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Increasingly measure the character of a person through the consistency of their position It's not especially difficult to be on the right side of history

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90s dot com 00s ghost construction 10s EVs 20s data centers I'm convinced the economy hasn't been real since we actually made things Decade cycles of massive CAPEX sucks by an increasingly small number of cronies Oligarchy is the inevitable future cnn.com/2026/05/14/business/…
Data centers are projected to consume 20% of U.S. electricity by 2035. Start asking: Who owns the land? Who has the grid connection? Who has the transmission capacity? Who can actually get power permits? Forget asking who will build the best AI model. AI is becoming one of the biggest real estate stories of the decade:
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Marxism Islamo what? Dei universities The bingo card of the intellectually bankrupt Sure would be embarrassing to suggest Trump poles +15 by any measure Miserable old hack
It is not necessary to be a reactionary to dissent from the conventional wisdom that a Democratic wave will sweep the midterms. In the fury and venom of Trump-hate, which has been, along with truly absurd Islamo-Marxist nostrums, the only discernible offering of the Democratic Party for the last two years, strategists may imagine that descent into political total war is an attractive option to the American electorate. It isn’t. Polling is unreliable and left-leaning; Trump’s low approval rating is likely underestimated and remains ~15 points above the approval rating of the Congressional Democrats. Republicans have a large financial advantage which will presumably be applied as the election proceeds, to tout the remarkable record of achievement of the Trump administration. Trump accounts, lower crime, massive reductions in illegal immigration and deportations, lower prescription prices, high economic growth, deregulation, escape from the climate-change obsession, and the assault on wokeness, DEI, and the intellectual corruption of universities and unionized schools, which more accurately resemble daycare centers where young people are taught to hate America. The more the country sees the field of Islamo-Marxist lunatics candidates who have been herded in from the fringe and now comprise the back-bone of the Democratic mainstream, the more appealing Trump becomes. After ten years the country is somewhat tiring of Trump, but he does pierce the pomposity of the political class. The question Americans will have to ask is whether temporarily elevated gasoline prices are an acceptable cost to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Iranian terrorist theocracy. While Democrats continue to attempt to paint Iran as another Vietnam, Trump has rendered the Iranian currency worthless, driven inflation sky-high, forced gasoline rationing, and pushed the regime near bankruptcy. This is the most one-sided war in history between serious combatants—total U.S. combat-related deaths through this entire conflict have been no more than a bad weekend in Chicago. Trump’s record of achievement is eminently defensible and should weigh more heavily than the vagaries of his personality.
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Respect this more than words can convey
Replying to @negativ_Kd
Look up how much I have given to politicians or PACs. You can confirm it’s zero in the past 25 years. I do give money to end Citizens United
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Mike's angle of the week to justify those sweet developer "study" funds Immigration increased house prices The solution is to now make sure people who don't even live here can buy houses See, no more immigration, more houses built solely for speculation What could go wrong?
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The two drivers of the foreign home buyer ban were increased pricing pressure and fraud The latter of which were EXTENSIVELY documented and cited when the ban was enacted theglobeandmail.com/business…
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We should probably not attempt to back any Canadian AI companies Best to rely on American models for access and costing, super stable right?
Government should not take ownership in private business - it leads to an unfair playing field. Who wants to compete with the regulator? If Cohere is a great AI company why does it need taxpayer dollars?
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Hey @terrynewman @brianlilley @PierrePoilievre Rocket boy is turning off AI because it's unprofitable? Not being able to afford or even use "frontier models" seems like fun nitter.gq/elonmusk/status/211699…
Replying to @DogecoinNorway
The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue
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"you won't even need money in an age of super abundance" "The thing that makes memes is so prohibitively expensive we are throttling it without notice" FSD 2027 or....?
Replying to @DogecoinNorway
The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue
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Your position is to be solely at the whims of US "rules and obligations" their own courts have struck down? @terrynewman what is your proposed alternative?
Replying to @acoyne
This is what's called an ad hominem fallacy, kids. Instead of addressing whether EU membership's rules and obligations are actually valid, he attacks the source.
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Wait until you discover DNRs!
As a cancer MD, here’s what terrifies me about advance MAiD requests. A patient with dementia could be smiling, laughing and enjoying life. But a document signed years earlier says it’s time to die. Administer MAiD and risk criminal charges? Refuse and potentially face a College complaint from the family? What an extraordinary position to put a physician in.
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The boogeyman in this story is using government funds for supporting citizenry rather than a war you've "already won?" It's a damning indictment on society that this messaging has any willing recipients
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Replying to @RobynUrback
@RobynUrback back to her usual schtick platforming privatization The only partisans unwilling to admit it isn't working is the team you play (write) for @fordnation government will spend LESS every year through 2030 Let's try funding the public system before claiming it broken
We've become immune to reports like this, but we shouldn't be. A man with blood clots in his lungs was put in a storage closet, and his is one of thousands of similar stories. I genuinely don't know what it will take for bipartisan consensus that the status quo doesn't work
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"Switzerland does both and it's the best anywhere" Point on the graph to the country that spends less than Canada publicly, that also has a robust private system Ahh yes, boarder hoping because it is too expensive Where have we heard that before?
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The big money has already made all their money You are no longer needed, or wanted, with regards to where we go from here "Corporations" are run by feudal lords "CEOs," these two entities are not linked in a way that is going to make you comfortable wired.com/2012/11/feudal-sec…
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME LIKE I’M 5 YEARS OLD If Ai replaces all the jobs, where do corporations expect people to earn money to continue being consumers? I am just not understanding why that simple question is not being asked.
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Anti-competition now goes unchallenged when confessed to on TV The world has changed and we're all the worse for it
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?
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The @junonewscom and @tobi crowd have unironically become the definition of horseshoe theory This graph is hilarious because Liason and Mainstreet closed the gap to within reason Nanos, from the same sampling period was 2x closer to the results
When you look more broadly than one cherry-picked poll for comparison, the polling story of this election is actually quite interesting. The pattern across all 11 of the final week poll results shows that the older the fieldwork, the bigger the miss. This points to a significant late stage shift in sentiment back towards Chow, not bad polling. We polled the Toronto mayoral race in the field from Oct 11-16 and found Bradford +4.7. The final result had Chow +13 on the night. That means out of the 11 final-week polls, ours was the farthest off. If I had a do-over, we should definitely have also run a Wave 2 poll Oct 24-25. I'm confident in our methodology, which is the same as many of the other pollsters on this list, and has been reviewed and validated by CRIC (the industry standards body for public opinion research). I'm excited to continue to scale Build Canada's polling operations. We have big plans to do so. And I'm even more excited to be able to field polls at a price that democratizes access to public opinion research. We're just getting started. #cdnpoli #topoli
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The rage farming crew will of course move on from their latest embarassment But there are many real issues here Major money is being spent on slopulism Regardless of your partisan slant, we can never hope for real government accountability like this junonews.com/p/why-i-believe…
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Maple MAGA are becoming indistinguishable from the US 13% loss and he flipped on all his positions as a councilor But he tried hard and took lots of pictures? This warranted an article? What is going on in PE news land?
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@BradMBradford, who isn't quite sure which policy he supports on a given Tuesday, was the last saviour for Toronto? Maybe these guys are right? We're apparently resigned to the apocalypse
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You should probably all leave Toronto before it's consumed by the lake Canada too please, so you can join Fox and really fulfill your dreams
RIP Torontowwww. I knew you well. I once loved you and cherished living here. Now I can’t stomach the next four years.
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