Thomas Sowell: “Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.”
Dr. Fauci's own diary, in his own words, shows he knew the lab leak theory was credible from the very first weeks of the pandemic. 10 of 12 scientists on his call believed deliberate insertion was possible. He wrote that the wet market was never the real source. Then he spent the next 2 years telling the American people the opposite and smearing anyone who disagreed as a “conspiracy theorist.” That is the definition of a cover-up.
On Wednesday, under subpoena, Fauci finally has to answer for it.
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US golf courses use 531 billion gallons of water per year. That’s down from 759 billion gallons per year in 2005 and is 0.5% of total annual water withdrawals in this country. And somehow, the country manages to not look like the Sahara Desert.
Meanwhile, data centers - the things actually powering the future instead of your uncle’s 18th hole mulligan - use somewhere between 17 and 70 billion gallons annually. That’s 0.017% to 0.070% of total withdrawals.
Or, for the math-challenged among us, roughly 3-14% of what the golf courses are using.
Sure, plopping a massive data center in the middle of nowhere without proper planning and infrastructure can stress local water systems. That’s called “basic engineering,” folks, not some apocalyptic thirst apocalypse.
But these lurid headlines screaming that AI is going to suck the rivers dry and leave us fighting over the last drop like Mad Max at a Buc-ee’s?
Pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Anyone parroting that nonsense is a paid or unpaid CCP Useful Idiot.
And yeah, China’s been quietly funding the opposition to US data centers because they’d love nothing more than to lap us in AI while we tie our own hands with performative environmental panic.
They win if enough credulous (or outright traitorous) Americans keep falling for it.
Priorities, people. We can handle a few server farms. The real existential threat is apparently the back nine at the country club.
Source: Ty Beard
The ringtone was loud and filled the concert Hall and a pianist decided to improvise around it.
The pianist had two choices: 1- choose to get angry or 2- choose to be flexible in this situation.
Always choose option 2.
This is real footage from 120 years ago.
None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...
What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.
The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.
Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...
By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.
And the film itself nearly went with it.
The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.
This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...
Official transcript from the US Senate on May 30, 1866. Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14th Amendment:
"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens...”
SCOTUS got this ruling 100% wrong. A total travesty.