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Katılım Eylül 2021
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Adam Tuss
Adam Tuss@AdamTuss·
BREAKING-Metro is NOT recommending building a new station at the RFK site for a new Commanders Stadium. But the transit agency warns, if major improvements aren’t made to the existing station, fans could be waiting 2+ hours for trains and buses after events. @nbcwashington #wmata
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Doug
Doug@DougRehnstrom·
@WallStreetApes Give the Girl Scouts a nice donation, but don't take the cookies. The cookies are bad for you.
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
The Dollar Tree sells white labeled Girl Scout cookies Girl Scout cookies sell the exact same cookies as Dollar Tree for 4x the price Comparing the boxes for Girl Scout cookies and fudge mint cookies from Dollar Tree Both boxes show they are manufactured at the same company, at the same address, they have essentially the exact same ingredients with only a very slight difference - Dollar Tree version often includes high fructose corn syrup and cornstarch. - Girl Scout Thin Mints uses caramel color and invert sugar instead That’s the difference, the rest is the same. Reviewers of the Dollar Tree cookie always mention they taste exactly like Girl Scout Thin Mints, its because they are The box at Dollar Tree is $1.50 The box at Girl Scout is $6
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Doug
Doug@DougRehnstrom·
@Ric_RTP It seems to me that AI can make many people (depending on their job) more productive. If you're more productive, then you are more valuable. Why would your boss fire you? In the long term, AI will create more jobs than it eliminates.
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Ricardo
Ricardo@Ric_RTP·
Nvidia just admitted that "AI efficiency" is a LIE. Every major tech company is doing the same thing right now: Firing humans and replacing them with AI to "cut costs." 92,000 tech workers laid off in 2026 so far. Every single earnings call sounds the same: "AI is driving efficiency." But the VP of Applied Deep Learning at Nvidia, the company that literally SELLS the AI infrastructure, just told Axios: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." The man whose entire job is making AI work admitted that AI costs his company MORE than the humans it's supposed to replace. And he doesn't work at some struggling startup. We're talking about the most valuable company on Earth. An MIT study backs this up too: Researchers analyzed whether AI could actually replace human workers at a competitive cost and found that AI automation only makes financial sense in 23% of jobs. In the other 77%, humans are still cheaper. So companies are firing cheap labor and replacing it with expensive labor, then telling shareholders it's "innovation." But it gets even WORSE... Uber just revealed that they burned through their ENTIRE 2026 AI budget in 4 months. Their CTO said: "I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already." What happened is that Uber gave their engineers access to AI coding tools and encouraged them to use them as much as possible. They even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how many AI tokens they consumed, basically gamifying their own budget crisis without realizing it. By March, 95% of Uber's engineers were using AI tools monthly. 70% of all committed code was coming from AI. Monthly API costs per engineer hit $500 to $2,000. One software engineer in Stockholm told the New York Times: "I probably spend more than my salary on Claude." A human being now costs LESS than the AI tool they use to do their job. And Uber isn't some edge case. Big Tech has announced $740 billion in AI capital expenditures this year alone, up 69% from 2025, according to Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile the Yale Budget Lab says there is NO widespread data showing AI is actually displacing jobs or improving productivity at scale. So follow the money: Companies fire humans ↓ Stock goes up because "AI efficiency" ↓ Those same companies spend MORE on AI than they saved on salaries ↓ That money flows to Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft ↓ Those companies use the revenue to justify their own insane valuations ↓ Everyone books growth ↓ But nobody's actually saving money McKinsey projects total AI spending will hit $5.2 TRILLION by 2030. The biggest wealth transfer in modern history is happening right now, and it's not from workers to companies. It's from companies to AI infrastructure providers. Every dollar "saved" on layoffs is being spent twice over on compute, tokens, and data centers. Nvidia posted $31.9 billion in profit last quarter. And somebody is paying that bill - the same companies telling their employees that AI made them "redundant." The entire narrative is a shell game: CEOs get to announce layoffs, Wall Street rewards them with a stock bump, and then the real cost shows up three months later when the AI budget explodes and nobody connects the two events. What's your take on this?
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Doug
Doug@DougRehnstrom·
@czabe I don't know who these "Commanders" are, but the Washington Redskins should sue them for stealing their uniforms.
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Grant Paulsen
Grant Paulsen@GrantPaulsen·
The Commanders delivered on bringing back the "Redskins" classic burgundy and white uniforms. They also dramatically upgraded the black alternate. Gold, glossy helmets. Spear on the black alt helmet.
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Adam Schefter
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter·
A look at the new uniforms that the Washington Commanders unveiled today:
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