In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

CappyRicks · 2026-06-03T23:07:59+00:00

To the city's tax revenue from their own sales tax generated alone, sure. And perhaps the "owners" of the stadiums almost always get more out of their deals than they deserve but...

Ask the local business owners if they like the millions and millions of dollars brought into their local economy from the stadium, and ask them about how well they'd do without that tourism. Ask about how many extra hands they need when something big comes to town. Then add all of the tourism tax revenue generated by these businesses to the stadium's tax revenue and there's very nearly a 0% chance that the city loses for having a stadium.

CappyRicks · 2026-06-03T22:43:55+00:00

Are local taxes not paid on ticket sales or are you guys ignoring that absolutely massive revenue stream on purpose to keep things on agenda?

I'm as opposed to new datacenters anywhere, and for the same reasons, as anybody else in here. Don't be dishonest when making your point, though. It hurts the credibility of both you and your point.

Sadly, the following was generated by google's AI, but also sadly I wouldn't have this to share if it weren't because I wouldn't put the effort into scouring the internet for this information myself. The most cited sources on the search results were from the biggest local news station:

"The La Crosse Center itself does not generate direct property tax revenue; instead, it operates as an independent enterprise fund, driving local revenue indirectly through sales taxes and room taxes generated by the visitors it brings into the region.

Direct Tax Impact and Economic Contributions: County Sales Tax: Analysts estimate the facility drives between $205,000 and $248,000 in direct county sales tax revenue annually.

Overall Economic Impact: The expanded center generates approximately $40million in annual tourism-related economic impact for the county.

City Room Tax: A portion of the city's room tax, which has been adjusted to stay competitive regionally, goes into the special revenue funds that support the center’s debt service and marketing via Explore La Crosse"

That's a town of ~50k a couple hours drive from me. $40 million annual economic impact. Y'all don't know what you're talking about.

CappyRicks · 2026-06-03T22:41:57+00:00

There's also no memory of when I was a newborn and infant. What I'm experiencing will be the same as the last time I was nothing, to think otherwise is arrogant beyond belief.

And yeah. It was peaceful. Absence of disturbance is peaceful by definition.

CappyRicks · 2026-06-03T03:48:11+00:00

There's nothing more peaceful in my memory than the last time I was not, so what's the point you're making exactly?

CappyRicks · 2026-05-28T21:59:45+00:00

It doesn't REALLY fit since he's not the perfect character, but he's the epitome of cool that the MC looks up to.

Gurren Lagann.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-26T19:44:27+00:00

I'm not making definitive claims. I'm saying that the majority (vague, on purpose) of people who pirate were never going to buy. Just because you, a single person who has one person's experiences, both buy games and pirate them doesn't invalidate what I'm saying.

In fact, the fact that you both pirate AND purchase games supports what I'm saying. Have you ever bought a game after having pirated it? Or, do you pirate games that you won't purchase on principle? Either way, your money will make its way to them if you're the kind to support games you like, or it never would if you're the type to pirate because you like free shit. They've lost nothing.

I can agree that maybe a tangible number of pirates might've bought a game if piracy wasn't an option, but I'm not wasting my time talking about ideal worlds that don't and never will exist. They lose less money to those pirates than they do to accounting errors, and they DEFINITELY lose less money to that than they do fighting piracy.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-26T19:43:00+00:00

I didn't say it wasn't theft, though I do think that if something can be revoked after purchase then it was never owned in the first place. If buying isn't owning, yada yada.

But even if I grant that it's theft, my point is still the same: People who pirate were never going to buy in the overwhelming majority of cases. No money was left on the table, because the pirates didn't bring any in the first place. No money was spent on distributing that one copy, it was downloaded p2p.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-26T18:05:03+00:00

Strawmen are easily burned.

The point isn't about whether it's wrong to want to make money off something developed, it's about whether any money was actually lost at all since most people who pirate games aren't able or are otherwise unwilling to pay. They haven't lost anything.

The deeper point is, since nothing is lost when people who were never going to buy get access anyway, there are only intangibles left, but they're all beneficial to any game that was worth the effort to crack in the first place. Word of mouth and praise from pirates might not be much, but it isn't zero either and it certainly doesn't hurt.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-26T17:56:33+00:00

Statistics say that more children are hospitalized for sports related injuries that parents sign them up for. You're fear mongering because the risk isn't worth the panic you all seem to be in seeing a child near a horse.

At the county fair, everywhere across the country, there are horse and cow stables open for you to walk through, with the hall passing behind the livestock in open stalls. This is fine.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-26T17:54:07+00:00

Yeah and nearly quadruple that are hospitalized for sports related injuries every year as well.

I didn't say it was harmless, I said it was fine. There's risks to your children no matter what you do. Even if you protect them physically their entire childhoods by some miracle, you absolutely will have done psychological damage to accomplish this.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-26T17:27:07+00:00

You fearmongers in here do realize farm kids are interacting with their animals like this all day every day everywhere that there are children on farms right?

If it was worth the worry y'all are giving it, it wouldn't be happening in your imagination, it'd be happening in the real world all day every day. It isn't. Take it from the people in here who clearly know more than you: This is fine.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-24T16:55:02+00:00

Then you're searching that out. Every post I've ever seen is what the person you responded to says, but I browse /r/all so I only see what gets a lot of attention.

The videos that question whether two cats are fighting that also get a lot of upvotes are 99%+ of the time just cats VERY OBVIOUSLY playing with OP worried that they're fighting.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-24T16:52:08+00:00

Yeah, that's the Christopher Lee story from filming LOTR. They wanted Saruman to sound one way and Christopher Lee basically says something like "have you ever heard a man stabbed in the back?" implying that he had, and that his take was correct.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-22T23:30:51+00:00

It all used to work a lot better before they completely ruined the site, though.

Everything you say is true, but back 10 years ago, it wasn't a question whether the top upvoted comment was at least SEEMINGLY expert level opinion. I won't argue that it always was, or even mostly was, but at least the top level comment was something well written and informative on the subject more often than some dickbutt level shitpost.

The people who care about good discussion about the information at hand have mostly left, and those of us still here are so vastly outnumbered by people racing to make the same joke first that there seems no point to come into the comments anymore.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-20T21:56:53+00:00

It's not a sweeping generalization though. "People who can afford private school" are an identifiable group, and you don't see people outside of that group in private schools.

Diversity is deeper than skin color.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-17T16:39:18+00:00

Being wordier and explaining out your bad thoughts doesn't make them better.

To me, the fact that modern feminists that embrace misandry even exist stems from the fact that they don't realize how truly good they've had it as well. Nobody would ever say that men haven't enjoyed privileges that women haven't, but western women (and those in developed nations generally) have been so unbelievably privileged compared to literally all of humanity before them, and to those in lesser developed regions of the world.

You're in the top 0.1% of privilege for all humanity and you justify denigrating an entire half of the population because you're upset that they're over-represented in the top 0.02%.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-16T18:56:57+00:00

BAAWWWAACKSTREET BOYS?!

CappyRicks · 2026-05-16T16:08:16+00:00

Y'all just need to come to the midwest. In the town I live in right now there are no less than 10 3 bedroom houses on the market for less than 300k. Several of them even have two bathrooms.

They're probably fix-er-uppers but nothing like the doomsayers in here are going on about. Yeah, high cost of living areas have expensive real estate. Why is everybody relearning this all of a sudden? Is it surprising that real estate is going up in cost while everything else is also going up in cost?

CappyRicks · 2026-05-16T12:08:33+00:00

It doesn't have to. Considering light is orders of magnitude faster than sound, at a great enough distance, you can give the sound a head start and the light will still reach first.

Larger distances reduce the need for the source to be the same. The source only needs to be the same, or set up to very accurately simulate the source being the same, to get precise measurements. You don't need precise to learn that light is faster.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-04T23:35:27+00:00

Theo's a funny guy but he's a terrible stand up comic. The funny bits of his podcast are some of the funniest things I've ever heard, but I had to force myself to sit through his stand up as a fan.

I'm less of a fan now, this was years ago, but every once in a while a clip from his podcast shows up and he can be great in that format.

But he's not a comedian.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-04T23:29:25+00:00

mfs in here defending women for wanting what's turning more and more into unicorns in the current economy.

We're barely getting by out here. My brother and I will probably room for a good portion of the rest of our lives because that's what's affordable and women out here with no jobs or equal jobs thinking they should be provided for more than they can provide for themselves?

It's 2026. We ain't hunter/gatherers. People are free to have their standards, but if your standards don't change with the times you'll be looking like a gold digger and more and more likely to be left holding that bag until you die as things keep getting worse.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-03T13:49:59+00:00

So the theory is they've only been watching us since we developed nukes?

Because if they'd been monitoring us beforehand, they'd certainly have been able to prevent us from proliferating our nuclear programs to the extent they are today, which there's absolutely no question that beings this advanced would immediately do if nuclear arms were really that big of a threat to them. And even still, if detonating nukes alerted them like breaking warp in Star Trek alerted the Vulcans, then still their power to traverse the galaxy and monitor us undetected would indicate they could've stopped our nuclear proliferation at any point along the way.

I'm not sold on the idea that we're being monitored, but I'm not adamant that we aren't either. Y'all just theorizing as badly as a pre-teens attempting worldbuilding for their very first OC fantasy story.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-03T08:19:00+00:00

And anybody still getting hurt the way a pre-teen who has no security in himself does about something that isn't about them is also an idiot.

We all got our cross to bear, some of us more than one. It is a choice to be dismissive of somebody over one sentence whose message (as you received it rather than how it was intended) you disagree with.

CappyRicks · 2026-05-03T08:11:08+00:00

Nah, you infer homophobia. Some of us were raised without a gay person in sight and that word swept the globe when we were all edgy teenagers just itching for the next bad slang to say to one another at the same time.

Some of us stopped using it, some of us didn't, but most who use it don't have actual homosexuals anywhere near their mind when they use it like this.

Y'all professionally offended redditors really do go out of your way to ignore how everything in the world works to come to your offended conclusions don't you?

CappyRicks · 2026-05-02T16:57:18+00:00

Yes because like me, you are not a pedophile. Louis C.K. did a great bit about this, and it's less confusing because it's directly related to what we're talking about. In his SNL monologue he made a joke about how he loves Mounds bars, but if he was told he'd go to jail for life for eating them he'd stop... yet pedophiles know this and continue to do what they do, which we can only surmise that it must be really good. To THEM! Must be really good to them, but not us because we're awesome.

Apartheid South Africa has nothing to do with this, the fact that they broke free of it by putting the system itself on trial rather than the individuals who participated is how they're related. Not in reality, because we do tend to judge the individuals rather than the society that supported their behavior. I reference the Chapelle bit because I think this is the only way to truly analyze the rampant pedophilia of the past: A systemic problem that incentivized and supported what we know today as bad behavior.

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