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@sandgrey @Rainmaker1973 All I did was summarize what Grok told me.

@curtish5 @Rainmaker1973 This is why I go to the Comments when something seems too good. You may be a complete BS’er but I doubt it. A tiny sample size is a big red flag. And admin costs material. Responses from some people justifying it no matter what are discouraging but not surprising. Thanks.

In a groundbreaking social initiative, Albuquerque, New Mexico launched a program that pays homeless individuals to clean streets, parks, and public areas. The idea was simple — offers work, dignity, and purpose instead of punishment or pity. The results were remarkable: over 70% of participants have now secured permanent housing or full-time employment, transforming their lives and communities alike. The city’s “There’s a Better Way” program proves that compassion-driven policies can be more effective than traditional welfare systems.

@SandyofCthulhu My main complaint is that it's a tax on unrealized gains. Home value goes up but that's not liquid until you sell. Property tax should be based on what you paid.

But why is it on your house? Why not tax your washing machine. Or your carpet? Or the black velvet paintings handing on your walls? It's completely arbitrary, and seems unfair, particularly because we are ALREADY HEAVILY TAXED for those damn public services.

@Severus_arabius Islam.

Why can't Arabs just lock it and unite and create an actual superpower like the us and china instead of basically being slaves to either westerns or Iranians, it's so frustrating seeing a great civilization get humiliated like this

@One_Good_Cause @Rainmaker1973 Dude, we've been paying to put them up in luxury hotels. Where have you been? They're on their way home now.

@curtish5 @Rainmaker1973 You wanna talk about what these concentration camp aka detention centers are costing us? They’re taking people purposely to fill beds and we pay for each filled bed, trump takes a kickback. 14 billion. At least the homeless program test served some good.

@DrKarlynB The organizers were paid.

Literally, only retards who consume conservative propaganda believe 8 million people were paid by George Soros, or that there wasn't really 8 million people, or that the No Kings protests on Saturday meant nothing. Conservatives are mostly retarded.

@willchamberlain This war is like if Britain and France had attacked Germany in the late 1930s for failing to adhere to the WW1 surrender conditions before their military was fully developed. It would have saved millions of lives. Trump may be hated but he has prevented WW3.

I'm trying to imagine the alternative history of WW2 if it looked like this war, and what the coverage might look like "It's January 11th, 1942, one month after Hitler declared war on the United States. Hitler, Goering, Bohrmann, and Himmler were all killed in an allied bombing attack on Hitler's headquarters, along with fifty other members of the German High Command. 95% of entire German navy is resting at the bottom of the North Sea. The Luftwaffe is no more. Allied aircraft achieved complete air superiority over Germany within 48 hours of the war's start. Still, many sophisticated commentators are saying that the Third Reich has the upper hand, because they have shut down travel through the Danish straits."

@Gweipo77 @DesireeAmerica4 I have no issue with fixed security cameras. This dog like robot is meant to intimidate, ED-209 style.

@curtish5 @DesireeAmerica4 You'd rather see a thug cause harm to an actual person who's there to guard things?

First it was Black Mirror, now it’s just Monday in Atlanta. A company called Undaunted raised nearly $1M this February to flood Atlanta with these "pack" patrols. ​They are called private security "packs" and now patrol ATL streets. These autonomous dogs are controlled by remote pilots, equipped with thermal vision, and carry sirens loud enough to stop you in your tracks. ​The policy shift happened quietly: property managers are replacing human guards with these AI-synced bots at half the cost. In one DeKalb complex, they’ve already cleared out crime and doubled occupancy. ​ ​Safety or Scifi Nightmare?

The actual work done was not monitored by the city and the third party they gave the money to is not transparent about the details. My assumption is that little or no work was actually done and the third party pocketed most of the money. Typical liberal scam for taxpayer money. Ask Grok if you want more details.

@curtish5 @Rainmaker1973 You're not considering the counterfactual cost of paying other people to clean the streets!

@TooWhiteToTweet Neither one if them is a first.

The sky is no limit for DEI.

@vrilliumlive The problem is drones are cheap enough for terrorist to mass produce.

This war will be the one that gets drone warfare banned. Like mustard gas in WW1. It’s inhumane, cowardly, and achieves nothing besides killing one or two people in the most gruesome way possible.

@AndrewGrevas @EW You shouldn't discuss your relative's military activities in public.

My kid left yesterday for Iran. Before we hung up, he wanted to discuss his life insurance policy. He’s 19. It gutted me. War isn’t a joke. It’s not something C rate celebs should be making controversial statements about for attention. Shame on you @EW for running this drivel.

@DahliaKurtz MAID is not a necessity if you want to end your own life. People have been doing it themselves forever. I don't condone it but it doesn't require government assistance.

Something disgusting I've hesitated to share. But now I want you to share this everywhere: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is often offered to Canadians who can easily recover with proper care. It's just cheaper for the government to kiII them instead. That's not even the worst part... In my papa's final months, he NEEDED MAiD. Desperately. Every second of his existence was agony. A cancer was LITERALLY eating his face off. Ravaging it. Nothing could ease the pain. I will not describe the horror I witnessed — that worsened exponentially — daily. But guess what? My dad was NOT eligible for MAiD. For him the government opted for a slow, painful, torturous death. That's what a lifetime of being an upstanding Canadian — spending half his income on taxes — got him. I'm sure if his problem would've been easily treatable, they would've offered him MAiD. I mean, why spend extra money on our precious citizens in their golden years. Right, Mark Carney?

@Neloangelo314 You shouldn't discuss your relative's military activities in public.

My younger sister is in the navy and I can now 100% confirm that she is being deployed to Iran and will not be back for at least 10 months she states.

@drdanielschatz They're gonna put Saturday Night Live out of business.

This is neither satire nor AI. I had to double-check that it was real. At a convention for Canada’s left-wing party, a self-identified transgender, racialized delegate complains that her “equity card” failed to stop a cis woman from interrupting her. It is a near-perfect snapshot of how deranged woke identity politics has become. A movement that claimed to stand for equality has degenerated into a farce of competing victimhood, bureaucratized grievance and ideological narcissism. When politics is reduced to this kind of ritualized absurdity, it is no longer serious, credible or even coherent. It is parody dressed up as moral virtue.

@Martyupnorth You had to pay extra to be unlisted.

For decades we had phone books. Everyone's address was public knowledge. No one worried about psychos knowing where we lived.

Bullshit. Us boomers understand AI as much as anyone else. We can see it's going to replace the need for humans in almost every job and nobody seems concerned about the effect that will have on humanity. I think it's you younger people that don't see what's coming. The world will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 200. What happens when there are no jobs for humans to do. What will billions of idle hands(the devils playground) do?

Maybe this is reading too much into it, but I keep seeing a massive fault line in how boomers and everyone else make sense of what they see and hear. There has always been a generational gap, like trying to explain smartphones to a grandparent when they first came out, but at least that was operational rather than conceptual. The underlying understanding of what the technology was doing still aligned. AI seems to have blown that gap wide open into something entirely different. This is not just a learning curve, it is a fundamentally different frame of understanding. Many boomers appear totally unable to process what they are actually seeing. The idea that a video could be entirely fabricated, that a voice can be perfectly cloned, or that an image can be generated down to the smallest detail simply does not seem to register. They are still operating on the assumption that seeing is believing.

@gotrice2024 The is no reason that function needs to be motorized. How f'n lazy are we becoming when we're too lazy to manually fold a seat up and down?

This man bought a new Hyundai Palisade, he loved everything about it until one day when his daughter was sitting in the third row. The child accidentally hit a button to fold the seats down, all of a sudden the child was frantic and screaming. The folding seat function works regardless of anyone is sitting in it or not. It doesn’t have any sensors to disable it when in use. Had someone else not intervened she could have been crushed, when these cars are made, aren’t they supposed to be tested for scenarios like this or do they just don’t care?

@BillyM2k When you're 60 the pain cycles through lower back, knee, shoulder, neck, ankle, just about anywhere and the doctor never gives a definite diagnosis.

is it just a rule that after you’re 40 you just have lower back pain forever