William Bodrero

Husband, writer, rider, driver, handyman, friend, pet dad, voluntaryist, and son of God. I strive in the hope to encourage and lift everyone; this includes you.

[William Bodrero @neverjaybills]

Most of what you see here will be reposted. I consistently find so many wonderful, important, and lovely things out there, that I rarely feel the need to craft my own posts.

I promise to bring important truths, uplifting thoughts, encouraging items, and anything like unto them.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Offshore wind farms along the storm-swept coasts of the UK are the premature graveyards of corroding steel and plastic skeletons—bowing to the inevitable.

These are the volatile, often freezing seascapes of the windy North Sea, the Baltic Sea and Irish Sea, maritime zones that should provide ideal conditions for large-scale turbine farms - but don't. The wind industry and governments have long based their financial models on a projected 20- to 25-year turbine lifespan. But independent economic analysis reveals a more sobering reality.

The soaring power of the elements is starkly shown in a landmark study by energy and environmental economist Professor Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh), first published in 2012 by the Renewable Energy Foundation: 'The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark'.

Hughes’ data reveals the performance of offshore turbines dropped sharply after just 10 to 15 years due to harsh marine wear and tear. As a consequence, their load factors - the volume of electricity generated as a percentage of capacity - decline much faster than the official narratives admit.

Many of these massive marine structures - primarily owned by UK and Danish interests - are hitting the wall after just a decade of buffeting from exposure to relentless Atlantic weather. Soaring maintenance costs make them highly unprofitable.

Specifically, the study showed that an offshore wind farm's ability to meet electricity demand plummeted by at least a third after 10 years. This led to the conclusion that many become fully uneconomic by year 12.

Rather than keeping these assets spinning for the promised quarter-century, many operators are now forced to 'repower' - replacing old turbines with entirely new hardware long before the 25-year target.

Turning the hardware over early is presented as an upgrade to maximise output, but it's really an admission that the original infrastructure simply cannot go the distance.

More importantly, it exposes a large PR gap between marketing and engineering reality.

Link to the study: https://t.co/3rzH6ZU85r

[D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor @DavidJohnButler]

Guys

Go to England, rent a car, and drive around in the countryside, eating in pubs with traditional pub names. The Red Lion, The Queen's Head, The White Horse, etc.

Traditional English food is glorious.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

“But what will the rest of the world think of us?” is a bullshit argument.
A. America don’t care.
B. “Rest of the world” is almost always code for global leftists anyway, and the regular people of other countries can’t stand their bossy shit libs either.
Living our lives based on the theoretical approval of an imaginary global monoculture is stupid. Nobody buys this anymore. Just be American and be awesome.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Hasan Piker wants us to ignore reality and believe him when he says Elon Musk is a failure.

He doesn’t want us to be inspired be Elon’s success and the value that he has brought to this world.

He wants us to resent it and think Elon got lucky. He wants us to idiotically think that Elon failed his way into a $1 trillion net worth.

He wants us to think Capitalism is bad and doesn’t work. So he has to lie on Elon Musk to try to get us to think capitalism is bad and socialism is good.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

The number one lesson taught in public school is that truth comes from authority, and the problem with that is propaganda also comes from authority. Take away a person’s ability to discern, and they could be lead to any conclusion.

[TenthAmendmentCenter @TenthAmendment]

⚠️ WE HAVE A TRIFECTA
https://t.co/zFByZ0Sa5U

James Madison with the brutal truth:
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

"War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few”

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐀: 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀-𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐔𝐏 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐇*𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒

There is no clearer window into how some politicians actually see the people they govern than the moment they think the cameras are off. A small-town Indiana mayor just threw that window wide open.

Shelbyville Mayor Scott Furgeson is backing a plan to turn 429 acres of farmland into an 11-building data-center complex. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐭, worried about the soaring electricity bills and the enormous water these AI facilities drink. The city council advanced the project anyway back in April.

On June 1, inside Cagney’s Pizza King — a restaurant Furgeson himself owns — residents confronted him after a heated council meeting. Asked about the “𝘕𝘰 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴” signs going up around town, the mayor was caught on camera saying he only sees them “𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘩*𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴”. A woman corrected him: “𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴”. His reply: 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬.

Sit with that. A sitting mayor looked at his own constituents’ homes and saw 𝐬𝐡*𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭. When another resident reminded him “𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴”, he waved it off. That is an entire governing philosophy in one exchange: the people footing the power bill are an inconvenience, not citizens.

This is the contempt that fuels every populist revolt in the country. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥. The mayor didn’t insult them by accident. He told them, on camera, precisely where they rank.

𝐇𝐞 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

Spotted in Kingsbury, New York, another stack of broken panels, sitting out in the open next to a solar complex.

When panels are broken in this way, lead, silver, cadmium, tin, and zinc leach out of them onto the soil below. They also drop microplastics, glass shards (pictured below), and PFAS (forever chemicals).

Since the complexes are installed with out-of-state, and as we saw in Western New York this week, out-of-country labor, the workers are not concerned with environmental contamination at the worksite.

There is no regulatory body monitoring the installation of these solar complexes in Upstate New York. It's a free-for-all, equipped with green energy subsidies, credits, and foreign corporations.

This is what it gets you. The destruction of our rural way of life in real-time while panels poison prime farmland or animal habitat.

The power doesn't stay local (if it's even tied-in at all). Property values surrounding the complex go down. Taxes go up to make-up for the hundreds of acres taken out of the property tax roll.

This must end.

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[TenthAmendmentCenter @TenthAmendment]

The British called it treason.
The Sons of Liberty called it self-defense.

The incredible, and almost totally forgotten story behind the charge against the king in the Declaration of Independence:

“For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences”

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

The posts from World Cup Europeans seeing actual America has been great. The shock and awe is hilarious.

I think it's because their perspective has been based on TV shows (overwhelmingly set in LA or NYC, which get everything wrong about the rest of the nation because the writers are usually provincial liberal dorks who despise the rest of the country) and when they do come here as tourists it is to the same handful of tourist places. Which are always artificial, weird, and crowded.

It turns out that when you get away from our big stupid blue cities, and all the societal decay that comes from liberals not being able to govern worth a shit, America is actually really awesome.

I've been to 45 US states. I've enjoyed all of them. Even the blue ones, once I'm away from the parts that are entirely paved where lawless crazy people are allowed to shit in the streets and threaten everyone. It's just a collapse of leadership, and democrats being inept, not giving a fuck as long as they're still getting paid, or actively rooting for society's destruction because they're deluded morons who think they're going to build a socialist utopia from the ashes.

America has managed to isolate that retarded shit tier philosophy mostly to our big blue city liberal enclaves, where lawless dumb shit can rule, while the rest of us live relatively normal lives, and our politics are primarily based on keeping those assholes away from our stuff as much as possible.

But the cool Europeans have been trapped on a continent where that philosophy rules EVERYWHERE. They've got nowhere to escape from their mediocre control freaks. Their shocking discovery that normal sane people can still just do things, and make things, and build, and have fun, and be safe, and raise their kids, is what's making this whole thing fun.

I don't follow soccer, futbol, whatever. But I am cheering on some Europeans right now. :D

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

The Federal Reserve has convinced generations of people that watching their savings evaporate, their wages chase rising prices, and their purchasing power collapse year after year is "normal."

If a private counterfeiter destroyed 96% of your money's value, he'd be called a criminal. When a central bank does it slowly over a century, economists call it "monetary policy."

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Elon Musk paid $11 BILLION in taxes in one single year while Pocahontas was voting to send money to Ukraine, giving it to Somali fraudsters and other NGOs.

Government officials pretending they need more money is ridiculous.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Look at NYC’s budget.

Now look at Florida’s.

A bigger budget for almost 1/3 of the population.

One clear example dismantles the delusion that this is a tax problem rather than runaway government overspending.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!

Two American employees of restaurant in Huntersville, NC say the company STOLE their identities to hire ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in their place!!!

One of them opened his W-2 and discovered he owed taxes on more than $20,000 he NEVER EARNED.

...because someone was being paid as HIM, on HIS Social Security number.

The other employee logged into her account and saw a current illegal alien employee using HER name and using HER Social Security number at the restaurant she left.

It’s alleged the the company STOLE their identities to staff the kitchen with illegal immigrants.

Both say their home addresses and direct deposit accounts were changed after they left.

Not a SINGLE PERSON has been arrested for this as of today.

THIS IS MASSIVE FRAUD!!!!!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What Sowell said is exactly right and needs to stop.

[TenthAmendmentCenter @TenthAmendment]

"A fatal error."

That’s what John Dickinson called it when they dismiss small violations of the Constitution as no big deal.

but the founders knew
It’s a trap!

he considered it the "most alarming" one

Because even a single step beyond the constitution, sets the precedent for another and another and another in the future

Ignoring it, is "to walk deliberately into the snare that is set for us, praising the neatness of the workmanship.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes