“That which can be destroyed by truth...should be”
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“Don’t believe everything you believe”
Data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia: “We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue...on 3% of our land”
Buddy Rizer, the county's economic development chief, explained how “data center alley” grew:
“We would have never looked at having 55 million square feet of data center, 230-some buildings. That was not the plan. The plan was to utilize the fiber loop, the internet exchange, to utilize a reclaimed water line, and buildings that were already built. That was the plan, right? And so that made a lot of sense.”
“But, you know, fast forward, today we are largely dependent on that. We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue. And while that looks overwhelming, data centers take only about 3% of all of our land in the county. So it’s quite a return on investment. You know, 40%, $1.2 billion, on 3% of our land.”
Imagine picking up your life and moving to another country for no reason other than the fact that you find it too unsavory to admit that you already live in the greatest country in the world.....
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The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
This is not something that happened decades in the past…this was 3 years ago!
A lot of crypto companies (and even individual crypto holders) got swallowed up in this mess not because they were doing something illegal but simply because the executive branch arbitrarily decided that they didn’t like the industry. That’s not how democracy is supposed to work!
And of course, anyone who did quality research/reporting to prove that it was happening at the time (ie - @nic_carter, @CaitlinLong_ , etc) we’re treated like conspiracy theorists.
This is why having a censorship resistant store of value/medium of exchange outside of the traditional banking system is critical. #BTC
Major banks closed accounts of MAGA, pro-life and other conservative groups disfavored by Biden admin: bombshell report trib.al/Ttt6eY9
No one at Porsche thought:
“Hey maybe we shouldn’t release copy that calls our newest car ‘a glimpse into the future’ on the same day that Tesla is going to unveil a flying car.”
….not one…single…person.
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liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company
elon musk:
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I’ve come to the realization that every free & prosperous society will always have a contingent who is enamored with Socialism and feels like things would be better/more equitable if it were adopted.
The irony then of Socialism is that the only places in the world where nobody wants it are the ones that have it.
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I don’t need to make millions.
I just need enough to pick up my kid at 1 PM on a random Wednesday, while the teachers look at me like thinking I’m either unemployed or a fucking drug dealer.
Then grab an ice cream with her and walk down the beach while everyone else is still staring at the clock waiting to go home.
That’s my definition of rich.
Keep the Lambo.
I want my fucking time.
Let the records clearly state that of the one market crash that has occurred in the past quarter century, Michael Bury has predicted 13 of them.
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PS - As an enormous “The Big Short” fanboy, this is very difficult for me to admit and joke about.
Over the 4 days that have passed since I first saw it…I can’t stop thinking about this tweet.
A perfect distillation of my thoughts on pretty much every major story in the news cycle right now….
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9 am: i can’t wait till bedtime
10 pm: i’ve always wanted to write my own operating system
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It is your duty as a man to never give into the 24/7 business casual/golf apparel trap
I had always heard fellow Americans say that being in Tokyo felt like “living in the future”.
I finally visited earlier this year and it didn’t feel like living in the future to me…it felt like being in a city that is clean & properly maintained, with functioning infrastructure and a culture of modesty, respect and conscientiousness.
The fact that this feels so other worldly and “futuristic” to Americans is actually kind of depressing.
The AFC East has been something for the past quarter century. You’ve had a team with a 17 year playoff drought, a team with a 15 year <and counting> playoff drought and a team with three 5+ year playoff droughts.
All of the regular season stats from the Brady/Belicheck dynasty should have an asterisk on them citing how shitty the rest of the division was!! 🤣😆🤭
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I’ve thought about this type of thing a lot while traveling. I love this idea as a passenger, but I think the math for the airlines ✈️ is more complicated.
🧳 Carry ons make TSA, boarding and deplaning miserable, but the passenger is doing almost all of the work. 💪🏼 They carry the bag through the airport, put it on the plane, take it off and the airline never has to process it.
Make the first checked bag 💼 free and suddenly the airline has to sort, move, load, unload, transfer and potentially lose or damage a lot more bags. You also create longer bag drop lines, use more cargo space and probably encourage people to pack heavier.
Charge $25 for a carry on and people will also immediately start pushing the definition of the free “personal item.”
👜 ->🎒->💼
That said, boarding would almost certainly be faster, gate checking would mostly disappear and the people who most value keeping a bag with them are probably the ones most willing to pay the $25 anyway.
In fact, many of those same people probably have a “free checked bag” perk through frequent flyer status ⭐️ or a credit card 💳 that could simply become a free carry on perk instead.
So the real airline calculation isn’t just whether faster, more predictable turns🛫🛬 would be better (clearly they would) but whether that improvement would outweigh the cost 💰of added labor, liability, baggage handling, cargo displacement and lost checked bag revenue.
As a passenger though, I’m all for it! 🙋🏻♂️
Hot airline take:
1st checked bag should be free
Carry-On luggage should be $25
People bringing on carry-on luggage is what makes everything horrible when boarding and departing.
It slows everything down. There is never enough space. It forces people to block everyone to try and board early in their zone to get luggage space. It makes departing way slower.
A bunch of people are forced to check the bags anyway.
Backpacks and purses free. But charge for carry on luggage. It would make life so much smoother.
I know everyone will be against this, but you know I’m right.