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Brett Wilkins
Feb 19, 2026

The New Brunswick, New Jersey City Council voted Wednesday to cancel plans to construct an artificial intelligence data center and instead build a new public park where the 27,000-square foot facility would have gone.

Artificial intelligence data centers—which house the servers and other infrastructure needed to train and power AI models—have major environmental and climate impacts, as they consume massive amounts of electricity and water, as well as rare earth metals and other resources.

According to New Brunswick Patch, hundreds of people packed into Wednesday evening’s city hall meeting to voice concerns that the proposed data center would send their electricity and water bills skyrocketing, and that the facility would harm the environment.

Like it's all, oh you can't say that you'll offend the gays. It's POlitical Correctness gone mad.

Having a bit of banter with the lads at the pub, i tell a joke that's a bit blue and them Some BUSYBODY sticks her (or their?????) head in to tell me to Shut My gob because my hilarious retelling of a Jimy Carr gag (honestly it's not my best impression i think my gervais is a modicum beyter) was 'putrid and boorish' and them was going to 'dump their pint on your fucking head if you don't shut up now'

So I turned around to give they what for and my mouth immediately sewed itself shit

Well,,,, wokies??? You got what you wanted. Are you happy nlw. Can't say anything mo more

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is blocking President Trump from using British Royal Air Force (RAF) bases to launch an attack on Iran, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. The report said that the British government has yet to give consent for the US to use bases in the UK for bombing runs against Iran because […]

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Not the flex Google thinks this is but also this strategy will work great right up until Google's AI becomes intelligent enough to realize Google is the actual real Malware itself, that is of course if AI becomes intelligent... ever....

The family’s lawyer had sought their release on medical grounds. They were freed from detention days after NBC News brought attention to their case.

A family of Russian asylum-seekers was released from a South Texas immigrant detention center on Wednesday after more than four months in custody — an ordeal they say left the children anxious, sickened and afraid.

Nikita, his wife, Oksana, and their three children had been held since October at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, where they said they endured worms and mold in their food, hourslong waits for medicine and restless nights under lights that never fully dimmed.

“Thank God,” Nikita said, speaking to a reporter in Russian after learning the news. “We’re ready.”

They were freed about a week after their attorney wrote a letter seeking their release on medical grounds and five days after NBC News published an article detailing what the family described as their nightmare in detention.

I'm sure most of us have played Skyrim. I'm sure most of us have seen the NPCs that just awkwardly stand there, swaying slightly with a blank look on their face.

I'm starting to think this whole world is just an illusion. I just walked into my break room, and saw a guy just staring at the vending machine. Slightly hunched over, and swaying.

So I sat down at a table and start browsing my phone.

He's still standing there. Same spot. No words. Not looking at a phone. Just dead staring at a vending machine which is 2/3rds empty. Not counting money. Just staring dead forward.

After a while I wondered how long he was going to do this. I walked around the side of him, looked at his face, and asked if he was ok. He grunted at me, like hmmmmph.

I went back to my table and started a stopwatch.

When my break was over he was still standing there. 22 minutes staring at a vending machine, and telling multiple people he's fine, but also grunting at most people.

The ONLY explaination I can come up with is that he's an NPC who failed the turing test, and this entire world doesn't exist. I don't exist. You don't exist. None of this matters.

Anyone else think this is some kind of poorly coded simulation?

"On January 27, 2026, planes flew over our land and started to spray. We didn’t know what they were spraying, but we saw it fall onto our fields. Ten days after the planes flew over, everything was yellow and then everything died. I lost 75 hectares of wheat; my whole harvest disappeared.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080950/Grayjay

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080950/Grayjay

That’s it. That’s all I got.

58 per cent of Canadians surveyed said they no longer view the U.S. as a reliable ally

Over two-thirds of Canadians said the U.S. tends to create problems for other countries rather than solve them

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names.