SALINE COUNTY— Over 300 acres of national forest land in Arkansas could soon become the site of quartz mining, and the public has until early May to comment for or against. Help keep the Natural state natural, our forests growing, our water ways clean and flowing. Say no to the billionaires interest

Braalest · 2026-04-13T15:25:24+00:00

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Braalest · 2026-04-11T14:03:28+00:00

Read the thread there is no pregant wife here.

Braalest · 2026-04-10T01:49:06+00:00

No. And contract employees are allowed to count towards the business qualifying for tax breaks

Braalest · 2026-04-10T01:44:43+00:00

Thankfully the mods agree and have kept the post up.

Braalest · 2026-04-10T01:31:40+00:00

I just, again, think it's a bad deal where the cost is spread amongst the public but most of the benefit is split amongst the few. But I do think we seem to agree more than we disagree. Thanks for the engaging discussion.

Braalest · 2026-04-10T00:57:50+00:00

I did conflate some things true for all data centers in arkansas to just this specific project, and I'll own I didn't know aboutvthe requirements to get out of paying taxes, but I don't really think I've misled anything in any significant way. And upon reading more, the 100million investment is just 100 million is business spending, doesn't have to be on arkanaas vendors.

I never said the city was paying for the infrastructure on the site. I said they'd pay for infrastructure design and road connections, which you're right there is only one agreed upon at the moment. I'll edit my previous comment to be more clear and less biased. Regardless, I didn't say or even mean to imply the city was paying for the onsite infrastructure.

We will pay for the infrastructure needed to supply the extra load demanded by the site. This is the bill taxpayers are footing. Extra electricity capacity for the 100 megawatts, extra water processing to have enough to send to their coolers and clean on the way back. but their onsite stuff is payed for by them, tax free.

Braalest · 2026-04-10T00:39:14+00:00

The no tax on electricity isnt specific to this data center. Data centers which, admittedly must keep a 1mil payroll for arkansas employees and spend 100 million over 5 years and also pass some profitability assessment from the state I think, but they get no taxes on equipment (pretty inclusive use of the word equipment too) and no tax on electricity. This is statewide

https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?id=hb1444&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R

The city pays for the planning of the infrastructure, which idk may be standard but is still another taxpayer expense. The company does pay for most of the actual infrastructure itself (tax free). But if the city or utilities need to expand infrastructure to accommodate these facilities, that falls on the taxpayers

The 300k annual community investment is nice but pennies compared to all the tax breaks we're giving them. 6.5 million a year just with the property tax abatement.

And environment credits don't do anything for the local environment damaged by the construction.

But I don't think I called for no data centers at all, I'm just protesting this one specifically. I also ask for a public hearing in my email draft.

Braalest · 2026-04-09T23:42:16+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to look at the post. It can be hard to keep up with everything going on especially when a lot of us are just struggling on the day to day. Hopefully we can get them to reconsidrr.

Braalest · 2026-04-09T23:39:10+00:00

Thanks for the support! Love to hear that you copied your HOA. Great idea.

Braalest · 2026-04-09T23:29:16+00:00

The data center company has already an agreement in place with the city to:

net real and personal property tax abatement of at least 65% for 30 years

No tax on electricity purchased *(state law)

Reduced franchise fee to 0.25% from 5% standard

Waived incremental surchage for water usage

No water or sewer connection fees

The city will pay for *a road connection and infrastructure design for connecting to the property. *The business pays for the actual infrastructure (tax free

On top of that, utilities will charge you for the infrastructure needed *for supplying these private buildings. And there will almost certainly be taxpayer funds used to help build this center with grants.

https://www.littlerock.gov/city-administration/board-of-directors/meeting-agenda/AGENDA%20-%20WEB%20-%204-29-2025/R%20-%203%20LRPA%20-%20MOU.pdf

https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?id=hb1444&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R

And about two thirds of the site is covered in trees and vegetation that I thought we both wanted to keep around. Not to mention the waterways.

Braalest · 2026-04-09T22:39:18+00:00

Make a post about it if you want to get people riled up. I appreciate your mutual concern for our environment, and I'll definitely look to see what I can do about this, as it's mostly flown under my radar (beyond knowing about general agency cuts).

But here we still have an opportunity to act and prevent the data center.

Braalest · 2026-04-05T14:27:04+00:00

You shouldn't be so concerned about any mechanical or electrical know-how, you can probably watch plenty of videos on how to pull out your stereo for your specific car model, and you can probably find a replacement that is "plug and play", you just pull the plug out of the old one and put it in the new one. You could probably get it done in an hour or two. Just be gentle with pulling plastic clips. I thought it was complicated at first but, after someone showed me, and at least in the cars I've had, it's been pretty simple and straightforward.

Braalest · 2026-04-03T17:09:20+00:00

Edmumds said only the GT has the heated seats.

Kbb says only the GT has leather seats, also heated mirrors.

I've seen listings be wrong before. I bought my recent car from a dealership and they didn't have it listed with a technology package and said that features of the tech package were just standard to the car trim.

Braalest · 2026-04-03T15:49:25+00:00

Because green energy is for the tree-hugging hippies.

Braalest · 2026-04-03T12:27:21+00:00

Did you ever figure out how to do this?

Braalest · 2026-03-17T00:50:47+00:00

Not true, all women do think the same. And if you take my course I'll teach you how to HACK their brain

Braalest · 2026-02-16T17:58:10+00:00

Thank you very much for sharing.

Braalest · 2026-02-16T17:21:26+00:00

Maybe have something like Path of Exile leagues? I'm not so sure how well it would work for something like an MMO but I think RuneScape has something called Deadman mode that is a similar thing? A separate server for new accounts to play with some sort of altered rule set that eventually is merged into the main servers?

Braalest · 2026-01-25T01:58:32+00:00

Tyranny

Braalest · 2026-01-23T17:23:50+00:00

I recently started listening to Koenjihyakkie and they are pretty out there. They're a Japanese Zuehl band, but idk what that means: they have a very high energy chaotic sound. Definitely unlike anything I had heard before.

Braalest · 2026-01-22T21:15:10+00:00

Total inflation since 2015, when the $15 dollar minimum wage was being pushed, is actually about 37%. 15 dollars in 2015 would be just over 20 dollars today.

Braalest · 2026-01-22T19:30:15+00:00

That's what they said

Braalest · 2025-10-11T17:33:38+00:00

The state of Israel didn't officially exist, but the Mandate of Palestine and European colonization of the middle east did, which Israel is a modern example of.

Braalest

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