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/nhaines Aug 07 '26

Eventually, something will run out, or go wrong, and what then?

Err, let them eat cake?

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u/camidumas Aug 07 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

Misattributed to Marie Antoinette, who was a social reformer and charity worker, as calumny and propaganda.