"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation."
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Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space
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I wish I could find it now. I swear a few years ago I remember seeing a story about some small business owner in Texas somewhere, who would show up to open the store every day and find someone had taken a shit in the back alley. This went on for several days until they finally caught the person in the act, and IIRC, it wasn't even a homeless person. It was like some drunk who frequented a nearby bar.
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One is a minor cut that you need proper wound care for so it doesn't get infected. The other is like having an agressive stage 4 cancer and the doctor tells you that your prognosis for living another year isn't good.
If I were running a business I'd consider this to be far too big of a liability if they had to black start the grid. That is the type of event that gets real expensive really quick.
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Samsung and NXP lost hundreds of millions of dollars in ruined semiconductors due to power losses during the 2021 snowstorm:
https://archive.md/SF6yu
And yet high-tech companies—including more Samsung wafer fabs—keep pouring into Central Texas because the million-dollar (or even billion-dollar) tax breaks they get from the state and local governments outweigh the potential losses in production they may occasionally experience:
https://archive.md/3i7MH
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As usual, this place becomes a salt mine whenever Texas or Florida is the topic.
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Celery Man
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That's only because they won't stop fracking for salt.
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Small government, rugged individualist Texas throws billions of taxpayer money at the space industry. Communist California spends no taxpayer money and relies on private capital to be the nations space industry leader.
The political narratives we buy into in this country are so unbearably fucked up.
The political narratives we buy into in this country are so unbearably fucked up.
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Your state is dragging us all back to April 12, 1861 and we really have had enough. Move. The sooner the break up the sooner we can get to treating it like Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Russia, N.Korea, etc...
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Well, shoot, if I had known it was that easy to just move and help accelerate a civil war I would have done it ages ago.
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You should go read comments on the Wall Street Journal. It's the same but opposite. That's why I look at both.
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That just sounds like torture. Ignoring for the moment that the Wall Street Journal has essentially become a clearinghouse for all the stuff that ends up on the Fox News cutting room floor, just going out of your way to read additional stupid comments... Is it like a graduate thesis project or something? That's about the only reason I can think of for willingly subjecting yourself to that sort of torture.
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Well, there are the sheriff's gangs that LA (and other places) have issues with. But those are the thin blue line, so that's alright that they violated your rights, stole your shit, etc. That falls under qualified immunity.
Or the various other "gangs" that hysterical snowflake conservatives get up in arms about, since they're informal community groups that neither scam credulous people out of their cash on the basis of political or religious claptrap, nor exist to punish groups that aren't them.
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True, but "democratic" is an adjective not a noun.
You can say "Democratic Party" but saying "I am a Democratic" is grammatically incorrect.
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Proud to be a resident of the DEEP BLUE part of Florida.
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This is the first space article I've seen here where the general sentiment is "fix Earth problems before going to space". Even articles about space initiatives Russia and UAE don't draw as much vitriol against those countries, despite them being worse than Texas.
Then again, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the contempt the red residents of that state have towards NY and Cali, and I see anti-Dem rhetoric all over the comment section of Space News, so this is a minor step towards balance.
Then again, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the contempt the red residents of that state have towards NY and Cali, and I see anti-Dem rhetoric all over the comment section of Space News, so this is a minor step towards balance.
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Yeah, Texas is heavily gerrymandered, and has been for decades. Before the Republican takeover, the redistricting was done mostly to protect incumbents. For decades now it has been gerrymandered to allocate more Republican slanted voting districts.
Despite the 'Robin Hood' laws, school district funding is local, and based on property values. As the state also has a balanced budget law, you'd hope that some of that money would go into the Rainy Day Fund, for use in the bad years. But it is Texas, and Texas is run by evil clowns right now.
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To add: Ronny and the Ronnettes have used the same excuse of stopping corporate abuse to justify their actions. As if the state GOP did jack squat about Disney in the 55 years before then. As if DeSantis was bothered by Disney's power over Reedy Creek in the 3 years of his term before their tepid virtue signalling.
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And the beach in Mexico across the river from the border has a great view of the launch site. If the cartels are willing, the local economy could do pretty well with people flocking to watch the launches there.
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Its almost like its silly to describe millions of people by political affiliation. Most people in most states aren't members of any party and could care less about political theatre.
More money for space sounds kind of nice to me, now if only the Federal government would support NASA more (and not in the you-WILL-make-this-boondoggle-SLS-rocket kind of way).
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That the part that's under water? /s (sort of, since the entire state is basically a giant sandbar)
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Hey, c'mon... Being run by evil clowns would be like the difference between the European Dark Ages and Renaissance. The people of Texas should be so lucky as to have the enlightened leadership of evil clowns!
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Your statement is obviously and easily proven to be wrong.
Source: https://business.ca.gov/californias...-office-of-business-and-economic-development/
"California is pleased to provide significant financial incentives to business leaders as well. Since 2019, aerospace businesses have received almost $200 million in tax credits and grants from GO-flagship Biz’s investment program, CalCompetes."
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Fort Bend isn't even in the top 10 wealthiest counties in Texas.
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Celery Man
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1. It’s “Texans”
2. California trolls are the fun ones with the zany colored hair
3. Vaccinated people don’t have to hibernate if they get COVID
4. Post Smack is a delicious new cereal, thank you
5. Batman wears a mask, are you saying Batman isn’t cool?
6. Sometimes it’s our dad’s basement apartment
7. California has the lowest rates of COVID hibernation in the country, so I’d say we’re plenty woke
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Reminds me of the answer to - “Why does Wyoming exist?” “So some numb nuts can point at an electoral map and say ‘Look at all that RED, you’re telling me Trump lost!?!’”
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So $350 m over 2 years is ~14 times Florida's rate of investment but only a tad over 1% of the $32.7 b Texas surplus. As welcome as it is, I remain underwhelmed.
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Though I have no 'real world' experience to describe how it would be, history has stated that Texas has flipped from Democrat to Republican and back several times (twice to each?) in its history. Whether the state has always been ultra-Conservative or not, I cannot say. Likewise, (until recently?) many efforts and expenditures one would normally task as a State-necessary item has been funded by corporations, businesses, and such-- to include, interestingly, certain taxes. Alas, how true that is today I am unsure.
Long story made short, Texas has been surprisingly malleable in terms of its politics. Nothing is set in concrete here.
...gets too hot. The mix won't stay set.
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Fun fact: Texas property tax rates are among the highest in the country. More than twice California's.
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Irony: Texan! Now then--
I might be wrong, but I always thought that Texas' oil and gas revenues, in part, went to support the education system here in the state, since the state's initial inception as a nation in fact. Did something change, or have I been in error this entire time?
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You need to be careful about the history. Texas has gone from being a Democratic to a Republican state and back a few times. But those parties have also flipped back and forth quite a bit in the past hundred and fifty years or so. When it was formed in 1858, the Republican party was the liberal, anti-slavery party. The Democratic party was the conservative one. And that changed in terms of economic policy in the early twentieth century, and in terms of social policy in the mid to late twentieth century.Though I have no 'real world' experience to describe how it would be, history has stated that Texas has flipped from Democrat to Republican and back several times (twice to each?) in its history. Whether the state has always been ultra-Conservative or not, I cannot say. Likewise, (until recently?) many efforts and expenditures one would normally task as a State-necessary item has been funded by corporations, businesses, and such-- to include, interestingly, certain taxes. Alas, how true that is today I am unsure.
Long story made short, Texas has been surprisingly malleable in terms of its politics. Nothing is set in concrete here.
...gets too hot. The mix won't stay set.
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Particularly since Fox News' internal emails confirmed hosts were knowingly lying on the air with the full support of their leadership.
Hmmm. Fox News, WSJ. Who owns both of them?
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If so, they are doing it wrong. Again, US News and World report Texas ranks 34th in education. California comes in at 20th. Both are in a better place financially to improve.
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If the people cared they would take action. They get what they voted for therefore what they deserve. Those who choose politicians foolishly deserve every bit of pain that premeditated adult choice brings them.
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If I were female, trans, or gay, I'd be wanting to live in a blue state. I believe there will be a "brain-drain".
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If The district is short on money it is probably due to 2 things. Payroll and student enrollment decrease.
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