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  • Furbag@pawb.socialtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    2 days ago

    They didn’t even take the last global pandemic seriously until it was way too late.

    Unfortunately, rich people got even richer as a result of the massive government spending trying to keep the lid on the pot that had already boiled over, so they’ll never have an incentive to actually take it seriously when they know they won’t be negatively affected by it.





  • Speaking from experience here, there are vastly more people employed just to build datacenters than there are to fully staff one. Hundreds of engineers, consultants, general contractors and construction laborers to build the datacenter versus maybe a dozen people at best to staff a football field sized datacenter. If datacenters go away those builders will still have jobs because they’ll just pivot to building schools or hospitals or whatever else is needed at the time. Heck, even the IT guys who work on the racks could pivot and find another role somewhere else.

    The only people who will be out of a job when the AI bubble pops are the hucksters pushing it.




  • Furbag@pawb.socialtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com"Chat, be normal." 🗣
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    7 days ago

    The problem is that as we get younger candidates who were active in their youth online or on social media, the likelihood that you will find a squeaky-clean candidate gets lower and lower. It’s not that politicians of old were paragon of society, it’s just that the dumb shit they did as kids wasn’t preserved forever in the largest archive of human knowledge for anyone to trawl up literal decades later.

    If anyone found my old reddit account they’d probably consider some of the stuff I’ve posted there over the 12 or so years of when I was active disqualifying on it’s face.

    We, as a society, are going to have to get used to excusing some historical bad behavior in favor of believing that people are indeed capable of positive change over time.