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Sure! none of this is written to be hostile and I hope I sincerely answer your question if it is not purely rhetorical. @HarrisonHSmith First, they are not at all new: If you have used the internet for storage in your life, you have been using datacenters. No data centers, no internet storage. Email, bank accounts, photos, etc. No internet storage = no internet commerce. The entire idea of records for accounts and transactions not being on paper in file cabinets would go away. Americans would largely not survive a world without Internet commerce and have been leading the way in using it as consumers and entrepreneurs for 40 years. On water use: don’t mean to “old man you” on this but people also used to be very concerned about paper waste and forest destruction. Old growth forests are very sad when cut but almost all commercially used paper came from nurseries. The waste management and energy of printing and storing and transmitting going away with editing being free is what people wanted. All datacenters in the US combined use water (for evaporative cooling) at the same rate of about a medium sized city. They’re also getting more efficient and plenty of new ones are closed loop. Building on farm land is bad, I do not defend it at all. I think they should be build in cities on top of or under parking garages and things like that. Equinix has one like this in Miami. Energy use is an interesting thing: Americans use WAY more energy per capita than even other developed countries. Compare just the US household’s energy use to a German one. We don’t accept backsliding there, do we? I think the solution is to just produce more energy, specifically with nuclear, which, if we really committed to mass energy production, would also lower all costs of living, not just the cost of electricity for running the internet.

Content needs to be either timely or timeless — and the bar for both has gotten much higher. Timely has to be *right now* and timeless has to be an instant classic.

There are two options if you want to have things available: 1. You allow people to profit from bringing it to you 2. You force them to be slaves with violence of some sort. That’s it.

Anyone who has “all of the sudden” went against Israel since Oct 7, 2023 has fallen for a Leftist/Islamist psyop that was pushed and funded by the American left, the Russians, the Chinese, and absolutely the Islamic Theocracy of Iran. You abandoned your country and your President, the one you fought so hard to elect to save us—the one they tried to assassinate twice—because you believed fake and gay podcasters pushing the talking points of our enemies that simply modernized propaganda made for illiterate peasants in Russia over a hundred years ago… That’s the reality you are scared to confront. There hasn’t been a “great noticing.” There has been a great brainwashing, and so many of you have fallen for it. Congrats, you are now no different than the people that fell for COVID or the troon ideology push from the rainbow brigade… But hey, at least you can blame all of that on the Jews now too, right?

Wikipedia has a "Palestinian inventions" page and literally half the entries are various types of bombs

I am once again telling you that if you turned against Israel since 2023, you fell for a Leftist psyop. You can hate the fact, but you cannot deny it. You're their tool.

Israel signed peace with Egypt in 1979. Not a single Israeli bomb on Egypt since then. Israel signed peace with Jordan in 1994. Not a single Israeli bomb on Jordan since then. Israel signed peace with UAE in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on UAE since then (not that it did before). Israel signed peace with Bahrain in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on Bahrain since then (not that it did before). Israel signed peace with Morocco in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on Morocco since then (not that it did before). Israel signed peace with Sudan in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on Sudan since then (not that it did before).

@MazeLove14 First of many. ❤️

Israeli media claims Amir Hatami, Commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army, has been killed. Not confirmed yet.

@MazeLove14 The Islamic republic is a paper tiger. Free Iran.

BREAKING: IRAN is preparing for a broader retaliation and the response will be crushing, an Iranian official tells Reuters.

@MazeLove14 They aren’t Iranian. They are Islamic republic occupiers and will be dead soon G*d willing and the Iranian people will be free

BREAKING: Israeli media has said that unnamed sources close to matter tell them that the entire senior Iranian command structure is the target of ongoing strikes. This as Israel says that they are preparing for “several days of war.”

This was from 40 seconds of scrolling Threads. Every person on here should get down and kiss Elon’s feet for buying this thing.

@MarioNawfal who will stock the boy's bathroom with Tampons?

🇺🇸 Gov. Walz: "I'll Never Run for Office Again” “I have no political consideration. I will never run for elected office again. Never again. And I will just do the work.” x.com/Acyn/status/20…

There is a very weird phenomenon where extremely expensive cities are extremely hard to afford to live in for the middle class and the affluent, but then municipal and state authorities give free money and apartments to junkies and felons.

I promise not to do this to Greenland!

Just confirming that I did not leave my kids at home to go agitate law enforcement, disobey their instructions, and try to run them over, and thus, I am still alive.

@KimDotcom Far from done. He's the best President of my lifetime and a true ally to the only two good forces in the Middle East, Israel and the Persian people held prisoner by the Islamic Regime.

Tell me why you are done with Trump

Dear LA, The industry is not coming back. In the entertainment capital of the world - “Hollywood” - there are fewer television shows and movies being produced today than when Governor Newsom was arresting people for going to the beach. The downstream carnage is piling up across our city, and we aren’t going to shame or strike or tax our way out of it. Drive down Sunset Blvd and you’ll see countless “Jay Luchs - For Lease” signs draped like flowers at a funeral.   Ask your friends working in retail, restaurants, or real estate just how bad things are, and you’ll be reminded that every business in our city flows downstream of the entertainment industry, the sword that LA lives by, and dies by. Rick Caruso, native Angeleno, creator of the Grove, & former mayoral candidate, has recently begun pleading to “bring Hollywood back,” ironically via TikTok, in order to protect all of the adjacent “below the line” businesses. It is the right end goal but the wrong strategy. But what can Mr Caruso do to bring Hollywood back? Ask the unions to ease up? They run this town, even when they cut off their nose to spite their face. Ask Sacramento to give up their fruitless addiction to over-taxation & regulation? It would be easier to convince Count Dracula to give up blood. Ask consumers to change their tastes and abandon TikTok? He’d certainly have my blessing, but that ship has sailed. We can build our way out of LA’s cost-of-housing problem, as Caruso has rightfully pointed out, but more housing alone won’t be enough to save Los Angeles, any more than it would have been able to save Detroit after their own respective monopoly [automobiles] crumbled. Beyond rebrands & gimmicks & political rhetoric, the time has come for a complete product refresh, starting with a reimagining of how LA entertains the world. My idea is simple: pivot Los Angeles from the capital of production to the global capital of LIVE entertainment, events, & hospitality. Almost everyone needed in production, and every business downstream of production, has a year-round parallel role to offer in the AI-proof world of LIVE events. Actors can continue to delight audiences, but with a greater emphasis on in-person performances. Production services can become event logistics providers. And for everyone else it will be an all-hands-on-deck effort to ideate & create the new California dream. Outside of the highly protected walls of Disneyland, a few gated communities in Brentwood, and the smoothie bar at Erewhon we’ve earned a bad reputation. The tourist consensus is that LA is dirty, dangerous, & disappointing. New travelers come to LA as a bucket list item, most vowing to never return, which never seemed to bother anyone, perhaps because previously we just didn’t need their business. We need to become the city that people want to date, not take out for a one-night-stand. And that starts by no longer acting like the prom-queen who peaked in high school. We need to collectively clean up & reorganize our entire city from LAX-it’s uber-lot-from-hell all the way to the open air drug markets surrounding our hotels. And I’m sorry if this hurts Mayor Bass’ feelings, but our inability to manage our addiction & mental health crisis should not be the burden of our guests. The easiest place to start is Hollywood, my home of 18 years. 10,000,000 people travel annually to the Hollywood Walk of Fame despite its dubious honor as “the worst tourist trap in the world.” Imagine a walk-of-fame permanently closed to car traffic, protected by security, with an open-carry-beverage farmer’s market, minus the pushy hustlers, that takes over the asphalt, leaving the stars for guided experiences.  Why-oh-why do we expect travelers to care about stars from 50 years ago when we refuse to make any effort to give them minimal context? I see an LA that can take the same movie magic that made it the best marketed city on earth, and use it to deliver a travel experience that warrants a 2nd, 3rd & 4th helping. The Olympics & World Cup both present once-in-a-generation opportunities for Los Angeles to reintroduce itself on a global stage. But these tentpole events should be considered the grand re-opening of LA, not the grand finale. Every celebrity on earth should already be living here, assuming they haven’t fled for their family’s own well being after we seemingly abandoned law & order sometime around 2020, so it is easy to imagine around the clock creator driven events led by Gen-Z stars from Mr Beast to Alix Earle, galvanizing their fan bases alongside our own versions of Graceland for names like Cruise, Hepburn, & Kobe. This plan offers a little bit of something for everyone, even our wealth-gap obsessed activist class, as hospitality outcomes are flatter and more egalitarian, something our Hollywood elite at least claim they want. The biggest challenge to making Los Angeles the LIVE entertainment capital of the world will be getting our political leaders to stop sabotaging us with endless red tape, excuses, and kleptocracy.   Rampant political corruption has been enabled by LA’s toothless media who, aside from Elex Michaelson & Bill Melugin - both formerly of FoxLA, have been unable to hold our politicians accountable. Reality TV star turned Influencer turned mayoral candidate (as of yesterday) Spencer Pratt has been effective in keeping the media from completely ignoring the victims of the Palisades fire, but LA still considers my former employers - KTLA & the LA TIMES-  to be the watchdogs of record. Without mainstream media support I fear our new media warriors won’t be enough to prevent leaders like Gavin Newsom & Karen Bass from continuing to pillage California with a trail of failed programs, despite bottomless budgets, that make Minnesota’s recently unearthed $18 billion fraud scheme seem like, forgive my pun, kiddie stakes. Can someone please light the Bat-Signal for Nick Shirley? Gotham *cough cough* I mean LA needs him. Some might remember in the last mayor's race when Karen Bass said that if we elected Rick Caruso “he’d just turn LA into The Grove!” I believe the Grove’ification of LA is exactly what we need to successfully pivot as a city, and it would ultimately mean cheaper housing, better jobs for everyone, and happier repeat travelers. So to echo Elex Michaelson, who aptly quipped back at Bass, “what’s wrong with that?” But why hasn’t Caruso declared himself in the next mayor’s race? Maybe it’s because he has his sights set on a California gubernatorial run or maybe he just doesn’t want to risk another disheartening defeat. Not even his inner circle knows what he’ll do next. But I do know one thing…  Many of the most successful people in the world call California home and we are going to need them if Los Angeles is ever going to make its comeback.

@SenSanders We should convert your two extra houses into data centers. @JoeFBlaze can spearhead the effort.

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

@TheMuslimAirman @crystalandqueue @MarioNawfal No.

🇮🇹 MELONI WANTS BURKAS OUT OF ITALY! Italy’s ruling party just dropped a bill to ban full-face veils like the burka and niqab in public, slap fines up to $3,000, and crack down on foreign funding for Islamic groups. The goal? Stop “parallel societies” and make sure Italian law beats out Sharia law. The bill also targets cultural crimes like forced marriages and virginity tests, with prison time on the table. Religious leaders warn this could stomp on freedom of religion and alienate Italy’s 2 million Muslims. Meloni is not joking. Source: El Pais