even if we assume that’s the case, though, supply and demand also entails that reduced demand will lead to reduced supply, so the implication by the OP that this newly available power will just flood the market and be used for whatever as free energy is false; the only thing that would happen is, at best, somewhat lower electricity prices.

Generally places with weak economies and robust public higher education tend to have large numbers of educated professionals because it’s a good way to GTFO.

Yeah true, but not really relevant to what I said.

When Trump inevitably dies, all of these trumpers will talk about how they didn’t like him and thought he was a tyrant.

Hopefully, anyway.

Presumably it’s a “women and children” kind of thing. The victim being a (presumably) respectable member of the local community adds some emotional oomph to something that is already bad, though Lemmy is way to anticlerical for this sort of thing to be effective.

Man this comm upvotes really weird shit sometimes. Not doing something isn’t a “power source;” you’re just allocating energy from one use to another, which is probably a good idea in this case but still.

In war, if it’s not an ally it’s an enemy.

Uh… no?

Someone really needs to figure out how to turn heat back into electricity - without boiling water to spin turbines.

Second law of thermodynamics moment.

So the US is a threat because… it might not help Europe? That’s not really how the word “threat” works, setting aside how Russia isn’t even a military threat to non-Ukraine Europe in the first place assuming the EU’s mutual defense mechanism holds.

No, he just kept approving them.

Ah, yes, everyone who disagrees with you is a filthy foreigner.

The fundamental philosophical error here is assuming that all forms of simulation are computational or mathematical.

Uh… that’s literally what a simulation is.

Counterexample: your dreams are a form of simulation (probably). So I can literally disprove this take in my sleep

But dreams aren’t simulating reality as we observe it; they just kinda do their own thing. Your brain isn’t consistently simulating quantum mechanics (or, hell, even simple things like clocks) while you’re dreaming so this is a moot point.

Every single example you listed was spearheaded by Democrats or Progressives but then blocked by Republicans.

You mean spearheaded by progressives and blocked by establishment democrats? The parent comment’s soapboxing is weird, but Democrats would’ve done all the things they listed if they actually wanted to. And before you bring up the filibuster, they could’ve simply abolished the filibuster, but they don’t because then they’d lose their excuse for why they don’t do shit.

US “allies” haven’t gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren’t going to interrupt America while it’s killing itself and non-aligned nations don’t give a shit. Human rights abuses are almost never the real reason for sanctions, just like the US didn’t invade Iraq to spread democracy.

US “allies” haven’t gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren’t going to interrupt America while it’s killing itself and non-aligned nations don’t give a shit.