@XH_Lee23 Food shipments from Florida have been ongoing. Stop with the propaganda.
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Apparel Manufacturer Guy
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California, USA Katılım Ekim 2013
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@amlivemon I'll say it again...
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Apparel Manufacturer Guy@lb_412
I usually agree with your posts, but the electricity cost point isn’t accurate. In California, data centers could actually help lower residential rates by smoothing demand. They can absorb excess generation during off-peak hours and, if paired with on-site generation or storage, reduce draw on the grid during peak periods (5-9PM). That kind of load balancing improves overall system efficiency and reduces cost for all. It’s part of why places like Texas have much lower rates. Also, meaningful investment is going into U.S. based manufacturing, including chip fabs, batteries, robots, etc... we are just currently behind the curve.
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This all means everyone in Trump admin has been lying for 18 months about growth. And now we get the real fun parts which is all negative
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs
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@cremieuxrecueil I am in... Please post sources when you have a chance.
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@venkmurthy You aren't going to want to see the data with Black and Latinos included then.
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Why does a kid with Indian-American race need a 1600 on SAT to have the ~same odds of admission as a White kid with 1450?
I cannot think of a single credible, benign explanation for this!
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi
The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.
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@amlivemon No need to invade when Taiwan will eventually become a client state.
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US intelligence agencies assessed that China has no current plans to invade Taiwan in 2027 and no fixed timeline for unification, with Beijing preferring non-military means of control despite continued PLA capability development.
I told you guys this for years but fraud geopolitical guys and finance bros keep this stupid narrative up that China is invading Taiwan next week
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@JamesSurowiecki I mean... they aren't asking everyone to re-register to vote.
Also, I believe the polls would barely move.
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The willful disingenuousness of this tweet is so tiresome. Ask Americans whether they want to have to prove their citizenship by providing a physical birth certificate or passport in order to register to vote. Then we'll have some sense of whether they support the SAVE Act.
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@MonsieurBobo @401Casey I failed to mention... with all of the expenses our services are no better than TX (I have lived in both places).
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You can't isolate the income tax for CA. We have...
Highest income tax rates, electricity rates, gasoline prices, car registration fees (my Tacoma was over $800 on year 2), sales taxes (top 10), water rates, nat gas rates, etc. Its death by 1000 cuts scenario.
Home prices are a thing but that is primarily due to absolutely insane regulations.
You could absolutely get away with high income taxes if the other categories were in line with the US median.
What natural disasters? Fires? That isn't something I have ever heard (anecdotal) used as a reason for moving. TX, FL, and TN all have tornadoes, hurricanes, and frequent hail.
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As a reformed municipal bond guy two stories have fascinated me the last couple weeks and they are of course very related. Washington state implementing an income tax and the downgrade of New York City
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I usually agree with your posts, but the electricity cost point isn’t accurate. In California, data centers could actually help lower residential rates by smoothing demand. They can absorb excess generation during off-peak hours and, if paired with on-site generation or storage, reduce draw on the grid during peak periods (5-9PM). That kind of load balancing improves overall system efficiency and reduces cost for all. It’s part of why places like Texas have much lower rates. Also, meaningful investment is going into U.S. based manufacturing, including chip fabs, batteries, robots, etc... we are just currently behind the curve.
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Well tech is all made overseas except for maybe 15 pct of it. And then we get the power bill which is really a tax and we lose jobs on top of that
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs
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I understand why young families move into new, treeless suburbs. Primarily cost of the home and the promise of good schools. What I do not understand is why these families do not plant 3-5 trees upon move in. Small trees are inexpensive, widely available, and require little more than a shovel to install. Growth is slow at first, then accelerates. Old timers describe the three year process as “sleep, creep, leap.”
One of our trees is now over 30 feet tall. We started it from an acorn my daughter found when she was young.
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"A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent."
How much money do builders save on costs by removing all the trees from a lot prior to construction? "Roughly $5,000 per lot."
Vast swaths of residential America are bleak because of the selfishness, shortsightedness and greed of builders and developers.
Personally, I can't live in a house in which there are no visual points of interest outside it that can be enjoyed through its windows. Views of trees, hills and mountains, maybe a skyline or compelling urban panorama — any of these will greatly increase the enjoyment of a home and improve the mental health of its occupants.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
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@ukiyoehadalay @eigenrobot Not really… it’s a global phenomenon now.
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@eigenrobot this is a temporary issue, when we get lev in like 20 years we are going to go back to population bomb dynamics since no one is dying. and honestly it's only an issue for white people since they are the only group at risk of being demographically shattered in their homelands
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if a culture has lost the ability to maintain replacement fertility across its carriers it's fundamentally failing irrespective of anything else happening
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Probably visual on f35… their radars wouldn’t work vs them
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
F-35 STRUCK BY WHAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE IRANIAN FIRE - CNN
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@NawafAlThani No reparations as long as the current regime is replaced
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Sorry I know this might trigger some, but please try your best to answer. This matters, especially if you live in Iran.
Q: After the damage caused by Iran to GCC countries, when the time comes, how should reparations be paid by Iran to the GCC countries?
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Takes?
John Ziegler@Zigmanfreud
Why the adult rape allegation against Cesar Chavez is VERY clearly not credible… 1) The woman is 96 years old with a “hazy” memory 2) She waited over 60 years to go public 3) She had 2 kids with him but only had sex with him twice (🤔) and neither time was 100% consensual 4) She also had 4 kids with HIS BROTHER! (Which the @nytimes conveniently leaves out) 5) She worked with him until he died and she praised him on X multiple times, decades after he died (see below) 6) She has plenty of incentives to lie, particularly so that her career doesn’t look like it was carried by her having extensive sexual affairs with him AND his brother, and the fact that Cesar accused her of stealing money from the organization This story is not only not credible, it is completely irrelevant to the uncorroborated allegations of child rape, which the NY Times desperately conflates with it in order to give the appearance of there being significant evidence here. I have ZERO love for Chavez, but this story is completely unfair, especially since he has been dead for 33 years.
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Living in California can almost blackpill you into being a single-issue voter, and that issue is housing.
Streamlining permitting and enforcing the law so local cities can't delay or block new development is exactly what I want to hear from a candidate.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
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@kane and... TX residential electricity rates are about 1/3 that of CA
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Rufo, born in California, knows that cougars almost never attack humans and the cats, who currently live on both sides of the highway, already have “direct access” to the neighborhood in question
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
The craziest thing about Newsom's $100 million wildlife bridge is that it will allow cougars, an apex predator, direct access into a suburban neighborhood filled with pets, children, and the elderly. It's like the radical environmentalist version of The Purge.
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@CAgovernor With... electricity rates 2-3X that of Texas and they have a higher percentage or renewables in the mix.
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California is beating its own climate goals ahead of schedule:
✅ Two-thirds of the state grid powered by clean energy
✅ More than 2.5M electric vehicles
✅ 201K public chargers (more than gas nozzles)
✅ 17,000 MW of battery storage (2nd only to China)
The cynics said it couldn't be done.
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