Amazon Stuck With Months of Repairs After Drone Strikes On Data Centers (arstechnica.com) 147
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain -- meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year in all. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) dashboard posted an April 30 update describing how its UAE and Bahrain cloud regions "suffered damage as a result of the conflict in the Middle East" and are unable to support customer applications. The update also said that "relevant billing operations are currently suspended while we restore normal operations" in a process that "is expected to take several months."
That wording suggests Amazon will continue to avoid billing AWS customers in the affected regions -- ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1 -- after it initially waived all usage-related charges for March 2026 at an estimated cost of $150 million. AWS also "strongly" recommended that customers migrate resources to other cloud regions and rely on remote backups to restore any "inaccessible resources." Some customers, such as the Dubai-based super app Careem—which offers ride-hailing, household services, and food and grocery delivery -- were able to get back online quickly after doing an overnight migration to other data center servers.
That wording suggests Amazon will continue to avoid billing AWS customers in the affected regions -- ME-CENTRAL-1 and ME-SOUTH-1 -- after it initially waived all usage-related charges for March 2026 at an estimated cost of $150 million. AWS also "strongly" recommended that customers migrate resources to other cloud regions and rely on remote backups to restore any "inaccessible resources." Some customers, such as the Dubai-based super app Careem—which offers ride-hailing, household services, and food and grocery delivery -- were able to get back online quickly after doing an overnight migration to other data center servers.
roadmap (Score:1)
You ready for this shit, AI?
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Strange story. (Score:3, Funny)
Why are the repairs necessary? What drone strikes?
Did something happen recently to bring this about?
They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:1)
Why are the repairs necessary? What drone strikes?
Persian Gulf
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Does a geographical feature like the Persian Gulf have drones? Can it strike at datacenters?
This stuff that's been going on since March is really incomprehensible to me.
Is Mother Nature turning on Jeff Besos because of all that silicone in the tits of his trophy waifu?
Might there be another, more relevant reason for the retaliatory strikes? Like a war of aggression, perhaps?
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Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
Well, it is obviously not 1979 and I'm not sure which one are you talking about. None of the major wars of 1979 seem relevant - neither the Soviet-Afghan, nor the Vietcong/Pol Pot, nor the Sino-Vietnamese war.
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Well, it is obviously not 1979 ...
Untue. That is when one side declared hostilities and began to act upon the declaration for decades to come.
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
Really? You sure can name the war, show us the background and present the declaration then?
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They are state sponsors of terrorism, not just against America. They are giving weapons to the Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia. They've been killing Americans in the region for forty years or so. Soleimani wasn't killed in Iran, he was illegally in Iraq plotting to kill Americans (and Iraqis).
It's important to distinguish between the government and the people (and increasingly, the diffe
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Oh, and what has been the official policy of the USA since starting to play kingmaker games in Iran in 1953? Keeping Iran democratic?
I really can't imagine what can give a subject of the US the arrogance to claim the US can improve on the situation in Iran given that the very same US are the major factor responsible for the emergence of the current Iranian regime and the instability in the region.
The only qualities that might explain your attitude are utter hypocrisy, willful ignorance and cultivated stupid
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Nice attempt to keep that narrative alive, dear, but it doesn't work .
The USA has been meddling in Iranian affairs for more than 25 years before 1979 and was a major factor that brought the 1979 coup about. It is yet another of your failures.
So you trumptards should really shut the fuck up about Iran.
Incidentally, you should shut the fuck up about most everything else, as you're as ignorant as you're arrogant.
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The USA has been meddling in Iranian affairs for more than 25 years before 1979 and was a major factor that brought the 1979 coup about. It is yet another of your failures.
That does not change the fact that Iran and the USA have been engaged in hostilities since 1979. You are merely partially explaining why
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
That means the trumpistan is the problem, trumptard. And let me give you the reason why, fresh from the shitgibbon's arse:
âoeWe ⦠land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. Itâ(TM)s a very profitable business,â said Trump at a rally in Florida on Friday.
âoeWeâ(TM)re like pirates,â he added to cheers from the crowd. âoeWeâ(TM)re sort of like pirates. But weâ(TM)re not playing games.â
Because you like to s
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Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
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If you want to go with the decades-long war narrative, then you must surely agree that the current cease fire does not represent a termination of the conflict, right? In which case, Congressional approval is needed before any further hostilities.
The US and Iran have had numerous short lived military engagements since 1979, plus unilateral attacks. What makes the current engagement unique is its magnitude and duration. Not that it happens without Congressional approval. For example in the 1980s an Iranian sea mine severely damaged a US Navy warship and the US' "proportional" response destroyed multiple military facilities and some top line warships in a single "workday". It ended when President Reagan said I'm done blowing up stuff.
Yes the 60-day
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This stuff that's been going on since March is really incomprehensible to me.
What do you mean? We've been told the war ended many weeks ago - so there can't be anything preventing Amazon from repairing those data centers now.
Maybe it's lazy union tradespeople or something.
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Yep, very likely so. Ban these already, I say.
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My theory is obviously violating a law would make him an easy mark for Democratic impeachment and (bipartisan) conviction after the midterms.
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Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:5, Insightful)
They shut off the strait in response to a war of aggression by the U.S. and Israel.
The only terrorism in this war are acts committed by the United States and Israel.
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The only terrorism in this war are acts committed by the United States and Israel.
The IRGC has killed more of their own people than Israel/USA combined. They are an illegitimate government.
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
On a per capita basis, Israel has killed way more of their own people than Iran. You are correct that Israel is not a legitimate government though.
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Now enlighten tell us about the source legitimacy of the Rodriguez crime family
I don't know enough about them to comment meaningfully.
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:5, Insightful)
Which law is Iran breaking to make this closure “illegal”? I know a guy with 34 felony counts plus some sex crimes walking free. He isn’t an immigrant either.
I hear that guy's dad was an immigrant (Score:2)
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:4, Informative)
Iran has not ratified UNCLOS and it doesn't apply in its territorial waters such as the Iranian part of the strait.
Kinda like the trumpistan doesn't accept the jurisdiction of the ICJ over war crimes committed by trumpistani troops.
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You keep lying, hasbara bro, but you're not convincing anyone.
However, its provisions are widely considered
Not by the trumpistan, which, like Iran, has not ratified the convention, has its own law, Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, in its place, and ignores it when it wants.
E.g. it declared its own "continental shelf rights" in 2023, it doesn't recognize dispute settlements by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, it doesn't notify countries when its warships pass through territorial waters, etc.
Ditto for your own little apartheid h
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LOL, I posted a map with a scale, so that you can actually measure shit on it.
You posted a picture with a thick red line that your hasbara boss had photoshopped over.
Sure I'll take my sourced map over your picture, hasbara bro.
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
Wow, hasbara bro, that's like telling me Ukraine is guilty for closing the ruzzkie ports on the Black sea or bombing the ruzzkie refineries.
Totally a hostile act unrelated to a "movement" that began on Feb. 24, 2022.
Right?
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
"A strait it doesn't control", you say?
Oh, but then what's the problem, why isn't anyone going through? If Iran isn't in control, then it isn't the problem.
And why were there no problems passing through before March 2026? Did something happen?
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
Why, who told you so, hasbara bro?
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donald, is that you, "accepting" something that wasn't ever offered?
that humiliating for you negotiation table is in Islamabad, not on slashdot, dear.
and you still have no noble price, lol.
Re: They are referring to the Persian Gulf (Score:2)
hasbara bro, read up on those maritime conventios, the Hormuz strait is entirely territorial waters. Too bad everyone prefers the part that belongs to Iran.
Incidentally, Iran has not ratified UNCLOS, which might be a basis for letting any commercial ship through the strait.
TL;DR you're a lying ignoramus, hasbara bro.
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What makes you think they get a
They get territorial waters, hasbara bro, as stipulated by the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone from 1958. Like the trumpistan and your little apartheid haven do, they also get to decide where these are in their Contiguous zone, hasbara bro.
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But they did, hasbara bro.
Sorry, you're wrong again, and that shit-eating grin of yours is telling the whole story.
Have a nice day in Haifa or wherever, you're boring me.
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A very stable genius is shitting in the swimming pool known as Earth and his cult followers care more about keeping power than doing anything to help the country. They could rein him in at any time but are scared to anger his base. For fucks sake they walk around in shoes 5 sizes too big because dear leader bought them. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13... [cnn.com]
Liters like fucking clown shoes.
Re: Strange story. (Score:3)
Please, trump already said it is about "taking Iran's oil" and not about any "nukes".
It is his flappers that came up with the "nukes" excuse to make the little war more tasty, but nit even the hasbara bros are buying this
Incidentally, how's democracy doing in Venezuela? Are elections going to be held soon?
Why is the boss of the Little Cartel still a president?
Re: Strange story. (Score:4, Insightful)
Iran accepted a comprehensive peace deal in 2015, hasbara bro.
Shall I remind you which side broke it and why?
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Be precise in your language, it's something you can do.
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
How many amurrikans has this bad Iran killed? A cursory question to the AI says maybe about 70, if the "attributions" are taken at face value.
That's an order of magnitude less than the Iranians your war criminals shot out of the sky in 1988 only.
What other pretend justifications can you offer?
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because that "deal" allowed them to get nukes.
[evidence needed]
The IAEA was monitoring compliance and found Iran in compliance until last year.
Iran withdrew from the deal in 2021, after several terrorist attacks on Iranian soil.
So, yeah, do try to keep up.
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What happens in 2030 when the treaty ends...
Dunno, hasbara bro, perhaps they would have been less antagonized and more willing to continue it.
Trump's "deal" is looking more and more like a cut-n-run in progress, leaving a radicalized regime with 600kg of enriched uranium and a largely intact facility in Fordo, on its own.
And collecting passage fees.
You may want to recheck your version of reality, LOL. Iran is a bigger failure than Iraq.
Re:Strange story. (Score:5, Informative)
We had a working deal with Iran. https://obamawhitehouse.archiv... [archives.gov]
A senile cult leader tore it up and here we are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
Oh, look, the hasbara bro writing made-up donos, Soviet Communist style.
You'll be right at home in Iran, hasbara bro :)
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"working" if your plan was to give Iran nukes
Iran made no progress towards either making their own nukes until well after 2018.
I will give you one thing though. The word "give" was an interesting one. The only one who "gave" Iran nukes was Trump, when he removed the one thing that was preventing them from obtaining them. What a wonderful gift that was.
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Iran blew them up because Amazon wouldn't let them have nukes.
Did you have an alternate theory as to why Amazon would be targeted?
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
The sad reality for the hasbara bros is that there is zero credible evidence of Iran being anywhere close to a nuke according to the IAEA reports.
HEU enrichment in Iran started a full year after the unprovoked terrorist attacks of the indicted war criminal nazinyahu in Iran in iirc 2018 and 2020.
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Iran was developing better centrifige technology to make highly enriched uranium faster and in larger numbers even before Trump withdrew from the deal.
Your lies aren't very convincing, hasbara bro.
Here's what IAEA had to say on your :
"A range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device were conducted in Iran prior to the end of 2003 as a coordinated effort, and some activities took place after 2003 [but] these activities did not advance beyond feasibility and scientific studies, and the acquisition of certain relevant technical competences and capabilities. The Agency has no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant t
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Your lies are baseless and I already refuted them in my previous post, quoting IAEA, whose job was verifying compliance.
Repeating a lie 100 times doesn't make it true, you little follower of goebbels and nazinyahu.
Sorry.
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Strange. My Amazon nuke deliveries are always on time.
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it happened weeks ago but you're probably watching epstein media ... so a whole lot has happened that you don't know. but don't worry, if trump doesn't back off soon you will definitely know.
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Look in the mirror while wearing your Trump hat, Trump sneakers, holding your Trump bible, and waving your don’t tread on me flag and say that again.
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The characterization of the Iranian regime as a "death cult" is a viewpoint often expressed by political figures, analysts, and opponents of the government, particularly in 2026
It's a label used for propaganda.
Any analysis that doesn't take into consideration that there are multiple factions, ethnicities, religions, etc in Iran is wrong. Any analysis of the regime without taking into account the anti-war people is wrong. Anyone who uses the label "death cult" to not refer to a death cult is trying to deceive you.
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But all the leadership, all the ayatollahs all the IRGC and Basij? Totally a death cult. Everything is martyrdom and death.
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clearly the "death cult" isn't all Iranians. But all the leadership, all the ayatollahs all the IRGC and Basij? Totally a death cult. Everything is martyrdom and death.
You are trying to justify your propaganda, and laziness by not actually investigating Iranian leadership.
Research takes time, I understand, you don't want to do it. And propaganda is fun, that's why it works.
But you're wrong.
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You haven't said why that person is wrong, you're just asserting it. That poster is completely accurate.
Propaganda is something that a state puts out. This is a post by an actual user. It's not somebody from a state, unless you can confirm it.
The proof is in the pudding. The Iranian government has sponsored and been responsible for multiple actions of terrorism over the past few decades. It is an extremely fanatical Islamic death cult.
Since it's pretty clear you do not understand what propaganda means, I th
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
You know it could be Amazon propaganda, looking for welfare-er-unforeseeable economic adjustment relief.
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Propaganda is something that a state puts out. This is a post by an actual user. It's not somebody from a state, unless you can confirm it.
From the dictionary: "the spreading of ideas, information, or rumors for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person"
QED you're an idiot.
The Iranian government ... is an extremely fanatical Islamic death cult.
You spread propaganda. Think who told you they were a death cult.
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What about the 150+ Grade School kids who were at the business end of a Tomahawk missile on about the first day of the US's attack? The Revolutionary Guard had been stationed there around a decade earlier and the US had never got around to updating their maps.
Re:Strange story. (Score:5, Insightful)
You gave zero fucks about Iran until dear leader instructed you.
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If Trump wanted there would be literal rivers of blood in Iran. Instead it's only the odd supreme leader or 2 and some ancillary support staff pushing up daisies.
Wow that's a fucking disgrace to the USA. They only managed to kill 2 people and a couple of support staff and all it cost was 15 US military personal killed and the 538 wounded?
3500 people are dead in Iran, 25000 injured, and even the USA and allies are clocking well over double digit deaths and 5 digit wounded, you gaslighting dumbarse motherfucking piece of shit.
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
Do you really think this makes your statements more convincing or are going for some endorphine bump by believing the anonymous recipient would be bothered by some weak insults? Maybe it's just reflex? Either way you're not winning people over with that.
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
No, that would be Ukraine, killing Russians, and very justifiably so.
Re:Strange story. (Score:5, Interesting)
Iran is a death cult who would be perfectly happy killing as many people as necessary to get their way.
Iran overall is a great country. If they can ever get their politics figured out, they will make huge contributions to the world in science, economic growth, and art.
The IRGC is a bunch of narcissistic thieves, having taken over most of the country's budget and killing far more of their own citizens than Trump has. They are not a death cult because they are enjoying the money they've gotten too much. As soon as they are gone (or lose power) the world will be a better place.
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If they can ever get their politics figured out,
They tried, but they wanted to sell their oil at market prices and keep the money. That turned out to be unacceptable to your militarist shithole, so you began to shit on their politics in 1953 and have never stopped since.
Perhaps that's a major reason they can't "get it figured out", eh?
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The problem with them getting their politics figured out is that we utterly fucked them so wet could have their oil.
Of your political system is destroyed but hostile empires, it takes a very very long time to recover.
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The problem with them getting their politics figured out is that we utterly fucked them so wet could have their oil.
It would be really nice if you spent an hour or so and took an unbiased look at the history of Iran for the last 150 years or so. Then we could have a nice fact based conversation.
Re: Strange story. (Score:2)
Here's a fact for you, fresh from your chieftain-in-chief:
"We ⦠land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business," said Trump at a rally in Florida on Friday.
"We're like pirates," he added to cheers from the crowd. "We're sort of like pirates. But weâ(TM)re not playing games."
Amurrikah, not playing games where there's stuff to be plundered.
Re: Strange story. (Score:3)
If only we could find a way to put IDF, IGRC, Trump & co. in a ball pit with some healthy snacks.
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mutually assured destruction is their goal dummy.
You mean just like the US?
There'd be nothing mutual about it if America wanted to completely destroy Iran.
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I bet Amazon donated (Score:3, Interesting)
to Trump's campaign.
Re:I bet Amazon donated (Score:4, Funny)
Did you miss that lousy feature-length film they paid $40 million in distribution rights for, and almost as much again in marketing?
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Yes, and inauguration.
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So who should we believe? (Score:4, Informative)
Trump who obliterated Iran, or Amazon?
Free AWS? (Score:2)
So wait... if I migrate my stuff to the ME datacenters, I won't have to pay? I'm aware that service may not be available or intermittent, and that resources may be lost permanently without warning... but if I'm designing for fault tolerant operations, this seems like a perfect proving ground, and not having to pay during the reconstruction period seems like a bonus...
the corporate masters bungled this one (Score:3)
It isn't good for business throwing your lot in with a man baby backed by a death cult obsessed with triggering Biblical end times, and an Internet army of full-time losers. Have fun filling your jets and delivery trucks. I doubt that free next day deliveries can scale when most of your fleet isn't electrified yet.
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It isn't good for business throwing your lot in with a man baby backed by a death cult obsessed with triggering Biblical end times, and an Internet army of full-time losers. Have fun filling your jets and delivery trucks. I doubt that free next day deliveries can scale when most of your fleet isn't electrified yet.
So you're rooting for the ... literal murderous theocrats? The mullahs of Iran?
With the amount of deregulation they got (Score:4, Interesting)
That's because the Republicans didn't really have the votes to have ram those tax cuts through so they used a process called budget reconciliation that allows them to bypass Senate rules and pass legislation with a simple majority.
But that process requires everything be budget neutral on paper and no matter how crazy they did the math they couldn't make that work without cutting Medicare and Medicaid.
Now from Medicare they mostly are using dirty little tricks to cut around the periphery but from Medicaid they've instituted work requirements that are basically impossible for the kind of person who is living on Medicaid to meet so that they just get kicked off. There's also a shitload of other dirty little cuts to the program.
And for everyone thinking so what I'm not a dirty filthy, socialist on government healthcare why would I care? Your hospital relies on the money from Medicare and Medicaid to stay open and keep the private equity vultures fed.
Now if you win one of those major cities, the kind that Fox News will tell you is currently on fire because of antifa stormtroopers, then your hospital has enough other business to stay open.
But if you're in the burbs or the sticks you're in trouble. Now the rural folks don't have a lot of options here. Rural people are either too stupid to understand they're being screwed or they know they're being screwed but they can't do anything about it because there's a guy who basically owns all the property in their county and if they want a job or a place to live they go through him. Turns out rural people aren't actually very self-sufficient, decades and decades of poverty will do that to a man..
But still they're expecting it. It's the people in the suburbs that are going to be shocked when their hospitals start closing. It turns out that having a huge amount of sparsely populated land is nice as far as property values and comfort but not so good for your tax base. So there isn't actually enough of a base in most suburbs to sustain their services and they actually rely heavily on subsidies from the inner cities and the federal government.
Well we just took down that chesterton's fence and y'all going to find out what it's like for your hospital is to start cutting services and closing. There is a fund to try and counteract some of it but it's a tiny fraction of what's needed and is mostly going to get sucked up by corrupt political insiders in the Republican party.
Anyway if you're in a suburb or the sticks I highly recommend you don't get sick for at least next 10 years. It'll take that long for the Democrats to have a prayer in hell and doing some of this damage.
Bezos has supported Trump... reap what you sow (Score:4, Insightful)
This actually is quite just.
Bezos has supported Trump in many ways so it is just what he supported...
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Bezos went from "Democracy Dies in Darkness" to "Democracy is Overrated".
The perils of centralized data :o (Score:2)
Amazon can afford to build hardened data centers. (Score:2)
Amazon can afford to build seriously hardened data centers only a large aerial bomb could penetrate.
There is every reason to dig in when you live in a combat zone. (Why the USAF didn't build serious HAS at PSAB when it ate Scuds on the reg during Desert Storm is a mystery, but hubris doesn't make for wise decisions.)
Bunkers are really quite comfy in hot climates thanks to high thermal mass. Barriers raise the bar to successful attacks. See the old U-boat pens on the Channel coast for specs ample to protect