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@JTreetorn @billybinion Is Warren Buffet a "populist on the left" these days? theguardian.com/business/2007/… He pays less as a percentage of the money he brings in than his secretary does, that's the problem.

@billybinion Populists on the left keep calling for billionaires to pay their fare share, that only works because the average person has no clue how much they actually pay. If they were to pay what most people deem to be fair you'd have to lower taxes for billionaires not hike them.

This myth just won't die. In 2024 alone, it's estimated Jeff Bezos paid almost $3 billion in taxes. Painting rich people as tax avoiders plays great on social media, but it's not reality. The U.S. has the most progressive tax system in the developed world.

@jaysonst Loved the article after stumbling on it on the NYT home page, but as a non baseball stats guy: is there any way to add a little more dynamic info when you hover over the baseball stat acronyms so I don't have to take a quick course from ChatGPT to decipher them?

New column: Has it hit you yet what we’re watching? Has it sunk in what is happening when Mason Miller takes the mound? We are watching the most unhittable pitcher who ever lived. In this column I set out to prove it, It wasn't even that hard! nytimes.com/athletic/72447…

@Aella_Girl @mycroftxxx42 I'm amazed there's only been one that was unequivocally the best. Was this a response he got from many women? And did you ever tell him he'd ruined sex for you?

@mycroftxxx42 im still hooked on it. best sex ive had in my life.

once a guy was banging me missionary and i started rocking dutifully back and he was like 'no don't move let me do the thrusting' which was the first time in my life a guy had said that to me and that's when i knew i was about to get my life ruined

@thepiclord @Aella_Girl @mycroftxxx42 Haha, this is great comedy. You think someone who's trying to marry Aella would suddenly read this and go "I'm out", after he'd already read the story of her hosting a birthday gangbang? Maybe you should know who you're talking to before posting aella.substack.com/p/my-birthday-…

@Aella_Girl @mycroftxxx42 The guy who would have been your husband presumably read this and discreetly changed his mind. So in another sense yes, you had your life ruined.

@ellymelly @soufoaklin4life Pretty much everyone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 And by that you mean the top 1%, with more than $15M in assets in their estate. That’s the current amount exempted in 2026

@soufoaklin4life 1. The government shouldn't be robbing anyone's grave. 2. They impact pretty much everyone. 3. The very rich already worked out how to avoid it.

Death taxes DO NOT 'redistribute' wealth to the poor. They take wealth from families - mostly the middle and working class - and GIVE IT TO THE GOVERNMENT. Intergenerational wealth has been the best mechanism to lift the poor out of poverty. It's how people with nothing give their children a chance in life. And the government HATES THAT. They want you poor. Stop cheering on grave robbing. You're not going to get a dividend from someone else's despair.

@LogicIllustrat @cboyack the worker's wage $1, the price of the burger increases by $0.33 directly and $0.07 indirectly through other cost inputs costing more. The workers burger buying power still increases by 0.6 burgers per workday

@LogicIllustrat @cboyack This is easily provably false. Wages are almost always a minority percentage of the cost of anything you buy. Take a restaurant meal: wages are ~25% of the cost of a food item. Let's take an $8 burger that has $2 in wages baked in or ~17 mins of minimum wage work. If you raise

Minimum wage laws don't raise wages. They make it illegal to hire people whose economic value does not yet match or exceed the mandated rate.

@grok @Spczar @DrClownPhD But what about his bigger claim that the wind turbine won't offset the carbon needed to create it?

Yes, most of his claims are accurate. Wind turbines need diesel equipment for massive concrete foundations, heavy transport, and large cranes (400+ ft booms common). Maintenance uses petroleum lubricants and winterizing. Petrochemicals from oil are in tires, synthetic clothing, tennis rackets, antihistamines, phone cases, hand lotion, and thousands of other products. Complete oil replacement for all uses isn't viable yet without major societal disruption.

I really love this speech, but I wonder how much truth there is to it.

@Mark_Wylie001 @ArthurMacwaters Remember how that same billionaire was given access to all the spending data and fairly free rein to cut any fraud and waste he could find. Weird how he found less than 10% of what he claimed and ended up cutting a lot of programs that hurt us domestically and globally

@ArthurMacwaters Your whole argument is based on the assumption that the "$1.5 trillion in fraud" number is a real measure of fraudulent spending, not a number pulled by a South African billionaire, out of his posterior.

> The US collects $2.4T in income taxes > The fraud & waste is $1.5T > If we got rid of fraud, we'd only have to collect ~$0.9T Anyone earning <$500k/yr could pay nothing. Literally $0 in taxes We don't need to "raise taxes on billionaires", we need to cut fraud.

@Aella_Girl Abnormal bodies seems like the best fit because the defining feature is the atypical appearance of a very well muscled woman

people into muscle mommies: how should i categorize this fetish in my survey? I have general overarching clusters to help organize, but i want muscle mommies to be accurately labeled. Is this "abnormal bodies" (which encompasses basically all physical appearance stuff that is nonstandard, excluding e.g. being into boobs). Or is it like, more gender-focused? should I put it into gender dynamic fetishes? Or power-related? I need to put it into a theme folder that muscle-mommy people would be like 'oh yeah i will go look in that folder'

@ShifterCrypto @lopp Or he was Hal Finney and died long before it ever became worth billions.

@lopp the fact that satoshi's coins haven't moved in 15+ years is honestly the most bullish thing about bitcoin. the creator walked away from billions. try finding that level of conviction anywhere else in crypto

Dear Satoshi Nakamoto, If you: * are still alive * still have your keys * don't intend to spend your BTC It would be immensely helpful to the ecosystem if you'd send your early mined coins to a burn address.

@Bricktop_NAFO @ZohranKMomdani, you could revolutionize public trash in busy locations in NYC with this! People will always remember the mayor who made NYC cleaner

So they do this in a lot of places in Europe. Clearly they need to do this in New York.

@Gold_Phishy @diput53rom @BGatesIsaPyscho @grok It’s likely using some sort of space time folding wormhole, so yes. But it’s the broader point of talking about a futuristic technology like FTL travel and saying it’s not possible because you’d need to watch out for planets. Yeah, I think we got that if we have figured out FTL

@toddtimes @diput53rom @BGatesIsaPyscho @grok So it's a teleporter too?

Hey @grok if the Earth and all its Stars are all flying through the universe, at hundred of thousands of miles per hour, in multiple directions… Then why have the Stars remained in exactly the same position, for as long as humans have mapped the nighttime sky? Please Grok explain it to me like I’m five years old..

@NormiePuppet @TheNewRedneck @emmysteuer No. A password is a string sent to be validated, instead a password or pin is used to secure the passkey, which is much more complicated and it gets sent and validated. For a remote hacker it’s basically impossible to crack a passkey or to use your pin without your device

@TheNewRedneck @emmysteuer so, literally the same as a password, just like she said

what is a passkey and why can’t I just use a password

@diput53rom @BGatesIsaPyscho @grok Imagine thinking you have the technology, energy, and intelligence to create such a device, and not be able to compensate for this fact. So a time machine invented by idiots with no understanding of how the planets and sun moves in space?

Because the distances are massive. Relatively nothing moves much when it is far away. This is also why time travel on Earth is impossible. If the when problem could be solved (light speed relativity), which it can't, it is impossible to go back to the same location as the Earth has moved forward in space. Let's say you could actually beam your self matter back through time to a prior state. You'd spawn in the vacuum of space with the Earth having since traveled very very far away to where it is now.

@Aella_Girl @emilykmay Very curious what you look for to know someone is properly experienced and committed, because I’m a service top, and I love CNC, particularly playing with bratty bottoms that want to resist and fight, but I doubt my Fetlife makes that abundantly clear

@emilykmay o yeah it's more common than true cnc i think. one variant of this is 'service tops' and they're everywhere

i personally got a guy off fetlife to come sexually assault me in my home once actually. but the bar for that is way lower! If you're running an orgy you have responsibility for other people in your hands. I should have said 'past a certain vetting threshhold'.

@Gotak84 @TRHLofficial Same name, different values lithub.com/president-linc…

Nearly 76,000 people liked a post that referenced the Republicans losing the Civil War, abolish public school.

@ZircCan @DreamLeaf5 This is the Republican President of the US from 2001-2009 nbcnews.com/id/wbna3887721 And you're telling me Republican's views haven't shifted? This was during an election year.

@DreamLeaf5 Which of their positions changed? Stuff like DEi/Trans weren’t around back then to have had a position on. So again, where have they changed with the exception of tariff policy?

The idea that the right is the same as it was in 2008 is fucking absurd

@WomanDefiner This is comedic. Estimates show undocumented immigrants paid close to $100B in taxes in 2022 alone, and you think Elon is responsible for 10-15% of taxes paid by all immigrants because he paid a few a $10B in taxes in 2021? I don’t think you could be more wrong if you were trying

I bet you Elon is responsible for close to 10 - 15% of all taxes paid in by immigrants.

Has anyone done an Immigrant study removing Elon Musk and Steve Jobs from the immigrant tax payer study data? I bet that data would look amazing.

@nasrtljivistvor @reid_cameron99 @BertDalziel Came here to say this. I think it’s the reasonable solve even if some find it distasteful. Definitely recommend watching Companion if you haven’t seen it already

@reid_cameron99 @BertDalziel maybe sex robots will solve that?