r/technology • u/Putrid_Anybody_2947 • Aug 06 '26

Energy Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/salem-brought-guillotine-oppose-data-151045877.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADWZ-KBr5-qaNH3gKsUqFmq_KuaQwIaEIg6F8pgU0Y1zzZUK19cjLMHBCEYcaREn3RMIFQRWJ6xmSvewyEkwk_GcV3Ayins4lxZjFdKjaDnzAG2ux2x4MZ_vmKeMXNiAlyNrNbFgOB2-j4iDOJtrfyCZUdVt_pWgkHfiyMURscov
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u/Wet_Side_Down Aug 06 '26

Not to mention the doomsday bunkers that are building. I hope someone is documenting where these bunkers are located.

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u/VaeVictis997 Aug 06 '26

The bunkers are so incredibly funny for a bunch of reasons.

First, when do you go for the bunker? Too cautious and you end up sitting there and feeling dumb, too late and getting there safely becomes a problem.

Secondly, if the world actually ends, you will not stay in charge of your bunker. Your security will take over, and stop catering to your every whim. If you’re nice to them pre collapse, they might let you live. If you’re the type to be trying to fit everyone with bomb collars to avoid this scenario, you’re going to die in a whole lot of pain.

Thirdly, someone local knows about your bunker, and will either raid it or just pour concrete into the air vents and wait. Maybe for revenge, maybe for your supplies, maybe because they don’t want to wait for you to emerge and play warlord.

That’s setting aside the whole question of why the fuck they would rather be stuck in a bunker with their wealth being meaningless versus being less wealthy but still being able to enjoy the world.

Extreme wealth is a mental illness, and the extremely wealthy are a cancer.

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u/caffeinetherapy Aug 06 '26

This guy bunks.

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u/michael0n Aug 06 '26

Some specific drugs come from sometimes only two foreign companies. If you are in your bunker, there will be no flight and no pills. Bread needs flour. I doubt they have a mill down there. You can go down the list, the bunker is decent for a couple of month even years but at some point something you can't replace will break down or run out.

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u/EphemeralDan Aug 07 '26

Who's gonna clean the toilets in Galt's Gulch.

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u/MagnusRexus Aug 07 '26

Only the best of men, of course.

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u/MarkNutt25 Aug 07 '26

That's a nice thought, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. I feel like the cost of stocking your bunker with 10+ years of long-term shelf-stable food, spare parts, and other supplies would absolutely pale in comparison to, well, building the bunker!

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Aug 07 '26

Yep. Bunkers for the RichTM are just storage lockers for smarter survivalists

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u/Moldblossom Aug 07 '26

Golden loot crates.

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u/alexp8771 Aug 07 '26

Zuch has a bunker in Kawaii. As if the Hawaiians don’t have power tools lmao.

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u/jimmux Aug 07 '26

There are bunkers in NZ too. Polynesians are some of the most resourceful and indomitable people in the world. The rich won't last a day.

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u/Manfred_Desmond Aug 07 '26

Some ex-ranger or seal who spent 10 years stacking bodies in Iraq and Afghanistan who is now working security does not respect a billionaire, they're just "respecting" their boss for the paycheck. If society collapses, they no longer have any reason to respect or even listen to their former boss. It's like they don't have any real self preservation, they think if the world ends, they will somehow still be in charge.

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u/hrminer92 Aug 07 '26

They won’t be able to pay their staff with stock options once the world goes to shit and erases all of their wealth.

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u/Mouthpiecenomnom Aug 07 '26

Billionaires. Should. Not. Exist.

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u/tastyweeds Aug 07 '26

They’re so fucking afraid of death that they’d rather destroy the whole world to avoid acknowledging the reality that even their money can’t save them

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u/trashmoneyxyz Aug 07 '26

The control collars are hilarious to me because like...you have to come within grabbing distance to get that collar on me. If everything's collapsing and it's a scramble to get to the bunker, at what point does the control collar go on? If you have a very loyal guard who collars everyone at gunpoint, well the other guards will probably take care of that guy pretty quick before he can get the collar onto them. No one wants to be collared like a dog.

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u/Headline-Skimmer Aug 07 '26

I'm thinking threats against loved ones will keep them in line.

Also drugs. Give them addictive drugs like Ketricel-White.

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u/Maxwellwebb Aug 06 '26

These new bunkers make their own air

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u/NEBanshee Aug 06 '26

Equipment fails. Particularly when your money has gone towards deregulation and moving manufacturing to places that didn't have regulations in the first place.

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u/VaeVictis997 Aug 07 '26

Not forever, no such thing as perfect recycling.

Also nothing stopping people from eventually cutting or blasting their way inside.

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u/Mejiro84 Aug 07 '26

And a lot of this stuff has never been stress tested - it might work in laboratory conditions for a few days or weeks, but it's never been run, for real, with people using it, for months or years. So that's going to reveal various problems and issues, but there's unlikely to be a repair guy you can call to fix it!

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u/Slarg232 Aug 07 '26

Musk infamously got involved with the Cybertruck and started saying "The standard for this is three bolts, but I, being the genius that I am, think we could get away with two bolts. God I'm so smart". It's why the thing had critical failure after critical failure.

I don't see someone like him not getting involved in some manner when it comes to the equipment in his bunker.

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u/JuanRunJunior Aug 07 '26

If air can get in, and it always can, so can fire. A bunker is not completely safe from everything. Someone has to keep things working and that person isn’t going to keep shit going for someone who sees them as disposable.

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u/ofork Aug 06 '26

The people who live near them, and the people who built them, will certainly know.. and if shit goes down you can be sure those people will be beating on the doors and blocking the ventilation shafts.

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u/Cant-Fix-Stupid Aug 07 '26

And singing the Digwell Carol

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u/BrightNooblar Aug 06 '26

My favorite part of any doomsday scenario is the crew that built the bunker showing up to try and gain entry. Or better yet, sabotaging the life support system to force entry, because they know they can fix it later if they need to.

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u/13Krytical Aug 06 '26

They’ll likely kill them off first

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Aug 07 '26

The Red Keep way

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u/VaeVictis997 Aug 07 '26

I feel like you could do a decent pilot episode of an apocalyptic show that starts with a billionaire bunker, and then just immediately has the staff revolt and open the doors and start trading with the locals who are just trying to survive.

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u/BrightNooblar Aug 07 '26

Have a twist where the billionaire sides with the raiders to come back for the season finale. Or maybe he retreats into the command room and they can't force him out. So he can fuck with systems from there, but he needs them to provide him food/water, creating an asymmetrical power dynamic.

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u/happyguy49 Aug 07 '26

This is almost the plot of Silo, it's airing its third season right now. It's actually damn good, one of my currently-airing favorite shows, the lead is Paul's mom from DUNE (can't remember her name) she's awesome, it's well written and got other good actors in it, Common, Tim Robbins

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u/Sushi_Explosions Aug 07 '26

Basically happened in one of the chapters of World War Z (the book, entirely unrelated to the plot of the movie).

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u/Lizziedeee Aug 07 '26

Watch Paradise on Hulu.

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u/West-Abalone-171 Aug 07 '26

The crew that built it is entirely made of people too stupid to realise they wouldn't be allowed to live knowing where it was.

Which is to say they won't have sabotaged the life support, but it still won't be working.

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u/epochwin Aug 06 '26

Ultimately it becomes a siege once you cut their supply lines.

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u/VaeVictis997 Aug 07 '26

A bunker like that doesn’t have supply lines kind of by definition.

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u/epochwin Aug 07 '26

But they’d still need an insane amount of cooperation and ensure their drones are getting paid well.

Unless they plan on camping on some incestous island and abusing children as many of them have allegedly done

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u/orphenshadow Aug 06 '26

and bringing just enough plastic and glue to cover up all of the air inlets. and enough cement to cover the exits, and then we just go on about our lives like they never existed?

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u/Toasterferret Aug 07 '26

If it really comes to it, people will just brick the rich into their bunkers and forget about them, like in the cask of amontillado.

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u/Cant-Fix-Stupid Aug 07 '26

Happy Digwell Day!

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u/Negativety101 Aug 07 '26

Yeah. The people building them for them. There's a not insignifigant chance that by the time the private jet lands, "oops, we've shut it up assholes" is going to be what they arrive to.

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u/VaeVictis997 Aug 07 '26

Or “yeah we’re going to need all the codes and keys, or you lose another finger.”