It goes with the couch.

20 billion years then we're all shafted.

Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand

Presumably she wasn't just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.

She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.

Data centers have become a major economic development battleground for many states, even though they provide relatively few jobs and consume massive amounts of resources.

But someone gets paid. Just like in developing world countries, it's kickbacks for officials.

I'm happy to be shown I am wrong, but in the meantime let's call it what it is, and isn't. It isn't economic development, it is wealth extraction.

'I'll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital' is a pathetic position to take.

It absolutely is not worthy of respect.

Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges are based, is complete bullshit.

You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.

What a pathetic place to get to. There are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.

Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea...

Presumably the other headline that read '50% of voters' were in favour of this party, should have read '50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party'

1. US (and in fact all 'Western') media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.

2. America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I'm not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don't engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.

An office-friendly version of this would greatly improve my well-being so productivity at work.

'He' (the US) owe it in large part to the world, who were forced to buy us debt in order to buy oil. China is the biggest holder of US debt iirc.

The US's voluntary withdrawal from the post ww2 economic order (from which it profited greatly) has absolutely hastened and cemented this process of 'dedollarisation'.

This debt is coming due, the strength of the dollar has already dropped greatly, US interest rates will rise. The US dollar will be cheap enough to compete with India and China to be the world's factory (a major part of Trump's election campaign and success).

It won't happen all at once as the world will look to manage America's decline while trying to maintain as stable a transition as possible.

But please be aware, this debt is going to come due and it has absolutely been hastened by Americans voting for Trump a second time. Fore warned is forearmed. Good luck.

It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.

It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves 'Democrats' v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).

It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.

The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration (that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can't afford to support the huge number of asylum seekers that have been dumped upon them) and other cultural issues of various legitimacy (imvho) that poor people have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.

Edit - obviously this lurch to the right is the opposite of what should happen but here we go. It is what fossil-fuel powered capitalists prefer to socialism and an egalitarian society any day.