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@buttonslives And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things. Moroni 10:5

I think I’m going to give church another try. I need help understanding evil. Which kind of church talks about that?

@ChrisMartzWX And those light bars. Jail.

Daytime running lights should be banned on motor vehicles. Too many people are driving around at night with them on thinking that their headlights are on. Pro-tip: ALWAYS leave it on “Auto.”

My wife has always thought Nephi was some hot guy. It broke my heart to tell her what “large in stature” actually meant.

@ChrisMartzWX Agreed. I'm going with the Scout truck: scoutmotors.com/terra?utm_sour…

If Tesla built a Cybertruck that doesn’t look like an ugly ass microwave oven and made it function like an actual pickup with a bed, I probably would buy one just to avoid paying for gas and to reduce maintenance.

@ChrisMartzWX Calling someone a "window-licking retard" and using terms like "legalized theft". K.

You are a leftist. In any case, I have never screamed that *all* taxation is theft, nor have I resented 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐 government services, you window-licking retard. I have, however, argued that income taxes are legalized theft and that taxation should not be based on production, but rather consumption on non-essential purchases at the point of sale (one-time tax). That would target high-income earners more. The federal government should derive its revenue from national sales taxes and tariffs like it did prior to 1913. The reason it can’t now is because they spend way too much money on shit we don’t need like welfare, Social Security (which ought to be privatized), and endless wars in the Middle East over oil. Police officers, firefighters, and emergency response are all local and can be paid for by the states / counties with state / local sales taxes, or they can simply charge a service fee like any other service if need be. Most people don’t use them daily, anyways. Finally, getting off retarded fiat currency and reverting back to the Gold Standard would ensure that deficit spending has real physical limits, which would quickly eliminate a lot of wasteful spending. The government’s job is to provide basic services. That’s it. It’s not their job to hold your hand, force workers to bankroll your retirement, or force taxpayers to provide for your welfare as they themselves live paycheck to paycheck because of being overtaxed.

@GovCox The news wants us to fight all the time. Prove me wrong.

I’ve heard from a lot of Utahns over the past week about the proposed data center project in Box Elder County. Many are asking questions about water, air quality, energy, land use, and the long-term impact on rural Utah. Those are real concerns, and all Utahns should expect clear standards and accountability. Industry is our state’s motto. And in our pursuit of economic strength, we must always ensure that development is thoughtful and in line with Utah values. Based on conversations with residents, local leaders, subject matter experts, and project stakeholders, the following actions are now being taken regarding this project. 🧵

@OFrancesD @SLCScanner I followed a group of 3 today riding motorcycles on a popular trail. They were having a great time running people off the path and laughing about it. This law clarifies that they are motorcycles and need a license plate so they can be dealt with when they hurt someone & run away

@SLCScanner I walk every day in my city & encounter ebikes & escooters daily. Most don't have any regard for pedestrians, & ride too fast/close to me. I've had so many close calls that when I see one coming, I just yield the sidewalk to them for my own safety. I'm fed up.

#NewLaw (HB 381) just dropped yesterday and it’s a GAME CHANGER. If you ride anything electric… your whole world just got rewritten. I hear people running from police on E Bikes all the time. With these changes, I bet it gets worse. Your thoughts?

@danamlewis No chainsaw?

Quite a bit of trail damage from December storms, but only had one tree where you had to either climb using hands and knees under the 3 foot space or climb up and over 5 feet 🤣.

@ChrisMartzWX @old_doozer Since the federal government doesn't charge sales tax, how would a federally mandated program pay its costs?

@old_doozer It doesn’t. The government just needs to make cuts to the budget, you dumbass.

There should be no income tax period. Tax consumption at the point of sale, not production.

@ksorbs We don't know. It's unidentified. That's what the "u" stands for.

What exactly am I looking at here?

@UtahIsAwesome Boba World in Bountiful

@ckoopman Do closed cooling systems consume water?

The conversation around Stratos has gotten badly unmoored from the actual proposal, and it’s worth addressing the biggest misconceptions before the vote. The loudest claim is that this project will draw more power than the entire state. True at full buildout. Beside the point, because Stratos generates its own power on site. It doesn't draw from the public grid. Last year the legislature passed SB 132 precisely for large private loads that build and operate their own generation off-grid. Utah's existing 4 GW stays where it is. Electricity bills won’t go up because of this project. The "more than the whole state" line sounds scary to some, but falls apart the second you dig in. The water claim deserves more care than it's been getting. The water rights at issue are existing agricultural rights. Bar H Ranch is transferring 1,900 acre-feet currently used for irrigation. This is not new pressure on the basin, but a reallocation. The data center cooling itself is closed-loop. The gas plant will use some water for power generation, and we should want the developer to specify how much; that's a fair ask. But the framing that Stratos is "draining the lake" assumes new diversions that don't exist in the actual filings. The Great Salt Lake is in real trouble, and most of that trouble has names. Stratos isn't one of them. The tax-giveaway argument frustrates me the most, because it imagines a counterfactual that doesn't exist and ignores the actual math. The reduced energy is the price of getting the project to land here instead of in Texas or Wyoming. Even at 0.5%, the county pulls in roughly $30M a year in Phase 1, and over $100M annually at full buildout. The state pulls in roughly $49M. The developer is prepaying the county $5.4M a year for the first three years to fund emergency services before tax revenue starts. The developer is paying for every road, sewer line, and stormwater system in the project area and deeding it to the county. If specialized fire equipment is needed, the developer pays for that too. Two thousand permanent jobs in a part of Utah that has been waiting a long time for a real employer. None of that exists if the answer is no. And the site is the part of the case I keep waiting for someone to make. Hansel Valley is unincorporated, sparsely populated, sits on the Ruby Pipeline, and is adjacent to military infrastructure with strong reasons to want resilient on-site power. The land is doing nothing else. It has been, in policy terms, waiting for this. I'll grant the strongest version of the critique. The process moved fast, and the commissioners felt blindsided. That's a real complaint and worth fixing in how these things come to the county next time. But the choice today isn't between this Stratos and a better Stratos. It's between this Stratos and the same project getting built somewhere else. The country has decided, at the level of abstraction, that it wants to lead on AI. You don't get to keep saying yes to the abstraction and no to every concrete project that would make the abstraction real.

@DChadwickAuthor Same. I cancelled.

I supported the Daily Wire for years. I was subscribed to their website for years. There was a time I thought they were going to be the Rush Limbaugh of the new conservative era. But it seems they’ve decided that they don’t want me in their audience. This is a pretty big betrayal of everything I thought that organization was about. It seems under their new leadership, they only want a very specific kind of viewer, and it looks like I’m not in it.

@ChrisMartzWX Oh yeah, drought is now part of the climate change narrative. If you challenge it, then you’re a climate denier.

Hi Shelly. Meteorologist here. The map that you posted shows recent drought conditions in the U.S. This is what you call “weather.” Climate is long-term. You should learn their definitions. They are not the same thing. The plots below show U.S. percent of land area unusually dry (top) and Palmer Drought Severity Index (bottom) from January 1895 to March 2026. The worst droughts on record occurred during the 1930s and 1950s. Did “fossil fuel pollution” cause those?

@pimomormon @Eternal_Saints_ Nowhere is it stated any land is being given to anyone. Private property isn't typically given away. If it was your land, you'd have a case there. I doubt it is, so...

@Eternal_Saints_ We need to pushback. That’s way too much land to be given to a company.

Everything You Need To Know About Box Elder County’s Proposed AI Data Center A proposed AI campus in Box Elder County would cover 40,000 acres and generate up to 9 gigawatts of power for data processing. County leaders will revisit key approvals on Monday, and the outcome could shape Utah’s future approach to land, water, and industrial growth. The project is called the Stratos Project. It is being developed by O’Leary Digital, tied to investor Kevin O’Leary, and Utah-based West GenCo. Their plan is to build a large-scale AI and cloud computing campus in northwestern Box Elder County, supported by its own natural gas power generation. At roughly 62.5 square miles, the proposed site exceeds the land area of many of Utah cities. It would function as a self-contained industrial complex, with data centers, energy infrastructure, and supporting facilities spread across rural county land. Power demand is equally significant. Phase one is expected at 3 gigawatts. Full buildout has been described between 7.5 and 9 gigawatts. For context, Utah’s average statewide electricity demand is roughly 4 gigawatts. That means the project’s total generating capacity could exceed twice the average power load of the entire state. Developers say the facility would operate off-grid, using on-site generation fueled by the Ruby Pipeline rather than drawing electricity from Utah’s transmission system. That distinction reduces direct grid impact, but it doesn’t reduce the scale of fuel consumption, infrastructure needs, or the long-term industrial footprint one bit. Water remains one of the most pressing concerns. Large-scale computing requires substantial cooling capacity. Developers say advanced cooling systems, recycled water, and treatment technologies will reduce freshwater demand. Those claims have not yet been supported by fully independent public studies released at project scale. That leaves some pretty significant unresolved questions about long-term water sourcing, consumption rates, and downstream effects in the Great Salt Lake basin; a body of water that’s already struggling. For northwestern Box Elder County residents, the implications are immediate. A project of this size can alter road systems, emergency response planning, housing needs, and land values. It can reshape rural communities for decades. Those changes would not be temporary. They would become a permanent part of the county’s long-term economic and physical landscape. The approval process has also drawn scrutiny. The project is advancing through Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority, or MIDA, which has authority to create special project areas outside standard local zoning structures. MIDA has already adopted the project area plan. Box Elder County still has pending decisions tied to consent resolutions and an interlocal agreement. Those decisions are scheduled for reconsideration on Monday, May 4, at 4:00 p.m. at the Box Elder County Fairgrounds Fine Arts Building, 320 North 1000 West in Tremonton. That meeting is the clearest opportunity for public input before additional agreements move forward. If you live in the area and care about what happens next, this is where you need to be. Residents can attend in person, submit written comments to county officials, and follow the related water rights process through the state. The central issue is larger than one development. It’s about how Utah chooses to allocate land, water, and public authority as industrial-scale AI infrastructure expands across the country. This isn’t a local story, it’s a preview of decisions every state is going to have to make. That decision begins in Box Elder County.

@liftblog Take my money

Pricing for Arkansas’ first chairlift: Single ride $10 Half day: $34 Full day: $59 This is for biking, not skiing. Hours are 10-7, Thursday to Monday

@AIInvestorHQ @APTalkingPoints

@APTalkingPoints Nope

People think buying a house is a “smart Investment” My friend bought a great house in 2007 for $650k Today he can’t even sell it for $775k That same $650k in the S&P 500? Now worth $4.29 million

@AIInvestorHQ I bought a house in 2007 for $350k. Today, it would be appraised for $700k. I have met lots of people like me, and none like your supposed friend. #thingsthatdidnthappen

@FoxNews The officer on the left of that group turned to run away

NEW: Security footage from the WHCA Dinner appears to show a K9 flagging Cole Allen as suspicious moments before the alleged attack, only for the dog to be pulled back by its handler. Seconds later, Allen allegedly charges through security with a shotgun in hand, shoots a Secret Service agent, and is tackled before reaching President Trump.

@VoterIndy @SeriousSam26 @ChrisMartzWX They require you to fill out a w9 which you sign with your signature where you agree to withholding payroll tax

@TwitrJas @SeriousSam26 @ChrisMartzWX No you’re not. That’s not at all how contracts work. That’s not even a good try.

Yes they did.