"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter...like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." - Charles Bukowski
Don't get pulled into rage bait & divisive things.
Make your own life great.
@ElaineBenes99@TradeSniperSara Ok ladies I am solid Gen X and I just reused some aluminum foil and I have a non-perishable stockpile that was the envy of my whole neighborhood in 2020 🤣 I'm a couponer! 🤓
@KatieMiller Every research scientist should have a journal. Most high-performing professionals, business owners, public servants tasked with documenting policy, and intentional-living humans have a journal. It's base level professionalism.
Only morons who know nothing about science would believe that social distancing, lockdowns and wearing masks didn't work in trying to prevent the spread of a virus. Viruses work by contaminating hosts. Starving the virus of hosts to contaminate works.
Holy fuck go back to school.
@JamieMetzl Back then, Gottleib went on CNBC Squawk Box and said US funded GoF research as a way to monitor what China was doing. I watched it live. It resonated as soon as he said it, and it was not said again. We were spying, disguised as research, and we can't exactly say that out loud.
The Fed is powerful ... but it can't do anything about higher auto insurance, higher home insurance, higher health insurance, higher electricity costs and a bunch of other things.
A global health crisis + a change in how & where we live + a few trillion in stimulus + a war around energy outweighs even a hefty Fed.
Unless the economy tanks - and thankfully it doesn't look like it will - prices aren't going to come down.
I'm sorry.
@johnkonrad Yeah, pick up your litter. We all do this in blood red TN also. We all own our infrastructure. When we mow grass and leaves we clean em off the storm drains to reduce flooding. Is that the highest and best use of my tax money to pay a bunch of people to clean up after me? No
I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.
Been saying this too (bc clearly I'm as smart as Cuban lol). Seems foolish to build all this capacity for something we all know shrinks exponentially. I've always wondered if it was cover for something else
Mark Cuban thinks many data centers will turn into pickleball courts
He was on the @theallinpod making the case that AI infrastructure is being overbuilt
His comparison is the 90s when everyone raced to lay fiber-optic cable
Then technology got more efficient, and what followed was the cables became useless, and companies lost billions on infrastructure nobody needed
Now he sees the same setup with AI. Companies are signing 10 and 20 year power contracts betting that compute requirements never drop, and they will
Cuban says the losers won't be retail investors this time
It'll be:
• Venture capital funds
• Private equity
• Institutional investors who went all in
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did and promptly pulled it. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA
I wish I could retweet this a thousand times. This is spot on.
The SAVE America Act is an absurd federal overreach that any normal Republican Congress or president would vehemently oppose, for a million different reasons. There's been a year-long push to sell this bill to the public, but a lot of people cheering it on have never actually read the bill.
Many people don't realize that this bill:
- Hands the federal government control over how states run their own elections.
- Requires states to submit voter rolls to a federal database the government directly controls.
- ... Is federalization of our elections on a scale we've never seen before.
All of this is antithetical to conservatism.
Too many people treat politics like sports these days. They put on the jersey and defend their side no matter what. Some of us refuse to do that.
When you actually believe in deeply held principles — small government, fiscal conservatism, constitutional rights — staying consistent isn't a sacrifice, even if it means going against your own side.
People who oppose government overreach consistently, not just when it's convenient, are the ones actually protecting this country from itself.