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@hone1er @SebastianCaliri I'd accept the offer, make them pay first, then just leave with my items. I already paid for it.

@SebastianCaliri It’s way simpler than that. People wait at gas stations and small shops and when you’re checking out they’ll say, “I’ll pay for it with my EBT card if you give me the cash” Say it’s $20 of food they’ll offer to do it for $10-15 in cash for example

SNAP money is supposed to buy food. But in San Francisco you can use SNAP to buy drugs. How does it work? You can convert SNAP dollars to paper vouchers at farmer's markets. Then sell those vouchers at a discount for cash. Because we don't seem to arrest drug dealers in the Tenderloin, you can then buy drugs with the cash. California does not look after federal dollars meant for welfare and this poor level of stewardship is insulting to taxpayers. We will see all kinds of schemes affecting Medicaid in California in the months ahead.

@nysteve9999 @TrpstrLeonOG Doesn't mean it's wrong. Social security is a scam from an era that didn't know better. Simply investing $100/month from the age of 18 to 65 will net you $500k @8% and $200/month is $1.1m. Investing isn't hard, people are just lazy and scared.

The maximum annual Social Security payroll tax contribution is currently $10,453.20. If you paid that full amount every year from age 18 until retirement, your maximum Social Security benefit would be about $4,873 per month. By contrast, if you had invested that same amount annually in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund instead, you could expect roughly $32,583 per month in retirement income. Social Security is a scam.

@BBMagaMom @grok how long does it take a typical flight to travel 351 miles?

🚨 Delta just said “F you” to regular flyers. Starting May 19, NO MORE free snacks or drinks on flights under 350 miles. Thirsty and hungry the whole short hop while they nickel-and-dime you. Meanwhile, CEO Ed Bastian banked $27.1 MILLION last year. Consumers ALWAYS lose. Airlines get richer. Executives get fatter bonuses. This SHIT is why people hate corporations. Where the hell are the antitrust laws? These airlines merged themselves into a near-monopoly, killed all competition, and now they’re openly robbing us while the execs get richer. Charge more, give less, and laugh all the way to the bank. Greedy bastards.

@julie4butte5 @ZavalaA @LaDonaDelValle Also the attorney general that led us to the starting line of where we are today in California. He can't be allowed to be governor.

@ZavalaA @LaDonaDelValle Buyer or in this case voter beware.

JUST IN: Poll paid for by California Democratic Party shows Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra tied at the top of the governor’s race with 18%. Poll done April 30th - May 2nd

@signalthelaunch @michaeljburry @ryancohen @gamestop I feel like the market is over saturated with weed stores. In my area we have so many opening and closing constantly.

It is not too late @ryancohen $GME , a list of alternatives from February 2nd: $NXST 6.3B $SAM 2.3B $SFM 6.9B $W 14B $BRKR 7B $MOH 10B $BIRK 7B $SFM 6.9B $SLM 5.5B $NAVI 1B $FMCC 4.8B $FNMA 9.7B $DOM LN 1B $FND 7.4B $POOL 9.5B $KNSL 9.2B $NEU 6.3B $FTDR 4.3B $DOM 14B $OSIS 4.6B $IDT 1.4B $JACK 400mm $SIG 3.8B $ETSY 5.5B $OVV 11B $TDOC 1B $ROKU 15B $GOOS 1.2B $WYNN 11.3B $BEN 13.5B $CMA 12B $HP 3.6B $ADT 6.7B $RH 3.8B $M 5.3B $MGM 9.2B $AGO 4.5B $ANF 4.2B $WTM 5.2B

@bumbadum14 If the advice is out of date, doesn't that make it incorrect?

Dave Ramsey gives undeniably good advice that 99% of people are incapable of following. Spend less than you make and put the extra money to debt. Eat beans and rice, get married, combine debt, and don't get divorced. It's boomer advice, like all boomer advice, it isn't actually wrong, just largely out of date.

@CTrefugees She drives an overpriced jeep wrangler in Florida. Kinda tells you what you need to know about her understanding of finances.

She's an RN in St Augustine Florida. She should probably come to the table with $40,000 to $60,000 down like everybody is supposed to. I assume a salary of about $70,000 a year. I set Zillow to a maximum of 30 minutes from the largest hospital in Augustine. She could get a nice starter home right here... zillow.com/homedetails/66… ...probably at about $1,300 month and it has the benefit of not requiring her to come to the table with a big down payment. If she wants to overextend herself, which I think is retarded but whatever, she can go to about 1800 a month at a place like this... zillow.com/homedetails/90… This is all I've ever done for investment. It's not hard. I have sympathy if you're a single bartender or something but there's no reason an RN should be screwing up something like this.

@RandyWKirk1 Your statement is contradictory. Either you are or aren't for more taxes, you can't be both. Also, it isn't going to stop with billionaires.

Contrarian position on Billionaires tax. I'm not in favor of CA taking one more dollar in taxes, but I'm also not sure why this tax is seen as unfair. We have property taxes on both homes and cars. There used to be an inventory tax on goods held by businesses each year. So, why would stocks, jewelry, paintings, etc. be any different. The argument that these individuals would have to liquidate assets to pay the tax is no different at all than my needing to liquidate assets to pay property taxes. What am I missing?

@NickGibbsIAG @Tesla Shit, I drove a model y on fsd mode from Bay Area California to mid Canada, roughly 2400 miles in a little over 1 day. Barely was tired from the drive. I think we stopped 6 times or so.

I’m stunned. I just spent the last two days in DC meeting with people to discuss AI projects. These people are leaders in finance and security. Not a single one believed me when I said my @Tesla drives itself. The common responses were: 1“But you have to hold the steering wheel.” 2“But you can’t use it everywhere.” 3“No one wants to charge for two hours.” 4“It doesn’t really work. Not like a Waymo.” 5“How can Tesla be ahead if they don’t have robotaxis?” 6“The Cybertruck is ugly.” The funny part? When I calmly told them they were wrong and explained my actual experience — that I don’t have to touch the wheel, I’ve driven it from Florida to Boston and NYC, we use it every day, charging only takes 15 minutes on road trips, and it actually works better than Waymo in many real-world situations — they hated it. They doubled down. So I asked: “Do you have a Tesla?” Blank stares. My response: “Maybe don’t question the guy who actually owns and uses the thing we’re talking about — especially when you’ve never tried it.” Believe it or not, they did a 180. A few of them immediately softened and said, “I’ve actually been wanting to test it out. My wife keeps talking about it.” 😏 We are so early $TSLA.

@RobertMSterling They're likely living paycheck to paycheck due to lifestyle creep and keeping up with the Jones' (which is a boardgame I loved playing as a kid). I live in a HCOL area and make right around $100k, I'm just a bit better than paycheck to paycheck. It can be done.

There’s a simple reason why 40% of people making $500k+ live paycheck to paycheck. And it’s not their spending habits. It’s because of annual bonuses. A lot of people in this income bracket work in finance, law, or executive roles. For people like this, base salaries are often a relatively low $200-250k (before you dunk on me, note the word “relative”!), with the remainder of annual compensation paid through lump-sum performance bonuses in January or February. Because these people make a lot of money *across a full calendar year* but don’t take home nearly as much for 23 out of their 24 paychecks, they often live paycheck to paycheck most of the year—breaking even or even burning more than they earn—but top of their savings and investment accounts in a singular lump sum every bonus season. So, no, most of them are not “living paycheck to paycheck” in any traditional sense of the term. They’re maxing out their 401k accounts, funding large amounts into savings and brokerage accounts, and growing their net worth every year. They’re just not doing it uniformly across every paycheck throughout the year.

@Scott_Wiener Housing may be the thing, but its your weiner education system that is driving people out

By 2031, California is projected to lose more than one million K-12 students compared to its peak a decade ago — a drop from 6.3M to 5M. There’s a one-word explanation for this steep fall: Housing Fewer students means school closures, fewer teachers, an older population, a depleted workforce & lower tax revenues. Yet people continue to fight tooth & nail against pretty much every solution for building the huge number of homes we need for our state to thrive. There’s always an excuse — neighborhood character, parking, historic preservation, traffic, views. But, bottom line, we either want a thriving state — one with a growing economy, strong public services & a diverse population, including young people — or we don’t. I vote for a thriving future for California. Here’s the data: nces.ed.gov/programs/diges…

@bumbadum14 It's autism, essentially.

FIRE is probably the most soul crushing lifestyle I have ever heard of and it's a terrible indictment on our society. Some of the most competent and intelligent people are structuring themselves to live as minimally as possible so they can check out of society before they're 40. Many of these people are unbelievably hard workers and incredibly intelligent. But they are so disillusioned so all of their potential goes to waste because there's no point to work for more.

@A_Larsonious @unusual_whales It's always been this, just that it can be fact checked in real time now

@unusual_whales WTF has happened to this account?

@borgninek @chriswithans I believe it is based on income and source of income, so your tenant likely doesn't get much due to that. It's how so many illegals end up with a shit load of benefits, lack of income on paper so maximum benefits.

@chriswithans My 73 year-old tenant lives on $640 per month of Social Security AND Disability. He only gets $115 SNAP--not getting fat or rich on that. What state? He needs some of that action.

People get too much in SNAP benefits. $994 for a family of four. That's $33 a day. WIC will cover needs for infants and young children. Food banks will supply staples. So a household has $33 a day for non-essentials for adults and older children. That's a lot of money! It's too much. And so many SNAPpers buy cases of soda and snacks (boxes of individually-wrapped tortillia chips) and sell/trade them on the "gray" market. Others might qualify for restaurant food/door dash and will use it at those places.

@joeroganhq She should probably have her retardation checked out instead of skipping the doctor

Whoopi Goldberg on health insurance: "If I don't go to the hospital for a whole year, where is my money? Why don't you give me the money back?"

@Mike_M_Klotz Honestly, this should be medically approved to be used by elderly and sight impaired people. Let them have their freedom of travel and get to where they need to go.

This is a danger to society, not something to be lauded.

@WallStreetMav Makes me wonder if rates don't come down for long enough if we see more average buyers paying cash after saving up for decades

The real estate market is broken with mortgage rates above 6%. I was looking at houses and moving ... but when you do the math, it is crazy to give up my 3.9% mortgage and move to another area and do a 6.3% mortgage. But then if I wait until rates are back near 4%, house prices will likely skyrocket with cheaper money. Tough decision ...

@keyman_2112 @elonmusk The robots already took those jobs too

@elonmusk This woman has a great voice for a 1-900 line when the robots take her job.

@doodlestein @mitchellh I've said this over and over, if Tesla could somehow manage to get a car into the mid $20k or lower without tremendous subsidies and then get it to where elderly or disabled drivers can write it off or health insurance pays for it. Game changer for millions of people.

@mitchellh It’s such a game changer. Just works, I don’t have to drive anymore. Just occasionally park. Every old person in America with money should get this just for safety reasons.

Traded in my 2020 Model S for a brand new plaid X before they discontinue it. Car is amazing, but the FSD hype is real. It blew away my expectations coming from the 2020 hardware. 95% of my miles are self driven in LA over the past month. I wouldn’t have even believed myself lol. Even my wife who HATED autopilot on my prior car is totally blown away. She’s asked multiple times “did you drive?” And I say “not at all.” And she’s just like… wow. Great job @Tesla for real. I’ve owned a Model S since 2013. This is my 3rd, first X (for me personally). Just fantastic.

@chriswithans And you have to register at 18 even if you’re still in high school

Many states already automatically register men. You’re supposed to register for the draft if you’re male and between 18-25, even if you’re “undocumented.” Compliance dropped to an estimated 81% in 2024, no doubt driven by a sharp increase in residents with no legal status in America. 81% is a terrible compliance rate for something mandated by law!