Andy
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Moments before 9p: Thune’s office still waiting on a counter-offer from Democrats.
Core disconnect remains. Schumer wants reforms to ICE and immigration enforcement to provide Dem votes. Thune sees that as a nonstarter if ICE/deportation funding is stripped out of this bill.
Ryan Wrasse@RWrasse
Still no counteroffer from Senate Democrats. The proposal that’s currently on the table does what Democrats have repeatedly said they want. It isolates the areas of disagreement (immigration enforcement) while funding the rest of DHS, including TSA. In terms of reforms, it includes all of the bipartisan proposals that were included in the deal Dems walked away from in January. Demanding additional reforms to portions of the bill you’re insisting be removed is a non-starter, and it doesn’t make sense. The time to get serious is now.
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recently started watching Werner Herzog docs for the first time & it's so awesome and disarming that he just gives you his own personal take via voiceover. 2/3 through Grizzly Man and he's like "Unfortunately, I think nature is merciless and bears have no light behind the eyes"
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@LRSS0319 @TheFlagGuy_ @krystalball @ggreenwald The same way the Mexican government should have done something about the cartels?
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@andy91125 @TheFlagGuy_ @krystalball @ggreenwald Well, the Lebanese army should have done something about them over the past, I don’t know, 40-50 years then.
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A normal country would never have voted him in in the first place
CallUnc@Callunc
Any normal country would've removed him by now, and put him in prison
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@kennardmatt Sunni and Shia are closer still to each other, doesn’t stop them from hating the other
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The mad thing is Judaism, Christianity and Islam are effectively different denominations of the same religion
They all believe Abraham (Ibrahim for Muslims) was first to make convenant with God. Jews believe the convenant passed through his son Isaac and then Jacob. Christians agree. Muslims believe the convenant line passed through his other son Ishmael (Ismail)
Christians believe Jesus Christ was the promised Messiah - and part of God (Holy Trinity). Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet but not divine. Jews don’t recognise him as either
(I’m an atheist, so don’t believe any of it)
Operation Heal America@OperHealAmerica
Muslims do not believe that Jesus is God. It’s that simple. Don’t overcomplicate it.
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@TheFlagGuy_ @krystalball @ggreenwald Hezbollah may be the defacto leadership of Lebanon, but it’s not the actual leadership and does not officially represent the people or the country. This would be like the US taking territory from Mexico because of the cartels. Also wrong.
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@krystalball @ggreenwald Are you going to say anything about Hezbollah terrorists?
Or do they pay you too well?
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@DailyMarcher @OunkaOnX And they know you will never stop. You are Freier
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@OunkaOnX These people in Israel are the most ungrateful fuckers in the world.
They contribute nothing(actually worse than nothing) and entitled to everything
They would not exist if U.S wasn't pumping them with money.
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@rentalsguymn @dollarsanddata It’s certainly possible - I wish I had the personal experience to know for sure :-)
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@andy91125 @dollarsanddata If you live anywhere near a major airport hub I promise you will spend much less time planning a commercial flight than you would a private.
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Someone earning $500k per year with $1M-$10M in assets is "upper" middle class in NYC (so still middle class). They don't fly private. They have a job.
This is obvious once you understand The Wealth Ladder. The true rich are those in Level 5 ($10M-$100M) and above.
Musa al-Gharbi@Musa_alGharbi
If there is a genre I truly hate in the @nytimes it's the frequent pieces featuring folks with multi-millions in assets and multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in yearly household income describing themselves as middle class, and being credulously understood that way, while professionals with healthy six figure incomes engage in poverty larping because, of course, if these other people are "middle class" then they must themselves be "poor" or "working class" or "just getting by." More here: musaalgharbi.com/2025/01/01/how…
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@rentalsguymn @dollarsanddata As I understand it, flying private is not about time savings, it’s about flexibility.
Want to travel somewhere right away? Completely frictionless. No cognitive overhead of “planning”
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@dollarsanddata Flying private is a wildly overrated life goal.
If you travel ~5x/year, you’re saving ~10 hours of airport time per YEAR?
Cost: ~$150K+ annually.
Not to mention it's ~25X more likely to crash.
Poor benchmark to set and a complete waste of money.
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@arpitrage @lymanstoneky You might want to modify the last one to:
rich: live off of capital income without fear of running out of money
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It's easy to make fun of this sort of stuff, but @lymanstoneky convinced me we have a natural intuition of class which lines up with the method of production:
• poor: reliant on government subsidies
• middle-class: rely on wage earnings
• rich: live off of capital income
Emma G. Fitzsimmons@emmagf
How a Family of 3 Lives on $500,000 on the Upper West Side: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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At LaGuardia Airport, New York Tower
ATC: "I messed up."
Another pilot: "Nah, man, you did the best you could."
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NEW - Asked about his proposed changes that will prohibit freedom of information requests from being filed against the Premier‘s office or his Minister’s, Premier Ford this morning claimed it’s only controversial “With two groups, the media and the opposition”
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@ericjackson First of all your numbers are insanely wrong. There’s no such think as a 60% marginal rate.
Secondly, people don’t move to the US for the tax rate, they move for the salary difference.
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71% of Waterloo software engineering grads leave for the US. The brain drain damage threshold is 20%. Canada is at 3x the red line.
Think about that. Canada taxes its people at 60% in part to fund a university system to train its best and brightest to flee the country and make the US GDP spike.
Who is spiking US GDP at the moment? All the Canadians working for Anthropic and OpenAI in AI.
How crazy is that?
What do the Canadian tax payers get for their generosity out of this?
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@JamesSurowiecki I love how all the answers to your question are dumb takes but they are somehow trying to gaslight you with them
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How is it that the U.S. Treasury can block financial transactions between Iran and other sovereign countries? (I don't mean how is it allowed to do it, but rather how does it have the ability to stop financial transactions outside of the U.S. banking system)?
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
💰 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he is “jujitsuing the Iranians.” The decision to lift sanctions on the 140 million barrels of Iranian oil stored on tankers, he says, will prevent China from purchasing it at steep discounts, and will allow the U.S. to track the oil flow. Bessent claimed Iran will have “difficulty accessing” the nearly $17 billion in revenue generated from the oil sales because banking sanctions remain in place, suggesting the money could be delayed, discounted, or effectively trapped.
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So is Project Hail Mary worth taking a space-obsessed 8-year-old to on IMAX?
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@g_malkani @NoJetsTO With dedicated rail service you could easily get from Union to the Hamilton airport in an hour
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@g_malkani @NoJetsTO It doesn’t. And nor should we want to for reasons you suggest - massive expansion means a whole host of problems for land side, and the destruction of what makes the waterfront great.
If we want a real secondary airport in the area, look to Hamilton.
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Agree. Expansion proposal in 2013 was around 4.5-5M max. Even if TPA wanted 3X ie 7.5-9M, don’t have enough parking, taxi staging area, transit, enough hangars at gate for peak passengers etc. don’t see how YTZ expansion solves Pearson’s future capacity constraints. @nojetsto
Andy@andy91125
@ExtremeCen80240 @g_malkani @NoJetsTO Not in any quantity sufficient enough to force Pearson into any pricing competition
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@ExtremeCen80240 @g_malkani @NoJetsTO Not in any quantity sufficient enough to force Pearson into any pricing competition
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@andy91125 @g_malkani @NoJetsTO It WILL provide Jet service to Mexico and the Bahamas UNLESS an alternative is proposed.
To block jets at YTC, propose a long term solution to YTC.
NIMBY and BANANA doesn’t work with massive population growth.
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In order to accommodate Island Airport Expansion, you would have to put a road extension through Dan Leckie through Music Garden (toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/…) and route it between a heritage site and local school: toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2… @NoJetsTO.
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@ExtremeCen80240 @g_malkani @NoJetsTO Billy Bishop is not “a second alternative”; it’s a boutique airport that will always be a boutique airport. It will not provide a pricing alternative to Pearson.
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@g_malkani @NoJetsTO The GTAA is against alternatives bc they want to continue charging the highest landing fees in the world and giving Canadians a grossly inferior air travel product.
They only have 3 parallel runways and cannot build more.
A 2nd GTA Int’l Airport is needed as Pop grows to 15 m.
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@CDInewsletter @Mufasa_Capital “(FHFA) officially authorized lenders to use VantageScore 4.0—a competing model from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—for mortgage underwriting. This ended FICO's decades-long exclusive mandate in the $13 trillion U.S. mortgage market.” - how will that not matter in 2 years?
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@Mufasa_Capital $FICO is one.
$TRI is another
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The best part of market selloffs isn't blindly buying the index at a 5-10% discount. It's buying the great companies that are 20-50% lower because of some reason that won't matter 1-2 years from now.
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