It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.
The "because it's cheap" usually has some caveats.
For example, American corporations offshored jobs to Asia with the "because it's cheap" excuse, then when covid hit and shut down China's factories, there were no local suppliers left to fill enormous demand for PPE or silicon chips.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
(Of course, American corporations exploited supply chain issues to price gouge & profiteer).
“Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican strategist and chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign, who had assumed unpaid role advising party officials on the nominating convention, has stepped aside.
Manafort’s move came after NYT reported that he had been on the ground in Milwaukee last week for planning meetings for the convention, as well as a Washington Post story that said he was involved in work connected to foreign officials and businesses.”
May 12, 2017 – Donald Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador at a WH meeting. The disclosure jeopardized the identity of a source that had infiltrated the Islamic State—an extremely sensitive piece of information. Trump had, “revealed more information to the Russian Ambassador than we’ve shared with our own allies,” said a US official in The Washington Post.
GOP megadonors saw this happen, & with no consequences, & thought to themselves "I could buy a president & use it against my competitors, or disgruntled former employees, buy myself federal agency, or form my own foreign policy objectives..."
Washington Post: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil CEOs to raise $1 billion for his campaign and told them if he gets back in the White House he'll immediately reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted. https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy
Former Trump attorney and misogynist Brennan: "Having sex with a guy you met a couple hours earlier in a Lake Tahoe lounge is untoward..."
I love, LOVE LOVE kasie for cutting in and letting Brennan have it before he was let off the hook for his slut shaming of Stormy Daniels.
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Kasie: I get that he says that having sex is untoward but I just think it's worth noting that like being married and inviting someone into the hotel room…
It begs the question, if Trump can use the same tax exemption twice and get away with it for years..
How widespread is this practice amongst the ultra-wealthy?
Is Jeff Yass, for example, financing the end of democracy & the termination of the civil rights of 167 million American women -- just to avoid tax audits?
The Holocaust started with rich people, like an obsolete aristocratic elite and industrialists trying to evade taxation, trying to blameshift an economic crisis to someone else, anyone else.
These wealthy individuals funded a divisive propaganda campaign that amplified "us vs them" narratives.
Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":
Gotta protect the administrators from checks notes professors.
“A group of 11 professors arrived at Gibson Hall Friday morning to deliver an open letter signed by 250 faculty members that condemned the university’s response to a pro-Palestinian encampment and demanded it drop suspensions against seven students involved.
“Nine armed police officers stopped the group from entering Gibson.”
Post secondary education stopped being free when it started being used as a springboard for social mobility under the GI Bill with Vietnam War veterans who weren't white.
It was marketed by Reagan as a "tax revolt". It was really a war on democracy.
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
