Andrew McBain

@BillyM2k Anyone still in school is getting it drilled into them by their teachers that they are not allowed to use AI for their schoolwork (its cheating/plagiarism). And then they go on the internet and see tons of anti AI propaganda. What do we expect.

young people not embracing AI is really interesting to me growing up, young people would eat up new tech and the boomers would fear it today, the CEOs and VCs and tech bros love it, but others are much more mixed

@UziCryptoo Do you all get along well enough to live together?

My wife & I own a $800k house My parents own a $1 million house Sister owns a $1.2 million house Brother owns a $500k condo We could sell them all Pool our money together Buy one massive house Share the expenses And help each other Why aren’t more families doing this? 🤔

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget My 90+% figure comes directly from the spreadsheets that the IRS publishes on their website. I don't think you can get a more reliable source than that. irs.gov/statistics/soi…

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget Man, I don't have all day to argue this back and forth. Everything you say is contradictory. Go plug everything you've just said into an ai and ask it to fact check it and vet ready to eat your words. I have a job to do

MURRAY: Is it true that people making under $184k pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? DAHL: Yes. MURRAY: And the rate for someone making $1 million? DAHL: 2.2%. MURRAY: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184k, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget In any case the rich already pay most of the taxes. 90% of all the individual taxes are paid by the top 25% of earners. People like doctors who make $500K a year are paying like $100K~$150K a year in taxes. No wonder they are hunting for exemptions and loopholes.

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget Again, we could literally just tax the rich, and people making under $184k a year wouldn't need to be taxed nearly at all (if any) and it would still be more profitable. Why is taxing the rich completely void from your reasoning and deductions.

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget Money is power. The more money you take from individuals, the more you shift power towards the government and the corporate donors that pretty much control our politicians. It no wonder we often hear about capping individual wealth but not size of corporations.

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget You can have safety nets for the disabled or poor without making it a program that everyone has to participate in. The cost would be much lower to administer more limited programs, and most people would benefit from having more control over their own money.

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget I'm just baffled at why you're arguing to remove a system that protects people or at least shuffle it around instead of simply shifting the burden upwards towards the more wealthy.

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget How exactly does that devastate people? Instead of paying money into a system and then getting it back, they can just cut out the middleman and then have the money for themselves now. If they want to save it, they are welcome to it. Programs for the disabled can be separate.

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget This is basically just kicking the can down the road, it would still devestate ~1/4th of Americans with essentially 0 trade off except that those who are already financially well of get even more money. It will just take longer to take effect

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget paid in receiving some benefit proportional to what they paid in already. They would have to fund the cost of existing benefits using some other temporary tax for a few decades, but it's doable if they actually wanted to.

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget Congrats you've just devastated 25% of adults, 79% being working class/dependants (disabled/minors) Meanwhile the rich are still making more money. As now they don't even have the tiny tiny taxes. Glad to know your concept of justice is basically feudalism

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget I suppose that would be true if they just cut it off instantly (which I never suggested). They could gradually remove it over the course of 30 years or so, with no new people paying in, and people who paid in retaining existing benefits if currently receiving. And those who

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget Or just get rid of SS altogether. I would rather have the extra 6% of my income now, and then save a crap ton of interest on stuff like house/car loans by paying them off, or investing it in literally any number of things that would offer better return on investment than SS.

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget This changes nothing. SS is projected to be insolvent by 2035 unless something is drastically changed. Meaning adults paying into it now very likely will see nothing. Taxing the rich is literally the only feasable solution. Even racing them 10% is barely a financial burden

@shiri_shh I would like to order 100X the normal amount of sunlight for about 10 minutes, aimed right at their headquarters...

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭

@BenjaminDEKR "when the world desperately needs hard engineering to be celebrated" - It doesn't help when shows for kids/teens from the major studios often portray smart kids as friendless, unattractive, nerds. It drives into their psychology pretty early that it's not cool to be smart.

A big problem with Project Hail Mary: the science and engineering is so dumbed-down that it's borderline comical. Problems get solved almost magically, with no process or iteration. He meets alien life, shows it a clock, and five minutes later is having conversations. (His laptop magically translated the language, I guess.) Grace is charming (unbelievably so) but isn't shown as a good scientist. He's shown as a fantastically-lucky scientist. The Big Bang Theory had a similar problem, pretending to be a show for smart, techy people but mostly just winking at it. In other words it's pop science when the world desperately needs hard engineering to be celebrated. Still a good movie, but not nearly the classic it could and should have been.

@BenjaminDEKR When I saw the trailer, I thought it looked like a Sci-Fi movie written by English Majors. As a result, I didn't bother even seeing it. I am surprised it did so well in theatres.

@JohnC87104009 @G48ST4R @SenateBudget Those 70-year-olds also paid in when they were 20-50. Its not different.

@forseeus @G48ST4R @SenateBudget How is it fair that 20-50 yr olds are paying into a system that 70+ yr olds are benefiting from with no guarantee that they will even survive to get their own payouts? Being fair was NEVER part of the equation. They make more, they should pay more, god knows our system needs it

@1Nicdar Why replace orange groves? There is plenty of available land that's not any type of farmland.

🍊 😢 Thirty years ago, 225 million boxes of oranges were picked in Florida groves. This year, the forecast from the U.S. Agriculture Department is 12 million boxes, a drop of 95% in one generation. I’ve seen this with my own eyes. Orange groves have been replaced with vast expanses of tract house communities, built for the constant stream of new Florida transplants.

@OutofGalaxyy They are just giving you the names that the chip manufacturers use. If you want to know which one to use, go look up benchmarks. There are lots of sites that show performances and CPU comparisons by model number.

While searching for a new Windows Laptop, I’ve realised one thing: the chip naming system on current Windows computers is SO FUCKING BAD Cause wdym you have Intel with their Core i3, i5, i7, i9, Core 3, 5, 7, 9, Core Ultra 3, 5, 7, 9, then you have versions like 256U, 255U, 235U, 225U, models like 14900KS, 14900K, 14900, 14900KF, 14900F, 14700, 14700T, 14600K etc etc etc Then you have AMD with their Ryzen 3, 5, 7, 9 2000 series, 3000 series, 4000 series, 5000 series, 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, Ryzen AI 5 440G, 440GE, 435G, 435GE, AI 7 450G, 450GE etc etc Like HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHICH ONE TO GET A LAPTOP WITH??? How am I supposed to understand all that???? Apple has an M3 Ultra, M4/Pro/Max, M5/Pro/Max, and an A18 Pro in their MacBook Neo available right now. THATS IT.

@WallStreetApes Just because chemical X can be used for Y doesn't imply it's bad for Z. Potassium Phosphate for example is good for human consumption and for industrial fertilizer.

American is at Lowe’s and picks up a bag of Trisodium Phosphate, “this is to prepare surfaces for cleaning. It's also a heavy duty cleaner, and it's a degreaser.” She then heads to Walmart and shows it’s also put in many of our food products, it’s right there in the ingredients FYI it’s always in many General Mills cereals, here are just a few items Cheerios Cinnamon Toast Crunch Lucky Charms Cocoa Puffs Trix Reese’s Puffs Frosted Flakes Kraft American Cheese Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs Wonder Bread

@hinnenkamp48 @WallStreetApes Would you prefer that the government had total control over everything you eat? Imagine if every restaurant's recipes had to be approved by the FDA with a study before they could be served to customers.

@WallStreetApes That is not the point. There are lot of drugs like ivermectin but they are not approved for use because they have not had rigorous double-blind testing. But the FDA give the food companies a pass when they put additives in our food without any testing. Why?

@BladeoftheS Isn't the better solution to just put manufacturing back in the hands of small businesses so that people aren't dependent on products made by said billionaires? That means lowering regulatory barriers to entry and lowering the cost of manufacturing tools.

Universal Basic Income will not solve anything. No matter how high it is the billionaires who own everything will just keep putting up their prices until you can't afford anything. The Billionaires must be removed from power.

@Analyst_G I wouldn't be surprised if all the people posting about SpaceX's "rush to IPO" aren't backed by some large investors trying to lower the price so they can buy in cheap and then make more profit.

You must be kidding if you want to buy it these days... This is literally Tesla/Musk bailout attempt. In the world of collapsing oil supply, raising food prices, lack of fertilizer, wars left right and center, last thing you want to have is "flying to Mars"... They know it and are in huge hurry.