Josh Haley

@DavidJHarrisJr I'd be beyond pissed if they tried to pull this on any of my kids. Yank then from school immediately.

🚨BREAKING: A teacher brought her students on a school field trip to a mosque, where an imam taught the children about Islam, demonstrated how to wear burqas on the girls, and instructed the group to kneel for prayer. Only one young boy refused to kneel. The clip from the visit (reportedly involving young scouts or schoolchildren) has gone viral, sparking outrage over concerns of religious indoctrination.

@KevinLamb74 Saw it many times in the theater as a youth. Super fun.

Raiders is the masterpiece (a truly perfect film in fact) but Temple of Doom is the one I come back to the most. Pure pulp adventure.

@txsalth2o Thank you for your service, sir. Sorry for your loss.

Memorial Day hits harder this year. 3 months ago my dad died because he served his country. You’ll forgive me for having little tolerance for foreigners who shit on this country & his sacrifice while demanding to partake in the benefits.

@Manhattva The custom color for these last ones is sick. Glad you got one.

They gave me a Signature aModel S at the event. My big one will be delivered to Utah for me though.

Today, a stranger gave me $5. It was at my daughter's graduation at the BYU arena. I was carrying all of the candy lei that Trish made for all of the graduating friends of ours, plus a few extra. As I walked into the chaos at the arena, one lady came up to me and asked me "Did you get those leis here?" and I told her we made them. She seemed pretty disappointed and was starting to look elsewhere. I just said, "Here, you can have one, Aloha." She was a bit confused then very happy. While I was fishing out the lei she did not ask but planted a $5 dollar bill in my free hand and said "Here, thank you so much for being so nice." I don't need the $5. She could have kept it. I could have argued with her about it. But in the moment it felt like she needed to do it so I accepted it and that was that. I like to do things for people. I have a few talents and skills that I can use to help others and it brings me great joy to do so. When I offer free photography sessions, for instance, I know there are many who don't dare take me up on it, thinking they are imposing on me. Not at all. I just like taking photos and doing nice things for people. I guess if people feel they have to pay for photos, they can and I should let them, but I don't need it. The blessings and joy of service far outweigh any monetary amount I could get. Just felt like putting it out there, not to toot my own horn, but to show that there are people out there waiting to do nice things for you. Aloha.

What a time to be alive

@FiredUpCoug I'll go all the way up to 2100 to stay away from this abomination

I don't know how it's possible that in 2026 Utah still has not figured out how to properly paint lines on roads that are visible to drivers.

All the Senate had to do was pass the SAVE America Act.

This is why everyone will be unable to stop the data centers from coming everywhere. The smart long term approach would be to set up a system, where the municipalities actually win by having them there. Temper tantrums won’t solve a single thing.

Data Center in Box Elder County I am fully supportive of the data center project in Box Elder County. When I first learned of the project, I had some of the same questions you might have. I, too, worry about people, water, power, the health of the Great Salt Lake, and why it would be good for Utah. I had an opportunity to meet with the people bringing the project here and to get those questions addressed. I was impressed by their answers so I introduced them to my friend, Kevin O’Leary, who later decided to move forward with the project. I believe it is going to a be huge net positive for the State of Utah. Here’s what was shared with me and why I’m excited about it: Energy · This project is not taking anything out of the existing power grid. · The price Utahns pay for power should not go up because of this development. · More than a decade ago, a 42” pipeline from Wyoming called the Ruby Pipeline, with Natural Gas, was constructed. It’s already there - permitted and installed underground. Regulatory standards are already in place at the state and federal level. · The data center may even feed surplus power back into the grid and other renewable power sources may be deployed. Water · When the developers put the private land under contract, they agreed to paying a premium price, multiple times greater than market rate for the area. They were candid about the potential. The project uses the existing private water rights that were in use by the previous landowners. · It doesn’t need additional water beyond what already belongs to that property. · The water they’ll be using currently does not feed into the Great Salt Lake. · There might be a net increase of water going into the Great Salt Lake by using the water supply and flowing it down to the Great Salt Lake rather than being used for agriculture. · The water available to that property is currently low quality and brackish. · Water put into the Great Salt Lake would need to be higher quality and treated. Those are the concerns. But what is most exciting are the opportunities. Tax revenue · The 40,000 acres was generating roughly $250,000 annually in taxes for Box Elder County. · When fully implemented, it’s anticipated the county will receive more than $100 million annually in tax revenue from those 40,000 acres. Today the Box Elder total budget is less than $80 million. · The state, via sales tax, will receive hundreds of millions of dollars annually when fully developed. All Utahns benefit from that. This is all new revenue to the state. HAFB · The proximity of the data center makes Hill Air Force Base (HAFB) a more attractive asset for the Pentagon. · That accessibility may protect Hill from future BRAC closure threats. In a rapidly changing world, data centers in the USA are safer for Americans. Having them in Utah helps with jobs, viability long-term for Hill, and providing a national security asset. · The data center supports the mission of both HAFB and the Utah Test & Training Range (UTTR). · ”Top of Utah” is heavily dependent on Hill for a whole ecosystem of jobs and businesses. Keeping our economy vibrant in northern Utah is an imperative. That’s good for Utah jobs (thousands of new jobs in Top of Utah), our economy, and national defense. We have to be able to process data. This facility will do so with minimal disruption to the taxpayers who benefit from it. It’s off the beaten path in an area that is hard to make productive. It will also bring additional private sector companies and advanced manufacturing our state can not support because our current energy supplies are not big enough. It can be done cleanly, supporting our state with jobs, revenue, and making Utah a leading place to do business while supporting our quality of life.

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

@RealEmirHan This could be the Netflix fight trailer by itself

Michael Fassbender literally slammed Gina Carano’s head into a wall in Haywire (2011) She said “he had no problem slamming me into anything.” “He slammed my head so hard I lost it for second.” She hit him back with vase and thought, “I’m so fired. I’m going to lose this job.”

@BradRTorgersen Minmei & Rick 4EVA

(TL;DR warning again) 41 years ago this month my local UHF channel began airing a kids cartoon unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Half-hour installments. Amazing animation which seemed a cut above most early 80s American childrens TV to that point. And the scripting was of a decidedly more adult nature than either Voltron or G.I. Joe. It only took one episode to suck me in. Because of the airplanes turning into robots, of course. It was the era of Optimus Prime duking it out with Megatron. Every American boy in 1985 adored both Transformers and GoBots. But these giant swing-wing "veritechs" were piloted by men. Against enormous aliens who were decidedly different from any I'd seen in any science fiction TV show before. And one episode's plot bled into another. These weren't capsule stories. The entire thing was one big story. Which I avidly tuned in to before school day after day. The war against the Zentraedi segued to the war against the Robotech Masters, which segued to the war with the Invid. I had no idea at the time I was seeing an Americanized kitbash of three distinct Japanese shows. It was all just extraordinary to me, and I never noticed the seams which had been papered over by American writers. There aren't many sci-fi franchises which have had an impact on me like ROBOTECH. Not even STAR WARS. The only sci-fi show which has a larger presence in my mental landscape is STAR TREK. And I not only owned the entirety of ROBOTECH on VHS—grainy TV tapes at first, then store-bought official copies after—I played the Palladium role-playing game with my H.S. friends. The remastered DVD sets which emerged 20 years ago never sat right with me because the sound effects got re-done. And it wasn't until I was on deployment trying to watch ripped .mp4 of the remasters that I realized just how badly those re-done sound effects jagged on my ear. I still remembered *all* the broadcast effects as they had been. And I wanted them back. Amazon briefly had rights to and streamed an "original broadcast" edition of ROBOTECH which kept the old effects. But this was license short-lived. And I ended up buying a *second* set of DVDs in the vain hope of getting a broadcast-true edition in hard media. Except, that set also ended up being the remastered sound effects. What to do? I kept hearing about "legacy" copies from turn of the century. After VHS, but before the remasters. This week I finally located a full 14-disc set of the "legacy" DVDs which supposedly are closest to broadcast. After ripping them to .mkv it seems true. I finally have digital hard media of the actual ROBOTECH I remember from my youth. 🤓

@natemaklocklin @moroni7_3 Incredible

@moroni7_3 Yes! The last picture was taken in 1911 and published in 1912 in Talmage’s “The House of the Lord.”

President Dallin Oaks just posted the first color photograph ever taken of the Holy of Holies in the Salt Lake City Temple.

This is incredible!

@FaithLikeAbish2 The highlighted ordinance card. Seeing more and more of them. Great to see!

🇺🇸 Tesla just landed its biggest Semi order ever. WattEV is buying 370 Tesla Semis for roughly $100 million, the largest single electric truck order in California history. More than 300 of them will support freight operations at the Port of Oakland. First 50 deliveries start this year, full fleet operational by end of 2027. New megawatt charging hubs going up in Oakland, Fresno, Stockton, and Sacramento will charge 300 miles of range in about 30 minutes. Diesel is not having a great week. Source: Teslarati

This is making me crash out.

Admittedly, we are running out of new ideas..