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Are you suggesting something’s changed?

No one should build these things; at best they’re an extremely costly and dirty technology that can never be used to meaningful advantage, at worst they’re an extremely costly and dirty technology that has a tendency to metastasize and eat away the host from the inside. A reasonable reading of the externalities should put a brake on both building out and on exporting the means of building out.

Opposing the accumulation of nuclear arms (analogy hint: building data centers in the US) is morally, intellectually, and logically consistent with opposing nuclear proliferation (analogy hint: export of GPUs, allowing imaginary or real opponents to widen the, again imaginary or real, stochastic parrot gap).

My point is that it’s perfectly logical to oppose data centers generally and also oppose exporting the tech required to build data centers elsewhere, rather by QED.

One of these days they might have to rename progressive terminal neurosyphilis to “Thiel’s Disease”.

Observing that AIPAC both exists and has significant influence over American politics — especially the side of American politics that started an illegal and unjust war with Iran absent a legitimate casus belli — isn’t the same thing as putting on the tinfoil beret and screaming about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and hasn’t been for quite a while.

It’s also important to remember that some of the most virulently antisemitic (meaning anti-Jewish) people alive are now, and long have been, actively Zionist precisely simply because they believe that restoring Jewish control over Israel will bring about the Christian-centric apocalypse of whomever claimed to be John of Patmos and thus delivery into eternal conscious torment any and every Jew that didn’t convert before the [entirely fictitious] Rapture.

That’s the fatal problem with equating Zionism and antisemitism in the first place… nothing stops someone from being rabidly both simultaneously.

And that’s all before we get to the nuance of there being plenty of Zionist-identifying Jews who are dead set against the specific form and flavor of Zionism currently controlling the Knesset.

Not all Zionists are Semitic (or even Jewish) and not all Semites (or even Jews) are Zionists.

Now, it’s obviously extremely easy to conflate Zionism with Semitism, and vice versa, which is a trap both the actual antisemites and those most likely to point and yell “antisemite” seem wont to fall into.

Personally I’d call that borderline antisemitic, since in either case it’s conflating an ethno-nationalist political agenda with both an ethnicity and a nationality that may not subscribe to or support that political agenda at all.

Trump (and his ilk) presented a straw man to the dumb, then shot the straw man, without ever thinking of the innocent people standing down range of their target, which included the dumb the whole time.

This isn’t collateral, this was the plan, the planners were just too stupid to see the natural consequences of their plan. See also the price of diesel.

Oh that sweet summer child.

All you had to do to curtail the use of a palantir was throw a sheet over it… the problem was the temptation to use one was too great.

AKA, you know, Peter Thiel.

That said, from his position I’m absolutely certain it looks super-intelligent… come to think of it, I’m kind of surprised the shibboleth isn’t “mega-hyper-giga-plaid-intelligence”.

The solar panels on my boat have more than paid back their capital costs and their environmental impact in just the diesel my engine doesn’t need to burn to provide power, and my life is dramatically less expensive because I don’t have to pay tax/rent to a middleman corporation for copper cabling they barely maintain and towers and transmission cables and such that I don’t use at any rate.

Keep stretching your definition like that and the North Sentinelese are on the grid of industrial civilization because their sky is still polluted by the Starlink swarm they’ve no conception of.