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If there is one thing we now know with absolute certainty, Americans will NEVER be able to vote our way out of the mess we are in. Which begs the unsettling question, where does that leave us?

@HashemiNoosheen @AmericanwomanU1 The problem is, we have to vote to pass it in an election that will not require voter ID.

Voter ID has officially qualified for the November ballot in California. I’ve always believed we can save this state, and this feels like the first real step. After decades of one-party rule wrecking this state, we finally have a shot to clean up our elections, expose the fraud, and make sure only citizens are voting!

@kateesackhoff @MaryMcDonnell10 I just love hearing this about her. Happy birthday, Mary. 💖💖💖

Happy Birthday to the one and only Mary McDonnell @MaryMcDonnell10 ❤️ She’s just…that woman. Strong, kind, wildly talented and somehow makes everyone around her feel a little steadier just by being there. Working alongside her was a quiet masterclass. Not loud, not showy, just real, grounded, and full of heart. The kind of presence that sticks with you. But more than all of that, she’s such a great friend. The kind who shows up, who cares deeply, who makes life better just by being in it. She’s been a role model and an inspiration in all the ways that actually matter. Love ya Madam President ❤️🥂✨

@BaronDestructo Out of this lineup, I'll take Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan. But if we have a Farscape-off, it's still gonna be Rygel.

The search for our ship's Resident Alien begins! (The Thrilling Thirty-Two +) Choose!

@TheGoth8 @JebraFaushay You get that neither of us are right or wrong, right? Music is subjective and hits people differently for different reasons. And while I'm GenX, my big brother is a boomer, so fuck you.

@MeetYouAtMoes @JebraFaushay She's 72, she's a boomer and she sucks.

Any Cyndi Lauper fans out there? I don’t like the outfits that look like a measles outbreak and I’m going to have to pass on the singing too. Other than that, I hate it.

Maybe it's Maybelline... (and don't let anyone tell you that something that makes you feel happy looks awful on you, Greta. I had an ex husband do that to me. Didn't wear red until the divorce, and then I put my red blazer back on, and a stranger in an elevator complemented me on it. She'll never know how much that meant to me. 🥹)

These remind me of two blazers that my tv make up artist says I can’t wear because they look awful on me.

@sanandreafault Make it a banger.

earthquake today!!!

@WilburFudd @VitalVegas Fair point. Tipping should never be mandatory. If it is, then it's not a tip, it's a tax, and that's a horse of a very different color.

@MeetYouAtMoes @VitalVegas I think suggesting people tip after sitting at a machine all night triggers the anger people have at the tipping madness in the country since covid.

Update: Roughly 94% of the replies to this post are along the lines of "wHy wOuLD i TiP a MaCHiNE?" Related: We're all doomed.

@CoachBHawk @WilburFudd @VitalVegas That's a fair point. I haven't been back to a casino in at least that long, so if it's changed that much, then it's a really sad thing for Vegas.

@MeetYouAtMoes @WilburFudd @VitalVegas You act like the cocktail waitresses and cashier did the things you describe.. Maybe you haven't been to the casinos lately, but it's not the same atmosphere it was 10-15+ years ago.. so why would I tip like it was 10-15+ years ago?

A hundred grand is excessive, and I really have never met a casino worker who would expect that. I do know of an Australian whale who paid off a cocktail waitress's home after a great night at baccarat, but that's so rare, people talk about it for years. A few thousand to the people who helped to make your stay fun and cheered for your good fortune is lovely.

@MeetYouAtMoes @VitalVegas If I sat there all night and waitresses brought me drinks I’d gladly throw around a couple thousand dollars. A dealer, sure. But to just leave 100 grand for everyone, not going to happen.

@AiwithYasir @Randy_Goolsby_ Y'all still don't get it. Once all the data centers are built and AI really gets to stretch its robotic arms, the fuckers who built it all don't plan on keeping 8 billion mouth breathers around. It's an elite transhumanist club, and the vast majority of us ain't in it.

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own. (Link in the comment)

@JumboShark19 @menavisualss @chasrmartin 😂👊🖤

@MeetYouAtMoes @menavisualss @chasrmartin Hot topic is furiously trying to figure out how to mass produce these as we speak

🇹🇷 Black roses exist only in nature at Halfeti, Türkiye. 🥀 Black Roses get their unique color solely from the local soil composition and the microclimate created by the Euphrates. When planted elsewhere, they turn red; this mystery is exclusive to the geography of Halfeti.

@timburchett @allofusmadhere Heroin ain't cheap, Rep. Burchett.

The Taliban will hate us for free. Why do we send them $40 million of our money every week?

@RT_com I'm just gonna say it. Putin is sexy af.

Vladimir Putin places his umbrella over Deputy PM Golikova Rain. Old-school chivalry. And a smile says it all

@WilburFudd @VitalVegas It isn't about that. It's about sharing your good fortune with the person who... Oh, forget it. @VitalVegas is right. We are doomed. 🤦‍♀️

@MeetYouAtMoes @VitalVegas The cashier who pays you out? What part did his person play in my night of gambling? ZERO.

@ICEgov @SassyNSaltyT I'm against the death penalty, but I think locking her in a cage with a pissed off chimpanzee is appropriate in this situation. #IYKYK

Amanda Leigh Fourez, a U.S. citizen from Illinois, paid thousands of dollars to have others make sexual torture videos involving adult and baby monkeys for people in deranged online chat groups. Known as “animal crush videos,” they show real monkeys being burned alive and having their genitals mutilated. She pleaded guilty April 15 following an ICE @HSINewOrleans and FBI joint investigation.

“…a stroller, DOWN BY THE RIVER!”

@greta This is silly. Everyone knows the dog would be sitting next to Keanu.

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@WhiteHouse @AP4Liberty BUT DID THEY BRING HOBNOBS???!!!

THE BRITISH ARE COMING! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

@SAbramowitz9021 @greg16676935420 @BlekEsq You just won't get it because you don't want to get it, so I'm ending this discussion with you. Also, I really don't want to know you if this is the way your heart works.

@MeetYouAtMoes @greg16676935420 @BlekEsq Bullshit. Why shouldn’t the casino pay its employees. Why should the winning bettors have to pay them?

Why in the world would you tip after winning on a slot machine?