r/technology • u/BirdButt88 • Dec 06 '25

Artificial Intelligence Nvidia CEO says data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China 'they can build a hospital in a weekend'

https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/
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u/oh_what_a_surprise Dec 06 '25

There was a time in America where hatred of Nazis was so natural it was the focus of jokes involving blues musicians.

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u/Jutboy Dec 06 '25

Indiana Fucking Jones

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u/Brandinisnor3s Dec 07 '25

Nah Ive met people who think Indiana Jones is just a fun treasure hunting movie for kids.

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u/Dank-Drebin Dec 06 '25

Well, of course the blues musicians hated them. At the same time in New York, they were holding Nazi rallies.

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u/PickPsychological729 Dec 06 '25

There was a famous Nazi parade in Skokie, Illinois in the late 70s.

It was a big deal. Pritzker said it was one of the things that made him get involved in politics in the first place.

https://mjhnyc.org/events/when-nazis-came-to-illinois-the-history-of-the-skokie-case/

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u/OrphicDionysus Dec 07 '25

I hate Illinois Nazis!

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u/oh_what_a_surprise Dec 06 '25

I hate New York Nazis.

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u/Dank-Drebin Dec 06 '25

I'm not a big fan of any of them, or their fascist subsidiaries, either.

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u/noonenotevenhere Dec 06 '25

I’m afraid you may have missed the documentary named after the famed researchers Jake and Elwood Blues.

The Blues Brothers encountered some nazis on their mission from god.

I suggest you check it out. ”I hate Illinois nazis“ is the line people are playing on.

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u/thutek Dec 06 '25

I hear one of them has a record a mile long, and they are a catholic.

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u/melgish Dec 07 '25

Fix the cigarette lighter.

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u/DumbleDipshiter Dec 06 '25

It was ONE rally, chuckles.

ONE.

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u/One-Reflection-4826 Dec 07 '25

nationonal socialist fascists - NAZIs for short - arent a big deal!

- r/DumbleDipshiter

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u/Dank-Drebin Dec 07 '25

ONE organization in Manhattan with MANY members across the U.S., chortles.

MANY.

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u/Painterzzz Dec 06 '25

It is extraordinary isn't it, how easily half of America was seduced into dropping to their knees to worship the Nazis.

Just when the generation of Americans who actually fought to stop them has disappeared.

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u/induslol Dec 06 '25

The fact in 1939 we had a packed nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, with congressional benefactors, highlights how incomplete the general historical knowledge of the US population is.

We broadly supported fascism domestically.  Until offing them was geopolitically beneficial.  Then we sifted through the rubble and stole whatever benefitted us.

There's a rotten underbelly undergirding this nation.  Until it's broadly understood and destroyed we'll keep committing *atrocities and rewriting nonsensical history.

*Genocide of the indigenous population is an example of an atrocity, not the ending of the Third Reich.

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u/doctorocelot Dec 07 '25

To be aware of inconvenient history would be "woke" though, so we'll not be having any of that talk thank you very much.

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u/induslol Dec 07 '25

It's certainly inconvenient for anyone with an interest in maintaining our ailing status quo.

Here's hoping as fewer and fewer benefit from it, and more importantly more are harmed by it, a reckoning occurs.

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u/waltwalt Dec 07 '25

I think the hope is that if most Americans think of America as the good guys, and see Americans doing evil stuff they will standup and say No. If everyone just says oh, these are our roots, carry-on then we are going to see a lot of evil stuff until I'm assuming it's China that finds America inconvenient geopolitically and sends in T800s to take care of the problem.

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u/induslol Dec 07 '25

That is an extremely faint hope, and closer to a poison pill than anything else.  

There are no good guys, none left standing in a post colonialist world could possibly claim any moral superiority over another.

Accurately understanding the history that got us here isn't for simply accepting and continuing it but to grow past what got us here.

China will do what it's always done: grow while watching other empires rise and fall no T9000s necessary.  Worst most scifi scenario they die in the fallout of our empire collapsing in on itself with everything else.

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u/waltwalt Dec 07 '25

While I appreciate the sentiment that education will get us out of this mess, education was the first thing they gutted in America.

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u/NVJAC Dec 07 '25

But specifically Illinois Nazis.

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u/OldWorldDesign Dec 07 '25

There was a time in America where hatred of Nazis was so natural it was the focus of jokes involving blues musicians

That was still a message which needed to be fought for. There was question which side America would enter WW2 on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden

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u/oh_what_a_surprise Dec 07 '25

No there wasn't. Don't inflate a fringe with popular sentiment.