• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    The company claims that it is allowed to operate the existing turbines without permits

    xAI has been operating gas turbines that have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of smog-forming NOx per year.

    the Department of Justice sided with SpaceX in the NAACP’s lawsuit, saying the unpermitted turbines were a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”

    just another case of “I’m rich, therefore, the law doesn’t apply to me.” And the 1000% corrupt DOJ turning around and being like “yeah, actually, that’s true.”

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    why remove them at all? its not like they are getting any real consequences for anything they do

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    Shut off their water lines, cut off their power, cancel trash collection, and close their roads. Failure to abide by the laws regulating infrastructure means they don’t deserve infrastructure.

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      Eeehhh, how about you just arrest the owner? Mich more effective and a lot less work involved

      Plus, when I break the law, I go to jail. Same here

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        Pretty sure turning off supply is easier than getting an arrest warrant against a person whom the corporate system intentionally makes it hard for them to be held criminally accountable.

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        It’s owned by a corporation. Corporations have the rights of a person. But unlike actual people, you can’t arrest a corporation.

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      Last month, the Department of Justice sided with SpaceX in the NAACP’s lawsuit, saying the unpermitted turbines were a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”

      This says it all

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    And when you’re a star rich, they let you do it. You can do anything.

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    With SpaceX we actually have a company that has a real incentive to wreck the planet and that should have everyone concerned.

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      I get what you’re saying, but it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth. What I’m saying is that SpaceX would have to be run by a complete idiot for them to think they have an incentive to ruin the planet… Wait… It is run by a complete idiot.

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        it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth

        Hush, unbeliever. We just gotta invest more in the technologies that let us escape from the consequences of our greed. Well, some of us. The most greedy, actually. The rest still get to bear the consequences, but they don’t matter.

        Point is: pour more money into training machines to imitate all the things we don’t actually understand the complexity of, and surely we’ll no longer need those people when we finally escape to a better future where our serfs don’t need such petty things as rights and payment. And if you help us get that, you just might get a ride on our escape too!

        (You won’t, but I’m hoping you’re gullible enough to fall for it.)

        It is run by a complete idiot.

        And enabled by other idiots. Musk doesn’t exist in a vacuum.