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@pepsi Rum and Coke

name a better combo than Pepsi + pizza. we’ll wait.

@USA_Polling Sir this is not an hourly job.

I'm a big fan of the idea that once you hit a billion dollars, you get a plaque in a park saying that you won at capitalism and everything you make over a billion is taxed at 100%

@MichelleMaxwell Not me. Glad I could pay 100s of thousands of dollars more for crap insurance with ni doctors available. So you can lie about it.

Raise your hand if you had better and less expensive insurance before Obamacare. Me-🤚

@AmandaMAtwell Or San Antonio and then catch your flight at IAH

At this point just drive to DFW and fly out lol

@MananaZoo @SATairport @Whataburger @Tsa_SouthWest Yes, but you ever get stuck in the B gates… it’s the 10th circle of hell there.

The longest line at the San Antonio Airport is for Whataburger. Thank you San Antonio TSA staff! @SATairport Oh and thank you @Whataburger! @Tsa_SouthWest

@BarackObama Why my doctor bills and insurance premiums skyrocket? Plus now I can’t get a doctor or specialist as quickly and easily before. You wrecked it!!! And lied about it.

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

@SaraForTexLege You are being intentionally obtuse. AI data centers are closed loop and use less water than your nearest golf course by far. They probably use less water than you use to take a shower if you took showers.

Elon Musk gets property tax abatements in Texas and we don’t. Oh, and his data centers are sucking our state dry. Thanks, Abbott.

@allenanalysis I think the intel agency that made beepers and radios go kablooey and knew where Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian leaders are without fail knows more than us.

Joe Kent on camera tonight: “All 18 of America’s intelligence agencies agreed — Iran had no capacity to develop a nuclear bomb.” “But Israel was telling us they would be able to assemble ten bombs in two weeks.” 18 American intelligence agencies: no nuclear capacity. Israel: ten bombs in two weeks. Trump chose to believe Israel over his own entire intelligence community. This is not the first time this has happened. Iraq 2003: Ahmed Chalabi told the Bush administration Saddam had WMDs. The intelligence community had doubts. They chose Chalabi. 4,500 Americans died. No WMDs were found. Iran 2026: Israel said ten bombs in two weeks. 18 agencies said no nuclear capacity. They chose Israel. 14 Americans dead. No nuclear program found. Joe Kent ran the National Counterterrorism Center. He just told you on camera what the intelligence actually said. And what was ignored to start this war. Never stop connecting the dots.

@mcuban Commodore 64 was no where near $5K I learned to program on that. We got a perfectly fine 286 for much less after. It was a IBM Compatible. Ran Ms-DOS just fine. I upgraded the RAM on that and started BBSng.

I’m going to tell you how much worse it was at the start of the PC Revolution for white collar workers trying to adapt, vs today with AI Today, presumably every white collar worker has access to a smart phone and/or a PC/laptop. Back then, a PC cost $4,995 , an off brand was $3,995. 5k in 1984 is about $16k today. It was really expensive. The only reason I could learn how to code and support software is because my job let me take home a PC to learn. By reading the software manual. Literally. RTFM. Or pay to go to training. Classes that started at hundreds of dollars then. It was expensive. It absolutely limited who could get ahead. Today, ANYONE can go to their browser, to the AI LLM website of their choice, and type in the words “I’m a novice with zero computer background, teach me how to create an agent that reads my email and …” That concept applies to LEARNING ANYTHING Think about what this means. Any employee of any company can say “ I need to learn how to xyz for my job , which is to do the following: Tell me what more information do you need to help me be more efficient, productive and promotable”. Or “ what new skills can you teach me that will help me reduce my chances of getting laid off “. Or “what suggestions do you have for me to communicate to my boss, who I barely know, to help my chances of staying employed “ These aren’t great prompts. But they are a start that anyone can take. Think about how incredible that is. Back in the day was so much harder for white collar workers. It was harder for new grads because unless they took comp sci, they probably had never used a PC. Big Companies are going to cut jobs. No question about it. Small companies is are going to need more and more AI literate thinkers who can help them compete or get an edge What I tell every entrepreneur, and it’s more crucial today. “ when you run with the elephants there are the quick and the dead. Adopt tech quickly , you can out maneuver big companies. “

@evan7257 Houston has lots of cheap housing for a city its size. What are you talking about?

I was moderating a candidate forum the other week and one of the questions was about what candidates would do to support the arts in Houston. Nobody gave the right answer, which is cheap housing. Doesn't matter how much the city subsidizes art if artists can't live here.

@longhornderek It’s Awesome going out on a hike in serene nature and then someone has a Bluetooth speaker blaring some ghetto rap non-sense.

The fact that they had to create a policy for this tells you exactly what you need to know about our society and how way too many people only think about themselves. Quite sad.

@Claire_V0ltaire Stay in Cuba then.

Oofff so now we’re doing the good Cubans who agree with me vs the bad Cubans who escaped oppression. Nice!

@MichaelKarlis I saw a trash truck driving down 281 just letting all the garbage fly out. It didn’t really matter much as the highway was already littered like a garbage dump. Drive around the city, dogs running everywhere. Bullets flying. Mayor Jones don’t care.

TEXAS NEWS: San Antonio ranked among the nations’s worst positioned large metros regarding future prosperity, according to a new index unveiled at SXSW this week. SA’s poor local governance and lackluster social cohesion were to blame for its low ranking. Story 👇

@eliz_sander @HoustonChron Considering none of the families that send their kids to the school will qualify, makes sense.

Abbott held a pro-voucher rally at this Houston-area private school. Now it's saying 'no' to vouchers. @HoustonChron The school joins some of Houston's top-rated and most expensive private schools opting out of applying to TEFA⬇️houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

@QuinnyPig @awscloud Firephone anyone…

Amazon is reportedly working on a new smartphone codenamed "Transformer." This is being designed by the same people who brought us the @awscloud Management Console, and I have never been more terrified by a consumer electronics product in my life. A thread...

@pavandavuluri Hire some real hardcore engineers and not slop H1-B mafia with fake degrees and references.

The team and I have spent the past several months analyzing feedback from the community. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better. Read this blog post to learn more about what we're doing in response as we look to raise the bar on Windows 11 quality. Please keep the feedback coming, to help us shape the future of Windows together. blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…

@DanFriedman81 Can’t believe the head choppers are in charge of NYC…

You have to be an absolute monster to be sent to Rikers Island these days; almost every offender is released on recognizance pending trial since New York’s 2018 bail reform. Offenders on Rikers all have long histories of doing things so horrible that even the woke, pro-crime judges and prosecutors in NYC don’t want to be responsible for what they’ll do if they let them go. Mamdani went out to serve these murderers and rapists a catered dinner with rapist City Council member Yusuf Salaam. He loves these people and he hates Jews.

@Heaney555 TheVerge has been captured by the CCP it seems.

This Verge article is nonsensical, to the point that even regular Verge commenters are saying so, and the featured image is horrendously cringe. This is what happens when journalists get so deep into an echo chamber that they completely lose touch. theverge.com/report/896820/…

@bitchuneedsoap Diversity is our strength. Having Russian sympathizers embedded in your company network can only be good.

In 2015, Disney called 250 IT workers into a meeting. They thought they were getting bonuses. Disney told them they were being replaced by workers flown in from India on H-1B visas, and if they didn't spend the next 90 days training those replacements, they'd lose their severance. Leo Perrero testified before Congress about it. Appeared on 60 Minutes. "Someone was flown in from another country to sit at my same desk and take over what I was doing. It was the most humiliating thing I've ever gone through in my life." Two workers sued Disney, HCL, and Cognizant for colluding to illegally displace American workers. Courts dismissed it. Disney Magic.

@BriannaWu Was she elected?

We made Al Franken resign over a joke, but this woman can cheerlead the rape, slaughter, and torture of Jewish civilians and no one in my party gives a fuck.