@MarcGoldwein Set it and don't index it to inflation, and we will solve the Social Security solvency problem!
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Kevin Butler
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Should WEALTHY RETIREES receive more than $100,000 per year in SOCIAL SECURITY benefits❓
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@aziz0nomics @KarlreMarks Might I suggest "Make Antarctica Green Again"?
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The best way to unblock Hormuz is to go back to the world before the continental drift
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@WesternLensman Amazing how little faith Democrats have in the ability of government workers to do relatively simple things.
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Chuck Schumer, yesterday: No one trusts that ICE is going to make things better at airports.
Local Philadelphia station, today: “This is an empty line right now. Yesterday this was all the way back to the garage."
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If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.
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The original RuneQuest game gave swords hit points and if they got too damaged they could break, but you could repair them in the evenings using stuff like whetstones.
Was that a good feature?
Grand DM@Grand_DM
Whetstones. Why are they on some RPG equipment lists if they don’t actually do anything?
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@billybinion So glad our trip ended last week instead of beginning this week.
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I’ve never seen anything like this. This is the New Orleans airport. The line begins far before I started filming. Everyone around me is expecting to miss their flights. All because Congress can’t figure out how to do its job.
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@mattyglesias Agreed on the main point (markets do better with peace than chaos), but isn't TACO completely refuted by Venezuela and Iran?
That is, "Trump Always Chickens Out" - if the extensive campaign against Iran so far shows "chickens out", that phrase has no meaning.
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Congratulations to everyone who kept their heads, ignored the physical fundamentals, and just counted on TACO to maintain market equilibrium.
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@Bulkington___ Rome still does this today, though some are repurposed as Christian churches, like the Pantheon, and some are tourist sites, like the Colosseum, and some are active archaeological sites.
Many are just crumbling or built on or around.
Just got home from Rome, would go again.
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@SandyofCthulhu There's no conductive/convective heat transfer, but radiative heat transfer to empty sky is quite effective.
See making ice with a solar oven...
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I mock the "needs water" thing too, but space won't help because a vacuum is actually really good insulation.
djcows@djcows
turns out AI won't need water after all
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@LDS_Dems Yes. He was right.
"The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
Republicans hate that it was a huge waste of time, money, and national focus.
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Republicans don't hate Mueller because he was wrong but because he was right.
Joe Cooprider@joecooprider
Reminder that Mueller indicted 26 Russians and 8 Americans for working together to interfere with the election. All 8 Americans were convicted in court, but 5 were pardoned by Trump.
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@SandyofCthulhu I realized part-way through the first that I was completely detached. No immersion whatsoever. And then it went on for hours.
I do wonder how much was the 48fps, but I haven't experimented. One reviewer shared a similar experience, but said seeing it again at 24fps was engaging.
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The Hobbit movies have one of the lowest enjoyment-to-dollar ratio of any movie I’ve seen. By which I mean they spent a fortune on it, and I was aggravated and annoyed in most of it.
Other examples of these types of films are The Lone Ranger, Avatar, and Heaven’s Gate.
B.S. Warren, the Blacksmith of Worlds@BSWarren3
Not too long ago, I spent some time re-watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy. After The Return of the King concluded, I tried to watch the Hobbit films as well, as I recalled enjoying them a long time ago. By the time Thorin’s Company reached Laketown, I was disgusted and embarrassed. The action scenes were tacky, the deviations from lore were nonsensical (bad, yes, but worse than that, no one can trace any logic-based train of thought backwards from what ended up on the screen), and all the “contributions” made by the writers only served to prove why they didn’t deserve their jobs. The Hobbit Trilogy isn’t hated enough.
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@LDS_Dems People as boorish and offensive as Trump will celebrate.
Like those who celebrated Thatcher's death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and…
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Remember this when people dance on Trump's grave
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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@BobMurphyEcon Chuck Norris facts.
Early 2005 "facts" about Vin Diesel after "The Pacifier" posted to Something Awful forums, then evolved to be about Chuck Norris, also Conan O'Brien's Chuck Norris jokes centered on Walker, Texas Ranger, and jokes from 80s-90s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Nor…
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Is it documented anywhere how the mythology developed around Chuck Norris? I mean, once people made a few of the jokes, everybody gets the formula and it is self-perpetuating. But when did that start?
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@SandyofCthulhu Cthulhu for president.
Why vote for the lesser evil?
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One of my favorite things about Dracula was that he was always ALWAYS portrayed as unredeemably evil. The Frankenstein monster? Not his fault. The Wolfman? Didn't choose his curse. The Gillman? He didn't ask the humans to come annoy him.
But Dracula was just plain bad. This is why I hated Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula so much. They tried to whitewash Dracula to an extent and can we not have ONE SINGLE MONSTER that is just plain evil? It's so refreshing.
Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Marine Vtuber@HMBohemond
The Catholic Church are unironically the good guys of Castlevania and Dracula is just evil, with God being an objective force for good. The Church being the real bad guys and Dracula being misunderstood is a fabrication of the cartoon show because Adi Shankar hates Christianity.
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The fact that AIs tend to answer you in bulleted lists tells us something important, though somewhat depressing: people can't read. They don't do this by accident. What you're seeing is an implicit portrait of the median user.
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Okay. I have a question
Why have we never heard him speak?
I am not saying this as a criticism. Shielding him is probably the best thing that family has ever done.
But I do find it weird that in the most media hungry family on Earth this young man has never said a word.
Fox News@FoxNews
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Barron Trump, the son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, turns 20 today.
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Another week like this one, and Trump will have completely wiped away all the stock market gains of his 2nd Term.
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@JustinWolfers Don't forget to adjust for inflation. Inflation for 2025 was 2.7%
194900*1.027 = $200,162.3
So since the $200 billion is 2026 dollars, the tariff revenue is more.
(approximately as serious as parent post)
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Putting the fiscal cost of the Iran war in context. $200 billion > $194.9 billion, which means that Trump is planning on spending more on the Iran war than he took in with his tariffs which raised tons of revenue. I wasn't sure this could be right, so I drew a graph, and it is.
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