David Snodgrass

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

In Nîmes, southern France, parents at École Primaire La Planette (a public primary school) crowdfunded portable air conditioning units for classrooms during a severe heatwave, but local authorities ordered their removal.
Key Details
• Context: During a record-breaking European heatwave in June 2026 (with classroom temperatures reportedly reaching around 40°C / 104°F), a child at the school fainted from the heat. Classes were moved to hallways for slight relief. Many French and European schools lack built-in air conditioning due to historical norms, energy concerns, building regulations, and debates over climate impact.
• Parents’ Action: Parents formed an association and launched a Leetchi crowdfunding campaign. They quickly raised about €2,000–2,060, bought five portable air conditioning units, and installed them (one reportedly fully funded by the parents’ group). They acted after initial attempts to bring units were blocked by school/education rules requiring prior approval for electrical devices.
• Rejection: The left-leaning municipal team in Nîmes (led by Communist mayor Vincent Bouget) ordered the units removed. Reasons cited included:
• Safety/regulatory rules (no unapproved electrical appliances in school groups without validation from the city and Éducation Nationale).
• Risk of creating inequality or a “precedent”: The school is in a relatively affluent neighborhood; officials worried it would highlight disparities with less-advantaged areas where parents couldn’t afford similar solutions.
The story gained attention in French media (e.g., Le Figaro) and internationally, often framed in broader debates about Europe’s resistance to widespread AC adoption amid rising heatwaves, energy use, environmental goals, and political divides (right-leaning calls for more cooling vs. left-leaning caution).

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

Maligning our Founding Fathers is ignoble.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@CENTCOM Please add “Distro A” to the Iranian strike videos.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@WallStreetApes 2017 Jeep Wrangler - third break light out: $119 plus installation.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@WallStreetApes Use Real Butter!

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@WallStreetApes Skip it!

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@randallwcarlson Flash processing uses minimal inter process materials/catalysts. The meteoric processing has provided a tremendous head start. Cheep (energy) shipping to earth with a small ablative shield due to velocity management. Fly small guidance packages back to the moon for reuse.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@silvano_trotta Beautiful!

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

Easy way to make sure rightful workers are honestly paid. Make under the table cash payments a federal crime with a $10,000 employer fine for each infraction.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@CaryKelly11 I guess if you have to eat tomatoes, this is the way..

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the grounds of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, behind a wall built in 1270, there is a herd of wild cattle.

They have been there, in that specific park, for approximately 700 years.

They are white. Small. Horned. They look vaguely like the cattle on a medieval tapestry, which is roughly what they are. The Chillingham herd is the last surviving population of genuinely wild cattle in Britain, and genetically the closest living relative of the aurochs, the wild ancestor of every domestic cow on earth.

When the estate was enclosed in the 13th century, a group of cattle was trapped inside the wall. Nobody moved them. Nobody bred them with outside stock. Nobody managed them. The wall went up, the cattle kept being cattle, and the door, essentially, was never opened again.

Seven centuries later, they are still there.

No selective breeding. No herd improvement programme. No artificial insemination. No supplementary feed beyond what the park produces. They eat the grass. They calve unassisted. The bull fights for dominance. The old are taken by winter. The young grow up in a social structure nobody taught them.

They have the lowest genetic diversity of any mammal on earth that isn't officially endangered. By every textbook in conservation genetics, they should have collapsed a dozen times over from inbreeding depression.

They have not. They are, by veterinary standards, extraordinarily healthy. Disease resistance better than modern breeds. Fertility steady. Calving success high. They carry on regardless.

What can be learned from Chillingham.

The first is that a cattle population, left alone on land suited to them, finds its own equilibrium. No committee is required. No spreadsheet. No grass-measuring device. The cattle work it out. They have worked it out for 700 years.

The second is that the park itself is a functioning ecosystem, maintained by those cattle. The wildflowers, the ancient oaks, the soil structure, the bird populations, are all shaped by continuous low-intensity grazing by a small wild herd. It is one of the most biodiverse small landscapes in England.

The third, and most inconvenient to the modern argument, is that cattle and wild land are not in conflict. The Chillingham herd is wild cattle, on wild land, in steady state, for longer than most European countries have existed in their current form.

They are a living contradiction to almost every modern claim made about bovines and ecosystems.

They are not on anybody's emissions chart.

They have never been invited to a conference.

They are behind their wall, in Northumberland, quietly doing what cattle have been doing since before the Norman Conquest.

They will probably still be doing it when the current debate has been forgotten.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@kiteandkeymedia Rate and amount are different and worth a look. SS is a benefit plan, and shouldn’t be thought of as an income tax where rates increase And is unlimited.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@DI313_ Active aggressive military threats like this should receive a kinetic response.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

Hmmm

[MajorityPAC @MajorityPAC_com]

Let's Remind America, you haven't left the Democrat Party, they've left you. Watch a younger Chuck Schumer saying things he would be excommunicated from the Democrat Party if he said them today.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

Let the people speak

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

Nothing would make me prouder than for Ireland to be the first country to go to Civil War against the Globalists and neo-Trotskyites seeking to destroy Europe.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

Well balanced diet. Haha.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In February 1928 a Canadian Arctic explorer called Vilhjalmur Stefansson walked into Bellevue Hospital in New York City and announced, to a committee of distinguished physicians who had been waiting for him, that he and his colleague Karsten Anderson were going to live on nothing but meat for the next year, under their direct medical supervision, and they could measure whatever they liked.

The committee was thrilled. They were going to watch a man kill himself in the name of science.

Stefansson had spent eleven years in the Arctic living among the Inuit. He had eaten what they ate, which was meat and fat from caribou and seal and fish, with effectively no plant matter, for the entire duration. He had not died. He had not got scurvy. He had, in fact, been rather well, and had come back to a country that did not believe him about any of it.

So he had offered himself as the experiment.

The committee included some of the most prominent nutrition researchers of the era. They were, by their own admission, expecting Stefansson to develop scurvy within weeks, kidney damage within months, and various nutritional collapses across the rest of the year.

Stefansson and Anderson spent the year eating beef, lamb, veal, pork, chicken, the occasional fish. They ate the fat with the lean, in roughly the proportion of an Arctic seal, which is to say very fat indeed. They ate organs. They ate marrow. They drank water and coffee. No vegetables, no fruit, no grain, no sugar.

At the end of the year both men were in better health than at the start.

No scurvy. No kidney damage. No vitamin deficiencies. Stefansson's blood pressure had dropped slightly. His cholesterol had dropped slightly. He had lost a small amount of weight and reported feeling better than he had in years. The committee published the results in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in 1930.

There was one short period early on when the supervising physicians, trying to be helpful, gave Stefansson lean meat without sufficient fat. He immediately developed the symptoms the Plains Indians had called rabbit starvation: nausea, weakness, the feeling of being unable to eat enough. He politely explained the problem. The committee, slightly chastened, increased the fat ratio. The symptoms vanished within forty-eight hours and never returned.

The experiment was the cleanest possible test of the hypothesis that humans require plant foods to survive, conducted under hospital supervision, by sceptics who expected the subject to fail.

The subject did not fail.

The subject thrived.

Almost nobody has heard of it.

It is not in the textbooks. It is not in the dietary guidelines. It is not mentioned by the nutritionists who confidently assert that a varied diet including all food groups is essential for human health, despite the existence of a hospital-supervised year-long experiment that demonstrated otherwise nearly a century ago.

When the data does not match the model, you have two options. Revise the model, or ignore the data and hope nobody looks too closely.

We chose option two.

The paper is sitting in the library.

Waiting for option one.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@Australia

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

These COVID nightmares will never be forgotten...

21-year-old Australian mom of three was violently choked by police & arrested for not wearing a mask, even though she had a medical exemption.

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

@GuntherEagleman Crush the serfs, welcome the infidels!

[David Snodgrass @DavidSnodgrass1]

Wisdom. The likes of which is often not apparent in a moment of observation.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.”

-Teddy Roosevelt