- Estimated capital investment to create one permanent job in a U.S. data center: $52,000,000
- To create one permanent job in any other sector of the U.S. economy: $322,000
- Estimated number of public comments submitted to the Trump Administration on its White House ballroom proposal: 32,000
- Percentage of those comments that were positive: 1
- Percentage of non-probationary employees laid off since Trump took office who worked in scientific agencies: 35
- Percentage of Americans who view their fellow citizens morally good: 1/2
- Of Canadians who do: 9/10
- Estimated number of protests that took place in the United States in the first year of Trump's first term: 10,873
- In the first year of his second term: 39,154
- Estimated percentage by which immigrants to the United States pay more in taxes, on average, than U.S.-born citizens: 17
- Portion of Italians who say that when asked what them proud of their country, mention art and culture: 2/5
- Of Americans who do: 1/50
America, you can do better. Create really good jobs, stop the stupid ballroom, respect and fund science, embrace immigrants, and do better with art and culture.
Those stats show us not as the United States but rather as Dumbfuckistan.
If you're interested in the data center boondoggles, Mother Jones has a great in-depth article about data centers and AI titled "Empire Builders" with the subtitle of "How the American Oligarchy Went Hyperscale," which is the title on the magazine's website.
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In the July issue of Harper's, there's an article titled "Happy Fucking Birthday: An Exhausted America Turns Two Hundred and Fifty."
That title sums up my attitude toward to the 250th anniversary of our nation's beginning.
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