@TBYSTweet AI is projected to create net jobs. Just like every other innovation you people said would take everyone's jobs.
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PacoFuentes74
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I actually wondered when people were going to notice that if all of the jobs are firing their workers to replace them with AI, who is going to have the money to buy anything?
BuBBliK@k1rallik
🚨 do you understand what AI is actually doing to the economy.. 55,000 AI layoffs in 2025. 61,000 already in 2026. companies are firing humans to pay for AI. then using AI to fire more humans.. then wondering why no one can afford their products. > Amazon eliminated 14,000 corporate jobs. redirected billions into AI infrastructure. > Salesforce replaced 4,000 humans with bots. CEO called it "rebalancing." > IBM erased its entire HR department. replaced with chatbots overnight. > 245,000 tech jobs gone in 2025 alone. highest cuts since COVID. the question isn't whether AI will take your job.. it's whether there'll be enough jobs left to keep the economy running at all.
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@catgirlprostate It sure would have reduced investment in building things.
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I'm amazed I've never seen speculative fiction alternate history on what reality would look like if this lawsuit went the other way
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@irishcelticsfan @Simracer @johnarnold This whataboutism is stupid. There can always be whatabouts. It doesn't change where we are today and what decisions need to be made.
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@Simracer @johnarnold If you wanna play the international law game are you gonna condemn the bombing of schools and hospitals as well? The wiping out of entire families of the people we’re actively negotiating with? Etc etc. can’t play the “maritime law” angle only when convenient to US I fear.
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So what happens when a Chinese ship is trying to exit the Strait? The US is going to block it? The Chinese will allow that to happen?
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@alexandrascaggs It's not a doomsday unemployment machine. AI is projected to create net jobs. You sound like the people who said the production line, then computers, then robots, and every other innovation ever, would take all our jobs.
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the AI industry repeatedly telling the world they’re creating the doomsday unemployment machine and then are shocked — shocked! — that regular people hate them for it
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@MalloryMovies List what he has done so far. Not the promises, the things that have been done.
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Its so crazy that we did this. We knocked over a million doors and toppled a political dynasty and elected a socialist to run the greatest city in the world, and he is delivering. This is what socialism can do for you, your town, your city, your country. Join DSA! Link below ⬇️
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 100 days in — and we’re just getting started.
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@ArtsyMarx1st It's astounding that you're so daft you think "bc of capitalism" explains it. Amazing. Please don't vote.
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bc of capitalism. when i lived in china, a socialist country, i saw an entire subway line built in under 2 years. saw roads build in a matter of days or weeks. the Us has zero reason to improve things for regular ppl, only the rich.
Rushi@rushicrypto
Can some explain why it takes years to build anything. Roads, schools, bridges, etc. but data centers are everywhere overnight!?
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@StrikeDebt Or maybe read the whole thing and actually address her points.
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These people will cancel yacht loan debt before student loans if they can
Rep. Nancy Mace@RepNancyMace
Boating is not a luxury in South Carolina. It’s a way of life. Our state is home to more than 350,000 registered recreational boats and a marine industry supporting over 27,000 jobs and generating a $6.5 billion economic impact. Our No Tax on Boat Loan Interest Act extends the above-the-line loan interest deduction for cars to boats, allowing American families to deduct up to $10,000 annually in boat loan interest on American-made boats. More affordable boats mean more families recreating on the water, more marine manufacturing jobs in South Carolina, and more investment in an industry already generating billions in economic impact. South Carolina STRONG.
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@PFuentes74 @SerraAetheria @Apocaloptimist5 I still await the day this meme is used on someone legitimately pretending to not know because I feel if someone’s on the edge of being accused of something they should be allowed to clarify and unfortunately “you know what I mean you just don’t want to guess” isn’t clarification
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Love the idea that there's some barista out there making minimum wage who somehow is powerful enough to use the government to control you.
Ron Good@rdgrongoodnet1
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@micah_erfan Nothing makes Democrats more angry than people saying "hey can you stop taking so much of the money I earn?"
Why is the left always about supporting the takers by taking from the makers?
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Nothing makes Republicans more angry than tax dollars actually going to help people.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 New Mexico has become the first state to make public universities tuition free for all. Nearly every state Republican tried to block this change.
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**Tolls US Commercial Ships Pay to Foreign Countries for Safe Passage (2025-2026 rates)**
| Waterway | Country | Tolls Required? | Approximate Toll per Typical Transit | Notes |
|----------|---------|-----------------|-------------------------------------|-------|
| Strait of Hormuz | Iran | Yes | $1M-$2M (oil tanker) | Ad-hoc fees; opposed by US |
| Suez Canal | Egypt | Yes | $300K-$700K | Large vessels; 2025 rates |
| Panama Canal | Panama | Yes | $400K-$1.1M | Vessel size dependent; 2025 tariffs |
| Turkish Straits (Bosphorus & Dardanelles) | Turkey | Yes | ~$4,500 avg | $5.83/net ton (July 2025) |
| Strait of Malacca | Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore | No | $0 | international transit passage under UNCLOS |
| Strait of Gibraltar | Spain/Morocco | No | $0 | international transit passage under UNCLOS |
| Bab el-Mandeb | Yemen/Djibouti | No | $0 | international transit passage under UNCLOS |
| Kiel Canal | Germany | Yes | $5K-$20K | Gross tonnage based; 2025 rates |
| Corinth Canal | Greece | Yes | $2K-$5K | Length/GT based; 2025 fees |
| Danish Straits (Great Belt, Øresund) | Denmark | No | $0 | international transit passage under UNCLOS |
| English Channel / Dover Strait | United Kingdom/France | No | $0 | international transit passage under UNCLOS |
Tolls exclude pilotage and tugs. Rates change yearly. US ships follow the same rules as other nations except where opposed. Most natural straits charge $0.
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Uh, because the "tolls" will go straight into the pocket of the IRGC. That means that the tolls amount to a lifeline for the Iranian regime.
Consequently, allowing Iran to charge tolls contradicts our goal of collapsing Iran's regime.
Ramji Srinivasan b/ruv@hereisramji
@joelpollak Why not though? What’s wrong with simply paying a toll? Is the concern the price would be debilitating?
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@DemzDeliver Is it "delivering" for all the taxpayers who have to pay for their debts?
Why do you only deliver for the takers, not the makers?
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🚨 Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs has now erased the medical debt of nearly 500,000 Arizonans.
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@rushicrypto Data centers aren't everywhere overnight. There are over 3000 data centers in the US, and it's just gradual growth over time. The number has been growing for decades.
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@saturniines I wouldn't want to live next to an office building, mall, gas station, or anywhere else I might work, either.
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every ai glazing tech bro should be made to live right next to their beloved data centers
Fifty Shades of Whey@davenewworld_2
This is what it sounds like to live next to a data center
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@mnolangray Yeah because this, which is basically one route, would totally accommodate all the cities we have along that teas.
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It seems pretty reasonable to me that the dense urbanism that extends from Boston to Miami should be connected by high-speed rail, as in Japan.
Jessie 🌸@ZoomerThroway
@MattisRedacted "wHy Don'T yOu hAVe hiGH sPEEd rrrrrAaaaAaiL?"
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In America, kids are not allowed to be outside at night in large numbers because its too scary for the body armor clad, heavily armed police force.
Oliya Scootercaster 🛴@ScooterCasterNY
UPDATE: Crowds have been dispersed shortly after the 11pm curfew street navy yard "Takeover"
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@DissentFu Yeah that's why they aren't allowed out.
:facepalm:
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@Calcium4theMind @SerraAetheria @Apocaloptimist5 Ironically what it means is that the person is being hyper specific, often pedantic or semantic, in an attempt to avoid a good, and uncomfortable, point. Or just to be contrary.
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@SerraAetheria @PFuentes74 @Apocaloptimist5 At this point I’m begging for someone to show me a “proper use” of this meme because it assumes too much and it’s so hyperspecific but yet they toss this out in any disagreement.
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@SerraAetheria @Apocaloptimist5 Do you think there are any enemies who don't use the government to control you?
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@PFuentes74 @Apocaloptimist5 The image literally says "people who use government to control you are the enemy".
This meme really just killed whatever brain y'all had left didn't it.
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@thechosenberg Well now we know you don't know much about the world.
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I am once again reminding you that a “9-5 with a high salary” does not exist
blue@bluewmist
hot take: 9-5 with a high salary is better than owning your own business.
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