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BeyondGeography

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1. Not wanting or needing something and having to pay for it anyway

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 01:00 PM

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in the form of higher electricity bills. Plus this stuff is costing people their jobs. What’s not to love?

There’s political gold in regulating the crap out of AI. Any Democrat who jumps on it will prosper.

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Not wanting or needing something and having to pay for it anyway BeyondGeography Sunday #1

+1 dalton99a Sunday #2

Not just power - they use enormous amounts of water as well ms liberty Sunday #3

doesn't the big beautiful whatever "protect" ai from regulation? rampartd Sunday #5

Young people are also motivated by this issue newdeal2 Sunday #8

Energy hogs pfitz59 Sunday #4

We Bernie Bros always knew we were getting duped. Autumn Sunday #6

I don't think regular Democrats are big fans either! LymphocyteLover Sunday #7

It's going to be impossible to power what they want to build over the next 10 years. 20 nukes just for Open AI n/t Cheezoholic Sunday #9