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Sam Thomas

@sthomas

Made you look. Husband, Debate Coach, Career MDiv Student. 100% chance I’d rather be fishing 🎣

Katılım Nisan 2022
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Coastal Enthusiast
Coastal Enthusiast@frenstronaut·
@verbalriotshow It’s a misleading headline for attention. She basically just let a bunch of kids beat the snot out of one kid she didn’t like.
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Beachfield Vasque
Beachfield Vasque@postingpirate·
@anishmoonka Yes, I agree. But that’s far from “what people do naturally.” That’s a highly-structured society with complex property laws.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.
Hayek-Club Weimar@WeimarClub

Niemand hat den "Kapitalismus" erfunden. Kapitalismus ist das, was freie Menschen von Natur aus tun - Waren und Dienstleistungen zu ihrem eigenen Vorteil tauschen.

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Sir Finkleschmidt
Sir Finkleschmidt@Elons_Muskrat·
@RedFizo1 @ianpauldukes I would, but the United States government gets pretty pissed when you do that. They say it’s called “counterfeiting” and it’s a “crime”
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Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas@sthomas·
@LucasBolden1 Matt Diaz Johnny Estrada Martin Prado Peter Moylan Jair Jurjens
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Lucas Bolden
Lucas Bolden@LucasBolden1·
Who are some of y’all’s fav random Braves I have 3 that come to mind 1. Troy Glaus 2. Derick Lee 3. Michael Bourn
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BP@everyonebpup·
> be Disney executive > pay $4B for Lucasfilm in 2012 > greenlight a new trilogy to print money > Force Awakens hits $2B. you are a god > Last Jedi splits the fanbase > Rise of Skywalker barely clears a billion > teens now call Star Wars "out of order" > Mandalorian and Grogu tracks franchise-low > can't admit trilogy failed. shareholders watching > tell Filoni the sequels need to be "branched off" > cast members at parks start citing a time portal > May the 4th merch quietly drops the sequels > rumor leaks: Ahsoka finale severs the timeline $4B of canon about to get filed under "alternate universe" because nobody can say the word "mistake"
Geeks + Gamers@GeeksGamersCom

RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy From Timeline to Resume Focus on Original Characters "If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history."

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Formula🌵
Formula🌵@1realFormula·
You get $75M and 30 minutes to spend it… No cars, no houses, no stocks. What are you panic-buying?
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Allan 🌹
Allan 🌹@allajo22·
Socialists in congress should be publicly demanding that the federal government bail out spirit airlines and bring it under public ownership. We would save 17,000+ jobs and by maintaining a cheap public airline would force all other airlines to keep their prices low.
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James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·
@AlexBerenson Plum is the one who said $13,000, and she doesn't live in a recapture state. So what, really, was the point of your tweet?
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Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson@AlexBerenson·
First off, genius, 13% of $1 million is $130,000. Second, some states (hi New York!) retroactively raise the tax you owe on all income once you hit higher levels. They call it “recapturing” - as in recapturing money that once belonged to you. Midwits gonna midwit
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James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki

I cannot believe this. Kelsey Plum really thinks that if she earned a dollar more (giving her a million-dollar salary), she would have to pay an extra $13,000 in income tax. That is not how marginal tax rates work! If she earned a dollar more, she'd pay an extra 13 cents.

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Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas@sthomas·
“Due to the Governor’s extension of the state of emergency through a time period that includes almost every day of in-person voting for an election on May 19, and after careful consideration, I am now comfortable exercising the authority vested in me by Georgia law to postpone the primary election until June 9” - Brad Raffensperger in 2020
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Worst Finance Takes
Worst Finance Takes@Lifeinvestmoney·
Need a job where I can make six figures but I have no skills and I’m not very smart What field is this?
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Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas@sthomas·
@theAuntieAngie @EWErickson You’re referring to the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of the suburbs and a sizable chunk of rural Georgia. Metro Atlanta in the common vernacular more closely aligns with the 11 counties in the Atlanta Regional Commission
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Angela Stanton King
Angela Stanton King@theAuntieAngie·
Here’s something to help you understand the Georgia Governor’s race and why Atlanta matters. Rural Georgia — 130 counties ≈ 4.5 million people Metro Atlanta — 29 counties ≈ 6 million people Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can win Georgia without Atlanta.
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Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas@sthomas·
@chrisdmowrey Georgia doesn’t have anything remotely close to a super majority in either chamber
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Chris Mowrey
Chris Mowrey@chrisdmowrey·
As someone from Georgia, let me explain: We have 2 blue senators. A Republican Governor. And near a super majority of Republicans in the house and senate. Why? Georgia is a red state. But MAGA politicians do VERY poorly. Brain Kemp is seen as an “anti-Trump” Republican. That’s why in 2022, Abrahms lost by near double digits but Warnock won his runoff against the football player with CTE. I personally know multiple people who split their vote, Brian Kemp for Gov, Warnock for Senate. If Bottoms is the nominee, in this climate, she will have a serious chance, but it will depend on who the GOP nominee is.
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evan loves worf
evan loves worf@esjesjesj·
If Spirit was viable in capitalism, all Jet Blue has to do now is buy up their planes and implement their pricing structure, right? Should just be that simple right? Surely the free market will solve things because Elizabeth Warren is wrong right?
The Right To Bear Memes@grandoldmemes

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Sam Thomas@sthomas·
@ruwaromman Somebody else floated a similar idea. Maybe he will endorse your Senate campaign
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Ruwa Romman
Ruwa Romman@ruwaromman·
Hear me out: we have a $15 billion surplus. What if we used less than 1% to buy Spirit Airlines and call it Georgia Airlines? Profits go back to Georgia tax payers. We keep an affordable airline. Costs stay low because the user is also the shareholder. And, we get to tell people to “fly Georgia.”
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