@makecitiesgreat Even better to go one level deeper and see how the executive compensation at the foundations we are sending taxpayer dollars to have doubled or tripled.
@makecitiesgreat It’s especially aggravating when you look at this site and realize all the money we have poured into “unhoused support” the past couple years with no return. I have spent a little time digging and it is shocking to see the foundations the money flows to:
https://t.co/x4xmItN6VM
Maybe once a year as a contractor, we get a supremely stupid client who asks us to do some large project. We describe the process and the timeline.
Inevitably, the idiot waits until the halfway point, sees the disastrous-looking construction zone, and without talking to us freaks out and goes on social media with their hysteria.
It's usually only liberal women who validate them. Sane women and men try to challenge them to think through what a project might look like before, during, and after.
We tell them to remove their libelous hysteria, or we walk off the project (it is in the contract). They react like scorned, spoiled children facing consequences for the first time.
Long story short, this country has a subset of idiots who have never built anything, can't understand what a process is, and in their childishness, think that what a thing is like today represents a permanent state of things.
Universal voting rights are a mistake. We need fewer people able to vote, not more.
@B2VConsulting@johnkonrad Should all be reserves or national guard. The constitution provides for a navy. It does not provide for a standing army except in times of war.
Fully support defunding the US Army!
A standing Army is unconstitutional. The workaround was that we could move it overseas. That ended when we gutted the Merchant Marine and General Milley sold off the Army watercraft and prepo ships.
You want an Army? Build the ships first.
@kamikazecash Ya of course. I’m 28 so there’s a 0% chance I’ll ever get anything out of social security. It’s just an additional income tax for my entire generation.
@overstreetha If they want to build, let them build. People are so dumb they don’t realize data centers are already all around them. They are a non-issue. The campaign against them is foreign propaganda attempting to weaken our economy.
@Hemp81984C@overstreetha The water issue is such a red herring that is being pushed HARD by foreign influence. Data centers do not use a lot of water. Please realize there is a reason China and Russia want our populous to believe data centers somehow magically make water disappear.
@jts047actual@overstreetha How are we paying the bill? Industry needs the capacity for AI models, hosting software platforms and cloud storage. All tools that will allow every worker to be more productive.
@ken644137@overstreetha@kevinolearytv How is it going into crypto? Data centers are not bitcoin mining operations. They host extremely valuable enterprise software services and now host AI models.
@ken644137@overstreetha@kevinolearytv That’s the system. If Missouri doesn’t offer a subsidy, another state will. States are free to offer incentives to attract businesses and development. It’s a system that could use improvement, sure, but that’s the way the game is played right now.
@AlwaysKnocking@JoePompliano Come from nothing ? His dad played in the MLB lol. If that 2mil gave him the tools and freedom to then get that 340mil contract, then it’s worth 34mil on the backend.
@US_OGA I lived in Southern California for 5 years. @Chevron gas stations were the most consistent and best gas stations in the whole state. Always much cleaner and much more well lit. Also the app and rewards were nice. CarPlay integration was pretty cool too.
@stlouispatriot You are missing the boat here. The mains are aging, but our system was designed for 1 million residents. It’s so robust that the small population has trouble supporting the maintenance. Also, data centers do not use much, if any, water.
People haven’t the slightest understanding of how the infrastructure that makes civilization possible works. They lack the mental faculty to even begin to understand it. Civil engineering is mocked as the easiest engineering discipline but it’s clearly beyond the ability of 80%+ of the population.
@makecitiesgreat It makes these people feel better to throw a larger pile of money at the problem. Very few of the people actually spend significant time in north city, but will always advocate for dumping money on north city to “fix” it.
Congratulations to the City of Cleveland on preventing a blighted lot from being cleaned up and turned into a maintained property generating jobs and tax revenue. A+ work. You guys won!
The campaign against data centers is an anti-growth moral panic being driven by often anonymous social media accounts and foreign money.