H-Town Dave

Lebron stan, Process Truster, UBI advocate, Green energy guru. Mostly sports, some politics & pop-punk. #BlackLivesMatter #Jaguars #Rockets 🏳️‍🌈

[H-Town Dave @david_sendtweet]

Photobombed by a Hall of Famer. Congrats @TonyBoselli #Jaguars

[H-Town Dave @david_sendtweet]

@SenSanders This is a tax increase on Gen Z/ Millennials to give even more handouts to BOOMERS. No thanks.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

The Texas GOP nominee for Railroad Commissioner is mostly campaigning on how he wants to deport law abiding Muslim American citizens.

For every ten stories about Platners dating life maybe we can get one on this Klansman?

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Few ideas are less progressive than allocating nearly all potential "tax-the-rich" revenues to (often wealthy) retired boomers.

You merely keep SocSec out of deficit for 4 years, keep spending 6x as much on retirees as under-26's, and starve all other progressive priorities.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[Rep. Lizzie Fletcher @RepFletcher]

🧵: (1/5) The New World Screwworm is here. But could this have been prevented? Ranchers and experts have repeatedly warned USDA to take necessary precautions to address this inevitable outcome, but as we’ve seen time and again, the Trump administration has failed to take serious action. https://t.co/5BMcMA33ip

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Only way to limit coming AI backlash is to start shifting taxes from labor to compute. The average voter needs to see salient benefits from AI. Today we tax labor > compute (income vs corp tax, depreciation for machines not education, payroll tax, etc). This will have to invert.

[H-Town Dave @david_sendtweet]

@getnickwright Big Game James

[Gucci Belt Dell @urkle91]

Lebron is 30, this fuckery won't go on for much longer, thank god

[Andrew Reed @andrew__reed]

Waymos are better for making cities bike friendly than bike lanes

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

[Ben Southwood @bswud]

We need a tax on self-driving cars.

Beneath eight states of the American Great Plains lies the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest bodies of groundwater on Earth. For centuries, extraction was constrained by the modest capacities of wind and hand power. At that rate, this 'fossil water' resource was effectively limitless. Farmers could draw as much as they wanted without ever running it down.

https://t.co/8dALStM0iY

But in 1949 Colorado Farmer Frank Zybach invented centre-pivot irrigation. Combined with electricity and the centrifugal pump, farmers could now draw thousands of gallons per well per minute, enough to irrigate 40 acres at a time. Since then, the aquifer has gone down 10%, losing a Lake Erie's worth of water. It is down 50% in the dry parts, where it recharges just 0.02 inches per year. Without intervention, modern pumps will bring about the total end of irrigated farming in the arid parts of the Great Plains in 20-30 years.

This is what I call the Ogallala Trap. Technological change can create a new tragedy of the commons. The telegraph enabled the destruction of the passenger pigeon; sonar, radar, and diesel enabled the industrial trawling that devastated the North Sea cod in a decade; chlorofluorocarbons came close to destroying the ozone layer.

Self-driving cars are about to do the same thing to roads. When you can sleep, work, or drink with friends in a moving vehicle, you will take many more journeys by car. Roads, which are free at the point of use almost everywhere, will grind to a halt. People who have to go to the office or the hospital will be stuck sharing the road with people having beers, working remotely, and taking naps.

There is a fix, but it depends on acting now, before autonomous vehicles go mainstream. Voters balk at being charged more for something they already depend on. The tax needs to come in as soon as possible. Waymos are already in dozens of cities and do millions of journeys per month. We have very little time left. If we want to save our roads from omnigridlock, we must introduce road pricing for autonomous vehicles.

[H-Town Dave @david_sendtweet]

@elonmusk Looks like the reward function was a little under specified. From now on, Son of Anton is banned!

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

There's always a tweet.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.

Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect democrats up and down the ballot.

[Markov @MarkovMagnifico]

if you voted for trump you just gotta throw in the towel at this point and admit you had a moment of retardation so you can get on with your life

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

I remember.

[Adam Wren @adamwren]

New: I asked @jamestalarico why he thought he was more electable than Jasmine Crockett.

WATCH:

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

It is kinda amazing how early Andrew yang was

[H-Town Dave @david_sendtweet]

#Yangwasright #YangGang

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Remember when this guy came out of nowhere in 2019 and said AI is coming & UBI will be the solution.

Pre-COVID feels like another lifetime.