@Officer273 @bestofstarwar Jar Jar was loathed right out of the gate.
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Chris Post
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Chris Post
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Stay at Home Dad with 2 kids and wife in the Army
Colorado Springs, CO انضم Şubat 2009
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@bestofstarwar When it came out in 99 it was almost universally loved. It wasn’t until about 15 years ago when in retrospect people looked at Jar Jar and went, ehh, that was over the top.
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“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”
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@noamscheiber "Get their degree," is not the same as learn a marketable skill.
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A generation of people in their 20s and 30s was told that if they do all this homework and take these AP classes and run up this debt and get their degree, their place in the upper-middle class would be secure. And suffice it to say it hasn’t worked out that way for a lot of them
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I have a story up today about why young college grads are feeling so angry: It’s more than just rising unemployment and the threat of AI. It’s a deep sense of betrayal. 1/ nytimes.com/2026/03/27/bus…
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Netflix just got a $2.8 BILLION payout from Paramount for its failed Warner Bros. deal.
Then Netflix turned around and raised prices on millions of customers.
Pop Crave@PopCrave
Netflix is increasing their subscription prices again: • Ad-tier: $7.99 → $8.99 • Standard: $17.99 → $19.99 • Premium: $24.99 → $26.99
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@MollySOShea @friedberg It's not just Red states that are going to decline to bail out CA.
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"That's why California is facing a massive fiscal cliff in the years ahead. And I think it is so profound that it really does risk the ruin of the state, because if the only way out of it is you're gonna have to bail out the state, and that would be this huge kind of problem.
'Cause then all the red states will say, we're not paying for the bailout, and it would cause a lot of conflict in America. So I don't think people realize how big of a problem this is and what it's gonna drive in the years ahead. So that's my hot take. That's why I'm really worried about California."
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BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt"
"People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union.
"$250 billion to $1 trillion short."
"This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension."
"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."
How we got here:
"California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in.
$250 billion to $1 trillion short.
If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits.
There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits.
It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California.
So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."
Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
California will be bankrupt by 2030. If you’re expecting a state pension, it is at risk. If you don’t believe it, check Grok or Gemini and explore how California politicians changed the reporting rules on your pension so they could hide how underwater it is. The middle class citizens of California will soon be asked to pay a huge price to bail out the state. Why them? Because that is where most of the wealth of California resides. It’s easy to single out “billionaires” but there aren’t many of them and they can and will all leave before the bottom falls out. They are leaving in droves already. The mismanagement in California is biblical - and the scale is huge because it’s the world’s 4th largest economy. California politicians and their henchmen are now entering the coverup phase where they can no longer hide their financial incompetence so they are taking from average California residents to try and hide what they’ve done: You will soon see ballot initiatives with fancy tiles like “billionaire tax”. But those are lies. They are mechanisms to tax everything, every way: Excise taxes Wealth taxes Private property confiscation It’s all happening now. If you want to preserve California, you will need to stand up because California has become a kleptocracy.
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@SenWarren Except is unconstitutional but you know that but keep performing for the rubes who believe this nonsense.
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Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me.
It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.
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@ReubenR80027912 I would also assume this would be reflected in MUCH lower NAEP reading scores.
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There’s just no way the median adult you pass on the street can’t read an NYT article. Do they do it daily or even weekly? No!
But you better believe they reading words online, reading an email from their boss, scanning the letter from collections etc
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I refuse to believe that most Americans can not read at a 7th grade level
If this is “true” then it means we are simply measuring literacy incorrectly; 163M Americans are actively employed
Can your 6th grader read an employment contract? Read heavy machinery instructions?
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
If you have the basic skills to participate in the discourse at all — like you can read and comprehend a New York Times article in order to complain about it — you’re in a weird, out of touch, elite bubble. slowboring.com/p/in-defense-o…
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@David_Charts2 Ah. So government is merely another means to steal other people's money. Got it.
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Removing the cap covers about 60% of the shortfall, hits the top 6% only and only on income over $184,500, and reduces the deficit by about 1% GDP.
Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦@JessicaBRiedl
Yes, capping Social Security benefits at $100k for a couple is a no-brainer. The program is headed to insolvency and, no, eliminating the tax wage cap is not close to enough. An easy place to start is capping the maximum benefit that dwarfs even Europe and Canada.
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"We had two first-round picks, 13 and 17. We were gonna go defense and there were some good players.
We drafted linebacker Takeo Spikes. Then, we get to pick 15, 16. It’s the elephant in the room. I remember going, “Are we gonna pass on him?” It was literally, “John, sit down. We’re taking the linebacker.” It was decided ahead of time. We already had a couple of good receivers in Darnay Scott and Carl Pickens. The need just wasn’t there. We took Brian Simmons, who was fantastic.
Randy Moss went to a place where he fit perfectly."
Bruce Feldman@BruceFeldmanCFB
He ran a 4.25 and vertical jumped 47 inches—and that’s only part of what made a frigid day in 1998 in Huntington, WV so mind blowing. The oral history of Randy Moss’ Pro Day, a show like the NFL had never seen before or since. Free story: nytimes.com/athletic/71405…
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Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: NASA announces $20 billion plan to build permanent moon base
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@SeanTrende My 17 yo son is starting to show interest in politics. I'm doing my best to try to wave him off. "You'll just end up following people like Sean Trende on Twitter for Pete's sake. Go do some meth instead."
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That is 90% of my take on voter ignorance. It’s healthy that most people don’t obsess about politics. And tbh I have never met a speciality where people don’t decry the ignorance of the masses.
Jesse Arm@Jesse_Leg
Counterpoint: These kids are more or less fine. They’re drunkenly enjoying their spring break. Better to be socializing and partying with friends in real life than doomscrolling on X in isolation and hyperventilating about how awful America is.
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@JakeLiscow Unless they are either trading down in the first or up from the second...
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2 meetings between the Bengals and Kayden McDonald noted here
Justin M@JustinM_NFL
.@OhioStateFB DT Kayden McDonald is the most physical defender in the 2026 NFL Draft. Elite run defender had 9(!) TFLs in 2025. 👉 @KMac_DT joins NFL Draft On SI for an exclusive pre-draft conversation: si.com/nfl/draft/onsi…
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A plumber with an associates degree with zero military or national security experience … America is a joke.
The New York Times@nytimes
The Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary on Monday. nyti.ms/47ghz7E
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@flex_nihilo How are people so cheap getting so many points?
Is it just professional level churning?
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@SeanTrende Sorry, definitely DON'T want the govt involved in that, TYVM.
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I will vote for the presidential candidate who standardizes password requirements.
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@JoeGoodberry Seen WAY too many "can't miss" prospects do exactly that. Take more bites at the apple.
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@JoeGoodberry Imagine if they stopped double dipping in the weak parts of the draft (LB '25, DL '24) and made picks from the strength of the draft (TE '23, DL '25). That's the most frustrating part, the effed up process the @bengals use.
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Recent 3rd round history.
14 picks.
Hits with Fairchild, Battle, Ossai, Wilson, Pratt and Hubbard (to varying degrees).
That's a 43% hit rate which is pretty good.
If you say only Wilson, Pratt and Hubbard were HITS as they got decent second contracts, then you're looking at a 27% HIT rate (removing those still on the roster).
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@JakeLiscow You know they're taking Peter Woods even if Bain is there. Gird yourself.
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Too bad Rueben Bain didn't test. Between that and his arms, no one can pick him before pick #10 now
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@_TheMayor @asymmetricinfo Sir, I don't. But I was speaking of these programs generally. Also, federal subsidies (i.e. my tax dollars) have a way of leaking into many programs at state and local levels.
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There is no way to get workers to the office at roughly the same time, and home at roughly the same time, without maintaining significant spare capacity. Bus seats, cars, bike sharing, even sidewalks—whatever mode you prefer needs to be built to handle peak flow and that means it will be underutilized much of the time.
Jarrett Walker@humantransit
This critique of bike sharing is the same nonsense that we hear about “empty seats on buses”. There is not much marginal cost to the surplus capacity, and the capacity means we can handle surges. The low cost of surplus capacity is what makes these modes resilient.
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@_TheMayor @asymmetricinfo Then they can sit for 98% of the time. As long as I'm not paying for them, I don't care.
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@_TheMayor @asymmetricinfo Any tax dollars subsidizing them or is this a fully private enterprise?
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