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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

www.404media.co

Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago
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In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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    Except the actual phrase didn’t originate from whatever Chinese saying you’re talking about. It was an anti-littering campaign, from Texas, in the 1980s.

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      No, its from translating ‘the art of war’ into an american dialect. EPA just appropriated it.

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        You got evidence to back that up? Especially since the EPA had nothing to do with the ad campaign?

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          Yes, but it would be very personally identifying.

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            How is a translation of some ancient public work personally identifying

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