The Great Wide Open

@rawsalerts Seriously…with CGI/AI, just can’t believe any videos anymore. Esp grainy video of specs/lights in the sky. Damn AI.

🚨#BREAKING: Numerous people are now questioning the authenticity of the recently unclassified UFO material released under Donald Trump, with critics alleging portions may have been manipulated using CGI or visual effects. Others are calling the release a deliberate distraction aimed at diverting public attention from other major issues and events.

@TimeKillers @davidpattersonx Nope. True fairness is everyone pays the same amount. Hard stop.

@davidpattersonx $30,000 is far more impactful to someone making 100k vs someone making 10x that amount. Progressive tax is correct, but should be low. The poorest pay 0% The Richest pay 22% Never exceed 1/4 of someones income.

If taxes were fair: You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax. Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax. Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you. If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.

@middle_class_us These posts are so stupid. Totally doable

Stop telling young people to “build wealth in their twenties” when they can barely build a sandwich. Cars cost fifty thousand. Degrees cost fifty eight thousand. Rent eats eighty percent of their check. What exactly are they supposed to invest after buying gas, food and a broom closet?

@LiberalLunacy47 @SusieM414141 No. Scum of society are people who don’t know the laws and try to make it up as they go. Or people who have selective rage - mad someone is pointing a camera their way but completely fine with the hundreds of cameras inside and out of literally every establishment.

@SusieM414141 these people are the absolute scum of society and should all be taken care of

These First Amendment auditors recording in public are becoming rage baiters. It’s almost like their entire mission is now to create lawsuits. Where do we draw the line on the 1A issue? We all stayed quiet about the paparazzi, but now it’s everyone’s problem.

@reversengineer @SusieM414141 They are standing on public property outside the establishment. No trespass violation.

@SusieM414141 The manager needs to call the police and have them trespassed.

@chronicparent @SusieM414141 @TheLizVariant What’s worse? Their rudeness or the fact that most people, including copswho should know better, don’t understand the laws?

@SusieM414141 @TheLizVariant I can’t stand these fuckers. I get what they’re doing but they’re all rude, aggressive agitators.

@SusieM414141 And for those upset by an auditor pointing a camera at someone in this scenario…realize there are likely several cameras recording from inside. Literally every establishment has them. Thoughts on that fact ?

@SusieM414141 You may not like their style, but they serve a vital purpose in showing how people don’t understand the laws. Further, it exposes cops who make shit up as they go and should know better. Thank god for people with cameras. Imagine how bad cops were before the scrutiny.

@Jseegz425 @FeloniousCazz @MetamateDaz What are you even talking about? You don’t need to live in the big city to make $. People do just fine in the small city/rural areas with real careers. May be time you get some perspective.

@FeloniousCazz @MetamateDaz These things aren’t abnormal in a large city. Unfortunately this has become the tradeoff - live in a city and have a real career or get paid nothing and have a dumb career in the middle of nowhere but have a lower cost of living. Roommates and public trans can lower this though.

I wish more people understood $4 coffees and avocado toast isn’t the problem. It’s the: – $950 car payment – $300 credit card bill – $2,800 daycare –$800 student loans – $4,400 rent This is why most supposedly well paid job feel like a struggle.

@MetamateDaz And all those costs are due to choices. Make the right choices and there is no problem. Plenty are making the right choices and living just fine.

@ImpudentDomain @particular_flow @shaguncrypto Where? 400k house is huge where i live and unnecessary for most. All comes down to choices. It is totally doable.

@particular_flow @shaguncrypto not as clever a reply as you think 400K is not much of a home anymore so if you don't buy then you have to pay rent and that keeps up with the housing costs. plus you gain no equity. Then everyone wonders why people are no longer having children.

The median American earns around $60–70k a year Someone explain how they’re supposed to afford: A $400k home A $50k car Rising insurance And everyday bills Not even including savings or investing Just one logical answer.

@shaguncrypto It’s called choices. Not that hard to do. I know plenty making less than that doing just fine. Most unfortunately are living above their means. Wants vs needs. A 400k house, 50k car is not a need. Maybe get a grip.

@DetroitDaveCell @WallStreetApes No he’s saying people have choices. Don’t bitch about something you full well knew was an issue before you got into it. Can’t say I feel sorry for someone who had every opportunity to steer their lives exactly how they wanted it to go.

Bullshit. Interest rates on student loans are completely normal. What's predatory are the tuition and costs. THAT is what has exploded over the years. But here's the question that arises: if you were smart enough to complete medical school, why weren't you smart enough to run the numbers before you headed down that path? You and your parents both just trusted to luck? And now the rest of us are supposed to do what, exactly? We used to say "learn to code" in this situation but that's out now. We've got bigger problems than that. But people choosing college very unwisely is not one of them. You were all lied to about EVERYTHING in primary and secondary school. Everything. And now the real world doesn't look like the lie-world you were taught about. That's terrible. You should be pissed. But all the people you want to blame aren't to blame, except in the general sense of being members of the society that did this to you. The teachers are the ones who lied the most to you. And they were lied to as well, by their teachers. All of us outside the school system are just trying to get through life, and recover from how we got screwed by the schools. Good luck to you all.

American medical student just did “horrifying math” on her student loans - Her amount due is $396,945.67 - Annual interest rate: 5.875% - Monthly interest accrual: $1,943.38 Her monthly resident paycheck is $4,054.98 HALF her income goes to just interest… She says if she pays nothing toward interest, the loan would grow to roughly $600,000 by the time she finishes residency Interest rates on student loans are predatory and should be illegal. This is usury

@WallStreetApes Could have easily done the math before going into medical school.

@lawyer_memes You’d get told to go fuck off immediately by me. No one going to their death bed wishing they worked more or harder for pricks like you.

I received an automatic "Out of Office" reply from a third-year associate. It said she was "unavailable" for the weekend due to a family reunion. I was confused. I thought she worked for me, not the post office. I called her personal cell immediately. She didn't answer. So I called her parents' landline. I found the number in her background check file. Her mother answered. I told her it was an emergency regarding her daughter's future. The associate called me back three minutes later, breathless. She asked if she was fired. I said no, just missing in action. She spent the reunion refreshing her inbox every 30 seconds. Availability isn't a setting in Outlook. It's a lifestyle choice.

@David09031960 @BuzzPatterson That wasn’t the question

@BuzzPatterson He didn't beg for it, ask for it, say he deserved it.

Cool. What did he do?

@Bubblebathgirl I just hate socialists. They want to ruin everything.

Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea Weaver, says NYC will transition private property to being a “collective good.” She says, “It will mean that especially white families…are gonna have a different relationship to property than the one we currently have.”

@zellieimani @F_ingMemphis Serious claims require solid evidence. Put up or shut up.

@F_ingMemphis Use that effort you say you have and research it yourself. Stop wanting handouts and for someone to give it to you.

White people saying people should only get opportunities based on merit, not skin color, while not recognizing that they essentially get opportunities based on skin color, not merit, is peak white privilege.

@ClimateWarrior7 Yearly reminder that you’re a dick.

Yearly reminder that wishing people "Merry Christmas" is a form of Western colonialism and ultimately white supremacism.

@Innovatointed @middle_class_us 💯

@middle_class_us Complaining helps more than budgeting im sure. Most ppl make horrible decisions with money especially ppl who don’t have a lot. They feel like budgeting is pointless because they don’t see compounding as a real thing

People are homeless with jobs. Families are parking at schools. Groceries are financed. But sure. Give everyone a lecture on budgeting better.