My kid's school asked me to donate supplies.
Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues.
I pay property taxes.
My state has a $4 billion surplus.
The federal education budget is $238 billion.
And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck.
And I'm sending in Ziploc bags.
We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money.
We fund schools with bake sales.
And then blame teachers when test scores drop.
The RVs parked for miles in Abilene, Texas seem to never end
I shared earlier footage of this, but this shows they are expanding and building 2,300 more spaces
They are used for temporary housing for thousands of construction workers building massive AI data centers
The city has approved large-scale RV parks specifically for data center workers, including a nearly 1,000-space park on Elmdale Road and plans for up to 2,300+ spaces total across new developments
Abilene is in the middle of a huge AI data center boom, projects include OpenAI, Oracle, Crusoe, Microsoft, and more. These are multibillion dollar campuses, some valued at more than $26 billion+
The power needs for these data centers in this area will exceed 1 million average homes
They’ll use about 8 million gallons of water
Each major project can have as many as 6,000 workers on site each day
>be Henry Nowak, 18
>first year accounting, Southampton
>walking home after footie night, few pints
>see guy carrying a massive sheathed knife
>film him because what the fuck
>say to him "you're a bad man"
>he replies "I am a bad man"
>four quick thrusts
>feel warm buzz on my jaw
>he snatches my phone
>see the glimmer of a foot-long knife
>panic
>climb bin, vault fence, legs failing
>blood trail behind me
>collapse, crawling
>attacker tells police I'm a racist
>that I stole his turban
>they handcuff me in my own pool of blood
>"I've been stabbed" I gasp
>"no, you're a racist" says the brown
>police agree and keep me cuffed
>pass out
>air ambulance too late
>dead at 12:37am
>attackers mum takes knife home
>MUST PRESERVE THE IZZAT
>my phone (with full video) found in his pocket
>story takes 6 months to come out because of how insane it is and security services involvement
>mfw a brown man stole the video of my own death
>Britain, 2025
A friend of mine from college days just bought a house in Katy last year.
Makes $200K/year in Texas. Wife and kid.
Called me last week like "bro, the economy is actually cooked."
I laughed.
"you make $200K, man. what you crying about"
He then showed me the math...
$200K in Texas = $12,800/month take-home
> $2,510 mortgage
> $620 property taxes (Texas will bleed you quietly)
> $350 homeowners insurance
> $150 HOA (for a gate, a pond, and a newsletter nobody reads)
> $1,800 health insurance for the family
> $1,000 daycare for ONE kid
> $1,050 groceries
> $500 car note
> $220 car insurance
> $350 utilities
> $375 home maintenance
Total: $8,925
He's left with $3,875.
Then, he still has student loans, date nights and holidays sitting on the side.
A decade ago…
A quarter of that salary is what somebody needed to buy that same house and raise that same family.
Now $200,000 a year and you're still watching your account like something is wrong.
The economy is really cooked for 9-5ers
happy 25th anniversary to all who celebrate mikhail gorbachev throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game at my high school in college station, texas
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
@Tony_Grant_@BuffaloBills The loss had nothing to do with the Bills. You just experienced getting manhandled by a top 10 defense of all time. The stats and tape will confirm this.