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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Still better than every dinosaur movie short of the original Jurassic Park. Maybe not as good as the weird faux nature documentaries on Apple. Still, if you like dinos, and get a thrill out of the idea of them eating your neighbors, it's a fun watch.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What do people do who have to park on the street?
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Isn't your jump to NIMBY the same thing? Explaining public opinion on one thing when it's usually different things for different people?
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thank you! I am interested in the property tax angle. Do they pay more tax than another equally sized business in the same property? I see this argument but can't find anything about it. Everything I see about local employment shows it to be a net negative. I am open to learning here.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If I look for jobs, I find articles determining that the local jobs result has been neutral or negative when data centers come. The first google hit is michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/data-cente... for example. Property taxes are paid by every business, so most people would rather have a job creator.
michaeljhicks.substack.com
Data Centers and Local Job Creation
Some Preliminary Causal Estimates from Texas
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I confused this with a separate argument related to Stancil posting I was having. I never gave you any text, so I apologize for inferring that I did.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Those data centers were about storage and not compute. They were hard drives and not graphics cards. Don't pretend that nothing has changed in the last year or two.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I am firmly against immigration detention centres, but they provide a service. There are jobs for enforcers, and they imprison immigrants. Data centers do neither.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You are inventing text that you didn't read in the defense of billionaires you'll never know.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Believe it or not, the internet existed before the data center...
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You're defending the building of data centers in your spare time.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It is correct. If you're arguing that 1 out of 1000 data centers provides a net benefit, so they're not ALL bad, then have it. Maybe that's true? Communities should continue to harass them out of town because the factors are rarely in their favor.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The italicized conclusion is "The causal estimates reported above show no net job growth associated with data centers." Are you using a LLM right now to interpret this text?
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The initial point that they provide next to nothing, yet have lots of negative connotations still stands. We're investigating why people hate them and I think it's clear.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Netflix is a small percentage of AWS which is a small percentage of data centers.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh look, someone read a chart and didn't read the article. How cute.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Literally every article I can find on employment with data centers finds the local job employment effect neutral or negative. What are you looking at? These are external temp workers.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
That might have been too long for you. Here: "fiscal incentives for data centers cannot be justified on the grounds of job creation."
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"What is very clear from the results of these causal estimates of employment effects is that fiscal incentives for data centers cannot be justified on the grounds of job creation."
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
That's a good use for data centers - replacing abandoned businesses in communities that will never return. Sure, it will never go back to what it was, but at least it's not vacant!
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
That's what everybody pays who has property. I guess there's a small benefit if no other business is willing to buy the property. If the property could be used by literally any other business, it would provide significantly more benefit to the community.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
And how do you know it? You're just bootlicking billionaires.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If they aren't generating their own power then they're increasing the cost of power for others. The property taxes are nowhere near high enough to offset their externalities.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Every study I've seen on the local employment effect of opening a data center is neutral or negative. Here's an example - michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/data-cente... . Show me something positive that's not a press release.
michaeljhicks.substack.com
Data Centers and Local Job Creation
Some Preliminary Causal Estimates from Texas
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There are many stories about communities that thought there would be construction or maintenance jobs. Data centers ship in cheap temp labor to construct them and maintain them. No local labor is ever hired. There is zero benefit to the community.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There are no LOCAL jobs. They ship in cheap temp workers. Nothing goes back to the community. Data centers are being built to justify the LLM stock market boom, not to back Netflix - that is totally disingenuous.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Why straw man a cancer argument? People just don't want buildings that eat resources, provide no local benefit, and serve only to further enrich billionaires.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A fossil fuel plant provides jobs and resources. A data center provides no jobs and takes resources. Both will create pollution. Some can argue that the fossil fuel plant is a net positive. Nobody can argue that the data center is a net positive.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There are many arguments against data centers. Some are logical, and some are not. There are no arguments for data centers.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's not mysterious at all. There is zero benefit to having a data center in your backyard. None. Most other things have upsides and downsides you can argue about. Pollution vs jobs, for example. There is no way to argue that having a data center nearby might be good.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Are you defending data centers or just expressing confusion as to why people swung so hard against them in the past year? They provide zero benefits to the area they're located, and the news has promoted many stories showing extreme potential downsides. It's really not complicated.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There is some local benefit to business infrastructure. There is zero local benefit to data centers. All news has been negative. There is no conceivable news story about how a new data center has brought value to a community.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There is zero benefit to a community from getting a new data center. There are many potential downsides - see all the news cycles about them stealing water, driving up electricity prices, illegally polluting, etc.. Why would anybody want a data center if they aren't getting paid?
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
What's a recent fiction book you read that you enjoyed? I loved Banal Nightmare, but would only recommend it if you are roughly millennial cohort, have a healthy amount of self-hatred, but can also laugh at yourself.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
He's saying real income and wealth is higher. If you used to be able to buy 2 things and now you can buy 3 things, your wealth has gone up even if the price of the thing has increased. The price is only relevant in terms of how much stuff you can buy. That aside, inflation isn't a new thing.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Multiple levels of missing the point. Inflation is not new - it has happened in many places and times before. What's new is relentless pessimism. Will keeps making the point that real wages are up, outpacing inflation, but the pessimism is worse than historical cases where real wages fell.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Are you saying that people are uniquely stupid starting in 2020? How else do you explain why price levels mattered considerably less before?
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Are you suggesting "the economy" is a reflection of your particular lived experience? If so, why are you the only person relevant out of 340m people? If not, then how should we determine whether the economy has become better or worse as a result of policy?
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thanks so much! You're my favorite critic!
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I just got married a few days ago in Ballintoy. Everywhere we've been on this trip has been gorgeous.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
She used LLMs, not AI. AI does not exist. She is merely leveraging the work of others through LLMs. She needs to check their work as most LLMs are trained on garbage.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I'm not going to use it daily until it's 85% accurate and actually saves time
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The one time it was right, I could have found the answer on any search engine just as fast. The wrong answers were all more accurate via search engine
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I've used it ten times and it's been completely wrong 9 times.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I wonder if the contrary replies might be in bad faith. Anybody who can read a chart agrees with Will's main points, but these people have probably gotten tired of restating the obvious. This leaves Will out here fruitlessly arguing with people who find it amusing to drive him crazy.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
You would equate book burning with the destruction of an Oracle data center? Oracle is one of the wealthiest and most hated companies in the world. They are being specifically targeted. Nobody is blowing up the concept of a data center.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Maybe it should be "vote against red, no matter what". That way people can still act principled and angry rather than subservient.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Was a DNF for me. I usually get to 20% and drop books unless they really intrigue me.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I get what you're saying with respect to quality, but I don't know if many screenwriters for IP movies could pull off incorporating thoughts about death and the patriarchy (or anything in that ballpark) without crashing and burning.
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allhorrors.bsky.social @allhorrors.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Who isn't? It's social media.
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