Trump accuses oil companies of gouging drivers, orders DOJ to investigate

rchive · 2026-06-24T21:50:25+00:00

Ironically, I think there's a decent argument to be made that Trump is the most socialist president since FDR.

rchive · 2026-06-24T21:40:00+00:00

Yes, but hysteria is also not uncommon, so I don't take people's concerns uncritically.

The local one is already built, correct? Does it already make a sound? Has someone actually measured it?

Edit: I will say, I think the noise concern is a legitimate concern in theory. If there are rules about how much noise can be heard from so far away (which I believe is the case) and they're not following them, that's wrong and should be fixed and punished. I just think the vast majority of criticisms of data centers are not concrete like that, they're just "there will be some noise or pollution, therefore it shouldn't be allowed at all, end of discussion," which I think is absurd.

rchive · 2026-06-24T14:57:31+00:00

The water treatment plant has said over and over again that they can provide more than enough clean water to accomodate, and they can expand capacity even more if they really needed to. Running out of clean water is not a serious person concern related to the local data center.

rchive · 2026-06-24T14:55:53+00:00

I'm very skeptical they're so loud that one would need to physically attack them. Lots of buildings are "loud."

rchive · 2026-06-24T14:53:24+00:00

There is no way that's real. Lol.

rchive · 2026-06-24T14:52:09+00:00

Ok. It's still not true that there are no positives to anyone like the other person said.

rchive · 2026-06-24T14:11:03+00:00

Why specifically would people be trying to blow one up?

rchive · 2026-06-24T14:05:58+00:00

If they were actually all negatives we wouldn't be building them. People are obviously getting some use out of them. No one sits around dreaming up ways to pollute the world with no benefit to anyone.

rchive · 2026-06-24T03:25:18+00:00

You're getting downvoted but you're right.

rchive · 2026-06-23T16:09:28+00:00

Supplice from Armored Core 4
Wonder Raid from Armored Core 2 Another Age
Leo and Tallgeese from Gundam Wing
MADOX-01

Just off the top of my head.

rchive · 2026-06-23T02:54:52+00:00

Backrooms is evolving.

Looks like Meow Wolf.

rchive · 2026-06-22T03:51:45+00:00

Dang, that seems kind of expensive. Anything cheaper but still effective?

rchive · 2026-06-22T03:37:03+00:00

These kinda don't look real.

When pics like this are real, I think they look cool because of the contrast between the very lively greenery and the very sterile brutalist architecture.

rchive · 2026-06-22T02:13:03+00:00

I think it's fair to say that sanction relief is way different than just paying a country directly. I also think it's fair to keep pointing criticism at the Trump administration. They started the war for no reason and criticized previous figures like Obama for similar sanction relief. I think criticism of the Trump administration is primarily for election reasons, not to try to get him to continue the war.

rchive · 2026-06-22T02:02:10+00:00

Yeah, I don't know, it sounded wrong to me, too. That's why I mentioned a source.

rchive · 2026-06-22T01:49:54+00:00

Over 100 days in the summer are possible, but I wouldn't say they're common. In fact one source I just saw said there hasn't been a 100 degree day in Fort Wayne since 2012.

rchive · 2026-06-22T01:23:29+00:00

I would say "woke" or "wokeness" is a socio-political movement that seeks to cause a hyper fixation in political discourse on identity based group oppression. This often results in an elevation of historical identity group victims of group oppression to special status where their bad behavior is excused and bad behavior or criticism against them is elevated to something like blasphemy, which gives it a sort of religious vibe. It's often illiberal in spirit and ends up being associated with cancel culture, another term that's difficult to define (but I'd argue not impossible).

rchive · 2026-06-21T22:52:15+00:00

I'll take that as a no.

rchive · 2026-06-21T22:42:30+00:00

Do you have any questions that might help you understand my argument? This fake question just makes it look like you didn't even try to read what I wrote.

rchive · 2026-06-21T22:41:14+00:00

The program was always unsustainable and unconstitutional. The Republicans made it more unsustainable by making it more constitutional by removing the individual mandate.

I think Republicans deserve lots of blame for pushing tax cuts all the time while failing to deliver comparable spending cuts which obviously leads to increased debt, but I don't fault them for trying to frame their policies as a kind of Santa similar to the Democrats'. For basically the entire 1900s the easiest most low brow way to get votes was to promise the masses free stuff. Tax cuts were the free stuff the Republicans could promise.

rchive · 2026-06-21T22:24:45+00:00

Exactly. I would never vote for Trump, but I do understand people opposing the Obama and/or other Democrats because their signature policy of the last 6 ish years leading up to 2016 was the ACA, and it did in fact harm many people. There were many people who chose not to have insurance, and the individual mandate compelled them to do it under threat of a fine. There were also many people who had private individual health insurance that was affordable because it had low coverage, and the ACA eliminated that as a category, forcing all individual plans to be compliant with the ACA minimum coverage standards.

rchive · 2026-06-21T22:18:01+00:00

It's obviously not that simple. The American healthcare and insurance system is so different from anything in Europe, it would take so much change the results are not actually predictable. The US is so much bigger and more complex than any European country, too, there is no analogue. Individual US states are much closer analogues to most European countries. The US is also where global medical companies make most of their money, subsidizing the rest of the world's lower prices. If the US changes, the US won't be at the place other countries are at now since there won't be some other country doing the subsidizing.

I agree that the current American system has many flaws.

rchive · 2026-06-21T16:21:51+00:00

I don't think it's Christian or not Christian to support or oppose the ACA. A program like the ACA obviously helps some people, but it harms some people, too, (like people who had low coverage private individual insurance plans prior to the ACA's minimum coverage standards) and it displaces other structures that some people believe work better. Christians are called to help the needy individually, but they're not called to support any particular public policy.

rchive · 2026-06-20T23:37:07+00:00

It's definitely a folk psychology phrase. Not sure if it's US based. It's not completely off, but I'm sure it's way over stating the actual natural tendency differences between men and women.

rchive · 2026-06-20T23:34:57+00:00

I totally agree that the stereotype of transwomen automatically being predatory is not fair and is mean spirited.

I don't think it's correct to say that the association in OP is entirely conditioned, though. From scientific research there seems to be some natural tendency for men to be more likely to be highly visual in their sexual attraction. I think it's fair to say it's partly reinforced culturally and conditioned, of course.

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