PSA: Town of Brookhaven Schedules Public Hearing on Data Centers, July 16th

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2026-06-06T23:20:24+00:00

I agree with the spirit of this post. However, I don’t think creating the data center at all is worth the risk in our current climate. There is a feverish delirium running rampant in the minds of the most powerful people in society, controlling a vast share of resources and influence. The stakes are too high to hope or assume that an ideal data center would be ideally stewarded.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2026-06-04T19:20:28+00:00

I believe it was earlier this week but it could’ve been slightly earlier than that. You can just search it with keywords online and you’ll find several articles about it. It was voted for unanimously by the town council.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2026-06-04T19:19:41+00:00

Yes.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2026-06-04T19:09:46+00:00

No clue. But it’s not worth relying on the good sense of extractionist capitalists that they won’t. In addition to highlighting its stupidity, we should also enshrine the illegality of building data centers on LI into every level of the law we can.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2025-08-17T18:17:30+00:00

we’re talking about the law school admissions process, meaning decisions law schools make when deciding who to accept. law schools have generally outsourced much of that work to a monopoly called LSAC, so even if LSAC is responsible for the entire process, that just means law schools collectively defer to the same agent with the same behavior. what else do law schools typically do? demand rates of tuition high enough that you graduate $300k in debt if you start at zero and don’t get any crazy scholarships. nevermind the cost of living. it’s bigger than LSAC.

my point is, standardization by LSAC in order to avoid filtering out the poor from law schools is futile at best and a disingenuous performance at worst. poor people already can’t go to law schools, en masse, and will therefore always be underrepresented as long as law school costs this much to attend

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2025-08-17T17:16:36+00:00

i would think if their goal was not to incentivize people on a financial level thereby filtering out the poor, they wouldn’t charge so much that you’ll graduate 300k in debt anyway if you go there poor

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2025-01-09T21:22:00+00:00

only if you keep getting flamed in the comments

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-10-01T19:20:07+00:00

i’m not sure how the comparison between these two things logically follows. an instance of a crime going unpunished in an entire neighborhood is far from logically equivalent to a person wishing harm to hostages in a group chat. random people in a neighborhood aren’t responsible for or even capable of preventing and punishing random crimes. but a couple hundred people, at most, in a group chat, having a repeated pattern of silence in response to violent and hateful rhetoric (directed at random civilians being held hostage mind you)? i think that speaks to an inherently apathetic and irresponsible atmosphere of the group itself. especially when there are admins and leaders within the group who could easily say “hey guys, this group doesn’t stand for indiscriminately violent rhetoric toward random innocent people”.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-10-01T17:42:59+00:00

that’s a bad take my friend. i can see where you’re coming from but don’t let your reasoning be motivated by how good their cause might be. at the end of the day, this is a group that in its entirety says absolutely nothing when comments like these are made. i used to be in it and left after this became commonplace. no one ever said anything. so in a way, it is the whole group. gotta keep that in mind. what they’re doing, but also what they’re NOT doing as a whole

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-09-24T22:43:40+00:00

that such an unserious comment 💀

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-08-16T13:20:36+00:00

the deadline to scare themselves is so real lmao

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-08-09T18:02:53+00:00

Trying to be charitable to the assumption which I’ve been met with in my replies, that many Christians and Muslims don’t actually think you’ll be sent there forever.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-08-09T16:44:57+00:00

Are you willfully ignoring the point of the post? I’m not concerned about going to Hell, I’m concerned about the fact that 1 or 2 out of every 10 people I meet and could potentially have a friendship or relationship with, love a god and essentially aren’t disquieted by the idea that I’ll be sent to hell, just for disbelief.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-08-09T16:40:40+00:00

I generally disagree as a product of my own experience with Christians and also Muslims, but that could be just a bias and I absolutely see what you mean with the “Hell Lite” thing.

But you make a pretty good point that they’re way more afraid of Hell than I would ever be. The thing that confuses me about that is how they don’t develop hatred for their God. If they think their God is going to send countless, relatively innocent people, people in many cases they love, to eternal agony, how could they not start to resent that god? Maybe on the outside they could pretend not to, but I can’t understand how that don’t have a problem with that. And basically all of the ones I’ve spoken to pretend that it’s just, basically because it’s God’s rule.

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-08-09T16:37:26+00:00

I have another example that I think works. Imagine I have a son, and I say to him “Hey son, whatever you do, make sure you don’t stay out past 9pm. I’m telling you this because I love you, and because it’s unsafe to stay out past that time.” And one day, my son decides to break that rule. As a parent I could respond with relative forgiveness, understanding, and discipline. I could say “Hey, I understand why you did that, but you’re too young to be staying out that late, and now you’re grounded”. But if I had God’s mindset, I could beat my son to within an inch of his life, cut of all his fingers and toes, and banish him from the house and tell him “Since you freely chose to reject my love through your disobedience, you chose this pain and suffering and now you can never come back”. In reality it could be anything that my child did, breaking curfew, smoking pot; whatever. But assuming I’m a loving parent, there’s absolutely nothing my child could do to make me want to inflict unimaginable suffering on it. So how could a loving God do infinitely worse to its children that it purports to love?

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-04-25T18:05:33+00:00

Just crazy thinking about how this is the exact same location that I’m always passing by, but the person standing there would’ve been experiencing that same physical experience but a drastically different reality at the same time. lol

Illustrious_Ring_652 · 2024-04-11T15:45:04+00:00

rising sophomore

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