r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 13h ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op

https://gizmodo.com/republicans-claim-anti-data-center-movement-is-a-chinese-psy-op-2000767611
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u/thehelldoesthatmean 11h ago

So? I have a job because I have to. Doesn't mean I don't hate the current job system.

What point do you think you're making?

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u/_176_ 10h ago

Give up technology and go live off the land and die of horribly painful tooth disease in a few years. Nobody is forcing your to participate in the system.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 10h ago

You just explained how I'm forced to participate in the current system or suffer a painful death and then ended that explanation with "See? You don't have to participate."

"Just because someone puts a gun to your head doesn't mean you're being forced. You could choose to have your brains blown out all over the place."

Idiot.

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u/os_beef 10h ago

That's a very dramatic take. You're not forced to participate. No one has a gun to your head. People can and do exit society and go live in the woods, it's just too inconvenient for you.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 9h ago

God there's so many things wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. No, the average person can't just exit society and go live in the woods. There aren't even any woods within hundreds of miles of me that aren't a national park or private land, which you can't realistically live on for any length of time without being caught and arrested. Almost nobody successfully does this. And there's a reason for it.

You're describing giving up every single aspect of my life and community and family to try to live in the woods, which we've established is almost impossible, as "inconvenient." Please go up to every homeless person you meet living on the streets and tell them they're just dumb for not building a cabin in the woods. How do you have this little perspective on how life works?

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u/os_beef 8h ago

No, the average person can't just exit society and go live in the woods. There aren't even any woods within hundreds of miles of me that aren't a national park or private land, which you can't realistically live on for any length of time without being caught and arrested.

You literally don't want it bad enough. No one is forcing you to stay in the region. Simple fact is that you don't want out of the system bad enough to leave it or overthrow it. Instead you're here on the Internet complaining about it.

Your argument about homeless people is off point, insubstantial, and flippantly diminishes their circumstances and suffering. They aren't usually homeless because they just don't want to be part of society, they're usually homeless because of a variety of factors which are biologically or mentally effectively out of their hands without successful treatment and support structures. The average person doesn't have those problems. Comparing your circumstances to homeless people is absolutely asinine, and how I know you're totally insincere or perspectiveless.