@Gzalzi @wormsofbarlo Those people would count as disabled. Stop talking. You’re retarded.
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Goober
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@GoobsGoobs @wormsofbarlo You are assuming everyone is working 40+ hours a week successfully. There are plenty of people not disabled enough for disability but are not able enough to work 40 hours weeks
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the average american position on poor people is that it's doubtful they even exist, but if they do it's because they're evil and stupid
♱ katana ♱@aspenkatana
Not touching over 20k a year at 34 is definitely a very deliberate choice I’m ngl
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“A survey of top economists” yes I’m sure Eichengreen and Acemoglu are experts on the literature concerning rent control, neither having written a paper even remotely close to it in their lives. Why are we slop-posting again?
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
There are few things economists agree on more than opposing rent control. A survey of top economists found almost universal agreement that rent control: 1. Wouldn't make middle-income Americans better off 2. Would reduce apartment supply 3. Wouldn't reduce income inequality
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Bro why we are dying on this hill. Our bakeries suck ass and it’s all full of chemicals. We do well at bagels. We suck at bread and anything without preservatives. You do realize even RFK banned the selling of all those for those with snap right? Over it being unhealthy?
Todd of Mischief@AndToddsaid
The European mind cannot comprehend the coexistence of the bakery section with the baked goods aisle.
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@cameron_arcand I hope the entire company goes bankrupt and your scoundrel coworkers have start flipping burgers
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Hey friends, tough news to share.
I was impacted by layoffs today at The Daily Wire, so I am looking for opportunities in journalism/communications here in D.C.
Any suggestions are welcomed!
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@wormsofbarlo Yeah I retard I saw what you posted. If you’ve never had a job that pays more than $10/hr and aren’t somebody who’s disabled or mentally ill that is legitimately your own fault
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Yeah, I don’t mean to fear monger, but I think we should all start mentally preparing for the birthright citizenship decision coming in June/July
g.@GeauxGabrielle
It’ll be gay marriage next. Then interracial marriage. Then segregated schools. They’re already working on that. Then whites only public spaces. They’ve already re-segregated the federal work force by firing as many Black people as they could.
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Yall don’t know how the rest of this country lives.
♱ katana ♱@aspenkatana
Not touching over 20k a year at 34 is definitely a very deliberate choice I’m ngl
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@PatrickHeizer Literally whenever I want to get groceries I just do a set of 20 push ups and it’s paid for. Like what. Oh short on rent money? Do pushups. You don’t even need to crank em out yearly, just do it conveniently
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If you're an able-bodied male under 50, you'd better pick the push ups.
Hazel Appleyard@HazelAppleyard
$10 per push-up or $1 million?
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@chillywillers This is retarded. You know what he means. There’s other forces at play obviously but don’t try and act like social media and short form content induced dopamine addiction hasn’t had a role on people’s ability to find connections and settle down
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Y’all ever get so deep in Candy Crush that you forget to start a family
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“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp
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@SwannMarcus89 I’ve discovered a mathematical proof that you don’t actually need to drink water
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lol we have mathematically predicted the future and people take this seriously instead of throwing rotten fruit at them
Elias Al@iam_elias1
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617
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@zenahitz Doing away with them would mean universities would have to admit that students are not (and should not be) customers.
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I find it astonishing that anonymous numerical course evaluations are still standard procedure at most universities. What a complete joke.
Carl Hendrick@C_Hendrick
There is little to no correlation between how highly students rate their instructor and how well they have learned the subject. Evaluations are influenced by factors unrelated to teaching quality, including instructor gender and course difficulty. Faculty who teach demanding courses may receive lower ratings, not because they teach poorly, but because students conflate challenge with poor instruction. Instructors who inflate grades and reduce rigor tend to be rewarded with higher scores. chronicle.com/article/teachi…
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@B00K0FTRIBE OJ the only black guy to benefit from the LAPDs racism in history lmfao
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Cultural osmosis has muddied The OJ trial to the point that people think he got off because he was rich and not because the defense used the LAPD’s corruption, incompetence around the case, and racism against them which created enough reasonable doubt to get him acquitted
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When u teach a white what intersectionality is they start talking reckless
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@PissedOffMandaP I met a guy from Memphis who was top 3 in his high school class and flunked out of gen chem and calc 1. Southern education is dire man
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TRUE STORY I lived in rural Alabama for two years in high school. And we had a whole chapter in English class about the difference between the word learn and teach. I thought I was gonna pass out.
Steve 🇺🇸@SteveLovesAmmo
Good morning ☀️😃
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Eating meat is wrong and I've never really heard a single strong enough answer to justify it.
I eat meat and I know it's wrong. Meat eaters aren't winning this argument literally ever.
Slime🐍@ItsKingSlime
Billie Eilish says eating meat is WRONG and people can’t claim to love animals if they eat meat 😳👀
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