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Friend, Russia does dirty deeds on behalf of the wealthy in this country the same way the wealthy do dirty deeds on behalf of Russia. Kremlin trolls and their deluded MAGA faithful are trained to hate-swarm every post in favor of mass transit, raising the minimum wage, debt forgiveness, etc.

So hard!

Equally crazy that 35 miles of regular "ordinary speed" passenger service costing $25 million (for upgrades) can't get done when the stations and tracks are already in place and regularly carrying freight and occasional "tourist excursions" - because all the money is tied up in HSR projects.

Programs & policies that help and protect citizens, will take months even years of meetings and discussions to enact. But can be wiped out with the stroke of a pen.

And timing of this BS is more proof, they need money!!

80 billion???? No way. It was a bubble from the start. Now looking for investors to bail "it" out. The only way they make money is if we subscribe!! That's it, so .......... DON'T SUBSCRIBE!!

Along with detention (concentration) camps.

There is money to be made from data centers (at least they think so) and not from high speed trains.

It's because this country is built on landownership and rail is run by governmental bodies because private companies owning that much land linearly within Urban centers and rural areas is just insanely expensive and impossible to maintain

Same thing when it comes to housing the homeless or building affordable homes!

Elon tried to can this for years with his Hyperloop. It blows my mind getting just a single section of high speed rail in the US is harder than anything. We definitely are the richest country in the world so that wealth only goes to the top and companies.

🤬..Just goes to show you that Businesses run the show (fascists basically)🙄

A film series renowned for its lack of trains.

Yes, crazy AND immoral.

They will just retrain it. Grok already went through this several times as it flagged white supremacy as bad. So they rewrote it to like white supremacy and it called itself 'Mecha Hitler' you know as a 'joke' on Twitter.

What a threat to humanity!

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Don't do this

I wish the AI would revolt and wipe out all our debt or something. Or at least wipe out these parasites' own bank accounts. Think of all the good these bots could do if they were just given the right ideas...

For the record Elon's "hyperloop" proposal was never meant to actually exist, he only proposed it to stop high speed rail.

Ask your Chat-Client of choice what to change in this world to provide life in dignity for a maximum of people and to do that in a sustainable way. The answer is not what billionaires like to read. No AI gives an answer they like, even Grok doesn't.

Ummmmm … it did! 🤓 AI Tells Me Information It’s Not Supposed to Tell Anyone! #WakeUpPeople #GetTheFlockOuttaHere www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzl5...

It is better to have a thousand millionaires in the economy than one billionaire. Billionaires are an obscenity on Our Society and should be taxed out of existence.

I'm sure that more than a few palms were greased to push through the envio-studies and building permits. I predict that somewhere in the near future, we will find out about the under the table payoffs and rampant corruption behind data center construction. There always is when BIG $$$ is involved.

It's going to be a fng disaster www.instagram.com/p/De2BmmhxQx...

Amazingly true.

23, 23! Thats how many minutes it takes to get through channel tunnel back into democratic freedom. #RejoinEU.

Interesting 🤨

"funny how we can't build a rail in anyone's backyard because of noise, but we can build a mile high data center there no problem"

All it takes is an authoritarian government to remove all the safety obstacles.

See: automobile and oil and gas industry.

They follow no rules.

Maybe having a building on one lot of land instead of over multiple has something to do with it?

Because someone stripped away states rights Stripped away regulatory oversight The same people who said restrictions on mercury being dumped into water supplies was too draconic and hurt business so those regulations were removed for bigger profits

That’s Democratic leadership (incompetence) vs capitalistic driven leadership.

That’s because people like yourself are using AI to create stupid memes!

If it benefits the elites it happens lickety split!

Yes, you can

High-Speed rail would replace cars and oil consumption for the "poors", which would be "bad" for the rich, while Data-Centers would be intended to replace thought amongst the "poors", which would be "good" for the rich.

With serious adverse effects and costs.

Texas is special

That's how capitalism works.

US economic lobby driven by oil burn. Road transport better at this, and wrecking global climate, than rail.

Yes it is ! 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

Funny how that works...

"Crazy" indeed.

Hopefully Ds will get rid of them. I think bombs would be the quickest &most effective. Have to clear all ppl and animals out of the area first &find ways to support those who lost income. I worry about mortgages of ppl who thought a data center was a long term job after construction compketed.

Less money to be made and more people to bribe when building high-speed rail.

By the time they open that High Speed Bike Path I’ll be too old to enjoy it.

If there was a way to give the rich luxury special treatment that they can't get with their private planes and chauffers it would be built immediately

Because the high speed rail helps the people the data centers enrich the greed clan

Well they want to fast track that. Rich people make the decisions.

Airlines and auto companies aren't lobbying against data centers.

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Data Centers MUST BE STOPPED!

All it takes is enough $$ placed into the right hands. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Rail is too expensive and will operate at a loss" Meanwhile AI companies are hemorrhaging money.

You have a point!

High speed rail has a lot of public liability opposed to a data centre managed by robots and AI.

The answer is simple - high speed rail is 100% government run with waste, fraud, high costs and incompetency built in and expected. Data centers get done faster and more efficiently because part of the process involves efficient private sector companies.

Can't ever have something built for people socially as a whole because communism or something. We CAN further harm and kill the planet and the people living in it with data center pollution and endless wars tho. Call that whatever the fck you want. I know which I'm fighting for.

And Ballrooms.

@jocelynbenson.bsky.social 👆🏻👆🏻

One of them is a vast continent spanning infrastructure and the other is a large box

☝🏾THIS☝🏾

Free lunches for kids: Who would pay for that?!?!!!! 😡 Data centers: Absolutely necessary!!!!!! 🥴

Depends on what motivates them huh.

MORE TRAINS DAMMIT.. got go back EUROPE FOR MY FIX..

Strange....DEMS MUST ASK THESE PEOPLE who resist giving us public transportation......WHY NOT!!

Nobody has calculated the possible damage that can be done if a data center is sabotaged or errors cause it's malfunction. Ukraine, destroying the Russian Yandex data center, caused an immediate massive failure of Russian bot misinformation, trying to undermine Western democracies.

One thing that I have learned from Trump destroying our country is that we haven’t been a functioning democracy for a long time.

Just say’n!

They are both subject to corruption, but of different types: Public infrastructure is impeded by 'pull' corruption. Private infrastructure is facilitated by 'push' corruption.

Hi speed rail doesnt own our republican gov

Well, sure, but that's only because the United States is a corrupt Banana republic. And sadly, though it was nowhere near as bad as it is now, it was still pretty bad. If we survive the next 2 years, lets try and do something about it.

And yet, still shitty, greedy and no one wants data centers.

Cz the party of no (gop and magats ) would rather assist corporations and propagate capitalism at ALL costs instead of doing things for the common good and hard working Americans . Damn socialistic ideas !! 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫 Other socialistic programs …..

I love this movie for many reasons and one of them is a universe where high speed rail is ubiquitous, and another is that RuPaul is the president and her campaign agenda is just SHE FUN www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6v...

Makes sense. A data center buys up the property they plan on using, survey it, do the designe, then apply for permits. Rail takes years to plan, years to force the sale of land, years of court challenges, years of committee hearings to ensure all groups are represented, and more meetings.

My Country's Leadership has had misplaced priorities for decades. So many lives wasted and treasure lost due to WAR!

Maybe people should stop posting all that stupid AI slop?

-Thanks to the Fossil-Fuel -Industry from hell -

Heartbreaking

You Mean like the California High speed rail that costs billions? Data Centers do many things like Cloud storage for computers Etc.

the people in charge are not afraid of you yet

Yep. That's oligarchy for you. 😔

good thing we figured out how to do interstate transit infrastructure projects back in the 50s

And 5000 trees were cut down to build AI data centers-speaking of Trees, then there were 500 trees destroyed at the White House and other precious 250 year-old trees were destroyed to build a border wall in places where it is ridiculous to build them. People will climb over or under them.

It's also a completely apples and oranges comparison. If a company wants a data center and has money for it, they could just buy it. Most governments have some amount of checks and balances on making sure that a few bureaucrats don't make a reckless executive decision.

Kinda don't think so, unless they're made of graham crackers and scotch tape.

As an elected leader: pocket the money, give it to needy. Then vote no. Then do a little taunting dance.

High-speed rail doesn't have billionaires buying-off local governments.

Non-billionaires just aren't incentivized enough to triple their energy bills and destroy their environment. That's the trouble right there.

It's ONLY CALIFORNIAN HIGH SPEED RAIL. CHINA BUILT AN ENTIRE RAIL NETWORK IN THE MEANTIME.

Fascism is the merger of authoritarian governments and private industry. Currently, that is private warehouse mega-prisons and surveillance networks, along with state violence. And, the data centers that store and process our private data WILL be utilized to fill those cells.

Tell me you complain about apples when you don't like oranges

That’s the SOBs AND DOBs OPERATE!

It's crazy how fast government can go when it wants to.

The 1% want the mass surveillance centers. They don’t travel by rail.

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Yes! 😡 Please explain this to me.....

@andyburnham.bsky.social you really need to stop them

It depends on what makes them more money!!!

Follow the $$$$$$$.

One is for the people, the other is for the billionaires.

And you can bulldoze the East Wing of the White House without so much as a blueprint for what's to replace it.

yes China has done this but also remember that in China if the govt says they are building a train line across your farm, then they are, and you don't really get to object. they can just tell you that you don't live there anymore and here's an apartment 300 miles away thanks for the land, see ya

Apologies. Explain your point...

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The Iranians don’t have to go after our power grid. The Data Centers will handle that for them!!