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- 2 hours
Meanwhile if you put a couple of solar panels on your roof without filling out nineteen different forms in triplicate, providing a notarized drawing by a licensed architectural firm, paying $2000 in fees plus enduring the eleven month processing time, your local code authority will put a lien on your property and send a SWAT team to your house.
- heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish5 hours
Wasn’t this protected by the State because alleged DoD application? This is one of many reasons we cut it with England, just saying.
6 hoursThe sheep’s are sleeping, no one will do something about this. Welcome to the reality.
- IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.worldEnglish10 hours
It’s sad that the norm is to expect those in power will try to ruin lives as fast and as efficiently as possible. Just why… They have billions of dollars already… Why
- InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
Because they’re in a race against each other that they can never win. Elon Musk may have gotten a little wiggle room from his competition when SpaceX went public but you can bet your ass (cause I know all of you don’t have a dollar to waste) Larry Page is running his brain ragged trying to think about how he becomes the most powerful one. It’s just a pissing contest and unfortunately they’re really careless
- funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zipEnglish7 hours
To billionaires money is just like a high score in an arcade cabinet. And they’re also evil.
I ask myself the same question. It feels like such an empty life. More and more money that they would need many lifetimes to be able to spend, which will be worth absolutely useless if and when they end up fucking up the whole world. It doesn’t make sense at all. Yes, it’s nice to have money to buy whatever you want, I won’t argue that, but come on. At this point I’m leaning towards them just having so much fucking ego that they can’t stop anymore. If anyone has another possible explanation, I’d really like to know.
- ReHomed@lemmy.cafeEnglish17 hours
I have a suspicion they put the gas turbines near those communities specifically to fuck with them the same way they bulldozed poor neighborhoods for roads
- 15 hours
Well they probably are poor and thus have less means to defend themselves.
- heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
More likely bully tactics: they have little resources to fight it.
- GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
Mississippi black communities, not only are they SOL they’re about to be raided by local law enforcement.
- 24 hours
I work in emissions monitoring and this is super illegal.
- 23 hours
Its only illegal if someone prosecutes them. That isn’t going to happen before the purge.
- heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
Yup, the “penalty costs” are just costs of doing business. And the richer they get, the less impactful the penalty is so it gets easier to write off.
- 14 hours
Specifically which part is illegal? Is it lack of planning permission? Is it an environmental law? Etc.
- kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish14 hours
Not really. If he has permissions for a temporary install, it is above board. He just needs to get a permanent permit before moving to a long term generator instead of temporary fixes.
Should the permissions have been blocked? Now that’s a diff question
- chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
So you’re just going to parrot Elon Musk’s public statement about why he doesn’t need permission? Get outta here!
He has more than 2x as many turbines than is allowed for a temporary install. The article makes it abundantly clear that these things are illegal.
Musk doesn’t have permission to do this, no matter what excuse he gives.
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
While I hate being cold to peoples suffering, didn’t most of them vote for the face eating leopard party. They asked for their corporate overlords personal profit to be protected from their lungs, their environment, any consideration. They asked for billionaires to be above the law.
They are clearly being wronged here, there should be heavy fines, shutdowns and even jail time but my empathy is in short supply
- RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
About 40% of Mississippi voters voted for Kamala Harris. Additionally, about 38% of the state’s residents are black.
- funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zipEnglish7 hours
Just because they voted for a leopard to eat their face, doesn’t mean they deserve to have their face eaten
- 19 hours
Blacks typically vote mostly for Democrats while whites typically vote for Republicans. So black neighborhoods are commonly not getting representation.
Mississippi is about as Jim Crow as it can possibly be, so it doesn’t surprise me if white supremacist elected officials are pushed into office via gerrymandering, voter suppression and election tampering.
- nevyn@slrpnk.netEnglish22 hours
The other side of the duopoly would be doing the same, they both need to be removed.
- 19 hours
People are downvoting because they can’t reconcile one side being better than the other with both sides being bad. Is sacrificing citizens for AI companies a partisan issue? Does the mainstream democratic party oppose the unsustainable construction of data centers and what happens to people near those data centers?
- nevyn@slrpnk.netEnglish44 minutes
The lesser of two evils is still evil
The people might want to ask themselves about the illusion of choice. The duopoly never loses, it’s all a right wing con, the filthy rich are always in control.
Maybe try democracy and vote for a different party…
- Eddbopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
people did that work, just because elon musk tells people what to do doesn’t mean those people should be exonerated from the consequences as well. the people doing the work sure as shit falls out there ass, know there was no permit. if there no permit, then why not a great fire ball in the night sky.
- Lyrac@programming.devEnglish11 hours
I agree, Elon is not at fault here. All he did was finance it with enough money to convince people to ignore the law.
Paying someone to do a crime is the same as doing the crime.
Cause —>Effect.
- Lyrac@programming.devEnglish3 hours
Sorry, my sarcasm did not translate through text. I was trying to poke at the original commenters shifting of blame from Elon to the people that he hired
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish22 hours
Yea I’m not sure why this isn’t the normal way to think. The logic of “they are just doing a job and getting theirs” doesn’t hold up for everything so where is the line for these people?
Oh shucks i see you’ve signed up to drag me to the death camp! Not your fault! You’re just getting yours! Now let me be polite and handcuff myself!
We need to be more serious.
- minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish23 hours
At some point participation is complicity but unless we make it hostile to work with, for, or in the interests of these inhuman monsters, people won’t know not to. Labour is not in a position to know what work is illegal or not.
Working for the wealthy needs to be seen as a threat against society. It’s deeply anti-social. We have no way to differentiate them in their range of evil, and they made it impossible to find out. So at some point, to protect the working, poor and middle classes, if you’re wealthy, you’re a threat. Don’t want to be treated as a threat? Give up your wealth and join the peasantry. We need to police our own to protect ourselves from the threat of wealth.
- deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish1 day
Yes. I’m pretty sure it’s a contractor’s job to get the permits. Is it not?
Not removing blame from Elon. Just smearing the blame around cause all those fucks are responsible
- 22 hours
This makes me wonder what would happen if one would pour glass dust in the air intake of thos generators.
- electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish19 hours
Prolly get filtered out. I was thinking cans of expanding foam (ie, "great stuff) with an m80 duct taped to it. Light it up, chuck it in.
One of those fell in my washing machine when I wasn’t looking and it got emptied during the cycle.
Ruined my clothes and the machine wasn’t happy about it but it eventually worked fine after a few cleaning cycles.
The “liquid nails” type of expanding foam however, I’m pretty sure that would fuck up anything.
I think the great stuff would do more damage then the M80, and would result in probably one less charge.
I mean I assume the great stuff would leave the can after you huck it into the turbine, but if you’re worried it won’t be punctured, you could just duct tape down the trigger on the can before you huck it.
- melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish1 day
One man harming thousands. Sounds like a crime that would be punishable by death in olden times.
- 1 day
There was an incident in South Korea some years ago where a greedy developer built an apartment building with substandard concrete; the building later collapsed and killed a few hundred people. The guy was tried and convicted and as he was being frog-marched to his sentencing hearing, friends and relatives of the victims were coming out of the crowd and beating him while his escorts just looked away.
It’s really enjoyable to imagine that happening here in the US, but then it’s enjoyable to imagine winning the lottery, too.
People like this would be shot. People would group together and hire gunmen to get rid of criminals in the old west.
Of course their security was just a few body guards and that’s it. Nobody was living in high tech buildings separate from everyone else.
It’s still punishable by death! Not legally, officially, but very much in reality!
- NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
They are just going to call it another “Sacrifice Zone” like they do the cancer alley in Louisiana arent they?
Some people just are expendable for progress, what can the country do?
- fizzle@quokk.auEnglish1 day
Im sure the American legal system will get those wheels of justice spinning on this in a few years.
No, but Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep will win hella Oscars playing the plucky white women who “take them down.”
- chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
My city finally got a court order against a billionaire for unpermitted building that allows us to bulldoze his house. Just took 7 years in court to get the ruling…
And instead of bulldozing the house, we were able to use the court order to strongarm them into fixing their site so it no longer damages the environment, their neighbors, or city infrastructure.
The upside for the city there (aside from having to bid out and manage a major project in-house) is that we get a lot more tax revenue from a house that is brought into compliance than a scarred, demolished site.
- 1 day
Musk will power those spinning wheels himself with his natural gas turbines.
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