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100 acres is less than a sixth of a square mile, and Bessemer City doesn't use a ton of electricity, being as rural as it is.

The endangered species is more concerning, but feels solvable if they use environmentally conscious design practices with regards to the waterway.

Idk, I think that new data centers are something of a "necessary evil" in our modern society, and they have to be built somewhere.

Probably sriracha.

It really really isn't.

One county in a deep red part of New York had 0 votes for Kamala. That same county had 0 votes for Biden last election. In a state that Kamala won.

This has very, "how come there were 30 points swings in the polls in under an hour" energy that MAGA had when mail-in ballots got processed in Pennsylvania and Arizona in 2020.

But this doesn't even pass the smell test. Even if it was fraud, why? They just decided to do it in a suspicious way in a state they were never gonna win in the first place? What's the end game? Why make it zero votes at all? Why do it in New York?

Depends on how you define AI to some degree, but yeah. Protein folding has basically been solved in the past few years with neural-network based AI systems.

I was referring to 2014 when I said that, but it's neither here nor there. Especially since it's not like Iran hasn't been actively shooting missiles at Israel for decades.

And I'm not stan-ing for Israel here. I agree that their behavior has been terrible and has been doing terrible things to their neighbors. But that is in fact something that has changed that could push Iran towards a nuclear option. And as bad as Israel is being, it would still be very very bad if Iran nukes them.

I mean, Russia "hadn't chosen" to invade Ukraine for decades, and then they did. Things can, and in fact do change.

And it's not like the past year has been super calm in the region. Israel (who they would almost certainly be using the nukes on) has been popping off. So that seems like a pretty good reason to "now so choose" that wasn't the case a decade ago (to the same degree).

I think you're thinking too short term.

If they went for 15yrs before they Extinguish, and they're able to capture 99% of the newcomers to the space, a lot of the current users will have moved on for various other reasons. So the expectation that things would reset to how they are now is false.

Many, if not most, of the people who are here now likely won't be in 15+ years just due to generalized attrition.

My immediate reaction as well.

While I don't disagree that this point is almost exclusively made by trolls, the way you've phrased this implies you think they're correct in pointing out that it's a contradiction to no support trans-racial people.

Trans-racial people clearly exist to some small degree (Rachel Dolozov being the famous example). Should people be defending her choice to identify as black, since race is just a social construct?

As an example, the lawsuit alleged that Faust and other white, male farmers are charged a $100 "administration fee" to participate in one program that exempts women and minority farmers from paying the same fee. In another example, Faust "participates in a USDA program that guarantees 90% of the value of loans to white farmers, but 95% to women and racial minorities," according to the report.

While I'm not exactly sympathetic to the "plight of the white man," it is a little weird (if true) that the USDA can have a "white men only fee" for some programs.

My understanding was that most DEI initiatives were built around breaking up old-boys-clubs by requiring preference for minority businesses when all other factors are considered equal. The above doesn't really feel like that.

To be fair, that would require 3 sides, as you need to split the "can't differentiate between sex and nudity" side by gender still.

Perhaps to make the division specifically on secondary sex characteristics? Like, a "with penis" and "without penis" side?

It says in the article they were fine with people who had had bottom surgery using the women's side. And I'm not sure if that would run afoul of any anti discrimination laws? Idk, it's a weird case.