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With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.
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The powers that be want to create artificial shortages of everything we use so they can control us
that's why no one's talking about climate change anymore. 1. because it's obviously bullshit and was only ever going to be used as an excuse to turn every free country into a dictatorship
and 2. because of the massive amounts of electricity and water the data centers will use when they're built
What? you actually believe in climate change? You must be pretty young. In my lifetime I've been told there's a hole in the ozone layer that's going to cause the end of the world 30 years ago and that there isn't going to be any ice in the polar regions by 16 years ago.
But the same people who told me that have gigantic mansions with 4 industrial AC units each on beachfront property who also own multiple private jets. "oh but I bought carbon offsets" No, they get to write that off on their taxes, WE paid for their indulgences
It's like a church charging YOU for an indulgence that someone else gets to benefit from
Mate... We fixed the hole in the ozone layer because it was going to kill us... That's literally one of the best examples of people coming together to solve a global problem.
We had a real problem. Everyone agreed its a problem. Then implemented a long term fix and everyone stuck with it.
You can take the tinfoil hat off. Shit ain't that deep.
Elon Musk's satellites are currently re-destroying the ozone layer as they burn up on re-entry. And he plans to launch many tens of thousands more of them.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-elon-musks-dying-satellites-could-hurt-the-ozone-layer
He's not the only one, there are a bunch of companies that want to launch fleets of satellites. I read a recent article that said in the very near future, only about one out of every 15 visible "stars" will be natural.
Since the beginning of time, every living creature, including every evolutionary stage of mankind, have looked at the sky in wonder, awe, navigation, science, calendars, romance, beauty, religion, etc. Gazing into the cosmos has been a core human experience for trillions of people since the beginning of humankind, and now these Sociopathic Oligarchs want to STEAL that from every future human, just so they can have a little more money.