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@astern @bryanrbeal the yearly total is half of America’s daily residential consumption. so negligible it’s not even worth a discussion

@bryanrbeal Yes, this point is true. We can also work to enhance closed-loop liquid cooling systems that aren’t as wasteful. It’s easy to sympathize with upset folks. We can do both.

If all of America’s data centers closed tomorrow, our economy would grind to a halt. There’d be millions of people unemployed, and our GDP would drop by 50%. All cell phones and internet services would stop working. Our national security would be obliterated. Millions of people wouldn’t be able to do their jobs at all. Sick patients would be given the wrong medications. The economic fallout would be far worse than even the great depression. If all of America’s golf courses closed tomorrow, there would be virtually no impact on society at all. 90% of Americans probably wouldn’t even notice.

@JacobAShell trafficmaxxing

Tough for Bostonians to hear this, but the city would be better today if it had never done any of these infills -- with the one obvious unicorn exception of the Back Bay.

I had a professor at Cal State Long Beach who constantly trashed America as racist, oppressive, and irredeemable. He mocked the Constitution, capitalism, and virtually every American institution. At the end of the semester, he gave an emotional story about how his mother crawled through sewer pipes to reach America. So I raised my hand and asked: if America is this irredeemable, oppressive country, why did she risk everything to come here? And why are neither of you interested in going back? He didn’t answer the question. Instead he called me disrespectful. That’s because much of this ideology is not rooted in reality testing. It’s institutional theater rewarded by academia, media, and activism. The system incentivizes moral denunciation of America while simultaneously depending on the opportunities America uniquely provides.

@bscholl no one ever understands this - the treasury rolled down all debt in the late 90s with an steep yield curve. translate it to consumer credit - how would it have gone this decade if everyone had the equivalent of a 3 month note on their house? a facade of short term solvency

I’m calling the 1990s. I want these Democrats back.

@John81162404 @AndySwan classic “how to lie with statistics” graph. larceny excluded which makes up like 75% of total theft in the US

@AndySwan Nope Majority of theft is wage theft by....the top 1%

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

@kevinonymous @xwanyex @MostlyMonkey full time at an alcoholic bar (irish pub) or yuppy hip spot and $100k is easy and $150k is doable.

@xwanyex @MostlyMonkey Funny enough really good bartenders (should) make way more than $50k a year. But yeah, I think there’s a lot of people who simply can’t imagine salaries in the several hundreds of thousands.

People are absolutely unaware how much money you can make.

@gentilefatigued Same. but Thurmond and Wallace in 48/68 and 72

How i would vote in each Presidential Election since 1940: 40: Tossup 44: FDR 48: Tossup 52/56: Ike 60: Nixon 64: Goldwater 68/72: Nixon 76: Ford 80 - 84: Reagan 88 - 92: Bush 96: Clinton 20 - 04: Bush 08: McCain 12: Romney 16: Clinton 20: Biden 24: Harris

@Tectonicty34 @ubisuntamerica every area hit by Sandy voted blue. That was Staten Island’s 2nd bluest year this millennium

@ubisuntamerica Ngl I thought it didn’t help 🤷‍♂️

If Hurricane Sandy never had happen in October 2012…

@rep_favorite saw this and though dover or westwood and sure enough

Guess the New England municipality

@Obi_Wan_Knievel @XuhaibAhmad high caste Indian immigrants see an easy opportunity to maintain their old racism and classism with added gov’t benefits and you say it’s “because Obama.” genius, incredible analysis

@SeanCMcCarthy @XuhaibAhmad Because they came in with Obama when the American RW was exclusionary to Indians. Jindal & Haley are both converted Christians.

These diaspora spawns of elites from 3rd world countries are the closest thing to parasites in human form. They perpetuate misery at home, milk victimhood abroad and then weaponize identity politics to rob other minorities too. Screw them and I'm glad they're getting shit on.

@scoots2112 @stoolpresidente @TheMaineWire the 17th amendment was an obvious mistake

@stoolpresidente @TheMaineWire Massive political mistake. What a dope to just send this out cold. No surprise this dope had incompetent staff.

And I’m still wondering why your team thought I’d want to play footsy with a guy who is a Nazi?

@Obi_Wan_Knievel @XuhaibAhmad Usha Vance, the vanguard of the right. Meanwhile her co-ethnics are the second bluest demographic in America. Why might that be?

@SeanCMcCarthy @XuhaibAhmad Of course, I forgot. The RW has long been a champion for a classless, egalitarian society. Like our VPs wife.

@Obi_Wan_Knievel @XuhaibAhmad “American right wingers love the Indian caste system” is definitely a unique take. Not sure much thought was put into that opinion though

@SeanCMcCarthy @XuhaibAhmad Her attitude is just right to discriminate. RWers love that stuff.

@Obi_Wan_Knievel @XuhaibAhmad I agree that they’re completely incompatible with American culture. I don’t agree that the online right is “harmonizing” these attitudes, whatever that means. Anyone who talks like the woman in the video should be denaturalized and deported regardless of origin

@SeanCMcCarthy @XuhaibAhmad I agree with you but the reason is that these people are being brought in from illiberal, authoritarian, anti egalitarian, anti American places. The online right is harmonizing these attitudes.

@Obi_Wan_Knievel @XuhaibAhmad i grew up in polite New England where overnight the culture has went from retail workers being afforded respect to classless morons like her abusing retail workers being a fixture of any trip to the mall. No RW American believes in aggressive subcontinental caste systems

@XuhaibAhmad This is the caste system crap the RW loves, so........

@extradeadjcb Is this even true on its face? i.e. Boston spends 50% more per student in education and gets more per capita aid from the state than any other municipality beside Somerville. Not familiar with anywhere but MA but education spending alone seems to disprove this

The people in the suburbs drive to the urban core every day to generate the tax revenue

@DerUntermutt @RockChartrand your mythical developing state with comprehensive labor rights has never existed, and your tweet implies you yourself are a child.

@SeanCMcCarthy @RockChartrand That comparison is a bad one but even if it wasn't it is refuted by the fact that countries of Nepal's income levels exist/existed without this kind of exploitation. Nepal's situation is a consequence of a booming informal capitalist sector and a weak, blind state.

A lot of people look back at child labor emotionally instead of historically. The alternative for many families at the time often wasn’t “comfortable schooling and modern welfare.” It was extreme poverty, starvation, dangerous farm labor, disease, or entire families collapsing financially. As productivity, technology, wages, and living standards rose, child labor declined naturally because families could finally afford not to rely on it. Ironically, industrialization is what largely made widespread childhood education and modern expectations of childhood possible in the first place.

The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output. This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest. Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose. You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes. Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning. Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

@DerUntermutt @RockChartrand like today, that enormous wealth would have been a pittance if divided equally among the entire population. the average wealth of the population in 1880 is roughly equivalent to modern Nepal where child labor and all of the fun things the US had back then still exists

@RockChartrand This literally took place in the richest countries the world had ever seen, while newly enriched plutocrats sat on vast piles of gold, and politicians shrugged their shoulders and asked what right they had to intervene in a contractual agreement. Your argument is casuistry.