Sean Fitzgerald

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@Polymarket Serious question. What is the point of these rallies? Is it just like social validation that everyone is mad about the same thing? Or is there a point and purpose and ask for something specific? I can't pin down what it is this accomplishes.

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I chose my child and enjoying those experiences with him over corporate work. 20 years of that was enough. I decided i had enough $ to manage wisely for next 5-10 years. Growing portfolio will still happen without further contribution. I earn half of what i was making now but i get to be with my kid hours a day, see his milestones and ensure my influence is larger than the social influences. That you can’t put a price on.

One thing I’m really struggling with as a dad in my 40s. The next 15 years are my prime earning years as a professional. The work I did the first 15 years (25-40) are set to pay off the next 15 years. But those are also my kid’s prime childhood years. When I’m 50 my oldest will be out of the house. When I’m 55 only my baby girl will be left. It’s a “yes, and” type of answer that requires a lot of attention and intention. But this is something I think about all the time. If you’re a dad over 60—how did you experience this?

Probably nothing to consider. $tsla

@BarbMcQuade @nytimes Over 3,700 exonerations have been recorded since 1989 proving that jury's do get convictions wrong. Its not a guarantee that someone is guilty just because 12 people were able to get a majority to say so. Trump being such a polarizing public figure makes that ripe for bias

We already have a process for determining whether accusers are credible. It’s called a trial. And a jury already decided they believed E Jean Carroll. THIS is weaponization. nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/… via @NYTimes

Just odd

Except that idea has been completely gamed. Grifters set up NGOs and siphoned the money intended for us into their own corporate structures and then millions figure out how to game the welfare. Now we get pennies from on the dollar out and the few pennies out are abused by fraudulent uses.

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Long but good read if you experience wake ups frequently due to anxiety

@brockpierson The type that owned and played both! Why the heck would you choose just one?

What type of person were you?

No lies detected

@DefiantLs Has Mark Ruffalo given birth to a child himself? He says it is dark and scary. Just curious how he knows how that feels.

Mark Ruffalo talks about how America should shift from Capitalism: "It’s gonna take some re-imagining of what America is."

This is a pretty good guide. The community building part is important and hard to crack in America especially CA Invite people to your house, cook for them. A sure way to connect. This one is vital

Elon Musk is busy with actual enterprise, but Bezos certainly could take this on. The problem with it is that you need to fund it and oversee it because there’s intense corruption in the things that need to be solved. I have personally tried to take this on at a small scale and ran into intense opposition to the solutions at county and state level because the money is flowing in to solve the problem in parts not in whole - so if you try to solve it in whole you stop the money Flow and that upsets the NGO and political machine. But in large part, I agree that with all the billionaires out there, we don’t have one who has decided to just start tackling the problem.

I genuinely don't understand people like Bezos and Musk. If I had billions of dollars, I would just start fixing everything. Homeless veterans sleeping on the streets? Not on my watch. Hungry children going to bed with empty stomachs? Hell no. They could be making life better but instead choose to build spaceships and data centers to pump stocks and destroy the planet

@ErinIshimoticha @SpaceX @IfindRetards This one takes the cake today. Chanting USA when our rocket succeeds is now a Nationalist dog whistle?!

Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒

@ma1ybe Hot take - adoption wait times are more than a year! Plenty of people ready to adopt babies. This person who did this is a monster not a poor woman who needs an abortion.

Hot take but we literally tried to warn you that this is what happens when abortion access isn’t accessible.

First homeless Mayor! This makes sense

I was an affordable housing lender for 7 years. I worked with about 1,000 low income families. 55% of my clients were women. I can tell you anecdotally from those interactions the #1 reason my clients who had kids went back to work was simply the income - not the desire to work or fear of not being hirable if they stayed out too long. Few of those moms AFTER they had the kid was longing to get back to their job. A few certainly said taking care of the kid was overwhelming and they looked forward to going back. But many wished they could stay home for longer - that first year at the very least. Their primary concern was not going back to work but ensuring their income was safe so they could pay the bills. You need three things for a shift 1) Culturally within corporations and society to recognize the benefit of mothers and to make it part of the culture to hire back moms finishing 3 years leave. This starts at federal level with a campaign for families and incentives for businesses who report hiring back moms. And why not, there is DEI... why not family based hiring? Who wouldn't wanna hire a mom who needed to provide for a new family. That's someone motivated to work. 2) Provide financial mechanism to cover the leave. This can be early access to SSI or it can be a family leave group term policy companies offer as a benefit. 3) Educate families how critical those 3 years are on childhood development and attachment. Encourage American families!

I know about the Czech and other Eastern European models. Of course the US is a very different country. I think that for most women it is the very legitimate fear of not being able to get a job after taking three years off that drives them back to work 12-weeks (or less!) after giving birth. I disagree that money is the main factor. I also agree that we spend insane amounts of money on ridiculous and unnecessary things. But, this would also be one of them.

In Czech Republic mothers get 3 years maternity leave. In American the economics Don’t allow it. You would need a mechanism to pay mothers a fair wage for 3 years from a common pool of funds. This would be some replacement rate from the funds she was earning from work. And you need a way for companies to cover the absence. Perhaps this is funded by corporations. One idea: insurance fund of sorts. Corporations buy pregnancy insurance and it pays out when an employee gets pregnant and gives them funds to hire another employee when a mom goes out. So the mom keeps getting base pay and the company gets 3 years payout for a new employee. The other idea: Social security covers the mom. This could be an advance on retirement and pushes their withdrawals of funds back the # of years they are out.

Listen I understand your view of current things are bleak. It comes from a very real world issue were facing. A new idea scares people. We are not talking about something that is EASY. We are talking about something that is existential, necessary and dramatically different than the way it is. The family unit is under pressure. Kids are not doing well. Moms are necessary to their regulation and those 3 years are proven scientifically to be essential. If a mom can be financially supported in a way that allows her the option to spend those 3 years with the child and not pay a child care provider while she goes back to work, that is not a bad thing It works elsewhere in the world. My wife is Czech. I can tell you first hand their society supports families and children better than ours - They don't have widespread depression and violence like we do in their culture. It is reasonable to offer this benefit. I was in corporate banking for 20 years. There is plenty of bandwidth to replace one of the many worthless benefits they offer with this essential one. If the mandate comes from the federal level and perhaps even an incentive it can be done.

Corporations are laying off people left and right. It is not reasonable to propose a policy where companies offer extra benefits when job security is nonexistent in the first place. Further, the female in this scenario is supposedly married and the husband would be providing for both her and his offspring. As a bonus, he would have a "purpose" again as a provider and we would likely see more stable marriages. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks…

The idea of not getting paid is why birthrates are so low. We are shifting away from importance of child rearing and family to the importance of ones job and income as priority. So if you say no income while you raise a child, you just drive more to a childless future. A short term leave insurance policy based on income could solve this. Corporations already purchase a variety of employee coverages as a benefit. Why not, we have short term disability policies. There are always more ways to consider outcomes. There is rarely if ever "The only way"

Actually, the only real solution is to have three years of UNPAID leave. This would allow the mother to feel secure that she will have a job to go back to after three years, without having to endure the stress and trauma of "searching for a job," and it would not impose burdens on other workers in the form of higher taxes. Medium-large firms can easily accommodate this at little to no cost to themselves. And, certain jobs that are rotational in nature (i.e. cashier, hospital nurse, even hospital physician, and staff accountant) and that do not have exclusive clientele are ideal for a three-year protected leave. As well, job turnover is very high these days. People stay at companies for 18 months at most. So, "taking her back" after three years is not at all unreasonable for most job-types. But the trick here is to remove from your mind the notion that such leave needs to be "paid." The solution is UNPAID, but protected, leave.