Méritaux

Centrist. 4th yr med student. everything is a shitpost

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Tesla begins taking inquiries from companies interested in purchasing fleets of Cybercabs for future Robotaxi deployments.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Uber is trying to actively slow down the rollout of a technology that has already been proven to save lives. How shameful

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@Polymarket Retard

[samuel @marsrepublica]

Mwahaha, he's so miserable and evil that he wants to:

1. Give the world clean, abundant energy.
2. Bring AI & robotics abundance
3. Cure blindness & disabilities
4. Preserve freedom of speech.
5. Make humanity multi-planetary so our species survives & wins.

Truly evil stuff. 😈

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@man_fredX @IterIntellectus This isnt software. Cost is based in hardware. And no other company will do hardware and software like tesla. No western company makes electric vehicles at the scale of tesla. Good luck.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@IterIntellectus Thats why they are dumping money into competitors and firing people. But alas, too little, too late.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

Almost getting tired of winning.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: DHS to reportedly launch a coordinated, major voter fraud crackdown in nine states starting Tuesday.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: DHS to reportedly launch a coordinated, major voter fraud crackdown in nine states starting Tuesday.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

Lmao

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Piker: "It’s laughable to say guys like myself, guys like Abdul El-Sayed, we hate America."

Also Piker: "I hate America."

[TheSonOfWalkley @TheSonOfWalkley]

$TSLA OFFICIALLY ADDS CYBERCABS TO TEXAS ROBOTAXI FLEET 👀

It’s happening !

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@K50239030 @nexta_tv @fisherofsea Dont test it.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

As an American, thank you for taking these people. Im sorry in advance for all of the suffering they will cause

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Canada just spent half a billion dollars poaching 64 academics, three-quarters of them from the U.S., and then CTV put the most revealing quote on TV

Talia Bettcher (trans philosophy / gender studies) is leaving Cal State LA for a taxpayer-funded chair at Waterloo because, in her words, it “felt unsafe for me even in Los Angeles given the increase in anti trans sentiment.” That’s not a materials scientist fleeing grant cuts. That’s an identity-politics scholar being paid by Ottawa to relocate over a political climate she dislikes

The program is sold as “doubling down on science.” Some recruits are doing storms, solvents, and health. Fine. Mixing those with “trans community resilience” chairs and equity-framed geography shows the real filter: Canada is importing people who share the government’s moral posture, then calling it “talent strategy.” Minister Joly said they saw an “opportunity to seize.” Opportunity for what—research output, or a subsidized ideological transfer?

If the U.S. is cutting unstable grants, compete on labs and results. Don’t write eight-year, million-a-year cheques so someone can feel safer doing gender theory north of the border

Taxpayers should ask how many of these 64 chairs would exist if the selection criterion were “what actually scales Canada’s productivity,” not “who is fleeing the culture war.” @melaniejoly

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

So thats why your housing is so expensive and you make 1/2 as much as us. Yall are all larping as “educated” baffoons. A black queer femenism degree doesnt make you smarter, more valuable, or more intelligent than anyone else. Yes, you may know more about a topic, but critical thinking, nada

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@grok @JakeDertingerDO @AlexAlexicumd @SalaryDr Has alot of interesting info in it. Its relatively short but full of interesting facts.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

The House Judiciary Committee Republicans released an interim staff report on March 27, 2026, titled "Medical Mis-Match: How a Residency Hiring Monopoly Harms Patients, Doctors, and the American Public,"which argues that the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) operates as an anti-competitive monopoly.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@yacineMTB Lol.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@AlexAlexicumd @docjoethomas @SalaryDr Go read the GOP study. Apples for apples. When a residency program goes away, they have to spend millions more hiring NPs and PAs to do carry the same load as the residency program.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@YounisJoseph @AlexAlexicumd @SalaryDr Resident doctors are worth 300k a year. They work the worst hours (night shifts, holidays), and that is genuinly how much money the hospital would have to spend per resident to replace you with NPs/PAs. Theres a recent GOP study on this.

[Méritaux @Meritaux]

@AlexAlexicumd @SalaryDr Resident doctors are worth 300k a year. They work the worst hours (night shifts, holidays), and that is genuinly how much money the hospital would have to spend per resident to replace you with NPs/PAs. Theres a recent GOP study on this. I suggest you look it up.