Here we go again with the doom & gloom propaganda. Social Security is literally the easiest problem in DC to fix. Just raise the income cap from $185.5K to $250K, or $500K, or $1 Million, or remove the cap altogether.

That’s all it would take to solve the problem.

If it’s in Texas or Florida, it’s probably just a phony residence, so he doesn’t have to pay state taxes.

He’s cool with stealing all of our data, and making us feel helpless about what others are doing with it, so I don’t see why he shouldn’t feel that same fear.

Oh, no, he’s proven who he is at his core. He doesn’t deserve a second of peace for the rest of his life.

Checking, checking…yep, he’s on The List.

He’s not the only one, there are a bunch of companies that want to launch fleets of satellites. I read a recent article that said in the very near future, only about one out of every 15 visible “stars” will be natural.

Since the beginning of time, every living creature, including every evolutionary stage of mankind, have looked at the sky in wonder, awe, navigation, science, calendars, romance, beauty, religion, etc. Gazing into the cosmos has been a core human experience for trillions of people since the beginning of humankind, and now these Sociopathic Oligarchs want to STEAL that from every future human, just so they can have a little more money.

This is the argument I’ve always had about nuclear energy. Sure it works great in other countries, but in America the plants will be built by corporations whose ONLY priority is profit, and they will cut corner after corner, and legally bribe government regulators to do nothing about it, until it fails. It is inevitable, and we ALL know it, which is why nobody really advocates too hard for nuclear power in America. We all know how fucked up it would be.

For the most part, there’s nothing to boycott yet. Showing up to council meetings by the dozens, imploring them to say No to the data centers they’ve already been bribed to accept, is the same action, done preemptively. Boycotts come later, when the data centers are actually open.

I’m aware that some are already operational, but they are a fraction of what these predators want to build.

Right now, the move is to let them know that we don’t want this, and there will be consequences for supporting data centers. Then vote them out in the next election, and make it very vocal why.

And in small towns and counties, where the council members also operate businesses, those businesses need to be boycotted. You don’t get to inflict existential damage on this town and it’s citizens, without feeling retribution for it. I hope your bribe was fat enough to sustain you after your business crashes, because that’s the choice you made.

Testifying in front of Congress doesn’t mean anything. That’s just a dog & pony show meant to placate the rubes. NOTHING ever happens as a result.

Look at Tickemaster/ Live Nation. They e had to explain themselves a number of times to Congress over the last 30 years, and they’ve only gotten bigger and more predatory. It finally took all those politicians trying to get Taylor Swift tickets for their screeching daughters that made them angry enough to finally do something about it. They are finally having a trial about it, but it’s still unclear if they’ll feel any consequences or make any changes.

There seem to be only three things that data centers are going to be used for: Crypto Mining, Mass Surveillance, and Data Collection, none of which helps the average citizen, most of it hurts us badly, yet we have to pay for it all.

What’s not to love?

When my son was a toddler, I had an older aunt who had no children, but plenty of opinions on how they should be raised. We were visiting one time, and planned a visit to the zoo, and she just insisted that we had to get a leash for him, or he was so going to get away from us, and end up in an animal pen, and get eaten, presumably.

I refused her many orders to get a leash (I didn’t even know where to find one, this was before Amazon), and finally just flat out told her that there would be no leash, we would just have to do our jobs as parents and adults, and actually pay attention to him.

And he only got into animal pens a few times. He hardly got gnawed on at all. He was fine.

A local guy just got caught taking down a decoy camera that the cops set up to get whoever had been cutting down cameras in the area.

So they caught him, but the mayor seemed irritated about the decoy operation, which she wasn’t aware of. She wondered who paid for the camera, but it turned out to be a 3D print that one of the cops did at home. Aloarently city council were already debating removing the cameras, and the mayor seems to be on the negative side.

Anyway, whenever the story comes on the news, I vocally declare my support for the guy, to anyone who happens to be in the room.

MAGA should be declared a Domestic Terrorist Organization, and a serious, ongoing, active National Security Threat, and prohibited from existing.

He claims he’s not a racist, but he sure doesn’t mind having racists all around him, including his own family. But he’s not a racist.

MAGA thinks they smell blood in the water on the trans issue, so that’s their chosen wedge issue for the foreseeable future. I’m the past it was abortion, flag burning, kneeling, gay adoption, gay marriage, gay gayness, etc.

The proper answer to any trans nonsense is: “I am not a doctor, and I won’t presume to interfere with the medical decisions between any patient and their doctor, on any subject. I have absolutely no opinions on this subject, and do not consider it an appropriate subject for a political discussion. It is an appalling and indefensible political strategy to use any medical issue as a political talking point, so I’m not interested in your opinion either.”

That works for ANY medical issue, including abortion.

I would so watch a robot Olympics, just for the tantrums, meltdowns, diva behavior, explosions, fires, etc. I want to see an event where the robots have to fight to the death.

Earthworm protein?

Just as the MAGA administration decides to start harvesting wild horses…

Because it’s really Soylent Green.

Looks chewy.