TakeIt retweeted
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.
TakeIt retweeted
Stick a fork in it; it's dead. The illusion of Anthropogenic Global Warming (aka man-caused) is now fully exposed as the grift it always was.
And what it was was nothing but a globalist plot to scare the public into gifting govt's more power and the mountains of $$$ they needed to help them secure their precious new world order... and it almost worked, too.
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Louisiana figured out how to turn $3 of natural gas into $300. That's why SpaceX, Meta, Amazon and Hyundai are all pouring money into the same state at the same time.
The rocket is the easiest place to see it. SpaceX is spending $100 billion on what Elon calls the biggest launch site on Earth, down in Vermilion Parish. That same parish is home to Henry Hub, the pipeline junction where the price of natural gas gets set for the entire country. And Starship burns liquid methane, which is basically natural gas chilled until it turns into a liquid.
Once you see that, the rest of Louisiana's $300 billion project map clicks into place. Almost every pin on it is a different way to sell the same gas.
Six of them are export terminals. They chill the gas to minus 260°F until it shrinks 600 times over and fits on a tanker. Louisiana handled 61% of America's LNG exports in 2024, and no country on the planet exports more LNG than America does.
A lot of the others are gas turned into something you'd never guess. The ammonia plants pull hydrogen out of methane and bond it to nitrogen from the air to make fertilizer. Lake Charles Methanol turns it into methanol. Hyundai's $5.8 billion mill uses gas to rip the oxygen out of iron ore, then melts the iron into steel for its car plants in Alabama and Georgia. Shintech takes gas liquids and salt and makes PVC pipe out of them.
Then you get to the data centers, which are the newest way to ship Louisiana gas out of Louisiana. Entergy is building 10 gas plants just to feed Meta's Hyperion campus in Richland Parish. The seven newest add 5,200 megawatts by themselves, about five times what New Orleans uses on a typical day. Amazon put its campuses outside Shreveport, right on top of the Haynesville Shale.
Here's where the $300 comes from. A million BTUs of gas goes for about $2.90 at Henry Hub right now. Burn it in a modern gas plant and you get roughly 150 kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's enough to run one Nvidia H100, plus its share of the server and the cooling, for about 100 hours. AI companies rent those chips for around $3 an hour, so the same $2.90 of gas ends up worth about $300.
So every company on that map wants to do something with the gas before it leaves the state. A hundredfold markup will do that.
Starship pushes it furthest. A fully fueled Starship holds more than 5,000 tons of propellant, and roughly a fifth of that is liquid methane. Elon wants 30 flights a day out of Starbase Louisiana. At that pace you're looking at around 1.7 billion cubic feet of gas a day, close to a tenth of everything America currently exports as LNG, all going up through one launch site.
The timing works out pretty well for the people drilling it. Gas got so cheap this fall that EQT and Expand Energy, the two biggest producers in the country, said they'd hold back output until prices come back up. Spot gas at Henry Hub fell to $2.52 on October 27, the lowest it's been since November 2024. Every project on that map is a long-term buyer for gas the drillers can't get a good price for today.
When SpaceX explained why it picked Louisiana, the whole answer fit in one line, "you need ample gas, and you need the right trajectories."
Every other company on that map showed up for the first half of that sentence.
This is not normal what is happening in Louisiana right now. $300+ Billion in the project pipeline....
$100B – SpaceX Starbase LA (Planned)
$50B – Meta Hyperion AI Data Center (Under Construction)
$18B – Venture Global Plaquemines LNG Expansion (Planned)
$18B – Amazon Multi-Site AI Data Centers (Under Construction)
$18B – Argent LNG (Planned)
$18B – Woodside LNG (Under Construction)
$15B – Venture Global CP2 LNG (Under Construction)
$13B – Entergy Energy Buildout for Meta (Planned)
$10B – Commonwealth LNG (Under Construction)
$10B – Hut 8 AI Data Center (Under Construction)
$10B – Cameron LNG Expansion (Planned)
$8B – Ascencion Carbon Ammonia (Planned)
$6B – Hyundai Steel Mill (Under Construction)
$4B – Applied Digital AI Data Center (Under Construction)
$4B – CF Industries Ammonia Plant (Under Construction)
$4B – Lake Charles Methanol II (Planned)
$3B – Shintech Petrochemical Expansion (Planned)
$3B – DG Fuels Synthetic Chemicals (Planned)
$3B – Louisiana International Terminal (Planned)
TakeIt retweeted
Libertarians should thank Trump for:
- Smallest federal workforce ever
- The end of third-world migration
- A free Ross Ulbricht
- No more NFA restrictions on silencers and SBRs
- A federal government that defends white people
- Expanded school choice
- Ending USAID
- Prosecuting lefty orgs like SPLC
It's a far from perfect presidency, but it's the best one of my lifetime.
Something I don't hear libertarians talk about at all:
"Other than immigration, I suspect no area of Trump policy will leave a more critical or lasting impact than what this administration has done with regard to federal personnel, curtailing the power of unelected bureaucracies and restoring the constitutional integrity of the executive branch under the guidance of the elected president.
Federal workers, as a share of the total workforce, are at their lowest point since 1939."
Oh
@HaleyforMI
TakeIt retweeted
Ram Chhetri came to the US as a refugee, but this might be worst day of his life: It's the moment he realizes the $80k-$160k/year salary he's bilked from Medicaid for no-show work is coming to an end because @realdailywire caught the truth on camera.
We conducted months of surveillance that shows why "home care aide" is now the *most common job* in states like NY, CA, MN, and PA: Because a large part of those jobs are unambiguous Medicaid fraud.
Thanks to home care, Bhutanese refugees now make more money than actual PA families. The state doesn't just look the other way, but helps them get away with it. Converting federal health dollars into a universal basic income for certain communities relieves the financial burden they place on the state.
The scammers easily deceive the feds' woefully broken monitoring system. You'll see Ram pull into a driveway for 2 minutes in the morning, then 2 minutes in the evening. He clocks in and out of his shift from the right place, and the GPS system doesn't notice that he goes home in between.
$20 an hour doesn't sound like much, but at 77 hours a week, it's $80k–and it's easy to bill huge hours when you don't actually have to work them. And that's just for the low-level guys in this scheme.
I picked up a random black(no butt stuff) dude to take me to the good restaurants around New Orleans. We’ve had boudin balls. Not sure where this is going but he did pay for his own Fireball.
