hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
You do not get a permanent underclass, you get a browner local working class, they intermarry with natives.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
A not-Trump GoP candidate would still have beaten Kamala like a drum and, after instituting a state cultus of Trump, would then proceed to enact a much more effective agenda. Trump himself has largely failed to crown himself with laurels; a not-Trump candidate taking up the torch would probably have not only tried but succeeded in doing so.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
It’s not treating strangers as individuals. Which is the psychological norm.
People think ‘Christians are bad, because some are homophobes’ or ‘Christians are good, because they run charitable endeavors’. In practice, neither of these people has met very many religious Christians.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The Amish can ship food to the Africans in exchange for brain draining their igbos and Tutsis as doctors.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
IIRC republicans are split while dems and independents are strongly opposed, per the most recent data. Republicans are also more accommodating to data centers when in power.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
That already exists. Progressive lawmakers occasionally propose laws allowing infanticide on the part of the mother. Awkward pro-abortion arguments regularly get into ‘this would also apply to a 3 month old’ territory.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Infanticide, probably not so much- SIDS parents get investigated.
Crappy parenting, though? Yes. There’s a world of difference between intentional infanticide and alcoholic/drug using mothers smothering their babies on accident in a stupor.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
There is a vast difference between AFL unions and teachers unions. It could have also been an SEIU Union, which is even more aggressively left wing.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Define people like you?
This was a union arbitration contract. Union arbitration contracts are notorious for protecting people that did verboten to liberals things(normally sexual harassment but racial comments definitely would be a thing there).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Thé going rate for general maintenance in a data center is six figures.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Right, we didn’t have Nolan wells discussions. We had lots of Charlie Kirk discussion, because culture wars relevance. We talked about the assassination without letting the Luigi mangione phenomenon have much presence on the forum.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Why are we talking about Lindsay Clancy so much?
Obviously, it’s a hot topic in the news, people who normally have heated discussions about The Bachelor are talking about this trial instead. But the motte isn’t one of those groups. Why is this particular social media brain rot such a big deal to the motte? Not criticizing, just noting- we didn’t talk that much about Johnny depp/Amber Heard.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
To what extent is anti-data center pushing big tech into further GOP alignment?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Something like a quarter of England’s residents were of Irish descent before immigration picked up, no? These people seem to be counted as ‘ethnic Britons’- maybe the term has no meaning except not wanting to see brown people.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
For an empire, to be ‘ethnically’ part of the main ethnicity is eventually meaningless- there was not such thing as an ethnic Roman in 400 AD, either. Sic semper imperium.
That doesn’t make it cosmic justice or revenge for colonialism or whatever bullshit. It is simply the way things are; thé ethnic component of Britishness or Americanness is gone. You want to maintain ethnic purity then you don’t get to be the empire, you have to live under it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Cheaper childcare is, literally, nothing*. It's a subsidy for moms to work, which is why progressives are OK with it.
*in high income countries
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Because female hysteria is a real thing. That our society chooses to pretend women are as mentally/emotionally strong and healthy as men doesn't invalidate that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The steelman is the claim that she was being abused and her husband made her psychotic. As far as I know, there is no evidence for this; it's pure pop-feminist misandry.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
IIRC- I'm not a chiller tech but a more general commercial HVAC technician- most chillers use a cooling tower where at least one stage of cooling sprays the water through the air to cool it down by evaporation, but that the water losses are fairly low- because this is usually condenser cooling water and most of it is returned to the system.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Then for anyone not American, there is the problem with these companies having ties to the Trump administration. An administration which seems to view every relationship as entirely transactional and that will use its leverage aggressively to get whatever it wants out of others.
Well yeah, America is becoming an Empire. What did you think an Empire was?
And this applies domestically as well; woke is in retreat in large part because US state ideology is just generally in retreat. The imperial state cares about what it can get(and votes might be part of that deal), not about what the people believe.
A non-Trump empire would do the same thing.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There were totally poor, racially segregated areas with high interpersonal violence in Till's time. That interpersonal violence is what killed him, after all.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
nearly all cross-race rapes between Whites and Blacks involve a White female victim.
Note that this may simply be because rapists do, in fact, want to have sex with their victims- and white women are generally vastly more attractive than black women. It doesn't necessarily mean that blacks are more violent(there is another set of statistics you'd need to use to make that argument).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
But datacenters obviously will get built, even if people don't like it- tying grid improvements to them is the best way to make sure grid improvements actually happen.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Add a workplace cafeteria paying $30+/hr. Add some nice grounds taking a few full time gardeners.
Centraco migrants, even legal ones, seem to prefer work to welfare- like other Hispanics in general.
That doesn’t mean they won’t take free stuff they’re eligible for. But these aren’t Somalis. They’re not ultra-clannish or opposed to work. Im continually baffled by thé attempts to portray Hispanic immigration as bad because they are lazy(in general, they are not) as opposed to because of the negative effects on wages, the breakdown of law and order, or because of the bad things that actually do go along with Hispanic social norms.
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