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@truthstreamnews Myspace was the last era of working class musicians

Rick Beato says rock died in 2012 after the financial collapse caused the working class to be removed from the music scene. Now it’s mostly highly produced wealthy people’s kids who can afford it.

@steve2bacon I held them all sideways through the Biden years

a melt-up is so funny like what do you mean all these stocks are just going up endlessly but none of them are mine

@PalmerLuckey Great take. The PS1 and Sega Saturn weren’t afraid to dabble with 2D during that era and led to some very unique aesthetics.

One of the real bummers of the N64 software library is that despite being extraordinarily capable as a 2D system, almost all of the effort went into 3D games. Makes sense, that was the shiny new selling point, but the hardware is capable of so much as a sort of Super-SNES.

@MrPrudentialist @uncledoomer We used to party in this country

It's Friday Night

@VERYKOOLLUKEY Angel investing, private equity

Realistically what even is there to invest in on a 5-10 year horizon? S&P at ATHs Gold near ATHs Treasury bills barely above the rate of inflation Housing market is cooked The dollar is cooked WHERE DO I PUT MY MONEY

@fomocapdao We’re computing

what are we doing here

@bubbleboi We’ll miss you Bub

As promised will be deactivating my account after this weekend. I’m just too rich and high profile now to be tweeting on here but dw I’ll be around…

imagine smoking baby yoda like a brisket and covering him in sauces and seasonings

Unbound Slop is here! Prompt 'n pray is over. Boost your creativity, don't replace it. 30 days only: slop . unbound . io

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.

@rtsoft live on a Intel46 Win 3.1 at @TheMADE

California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade. The number of state employees grew 24.5%. Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted. You have to ask - where did all the money go?

@C_3C_3 State funded Jobs program for the liberal arts employees

Are you sitting down? There are over 536 nonprofits or NGOs in California labeled “homelessness prevention” or “homeless assistance”. They “employee” over 12,000 people. They handle $2 billion per year. Under Newsom homelessness has increased by 35,000 people… Insane Fraud.

@JupiterJoyride @hthieblot Pretty good list

@hthieblot Austin (hard tech) El Segundo (hard tech) LA (software) Seattle (finance) New York (finance) Portland (bad software) Or somewhere in China like Shenzhen. Hope this helps

I’m leaving SF. Everyone’s cosplaying as founders. Very few are actually building. Finito. I’ve been here for 19 years. Will miss the views and the weather. If you were starting today, where would you go?

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic. giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year. this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D). in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%. the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers" of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents. the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker. the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

@supplementmaxer Injection site?

Injecting ghkcu frequently at high doses is not only giving me amazing skin but also regrowing my recessed hair.

Got a new printer - it prints on anything, even curved potato chips! So far I've been using it as a $2100 labeler, its camera positioning system makes it dang easy (and addictive) to use. Hrm, what else can I print on... (Credit: some pics are from @Yumcans's game Popslinger)

@msiedz Welcome home 🇺🇸

what it's like to land at LAX after spending 2 months in 10 cities in europe

@sgrove Often wonder this. Was never the same after Arrington left. Slow decline.

Techcrunch seems to have dropped off completely. What happened to them?

@tech__unicorn Jean jacket

@bro_cool_69 I don’t see you where are you?

Never seen so many nerds per square footage than at GDC lol