Jesse Parker
20.1K posts
Jesse Parker
@GoodAtBingo
Dad, Software Developer, Gardener, Hack Musician
Prince Edward County Katılım Nisan 2022
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Looking for a new series to watch after all the Stargate's and I told the family the 1978 Battlestar Galactica was good. They didn't last half way through the first episode before declaring NOPE. Mrs EEVblog said it's cardboard acting, no excitement, no emotion.
Harsh.
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@DrewPavlou You can eat the rich but what will you eat next week?
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The dumbest thing about all this is that once you liquidate Bezos’s wealth (which mostly exists on paper as Amazon shares that he can’t sell without crashing the price), you still have not solved poverty.
You would just fund like 2% of US pension spending for 12 months. The next year you have to make up the shortfall
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate. Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd: -Give $12K to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -Raise starting teacher pay to $60K And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.
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The dude who grew up with his mom buying annual Chanel jackets was also just lecturing everyone on spending $28 on lunch btw.
dank@cptdankkk
Kevin O’Leary says your closet is full of crap and you should start buying quality "My mother taught me don't buy crap. She used to only buy one Chanel jacket a year, but a really good one" "When she died, there was a cat fight for her clothing amongst the women in my family because they were now vintage Chanels" "Most people if you go look in your closet it's full of crap you don't need. Don't buy the crap, buy the good stuff and just buy less of it"
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@rcbregman @gabriel_zucman Why is per-capita government spending endlessly increasing? Why were people 50 years ago more capable of taking care of themselves?
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Great to see Bezos keeps bringing up his own massive tax avoidance. Keep digging! This travesty needs a real public debate. Here's the smoking gun, from @gabriel_zucman and his team:
x.com/gabriel_zucman…
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Please do a quick read of this. It’s short, well written, and will remove a bit of wool from over your eyes.
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@FlintDibble Tell me you don't understand the world without telling me you don't undestand the world
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Nah dude. You, and other billionaires, are a huge negative on society
Increasing economic inequality in the industrialized world has decreased quality of life, birth rates, and life expectancy. It has decimated our political system, weakened science, and ravaged the environment
CNBC@CNBC
Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."
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@larsencc Having children is a sacrifice, and is a burden. Sacrifice and burden aren't bad. Live a meaningful life, not a hedonistic life
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First-time dad, 2 months in.
The people who frame kids as a "burden" are robbing themselves of the most clarifying experience a human can have.
It's not a sacrifice, it's literally THE thing.
Financial Times@FT
In more than two-thirds of the world’s 195 countries, the average number of children born to each woman has fallen below the 'replacement rate' of 2.1 that keeps populations stable without immigration. ft.trib.al/Rn4qC6l
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@David__Osland An employer can only pay you less than you produce. "Should" doesn't come into it
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I think that 35 hours work a week should not only pay the rent and put food on the table, but leave you enough over for the odd night out and an annual holiday. And if that belief makes me an economically illiterate leftwing extremist, so be it.
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@alleria_eh I'm 50 and I watched those same jets when I was a kid. Canada has fully embraced zero growth
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Unpopular opinion:
I don't care Canada is grounding the snowbirds.
I understand people see them as an important part of our Canadian identity but they are just entertainment.
We have more important things to spend money on, specifically our actual military.
They aren't being grounded forever. This is just temporary as the planes are no longer safe. I want our pilots safe rather than them risking their lives for entertainment purposes in out of date planes.
Sorry but this is just first world problems.
GIF
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@MatrixMysteries Maybe just a new neon sign that says "STALE COLD" instead of "FRESH HOT"
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An American filmed what his local Krispy Kreme does with unsold donuts.
Straight into the trash.
After private equity took over, the price of a dozen climbed to $22.
And instead of selling them at a discount…
They’d rather WASTE the food than lower the profit margin.
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@_nomadic_soul A generation raised on Instagram food pics and wagyu beef tiktok
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The Internet: YOU CAN’T FEED FOUR PEOPLE FOR $10 A DAY!
Me: Here’s what I ate for lunch, it was $0.25!
NOBODY WANTS TO EAT LIKE A PEASANT!! YOU AMISH BITCH!
It was homemade bread and eggs.
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@penottawa NATO without USA vs. just USA is a one-sided battle. Give your head a shake
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Trump will go bonkers with a woman leading NATO. 😀 cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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@KatiePavlich Yes - individuals receiving benefits of government spending should contribute, or vote to reduce government spending
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Actually, everyone should pay taxes and at the same rate - 10 percent.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Zero out taxes for the bottom half of earners. A nurse in Queens shouldn’t be sending money to Washington. Washington should be sending her an apology.
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@CelticAshes Not dilution - concentration. A new joyful celebration has been fit inside an old joyful celebration
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There’s no event, city, or country they haven’t diluted and conquered throughout Western civilization.
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@JDHaltigan Education should ruthlessly exclude extra-curricular content. Promoting political causes should be a firing offense
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They have been relatively common for some time.
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill
"It’s sometimes said that Marxism is dead… except in the universities... Extreme views are relatively common among faculty - and they’re more common today than they were twenty years ago." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/academias-le…
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@Mbakaza4L Is it better to wash them, package them, ship them to stores, refrigerate them, then send them to landfill when they don't sell?
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in america they destroy them to keep the prices high
Reg Saddler@zaibatsu
In Norway when they have too many apples they set them out so others can enjoy them!
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Growing up, my dad told us stories about saving up for college, which he admirably paid for himself working as a caddy, dock boy at a marina, groundskeeper. Had some great times.
He also had a $2000 tuition bill for Columbia University
It's $90,000 now
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@JillFilipovic Most cooking shows and cooking channels are all about wagyu beef and tuna belly boiled in butter. People aren't seeing crock pot chicken and rice
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Every aspect of this debate is making me want to hurl myself off a cliff. No, you do not need to eat PB&J and chips for lunch every single day to save money. There is in fact an enormous universe of food that is simple to prepare, healthier than DoorDash, and way more affordable than DoorDash.
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@GunnelsWarren So, you will rejoice for workers when he replaces them with robots?
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Yes. The real welfare queen in America is Jeff Bezos, worth $279 billion, who pays wages so low his workers rely on food stamps & Medicaid while he sailed on his $500 million yacht to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring because his tax rate is less than 1%.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Bezos: "We have way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies. There's way too much influence in politics from business, in some cases, wealthy people who really focus on that, unions. There's a bunch of people interfering in the political process." Amazon has received $15 billion in government subsidies since the year 2000 and paid 1.4% in federal taxes for 2025.
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@GeoffreyLean FYI the study provides zero justification for "5000 times faster"
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Very ominous. Rice production - on which a billion people depend - is increasingly endangered as the world heats up at 5000 times the rate at which the staple crop can evolve.
livescience.com/planet-earth/g…
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