And looking at the finances of a State only through expenses and revenues is completely missing the point (on purpose here obviously).

These dudes saw Terminator and sided with Skynet

The whole south west region is an artificial forest for monoculture (Forêt des Landes). It’s “naturally” quite prone to fires, and even more so nowadays with all the heat waves we faced.

It’s basically kindling now, so a single cigarette butt (or in the case of the largest one, maintenance on a powerline) goes completely out of hand in mere minutes.

It’s so dry and windy that the fires can jump a kilometre at a time, that’s why there are so many right now.

A violent dipshit being drawn to a violent, dipshit filled, state enforced militia? Colour me surprised.

Yeah that’s our Trump moment. We’re fucked.

That’s the Vimes Boots economic theory right there

I think the issue with most datacenters is the frequency, not necessarily the noise level. A low hum that permeates everything, even if it’s not “loud” can become debilitating.

It’s quite literally what happened in Don’t look up

Bezos literally said that once AI is good enough, it will solve all our problems.

That’s what they believe, or at least want us to believe.

One time 5%, that’s like a bandaid on a severed artery

I’m against nuclear proliferation but Ukraine gave up theirs and Iran gave up their program. And look what happened to them.