Hey PZ, under water or what?

Hell yeah! Some spine coming through.

I guess if your goal is everyone stop doing drugs or everyone who does drops dead, then making sure drug users aren’t seriously harmed or killed by infected needles or super contaminated supply is not what you want.

So they’re on average more driven and more talents because it was a deliberate choice at every step.

Telling people to sell their houses, as if there’s a market for a house within shouting distance of Colossus.

https://qz.com/data-center-construction-permanent-jobs-cliff-071026

Abilene is the main example here for its extreme concessions for the data center. They’re required to have a staff of at least 57 at the end of this, a ratio between the building and the running of 70 to 1. The data center only pays 15% of its property taxes for ten fucking years.

One comes to mind every time I buy the overpriced mini sweet kale bagged salad. The time I said oh, there are no plates or bowls, well, I’ll make it a walking taco!

My supervisor laughed but the other person in the room got so mad because both of us were like you’ve never heard of it? It’s sold at fairs, town festivals, open powwows…