Blueblaze

@WallStreetApes Oh, so that's why everything is refusing to communicate with Firefox on my 20yr old copy of Win7 that runs circles around my wife's shiny new Win 11 computer w/ Chrome.

Americans are getting frustrated over everting turning into a monthly subscription model There are even garage door openers that are subscription based, meaning to get into your own garbage you must pay a monthly fee Adobe Photoshop used to be a one time purchase of $699, now it’s $263 a year forever Printers are becoming subscription based, even medical software on machines used by doctors offices Think about this, there are actual garbage door openers that allow you into your home, but if you want to set it up to let someone else in, it’s a monthly fee. If you want it to open when you arrive (geofence) that’s a monthly fee This is getting out of hand

@patobonato Try it out on the Houthis and let us know how it works out.

Un científico de Yemen mostró un concepto de prisión de IA del futuro Cognify propone encerrar a los criminales en cápsulas especiales y reeducar sus cerebros con falsos recuerdos generados por redes neuronales. El resultado son nuevas personas que no querrán violar la ley. ¿Qué dicen ustedes?

@Err0r_twt @anishmoonka You dont improve problems by whining or falling for a dumbass Marxist lie that was disproven 100 yrs before you were born.

@Blueblaze002 @anishmoonka “Others had it worse than you so shut up!” “You can’t seek to improve society because the problems you seek to improve on were worse before therefore there not problems at all anymore you entitled brat!”

Your 40-hour work week was invented by a car salesman who needed you to have free time so you'd buy more stuff. Henry Ford cut his factories to 40 hours in 1926. He'd figured out that mass production doesn't work if your own workers are too broke and exhausted to be customers. Before Ford, factory jobs during the Industrial Revolution ran 10 to 16 hours a day, six days a week. Kids worked those same hours. Some manufacturing workers clocked 80 to 100 hours a week. The pushback started way before Ford. In 1817, a Welsh factory owner named Robert Owen came up with "eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest." Took 121 years for that to become actual law. And Ford didn't start this fight. Unions had been organizing for the eight-hour day since the 1860s. In 1919, over 4 million American workers walked off the job across 3,000 separate strikes. Ford was a billionaire who adopted what millions of workers had already demanded. The real legal win came in 1938 when FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law that created minimum wage, overtime pay, and a cap on work hours. His Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, was the first woman to ever hold a US cabinet job. She spent years battling courts and corporations to push it through. The law originally capped the week at 44 hours. By 1940 it dropped to 40. I went back and looked at what work was like before the Industrial Revolution, and it messed with my head. An Oxford historian named James Thorold Rogers found medieval workers averaged about eight hours a day. Economist Juliet Schor estimated English peasants after the Black Death (the plague that killed a third of Europe) worked about 150 days a year. Sundays off, plus dozens of religious holidays and festivals. Rogers wrote that workers in the 1890s pushing for the eight-hour day were "simply striving to recover what their ancestors worked four or five centuries ago." The factories didn't invent hard work. They killed the days off. The legal standard is still 40, but a 2024 Gallup survey found full-time American workers average 42.9 hours a week. Luxembourg, the most productive country per hour on earth, averages 29. In 2025, researchers at Boston College published the biggest four-day-week study ever in a top science journal. They followed 2,896 workers at 141 companies across six countries for six months, all working 32 hours at full pay. Workers slept better, felt less stressed. Over 90% of those companies kept the shorter week for good. A separate UK trial found revenue went up 1.4% and employees quitting dropped 57%. We've been doing 40 hours for 86 years based on a deal between unions and factory owners, signed by a Depression-era president, originally dreamed up by a man who sold cars. No doctor or sleep researcher ever signed off on that number. The best data we have says we could do with less.

@WallStreetMav My 1st house was a 1500 sqft frame Cape Cod 3/2 that I paid 18% to buy. The payment was higher than you'd pay today for its Zillow price of $204K. My out-of-state tuition at SIU in '81 cost the GI Bill $48k -- $174k in 2026 money, according to the official inflation calculator.

John Stossel proposes that we are all wrong. He says it wasn't all wonderful back in the 1950s and 60s. “Once, families could own a home & send their kids to college on one income. But the homes were smaller." Is the issue a lack of small and cheap houses? Has the average home become too luxurious? I see tons a lousy small older houses still around in Florida. They look horrible and still cost $300,000. The cost of university is WAY more expensive. The inflation has gone up way faster than incomes.

@WallStreetMav You could have just asked your grandpa instead of buying the lies of a handful of Zoomers on X who get paid for clicks.

@B7frankH Sounds like the same kind of "catastrophic mistake" that 20M aliens, zombies, & clones made in America via mail-in fraud in 2020. Somehow, an actual dementia patient who never left his basement won the greatest number of "votes" in history!

Hungary just made a catastrophic mistake. Péter Magyar and his Tisza Party have handed the country over to Brussels. Mark my words: Hungary will now become Europe’s new immigration super-center. Open borders, mass migrant inflows, and zero protection for our people — exactly what the globalist elites ordered.Every single economic gain Viktor Orbán delivered — record-low unemployment, family subsidies that actually worked, energy independence, tax cuts that fueled growth, and a sovereign economy that didn’t kneel to Brussels — is about to be torched. 16 years of putting Hungarians first, gone. Welcome back to EU puppet status, skyrocketing costs, and demographic replacement.This isn’t “democracy winning.” This is Hungary losing.

@ewarren How about we just payoff the Social Security victims from the 1st dumbass Demwit freebee scheme, and let the rich keep the rest. I only say that because your hero FDR is the one who let the rich off the hook for that one, in the first place.

A wealth tax on the top .15% of the richest families would generate $6.2 trillion in revenue. That could pay for: Universal childcare Millions of new homes Slashing child poverty Medicare for people aged 55+ Universal paid family leave Tuition-free community college And more.

@PNWConservative By definition, "rich" is $184k/yr, according the Social Security Administration, this year. "Fair" would be the same percentage of their entire life that I paid for 50 years -- 12.5% -- for a dumbass Ponzi scheme that runs out of money in 5 yrs because the gooberment spent it.

Can anyone tell me what a “fair” tax on the “rich” is? I still can’t get a straight answer. Is it 30%? Is it 50%? Is it 90%? And what would be considered “rich”?

@Riley_Gaines_ So frightening that even that level of lunacy is still light years better than any Democrat alternative

Why? Seriously, I cannot understand why he'd post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humility would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked

@Brick_Suit "Un paralleled"? It's practically the Leftist playbook. DC had a Demwit mayor who was busted for smoking crack. They reelected him.

Think about the astronomical hubris of Eric Swalwell. To apparently be committing abuses on the scale that he did, yet still thinking he could run for governor AND get away with it. It's like an unparalleled blend of psychopathic and sociopathic traits.

@VerumVulnero1 people who bought software before they decided you have to rent it

People with jobs

@jonbrooks I'm in my 70s and nobody ever died and left me anything more than a table saw. But you're 30 and think Grandpa is an asshole because he hasn't kicked the bucket and left you a house? My God, what a vulture!

~ Half of baby boomers do not expect to leave an inheritance ~ Another 25% are unsure That means up to 75% of people will not receive an inheritance. How will this impact the housing market?

@LibertyCappy I'm fine with eliminating SS. But 1st we've got to pay off the 60M victims who had the 12.5% they could have saved for retirement stolen and spent instead of invested for retirement. Maybe we could ask they wealthy who WERE EXEMPT to chip in, finally, after 80 yrs!

Socialism has crept so far into American society that even the anti-Socialist rightwing will advocate for keeping socialist programs like Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid

@RealJessica In a sane world, she would be able to buy insurance for catastrophic hospitalization, like I had 45 years ago. It didn't even pay for my kids births. But that was under $1000 and their well-baby appts were $15.

This woman explains why she cancelled her health insurance in 2026 for her and her son. With insurance, they had a large deductible and her costs out of pocket went up 30%. Prior to cancelling, she was paying $50 a month for her prescriptions. After cancelling, it is about $8 a month out of pocket now. The most basic plan of insurance for her and her son would’ve been around $1,000 a month, which doesn’t include out of pocket expenses. She called around to her doctors offices and asked how much the self pay option would be and she was shocked to find out how little it was. Medical insurance is a scam.

@heresyfinancial 212 in a BILLION is still really low odds. I always thought the risk was worth one of life's sweetest pleasures. I still miss my Harley. Then my nephew as killed by an illegal running a red light, with no license or insurance. Now I wonder if the odds have changed recently.

I learned how to ride a motorcycle on my buddy’s Ducati monster in college After about 15 minutes of practice in his neighborhood, we hopped on the freeway and were doing 85-90 weaving through traffic The adrenaline and freedom was pure euphoria. And I realized in that moment that if I ever bought a bike, I would die on it. I’ve never been on one since.

@Sassafrass_84 Well, I might have said the Ayatollah a month ago, after he butchered 50,000 of his own people. Come to think of it, Putin butchers that many of his own country's kids EVERY MONTH in Ukraine. But at 7M dead, even Putin has a ways to go to beat Fauci!

Bill Gates or Anthony Fauci. You?

@jonbrooks Good reason to quit voting for Leftists. Everything Gooberment touches, it ruins.

Americans didn’t stop working harder. Income went up 10x. The cost of living went up far more: — Homes: 17x — College: 16x — Healthcare: 42x Ask better questions.

@awkwardgoogle When I retired, they made me try to train some dumbass H1B kid with "Teenage Ninja Turtles" posters all over his cube, to take my place. If you have to train a dumbass, I guess even a machine would be more useful that that kid. Seems simpler to just not hire dumbasses.

Indian factory workers wearing head-mounted cameras to record hand movements for training AI systems

@Rainmaker1973 You bet. All we need is a corner of Texas or New Mexico that never gets dark or has a tornado or hailstorm. Any small corner will work! Suggestions? Our Kardashev Scale depends on it!

"Once you understand Kardashev Scale, it becomes utterly obvious that essentially all energy generation will be solar. A relatively small corner of Texas or New Mexico can easily serve all US electricity." 一 Elon Musk

@UltraRunnerPod She needs to come up with a Cherokee ancestor and apply at Harvard. You don't need much. Liz Warren only needed to be one 10,000th Cherokee!

I'd heard how crazy the college admissions process is, but now seeing it in reality has blown my mind. My kid has great grades (4.2 weighted) with a ton of APs, leadership ec's, a very solid athletic resume, parents paying cash, etc., all at a private college-preparatory HS, and she has basically no chance of getting into a UC or CSU for her major. Not sure what needs to be done, but this is crazy. 🙄😩