Lego is just for rich people these days. Not joking. That’s how it is.

Only to people with brains.

Surprised? No. But that’s a lovely thought since most data centers have a net-negative value to people.

It’s wild. Most people don’t want these in their cities, which is why most people don’t even know they are being installed.

Like, fuck these goddamn corpos fucking up our bills so they can make even more money. Fuck data centers.

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for this…

Like, the data centers. The fucking reason my power bill doubled this year? The ones propping up LLM’s that are actively stealing jobs from humans?

They want to attack those?

Okay. Is there a downside to this?

It’s a gray area. If you have nothing to “protect the kids”, the feds might force it on a “non-compliant” state right now considering the fascism permeating our highest governments.

We’re starting to see desperate legislation more and more often. As a resident of CA, we had to vote FOR gerrymandering recently. It was disgusting, but it was direly needed to preserve democracy in the US.

You should really read up on the law. That’s just my opinion, though.

This specific article opens with the California bill being mentioned:

“The top line of California’s Assembly Bill No. 1043 says: “AB 1043, Wicks. Age verification signals: software applications and online services.” It was approved last October, but it’s hit the headlines this week. In brief:”

Sorry if you live in NY, but I’m sick of seeing CA dragged through the mud. That’s my beef here.

I’m so sick of hearing about this, and seeing people who don’t want to read get upset.

This is preemptively combating future federal crackdown by allowing Californians to TELL THE OS ANY BIRTH DATE THEY Want. No ID, no pictures of faces.

My power bill has literally doubled in one year. It’s largely this guy’s fault.

Fuck AI.

I had to scroll way, way too far for this sensible comment.

I like Lemmy, but people panic and jump to conclusions often.