Ryan Anderson

Letting a billionaire tell you anything about morality is insane.

we both up now

Yes that’s why i never wanna hear that shit about “my grandma and grandad were together forever/marriages used to last” YEAH GRANNY WASNT ALLOWED TO HAVE A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR GET AN APARTMENT ON HER OWN. SHE WAS A PRISNA!

We won the league

@AndrewDBailey @ArtButSports you’re on the clock

This is one of the coolest shots in the history of televised basketball.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

There aren't enough words in the English lexicon for me to properly describe how subhuman I think you are if you donated money to this guy

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

liberals on here for some reason

Zohran Mamdani is proof that politicians could get a lot of shit done if they actually cared about people

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

As a former liberal, I think most liberals are just uneducated about socialism, communism, and how capitalism really works because we aren’t taught any of that in school.

@elkelk Usually means you’re sitting closer to the front of the plane meaning you get off the plane way faster

Never understood why boarding a flight early is a “perk” Great, I get to sit for an extra 22 minutes in an uncomfortable seat while we don’t move

Your chances of being able bodied your entire life are slim to none. It is always in your best interest to advocate for a more accessible world.

AOC: "Virginia was an election of 3 million Americans. This court did not overturn a map it overturned an election."

The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation

In 1913, when America started taxing income, you owed nothing unless you made more than $3,000 a year. In today's money, that comes to about $100,000. Less than 1 in 100 Americans paid a thing, because the whole system was built for the rich. Then a war broke it. For the country's first 125 years, the federal government ran on tariffs and taxes on things like whiskey. In 1913, the constitution was changed to allow income tax. If you earned over $3,000, you owed 1%. The top rate was 7%, and only on income over $500,000, which is about $16.5 million today. Out of 97 million Americans, almost no one paid. Because only the rich paid, the rules were built around how rich people lived. They owned businesses. They had offices, employees, equipment, travel. So the law let them subtract those costs before tax. The phrase, then and now, is "ordinary and necessary" expenses. If it cost you money to make money, you only paid tax on the profit. For 30 years, that was the system. The rich paid and got to write off their business expenses. Everyone else paid nothing. Then WWII hit. A 1942 law gutted it. The tax-free amount was slashed to $1,200 for married couples and $500 for singles. A new "Victory Tax" took 5% of every dollar above $624. People paying income tax exploded from 7.7 million in 1939 to 36.7 million in 1942, to 50 million by 1945. The Treasury knew people would resist. So they hired Walt Disney. He made a cartoon where Donald Duck reluctantly does his taxes, then races across the country to hand-deliver them so they can fund the war effort. About 60 million Americans saw it. Tax filings doubled the next year. A sequel followed in 1943, the same year paycheck withholding became law. Your employer would now hand the tax to the government before you ever held it. When the system was rebuilt for workers, only the rules that taxed them changed. The rule letting businesses deduct stayed in place. There was never an "ordinary and necessary" rule for survival. Rent, groceries, healthcare, the bus you take to the job you're being taxed on, none of it deductible. Today, a single person in 2026 can earn $16,100 tax-free. The 1913 version, in real money, was about $100,000. The shield that once protected ordinary people has shrunk to a sixth of what it was. The tax code had one job: tax the wealthy on what was left after their expenses. WWII rewrote who had to pay. The right to deduct survived for businesses. For the rest of us, it was never written.

It is an LLM. If you know how LLMs work, this explains it succinctly and thoroughly. If you do not, you should not be opining on AI consciousness at all.

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