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This is what Jeff Bezos doesn't want you to know: the super-rich have a secret playbook to get away with paying almost nothing in taxes.
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Ryan Bruno
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Ryan Bruno
@RyanBruno7287
PhD student in consumer behavior at USC
Chicago, IL Katılım Ağustos 2019
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I always wondered why all theoretical physics papers were handwritten
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos
The only scientists left that don't use computers are theoretical physicists.
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There was this guy once who was visibly very sick and the first thing i could think to say was “sorry im a little sick.” Instantly felt like an arse
Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan
Who is the least despicable person whose hand you would refuse to shake?
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@clairlemon Prefer this! x.com/rcbregman/stat…
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman
This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state. The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return. When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut. That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k. It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.
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Agree with Bezos. But in Australia it's much worse. People on welfare pay income tax.
Make it make sense.
x.com/RedWavePress/s…
RedWave Press@RedWavePress
NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?” “So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!” “Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?” “That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.” “And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.” “We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.” “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.” Exactly!
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I really like how human that fall was
Future Adam Curtis B-Roll@adamcurtisbroll
A humanoid robot tumbles while dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ and lies motionless before being dragged offstage, May 2026.
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1 This is largely anti institutional rhetoric.
2 bad incentivizes also exist for independent researchers
3 there are also huge disincentives for doing bad work. You pretty much have to disappear from the face of the planet if you get exposed for fraud
4 i could keep going
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@JohnHolbein1 Wouldn’t say it’s useless… hard to know what targets you have to hit in academia to be successful. But yeah if someone is giving you 10 quick tips to become asst prof right after your phd then yeah nah
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Academics providing career advice to grad students/prospective grad students has always felt weird to me.
Select on the DV much?
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A professor at my uni has a poster outside his office which reads “no stupid people allowed”
This article, conveniently only a page long, has since been taped to his window, right next to his sign (where it has surprisingly stayed)
Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano
Feeling stupid is a crucial part of science. It means you're pushing into the unknown where real discoveries happen.
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I can’t understand why the AI titans with all their billions don’t peel off a few million to bribe this guy to stop making these devastating videos.
Husk@huskirl
I’m locked out…
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Offering 50,000 bitcoin on a $14mil property in 2015.
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@Aella_Girl Secure attachment bc they probably report having the best everything
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I suspect some of the most innovative uses of AI in academic research are being done by people who are not especially loud about AI online.
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@Benthamsbulldog Ohh he stands with the farmers. Cant criticize that one! Crazy that that line works for people
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@ragandboneshop @JessMyrick I think a lot of people have figured out how to use it correctly. Not an exception in any sense. Just making the apparently controversial point that it isnt useless
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du côté de chez rob@ragandboneshop
@JSaysHi yes, yes, everyone says they’re the sole exception, the only one using it correctly, not like the countless moronic myriads out there using it in what is obviously the chief intended manner (to generate bullshit and disseminate it without a second glance)
QME
@JohnHolbein1 @usnews Is this diff from what utdallas rankings does?
jsom.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-10…
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What if @usnews ranked poli sci schools only on their # of recent Top 3's?
Top 10:
1. UC-Berkeley
2. Rochester
3. Stanford
4. Yale
5. Columbia
6. WashU
7. Penn
8. Harvard
9. UChicago
10. Princeton
Big risers: Rochester, Penn, Temple, FSU, GWU, UVA
Big fallers: Princeton, Michigan, MIT
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@RyanBruno7287 @ragandboneshop @JessMyrick Most tools don't produce false results identical in appearance to true. Nothing produced by an LLM can be trusted. EVERYTHING needs to be manually checked and no human will catch every bias and assumption it smuggles in.
In using it you trade rigor and practice for convenience.
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@AA_Neu @ragandboneshop @JessMyrick Sry for the excessive smiley faces. Forgot i already used that emoji
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@AA_Neu @ragandboneshop @JessMyrick No. But it does so faster; helps me find a starting point. Sometimes that starting point is completely wrong, and I end up doing things myself. Like most tools, it doesnt work for every job :D the trick with AI is to not let it replace your own critical thinking :D
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