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@BenSwann_ By default what ever Lindsey Graham supports, I must oppose.... The fact that SC keeps reelected him is crazy to me...

Lindsey Graham: “Whatever price we have to pay to beat Iran, we will pay it.” This comes as Americans are already paying nearly $5/gallon for gas, and talks of reinstating the military draft are resurfacing. Fun fact: He’s accepted nearly $1 million from AIPAC.

@DagnyTaggartUSA @ErynneGo29 People in the comments are not buying kerrygold butter and then complaining about the price we are buying land o lakes or store brand butter....

@ErynneGo29 Yep. But the people drowning in student loan debt know better

One week of groceries for a family. Nothing extravagant. Just the bare bones in a blue state. I stay home. My husband only leaves the house to work. We have cancelled vacations. Taken our children out of extracurricular activities. Cancelled our gym membership’s. We do not go out to restaurants frequently. I’m wearing the same old clothes that I have for years and I need socks and underwear, but that will have to, I guess, never happen. @RFKJr_Official @POTUS @JDVance HELP!

@DagnyTaggartUSA @BCB8084 Not stupid enough to live in a blue state where there are no Krogers or Walmarts and the cheapest food is whole foods that is for sure.

@BCB8084 I placed this order at 9:11am today. How stupid are you?

@TrustlessState How about instead we close Washington dc, all Congress works from the state / district they represent, all federal agencies distributed around the nation, and Congress members are paid 1.5x median salary for the state they are located

Unironically, congress members should be paid 600k-800k a year Strong financial compensation is a fundamental deterrent for corruption and alternative interests

@Gossings7 @the_addressor @WallStreetApes Nice...move then

@the_addressor @WallStreetApes Most young people in the Seattle area are living with parents, because they cant afford rent. This is real in WA. It takes financial gymnastics to be an independent adult.

This American works full time in the operating room at a hospital and just got off a 12 hour shift It’s after midnight and she must now go drive DoorDash after being on her feet for 12 hours because the cost of living is so high in America “I work in the operating room and I just worked a 12-hour shift in the operating room and I cannot afford my rent. I can't afford my rent. I can't afford gas. I can't afford groceries. I can't afford any of my endless other bills that I am responsible for because I am an adult. After working a 12-hour shift in the operating room. So you know what I have to do? I have to DoorDash, and it's 12: 30 at night after I've been on my feet in the operating room for 12 hours all f*cking day. I'm now out DoorDash driving” I’ll never shop sharing these stories because we must ALL advocate for a drastically lower cost of living We cannot accept this is the way things are. We cannot accept this is the direction we’re going and things will just keep getting more expensive

@jsin215 @FAFO_TV JFK has privatized enforcement and several town companies patrol the area looking for revenue, phl is still classic enforcement where they have to call for a tow

@FAFO_TV It amazes me how rarely this happens at phl and how regularly it happens at Newark and jfk

@bartpascoal @FAFO_TV Everyone talks about the wealth tax, here I would agree with a wealth fine. 1% of your net worth for being an asshole

@FAFO_TV If you have enough money to pay the fines and impound fees it's like a valet parking service

@DirtMccGirt @Ketofrugalmadre @FFfoxinator @eric_hz143 @TeamTrump47 If you don't want to follow the laws of society then it is the person that refuses to follow those laws that should be shunned to the woods.

@Ketofrugalmadre @FFfoxinator @eric_hz143 @TeamTrump47 Alright Karen. Go live out in the woods and you'll have less people to give the look to.

I love that guy with the tank. I've been waiting for this moment my whole life.

@JayBroyerPools @stevetolger @ClintFiore No if you tell me it is 300/hr I am more likely to just fix it myself.

@stevetolger @ClintFiore That’s the norm in home service now because if we tell you it’s $300/hr for labor you will be even more pissed . I did a break even calc one year for our pool Business and it was $185/hr before we made a dime. Flat rate is the onto way to do it .

Of course my plumber finds $1500 of things to be fixed on the annual inspection visit included with our $99 membership. Of course.

@NFL_DOINKS @rallynate Further The Supreme Court has repeatedly revised 4th Amendment doctrine as technology expanded state power. ‘Courts already ruled’ isn’t a permanent argument when surveillance capabilities fundamentally change.

That’s actually the exact opposite ruling as the courts have previously started and drawn comparisons to for other technology advances (typing, voice translation, speed estimates). “If you can dig a hole with a shovel, it’s not the courts place to tell you not to dig the hole faster and more efficiently with a backhoe” This is like teaching a new boot who thinks they know how laws work because they watched End of Watch once

Is anyone familiar with the Flock AI surveillance cameras that are going up all over Northwest Arkansas right now? These cameras are being installed by a billion dollar corporation so government agencies can spy on us and track our every move, WITHOUT a warrant. Not only do they read every license plate and detailed vehicle description, they also store that data in searchable private cloud servers that are integrated with Palantir (another AI data company). The shills will say it’s for “safety”, but the 4th amendment was written to protect all of us from this kind of mass AI dragnet surveillance, and I won’t be quiet about it, and you shouldn’t either.

@NFL_DOINKS @rallynate Courts have also ruled technology can fundamentally change the privacy analysis. That’s literally the reasoning in cases like Carpenter. Scale, permanence, and aggregation matter.

@TheJeffPutnam The response here show how far work ethic had dropped in the nation, sad really. Of course he will be on tiktok complaining about how he can't afford to buy a home ....

It’s odd to me to come across so many young people (17-25) who fail to understand that responsibilities don’t just disappear because you’re angry to think something isn’t fair. Had a 19 year old kid start at my job two days ago and today he was fired. Why? Because of a last minute change order on a job required him to stay at a customers house later than he expected. “But I made plans.” No one gives a flying fuck. Shut the fuck up, man up, and do your job without whining like a little bitch. But no, instead of doing his job, he threw a mini tantrum and then called his girlfriend to drive 45 minutes across town to come pick him up. It’s fucking pathetic.

@lodge1776 @WallStreetApes Lake mead goes "critically low" all the time...

@WallStreetApes When did all this fucking shit happen? It’s like all sudden these data centers popped up overnight thousands no public speaking or permits. I didn’t hear a fucking thing about it.

All this used to be underwater Lake Mead is on the border between Nevada and Arizona and it’s water levels are now critically low There are many Data Centers that have been put in the Lake Mead area and draw directly from the lake - Google’s Henderson data center consumed roughly 352 million gallons in one year. It directly pulls from the Lake Mead sourced municipal supply - Flexential Data Center facility used around 20 million gallons in one year - Other Data Centers in the area collectively used over 716 million gallons in 2024, with nearly all the water drawing from Colorado River and Lake Mead sources Pair this with droughts, water demand from agriculture and resident use and now there is almost nothing left… just look at this…. The lake is only at about 32% capacity Why is this being allowed

@NFL_DOINKS @rallynate Because 100 cops physically tailing every citizen 24/7 would itself be viewed as a police state. The Constitution doesn’t stop mattering because technology makes surveillance cheaper.

@nonarchic @rallynate How is it different than 100 cops standing in the corner taking photos and notes?

@NFL_DOINKS @WebbDan78442 @rallynate A cop following and documenting your movements traditionally requires suspicion of a crime and manpower. Mass automated tracking of everyone by default is a fundamentally different power.

@WebbDan78442 @nonarchic @rallynate It’s no different than a cop standing there with a video camera, Polaroid or a notebook. Courts have said time and time again…if you can dig a hole with a shovel there is no difference when you dig the same hole with a back hoe. One is just much more efficient and easy.

@NFL_DOINKS @rallynate The issue isn’t a single plate read in public view. It’s mass, suspicionless collection and aggregation of everyone’s movements without a warrant. The 4th was written specifically to restrain generalized surveillance / fishing expeditions, not just literal physical searches.

@nonarchic @rallynate Explain to me how a computer reading license plates is an unreasonable search or seizure of your person or property. I’ll hang up and listen

@felpix_ @NightmarEclipse No it spawns from the clouds ... Duh...

@NightmarEclipse do you think the internet and the platform you are currently using spawns out of thin air?

america uses 15x more water on its lawns than it does on all of its data centers driving a gas car is 10x the per capita electricity consumption of all u.s. data centers in defense of the data center on substack

@1ssve Well at my company 90% of information flows via hallway conversations so when everyone was wfh the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing and that we pretty interesting...

I’m trying to figure out why people “enjoy” coming in to the office over working from home, cuz there is literally NO valid reason

@markfrancisio @1ssve Some people are exactly inverted as well they have so much going on in their personal lives that if they do not carve out her in office time work productivity suffers and they could risk losing the job they have. Office time will cut through personal life distractions

Lots of people live boring lives. Work "friends" make up a big part of this. There are a lot of people without meaning outside of work, too. I once had a guy tell me during COVID that he didn't get on with his wife, and it was the only time he got a break from her. Kinda sad, really. It's a bit like people who go on holiday. The kind that live for the "break" from life. How about building your life and home so you don't need a break from it. I get that change is good, and exploring new places is great, but if you need a break from your life or job, maybe re-evaluate. I'm not saying it's easy, its f*cking hard, but you only get one life, dont waste it.

@mcuban Your belief that government is the solution to any societal problem highlights extreme ignorance of history, government is the problem not the solution

We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level. Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens. It will accomplish 4 things (at least ) 1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization Which will 2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption Which will 3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x Which will 4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally. Thoughts ?