@erichhartmann They wouldn't need to buy Ad space. Just have TSA put up signage on how their Dem senator voted for DHS funding.
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viktorg
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@viktorg475
Libertarian since forever.
Washington, DC Katılım Ocak 2017
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The fact that the GOP hasn't bought out all the ad space in these airports shows you everything you need to know about how absolutely terrible they are at marketing and PR.
Ryan James Girdusky@RyanGirdusky
I genuinely wonder if most Americans realize that these long lines at the airports are because Democrats refuse to fund DHS?
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Red States that attract richer residents with lower taxes should be able to lower taxes even further as richer residents flow in, adding more to the tax base than they extract from it at lower rates.
Which raises the question of why that didn't happen in the Blue States. (Democrats won counties that account for 2/3 of the country's wealth.)
Andrew Steinwold@AndrewSteinwold
This is so insane it’s hard to believe
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@_ueaj @actsmaniac Shitlibs putting fatties in ads doesn't change what gives men a boner.
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@viktorg475 @actsmaniac Women, esp celebrities in <2015 were rail thin, just look up pictures from the time, esp teen celebrities. Most celebrities we'd consider attractive or perfect now would be considered fat or obese back then
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one one hand I can understand the frustration this person feels because it's a factor he can't control, on the other hand you cannot force other people to date you and it seems like a luxury problem if this is your biggest problem in life. other people are literally starving
BlackSword@Blacksword011
"Having racial preferences in dating are racist"
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@viktorg475 @AndrewQuackson What are you having trouble understanding? NJ tax dollars get redistributed to Alabama driving up its GDP. US economy subsidizes Alabama, Greece doesn’t have CA/NY to leach off of.
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the GDP of Alabama exceeds Finland ($300B), Greece, and Portugal.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
> including the south as the productive part of America
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It's socially controllable though. Pretty much all representation of Indian men in media is negative, especially when it comes to attractiveness. And we already proved it can be controlled with fat acceptance. We put thick women in every ad across America for a few years and it worked (it was a good thing)
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@VladPlane @AndrewQuackson Why are you bringing up NJ in a discussion about Greece?
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@viktorg475 @AndrewQuackson NJ gets about 80 cents on the dollar Alabama gets 190 cents per dollar paid to federal government. It’s not comparable to all of Greece.
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@VladPlane @AndrewQuackson How much of Greece's GDP is driven by government jobs?
Lol
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@AndrewQuackson How much is driven by SNAP,Medicare and federal jobs placement in the state?
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One of the odder things about Trump 2.0 is a total abrogation of his (rather literal) bully pulpit
You’d *imagine* Trump would tweet about long lines b/c Ds want to protect illegals clogging up hospitals & stealing resources but he…just never does that stuff (1/2)
Jarrett Renshaw@JarrettRenshaw
6 am at Philly airport...security line back to the hotel Marriott... I have never seen a line this long in Philly.
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@ashcotXBT @kimmonismus No they actually couldn't poach the talent from OpenAI. The employees were being offered hundreds of millions and they wouldn't quit.
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@kimmonismus meta's advantage was supposed to be compute and talent. neither translated to open source velocity
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Minimax open weights coming in 2 weeks.
The fact that Meta, despite all its billions in investment, lost the open source battle against Chinese startups needs to be studied.
Skyler Miao@SkylerMiao7
M2.7 open weights coming in ~2 weeks. still actively iterating just updated a new version on yesterday — noticeably better on OpenClaw.
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@InbodenHQ @Eric_Schmitt DoJ goes after companies for the hiring of illegals, not CBP.
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@Eric_Schmitt Need to see mass deportations to justify the budget expansion for Border Patrol from the BBB. Congress with the admin seems to have stopped pushing for mass deportations & never have gone after companies hiring illegals enmaae.
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Washington Democrats know they can’t pass a bill giving amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. So the next best thing is to defund the agency charged with immigration enforcement for a de facto amnesty.
Democrats here value illegal immigrants more than the traveling public, disaster relief and Americans’ safety
Once you understand this reality their actions are predicable.
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M2.7 open weights coming in ~2 weeks.
still actively iterating
just updated a new version on yesterday — noticeably better on OpenClaw.
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@jasonc_nc @jdcmedlock Every time I think about quitting and being self employed I realize I need 26k in revenue to pay for health insurance before any other expenses.
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@jdcmedlock Private health insurance is a massive small business tax and a drag on new company formation.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
@musharbash_b Most proworker thing any pol could do right now is stop making employers the source of access to health insurance
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This is also an underrated point. Our health financing system is a massive middle class tax.
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
This is great. I feel like a lot of the discourse has treated the recent Dem tax cut proposals as a new phenomenon, so it's useful to trace how this is very much a continuation of a decades long trend.
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composer 2 is kimi k2.5 with RL. the IDE is vscode. authorized or not, the entire $50B product is built on open source foundations other people created.
nothing wrong with building on open source. that's what it's for. but the people training these models should be getting more credit and more money than a wrapper company that evaluated base models and picked the best one.
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Sorry for posting this again, I'm still processing it:
It'd cost >>> $743k per year <<< to run Opus-4.6 fast-mode nonstop
Literally my company cannot afford a single person using it for daily coding. And that's a shame because the experience is truly magical. I've spent the last 2 days using it on Pi (nearly $500 gone 💀), and it was the first time I kinda got into the flow state while using an agent, because the feedback is just so fast. This is not something I ever experienced before, definitely not with GPT 5.4's own fast mode.
I can't wait for this kind of super fast, super high intelligence to be available for a reasonable cost...
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@Eb_V4_Pelt @phl43 Liberal Jew TFR is in the toilet and they have 80% out marriage rate.
The future is a miserable place.
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This is true and under-appreciated in my opinion. When you look at polling data by cohort and think about the demographic, political and ideological trends at work in Israel, it's hard not to conclude that, 2 or 3 decades from now, people will remember Netanyahu as a moderate and regret the days when the fate of the Jewish state and that of the Middle East rested in his steady hands. He will be Israel's Mitt Romney.
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex
People have no clue how nasty it's about to get. Every year you'll see Israel that's more religious, more hostile, more fecund, more exultant in abusing its leverage. Ever closer to their caricatures of Arabs. To the moon! Demographics is destiny. You'll weep for *genteel* Bibi.
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@David_J_Bier Griggs v DPC makes it illegal to treat people as individuals.
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Forget the trash methods, this focus on birthplace is to justify Trump's bans of entire nationalities, even tho the differences in welfare use rates (using real data, not this) have nothing to do with birthplace. It's about skills + welfare rules. Treat people as individuals!
Emily Jashinsky@emilyjashinsky
New research on non-citizen welfare use from @CIS_org: "One factor that does not explain immigrant households’ higher use of programs is an unwillingness to work. In fact, immigrant households are more likely to have a worker present than households headed by the U.S.-born. However, working in no way prevents use of welfare programs."
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@TeksEdge @novita_labs @OpenRouter Unless Novita has a special agreement with MiniMax, the path of inference would be:
Client -> Novita -> MiniMax-Own-Server -> Novita -> Client.
Not exactly ZDR?
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📉 Bad News: MiniMax M2.7 is closed weights. No HuggingFace release = no local inferencing.
🛡️ Good News, you can still use it with 100% privacy.
Use @novita_labs (US SF-based) via @OpenRouter.
They operate under a Zero Retention agreement:
🚫 No logging inputs
🚫 No storing chat history
🚫 No training on your prompts
📜 “You acknowledge and agree that we shall not log, store, or retain any User Content, including but not limited to your Inputs, prompts, chat histories, or any Outputs generated by the Services, unless we have obtained your prior written consent for specific instances.”
If we can't get open weights, zero retention is better than nothing. 🤝
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@brianschatz ICE is already funded through the OBBB.
You want to strip that funding.
Lie less.
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We are enthusiastically willing to pay TSA workers today, and we will keep trying, but the sticking point is that Republicans want to attach ICE funding to it. We are not in agreement about ICE, but I don’t think workers and travelers should have to wait for an ICE deal.
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@GOP_Reasonable @CedarPosts Don't you celebrate "Indigenous People's Day"?
They're the biggest losers ever.
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@CedarPosts I grew up in the Carolina’s and we never flew a confederate flag because we don’t associate with losers. That’s what the confederates were: losers. Big time.
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Last week liberals had a melt down over a Confederate Flag flying proudly in the wind on Lake Norman and visible from I-77.
A couple of libs even called NC SHP and 911 to report the flag, then expressed outrage that the cops wouldn’t do anything.
I realize this is a shock to Yankee transplants and West Coasters.
But if you get off the interstates and drive across the Carolinas on secondary roads you’ll quickly realize these flags are pretty darn common.
Trust me no one’s going to steal your children or burn a cross in your front yard.
In the South people continue to fly the Confederate flag primarily as a symbol of Southern heritage, local pride, and regional identity, often honoring ancestors who fought in the Civil War. Others use it to represent rebellion, cherished rural lifestyle, or a desire for limited government.
But be warned it is also a flashing reminder that
FA/FO applies big time in rural Carolinas.
Y’all come back now ya hear!
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@Mrdecent000 @united If you could go into shock by being around other people, you need to drive yourself.
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