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This is friendly reminder that the owner of Buc-ee's is a prolific donor to Republican candidates in Texas

They state right there at the beginning that they're studying how social cues impact addiction. That knowledge has real potential to impact substance abuse treatment modalities. As an aside, the "how did that get funded" joke is a common right-wing trope to dismiss or undermine any science they don't like, so I'd recommend in the future you avoid it

The race to outflank each other on the right has been happening in the Republican party for over 40 years, but over the last 16 years they’ve gone increasingly batshit

I don’t know if I’d describe hitting a guy in the nuts with a baseball bat “playing with genitals”

I told my son “gesundheit,” and now he only eats sauerkraut and goose steps everywhere

When I was in college, this girl who was whip smart in one of my bio classes invited me over, and I quickly discovered she was a prolific weed dealer. Never in a million years would I have guessed

I live in Texas and the State Dept of Agriculture takes this kind of stuff very seriously. You have to report it though, which might be the other commenter's issue

I know it's a funny joke, but we actually use metric quite a bit, especially for volume

Are we reading the same comments

Ok, and that has nothing to do with the original claim, which your data demonstrates was false

According to this, all but 3 states receive more than they contribute, and Texas is roughly 17th out of 50 in terms of receiving the least amount back. I guess I don’t understand how Texas could be singled out in a dataset like this

According to this, all but 3 states receive more than they contribute, and Texas is roughly 17th out of 50 in terms of receiving the least amount back. I guess I don’t understand how Texas could be singled out in a dataset like this. This definitively shows Texas is not among the states receiving the most federal dollars in return for what they pay

According to this, all but 3 states receive more than they contribute, and Texas is roughly 17th out of 50 in terms of receiving the least amount back. I guess I don't understand how Texas could be singled out in a dataset like this

Have a link to these? All the sources I see indicate Texas pays more in federal taxes than it receives back in aid

What is your evidence of this?

This chart you shared identifies Texas as having the 44th highest GDP per capita out of every region in the entire world out of 454 regions, which is actually really good. It's especially good given how much rural land Texas includes, where an entire state's per capita GDP is being compared to much smaller urban regions like Luxembourg, Warsaw, and London.

I live in Texas. I love where I live, and also fuck this place, but either way what you're saying just isn't true. Sure, there are a number of defense contractors plus NASA and military bases operating in Texas, but between energy, healthcare, education, tourism, tech, and over 50 Fortune 500 companies, Texas's economy is actually really diverse. California has a ton of military bases and defense contractors too, because like Texas they have the workforce to pull it off

Why would you go around it when it’s behind you? 🤔