CarlB
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CarlB
@calrb242
Unsolicited commentary interspersed with rare words of wisdom.
USA Katılım Kasım 2024
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While you weren’t paying attention, this is all the fraud that’s recently been uncovered in Ohio
- 7 nearly empty buildings housing 288 companies billed a combined $250 million between 2018–2024
- Investigators found widespread shell companies tied to Somali immigrant networks in Columbus, which is the 2nd largest Somali population in the US. Ohio spent $1 billion on home health care services in 2024 alone.
- Nearly 100 Medicaid home health companies found operating out of a single empty building in Columbus billed taxpayers $66 million over a few years for services like “companionship”
- $3.8 billion total in Pandemic Unemployment Fraud
- $477 million+ in fraudulent claims
- $3.3 billion in overpayments due to weak controls and an outdated system
- 9 Medicaid providers charged with $500k–$578k stolen taxpayer money with over billing, falsified timesheets
- Home health agencies sentenced for $5.7 million schemes due to inflated hours, ineligible and fake patients
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@WallStreetApes I don’t work for Walmart. If you want me to use self checkout then pay me.
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The new Walmart AI-powered checkout systems are live at Walmart
These new scanners use cameras and AI to automatically identify items without needling to out the produce code
Their primary purpose is actually anti-theft
The system compares what’s scanned vs what’s physically moved or bagged. If anything is not a match it will pause the transaction and you’ll need a worker
Walmart is heavily investing in AI store solutions
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@WallStreetApes Just waiting for the city to fine him for unauthorized cleaning.
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There is a man named Juan Naula who immigrated from Ecuador and now spends his days cleaning the streets of Los Angeles
He has no city contract’s or deals with California. He believes the city isn’t going a good job of keeping trash off the streets, so he’s doing it himself
These are the kind of immigrants we want in America. Hardworking that see the value in our country and have American pride. They want to make our country better
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The largest planned commercial solar complex for the Adirondack Park was paused this morning.
It's time to talk about the logistics behind tying these complexes into the Upstate New York grid, and how the developer behind this complex, Boralex, wants to spin the sudden "hold" on Foothills Solar.
Boralex is the same foreign corporation (out of Canada) that wants to build Fort Edward Solar on one of the last grasslands of its kind throughout the Northeast.
Here is the obvious: before a solar project can operate, it has to physically connect into the electric grid (run by New York Independent System Operator (NYISO). That connection requires studies, approvals, and sometimes major upgrades to nearby power lines or substations.
Rural areas, like Mayfield, New York, which enjoy idyllic, untouched, and remote beauty inside the largest park in all of the US, the Adirondack Park, don’t have huge transmission capacity.
When a new solar project wants to connect, engineers check whether the grid can handle that extra power.
The important part to note here: if the grid can't handle the extra power, upgrades are required.
Who has to pay for those upgrades? In this case, the developer does. If the system needs new lines, substation upgrades, or other infrastructure, the cost falls on the project developer. Those costs can suddenly jump into the millions (or tens of millions).
Boralex does not intend to pay for those millions in upgrades. They want New York State to pay for those millions instead. That's why Boralex wants to rebid with @NYSERDA so they can lock the project into a higher Renewable Energy Credit (REC) price.
Boralex and the other foreign developers want NYSERDA, funded by YOUR taxpayer dollars and delivery charges on your electric bills, to pay for these grid updates.
If New York can't provide that kind of financial insulation, the developer isn't interested.
This has always been about money, and never been about modernizing our grid, lowering electric bills, or developing "clean" energy with panels manufactured and shipped halfway around the world using fossil fuels.
Commercial solar generates such a pathetic amount of energy in Upstate NY that without these RECs and subsidies, the industry collapses. It's very precariously run on the back of money taken from the citizens of this state while they circumvent our local zoning laws and home rule.
It must come to an end.

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🔥🚨JUST IN: This Mexican woman is going after revealing how depressing her life has become after she got deported out the United States by Trump’s ICE. Many Mexicans accuse her of not being proud of her country but she claims America had the most opportunity for her.
Immigrant: “I hate when people say that I'm not proud of being Mexican, or I'm ungrateful. Only God knows what I've suffered in America & Mexico itself & it's quite different. It's a shit show in America I'm damn fkn proud of being Mexican. But America was damn full of opportunities if you worked hard and that's all you knew, if you knew English well.
I feel like some won't get this because they've never been sent somewhere to a system you have no idea how it works.. how to move, how to survive & how to bleed. I feel like I'm out of place but the only reason why I kno I'm supposed to be here is because God has me here.”
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@newstart_2024 I have serious AI fatigue. As far as I can tell, AI has done nothing to fix what ails society: the high cost of healthcare, the miserable public schools, illegal immigration, violent crime, and the great political divide. AI is just a new shiny toy for the elites.
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted a wild picture of where AI is headed:
You tell the AI: “Write me a program to do this” — and it actually writes the code.
He gave this example: an AI that scans all the literature, finds the right experts, ranks them, sends personalized invitations, and if they say no — calls them with a synthetic voice to convince them.
We now have infinite context windows for step-by-step planning, agents that act on their own, and text-to-code that could automate huge parts of knowledge work. The big players (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta) are in a brutal race.
We’re not just getting smarter tools — we’re about to automate complex thinking at a scale most people still don’t fully grasp.
It’s exciting… and honestly a little scary how fast it’s coming.
What do you think — are we seriously underestimating how transformative this next wave of AI (especially agents and text-to-code) will be in the next 2–3 years?
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@alex_fasulo They could also put solar panels on the open spaces under high voltage power lines.
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It’s never been about saving the climate.
If it was, they’d put the solar panels on every failing mall in America. They’d put them over parking lots.
They’d leave our trees and forests alone. They’d follow the “science” they claim to worship. They know the trees regulate and lower localized temperatures. That the trees sequester excess carbon dioxide from the air.
“Environmentalists” used to chain themselves to trees. Now they look the other way while politicians like NYS Senator @RachelMayNY try to pass bills that would open 660,000 acres of forest up to foreign wind and solar developers.
Hundreds of thousands of trees will be felled for solar complexes in New York State this month.
The environmental movement, somewhere along the way, was purchased.
Our country needs a new environmental movement, one that calls out the hypocrisy of “green” energy and renewable experiments enacted on designated grasslands, wetlands, and forests.
A movement that hasn’t been purchased.
"When the last tree is cut... you will realize, too late, that you can't eat money." — Alanis Obomsawin

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@thematrixb0t From what I understand this speech is from 2024. Things have changed since then.
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WEF founder Klaus Schwab told delegates at a conference in China that humanity needs to be “forced into a collaboration” with globalist entities.
Schwab stated that in order to drive the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” forward, elites must aggressively drive their agenda home.
Schwab, the architect of the ‘Great Reset,’ has in recent years said that that he sees a transition into a new age where there will be a “fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological dimensions” in a “new world.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state would begin providing free diapers to newborns. on.wsj.com/3PuUAjh
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@Geniustechw A drive to perform causes it, I think. I don't know about this guy's weird and invasive powder performance. Anyway, could the solution might be to provide public venues to perform? It could even raise money.
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@RealBrittHughes What are friends for unless you can funnel taxpayer money to them?
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This sounds cool. But wait.
400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks.
The program will cost the state approx. $12.4 million this year alone.
That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.)
Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a “nonprofit” that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a “free” service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.
FactPost@factpostnews
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced California will be the first state in the nation to provide free diapers to newborns. Families will receive 400 diapers when discharged from the hospital.
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@WallStreetApes I don't work for Walmart unless I get a substantial discount on my purchases.
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NEW: Walmart has begun rollout of a new AI-powered visual recognition system for produce lookup at self-checkout stations
All you have to do is place a piece of produce on the self checkout. The system will automatically recognize the item and ask you to confirm
This system will be expanding to all US stores
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@Real_RobN I thought we said "No Kings" and yet here we are, carving out special rights for the ruling class.
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Here it is:
Virginia voters are waking up today shocked to find out that Virginia Democrats are voting to exempt themselves from the new gun control measures they are imposing—while letting out illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles into their sanctuary state.
The provision in this section explicitly says, “shall not apply to any member of the General Assembly.”
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells the World Economic Forum the world must move faster toward digitized currencies under a single unified blockchain to “reduce corruption.”
He outlines a vision where every asset is placed on one system, including stocks, bonds, real estate, money market funds, and cash.
In that system, ownership would be tokenized, fractionalized, programmable, and instantly transferable on one all-encompassing blockchain ledger.
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@coconutcup99152 @Rainmaker1973 You watched a 25 second video and are ready to judge the Chinese educational system. Remarkable.
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@Rainmaker1973 This looks great to me, however, someone has to explain how all of those very young children are each making a very different dish, with no apparent instruction or adult around. How do they arrive at their levels of competency? Does each child specialize in one dish? How?
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Kindergartens in China are increasingly incorporating hands-on cooking, cleaning, and crafting into their curricula to foster independence, responsibility, and confidence in young children.
Kids as young as 3–4 years old use specialized mini stoves to prepare food, wash dishes, and perform tasks like sewing and farming.
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