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Microsoft wants all its spending on reopening Three Mile Island to come from taxpayer funded loans, and wants tax credits to reimburse it for the fact the electricity it generates will be so expensive (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 70 points 10 months ago (2 children)

America: privatized profits, socialized costs.

How much longer y'all just going to keep taking it in the ass?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We really don't have much say in it. Sure we vote but there's an entire segment of the country that's afraid of immigrants whose influence is very disproportional to the percentage of the population.

[–] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Entire segment? Nearly half the population is complacent lol

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, but have you considered that their rep showed up to a thing they were at, was nice to them, and correctly displayed the tribal symbols?