According to a Texas Tribune analysis, at least 82 data centers, or nearly 60% of those that are either planned or under construction, are in state House districts that voted for President Donald Trump and elected a Republican state representative in 2024. Meanwhile, a March Quinnipiac poll found that 65% of Americans oppose the building of an AI data center in their community.

Wow, hordes of data centers sucking up vast amounts of electricity in a state that only went through a huge power crisis 5 years ago in 2021

Is it time to place Polymarket bets on another power crisis?

True, but I was talking about the allegorical tale in the comic strip.

Re: Mouth guards

Many years ago, my dentist advised me to have him make a mouth guard to protect my teeth.

I didn’t do that, thinking it wasn’t needed.

About 10 years later, these last few years, I have had root canals, tooth extractions and expensive dental implants on my rear-most molars.

The oral surgeon showed me an X ray of my teeth in those areas: My molars were ground flat and were cracked because I grind my teeth so hard because of snoring/apnea, and probably stress.

Take some advice from someone who has experience: Get the fucking mouth guards.

And look into getting fitted for a CPAP machine:y dentist said it helped somewhat with the grinding, but it wasn’t a cure-all in the end for my teeth.

Too bad they didn’t show the aftermath.

These usually give the best fireworks shows!

It sounds like the plastics/oil industry is trying to buy itself a few more years like it did with the plastics bag ban(s), by having Newsom’s administration insert exemptions.

I haven’t noticed any difference from before, but my wife has stopped nudging me awake to get me to stop snoring.

Not all polls are equal.

The only polls where Becerra is the leading D candidate are D party sponsored polls, i.e. those polls paid for by the D establishment.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/california-governor-election-polls-2026.html

Temu Darth Vader

😂

How well does AI perform compared to human corporate executives?

That’s where the real salary savings could come from.

But don’t blame Fearless Leader Putin! /s

One is oppression by design, the other is oppression by incompetence.

The capitalist boxing promoter wins by pitting the proletariat against each other over meaningless, even manufactured, disagreements.

Snoring, medical term apnea, is a medical indicator, placing you at higher risk of serious medical conditions such as diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks.

Your life insurance rates go up if they find out.

My wife snitched on me to my doctor, I had a sleep study at a clinic, and now I use a CPAP machine when I sleep, which supposedly helps.

Edit: Oh yeah, and snoring/apnea is linked to grinding your teeth, which can lead to root canals, tooth extraction.

Not fun or cheap.

“The source of the contamination is unclear at this time,” a Kaiser Permanente spokesperson said in a statement. “Per the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, there is low risk to the community.”

The executive pay chart and their reported salaries are particularly disturbing.

$885k for the salary of “Executive Director”?!?!?

The production quality continues to be a dumpster fire, but I found that the final trap was very interesting, and found myself wondering how they were going to get out of it.

What I didn’t like was Note/Arthur pulling a power out of his King Grey’s ass to save the day.

I really need to stop watching this and catch up on something more acclaimed this season.

The aftermath of En’s death. With a resurrecting dog running loose, and a bag full of healing smoke, I can’t expect anybody’s death or lost limbs to be too permanent.

The song was too funny! I guess being a devil suits some people more than others.

Even though nothing really happened this episode, it was so much fun to watch!

And so the second Island Survival Test begins!

The flashback from Nanase seems to indicate she had a real life, which probably excludes her from being the White Room infiltrator, on the other hand, she seems to be able to keep up with Ayanokoji, so I’m still undecided about that.

And where exactly have her unsavory 1-D teammates Hosen and Amasawa run off to?

Olruggio is a brimmed hat isn’t he?

I can’t shake the association with Coco’s first experiences and those glowing paving stones that are “(his) master work”

But he’s obviously not a through-and-through cackling evil villain, so I doubt the brimmed hats will be either.

It just doesn’t seem like that kind of story.

I’m hoping that is the case, because otherwise it feels a bit early for the unmasking.