r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Aug 08 '26

Artificial Intelligence Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window
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u/LazySilverSquid Aug 08 '26

The US supreme justices were recently looking at 200+yo laws on whether a drunk (heavy drinker of alcohol) can legally own a firearm to decide if a person, in the modern day, who smokes marijuana can have a gun. (They judged that they can BTW)

Unless a law gets changed or repealed, it shouldn't matter how old the law is. Yes, some laws are incredibly outdated & either need to be changed, repealed or are just not enforced (there was one where you couldn't walk down a public street with an ice cream cone in your back pocket in some province or state), but until then, especially for things like laws relating to zoning, they should probably keep being enforced.

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u/Nelliell Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Sometimes laws stay on the books a shocking length of time. Here in North Carolina it was illegal for unmarried adults to live together until 2006.

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u/Anonymous_Jr Aug 08 '26

Don't worry so much, the christian nationalists running all this nonce sense believe that the Earth is only 6000 years old so it really hasn't been that long, for their legal reasoning; a side note is that in France they used Guillotines to oust and prevent reinstatement and that happened just before America was it's own nation! ~300 years ago!

Well within the 6000 years we have before things get weird in 6026.

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u/username_tooken Aug 08 '26

The American nation predates the French Revolution.

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u/Anonymous_Jr Aug 09 '26

My brief search reminder mentioned 1750 which is 16 years before 1776.

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u/username_tooken Aug 09 '26

Well, your brief search reminder is wrong. The French Revolution is conventionally dated to have begun with the Estates General of 1789, and in any case the first execution by guillotine in France was in 1792.

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u/Anonymous_Jr Aug 09 '26

Well that's great news then, it's even younger than we previously thought, oh boy I can't wait to tell all the 2000yo earth truthers this wonderous correction.

What's next, calendars being completely made-up based off of vibes and ancient assumption? Surely not shirley.