@arpitrage Might need to consider data center location and related input availability in siting decisions when comparing against Midwest corn.
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Larry June
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Would be helpful to redirect data center moral panic to reduce cropland devoted to ethanol
Jason, Coffee Shop Oligarch@jasonc_nc
Effectively all growth in corn production over the last 20 years is for ethanol. ~20 million acres of conservation land, grassland, and soybean rotation was turned into corn monoculture that effectively strip mines the topsoil. Meanwhile it’s the most fertilizer dependent crop with only a 40% uptake rate. So ~1.7 million tons of nitrogen runoff flows into the Mississippi basin annually while also polluting their own water supplies. This runoff ends up expanding the Gulf deadzone, which is also where 40% of domestic seafood comes from. It’s hard to find a worse way to create fuel, with a wicked level of waste and downstream consequences.
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@pinkheretic completely different scenario and very irrelevant case to cite, very cool. keep trying, more words definitely makes you look smarter
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McFall v Shimp, 1978. Court refused to compel a man to donate bone marrow to his dying cousin on bodily autonomy grounds. The cousin died. Also: withdrawal of life support is legal everywhere and explicitly grounded in bodily autonomy. So yes, multiple examples.
fridge ( ͡⊙ ͜ʖ ͡⊙)@FridgeGames101
@pinkheretic Obviously I am asking for examples outside of abortion since this is the topic of our discussion... So can you point to a single example?
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@ijoshuajohnson @AndyMasley Which nets 60 GWhr of useful work when production inputs and mechanical efficiency is considered
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@AndyMasley The total US annual ethanol production represents ~ 1.3 × 10¹⁸ joules of energy. To store that you need something on the order of a 400,000Gwh battery.
That’s like 600x the total amount of grid storage globally.
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My contribution to the solar/farm discourse is that solar panels capture about 100x as much usable energy from the sun as corn grown for ethanol, if you include the energy cost of growing corn.
Ethanol corn is 40% of all US corn and is literally just there to capture energy from the sun. We have a way of doing that much more efficiently now!
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@uncle_authority The fine raw milk terrior is disturbed when notes of e-coli, bovine TB, and cow dung lined milking parlors are removed by pasteurization.
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DiamondBack Energy, one of the top US shale companies, says it will bring "incremental barrels to the market inmediately."
US shale can not offset the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but the idea that companies wouldn't react to >$80 a barrel was wrong.
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I was gonna make a point about status envy, but now I'm more curious about who in Idaho spells "behavior" with a "u"
FreeManPhil 🌲@cynical_subvet
@infantrydort Typical college professor behaviour. The kind of guy who looks down his nose at anyone who gets out of a vehicle without an alumni license frame or bumper sticker.
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@namihwon @WarMonitor3 Can you give an example of where this has occurred through air power alone?
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The IRGC will force their own children to clear minefields by running through them. All because they don’t want to lose a tank. (They already did this) That is the evil no one in the West wants to call out.
IRGC are the modern version of the SS in Nazi Germany.
The solution to the evil of the IRGC is full-on regime change.
But that’s up to empowering the Iranian people and weakening the IRGC.
Whether that happens … who knows.
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The IRGC just made a massive mistake high on their own propaganda.
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@Daniele30979505 @IAPonomarenko "Peace in our time!" - you probably.
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@IAPonomarenko Its called having a neutral stance in a conflict that is not yours, you should try it sometimes
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Well, look at that — without Orban, Fico immediately folded and calmly made peace with Zelensky in public.
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@JavierBlas Could you imagine in a corporate environment telling your boss something really important will happen in 3 days, nope next week, well maybe next month?
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Shifting the goal posts:
On April 26, it was in “three days.”
On May 2, it’s “next week.”
Giovanni Staunovo🛢@staunovo
Next week #Iran may have to start shutting oil wells - @SecScottBessent #oott
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@Spritelyspastic @SRuhle Biden had the lowest inflation in the G20. So, think about that next time you run your mouth.
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@SRuhle $120-$130 a barrel under Biden in 2022… along with record high inflation, high interest rates and doubling insurance costs and property tax inflation for Ukraine!!!! Not America, fking Ukraine, a non NATO country… fking cry me a river you biased POS wannabe journalist
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2 things can be true.
- the Biden Administration blocked a JetBlue/Spirit merger out of market consolidation concerns & now here we are with one company gone.
- the final blow that caused Spirit to fall was skyrocketing jet fuel prices caused by the war in Iran.
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@edgiesversion @ThinkAppraiser @SpencerAlthouse Trump's been president two terms and he does a shitload of stupid stuff. And most importantly, he's hated by New Yorkers with the intensity of a thousand suns.
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Sure. But President Trump takes the cake. Joe Biden has been parodied on Saturday Night Live far less often than Donald Trump.
Based on episode-by-episode parody lists:
Biden has appeared in roughly 53 SNL episodes as a parody character since 1991.
Trump has appeared in well over 100 parody appearances/episodes since 1988. Alec Baldwin alone played Trump in 46 recurring appearances, not counting Darrell Hammond, James Austin Johnson, Phil Hartman, Shane Gillis, and others.
So, in practical terms, Trump has been parodied on SNL about 2–3 times more often than Biden, and probably more depending on how individual sketches are counted. Trump has also dominated SNL political cold opens for much of the last decade.
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Aziz Ansari just appeared as Kash Patel on SNL, and they went innnnn on him
"I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."
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@GreeneBlitz @_sorrengailll Wake up buddy. You are sleep walking in ignorance.
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@_sorrengailll No one in the West will ever been impressed with Communist Asia. They try to imitate us but they'll never be us, always a cheap Chinese knockoff, literally
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@HorosZuril @JavierBlas In the context of $120/bbl oil he created, yes
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Exxon CEO Darren Woods on Venezuela.
From (Jan 9, 2026) "univestable"
to (May 1, 2026) "... Venezuela is a huge resource that's now opened up more freely to the world [...] I think we'll be uniquely positioned and play an important role in bringing those barrels to market..."
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@EvilMopacATX @zunigar22 .. will lose by > 8%.. bookmark it.
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I’m still waiting for the day when I can walk into a voting booth in Texas and genuinely believe in a candidate,someone whose words I respect and whose values I can stand behind, without feeling like I’m just picking the lesser of two evils. But if I’m being honest, that day feels far off, maybe even beyond my lifetime.
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I don't know what a guy would have to look like for this story to make sense but it ain't that
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These photos alone are grounds for dismissing the suit
New York Post@nypost
Bombshell sex harassment suit against Lorna Hajdini, JPMorgan branded 'complete fabrication' as John Doe unmasked trib.al/lwsWCbT
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@JavierBlas Economist dreaming in the clouds - if only oil were $150, then midterms would go to the communists.
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Oh dear, the curse of The Economist's oil cover:
"... Why oil prices are not yet high enough..."
You know what that means, don't you?
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@TheRickWilson Hopefully she'll realize the role of her behaviors in other people's view of her.
People don't dislike Ted Cruz's daughters. Just saying.
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Amazon executives are discussing a reboot of The Apprentice for Prime Video, with Donald Trump Jr. as a possible host—WSJ
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@Mollyploofkins As big an asshole as Ted Cruz is, nobody hates his daughters. May want to have a think about that Kai.
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Kai Trump: "50% of the world doesn't like me because of my last name, but they don't actually know me."
“One time I was out in public and someone literally walked up to me to tell me that my grandpa sucks.”
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@123MathMan @JavierBlas If you think exporting our refined products is winning this, you don't understand what is going to happen to gas and diesel prices as refiners export to countries that are willing to pay a lot more for it than $5/gal.
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@JavierBlas So far, it certainly appears Trump is playing this to the benefit of the US. Maybe the end state doesn’t reflect that. Or maybe it will. But daddy Trump is winning as I type this. His detractors are the ones in brutal trouble. Especially EU capping wells, dynamiting nuclear, etc
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The world is calling on the barrel of last resort — and it’s brutal for the US.
American total petroleum exports (crude and refined products) surged last week to an all-time high >14m b/d.
The price? US total inventories plunged at ~3.5 million b/d last week. Unsustainable.
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