Sam Jacques

IG: @jocko_808

[ꓕNIOԀꓤƎ⅁⅁Iꓤꓕ @Grxit]

Remembering the time in 2006 when the lunatics at GM stuffed a 5.3l LS engine sideways into a front wheel drive car

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

An old Texas farmer gave away his 87 acre farm for $10 so the kids in his town would have somewhere to play. The town flipped it for $10 million to a data center developer.

The betrayal took 26 years and four owners. Watch the chain of custody.

Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation took the land in 1999. Handed it to the Williamson County Park Foundation in 2003. The county foundation passed it to the City of Taylor a month later. In 2008, the city sold it to its own Economic Development Corporation for $15,000.

That 2008 transfer is where the park actually died. An EDC exists for one purpose: selling land to industry. Once those acres hit its books, the only open question was the price.

The price arrived in 2025. Blueprint, a data center developer, paid $10 million for 53 of the acres. A 667x return on the $15,000 the EDC paid. The city kept 15 acres as a "buffer" between the servers and the houses 500 feet away, and expects $30 million in tax revenue over the next decade.

Why now? Taylor is the same town where Samsung is building its chip megafab, announced at $17 billion and expanded since. Every acre inside city limits repriced the moment that deal landed. An 87 acre parcel sitting next to rail lines and an electrical substation became some of the most valuable dirt in Williamson County.

The Bland family is suing. The developer has won every round so far, and the legal mechanics explain why: a deed restriction is only as strong as the entity holding it. This land passed through four owners in nine years. Each transfer thinned out who had standing to enforce the old farmer's condition, until "held in trust for parkland" was just ink.

Bland's stated reason for the gift, per a neighbor who knew him: "these kids need somewhere to play."

The kids got a substation view instead.

[Sam Jacques @Jocko505]

NOOOOOOO

[🍪Biskoff🍪 🌲🏳️‍🌈 🔜 MFF?? @Bisckoff]

the blue culvers barn has fallen

[Wopavelli @TheWopObama]

In American slang we often refer to money as “benjamins” this is a subtle reference to Benjamin Netanyahu, an American folk figure who takes all of our money

[Sam Jacques @Jocko505]

this is bad

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce.

• Starting price: $640,000
• Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive
• Range: 280 miles (expected EPA)
• Peak charging speed: 350kW
• 122 kWh battery
• 1,050 horsepower
• 0-60mph: 2.4s
• 800v
• Four-door four-seater
• Four electric motors
• OLED screens
• Weight: 4,982 lbs
• Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm
• Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car.
• Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels
• The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered
• 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S

U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

[Colttt🇻🇦☧ @Milo_H4]

The only guy to truly raise hell about the Epstein files, and a recent critic of Israel, and instantly loses after 14 years of near uncontested elections. Makes you fucking think

[@pat @0xpatterns]

“Why don’t you just eat fucking ramen everyday? Just eat peanut butter and ramen for 50 years dumbass and invest all your money into the pico top of the gayest most fragile empire in history you dumbass idiot. Just starve and eat shit and dirt everyday for your entire life and then you can spend $30 on lunch when you’re old and about to die it’s simple. Don’t you know your 20’s are for grinding?? You’re supposed to eat shit for the majority of your life that’s why your ancestors built America. So you could eat shit and fucking die moron.”

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman.
His crime?
Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover.
If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will.
Go Massie!

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

Millennials were the first generation that had the trades stripped out of the schools because their boomer parents wanted to brag about their kids going to college.

You know why all Millennials went? Because boomers destroyed every other path coming out of high school. My Highschool had an entire wing of trades classrooms that were empty and shuttered. High schools were turned into a farming system for colleges.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Most people don't realize but Americans only pay Social Security taxes on income under $184,500. What that means is anyone that makes over that stops paying Social Security at $184,501.

If the Social Security earnings cap were removed they would have enough money for universal health care.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!

[Dr. Pond Anon in Coon Hat @CoonHatPondFren]

@FoxNews

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Childbirth in the US can cost over $5K out of pocket with insurance and in network. Over $25K if not.

Most Parents get only 8 weeks leave.

Daycare in the US averages $15K per child a year.

Everyday expenses average $24K per child per year

Rent is over 42% of income for most Americans, especially with kids.

Median HH Income for couples: ~$95K

But yeah it’s Candy Crush preventing them.

[Sam Jacques @Jocko505]

@SamaHoole Correct in a lot of things, but other factors: People are too broke (license BS, fuel, food, etc), don’t have strong union jobs that allow the time off, family sold the camp when grandad died & land values went up, etc. Lots of factors in the downfall of hunting

[Dirt Cheap Banks @dirtcheapbanks]

Community banks are the last place in America where a man in a short-sleeve dress shirt can approve a $400,000 loan based on the fact that he went to high school with your dad. There are 4,100 of them left. There were 14,000 in 1984. Every time one gets acquired, a teller named Brenda learns a new software system and a small town loses the only institution that would lend against a combine. The acquirer always says nothing will change. Brenda is gone in eighteen months. The lobby cookies go next. Then the branch closes. Then the building becomes a vape shop. This is not a financial trend. This is the slow administrative murder of the only version of capitalism that ever knew your name.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

This world was ripped from you so that boomers 401ks would go up during Covid.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Tucson made a simple change to 20,000 streetlights. Light pollution dropped 7%, energy bills dropped $2.16 million a year, and many songbirds were saved.

Most LEDs have made light pollution worse. The cool-white lights most cities chose scatter into the sky at higher rates than the old sodium lamps.

That scatter pulls migrating songbirds off course and drops them into lit buildings by the hundreds of millions each year.

Tucson decided to do it differently. They used warm-white 3,000K LEDs instead of the standard 4,000K.

They added full shielding so light points down, not sideways or up, and adaptive dimming. Lights run at 90% from sunset to midnight, then drop to 60% until dawn.

Drivers and pedestrians reported no loss of visibility. Migrating birds passing over the city had a darker corridor to navigate than they'd had in decades.

Most cities still haven't figured this out. Philadelphia, LA, and Phoenix have all run into problems with retrofits that increased sky glow despite using LEDs. The tech is solved. The implementation is a choice.

Ask your city council what color temperature your streetlights are. Ask if they dim after midnight. Ask if they're shielded. Most people have never thought about it. Most elected officials haven't either.

Never forget that the night sky is also habitat.

[barney @barneyxbt]

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly

the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations.

the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with.

they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy

you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything.

that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs

and now the refund goes to THEM?

the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference

the american people funded the tariffs.

the corporations profited off the tariffs.

and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place
and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back.

not a single person has even suggested it

guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either

this country does not work for you.

it works for them. it’s a joke

and they’re not even pretending anymore

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[daz @MetamateDaz]

What is the business model where a landlord doubles the rent of a thriving business, forces them to close and then lets the space sit empty for 5 years?