Exactly. It has nothing to do with operating a motor vehicle. It’s just about persecuting an already marginalized population.

Ground turkey tacos are a staple on Tuesday in our house.

AI absolutely CAN use that many datacenters. The amount of compute resources it demands for training is immense.
It’s being pushed so hard because all the billionaire business owners are throwing huge wads of money at AI services based on the wet dream that they can lay off most of their professional staff and replace them with AI agents. Because AI doesn’t ask for pay raises or health insurance. It really is that simple.

Yeah… best we can do is contempt of congress.

Asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said Noem was simply relaying the claims of an air marshal. “What ‘fabrication’ of the story of the cannibal?” the spokesperson said. “She was told that story on a deportation flight by one of the air marshals.”

What’s the over/under on whether this marshal was just fucking with her?

“Hey Ted, what do you think is the craziest story we can get her to believe?”

Cynicism is warranted. If you also look at inflation/CPI, it held pretty firmly at 2.7% for the year. That puts a 3.3-3.4% increase in salaries and benefits in a bit more perspective. I’m not even sure that 2.7% figure is very realistic. The way they measure CPI is pretty outdated. There are a lot of services we consider necessary now that aren’t covered, and those things have been going up a lot in recent years. Just as an example, my cell carrier bill went up 14% last year. I’m looking at other options, but it’s just one example of a service provider that either increased prices or watered down their product to try and squeeze more profit out of us in recent years.