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robjceo retweeted
You could right the same story about property owners faced with affordable housing being built across the street or massive apartment complexes. Why data centers? Because China wants the advantage and obviously they have significant influence of American media. Write that story
robjceo retweeted
.@GMC the corporation are absolute scumbags. I was apparently never signed up for my rewards points when I bought the first truck and they will only go back 12 months on a vehicle purchase to award them, so I lost out there, and they will only go back 90 days on service, so I lost there. In addition to this, they won't offer me anything towards the new truck until after the old truck is fixed, which will take weeks to accomplish and negates the entire purpose of trading this one in and purchasing a replacement now. They also won't issue any compensation if I no longer own the vehicle when the repairs are completed which, If I trade it in now, I won't. That truck sold for over $100K and so does the replacement I'm purchasing, you would think GM would be anxious to keep me happy here, but they couldn't care less.
Absolutely insane mistreatment from General Motors here.
Luckily, the local dealer has made me a very solid trade offer and has absolutely bent over backward to make me happy and retain me as a customer. If not for that and my loyalty to their service department, I wouldn't be staying with GM. Looks like we're buying a new one and then hopping on the class action to try and get some relief on the back end. Thanks for nothing @GMC .
robjceo retweeted
You’re ridiculous. I don’t know what else to say. George Floyd committed armed home invasion robbery. If you think pleading the 5th before the “January 6th committee” is a more evil act than shoving a gun in a woman’s stomach, you are just simply depraved. Also, George Floyd’s death precipitated a huge wave of speech crackdowns and other Orwellian measures all across the country. The post-2020 anti-free speech campaign dwarfs whatever happened after Charlie by orders of magnitude. You couldn’t be more wrong on every point here.
Charlie Kirk pled the Fifth before the January 6 committee. He probably didn't technically commit any crimes, but he lied in order to try to overturn a free and fair democratic election.
George Floyd never did anything that bad.
Also, while Floyd's death led to riots, Kirk's death was used by authoritarians to push for more restrictions on speech, in addition to propping up an administration that cares nothing for the rule of law.
It's true that Kirk was killed for his political views, while Floyd wasn't.
Regardless, the two deaths and their role in political debates aren't as different as this argues.
robjceo retweeted
Only the Press Herald could come up with a headline this stupid. Maine wanted "something different," which is why they voted for the same people to run things in Augusta as have been running things in Augusta for the past eight years consecutively with no meaningful opposition.
robjceo retweeted
Dear President Trump,
You cannot trust a deal with the democrats.
You gave Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) a full, unconditional pardon.
What was the reward for your generosity? He ran for re-election as a democrat to help flip the House from 🟥🔜🟦.
You won the popular vote in 2024 because one of your biggest campaign promises was the largest deportation force.
Remember: Democrats are so dishonest that they purposefully sought a candidate with the same name as incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan for the purpose of confusing voters.
An amnesty deal would be a blight & irreparable blemish on your legacy & American history.
I say this with the utmost of respect & — if I didn’t care, then I wouldn’t say anything.
Your base, your supporters, does not want amnesty.
robjceo retweeted
YOU ASK WHY THE DEMONCRATS ARE SO PISSED OFF ABOUT THE CAPTURE OF MADURO!? This is why!!!
The Democrats are mad BECAUSE Maduro said his country washes roughly $500,000,000,000 THROUGH U.S. BANKS. U.S. Banks are the Democrats' money laundering MACHINE.
Taking out USAID was huge but it's nothing compared to taking out Maduro. They snatched the evidence against Democrats and pulled the worlds largest reserves away from China (who Democrats are in bed with). They are so fucked
Wyden and Merckley are on the Maduros narco terrorists list for accepting millions of dollars
@RonWyden
@JeffMerkley
@DOJCrimDiv
@DOJNatSec
@SecMullinDHS
robjceo retweeted
My stance is that 4 to 5 hundred thousand voters DIDN’T vote, and John, goddamn his soul, siphoned off votes totaling almost 6 times Beshear’s eventual victory margin.
There’s never “zero election fraud,” but it didn’t elect Andy Beshear. Lazy motherfuckers and an asshole did.
robjceo retweeted
Why couldn’t this climate conference be held on Zoom?
What’s the “carbon footprint” from these world leaders, bureaucrats, and scientists from flying overseas to virtue signal about the environment?
Representatives from nearly 200 countries will gather on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on November 9 for two weeks of climate talks, as war-driven energy security fears, surging AI power demand and US disengagement put new pressure on the fight against global warming reut.rs/3WRuev9
robjceo retweeted
Ah, yes. A crack “covert Russian network” came to the same conclusion as everyone with half a brain. And now @Reuters is helping @vonderleyen smear anyone who recognizes reality and rejects EU/Reuters propaganda
2016 is calling and wants its psyop back
Exclusive: A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters reut.rs/3UMHXCW
robjceo retweeted
🚨 HEADS UP: Cardiac arrest showed up about 11 TIMES more often in FDA reports tied to energy drinks and stimulant supplements, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association.
Heart attacks showed up 4.5 TIMES more often.
Nearly HALF of those heart reports involved adults ages 18 to 34.
It's early research, and it shows a link, not proof. But young, healthy people are not supposed to show up in these reports at all.
If you're slamming three cans a day and a pre-workout on top of it, maybe give your heart a break.
robjceo retweeted
Johnny Carson loved Rodney Dangerfield — as wonderfully evidenced in this clip from 1982.
robjceo retweeted
THIS IS HILARIOUS: Rob Gronkowski took on the combat wave pool at West Point during FOX NFL Sunday.
Gronk had to go down a slide, swim through rough water, and retrieve a brick while Julian Edelman watched.
Only Gronk would agree to do this on live TV.
robjceo retweeted
Ron DeSantis nuked Bill Maher:
“Your friends in Hollywood were cutting ads telling the Electoral College to vote against Trump because it was 'stolen.' They said Russia stole the election...Don’t act like this is like the unique thing in modern history”🔥
robjceo retweeted
Obamacare was catastrophic.” Seven words, and the whole room changed. She doubled down, he pulled up the polling and the receipts, and then came a line nobody saw coming: “Wait... I’m so sorry.” What did he just realize? Everything was fine until the numbers hit the screen, and one sentence flipped the entire debate. This isn’t over, it’s just getting started. Watch to the last second, then tell me in the comments: who actually won this one?
WATCH FULL EPISODE BELOW!!
youtu.be/-yH5eBUOrQw?si=hFTa…
robjceo retweeted
SpaceX did something on November 4 that most companies building AI infrastructure never bother to do. It sent its own people into an elementary school auditorium in Cochise, Arizona, put the numbers on the table and took questions from a packed room.
Riley Trettel, who leads energy and supercomputer development at SpaceX, said it plainly: "SpaceX is the owner, and with approval, will be the builder and the owner of the project long term."
Then he laid out what the county gets. Up to 40% off residential power bills for Sulphur Springs co-op members for the life of the project. $3.6 billion in new power lines paid by SpaceX and handed to the co-op, which takes on no debt. $30 to $100 million a year in new property tax, with a 20% cut in everyone else's county property taxes. Enough one-time sales tax to pay off the county jail bond. Dry cooling, so the whole campus uses about as much water as 20 to 30 homes. No gas turbines on site. Up to $50 billion invested and about 1,000 permanent jobs.
On the latest All-In, one of the hosts brought up the video of that night. "These two very bright, earnest people from SpaceX trying to explain how they're going to reduce electricity cost by 40%. They don't use water. They'll reduce property taxes by 20%." About Riley and Katie: "Good SpaceX employees. They should be proud of how they conducted themselves."
They were shouted over from the first slide. Months of headlines about data centers draining aquifers and spiking bills did that work before anyone walked in. Some residents stayed after the presentation to tell SpaceX they want it there. The county's planning and zoning hearing is December 9.
robjceo retweeted
Maine's current UOCAVA (overseas voting) law states:
“If a citizen of the United States who resides outside the United States and has never lived in the United States has a parent who is a qualified elector, that person is eligible to register and vote where that parent is a qualified elector.” 21-A M.R.S. §154(1)
The original intent of UOCAVA was for our military and I support that, 1000%. My question for our legislature, how is it constitutional or prudent to allow non-residents who have never lived in Maine, to have a part in deciding our future?
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David Sacks on Gina Hinojosa: “She does not say that existing projects are protected...I don’t think there’s going to be major new projects in this new regime for a long time”
Asked what the midterms mean for data centers in Texas, David Sacks said people like Gavin Baker are too optimistic about the governor-elect:
SACKS: “And both of them are going to play out. Now, at the state and local level, I think people are just being way too optimistic about what this election means. I mean, I’m seeing like Gavin Baker saying, oh, don’t worry, Hinojosa, she seems totally reasonable. She’s not threatening any projects. And I’ve watched interviews with her. Look, I went and watched the interviews that Gavin watched, and I don’t see the things that he’s saying. She does not say that existing projects are protected. She simply says that there’ll be no new permits issued until they pass legislation dealing with the issues she’s talking about.”
JCAL: “What are the issues she’s talking about?”
SACKS: “I’ll explain it. But look, I saw an analyst from SemiAnalysis come out and say that you do realize that projects that are under construction right now don’t necessarily have every single permit they need to actually open for business. In other words, once you’ve constructed the data center, you may still have to get an air pollution permit. There’s various kinds of permits that sometimes you don’t get till the end. So if you take what she’s saying seriously and literally, that there’ll be no new permits passed until this new regulatory regime comes into effect, we could end up with a bunch of stranded, half-finished projects.”
“Now, I’m not saying that’s not going to happen. I’m not criticizing her because I don’t know what she’s going to do. She hasn’t even taken office yet. I’m simply pointing out that this could go a lot of ways. They could do this in a reasonable way or an unreasonable way. So you could end up with a lot of half-finished projects.”
“My base case is that the projects that are fully permitted will get done in 2027, but I don’t think there’s going to be major new projects in this new regime for a long time, for the simple reason that there’s no political incentive for anyone to grant a new permit or a new project.”
David Sacks predicts Democrats will use AI legislation and frontier-model approvals to create a surveillance and censorship state 'turbocharged by superintelligence'
“It’s 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don’t think you have to speculate too much to understand where it’s going.
“I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean, that’s ultimately the end state.
“How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so-called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that. The regulators give their notes on it. You can’t get a model released unless you address their concerns.
“And their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about, like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID. How quickly we forget all of this.
“They’re going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI, and it’s going to be infinitely more powerful because we’re talking about superintelligence here. So I do believe that that is the regime that we’re headed towards.”