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San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2008
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Nan kad akò bilateral ki genyen ant gouvènman Ayiti ak gouvènman Salvadò a, yon operasyon konjwen ki te reyini Polis Nasyonal Dayiti, Fòs Lame Dayiti (FAd’H), Task Force la, ak Fòs Espesyal Salvadò yo reyisi pran kontwòl Estad Sylvio Cator a epi mete l an sekirite. Pandan operasyon an, nou te dekouvri plizyè zo tèt moun anndan estad la. Kounye a, nou pral tabli yon baz operasyonèl nan estad la pou n ka kontinye avanse pi fon nan teritwa gang yo kontwole. Kounye a, se nou ki gen avantaj sou teren an. Mwen mande tout manm gang yo avèk anpil fèmte pou yo kite zòn nan anvan ofansiv la kòmanse. Moun ki chwazi rete pou konbat fòs nou yo ap oblije sibi konsekans yo.
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🚨 A man who lives LESS THAN HALF A MILE from Google's data center in Clarksville, Tennessee, says noise and light pollution have NOT been an issue. "Everybody's saying how bad they're gonna be... I haven't seen anything negative. I've only seen the positive side.”
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Tesla has just officially announced that their Robotaxi service now operates 24-hours a day in every city that rides are available! • Austin • San Antonio • Houston • Fort Worth • Dallas • Miami • Orlando • Tampa Big milestone!
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Robotaxi now runs 24/7 Every city we're available in
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Reminder that the “datacenters use too much water” problem is fake.
Let me try and explain: a Krispy Kreme uses water to make doughnuts which can be eaten and coffee which can be drunken. The workers wash their hands so the food is sanitary and the customers use the bathroom. In a data center, all that water is wasted with no treats.
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Murdering someone in San Francisco is considered less serious than assaulting the spouse of a Democrat politician:
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This Maryland blocked data center story is interesting. The land for the proposed $5B data center was empty, unused 90 acres that was a *mall 24 years ago* - right up against 495 - one of the busiest freeways in the region. The county already has huge revenue problems - they just lost a Six Flags, they lost the Commanders to DC... And the woman leading the fight against the Data Center is also asking local government to fund things like roof repairs on her father's house.. But they don't have enough money coming in... because they block things like data centers. npr.org/2026/11/07/nx-s1-600…
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China is hiring the dumbest kids you knew in high school to sabotage American tech infrastructure by telling them data centers are stealing water from dehydrated African children. ~60% of data centers are air-cooled/closed loop systems. Meaning they waste no water. 95% of new data centers being built use these same cooling methods. The remaining data centers that do “waste” water are aging and require renovation/replacement. So when you stop the construction of a new waterless data center, you are actually the one causing data centers to “waste” water unnecessarily. It’s incredible how many people are anti-data-center for reasons a quick grok search can easily debunk.
Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States. PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million. Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp. In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono? More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.
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> be El Salvador > send nerds to Haiti for UN thingie > gang kidnaps Salvadorian nerds > bukele says "give back" > gang "nah" > bukele says "ok we take back" > gang "nah, also you're a bitch" > bukele comes to take back > gang "wtf that's illegal, UN tell them something" > UN says "idk bro thats crazy" > bukele goes on social media > "does anyone know this houses coordinates? we will bomb it" > crowdsources OSINT nerds > OSINT nerds deliver exact coordinates in like, 30 minutes > bombs it exactly as promised > goes on social media > calls them pussies tl;dr OSINT nerds on Twitter called in Airstrike like it's Call of Duty, never been seen before on social media
Nou kenbe pwomès nou… Nou detwi kay Lanmò San Jou ak katye jeneral gang 400 Mawozo a. Pifò ladan yo kouri ale san yo pa menm eseye goumen. Ala lach yo lach! 🥲
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Famous right wing firebrand @BernieSanders fought for closed borders, arguing (correctly) that wages were depressed bc of illegal immigration:
Y’all wanna “deport them all,” but I don’t see any of y’all cleaning hotel rooms, picking vegetables, or standing on the sidewalk at the Home Depot waiting for roofing or landscaping work. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Nou kenbe pwomès nou… Nou detwi kay Lanmò San Jou ak katye jeneral gang 400 Mawozo a. Pifò ladan yo kouri ale san yo pa menm eseye goumen. Ala lach yo lach! 🥲
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“Claude can help US kill more people more quickly ?” Host: “With the help of LLMs, the US military has gone from hitting 1,000 targets a day to 5,000. That means Claude can help kill more people more quickly. Are you comfortable with that?” Dario Amodei: “I am supportive of the US being more effective militarily. Having that ability be stronger doesn’t cause wars. It deters wars.” “Do you want this country to be a more powerful actor on the world stage? I do. I’m a patriot.”
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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.”
SpaceX’s Arizona data center, per a county supervisor: “We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20%” Frank Antenori, whose district includes the site, brought up the county’s tax math during a live Q&A: “Here’s just something to just chew on. Arizona has an expenditure limit requirement that is placed on counties. If we exceed that expenditure, we have to rebate back to the taxpayers a certain amount.” “So, if we’re receiving revenue in from SpaceX, by law, we have to offset that to the taxpayers. We have the potential to reduce, based on the projected revenue they’re creating, as much as 20%.” “Let me just say it again. We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20% to offset for the revenue here, because we can’t spend all that money. So, we have to give that money back to the taxpayers. The law says we have to.” “So, you could see a potential significant impact to local property taxes. What that is, I don’t know. We’re going to have to do the math on it. But the law, if we have this large increase in property tax revenue, we have to balance those rates. So that will reduce dramatically the property tax burden of every resident in the county.” “The construction sales tax, which also is the TPT, the transaction privilege tax, the retail tax, and the jail excise tax. So that will be part of the construction tax. We could literally use that money to pay the jail off in 2 to 3 years, as opposed to the 13 to 20 years.” “So this could be a revenue to eliminate the half-cent sales tax in 2 to 3 years. We can get rid of that half-cent sales tax.”
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There is a Myth that has been circulating around #SanFrancisco that everyone homeless are unhoused is from #SanFrancisco. And they were pushed to the streets because of tech and high rent cost. I documented Will over 1300 people in each one I asked the same question what city are you from? But one must wonder is San Francisco a Drug Destination for unhoused people from other cities and states
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The thing leftists don’t seem to realize is that $200K+ earners already pay for EVERYTHING. The 12m Americans who make $200k pay 2x more in aggregate tax than the 150m who make <$200k. 2x. It’s wild. My question is why should taxpayers pay linearly (or progressively) at all? A $200k+ earner that pays $50k a year has surely discharged his debt to his share of consumption. A $500k earner paying $150k certainly has. Why should he continue to pay in order to fund the obesity and diabetes and housing of the urban underclass? Or the social security and Medicare of boomers sitting on $1m in home equity and $2m in 401k.
Certain Democrats might lose their minds over this, but we must recognize that people earning over $500,000 a year are wealthy. People earning over $200,000 a year are wealthy. If we want to have normal-rich-country social policies (e.g., low-cost or free child care, universal health care), we need these people to pay a little extra. The middle-class probably need to contribute a little more as well, but they will definitely come out ahead when the improved health system and public services are accounted for.
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The celebrations continue across the streets of Haiti. 🇭🇹🇸🇻 The Bukele Model is saving a nation. The arrival of Salvadoran troops, sent by President @nayibbukele, is putting Haitian gang leaders on the run and giving the Haitian people hope once again.
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Kote kay sa a ye? Ban nou adrès egzak la, n ap detwi l.
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Here's a rewrite framed for far-left support: Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco: The Health Care Security Ordinance employer spending requirement is repealed. This ends a failed system that let hundreds of millions meant for workers' care sit idle or get seized for city budget bailouts instead of delivering health access. Remaining City Option funds go straight to employees or public clinics serving the uninsured and working class. It also stops the regressive 5-6% restaurant surcharges that hit low-wage families hardest while failing real progressive healthcare goals.
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