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Yes. They have tax exemptions. These exemptions have not been removed: https://youtu.be/boEYllBaYv4 - There is a reason your rural town was targeted.

They have even started building without waiting for permitting. No, I'm not joking.

https://youtu.be/a8EJb4RrryQ

Just come to Georgia and talk to actual people living here after a data center moved in. You know, like this: https://youtu.be/4A6NECilAls

Also: Why the actual fuck is it taking AOC (who doesn't even live here) to ask these questions and connect the dots publicly.

And "This is going to bring a LOT of money to my county which sorely needs it and a LOT of people to my dying rural town." is a pipe dream. If you're honest about it, I think you know that.

"I really just have to come to the conclusion that we have a tiktok informed voting block here." sounds like you're trying to insult whole groups of people. But if you get your news from Fox news, this isn't the insult you think it is.

Cite?

The Industrial Revolution took over 100 years. You could argue that WW1 and WW2 were direct, structural consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

This has taken months to up-end multiple industries.

I don't think the article makes a fair comparison.

Nurses have the same shit they have to go through (they get questioned by their own hospital legal team when the nurse is the one that got assaulted).

It's wrong. We need to stand up for educators and healthcare providers.

The problem is that subscriptions with AI models get a bit 'vague' on what you get and how (or when) you might be rate-limited.

So ... that makes it somehow "not theft"? I'm confused at the point you are trying to make.

I mean ... I know a few African nations that might disagree.

There are more self-storage facilities than there are Starbucks, Subways and McDonalds -- combined.

Read that again.

Wendover productions has a great video on the phenomena of self-storage and the economics around this: https://youtu.be/uEVv8SOJ6Is

Did I miss something? Did this article have to do with IE6? It feels like you are responding to something that wasn't said.

This is a false pretense. Quality was never the norm.

What is no longer the norm is getting first-hand experience with a product before you buy it. Everything comes in the mail and it's a surprise to the consumer after they buy it. That's nuts!

I think maybe you assumed I meant the AI agent would run the company well, or that the mergers would be shrewd business moves.

Not at all.

But I don't know that they would do any worse than an average human would in the exact same situations.

"But an LLM can't go to conferences; they can't have Top Secret Meetings where a merger or acquisition is discussed"

Sure they can - especially when conferences are designed to have an API.

And when more companies are run by an AI, they will absolutely have secret meetings to discuss a merger.

Yeah - I agree. I'm not sure the problem is Flock (because it will just be replaced with another camera system eventually).

That police officers just don't get successfully prosecuted for this because of qualified immunity: that should be the big takeaway here.

Flock is just the whipping boy of the hour.

I mean, the movie "Office space" could have taught you that lesson almost 30 years ago.

The original quote that I was responding to was

"No one serious is worried about American solvency. The paper says 50% over the next 10 years, but even most economists misunderstand how the monetary system works. There are so many other issues to worry about at the moment more immediate than solvency."

And the only point I was trying to make was this: Nobody expects an entire (powerful) system of government to stop being a thing ... until it stops. And other powerful governments have stopped being a thing.

I'm sure there were plenty of pundits in ancient Rome who said things like, "No one serious is worried about Roman solvency". And eventually, they were wrong.

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Side note: It doesn't matter if unserious people think these things or not. The article's premise is about the ideas of "too much debt" making the bond market a more risky bet.

If people aren't buying bonds this will eventually slow (and stop) cash flow to governments (including the federal government) to the point of it being a crisis, because bonds cover 25% of our Federal government spending.

Tell that to the Romans.

I think that falls under 'ego', but sure.

"Why do people do these things"

Money, ideology, coercion, and ego.

Nothing, and in fact I still do. I prefer the Reeder (classic) app https://reederapp.com/classic/

But two things can be true at the same time. I'm still bitter about Google removing a great webapp from the internet so unceremoniously.

Ad revenue.

I'm still bitter about Google Reader going away. I endorse this sentiment.

Are we looking at the same graph?

It appeared to drop from the 2020 highs, yes.

But it's definitely trending upward.

I think that's a pretty solid (pun intended) metaphor.

Past performance is not a predictor of future returns.

Perhaps they should ban news sites that cover gambling.

"The majority of the screenshots should highlight the app’s main features and functionality. Note that splash and login screens are generally not considered to show the app in use."

I agree with the feedback. Fix your screenshots (and whatever else is clearly not in line with app store guidelines).

It's the Americans that aren't asking these questions that worry me. It is a significant percentage of the population.

Revenue and profit are not the same.

And you didn't even mention the debt these companies have accrued in the last 3 years.

References:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ai-tech-...

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/techs-ai-debt-b...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2026/07/17/bond-...

Not at all. And to be honest, I don't hear the original author asserting that all AI will go away.

But if you have a ChatGPT plan and OpenAI is bought by another company (because they are insolvent) ... do you honestly think you will be able to continue using your service without a significant price increase?

Ah - near the bottom where he is disclosing his own bias. Got it.

So do you disagree that AI companies are in very large amounts of debt? And do you also disagree that debt will have real consequences (and one of those consequences might be either the lights going out or a buyout or merger)?