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Everyone is onboard with bankrupting the wealthy fricks profiting off of your sick grandmother...


Until someone suggests voting their existence away by nationalizing healthcare.

That sounds like she is taking responsibility for killing her child. We need to start handing out birth control and abortion pills like candy, not restricting them. Forcing the mental and financial responsibility of parenthood onto people who aren't ready or willing will never end well.

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Nobody is forcing them, they could just not have sex!

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Completely true. But also completely useless as a solution. Blame the teen/young adult that becomes a single parent all you want; it's not going to stop their unwanted offspring from shooting you and stealing your car. The only thing that will is making abortion as convenient as possible.

Yes. And it would have been posted just the same on a server in a data center years ago before we started rapidly expanding them. We need data centers. We don't need them built as quickly as we're building them or without long-term investments in the communities they're built in.

The government is always going to get more money, for better or worse. I'm arguing that the companies raking in, collectively, trillions every year, should be paying a lot more than you and me. Government inefficiencies definitely don't help the money get where it should go, but what's a better option? Entrust companies to do it out of the goodness of their hearts? You could argue they have as much of a need for good roads as you and I do, but I have zero faith that they would act in any way that doesn't generate short-term profit.

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Do you honestly think things would be BETTER if those plants and refineries were not here? Without those, Louisiana would be orders of magnitude worse off than we are today

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Totally agreed. I'm glad they're here, but they're sure as shite not paying their fair share. When their (talking big industry as a whole, not 1 specific company) profits are measured in billions per year, making them pay to improve the roads we drive on to get to their plants seems fair.

It doesn't say 1000 permanent local jobs. Like I said, most of the work at data centers is done entirely remotely.

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“We want them to be built in other states… or do you want them here in Louisiana?”

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Other states. Where the building is physically located only means who gets the downsides. The upsides trickle upstream to California/New York millionaires.

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create jobs

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What jobs? A few security guards/janitors/maintenance folks making barely above minimum wage? 2-3 laborers to physically rack and connect stuff? The real work is done out of state, possible out of country, and the real money is made by the owners who don't even live here.

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increased tax revenue from a data center helped provide additional funding for local teachers

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Teachers were given a one-time bonus from a 1% tax on the construction. Once construction is over, that ship will have sailed. Also, only 1%? You bent over and let Mark Zuckerburg frick you in the arse, fricking your constituents in the process, for a 1% construction sales tax? Interesting. What did YOU personally get out of the deal?

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It’s not like we’re trying to do something secretive

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That's exactly what NDAs are for. They're not for anything BUT secrecy.

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It’s just about being able to have a conversation, and actually be able to compete to attract companies

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It's about keeping the details secret so your constituents don't burn your house down. You're a public official. Your business is public by nature.

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DeVillier said state leaders are closely monitoring those concerns and noted that the companies are responsible for paying for infrastructure needed to support their projects.

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Let's come back to this in 5 years.

Are you there to get coffee or make friends?

Go About Your Day Without Complaining About Young People Challenge
Difficulty Level: Old Man

I don't ever have this problem though so sounds like a skill issue. Maybe they don't give me the stink eye because I don't call them "honey". Or maybe they do and I don't care because I have bigger things to care about.

Having kids. Your money, your marriage, your quality of life, your ability to just exist without stress, all of it goes out the window for someone who will one day say they hate you. It forks up your wife's mind and body for years, plus now she is relegated to being a SAHM so I hope you were planning to make a lot more money. And she is forever going to resent you because, despite working all day + doing outside chores on the weekends, you don't do enough around the house and you just don't get how hard it is for her. Oh you wanted to take a spontaneous daycation? Sucks. You get to watch Bluey instead. Got laid off? It's better to give your family a life insurance payout than make them homeless. Want to connect with your wife? The best you can do is clean poop off the wall and hope she's thankful for that.

There's no way. It makes no sense. If you made a pro/con list, the only pro is that you might have someone to take care of you when you're older. But retirement homes are full of people who's family doesn't care or even hates them. You could cover end of life care by saving 1/4th of what you would have spent on a kid throughout your life.

You are right. A handful of teens do get top surgery for the purposes of transitioning. That meets my qualifications.