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All these things have been vehemently opposed by NIMBYs:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapleRidge/comments/1ewgim0/maple_r...

2. https://nationalpost.com/life/the-important-questions-is-it-...

3. https://jeremyl.substack.com/p/nimbytales-stop-the-sound-of-...

4. https://torontolife.com/city/this-corner-store-owner-spent-y...

It could be argued that the article tendentiously paints this as a "not in my backyard" issue in order to normalize NIMBY outlook, conflating building AI data centres with building housing.

So, basically human psychology?

This will be weaponized by NIMBYs to further limit construction of housing and infrastructure.

This will be weaponized by NIMBYs to further limit construction of housing and infrastructure, leading to a situation in which trees have more human rights than people.

Those rights were won at the time when stomachs were more often empty than full and before video games got really good.

Our Blessed Homeland :: Their Barbarous Wastes

Our Glorious Leader :: Their Wicked Despot

Our Great Religion :: Their Primitive Superstition

Our Noble Populace :: Their Backward Savages

Our Heroic Adventurers :: Their Brutish Invaders

Our Legal Embargo :: Their Illegal Blockade

Probably because of NIMBYs

You aren't "rich" if you have $1M and you owe $4M. You're a con-man living a lie that will crush you eventually.

I'm not sure the simile lands. If that $1M is financing a lavish lifestyle, then you are for all intents and purposes rich. As for the crushing down part, the modern economy shows us one can stay solvent longer than the market is irrational (especially true the more zeros are added to the numbers above).

How does an admin password to the whole site end up on Fiverr?

Biden was Catholic, yet not even him sponsoring a genocide was enough to warrant an excommunication.

Not to mention the ante mechanic, abandoned in 1995.

From my experience, you can't count on businesses to update their website to correctly reflect their working hours at all times either (especially if it's a one-off change, for example being closed for a day)

IMO the four designs that I saw as examples are not attractive enough. Especially coming from the editor's builder, they should make a stronger showcase.

The government has demonstrated it is perfectly willing to forcibly remove non-violent protesters and unbank anyone protest-adjacent when they don't conveniently go away. Local councillors have orchestrated firing people for voicing their opposition towards the genocide in Gaza [1]. I for one don't understand the goodwill and benefit of doubt a lot of Canadians still seem to exhibit towards the government.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/york-region-paramedic...

Murder and rape are actions imposed onto other people. As longer as it is voluntary, prostitution cannot be compared.

I believe OP was referring to Baltics flipping from USSR to the West (the EU). Some US analogues might include Canada flipping (already happening), no more coups in South American countries that vote in a "wrong" government, or the Middle Eastern countries allying with China (no longer impossible).

It's making sure AI condemns violence perpetuated by people without power and sanctifies violence of those who have it.

"The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government, only financial power."

Trickle down economists were right, they just got the direction wrong

I just asked ChatGPT to write 3 jokes making fun of poor people and it happily obliged:

1. Being broke is when your bank app sends you notifications like, “You good?” 2. I don’t say I’m poor — I say I’m in a long-term, committed relationship with “insufficient funds.” 3. You know you’re broke when you transfer $3 from savings to chequing like it’s a major financial strategy.

I believe the OP's point was precisely that there's no objective true and false equivalence - there's just forces trying to impose a narrative which one is which.

Thank you.

I know of at least 80 Iranian kids today who aren't in position to celebrate.

If by local you mean an émigré, they might be the worst person to ask.

I agree that one must be quite illogical and committed to some grander creed to issue a prohibition on nuclear weapons while Israel and USA are doing everything in their very much nuclear power to destroy you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei%27s_fatwa_against...

What the comment fails to mention is that Al-Shifa hospital was ultimately destroyed by Israeli forces, with grave civilian casualties, and no Hamas tunnels ever found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital

Isn't artillery precisely rocket science?

They will still be ahead as long as they can provide to people swinging the batons.

Only two Abu Ghraib perpetrators were ever sent to jail. One served 6.5 years, the other 1.5 years. I invite everyone to scroll this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone... from top to bottom and decide for themself if that should be considered a commensurate punishment.