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Or... and here's my own little conspiracy theory... it was pushed by bad actors at the EPA, as such an "unusual step" could serve as a reverse psy-op to further initiate and entrench the nutcases who believe in extreme weather-modifying geoengineering, because "why is the EPA trying so hard to tell us it's not real, it must be a cover-up, ABOLISH THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTION AGENCY NOW!" (/s)

It does read as an earnest attempt by the reasonable people at the EPA, with info in clear language that attempts to appeal to a reader in saying their questions are valid. Even so, it will probably fuel the above conspiratorial thinking either way.

Hell, it's already fueled mine. I don't know who or what parts of this government we can trust anymore.

Y'all. Never heard of this guy before now. Read through all those screenshots from merc and the quotes from the article, and... this guy is most definitely performing for us. And I mean all of us, captivating the callously cultish right and aggravating reasonable lefties alike. Impressive!

There really is a nuance to his apparent lack of any self-awareness that simply cannot be dismissed. To ride such a fine line, to rustle the jimmies of so many, and then manage to be tapped for such a position, one with such exquisitely mediocre amounts of power...

It's not the onion. Dude is the onion.

Hopefully the onion to my guacamole.

I, for one, would love to see a taco replaced with a tomahawk any Tuesday. Any Tuesday now...

“I know Ron’s doing a second one... and probably a couple of more, and you know, at some point they might morph into a system where you’re going to keep it for a long time.”

Talk about burying the lede. Yet another plain-as-day admission by Trump that this is not and was never going to stop at immigrants.

How soon could one expect the g3stapo to storm one's front door if one posted her home address for all her "constituents" to see?

But I mean, it is publicly available info, quite easy to find if you look in the right places... Plus she probably already has full-time staff sorting through all those shipments of syringes packed with puppy poop she must get... Probably.

Only asking for a friend.

Someone smarter than me needs to look at S*uth D@kota and help put the pieces of this odd puzzle together. (Made a new acct just in case I'm on to something here.)

This university is well known for its cyber-security work with the feds and happens to be working mighty closely with the current SD governor (probably with the help of crusty gnome herself) and some big-talking billionaire to try to buy Tiktk.

If you thought Amazon was bad... A "public-private partnership?" God knows what that would mean for controlling the algorithm and extracting data from unwitting users, i.e. a shitton of Americans.

Fun fact: Just up the road, a massive multi-billion-dollar data center is planned and the company, Applied Tech (which looks like a front tbh), is currently trying to get zoning laws passed in a county of a few thousand people, a county whose board of potential rubes doesn't understand tech to the point their commission meeting minutes were auto-recovered according to the downloaded file name.

Wanna bet the new power plant planned to go up nearby exists almost exclusively to power this data center's virtually unlimited crypto mining operation primarily publicized as "just doing AI stuff"?

A final fun fact for good measure: S.D. is a tax safe haven for corporations and is also one of only a few places where "dynasty trusts" can exist in perpetuity.

Maybe it's all a coincidence, but it sure seems like all of this put together spells disaster. How much dark money stands to hide in SD and places like it? Exactly how would the state's regulations (i.e. the lack thereof) facilitate this Tktk "rehoming" scheme seemingly filled with ill intent?

The TACO might just be pushing the deadline off so that the feds can get their ducks in a row in how they, too, can capitalize on this venture.

The crusty gnome clearly sold out the state for something. Technocracy perhaps?