@DarrigoMelanie @charbel_g @grok estimate the total amount of taxes paid by Bezos and his companies over the last 20 years
Then estimate how many jobs his companies have created
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@charbel_g Bezos and his companies take billions in tax breaks and subsidies from hardworking US taxpayers, while being forced to pay tens of millions of dollars in wage theft settlements.
You mean that, right?
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Jeff Bezos paid $500M for his super-yacht and $75M for his super-yacht’s mini-yacht — both of which he’s allowed to write-off on his taxes.
That alone would cover $180 in classroom supplies for every public school teacher in the U.S.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."
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@DarrigoMelanie @DanielDiMartino Not a business asset you illiterate asshole
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@zdeborova @jimduey @eiszett You just said you don’t read the sources you cite. Is that because you … don’t trust them?
I’m kidding. I know you don’t have a coherent standard or principle you follow and are just grasping at random straws right now
Keep it up!
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Occasional errors and oversights are part of science. If we lost our driver’s license for a year every time we exceeded the speed limit by 10 km/h, daily life would become unworkable. Many countries instead use point systems, where trust can be rebuilt through good behavior.
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@zdeborova @eiszett One of the most extreme cases of telling on yourself the world has ever seen
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@eiszett Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.
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@ericstait @nicknamemankcin @charlesmurray So if there were equal complaints, that would have proven racism does not exist in America?
Or were you going to draw the same exact conclusion regardless of this data
We know the answer. We knew you were faking it this whole time
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@nicknamemankcin @charlesmurray So you proved racism exists is America.
And water is wet.
Bravo!
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1. MCAT tests have a substantial correlation with performance in medical school.
2. Performance in medical school has a substantial correlation with various measures of physician competence.
3. Black scores on the MCAT for the last four decades have been substantially lower than white/asian scores. Around an SD or more.
4. Black mean performance as physicians on various measures of competence have been lower than white/Asian performance.
None of the first three assertions can be empirically denied. The evidence is too consistent and replicable.
The fourth assertion is not only empirically undeniable. It is logically inevitable.
Eric Tait@ericstait
@charlesmurray So Dr. Murray enlighten us on how what he said has bearing on how effective a practicing physician someone will become.
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Congrats you just saved $749 per year on lunch by eating like a 3rd grader.
Now, you can afford a home with a 50 year mortgage in 18years instead of never.
Joel Berry@JoelWBerry
A little-known hack: 2 slices of Aldi wheat bread: $0.17 3 oz of Aldi deli turkey: $0.86 1 slices Aldi cheddar: $0.15 1 condiment of your choice: $0.02 1 apple: $0.53 1 hard boiled egg: $0.14 5 carrot sticks: $0.17 Cold water from the tap: $0.01 Total: $2.05 You can do this.
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@CPhilly19 Strike zone has fuckall to do with whether or not you hit your spot
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I genuinely don’t give a fuck what the ABS system says … that ain’t a strike.
You shouldn’t be able to miss your spot THAT BADLY and still get the call for strike three.
What are we even doing?
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A little-known hack:
2 slices of Aldi wheat bread: $0.17
3 oz of Aldi deli turkey: $0.86
1 slices Aldi cheddar: $0.15
1 condiment of your choice: $0.02
1 apple: $0.53
1 hard boiled egg: $0.14
5 carrot sticks: $0.17
Cold water from the tap: $0.01
Total: $2.05
You can do this.
Sean Padraig McCarthy@SeanMcCarthyCom
Lunch just costs $28 now. Are they not supposed to eat?
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@richmintz @realBrianGordon @nytimes He didn’t advocate a rule disallowing 100k pay. He complained about a rule that they be paid anything less 100k
If you’re on the other side of the argument, is you that is in favor of magical rules about what they’re allowed to earn
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@realBrianGordon @nytimes ? I’m not the one with the magical rules about how much other people are allowed to earn, you started this
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The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. nyti.ms/4dPdsTw
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@doubled24420 yes, I think other administration's doing it is important context that's why I mentioned it!
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I understand the context that it’s been done before — including allegedly by the Obama administration — but Pearl Harbor VIP snorkel still seems very strange to me!
Sean Parnell@SeanParnellASW
This pathetic hit piece against @FBIDirectorKash Patel is why no one trusts the Failing New York Times anymore. At the invitation of Admiral Paparo, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Director Patel led a senior delegation to INDOPACOM to advance joint operations against our adversaries. As part of this engagement, the delegation participated in a similar tour of the USS Arizona. As is standard practice on these visits, their hosts arranged the same Pearl Harbor tour that has been offered for years to senior administration officials across multiple administrations. This is not a new or a one-off event. The Fake News media is simply trying to smear Director Patel’s name any way they can.
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@AntiCommieBecca Only a woman could associate staying at a Marriott in some other city with “adventure and danger”
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I really do think this is a good example of male feminization.
And it shows how it’s actually self-inflicted. Travel, adventure, and potential danger has always been male coded.
Going hunting, going on quests used to be a right of passage for men. Are these men not doing that with their sons?
“Sorry son, we can’t go anywhere, you see that’s consumerism” not only is this not something a man should say, but what right winger would ever utter those words?!🤦♀️
These men just want to stay inside the home play video games, masturbate & stay as far away from excitement as possible.
This is becoming very problematic. How can they be “protectors“ if they’re too scared to leave the house.
This is not normal!
Diane Yap@RealDianeYap
Why is it so male-coded these days to say traveling isn’t that fun, isn’t that great, isn’t that impressive, isn’t worth putting off “real life” for? Because these men want you in the house doing maid work and looking after their children. Depressing.
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@RealDianeYap @xwanyex “Consuming temporary lodging while you already have permanent lodging is no more consumerist than simply remaining in your permanent lodging”
Amazing that you could even produce this thought, let alone type it out and post it without somehow recognizing how stupid it was
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Why is it so male-coded these days to say traveling isn’t that fun, isn’t that great, isn’t that impressive, isn’t worth putting off “real life” for?
Because these men want you in the house doing maid work and looking after their children. Depressing.
Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate
Traveling really isn’t that impressive. It’s not hard to do. You just go to an airport and get on a plane. It’s not a big accomplishment. Then you go somewhere and you have no responsibilities or obligations and just wander around and so of course it’s pleasurable enough. Traveling is fine. I’ve been to about 45 countries. But it’s not worth making big sacrifices for or delaying real life more than a year or two or anything like that.
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@beergrabber_ @feelsdesperate @WifiMoneyPlant Did he “insemination means you are showing up for the future”
Why do you think you felt the need to change what he said to something very different from what he said
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@feelsdesperate @WifiMoneyPlant Respectfully, this is meaningless jargon. Every animal on the planet has sex and reproduces to make offspring. A grasshopper inseminating another grasshopper doesn’t mean they’re “showing up for the future”
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Traveling really isn’t that impressive. It’s not hard to do. You just go to an airport and get on a plane. It’s not a big accomplishment. Then you go somewhere and you have no responsibilities or obligations and just wander around and so of course it’s pleasurable enough. Traveling is fine. I’ve been to about 45 countries. But it’s not worth making big sacrifices for or delaying real life more than a year or two or anything like that.
INTERIOR PORN@INTERIORPORN1
OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭
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@bonchieredstate Once again, they are not about anything but power
They don’t believe the things they say except to the extent those things serve that purpose. If a “principle” does not help them win today, they’ll abandon it without hesitation
And then embrace it again tomorrow - if it helps
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Democrats are all about criminal justice reform until it’s a 70 year old woman with no criminal history or violent convictions who served half her sentence.
Then it’s disgraceful to not make them die in prison.
Nothing actually matters to these people.
Marc E. Elias@marceelias
Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/co…
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In tonight's news, some diverse individuals decided to start a fight with an entire platoon of U.S. Marines, and it went as expected.
📍 6th St, Austin TX
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@JamesSurowiecki @le_polisson Thanks for explaining the concept of circumstances. Surely it must be that you are the only person who understands this - and not that you have failed to identifily the position you’re arguing against
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It has nothing to do with "I could become else." Human beings are born into a wide range of circumstances. Some are born into well-off families in stable, wealthy societies. Others are born into poverty-stricken families in societies ravaged by war and natural disaster. It's simply true that the humans born into the former situations are luckier, in a global sense, than those born into the latter situations.
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"It's not 'luck' that you won the lottery. You intentionally chose to go to the QwikMart at that time, and you intentionally chose those numbers - or had the machine generate those numbers for you."
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@CatoVanWyck @uxorious100 Inferring functional retardation from a high schooler’s NYT quote is pretty hilarious. Maybe she’s dumb, maybe she’s smart, not sure. One thing I do know: any adult dunking on a high schooler is a fucking loser
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“That was one of the most hardest classes”
said Harnoor Joneja
valedictorian of an American high school
New York Post@nypost
Long Island high school has record-breaking 21 valedictorians trib.al/yzmUDov
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@UsingLyft The corollary here is to suggest you can physically attack armed people if they say mean things to you and not get shot
Very unreasonable expectation
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I must be missing something. A guy goes around annoying random ppl, asking people to chimp out, inviting them to follow him away from children so they can chimp out and get a good video, then if they do that he’s supposed to get to shoot them? That’s supposed to be legal?
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