It was an independent lab that tested it

It was a public drainage district - specifically, Nueces County Drainage District No. 2 - that requested the lab be performed. These are municipal offices within the structure of the County that stumbled on a pipe authorized by the state and misused by Tesla’s facilities.

This is effectively a dispute between the county and the state, wherein the state has authorized dumping it should not have the legal authority to provide.

Economy getting more and more efficient with every passing day.

Just need to lay off the rest of them

Effing Texas regulators didn’t detect Strontium (or other pollutants the factory didn’t mention) so didn’t test for it?

I mean, they did. That’s how we know about it. But what can they actually do about it? Prince Abbott will just cover this up and fire anyone who won’t shut up about it.

Houston has one of the better waste water treatment plants in the country.

Robstown, though? Idk. Doubt it

It can. But you’d need a facility built to do it.

If you don’t anticipate Strontium in your wastewater, you’re not going to build a system to leech it out or neutralize it.

Reading through the codebase to find where those dastardly .ml devs injected the Leftist Extremism.

I haven’t seen anyone doing a better job. Lots of hype around the new things, though.

Amazon’s service model, for example, is to twiddle the knobs to just under the point where the majority ragequit

I mean, I get Amazon Prime via their shopping service whether I want it or not. And half of their “library” such that it exists is just links out to other paid premium services. Nevermind their Netflix-esque habit of cancelling or delaying popular shows while churning out lots of AI slop to fill in the gaps.

There’s no strong incentive to drop Prime Shipping (because it’s dirt cheap and I still do plenty of retail shopping on Amazon). But I find myself going to their TV / Movies selection less and less frequently. Occasionally just pirate the Amazon show I already have access to out of convenience.

Can’t say the same of Netflix, though. Cancelled that shit a few years ago. Barely anything left worth pirating from it anymore.

Let me know when they find a way to get ads into the torrented copies of their shows.

Kamala lost because her policies were fascism light

Okay, but that’s better than fascism, right? So stop criticizing fascism lite! It’s only hurting the opponents of fascism!

Well… okay, maybe the police and prosecutors that Kamala Harris organized during her time as California AG hurt the opponents of fascism a bit more. But that was before we had a dang Cheeto in the White House. So, let bygones be bygones and focus on the future.

I voted blue but completely get why people wouldn’t

I will be very angry at you anyway. If you upset even a single independent voter on the fence about voting for Kamala, you have committed Word Crime against the cause of the Stopping Trump.

lessor of two evils is still evil

That’s exactly what a Russian would say. I’ve outed you as a nefarious FSB superagent here to bring down American Democracy and turn us into a nightmare hellscape of Soviet Style Communism, which is what Russia is right now.

And India.

Building 5x the number of fossil fuel plants as nuclear plants.

If you believe nuclear is preventing climate change, you need to square these figures

Under Communism the legislature will be an API.

Please, for the love of god, I am begging you. Read Fanshen

Noooooooooo! STOP SAYING THIS! YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS WIN!!!

STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP! THIS IS WHY KAMALA LOST!

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!

I have traced your IP Address and confirmed you are a Russian Bot! MODS! MODS! BAN THIS ACCOUNT!

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France

Okay, so they’re still doing mass surveillance on their citizenry. They’re just doing it with the Le Woke DeGuallist firm rather than the Based Trad Amerifascists

Excuse me, nobody outside of China is building new reactors

Why build a nuclear power plant with your data center if you could just get power from the grid and drive up everyone else’s price too

The national grid has raw physical limits that many data centers already exceed.

Silicon Valley’s AI Boom Hits a Wall: Data Centers Are Built but Can’t Turn On

Power shortages and high costs are stalling new data centers, leaving the Bay Area behind faster-growing markets like Atlanta and Northern Virginia.

What do Atlanta and Virginia have access to that Silicon Valley lacks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Plant

The joke of the Grok AI is how it’s generating power in one of the least cost efficient manners possible.

Musk is just burning a ton of short term capital to avoid lobbying Mississippi (fucking Mississippi, the most easy state to bend over a rail with lobbyists in the country) for a hard-line to the existing grid and some upgrades to capacity funded on the public dime.

That’s what you get to do as a trillionaire. Make stupid business decisions and then dump the turd onto your investors when they want to invest in your lucrative network of federal Pentagon contracts.

Article pitches this as either/or when it’s very obviously going to be more of one producing more of the other.

I do get tired of the “nuclear energy is better than climate change!” as though our voracious demand for cheap energy will neatly cap itself the moment we get X new nuclear facilities online.

But I also get tired of hearing people insist that nuclear energy is on the horizon, when nobody is building new plants. This is a vaporware technology. It isn’t in the production pipeline and there’s no reason to believe posting your Nuke-Love online will change that

Well, they couldn’t have talked about Epstein’s relationship to Peter Mandelson, because that would be a Vote for Reform. And they couldn’t talk about his relationship with Jean-Luc Brunel, because that’s Russian Propaganda. And they couldn’t talk about his relationship with Ehud Barak, because that would be antisemitic.

Cuba in Ten Years