Did Pres Biden enable Mr Trump by being imperfect, or not demonstrably adequate so people couldn't be convinced he was inadequate? Biden's unhealthy parasocial relationship with Israel was an issue, but aside from what I remember as background noise of forgettable decisions I only think of his presidency as boring and incremental improvement.
Were our expectations of so much more, in retrospect, reasonable? Yeah, we probably all hoped for more than some milquetoast victory lap for a last-term civil servant; but with the dirty money coming in, who else could survive a primary and get onto the ballot as an option?
[Platner] could have won the election, then stepped down and Maine could get a special election.
...like they could've done with Biden. Instead, they switched candidates and further confirmed the rule that it 100% fails when you switch candidates to try and get around the idea that voters can't choose the least worse of exactly two fucking options.
This is gonna go really well. Best case, people get another Fetterman.
This crusade against bad datacenters - poor cooling, poorly located, wasteful - is mislabeled as a crusade against ALL datacenters.
Mislabeled? Yeah. I've worked with personal info - the kind you don't want leaked (PII) - for years. You need that shit secure. You only do that with a very secure building designed to hold and protect all that storage for all those databases - healthcare info, courts docs, land title surveys, buried pipe maps, your bank account, 3tb of Epstein files - so it's stored, secured and accessible only where required.
That's a datacenter. We need that one. But, like some others, this crusade will target those too. It's a classic baby-with-bathwater issue.
And maybe that's what they want: they're okay with crunchies killing 80 years of climate records and the Epstein files because both hurt the same dirtbags.
Maybe we keep those datacenters around? Maybe we notice the difference between that one and whatever the hell musk has done? Maybe we protest the musk one as a Toxic Datacenter or part of Datacenter Blight instead of saying they're all evil?
Nuance is so hard these days, but just think a sec.
That's a little simplistic and forgets one thing: natural selection only cares until you're old enough to procreate, biologically, and there's nothing it will do for humanity after that age.
So yeah, natural selection is totally cool with you dying of a splinter at 16.
Instead of Google Maps, Lions Bay SAR provided a list of free and paid hiking apps it recommends, including AllTrails, Granite, and Gaia GPS—which can be used as part of the process of properly researching and preparing for a hike or a trip into the backcountry
You want datacenters. Believe me you really want them. You don't want resources wasted on Ai, but this protest is about killing datacenters, and there is a baby in that bathwater.
I don't get it, but your logic is usually sound.
Did Pres Biden enable Mr Trump by being imperfect, or not demonstrably adequate so people couldn't be convinced he was inadequate? Biden's unhealthy parasocial relationship with Israel was an issue, but aside from what I remember as background noise of forgettable decisions I only think of his presidency as boring and incremental improvement.
Were our expectations of so much more, in retrospect, reasonable? Yeah, we probably all hoped for more than some milquetoast victory lap for a last-term civil servant; but with the dirty money coming in, who else could survive a primary and get onto the ballot as an option?