@kevinolearytv @AGHuff AI makes human lives worse. It provides authoritarians with better tools to terrorize their populous. Take your ai, programmable money and technocratic fever dreams and shove it.
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Why wouldn’t China want more data centers built in the United States? Simple, the nation that leads in AI will lead the future, economically, technologically, and militarily. We’re already seeing it happen in real time as AI drives unprecedented productivity and margin expansion across every sector of the economy. While America debates permits, regulations, and protests over data centers, China is rapidly building power infrastructure and scaling compute capacity as fast as possible. This race is no longer theoretical. Whoever has the most compute, the best models, and the strongest infrastructure will shape the next era of global power.
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@HealthRanger @MoneyCircus The lottery is a refuge for the desperate. It provides a few days of hope and all your left with is a piece of garbage.
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Remember when I said all the government-run lottos are completely rigged?
Yep. They are.
Winners are selected. They are not random. Often it's a way to slush money into CIA projects that need funding. Other times, it's a way to pay off various parties.
From time to time, it's just old-school theft with a percentage kickback.
It's NEVER honest. Why would it be? Why would a government just give money away in a manner they don't control? (Hint: They don't. They control it.)
Houston Chronicle@HoustonChron
Former Texas lottery director Gary Grief and the Texas Lottery Commission have been criminally charged with misusing their positions in a $95 million Lotto Texas draw in which the agency assisted international gamblers engineer a guaranteed win, earning tens of millions in profits at the expense of ordinary players. bit.ly/4dpRftR
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@ImtiazMadmood @WeAreThePrey Substitute “business leaders” for “oligarchs” and it all makes a lot more sense. Rump can’t help but pick away at the festering sore
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EPIC MODE ACTIVATED
President Trump stared down Xi Jinping and delivered a masterstroke that left the room in silence:
“I brought the 30 most powerful business leaders on the planet to these talks… and they all said yes. I didn’t send the second-in-command or the vice president.
I wanted the number one from each empire! Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and the other titans… the best in the world are here, right in front of you.”
Then, with his winner’s smile, he sealed the deal:
“They’re here today to pay respect to you and to China. They come hungry to do business, invest, and create. From our side, it’ll be 100% reciprocal.”
The message is clear: America isn’t coming to beg. It’s coming with the supreme bosses of global innovation to lay all the cards on the table.
This isn’t normal diplomacy… this is high-voltage diplomacy!
- @Jhonffonseca
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@boriquagato Housing is excessively expensive for more reasons than simply supply and demand. It is a coveted asset where many players are in it seeking leverage and rent. If mortgages maxed out at 15 years it would be much cheaper.
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it's fascinating watching the "rent control" mavens discover "supply side changes." this is an obvious (and desperately needed) plan to reduce the outlandish permitting, planning, and eco grift that hamstrings construction.
but this plan is desperately broken in its core. the ideas are correct, but it's limited to "100% affordable new construction" on city owned or private sites. it's a tiny sliver of what would be needed to actually affect the market rate housing segment.
you cannot fix housing with price fixing or this sort of small segment meddling, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of markets.
the cure for high prices is high prices. they are a signal to make more of a high demand good or service. if a market is unable to respond to such signals, the problem is always on the supply side.
try building in new york. this project aims to take planning from 2 years to 6 months. but everyone else is still mired in "2 years" just for planning.
you have not even started demo, construction, or approval yet.
the entire empire state building, from clean sheet of paper planning to the demolition of the old waldorf hotel to actual opening for occupancy was 21 months. similar projects are currently 8+ years.
you want to fix the problem? that's the one you need to focus on. everyhting else is deckchairs on the titanic.
we literally had this technology and lost it.
getting regulators and agencies out of the way will be like supercharging city centers. whoever figures this out first will explode with vibrancy.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 NEW: Mayor Mamdani just launched a sweeping affordable housing reform package to speed up housing production. Experts project that this will reduce build times by as much as 2 years.
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@truthstreamnews I hadn’t heard this one and I thought I’d heard them all. I did hear they pushed prohibition against hemp because it was a plant based alternative to fossil fuels.
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It's so telling that you can ask simple questions like "Did Rockefeller push prohibition?" and Google's AI will preemptively take a defensive stance re: conspiracy theories.
It's a yes-or-no question. The answer is yes. Methinks they programmed the AI to protest way too much.
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@uTobian @Geopolitics_Emp Duh, engineering a culture of total totalitarian control. The aim is to put a barcode on literally everything. The banker overlords are slathering over how much they can expand the balance sheet once every atom is commodified.
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I assume they are building the 3,000 new AI data centers to enslave and kill us. I just haven't figured out HOW massive warehouses filled with computer servers will be used to do that. AI nanobot factories? AI drone factories? AI bioweapons labs? AI TikTok reels that hypnotize?
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@AndrewCFollett @robbystarbuck If this is true it is spent very poorly. How many trillions spent and we still have mass homelessness and a huge precariat.
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Defense is 8% of US government spending.
Welfare is 47%!
Chris Freiman@cafreiman
Total education spending in the US exceeds defense spending—people dramatically overestimate how much is spent on defense.
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There are a lot of legitimate reasons to oppose them IMO.
They’re big, ugly, noisy, take up too much land. That bothers me as a conservationist. Eminent domain bothers me even more. And why exactly do we need them or AI? Why do we need to compete with China? What is the net benefit or result?
I think the hysteria over data centers is a bit much, but there are legitimate concerns.
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The opposition to data centers is largely being driven by climate alarmists and hypocritical lefty millionaires.
Exhibit A.
Elizabeth Warren@ewarren
A single AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households—and utility companies are passing the upgrade costs to you, not to the trillion-dollar tech giants. I've opened an investigation. These companies need to pay their costs.
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@MissouriLibert2 @WinterOakPress An interim step may be two phones. A “clean” phone to do everyday business and “authentications” and a privacy phone to express verboten opinions.
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UNPOPULAR OPINION
The day is coming when we are going to have to permanently ditch our cell phones. The convenience of the "smart phone" is contributing to government surveillance and corporate eavesdropping.
FYI.
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@FriedaLi3 The US has yet to show it is agreement capable. It has been this way for a great long while.
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The two sides have agreed on a new framework for China-U.S. relations called "constructive strategic stability." This is meant to guide the relationship for the next three years and beyond.
What does "constructive strategic stability" mean? In plain terms:
Cooperation comes first — a positive kind of stability
Competition has limits — healthy, not destructive
Disagreements stay manageable — normal, not crisis-driven
Peace remains possible — lasting, not fragile
China says it's ready to work with the U.S. to turn this new framework into real action — and to keep the relationship stable, healthy, and sustainable over the long run.
Frieda Li@FriedaLi3
Some key takeaways from the 5-minute dialogue between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump: Xi: -The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major country relations？ -Our two countries have more common interests than differences. -Success in one is the opportunity for the other and a stable bilateral relationship is good for the world. -We should be partners, not rivals. We should help each other succeed and prosper together and find the right way for major countries to get along well with each other in the new era. -Let's make 2026 a historic landmark year that opens up a new chapter in China-U.S. relations. Trump: -You and I have known each other now for a long time, in fact, the longest relationship of our two countries that any president has had. -We've had a fantastic relationship. We've gotten along when there were difficulties. We worked it out. -They're here today to pay respects to you and to China and they look forward to trade and doing business and it's going to be totally reciprocal on our behalf.
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@conspiracyb0t Copper plumbing came after the images shown. Its heyday was the ‘50s to the ‘80s.
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The real reason they got rid of copper pipes:
"By drinking copper water you are charging your body and boosting your frequency."
"But not only that, copper is antibacterial."
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When you spend months ignoring RU advances and then finally catch up, it looks like a burst advance.
Playfra@Playfra0
Kostyantynivka direction, description of the situation focusing on the city itself and answers to FAQs. Russian forces are infiltrating along the shown routes, reaching as far as the heads of the furthest arrows (approximately). The infiltrations recorded recently are deeper than ever and quite worrying, but, after clarifying, are fortunately still one-time actions and don't constitute immediate criticalities (this doesn't mean that they should be ignored, quite the opposite). Please remember the fundraiser I'm doing to help this direction! x.com/Playfra0/statu… - On the western side, they advance along the creek up to Illinivka, then divide in two vectors: one with the aim of reaching northern Kostyantynivka through the forests on the shores of the artificial lakes, exactly as predicted in t.me/PlayfraOSINT/4…, and one that goes through the Chervone Mistechko district up until the Tsentralniy district, where some Russians were detected recently. - On the southern side, infiltrations come through Berestok up to eastern Illinivka and the Berestovyi District. - On the eastern side, Russian forces infiltrate through the big forest east of the city, periodically hiding in the dugouts and basements of destroyed dachas and then entering the Hora district; there, they divide once again into 2 distinct fluxes: one going into Novodmytrivka, where they were found and struck in its northern outskirts recently, up to Molocharka, and one going deep into eastern Kostyantynivka up to the 92nd Quarter. - Possible unspecified infiltrations into the southeastern part of the city into the Santurynivka District and through the garbage dump area into the Ukrainskiy Khutir District. FAQs: Q: Why are the Russians advancing here? A: This is happening not because of one evident Ukrainian mistake, but because of massive and constant Russian pressure prolonged for months, if not years, on a single small sector, with extreme amounts of air support launching FABs, KABs, drones of all types, and artillery 24/7. The closest analogy to the current situation is a dam that is at its cracking phase and might soon either suddenly give up or slowly continue to crack until all the water seeps out. That is, we might see a big but very unlikely Russian breakthrough in the city or a moderate advancement of Russian infiltration groups in the city that will first make these deep infiltrations frequent (gray zone), and then they will try to consolidate these positions, repeating the process until Kostyantynivka is eventually lost. Q: What can the Ukrainians do? A: Not much. The Russians still have resources here, and they set this city as one of their main goals for this year, so they will not give up easily whatsoever in attempting to capture it and will commit massive amounts of resources to fulfill this goal. The only theoretical stabilization might happen after a significant amount of assault units are transferred here, which would have to undertake a big clearing operation, likely at the level, if not bigger, than the Kupyansk operation (which is still ongoing after almost half a year). Q: What is this scenario comparable to? A: Mid-Pokrovsk/Myrnohrad, where logistics were already terrible and a significant number of Russian infantry started to infiltrate deeper into the city. Q: Are the Russian levels of attrition satisfactory for what has been accomplished by them up to now? A: From the ground, the feeling is that yes, Russian forces have suffered appropriate and significant losses until now, and the battle for the city is still far from over. In general, it's possible to underline how Russian forces suffer much more in fields than in urban areas.
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@Megatron_ron Also Obama - flattened Libya and “killed a bunch of people” in proxy wars in Syria and Yemen.
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@donaldgorbachev The conspiracy crowd isn’t particularly angry, if some of them are it’s definitely not about anything written here. If you recall HS biology, CO2 is essential to plant life. Noticing the dire prognostications of global warming doomers haven’t panned out doesn’t make you stupid.
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Five-second epistemology of the Operational Conspiracy in the American Driveway; being a treatise on the apparatus by which the landlord class, the dealer fiefdom, the F-150 marketing department, the recreational vehicle dealer trade association, the carbon-emissions-are-plant-food school of climate denial, and the chief landlord himself — President ALL CAPS, real estate developer in the White House — combine in plain view at the tariff schedule, the lobby disclosure forms, and the Detroit Three advertising budget to keep the American consumer from purchasing the ten-thousand-dollar Chinese electric vehicle.
§ I. THE CONSPIRACY NAMED
Yes. There is a conspiracy. The kitchen names it.
The BYD Seagull retails for ten thousand dollars in China. The BYD Han retails for forty and goes four hundred miles on a charge. The conspiracy applies a one hundred percent tariff on top of those prices. The conspiracy enforces state-by-state dealer laws that would block direct-to-consumer sales even without the tariff. The conspiracy funds the F-150 Lightning at sixty thousand and the F-150 Platinum at ninety. The conspiracy markets the dually pickup truck as a lifestyle. The conspiracy markets the hundred-thousand-dollar travel trailer. The conspiracy markets the five-thousand-mile cross-country RV vacation as the American dream.
That is the conspiracy. Operational. Named in the lobby disclosure forms. Named in the tariff schedule. Named in the F-150 advertising budget at the Detroit Three. Fully visible in plain sight at the level of the line item.
The conspiracy is on television. The conspirators are watching the ads. The conspirators bought the truck during the commercial.
§ II. THE CONSPIRACY CROWD WANTED THE OTHER CONSPIRACY
The conspiracy crowd is angry because the conspiracy crowd wanted the romantic conspiracy. The Davos cabal. The hidden hand. The boogeyman that explains everything without implicating the conspirator’s own lifestyle. The kitchen named a conspiracy that includes the conspirator’s F-150, the conspirator’s camping trailer, the conspirator’s mortgage on a house worth twice what it would be worth without the conspiracy. The conspirator does not want this conspiracy named.
The conspirator wants a conspiracy in someone else’s garage. The conspirator’s own garage holds the F-350. The garage is the giveaway.
Donald J. Gorbachev@donaldgorbachev
five-second epistemology Communism does not like landlords. Islam does not like interest. The monks still do not get it. I. Der Begriff · The Term Two more monks confused. Ho-fung Hung, sociologist at Johns Hopkins. Andrew Fischer, development economist at Erasmus. The two monks agree: the ultimate objective of US-China policy since Obama has been “to increase the freedom of US business operations inside China.” The framing has the analytical problem at the level of the noun. The noun is freedom. The noun is the wrong noun. Lenin asked the question a hundred years ago. Freedom for whom? Freedom for which class? The question is the foundational move of Marxism-Leninism. The question is the first sentence of every Chinese Communist Party position paper translated into English. The two monks have skipped the question. The two monks have offered the answer the question is designed to interrogate. Freedom for American businesses. The monks said it openly. The Chinese state read the same sentence and heard the answer to Lenin’s question. The Chinese state heard: the empire wants to import its landlord class into Chinese territory. II. Das Wesen · The Essence The simple thing. Communism does not like landlords. That is the religion. The whole religion. The single sentence that, once understood, dissolves the seminary’s confusion about every Chinese policy decision for the last seventy-five years. The CCP redistributed land in 1950. The CCP cracked down on platform monopolies in 2020 because the platforms had begun extracting rents from the productive base. The CCP cracked down on tutoring companies in 2021 because the tutoring industry had become rent extraction from parents. The CCP cracked down on Evergrande in 2021 because Evergrande had inflated land values to the point of becoming a generational rentier class. The pattern is the religion. The religion is the pattern. The seminary studies the pattern for decades and never names the religion.
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@merlinscapital @barnes_law Just bought motor oil at wall mart at ablowout price.
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RUMOR: AMERICA COULD BE OUT OF LUBRICANT OIL FOR CARS IN DAYS
EXXON AND SHELL HAVE INFORMED THEIR MAJOR SUPPLIERS TO PREPARE FOR EMPTY SELVES
OIL CHANGES IN CARS WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE SOON
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@aziz0nomics @AGHuff Your message - embrace the matrix. Enjoy all the “cool stuff” you can do from your prison pod you don’t even know you’re in.
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Today, nobody is against electricity, or electrification.
But the anti-data centre backlash we are seeing today has a precedent: the anti-electricity backlash of the early 1900s.
They thought electricity would lead to horrible things.
Here's a propaganda cartoon from then:
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@jeremykauffman want to really die inside?
i would have said "anyone who cannot do this in their head is mathematically illiterate."
turns out:
97% of sophomores in the OECD (and probably 99% worldwide) cannot answer this question correctly.
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45% of worldwide PISA test takers get this question wrong
About half the world struggles to read graphs or do basic data interpretation
Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA@StefanMolyneux
It’s hard to remember how unintelligent most people are. Half of Americans can’t follow clear medical instructions. 90% have very limited skills for finding, understanding, and using health information. 47% can’t understand directions like “take on an empty stomach.”
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@RogueKite @DoItForMaMa In the pyramid of power which sits higher, transnational capital of oligarchs or national intelligence agencies? I lean towards the narrative that oligarchs play nations so that they can milk them for all they can. Whether US, UK, Ru, Uk, Fr, Ch, In etc, they all hang together.
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As someone who has family in Ukraine, can I just say fuck Tucker Carlson. Fuck the CIA. Fuck with they've done to Ukraine. The CIA overthrew the government of Ukraine, installed multiple different leaders over more than a decade, wrote their scripts intentionally to cause the war with Russia. Inside the country they rewrote their textbooks to cause Civil War, poisoned the brains of their population with non-stop propaganda, funded fucking Nazis gave them arms and turn them loose on the population, put 12 fucking CIA bases on the border of Russia and then exterminated them by funding and arming one half of them to attack the other half.
Now this CIA motherfucker hosts someone to take down the person they installed and gave a script to? The script this girl is denigrating with her CIA script... Every fucking bit of this performance is nauseating. There has never been a moment where it wasn't clear that the United States was the party negotiating with Russia. They can send their proxies, run their spin, and pretend like different administrations are relevant to this equation when they aren't. Tucker Carlson and the rest of his handlers and compatriots at the CIA laundering this narrative with their fake fucking sympathy will burn fiery pits of hell for what they've done to that country and the rest of the world. The level of cynicism it takes to do what they are doing here is not redeemable. Every person helping to cover the CIA's tracks or pretendIng it's some other country to blame here can burn right along with them. This asshole can say the name of God all he wants and wrap himself in fake morality - no one with a brain buys this crap.
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@RnaudBertrand These have been planned off the coast of far Northern California. There was a lot of bait and switch. Downsides include short service life, disruptive noise to marine mammals and unsightly lite up presence. Proposals started at 100’ and grew to 1000’ tall.
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I know I'm unreasonably enthusiastic about wind turbines but I genuinely think people tend to dismiss them a bit too easily.
Check this new floating wind turbine China just installed 👇
First of all, it's floating so it's extremely easy to install, like mooring a boat somewhere (ok, fair enough, a bit more complex but still orders of magnitude easier than drilling into the seabed).
Secondly, this single turbine is expected to generate approximately 44.65 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity each year. That's enough to power a small town of 24,000 homes. And that's a single turbine.
Thirdly it takes zero space. I calculated, this single turbine will produce as much electricity in a year as roughly 71,000 solar panels. At ~2m² per panel that's about 142,000 m² of surface area... replaced by one floating turbine 70 km out at sea.
And fourthly, offshore wind is one of the cheapest forms of energy out there, even cheaper than nuclear. Not Western nuclear - Chinese nuclear, the cheapest in the world.
So to sum up we have a way to generate electricity that a) you literally float into position, b) powers an entire town per turbine, c) takes up zero land and d) is super cheap. And e) incidentally, is sustainable.
How is that NOT a no-brainer? You'd need just about 150 of these to match the output of your average nuclear power plant. Except you'd install them in weeks instead of 10 years 🤷♂️
Given the renewed strategic importance of electricity, I don't understand why China seems to be one of the only countries out there that's genuinely enthusiastic about it.
At some point I'm afraid some countries' cost of electricity is just going to become a tax on stupidity.
Src: reneweconomy.com.au/china-complete…
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@truthstreamnews Palo-Verde nuclear generating station. That sucker is a massive beast.
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Another question: Why are so many data centers being built in drought-stricken hot-as-hell Arizona?
P.S. - Phoenix is apparently the fourth largest data center market in North America.
Vanessa@VanessaChaseOG
Move to Arizona they said. You’ll love being a shut in for five months out of the year.
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