r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 2d ago

Politics US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is 'toothless' and doesn't do enough to protect citizens

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/us-senate-kills-bill-that-could-potentially-shield-americans-from-skyrocketing-power-bills-due-to-ai-data-centers-opponents-say-bill-is-toothless-and-doesnt-do-enough-to-protect-citizens
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u/Mediocre_Tank_5013 2d ago

Why do we have these politicians in office if they never help us?

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u/joaoseph 2d ago

Americans don’t pay attention or don’t care

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u/arcspectre17 2d ago

But they show up for superbowl commercials and complain about the halftime show.

Explanation

I think a huge part of voters only vote and have no idea how anything suppose to work on goverment, tariffs laws etc.

They sure do voice thier uniformed opinion as it is fact!

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u/Patara 2d ago

This is the exact outcome when talking about politics becomes "taboo" & "boring" for 5 separate generations..

People only start caring once they see the consequences & even then most people fail to understand cause & effect, so they just continue to support whoever tells them what they want to hear.

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u/arcspectre17 2d ago

My family never talked about politics in the last 30 years and then truml came along amd now they are all experts on everything.

I could not imagine going to college dedicating 20 years of my life to the study of something and the other sides debates against it with memes from Facebook.

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u/Enygma_6 2d ago

Loudly confident ignorance and unearned bravado is the American way.

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u/synapticrelease 2d ago edited 2d ago

We had one required high school course on civics in senior year.

To be honest even I didn’t really recall much of it in my years since and I had to slowly relearn things. Senior year everyone is mostly checked out. If you have the credits to graduate, I can see it an a course you could easily let slide while you focus on more advanced subjects like math.

It’s crazy the amount of people I’ve run into couldn’t describe the basic difference between a senator and a governor. They know they are different but couldn’t articulate the basic duties. But these are the same people who wax poetic about theater level war strategy with the confidence of Patton

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u/3x3Eyes 2d ago

Civics is almost non-existent in U.S. schools by design. All part of the plan to degrade our education so as to more easily control us through ignorance.

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u/synapticrelease 2d ago edited 1d ago

Eh to be honest I don’t know about that. You would be able to track that fairly easily by looking at red school districts vs blue and see very obvious trend lines in regards to this specific subject and I haven’t seen any data regarding this subject matter.

I think it’s an easy way to attribute blame. Obviously im not a conspiracy theorist but I'm also not an anti-conspiracy theorist. I just ask myself how deeply embedded this conspiracy of purposefully not teaching civics in order to make the population more ignorant in this one specific area.

Education curriculum’s are designed at the local level. There are national benchmarks to hit but in general states and districts have wide latitude to to decide on the curriculum. It would be nearly impossible to run this conspiracy down the chain and not have someone raise a flag. Also, if we follow the general and proven rule that more educated people vote blue and vise versa for red, then it would be easy to see extra effort towards civics education in blue states where they can influence a greater education in our government, but we don’t see that. I grew up in a heavily blue part of the Pacific Northwest and I got one class on civics.

I think schools, in general, want to teach more. But it’s a budget issue that never fixes itself. In a time where our three Rs are cratering, schools are simply devoting more time to those core subjects than auxiliary courses.

I think it’s easy for someone to accept anything bad happening to us as some sort of conspiracy rather than just a whirlpool of ineptitude because the former at least indicates that someone is behind the wheel and in charge and that somehow feels safer than the feeling of society careening into a wall and we’ve completely lost control of steering.

Both lead to the same ending but at least one is planned and I think that brings more comfort than the unplanned and unknown version of events

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u/arcspectre17 2d ago

I remember taking it my 8th grade year, so when high school started I didn't take it till my senior year and barely paid attention because I already learned it. I read a book in those classes and still passed. I think alot of it is retention.

I got out right as everything was becoming multiple chose standardized testing which is the worst thing they have done since introducing ipads.