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Amazon improved people’s lives 6.3 billion times each year. That’s the number of estimated transactions they have done just in the United States. Each transaction made people’s lives better off through peaceful voluntary exchange. That’s not trickle down, that’s a tsunami of human prosperity.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

@VeryBadLlama To be fair, Bob and Doug McKenzie were the gateway drugs for many Americans hearing a Canadian accent.

it’s kind of a shame that people think of the “Bob and Doug McKenzie” accent as the only Canadian accent. As a Maritimer raised in small-town Alberta, I’m out here making vowel sounds you can hardly begin to imagine.

@nrs_ratched @ZaxxonGalaxian @GovernorVA @ltgovhashmi @JCarrollFoy @DelCiaPrice85 Abortion is taking responsibility. 🤷

I think sexually active women take responsibility for their actions and understand the consequences of those actions, up to and including pregnancy. I think whores like to ignore pregnancy as a natural consequence of sexual activity and, therefore, think they should have some sort of special privilege to stop said consequence that they just don’t want to accept.

🚨We have officially guaranteed the right of every woman in Virginia to access contraception and birth control. Thank you @ltgovhashmi, @JCarrollFoy, and @DelCiaPrice85 for long championing this effort — and for all you’ve done to protect reproductive healthcare.

@babydumpling24 @LuxHippie @izamamaa Are you high?

@LuxHippie @izamamaa Infinity illegals all attracted to the most expensive RE markets in the US has nothing to do with any of this on the other hand. The piss poor illegals corporations demand to lower wages across the board, I mean.

People need to understand that about 60% of homeless people are employed but just don’t make enough to afford housing and that’s the real issue

@postmaster3000 @giveashitnature Sure.

@caleigardens @giveashitnature As a point of reference, my neighborhood grocery store has about 400 spaces. Grok estimates that would cost about $10MM to electrify. At the typical 1% GPM of a grocery store, they would need to sell $1B of groceries to make that money back.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines. The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors. The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land. France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033. The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

@bnuckols @DFS_Lawd @SaraForTexLege And the law should not encourage by design the conditions necessary for women to die at the hands of doctors who are more concerned about staying out of prison than performing a necessary abortion. But here we are.

@DFS_Lawd @SaraForTexLege Reality: drs shouldn't kill humans.

I stopped reading at this passage. Naveah Crain is dead because the state of Texas put a layer of bureaucracy between women and their healthcare providers. Period. Abortion bans kill women.

@NTF_Ideology @0phelia_jones @hell_line0 Bro, you can't even spell independence. With all the tools at your disposal, you couldn't even manage that much. Your opinion on the metric of success for women is dismissed.

@0phelia_jones @hell_line0 You want it to be false but its not. If no one cares about a womens independance, why would it be a metric of success?

The funniest part of the “Manosphere” is that their entire definition of success is still…women. Every metric - money, status, power - is just a strategy to ‘get’ more women to be around them. In total contrast, the female flex is independence: building a life so great that a man has to actually add something of legitimate value to be there…if he is welcomed at all.

@Edgarson_777 @jlkinok @Art98927465 @ChristopherHale As if Christianity hasn't visited horrors on women all along? Get the fuck out, you sad sack.

It's not THAT he's advocating for peace, it's HOW he's doing it, specifically singling out ONE conflict and ONE leader. And the people who just hung a young woman, and because she was a virgin they raped her first because in Islam if a woman dies a virgin she goes straight to heaven? They get a pass.

NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters today that Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand “something called the just war doctrine.” Pope Leo is an Augustinian friar who spent twelve years leading Augustine’s religious order. Augustine invented the doctrine. thelettersfromleo.com/p/something-ca…

@postmaster3000 @giveashitnature They don't "have" to, but they will. But it's not a stretch to think of grocery stores offering a charge while you shop as an enticement to customers.

@caleigardens @giveashitnature So, gas stations and convenience stores are exempt. Shopping centers, office parks, apartment buildings will all have to raise prices.

@tragic_endings_ @SeekJustice117 @AngryPorc123 @JoyceCarolOates What's stopping them from adopting a nom de plume like many female authors had to do in order to sell books historically?

@SeekJustice117 @AngryPorc123 @JoyceCarolOates I don’t consider any group of ppl to be a monolith who has to “pay” for the choices of their demographic Can you at least admit that for individual male writers this is unfair and it sucks not to even be considered, through no fault of their own?

the fact that I have pointed this out certainly suggests that I "care." however, the situation is complicated: publishers are reluctant to publish work by some demographics because those demographics don't buy books to the degree that others do. male readers will purchase non-fiction books but not so much fiction; within nonfiction, they favor history, military, some science. male readers are much less likely to purchase fiction. for this reason, publishers/editors favor female writers because (they hope) these writers will attract readers. tell the truth: how many works of fiction have you purchased this past year? how many by white male writers? if you don't help to keep literary writing alive, why are you complaining about its decline?

@postmaster3000 @giveashitnature That have 80+ capacity.

@giveashitnature Electrifying parking lots will cost more than their original construction, and that’s before you even install the solar panels. This will cause prices to rise, but of course only at businesses that have parking lots.

@ohcourant @Cindela_Oculary @dieworkwear Says the person complaining about adults using backpacks.

@Cindela_Oculary @dieworkwear you seem fun at parties

dreading the coming of the annual "men shouldn't wear shorts" spring discourse

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

@DemocraticWins MAGA cultists: “I’m pro life…but helping these children succeed or be healthy? Nahhh”

@_LukeCSkywalker @bawfuls @JEBistline How? Overlap this with major earth events and that of the decline is ice sheets.

@bawfuls @JEBistline Indeed. One has to know when the apparent trend is -- at least potentially -- an anomaly of the dataset. Maybe the current "trend" is a thing -- or maybe it's more oscillation that won't be apparent for a century. x.com/_LukeCSkywalke…

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

@0Douchebag @DirtBall82 @NYCMayor Billion dollars a day for the "no new wars" guy.

@DirtBall82 @NYCMayor He ran on Free, Free, Free. That means Tax, Tax, Tax.

New York, we’ve got your back: we’re upgrading 6,700+ catch basins, storm drains, and slotted manhole covers so that when it rains, no one can catch you slipping.  This is a $108M investment in more reliable infrastructure, flood prevention, dry streets, and dry socks for New Yorkers.

@IndianKid23 @LibertarianMama So, 5 days of this war? Fucking moron.

@LibertarianMama Yea Last administration was also out of touch We want lower gas prices! $5billion to Ukraine? You got it!

Us: “Gas is unaffordable.” Government: “Trump’s signature is going on the dollar!” Us: “The job market sucks.” Government: “Here’s an app you can download to get your news!” Us: “We don’t want war!” Government: “We’re hosting UFC at the White House!” Us: “We can’t afford food.” Government: “We made up another award to give to Trump!” Has there ever been a more out of touch administration than this one?

A French senator just said what American media won’t. Claude Malhuret took the floor of the Luxembourg Palace this week and delivered what may be the most surgical dismantling of the Trump administration ever spoken in a legislative chamber. No diplomatic niceties. Just a point-by-point indictment from an ally who has clearly had enough. If you missed the video, here are the highlights. “A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump’s presidency to Nero’s Court. I was wrong. It’s the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health,” he said, referring to RFK Jr. Malhuret’s comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It’s said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump’s case, he’s building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames. “A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces,” Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security,” Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar. “A Turkish proverb says ’When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus.” “His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term.” “Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction,” he continued. “Bomb more to win more.” “There isn’t a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar,” he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar gifted to Trump. “Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from.” “Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused here an immediate procedure of impeachment,” Malhuret said. “But we are not here. We are in MAGA’s America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests.” Rarely does a politician manage to be both exhaustive and entertaining. Malhuret pulled it off. He named names, cited numbers, and still found time for a Turkish proverb. That is not a speech. That is a controlled demolition. Every American news anchor who spent this week debating whether Pete Hegseth’s group chat was “really” a security breach should be made to watch this on a loop until something resembling shame registers on their faces. They won’t run it, of course. So share it yourself. Loudly. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@evanwch @TheMaineWonk Lmao what a fucking dipshit thing to say. The only people who want endless war are the people making money from it. A billion dollars a day TODAY but sure, the specter of "endless war in Ukraine" like a gormless idiot.

@TheMaineWonk You still want endless war in the Ukraine. This post doesn’t mean I’m back on your team.

Ugh. Did not age well

@JuliaS51562561 @shesrideordie Why don't men band together to fight for better workplace safety procedures? Why are men less likely to follow workplace safety procedures?

@shesrideordie Men still work the most dangerous and physically taxing jobs and die because of it, another way their bodies are used that women's aren't. This alone raises their death risk 18%.