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I lived through the 70's,80's inflation. I remember gas lines, and year-round Daylight Saving as a way to lower costs. Does anyone under 45 realize that mortgage rates were double-digit for 11+ years (1979 to 1990) and from 1970 to 2000--for 30+ years, rates were above 7 percent--higher than rates are right now.

@Liberal_Monkeys @Bitcoin_Teddy 2012-2020 was some of the lowest inflation in history outside of actual deflation and only 2021 and 2022 were particularly high - and even then it was, like, half of the late 70s peak.

The life of a millennial: - Graduated into the Great Recession - Entry level jobs required 3 years experience - Pensions replaced by the 401k - Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility - Felt stability in life then a pandemic - Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises - Home prices doubled overnight forcing permanent renters - Childcare costs 1 month of rent - Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live - AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years

Sorry, I don't live or post for your entertainment. I'm not falling into your Brandolini trap; the Odyssey story/myth was verbally handed down for many hundreds of years; aoidoi embellished in every telling of the story, long before it was "put to paper by pen". Homer's and Virgil's were just the oldest lasting written records that still exist--they certainly put their own twists on the myth/story. "Homer" quite possibly wasn't even one person (The "Homeric Question"), so the various writings attributed to "him" are likely an amalgamation--with each singer's own version included, abridged, excluded, etc... My research shows what I've said. The underlying irony still exists, even by your requirements-- Fictional character goes into situation, claiming "victimhood", knowing they will likely be mutilated, is mutilated, claims but in-spite of the mutilation, still sells a lie...is 3000 years later, played by an actor, who went into a situation claiming "victimhood, is mutilated, sells a lie...and that actor is most likely unaware of the parallels. That's Irony.

@Liberal_Monkeys @SteveDeaceShow Big difference b/w unspecified self-inflicted wounds and cutting off your own nose & ears. If you have a "scholion" saying Sinon (not Zopyrus) did the latter, cite it. That would settle the factual question, validate your parallel, & give me something genuinely funny to share. 🤭

My review of The Odyssey — Christopher Nolan ought to be ashamed of himself.

Still better than Kamala. Btw I was nearly pointing out the media bias. No "that's outrageous, coming from POTUS!", from the media, when Obama drops a very sexual joke. No outrage when Joe talks about how great sex almost kept him from running for office; "oh, that's just silly 'ol Joe!, He means no harm!" Thank you for your civility--funny how simply pointing out historical, documented quotes throws ppl into a tizzy...🤷🏻‍♂️

@Liberal_Monkeys @BulwarkOnline Because we dislike Trump doesn't mean we liked Biden any better. Both are disasters. I didn't vote in 2024 because of a genocide & I couldn't do it, but I did have high hopes for Trump. He turned out to be worse than I could have imagined.

Trump: "The other day a senator I knew got a text from his wife. She said, 'When you get home, I want to have you immediately come up the stairs and make love to me.' And he said, 'I can't do both.' You know? Haha. In other words, haha, you can't go up the stairs and make love. Does anybody get that?…In other words, he can't go up the stairs and make love. Too old. You know?…Does anybody understand this stuff?"

@joshuarolson @BulwarkOnline The media bias--that's the point. Glad we agree

@Liberal_Monkeys @BulwarkOnline Yeah. He sucked ass too. What’s your point?

@BulwarkOnline Folks--It's about media bias...🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻

Then there were these jokes-- --"The house I grew up in had thin walls; I wonder how the hell my parents did 'it".” --"l'd rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep, than pursue higher office." --He once told actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus a joke about whether her husband would like to sleep with him. ...oh wait--these were all Joe Biden's jokes...

@metalheadcp @BulwarkOnline No... just the typical double standard of the LibTards, LibTard media.

@Liberal_Monkeys @BulwarkOnline

@jeffragusa @BulwarkOnline 🎪🤡 butt-hurt by a quote?

@Liberal_Monkeys @BulwarkOnline You’re bombing even worse than trump

@VeryBrexitProbs None of those US cities have been run by MAGA, or the GOP for decades. Try harder,🎪🤡 Meanwhile--London cops would arrest me for calling you a 🎪🤡, cause god-forbid, you are insulted/humiliated in public...

MAGA and Reform have spent years screaming that London is a war-torn no-go hellscape. London's murder rate is now lower than every single US state and every big US city. Philadelphia's is 12x higher. Maybe MAGA should sort their own cities out before lecturing ours. 🇬🇧

@DrEliDavid 100% real. It's from all that in-breeding.

Fear the 3-handed IRGC elite forces 💪

"Billions in the bank"--you threw any credibility you hoped to have right out the window with this id10tic statement. ...and apparently, "drug addicts" are only bad when they don't vote how you want--that was the whole point of your side accepting drug addicts in the first place--compliant voters. He's 100% right about the media--hired bootlicker bots

Hundreds of billions in the bank. No friends. Fat. Hair plugs. Drug addict. Can hardly string a sentence together. In years to come we will wonder how this creature became so rich and powerful. A fucking dangerous idiot of a human being.

It's not Wall Street I'm worried about--most of them have the sophistication/technical knowledge to avoid data leaks, even with foreign AI. It's the 1000's of small to medium sized businesses that are already using foreign AI models--60% or more by some estimates. At scale they certainly do not have the sophistication required to stop proprietary data from falling into foreign hands. Many of these companies are sub-contractors to larger, "Wall Street" sized companies, including major US military contractors. I know you are a jaded anti-globalist, anti big business guy, doesn't mean we can't still fight for a nation we believe in. I'm not going to hand it over willingly or without a fight.

Scott Galloway just explained why China doesn’t need to build better AI than America. It only needs to make American AI worthless. Galloway: “I think China is beginning to engage in what I’ll call AI dumping.” Not competing. Dumping. It’s the term economists use for flooding a foreign market with below-cost goods until the domestic industry collapses. Galloway: “They’re going to have a series of open-weight models. About a third of corporations now are supposedly using Chinese lightweight open-weight models that are cheaper.” Not better. Cheaper. A third of corporations. Already. China isn’t trying to out-innovate Silicon Valley. It’s trying to collapse the economics beneath it. Price warfare at the infrastructure layer. Galloway: “If I were Xi, I would just dump cheap AI into the US market.” This playbook is old. China ran it with steel. Ran it with solar. Ran it with semiconductors. Flood a market with a cheaper version until the domestic industry can’t sustain itself. AI is next. Galloway: “The moment large corporations start announcing they’re disengaging these multi-million dollar site licenses with Anthropic or OpenAI, they’re using these inexpensive Chinese models…” One CFO after another decides the Chinese model at a fraction of the cost is good enough. Not better. Good enough. “Good enough” at a lower price has killed more market leaders than any superior product ever has. Galloway: “…and the market realizes that there’s no way they can justify these incredible valuations, I think the US market crashes.” Not because the technology failed. Because the business model did. American AI companies are valued on the assumption that corporations will pay premium prices for premium models. China’s whole strategy is to make that assumption false. Galloway: “40% of the S&P now is directly or tangentially related to this giant bet America’s making on AI.” 40% of the S&P. Tied to one sector. Galloway: “The majority of GDP growth over the last two years has come from AI CapEx.” The majority of GDP growth. From one source. America didn’t diversify its future. It concentrated everything into a single bet, then left that bet undefended. Galloway: “If that slows down, we are immediately in a recession.” Immediately. Not gradually. Not over quarters. The distance between AI boom and American recession is one procurement decision. America built the most advanced AI on Earth and forgot to build an economy that survives someone selling it cheaper. The threat to American AI was never that China would build something smarter. It was that China would build something cheaper, and American corporations would choose the price. China’s real weapon isn’t Chinese technology. It’s American capitalism. The same rational self-interest that built the AI industry will dismantle it the moment a cheaper alternative appears. The market has no patriotism. Only price sensitivity. The technology race was never the real race. The real race was always whether America could turn its AI dominance into something that survives being undercut. America hasn’t even started running it. China already has.

@OliLondonTV I think that affirmation hand shake gave Nolan a woody; no doubt we went home and used that hand later to "complete the affirmation"...

Christopher Nolan says he cast rapper Travis Scott for ‘The Odyssey’ because rap is a form of “poetry.” “They’ll always talk about Yugoslav folk poets from the 1920’s or whatever, they don’t look at rap. They don’t look at a guy like Travis Scott.”

@krassenstein Brian is only for free speech he approves of - ✅

WOMP WOMP. Shiloh Hendrix, 37, who called an 8-year-old autistic boy the n-word, was just sentenced to 200 hours of community service probation and given a $1000 fine. HELL YEAH.

@MeghanEMurphy Wait what? Hathaway is a "cisgender male"?!?!

Renewing my petition to ban actors from speaking

@DaCullahBlurple @Owennfa Again, math is not your strong point. 3 rooms at $500 per; mortgage was $2000... 🤔

@Liberal_Monkeys @Owennfa You sucked your tenants dry having them pay your mortgage for you while you lived for free... And at the end of it you got a free building out of the deal. Good job!

My sister has been saving for a house down payment for 6 years. $500 a month. Every month. No exceptions. She skipped vacations. Drove the same car for a decade. Packed lunch every single day. Last month she finally hit $60,000. She called me excited. Ready to start looking. Then her realtor sent her the numbers. Average home in her area: $520,000. She needs $104,000 for 20% down to avoid PMI. She's $44,000 short. After 6 years of sacrifice. She asked me what she did wrong. Nothing. She did everything right. The finish line just moved faster than she could run. She's 34. Single. No kids. Good job. Perfect credit. And she's still not enough for a system that keeps adjusting the rules mid-game.

@DaCullahBlurple @Owennfa I just told you I bought my first house at 37. Reading comprehension not your strong point, is it?

@Liberal_Monkeys @Owennfa BTW I'm literally shitting on you from my pool deck. You see, I worked hard and bought my own house with my own money... Something you'll never do, boomer.