Sam Grey

@TimHannan The Virginia Democrats were seeking to have the federal Supreme Court overturn a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court, that said that Virginia Democrats failed to properly follow the state constitutional amendment process. It was blatantly not a US constitutional issue in any way

The Supreme Court is not even pretending to be impartial anymore. Republicans can redistrict but Democrats can’t.

@WhatSheepSaid @varrock Well that is retarded. I have never known anyone that pretends to have allergies over just saying they would like something else.

@Mut1791 @varrock People lie about food allergies all the time. “I’m allergic to gluten” when they’re just gluten free bu choice or “I’m allergic to onion” instead of just saying “I don’t like onion please don’t put it on my (whatever)” because it’s less embarrassing or something.

Liberals think "you are successful and have food allergies" is somehow an insult

@ComputerEnjoye1 @HeadDistributor @ZaidJilani You are blaming him for Covid?

@Mut1791 @HeadDistributor @ZaidJilani April 2020.

What liberals were wrong about is that minorities are unwilling to vote for someone who is occasionally racist. What conservatives were wrong about is that minorities will vote for someone who is racist and makes everything more expensive.

@HedgieMarkets This might be the worst argument against data centers that I have seen so far.

🦔Meta's $10 billion Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will receive $3.3 billion in state and local tax breaks over 20 years, enough to fund the state's entire police budget for more than seven years. The deal exempts Meta from sales and use taxes on roughly $35 billion in GPUs. Louisiana is one of 36 states offering tax breaks for data centers, with Virginia foregoing $1.9 billion annually, Georgia $2.6 billion, and Texas jumping from $150 million to over $1 billion in a single year. Only 11 of those 36 states disclose which companies receive the breaks. Local opposition blocked 48 data center projects worth $156 billion in 2025. My Take Louisiana taxpayers are subsidizing Meta's GPU purchases at a rate exceeding what the state spends on most of its public services, and Meta is spending $135 billion on capex this year. The company does not need help getting off the ground. The justification comes down to 500 operational jobs once construction ends, which does not pencil out in any honest accounting of public investment return. The race keeps happening because states are competing against each other, and the only beneficiaries are the hyperscalers playing them off. 25 of the 36 states giving away billions refuse to disclose which companies are receiving the breaks, which removes the accountability that would normally check this kind of arrangement. Good Jobs First says the $3.3 billion estimate likely understates the true subsidy because nobody outside the deal actually knows what got promised in the contract. Local opposition blocking $156 billion in projects last year is the only mechanism currently slowing the race, and the disparity between what hyperscalers are getting and what communities receive in return is wide enough that a reckoning on these deals is coming. The only question is whether it arrives before the next 3,000 data centers get built or after. Hedgie🤗

I think this is funny because after Obergefell, Democrats expected every single state and large organization to immediately comply with the decision, and more. They expected immediate and unequivocable acceptance of gay marriage and "gay rights." But even though Affirmative Action was fully repealed in June of 2023, most large universities and corporations are still practicing some form of racial preferences. The hypocrisy (and the "bitter clinging") is off the charts.

@TheCalvinCooli1 They really need to work on the sales pitch for these things.

🚨Report: 70% of Americans strongly oppose an AI data center being built near their home or community. People would rather live next to a nuclear reactor than a data center. Via: Gallup

@JaySyfr @TheCalvinCooli1 I would probably be more sympathetic if so much of the bad press was not self inflicted.

@TheCalvinCooli1 This is the power of negative press, where emotion triumphs over reality

@HeadDistributor @ComputerEnjoye1 @ZaidJilani When was the first time?

@ComputerEnjoye1 @ZaidJilani I don’t think that’s true. Steven Miller has always been a racist, but this is only the second time Trump has fucked up the economy.

@ZaidJilani You are inserting 'racism' when it is a non entity. People care about the economy, or more simply the costs of everyday items versus the income they are bringing home, that is all.

@NateSilver538 Pushing term limits for the Supreme Court says more about the current propaganda of the day. Supreme Court Justices only serve a single term currently, and spend similar, if not less, time in their position in DC as much of the leadership in Congress these days.

Here's what the polls say:

Voters actually have good instincts about what reforms to American democracy would be good ideas, and maybe we should listen to them.

@CDecokere @mattreedah @NateSilver538 No they do not. People move there knowing it is not a state, and them whining about it after the fact is no one else's issue. They can move 30 minutes in any direction for 'normal' state rights if they so desire.

@mattreedah @NateSilver538 DC has more people than a few states, they deserve representation in Congress and not be at the whims of the president

@l_DarkChocolate @mattreedah @NateSilver538 DC is a federal district, in both name and purpose, as in it can never have any form of state representation. It makes more sense to kick everyone living in DC out, and end the foolish premise of allowing non federal residences on federal land.

@mattreedah @NateSilver538 Why does MAGA want Greenland, Venezuela, and Cuba to be US states, but not DC? You are on the side of King George V, colonization, and taxation without representation and oppose the Declaration of Independence.

@bbcworldservice I swear it as if those employed at the British Broadcasting Company just spend their days dreaming up ways to betray the British people.

The Sami are the only indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction. Sara Wesslin is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami

@ApoStructura The disconnect people are showing regarding this pro and anti data center issue is truly something to behold.

Americans believing they don’t benefit from tech productivity gains while living in what is arguably the most prosperous country in the history of the world never fails to “amuse” me

@ABC It is the Congressional (Democrat) Black Caucus, as black Republicans are literally barred from joining it.

Almost a third of the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus are at risk of losing their seats through the 2028 election cycle as Republicans in southern states where they control the legislature move swiftly to redraw congressional maps. abcnews.link/KhpDUZx

@marcportermagee When considering how much of American education budgets have been driven by administration expansion/hiring in recent decades. It leaves me leaning towards this article/argument being likely propaganda, especially when they add on the whole decline in foreigners bit.

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students”

“police arrest man who is bleeding to death because the stabber claimed he was racist” its literally impossible to satirize the UK anymore. even the most extreme, hamfisted memes are just real things that actually happen now

The Supreme Court should not be “balanced” or seek to give wins to “both sides.” Its job is to correctly interpret the law. If one side keeps advancing interpretations of the law that are incorrect, they should lose more often.

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?