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@F_ingMemphis Sure, but you are blaming county leaders, not state in your original comment.

@mach___3 And I can still be pissed that my state lets murders with prior murder combinations out in 6 yrs.

And our leadership wonders why people are fleeing Shelby county. I give you reason 697. 6 yrs for murder. These judges need to go.

@JohnLeFevre IG: OIG conducted 47 audits, covering $3,702,453,656 in funds, finding $3,243,267 in questioned costs. Thats 0.09% of audited funds questioned. desk reviews of 236 non-Federal audit reports covering $11,470,018,180 turned up $7,300,682 in questioned costs roughly 0.06%.

I went to a prestigious prep school (Choate). By default, I know way too many people who slid into the USAID grifter circuit. It’s way worse than you think: nauseating buzzword-filled circle-jerks on Zoom calls, business-class conferences in Zurich, private champagne dinners, and endless layers of outsourcing (each one taking their fat cut) - all on unlimited expense accounts. Saying 90% of the “aid” disappears into admin, overhead, and fraud is a gross understatement. And for what? So these con artists can LARP as humanitarian saviors, feign respectability, and send their kids to private school… …all on the backs of hardworking American taxpayers. It's a lifestyle racket. A facade. And the worst part is that we're all expected to hold these people in high regard.

@Vtrivedy10 Yeah my thread finally crashed after 3 days

did OpenAI basically solve compaction? i pretty much never have issues with 5.5 in codex across ultra long threads spanning many compactions this used to feel like such a problem and I kinda just don’t even feel it anymore anyone else feel this?

@raefejenkins Yes you are, listen to people smarter than you next time

I am an idiot for voting Trump 3X

@ccremke Which Nashville? 2013? 1913? 1789?

"Nashvegas" used to be a sardonic joke. Now, it’s a reality threatening Nashville's soul, aided and abetted by our Council's Planning and Zoning Committee and their puppets at the Planning Commission. They are full-bore focused on making room for Vegas at the expense of NashNatives. People look at the zoning disasters and ask, "Are they really this blind and incompetent?" The truth is, they want you to think it's a huge "miss." That's why they look into the news cameras, totally "astonished" by the massive tax bills and displacement destroying our neighborhoods. Don't buy the fake surprise. They built the machine, they pulled the lever, and now they are playing dumb. The mechanics are working exactly as designed: more density - more inflation - more gentrification of NashNatives and BizNatives. @builttothink" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@builttothink @builttothink/note/c-253615095?r=m4noy&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@builttothink/… #NashPol #PropertyTax #NashvilleHousing

@notaproviderMD Because these districts will not have black representation in Congress. Representation= power. No blacks represented in Congress = blacks having no power. Make sense?

I’m begging someone to tell me what power black people are losing. How does lost Democratic Party power equate to lost black American power?

@ltgovmcnally Fiscal responsibility? Go fuck yourself

This map will help ensure the voices we send to Washington represent the people of this state and advance the principles they believe in: strong borders, safe communities and fiscal responsibility.

We have passed a fair and legal congressional map that reflects the longstanding conservative character of Tennessee. The direction of our country hangs in the balance in the upcoming election.

No one is ready for the real solution to Gerrymandering: A return to the Constitution's original standard of 1 Member of Congress for every 30,000 Americans, resulting in an 11,000-member House with city-council sized districts so small you can't Gerrymander them if you tried.

@ProducerCities Something something ineffective liberal government something something conservative

Roughly the same number of people moved out of Nashville as did Portland, 2020-2023

@JamesTate121 Bingo

I’ve never forgotten this, or trickle down economics. He and the GOP set us back generations.

@RaySand17710097 @Electroversenet Yeah our Navy and NATO protect the assets of the oil companies which are majority owned by American oil interests. Accept the fact that if it wasn't for the century + tax incentives and direct subsidies, there would of been many different types of energy generation.

@mach___3 @Electroversenet Bollocks you can make up anything like that way. Drilling oil out of the North Sea for our use is all down to the US? Grow up.

There is no energy transition. Oil, coal and gas still supply 87% of the world's energy - roughly the same share as 20 years ago. Despite trillions in subsidies, solar and wind barely register on the global chart, accounting for just 6.5% of the primary energy supply. Fossil fuel use keeps rising, particularly in China and India. The renewable revolution can still only power a small fraction of the planet, and only when the sun shines or the wind blows. This is the data the headlines leave out. The transition isn't happening. It's a slogan.

@RaySand17710097 @Electroversenet Because the US and other countries have subsidized the market for the UK. When combining the subsidy and the cost Americans pay for our Navy and army to protect fossil fuel interests, it's easily the most subsidized industry on earth

@mach___3 @Electroversenet In the UK (highest electricity prices in the developed world) there Are ZERO subsidies paid to fossil fuels. They are, in reality, a massive tax revenue earner. Take your lies and stick them where the sun don't shine

@BjornLomborg Now add up the tax incentives and direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry since the 60s

Climate campaigners tell you green is cheap It isn't Global green transition cost is now $14+ trillion, rising with over $2 trillion/year (2% of global GDP) 105x our spending to avoid hunger Still, CO₂ emissions set another record last year assets.bbhub.io/professional/s…

@1rustyrig @Electroversenet A drop in the bucket relative to the tax incentives and direct subsidies we have made to the fossil fuel industry

@mach___3 @Electroversenet Think about all the money that’s been poured into battery technology via NASA, DARPA, and private sector. Same goes for solar.

A gallon of jet fuel contains about 34 kWh of energy and weighs roughly 6 pounds. A lithium-ion battery storing the same energy weighs about 250 pounds. That density gap defines modern systems. Aviation runs on jet fuel. Shipping runs on bunker fuel. Agriculture runs on diesel. Nobody wages war over solar panels and turbines. Liquid fuels deliver high energy in compact form. Batteries do not. This is simple physics. Not "climate denial".

@acidiclemon2 @Electroversenet It does matter, because accounts like this would have you believe the free hand of the market made this so, but in reality, governments have been entrenched by fossil fuel interests

@mach___3 @Electroversenet Ok, but that's not the world we live in, so it doesn't change anything and doesn't matter.

@AlwaysOnEnergy Does this include the 60 years of tax incentives and direct government subsidies into the price of natural gas and fossil fuels?

“Baseload” solar isn’t cheap, it’s the most expensive option on the grid. Our modeling shows that delivering 24/7 power with solar + storage can cost up to $600/MWh—nearly 10x more than natural gas. The reason? Massive overbuild + costly load balancing.