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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 5 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

It's shocking that they just seem to sit out there in the open. Afaik they are very delicate and fragile machines.

[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 2 points 26 minutes ago (1 children)

Would be a shame if something hapens to those…

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 10 minutes ago

What would happen if I by accident fly my drone into those fans?

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 33 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I hope Elon dies and I hope it's painful; dying would be the first positive thing he ever contributed to humanity

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 2 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

Shoot him into space on one of his or Bezos' rockets. Watch him explode as a result of the very thing he tried to accomplish.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

It needs to die ugly. All the musk children need to die or be sterilized. Everything it cares about needs to end, and be thrown into wherever we decide to dispose of used nuclear fuel.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 35 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Can someone just shoot the bastard?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Or at least sabotage the facility?

[–] remon@ani.social 13 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Other methods are also acceptable.

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 hour ago

Beaten to death with a used toilet brush.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Some polonium tee, hopefully

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

Did someone say Nowitschok?

[–] eicker@lemmy.world 42 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Funny how the self proclaimed savior of humanity keeps treating regulations like optional DLC: If anyone else ran 59 gas turbines without permits they would be buried in fines. Billionaires call it innovation, everyone breathing nearby calls it another asthma attack waiting to happen.

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 hour ago

Don't worry, it's only affecting a poor area. No billionairs are affected.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 2 points 43 minutes ago

keeps treating regulations like optional DLC

He, like any shillionaire, sees people as NPCs.

That's why he was so enthusiastic to kill infants, children, teens and adults by cutting USAID.

If he's ever admitted to a hospital, I genuinely hope that he's left to suffer and rot.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 67 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I swear I read an article about this months ago... is it the same data center and they still didn't stop the gas turbines, or is this another one?

Either way: fuck Musk and fuck the government who laid the foundations for such atrocities.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No,that was portable generator trucks that were not 'installed'. This is new.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You're right!

So, from bad to worse...

No, no. Don't look at it like that. They didn't stop the trucks AFAIK.

It's bad and worse!

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 6 hours ago

No, Grok has been classified by the DOJ as vital national security infrastructure and is not allowed to be shut down.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

it's more turbines, not sure if it's the same site or another

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

These new ones erase the old ones. Do over!

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

This would be a great time for an injunction to force the data center to shut down all of those turbines until the matter has been resolved legally.

Of course you need to be able to pay for a lawyer who convinces a judge to pass that injunction.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A judge that Musk and Trump have bought? Or a real judge? Do you have any of those left?

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm pretty sure that if a judge would grant that injunction there'd be one less a week later.

[–] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 6 points 4 hours ago

I will add this to the list of reasons I'm happy not to live in the USA, as soon as I manage to add new page to it.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 hours ago

I was landing in Memphis a few weeks ago, and you can see the literal cloud of pollution surrounding this thing. There's a distinct haze you can see centered on the thing.

[–] philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 7 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

I fail to see the relevance of race on this context. Its like they want to pit us against each other but this is a class issue. Its us vs the oligarchs and they are presently winning

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Musk comes from South African apartheid blood money. His grandfather moved to the country because he liked said apartheid, iirc.

The US also suffers from an abhorrent history and current climate of racism on top of its deeply ingrained classism.

Not sure how deliberate the choice was, but exploiting and hurting marginalized communities seems to be a honed skill of the Musk family (not counting his kids who disowned him ofc, especially his daughter)

Edit: Yep, I was right. From Wikipedia:

Haldeman's move to South Africa was motivated by support for apartheid, and he was a supporter of the ruling National Party of South Africa. Errol Musk said of his wife's family: "They were very fanatical in favor of apartheid... [Maye's] parents came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government."[23]

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 hours ago

We're talking about America here. Everything is a race issue. Its almost apartheid.

I guess the turbines were build near a neighbourhood that mostly houses black people.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a class issue. Being white alone won't get you in their club. But they also really hate darker skinned people and go out of their way to be extra shitty to them.

The two things aren't exclusive of one another.

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You mean like the CEOs of Microsoft and Google or?

[–] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 3 points 58 minutes ago

They definitely don't hate people of Indian decsent as much as they hate african-americans. And a few successful people with darker skin does not indicate that the regular people are treated fairly?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I suspect its more to highlight musk's contribution to systemic racism and race-based inequality than to try and divide us by color lines. In an ideal world, racist shit like this should unite us even more through our shared disgust at how abhorent their behavior is.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know how they are winning. I haven't given them any of my money.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 7 points 6 hours ago

They are winning if nobody makes them tear down such illegal constructions.

[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

JC, every other post on here is about data centers, Elon Musk or White House legislation. Can’t we talk about technology instead of US politics?

[–] guy@piefed.social 1 points 9 minutes ago

Feel free 😄