Brandon Riza

@UziCryptoo Solution; acquire a marketable skill. Leverage that skill to 10x+ the take-home of a burger-flipper. Sometimes this process takes a decade, then another decade of talent-stacking. Hang in there, because it’s hard as fuck sometimes…

In my area, In-N-Out and Chipotle are hiring around $20/hour for new workers. Let’s say you even land full-time at 40 hours/week: $20/hour = $800/week That’s $3,467/month before taxes. After just 12% in federal taxes, you’re left with about $3,051/month take-home. Now here’s the reality: Average one-bedroom apartment is around $2,000/month. So even working full-time in fast food, 65% of your income disappears to rent alone. That leaves you with about $1,050/month for: • food • transportation • insurance • phone • savings • emergencies This isn’t a “budgeting problem.” This is a cost of living crisis. Working full time should never mean barely surviving.

@mirandadevine No she wouldn’t. She a fucking psychopath and in more pleasant times she would do evil in other ways. Don’t blame the “times”.

In pleasanter times this woman would have been a rosy cheeked grandmother baking treats and preserving fruit for her extended family, playing the organ at church, and helping people in her community. Instead we see this ugly waste of a time in life when you should be making peace with the world

@ewarren Absolutely gross. What are you even doing?

The Big Four airlines (American, Delta, Southwest, United) control 75% of the U.S. market. Fewer choices = higher prices for you.

@jonfavs “We will vote for Nazis if they are our Nazis, even after throwing children’s temper tantrums about Nazis for a solid decade.” Just fucking unbelievable shit and yet another reason why American government is the complete sham that it is.

Graham Platner isn’t just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins, he’s a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better. I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces. Clearly, that’s what so many people in Maine have done - from all different walks of life and political persuasions.

@SharrellAnne2 “…and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

This is the kind of shit sitting in my mentions right now. Not debate. Not disagreement. Just straight-up violent, depraved garbage. And people wonder why things keep escalating.

I don’t even know what to say anymore watching this make the rounds. 4.6 million views. Hundreds of thousands of likes. For mocking a woman who just walked out shaken after what happened last night. And what gets me isn’t just the strangers. I’m seeing people I’ve known for years jump on this train of hating Erika like it’s normal. Like it’s deserved. For what? Charlie was building something powerful. And he’s gone. Taken by someone who had the same kind of mindset we just saw play out again. And now his wife is being escorted out in the middle of all of this, clearly shaken, and instead of any level of decency, the internet turns it into a joke. Make that make sense. All of this anger, all of this energy, and it’s being aimed at the wrong person. Not at the people who create this kind of chaos. Not at the ones who actually push things to that level. It gets dumped on the easiest target… the one who’s already carrying more than most people could handle. I’m tired of it. Erika doesn’t deserve this. Nobody does. 😭

@JamesMelville Incorrect on all accounts.

I absolutely hate AI. And I’m not saying this as a technological Luddite. AI is going to wipe out millions of jobs and is already diminishing authentic creativity. A technological step forward that is actually a giant leap backwards for original human endeavour.

@danae_hudlow @mattyglesias @lymanstoneky Some animals do indeed have more value and dignity than some humans. This is not even debatable; even *you agree. Nothing is ever as binary as you are portraying it.

@mattyglesias @lymanstoneky I have *six* pets -- two dogs, four cats -- and they are very sweet and special. I like animals. But I am always a bit horrified when people seem to think pets have equal (or greater!) value and dignity to humans.

@outlawtorn_eth @tree346711839 @AlHendiify 🤌 Haha. Burn…

@BrandonRiza @tree346711839 @AlHendiify But at least he’ll already be used to queuing up in lines at that point.

Bearing in mind that 1-3% is calculated after millions upon millions of dollars are payed out for CEO and executive bonuses and salaries

@KTLA A good first step is to put criminals in prison…

Residents of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley are fed up with a rise in residential break-ins, and so is Mayor Karen Bass, but burglars continue to strike. ktla.com/news/local-new…

@tree346711839 @AlHendiify You will be first in line to complain when your taxes are raised to compensate the loss…

@AlHendiify it’s so fucking funny that the main argument AGAINST PUBLIC GROCERY STORES is that they don’t make money. 1. IT DOESN’T MATTER. 2. Billions of dollars, and over a 100 years have passed since private store took over. And all they can get is 2-3%. like bro cmon.

@AlHendiify 🤣

They don’t pay rent They don’t pay executive salaries They don’t pay taxes You don’t pay taxes on purchases You have guaranteed access Prices are at cost so when price on the farm goes down the instore price falls at the same rate, unlike in privately owned stores

@greendragonhq Narrator; We already do tax the rich.

Taxing a billionaire 50% more makes no material difference in their lives. Taxing a billionaire 50% more makes every difference in the world for working-class people. That’s why we should tax the rich!

@BernieSanders lol resign

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than: Walt Disney Citigroup CVS Kohl's Ticketmaster Tesla United Airlines GoDaddy Paypal Palantir Roku HP 3M PG&E Halliburton That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.

@m89_luke49058 @elonmusk :) The sign of a good book…

@BrandonRiza @elonmusk I would definitely not recommend it! Can’t stop reading once started and utterly terrifying! Wish I’d never bought it!

The probability of this happening is not 0%

@dhe3g Right. So you reccomend being the acorn. 👌

This is genuinely what right wingers believe. The one held at gunpoint must remain completely calm and rational. But if the cop gets spooked by an acorn falling on the roof of a car, then he gets to unload on you because he “feared for his life”.

@KTLA Step 1: Put criminals in prison.

Sadly, the vibes are not right in Los Angeles County. A new survey from UCLA found quality of life is at its lowest level in more than a decade. ktla.com/news/local-new…

@WallStreetApes I’m super glad there were some “Shitter was full!” memes in this thread. It was basically mandatory…

A man in Los Angeles is seen dumping potentially a septic tank into the storm drain Storm drains in LA carry rainwater and runoff directly to rivers, the ocean and local waterways without any treatment This is supposed to be a $10,000 fine and possible jail time but nothing is enforced in California Disgusting

@GadSaad I cannot wait for this book…

Healthy at any size. Fat phobia is part and parcel of white supremacy. Covered in Suicidal Empathy.

FLIP vs. Ai