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@Avgeek_Jan @Delta I’m a 1M miler on Delta. I’m not excited to hear the news because most of my million miles were on MKE-DTW and MKE-MSP in coach. We should have service and at least water at minimum. I once flew Venice to Munich on Air Dolmiti. Full service, small meal, 1 flight attendant

🔴 @Delta is cutting in-flight service on 450 daily flights starting May 19, and frequent flyers are NOT happy about it. From that date, any flight under 350 miles in economy will get zero service. Nothing. Not even water. That covers a lot of routes people fly every single week for work. The old system had an express service on flights of 251 to 499 miles, which was coffee, tea, or water. That is now gone entirely for shorter hops. Now, to be fair, there is a flip side. Around 600 daily flights in the 350 to 499 mile range are actually getting upgraded from express to full beverage service. So more people overall will get a proper drink cart. First class keeps full service across the board regardless of distance. #Delta #DeltaAirLines #Aviation

@GovRonDeSantis How can I stop paying property taxes to the school district? The return on investment is poor. 40-50 point gap between achievement and graduation. Waste of money regardless of who is in power

Governor DeSantis Signs Landmark Reforms to Improve Education and Hold School Unions Accountable x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@ThisThatOther2 Yeah isn’t that true. Ds are either people who just hate Rs or Trump, activists, and people who don’t know better

@realSpirit1776 Every time the Democrats open their mouths, they remind the country why they are so hated by the population

Nixon is a candidate for US Senator. Sometimes, take the “L” and move on. Democrats will get their day in court.

@willy1555 @Ric_RTP Perhaps but this is why companies need to model costs and understand AI TCO

@Ric_RTP Not so fast. You’re conflating investment with ongoing costs. If the economics didn’t work, it would reverse…. There will be disruption, and at the end of the cycle it will be technological change, as always..

Nvidia just admitted that "AI efficiency" is a LIE. Every major tech company is doing the same thing right now: Firing humans and replacing them with AI to "cut costs." 92,000 tech workers laid off in 2026 so far. Every single earnings call sounds the same: "AI is driving efficiency." But the VP of Applied Deep Learning at Nvidia, the company that literally SELLS the AI infrastructure, just told Axios: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." The man whose entire job is making AI work admitted that AI costs his company MORE than the humans it's supposed to replace. And he doesn't work at some struggling startup. We're talking about the most valuable company on Earth. An MIT study backs this up too: Researchers analyzed whether AI could actually replace human workers at a competitive cost and found that AI automation only makes financial sense in 23% of jobs. In the other 77%, humans are still cheaper. So companies are firing cheap labor and replacing it with expensive labor, then telling shareholders it's "innovation." But it gets even WORSE... Uber just revealed that they burned through their ENTIRE 2026 AI budget in 4 months. Their CTO said: "I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already." What happened is that Uber gave their engineers access to AI coding tools and encouraged them to use them as much as possible. They even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how many AI tokens they consumed, basically gamifying their own budget crisis without realizing it. By March, 95% of Uber's engineers were using AI tools monthly. 70% of all committed code was coming from AI. Monthly API costs per engineer hit $500 to $2,000. One software engineer in Stockholm told the New York Times: "I probably spend more than my salary on Claude." A human being now costs LESS than the AI tool they use to do their job. And Uber isn't some edge case. Big Tech has announced $740 billion in AI capital expenditures this year alone, up 69% from 2025, according to Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile the Yale Budget Lab says there is NO widespread data showing AI is actually displacing jobs or improving productivity at scale. So follow the money: Companies fire humans ↓ Stock goes up because "AI efficiency" ↓ Those same companies spend MORE on AI than they saved on salaries ↓ That money flows to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft ↓ Those companies use the revenue to justify their own insane valuations ↓ Everyone books growth ↓ But nobody's actually saving money McKinsey projects total AI spending will hit $5.2 TRILLION by 2030. The biggest wealth transfer in modern history is happening right now, and it's not from workers to companies. It's from companies to AI infrastructure providers. Every dollar "saved" on layoffs is being spent twice over on compute, tokens, and data centers. Nvidia posted $31.9 billion in profit last quarter. And somebody is paying that bill - the same companies telling their employees that AI made them "redundant." The entire narrative is a shell game: CEOs get to announce layoffs, Wall Street rewards them with a stock bump, and then the real cost shows up three months later when the AI budget explodes and nobody connects the two events. What's your take on this?

@Ric_RTP I’m not surprised. If companies really modeled AI TCO they could see the expense is way more than labor. I’m not sure they could find the efficiencies to optimize their AI costs and justify the spend until AI is cheaper or labor is that much more expensive

@LAOFarrill Data centers in outer space do sound like an interesting thought exercise. Certainly would use less or no water due to coldness of space. Might work but then we have junk in orbit. Rather see high powered chips for personal use similar to our phones. What do you think?

Agree, they are huge drain. How about Musk proposition to build them in outer space or the moon. And what about when quantum computing comes online?I'm not a connoisseur in computing but just wonder where is all this eventually ends up?

@LAOFarrill I’m neutral on quantum computing right now. It does take a lot to cool it. The first one in the US was built by IBM for Cleveland Clinic. There a video of them constructing it on the CC website. Smaller footprint but idk power requirements.

@ThisThatOther2 @GovRonDeSantis Same investors pushing green agenda are now pushing data centers. It’s all about the money. Nothing about conservation of the environment. AI TCO will not be there to support the business case to build them or companies to use AI at scale.

This is the hyperscale data center endgame everywhere, including Florida. Get their “feet in the door” with one data center then never stop expanding until the nation is covered with them. The best reason for Florida to wait and see what happens elsewhere. @GovRonDeSantis @Paul_Renner

@LAOFarrill I work in tech. We have yet to model costs for AI TCO. I am sure that when we do, we will see the data center and public cloud costs are high, labor take a dip to fund it, and benefits will not be there to justify the high cost.

@LAOFarrill Also, if we are so focused on conservation, then building data centers makes no sense at all whether FL, CA, NY, IN, OH or wherever. Figure out the more powerful computer that doesn’t require so much energy.

So, where do you think they should build them. Or do you think we shouldn't have them at all.

@ThisThatOther2 We do need more of this engagement with people getting involved. Many are too busy or don’t understand that local government has more impact on their daily lives than state or federal.

@realSpirit1776 I don’t live there but I’m familiar with the situation. The word leaked out early and the people jumped on it immediately. That is often what is required.

Fantastic news. Other parts of Florida need to take notice and not let them ruin our beautiful state. cbs12.com/news/local/-fl…

@ThisThatOther2 It is required at minimum and doesn’t always work. We tried a similar approach with Lee Schools. Community involvement started 4 years ago. People involved on school board advisory committees. Didn’t work. They still voted to spend $180M on a new school that’s too big.

@ThisThatOther2 Last year, according to my weather station, I got 1.38 in of rain in April. This year we got 3.4 in to date. It was 2 rains but more than last year. I do hope we get some passing showers too

@realSpirit1776 As usual in April and May, just pray a passing, spontaneous shower goes over your area. It’s a yearly ritual but needed even more this year.

If these rules are actually being enforced, you know it’s serious swfwmd.state.fl.us/the-newsroom/2…

@DRSharonRStone @Fragbaza Had 2 and have 2…plus others

@realSpirit1776 @Fragbaza ...had? 😶

Cats have their own heavenly patron — Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, a 7th-century Belgian nun. She is venerated as the protector of cats and the guardian of home comfort. It is believed that Saint Gertrude protects homes from misfortune and brings peace to those who live alongside these mysterious and sensitive creatures. Cats always sense subtle worlds — perhaps that is why they are so close to the saint, whose life was dedicated to silence, prayer, and care. May every home where a cat purrs be filled with warmth, protection, and light.

@ThisThatOther2 Yes she correct. If we are smart, we would vote everyone out of office.

She’s correct

@Fragbaza @DRSharonRStone I’ve had 4 black cats and they are special for sure.

@DRSharonRStone They could as they are indeed mysterious and sensitive.