@wyattyhalpert To be fair, most people love Caddy Shack because about 25 minutes of it was really funny and the rest got memory-holed.
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Lefty's Cheap Hotel
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Lefty's Cheap Hotel
@JrWannamaker
The mountain might get 'em, but the law never will
Присоединился Temmuz 2020
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This is a little known piece of knowledge for the Reels generation, but scenes used to have many other scenes attached to them, and you were required to watch all of them - we called the combination ‘movies,’ and sometimes some scenes were good but more were bad.
Best of Star Wars@bestofstarwar
“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”
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@conor64 (1) The CDC performed so poorly that we would have been better off without it. (2) The public health officials who declared that BLM protests were an exception to lockdowns because "racism is a public health crisis" forever destroyed my trust.
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A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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@JrWannamaker @Noahpinion I mean, they aren't Olympic caliber in the men's division, so it sort of is.
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It's not clear to me that the long arc of moral history bends in the progressive direction on this particular issue
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: Trans women athletes are banned from the Olympics by a new IOC policy on female eligibility. apnews.com/article/ioc-ol…
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@conorjrogers Why is that radicalizing? Above the cap you stop making contributions *and* earning benefits. It very intentionally was not designed as a welfare program.
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One of the most radicalizing moments of my life was when I learned that they just stop collecting social security taxes on money earned over like $150K. Like you just suddenly keep 3-6% more money on all money over that threshold.
Fuck You I Quit@fuckyouiquit
Every dollar earned below $184,500 a year has a Social Security tax of 12.4%. Everything after that cap is exempt. If we lift this cap on the wealthiest earners, Social Security would be fully funded till 2070. The cap should not exist.
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@dollarsanddata I didn't know any of that either. Probably delayed my career by 3-5 years.
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A lot of this comes down to poorer kids just not knowing what to do.
I didn't know that I had to apply for an internship in the WINTER of my sophomore year to get a sophomore summer internship to leverage into a junior summer internship to get a full-time offer senior year.
Resolution Foundation@resfoundation
Even after graduating from university, people who grew up in poverty face significant pay gaps when compared with their more affluent peers. @annastansbury explains 👇
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@avidseries Oh my God racism is even worse than we realized...
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@jgmac1106 @charlescwcooke Maybe the answer is that high earners get screwed, but you said they are currently getting a "big break". They aren't. That's like saying they get a break on plane tickets because they pay a lower percentage of their income. Everyone is paying the same tax for the same benefit.
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@JrWannamaker @charlescwcooke What is your answer to solvency?
I think we have to look at both sides of the balance sheet.
You raise retirement to 67 and you move the FICA cap to 500K
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This. It’s wild watching the casual way in which people say “just raise or abolish the Social Security cap.” Leave aside what it says about the logic of the program, have you seen our politics? Have you looked at the math? “Just”?!
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
It's a 12 percent tax hike on all income above $184k which pretty much exhausts our fiscal space to raise taxes on those earners and likely pushes you past revenue-maximizing rates in blue states.
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@jgmac1106 @charlescwcooke They don't. Everyone pays tax *and accrues benefits* up to the cap. FDR did this on purpose so it would be politically untouchable.
It might be inevitable that it just turns into another welfare program, but it will lose a lot of political support.
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@charlescwcooke Why do rich people get a big break on the FICA that normal folks can't get?
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@charlescwcooke Social Security is already a terrible return for anyone making decent money. The idea is that you pay taxes *and accrue benefits* up to the cap.
People want to keep (or lower) the benefits cap but eliminate the earnings cap. At that point it's just a welfare program.
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@asymmetricinfo We use Copilot; it seems superficially impressive until you check its work.
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Last year I dubbed this “dark leisure” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…. But while I think this explains some of the gap, I also think folks who are using AI productively underestimate the number of folks who still aren’t.
rohit@krishnanrohit
An observation from a discussion earlier tonight that I dont think I've shared before: AI has already changed most white collar jobs, and the reason it's not shown in macro productivity stats is because while it's saved time for folks individually this ends up as leisure for them
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@SenateBudget Because over the wage cap you stop earning benefits. Go ahead, turn it into just another welfare program so it will lose political support.
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MURRAY: Is it true that people making under $184k pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?
DAHL: Yes.
MURRAY: And the rate for someone making $1 million?
DAHL: 2.2%.
MURRAY: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184k, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.
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@EsotericCD @jbarro I can help you with the Chicago guy to not use...
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@jbarro Please help me find the Chicago version of this guy, preferably by tomorrow.
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I have a dentist in Manhattan who runs a no-frills practice, never tries to upsell me, gets me in and out of his office in 30 minutes every six months. A unicorn.
Billy Binion@billybinion
Dentists are the used-car salesmen of healthcare. A lot of practices look at what they can juice out of your insurance—extra X-rays, for example—and then try to upsell you on additional cleanings & totally unnecessary procedures. Been dying on this hill for years. It's a scam.
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@ATabarrok I like to ask, "If the x-ray is so safe, why are you putting a lead vest on me and leaving the room?"
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Went to the dentist for a cleaning. Refused the blood pressure check, refused redundant x-rays, refused to sign a waiver for refusing the x-rays. Three nos to get one teeth cleaning. I am now known as a troublemaker.
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@avidseries @Noahpinion I can't think of a good Democratic comp for Vance. He's extremely intelligent, and he knows exactly how flawed and corrupt Trump is but cynically sold out to advance his own career.
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@Noahpinion This makes him a more slightly appealing villain to me. No one likes a dim villain.
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JD Vance is just Evil Kamala Harris. She was kind of an unprincipled careerist empty suit. But he's an unprincipled careerist suit filled with ancient dark spirits of hatred and malice.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: JD Vance’s 2028 odds crash to an all-time low of 18%.
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@Noahpinion I have a lot of negative things to say about Vance, but he's vastly more intelligent than Harris.
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Nah this is the “public defender on his way to the courthouse to represent a felon” starter pack
Navjot Pal Kaur@navjotpk
Even the Wall Street bankers are taking the train. #tufftimes
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@asymmetricinfo It seems as though the NYT just did profiles on many people in NYC at different income levels and of course Twitter people decided to turn it into rage bait.
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Also a lot of people in NYC are getting various subsidies, especially housing (rent control/stabilization/IZ + public/section 8). Folks in market rate housing may see only modest visible difference between their consumption and that of someone making a quarter of their income.
Alex Yablon@AlexYablon
The proximity and visibility of the truly rich in manhattan (along with housing and childcare costs relative to burbs and other metros) tends to drive the borough’s merely very affluent insane
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@avidseries My impression is that Claude and Gemini are better at most things and Chat GPT is becoming Boomer-coded.
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My impression is that OpenAI seems to be struggling on a number of different fronts. Anybody else seeing this?
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view. on.wsj.com/4bvwz3R
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@happymerlot2025 @iowahawkblog "The beauty of their women and the taste of their food made the British the greatest sailors in the world."
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@iowahawkblog WTF is that disgusting creation?
The only reason why the British Empire expanded was to find eatable food that isn't this cursed abomination.
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The New York Times is not the "rest of the world." 98.7% of the United States doesn't need an explanation of a loaded baked potato even if you Limeys put weird things on yours
Mike Bird@Birdyword
I love a jacket potato as much as any Englishman, but I sometimes fear that the ability for the rest of the world to see how we live has not been an entirely positive development for our country
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