we don’t need to halve the population. thats eco facism. we need to get rid of militaries (responsible for 70% of emissions), data centers, companies that produce single use plastic, and switch out of fossil fuels to clean energy. but they’d rather let people die than do that
An AI data center wants to build right on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. 💦
Not near it. On its wetlands.
It just asked the state for permission to dump 252,000 gallons a day of leftover industrial wastewater into the marshes that feed it.
This isn't treated sewage. It's brine, the concentrated salt and mineral leftover from stripping fresh water out for industrial use, including arsenic. It would be discharged with nothing to dilute it first.
The discharge route runs through North Willow Creek and empties into Gilbert Bay, the main body of Great Salt Lake.
Along the way, it cuts straight through the Stansbury Mudflats, a mapped shorebird habitat where researchers count Wilson's phalarope, a bird already being considered for endangered species protection because this exact kind of wetland is vanishing. Up to 80,000 of them gather here before migration.
Here's who's actually behind it.
The company pushing this through, Zenith Bolinder LLC, is partly owned by the father and uncle of Utah State Representative Bridger Bolinder.
The other owner has already been convicted of tax fraud once. He served a year in prison for failing to pay $620,000 in federal excise taxes.
That same company couldn't get a traditional bank loan. Banks said no.
So the state's own port authority stepped in instead. $54 million in tax financing diverted from local schools for the next 25 years. $80 million in bonds. $100 million more on top of that.
$234 million in public money, funneled into private hands.
Who told Rep. Bridger Bolinder's family they get $234 million in public money and a dying lake's water, too? 💦
#DemsUnited
It's actively destroying the planet
It's stealing drinking water from actual human beings and dumping poison into the environment
How is that not inherently evil?
These four men have the ability to end all the suffering that exists in our world, yet they have dedicated their lives to prolonging that suffering for their own greed and profit.
social media IS NOT. DESIGNED. FOR KIDS.
STOP BABY-IFYING THE INTERNET FOR LAZY PARENTS.
ALL these “child safety” bills do is enable the censorveillance state!
@NunoTheKitten https://t.co/j3ebQ2ynen
like chrome but without google stuff
you can use a password manager extension like proton pass, free and has an app
valid as FUCK actually. the reemergence and normalization of rape jokes is another reason why victims struggle to come forward. mind you all these men raped children! kids! minors! yall fucks disgust me.
Hamas handed Israel 66 boxes each one containing the skull of a hostage
They then returned the bodies of female hostages cut open with their organs removed
Wait that was actually the IDF not Hamas
Let me know if you still feel as sick and enraged as you did 10 seconds ago
The craziest thing about this chart is that the price hike all goes back to when food producers realized they could use COVID to artificially inflate prices and people would just keep paying it because they have to eat and then nobody ever stopped them or held them accountable.