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And when Gabe dies? “I trust company” is not convincing.

You could buy, sell, trade, loan, and backup games with the right regulation. Discs are irrelevant.

Sure. Until the first FromSoftware PS6 exclusive is released. Child, six, seriously considering running away from home after parents refuse to serve dinner on dinosaur plate. Peopl…

After a few years of using Typescript, having to use type annotations and import basic language features like `abc` in Python feels like an absolute slog.

I use "War and Peace" for this.

I know. The Sony UBP-X700U is $330 and the Magnetar UDP 900 MK II is $3,300. So I got the Sony.

I saw my first Dolby Vision Blu-ray and immediately started a Blu-Ray collection. The Blu-ray player on the PS5 is fine, but a nice dedicated player from Sony blows it away. I woul…

In Northern Virginia data centers are about 3% of land, but account for almost 50% of local property tax contributions.

I’ve made a few comments around this. I’m going to wind down my involvement in this thread.

I think current gen AI is junk. I don’t use it. I also don’t see mass job losses over it. Scapegoated? Yes. Actual mass unemployment? No. Commercially, I typically see AI used in w…

We should have been building additional nuclear capacity for the past 50 years. The kinds of anti data center activism we’re seeing now was directed at nuclear back then. It would …

What a bad idea AI therapy is and I don’t know too many people who are using AI art commercially. Translators, sure. But we’ve been using Google Translate for almost two decades no…

And create a lot more pollution while generating much, much less in property tax revenue.

Data centers do more than AI. And you won’t defeat AI by killing data center proposals. The technology will succeed or fail on its own. We’ll find out in about 5 years. Remember ho…

Again, I’m talking about my region. We have a nuclear generating station 16 miles from the proposed site of the data center. That station sells 80-85% of the power generated wholes…

Property taxes. Construction jobs. The land is unused and already had tax incentives. Remember, tax incentives don’t eliminate taxes, they just reduce them for a period of time to …

I’m only talking about my local area. I’m not defending the Colossus sites. I don’t live near them.

I’ve noticed that people conflate being anti data center with being anti AI. I don’t have any faith in the current crop of gen AI. I think it’s junk. I don’t think it’s replacing h…

I lived in Northern Virginia, data center capital of the US. It’s far from a “megastructure ghost town”. It’s nice. You should visit. One stat that I read was that data centers com…

I thought it was funny.

I have zero faith in the current generation of gen AI. I think the claims are overblown and the odds of massive unemployment is near zero. Even if the AI bubble pops, the world isn…

I don’t defend every data center everywhere. I’m talking about the proposed data center about 11 miles from my door. In my area we have a nuclear generating station 16 miles from t…

No, I know why they’re angry. Hell, I don’t even use gen AI, I still think it’s unreliable junk. However, most of the things that the people in my community are concerned about don…

Pointing out that others are exploiting their “fears, anxieties, or hardships” is not the same as dismissing those concerns. Nor is saying that people who have been intentionally w…