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'Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All'

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#Environmental #Engineering #Construction #CircularEconomy

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.

Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.

In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout.

Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition.

This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.

[Douglas Yao @DouglasYaoDY]

This vial contains a new drug called PAC-832, which I recently invented to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It is the world’s first selective GalR1 antagonist.

I designed and synthesized PAC-832 in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. (1/16)

[RobynHD @RobynHD]

Ich bin wirklich sprachlos und entsetzt zugleich.

Ich bin seit drei Jahren selbstständig und verdiene mein Geld vor dem Computer. Mit dem Einstieg in die Selbstständigkeit stand für mich die Frage im Raum: Verlässt du Familie, Freunde und die Heimat, um im Ausland nicht von den hohen Steuern erdrückt zu werden?

Ich kann jeden meiner Kollegen zum Teil verstehen, der diesen Schritt geht, doch für mich war die Entscheidung klar: Freunde und Familie haben Priorität vor Steuern.

Ich habe in den letzten Jahren hohe sechsstellige Beiträge gezahlt und wäre ich ausgewandert, hätte ich vermutlich schon ausgesorgt. Stattdessen wird mir hier Schritt für Schritt die Zukunft verbaut.

Es ist nicht nur so, dass der bürokratische Druck immer weiter steigt, sondern auch die Regulatorik verursacht viele Kopfschmerzen .

On top plant unsere Regierung, die übrigens die niedrigsten Zustimmungswerte der Geschichte hat, ein Rentenpaket, das Generationen belasten wird. Generationen, die erst dann ins rentenpflichtige Alter kommen, wenn die heutigen Entscheider bereits seit Jahrzehnten verstorben sind.

Über unsere Köpfe hinweg werden neue Belastungen beschlossen, während Politiker selbst keinen einzigen Cent in die Rentenkasse zahlen.

Bei einem Bruttoeinkommen als Selbstständiger von 7.000 Euro im Monat zahle ich in Zukunft nicht nur meine 1.200 Euro gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, sondern zusätzlich auch 1.300 Euro Rentenversicherung, die zur Pflicht wird. Damit habe ich allein durch Versicherungsabgaben Kosten in Höhe von 2.500 Euro.

On top kommen selbstverständlich noch einige der höchsten Steuern, die Arbeitnehmer auf dieser Welt überhaupt zahlen.

Mir bleiben am Ende des Tages von 7.000 Euro brutto nicht einmal 3.000 Euro netto.

Ich gehe als Selbstständiger ein volles Risiko ein, habe meinen „sicheren“ Job gekündigt, reiße mir jeden Tag den Arsch auf und als Dank dafür lebe ich am Ende fast wie ein Bürgergeldempfänger.

Ich fühle mich vom Staat nicht nur im Stich gelassen, sondern wirklich verarscht.

Mir bleibt am Ende des Monats weniger Geld zum Investieren, weniger für meine eigene Vorsorge und vor allem auch weniger für den Vermögensaufbau, der sowieso, selbst wenn er irgendwann gelingt ein weiteres Mal versteuert wird.

Wenn es schlecht läuft, tragen wir als Bevölkerung den Schaden und wenn die Rente später nicht reicht, ist es sowieso unser Problem.

Die Politiker, die jetzt diese Entscheidungen treffen, wird es nicht nur nicht betreffen, sie werden gar nicht mehr am Leben sein, wenn ihre Versprechen irgendwann auf die Probe gestellt werden.

[Børtek @I_know_where]

@bjoernstengel "Ernteausfälle folgen" ohne jede Zahl, dafür mit Carnot-Prinzip als Bildungsnachweis – beeindruckend. Die globalen Ertragskurven der letzten Dekaden zeigen keinen Beleg für deine These. Nächstes mal eine Quelle posten statt der x-ten Klimaschutz-hätte-uns-gespart-Variation.

[Børtek @I_know_where]

@holle_fraulein Was für ein hu*ensohn

[Børtek @I_know_where]

@levelsio This and the poor bathing water quality

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

THE BIG REGRESSION

My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby.

It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. The ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard.

And it’s terrible. What a regression.

The lights are powered by Control4. And require a demo to understand how to use the switches, understand which ones control what, and to be sure not to hit THAT ONE because it’ll turn off all the lights in the house when you didn’t mean to. Worse.

The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t �� TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up.

The Miele dishwasher is hidden flush with the counters. That part is fine, but here’s what isn’t: It wouldn’t even operate the first time without connecting it to an app. This meant another call to the house manager to have them install an app they didn’t know they needed either. An app to clean some peanut butter off a plate? For serious? Worse.

Thermostats... Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling. Round touchscreens that take you into a dark labyrinth of options just to be sure it’s set at 68. Or is it 68 now? Or is that what we want it at, but it’s at 72? Wait... What? Which number is this? Worse.

The alarm system is essentially a 10” iPad bolted to the wall that has the fucking weather forecast on it. And it’s bright! I’m sure there’s a way to turn that off, but then the screen would be so barren that it would be filled with the news instead. Why can’t the alarm panel just be an alarm panel? Worse.

And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem.

Now look... I’m no luddite. But this experience is close to conversion therapy. Tech can make things better, but I simply can’t see in these cases. I’ve heard the pitches too — you can set up scenes and one button can change EVERYTHING. Not buying it. It actually feels primitive, like we haven’t figured out how to make things easy yet. That some breakthrough will eventually come when you can simply knock a switch up or down and it’ll all makes sense. But that's at least 20 years down the road.

It’s really the contrast that makes it alarming. We just got back from a vacation in Montana. Rented a house there. They did have a fancy TV — seems those can’t be avoided these days — but everything else was old school and clear. Physical up/down light switches in the right places. Appliances without the internet. Buttons with depth and physically-confirmed state change rather than surfaces that don’t obviously register your choice. More traditional round rotating Honeywell thermostats that are just clear and obvious. No tours, no instructions, no questions, no fearing you’re going to do something wrong, no wondering how something works. Useful and universally clear. That’s human, that’s modern.

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

Kommissionspräsidentin vonderLeyen hat heute ihren Entwurf für den nächsten 7-Jahres-Haushalt der EU vorgestellt:
Sie will das Budget auf 2 Billionen erhöhen, eigene Steuern erheben, 100 Milliarden für die Ukraine verwenden und den Landwirten 300 Mrd. streichen.

"Ein ambitioniertes Budget für ein starkes Europa" - so ambitioniert sogar, dass die Summe der in ihrem Diavortrag präsentierten Tortenstücke 101 % ergibt.

Wir glauben, das Geld ist bei ihr in guten Händen, und schlagen vor, dass sie das 1 Prozent aus ihrer eigenen Tasche beisteuert... Smiley!

Bild geklaut bei @EddyWax

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Free speech in Europe is on the verge of dying.

[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

You froze the bank accounts of Jaques Baud, a Swiss citizen residing in Belgium, and banned every EU businesses from transacting with him such that he can't even buy bread or pay rent, and your own rationale is that you didn't like what he was saying. You did this with no due process, no right of appeal, and no way to defend himself from your slanderous and ruinous accusations. And he's not the only one.

You obviously have no comprehension of the terms you use, what their meaning is, or what is the purpose of the principles you so easily throw around.

Unfortunately, EU citizens never elected you, so they can't unelect you. You'll keep turning the EU into USSR until your failed experiment comes crashing down. Until then, spare us the lectures. Your actions are deafening.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✅ Fixed

[Camus @newstart_2024]

This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year.

Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used.

Her exact words (full clip attached):
“I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset.
Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies.
A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.”

Then she turns the knife inward:
“These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up.
But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken.
At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’
Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.”

She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues.

This isn���t some random podcast bro.

This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying:
“We were the useful idiots.”

Watch the full unedited 4:21 below. Sound on.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Just a month later and...

🇪🇺 ChatControl is back!

Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes

The new proposal:
- total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU
- obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account
- minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!)

The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it

Read more here by @echo_pbreyer:

https://t.co/Yg2iXX9uWs

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Reducing AC usage, reducing emmissions, paper straws etc., it's all just incredibly performative

Meaning it's an act for show, not something that actually contributes to saving the environment or stopping climate change

Especially in the case of Singapore, a tiny city state with barely any impact on the environment

What's funny is that China keeps using more and more energy while getting richer and richer and nobody is going to stop them

And the Western nations have essentially outsourced their pollution to China, so they go down on the emissions charts while China goes up

Nothing actually changes and it's all one big performative act

So the only effect of putting the AC to 27°C/81°F is your people sleep worse, are less productive and become noticeably dumber

Meanwhile the Chinese keep spending more energy, will sleep better, become more productive, and get smarter and richer!

[Jankees @jankeesvw]

This is crazy. My kids are being taught at school not to use ChatGPT and other AI tools because they use too much water. What the hell are we teaching our kids?

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Today, Bill Gates admitted that pushing climate doomerism was a mistake.

@LLBiggers: “That shift to common sense is welcome, but it comes after decades of fearmongering that harmed young people, stalled development, and punished dissenting scientists.”

[Børtek @I_know_where]

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[Børtek @I_know_where]

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[@levelsio @levelsio]

He will own nothing and be happy