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John Freeman
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John Freeman
@thejohnfreeman
Software developer @citadel. Formerly @ripple, @twosigma, @tamu, @tamsunt. C++, Python, TypeScript. Social media is a pox. Views are my own.
NYC / HOU เข้าร่วม Haziran 2008
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@MostlyMonkey @SurrealistShip I got a quarter in the 90s, but we were working class. I feel like a tooth should get at least half a Big Mac.
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@SurrealistShip I do 5. I remember it being 1-2 in the 80s/90s
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Coworker is having a real dilemma. $1 for the tooth fairy seems too low, $5 seems way too high.
What's a parent to do these days?
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@Bowtiedplayer My wife is asking when we're going to finally go on crusade. I keep trying to tell her it's just a joke. Please bro.
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I block on sight groypers but getting to a point I block on sight anyone with "deus vult" stuff in their profile
Let's be honest. You guys need permission from your wives to go golfing. You're not doing another crusade. You're doing the dishes and mowing the lawn.
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There is no fixing this mindset. You're either trending toward 100% welfare participation like the communist below, or your trying to keep it as close to 0% as possible. Once a critical mass of communists forms, your nation is doomed.
Griddr 🇺🇸@griddr
@Bobini2 @thejohnfreeman @devahaz It never made sense to me that we piss off the people who pay all the taxes by excluding them from programs funded by taxes. It's their money anyway, let them participate. Everyone will be happier for it.
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Honestly, it probably saves us money to have student loan deadbeats self-deport.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
“Ms. Tully was on an income-based repayment plan, which allows many borrowers to have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years … She was paying $60 per month when she defaulted. This amount, to many, may seem manageable. But for her, it remained psychologically burdensome”
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@devahaz That guy's answer to the problem is that we need to expand giveaways to everyone, from cradle to grave, with zero concern for cost or incentive to work. Just accelerating the downfall of this nation.
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I think about this a lot with eldercare. If you have basically any assets or income, you get no help with nursing home or caregiver expenses. But spend all your money til you’re broke and all of a sudden you’re eligible to get it all paid. Such sharp discontinuity feels broken.
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
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@chrisbrunet @InezFeltscher Oh, was that the pothole budget?
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@InezFeltscher It’s probably not ideal for you to make this argument on the same day Trump is proposing cutting 10% of all discretionary spending in the budget in order to pay for this war
Marcus Stanley@MarcusMStanley
JUST RELEASED: Trump's 2027 budget proposal cuts non-defense spending by 10% while raising military spending by $445 billion or 42% to $1.5 trillion a year. We are headed for an even more profoundly militarized nation and world unless we change course.
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Once again I am reminding you that this is an emotionally resonant but actually quite dumb argument. The restriction on the good life here at home in America is not money. We are not in a choice between guns and butter, and we spend incredible sums on both. The problem is not that we have a foreign policy, but that the ideology of the people spending the money at is twisted and retarded, and it goes for grants to left-handed LGBT blaq construction companies rather than towards anything useful.
Josiah Lippincott@jlippincott_
Fixing this pothole is more important than bombing Iran.
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Iran is now tied with our second biggest opponent in this war, Pilot Error. Still in pursuit of the top spot held by Friendly Fire.
The Hormuz Letter@HormuzLetter
BREAKING: A US F-15E Strike Eagle has reportedly been shot down over Iran. Both pilots ejected and were reportedly extracted safely from Iranian territory. Iran initially claimed it was an F-35, though debris images confirm it's an F-15E. CENTCOM has not commented. If confirmed by Iranian fire, this would be the first US fighter jet shot down by the enemy in this war. Three F-15Es were previously lost to friendly fire over Kuwait on day two
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@Itsjoeco When it comes to the government, I'm not getting anywhere near what I'm paying.
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@burby_geek @Itsjoeco One would hope so for the nation's highest combined income and property taxes.
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@thejohnfreeman @Itsjoeco NJ has some of the best schools outside the big cities
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"The Prize" is a riveting book about how a 26-year-old Zuckerberg gave Newark schools $100M and leaders stole it for themselves.
High-paid consultants, bureaucracy, and awarding contracts to friends of politicians.
Newark schools are unfixable. Need a total reset.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY CRAP! A fraud scandal is BLOWING UP at Newark, New Jersey schools Over a quarter BILLION federal dollars surged to the district meant to address learning loss, but it had basically NO IMPACT "This person received the no-show contract, and this person was a close friend of an assistant superintendent of Newark Public Schools." Funds have flown to a "literary consultant," partly using federal dollars, yet 1 year later, "THE WORK NEVER BEGAN" "Money is being blown on things that have little to nothing to do with student outcomes, academic improvement and student support! This is the TIP OF THE ICEBERG." THIS IS INSANE! The fraud is everywhere. Bring on the prosecutions!
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@Bowtiedplayer Have you seen the evidence that testosterone levels never declined? Could be just another health myth created by sloppy Boomer researchers.
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Just a reminder: Neither sperm counts nor testosterone levels have significantly declined over time in America. Claims otherwise are made on the basis of bad sampling and incomparable measurements, and usually both.
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Why I'm optimistic long-term, and this will go over the heads of some
Any election, you're going to win some or lose some. Big picture trends though all are in our favor:
-Cryptocurrency and decentralization
-De-credentialization
-3D printed weapons removes the state monopoly on force, especially in oppressive countries like Germany, the UK, Canada, or Australia, or other third-world nations
-Free speech restored on social media
-After decades of decline, male testosterone levels are now rising. Maybe it's TRT, but at least there is an awareness of this and now remedy
-De-legitimization of the post-WW2 consensus and de-legitimization of neoliberalism; it is no longer considered anathema to state that some cultures are not compatible with each other; we are not compatible with Afghans who think that molesting boys in "bacha bazi" is normal or tolerable by cultural diversity
All of these factors work in our favor. Any election you win some or lose some but macro trends favor us.
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@Grunt2A @StraightLineUSA All you needed to get benefits was to lie. The VA process is completely unequipped to deal with liars. That 100% of the free-loading scammers are undeserving liars should piss you off the most.
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@StraightLineUSA Meanwhile me trying to claim mental health disability at the VA.....
VA - How can you prove you have mental health problems?
Me - I was crazy enough to enlist in the Marines
VA - That is proof you were nuts before you joined so your disability is not service connected. Denied
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It's another week so of course we have another VA disability leech on the Caleb Hammer show. This Asian twink gets 100% VA disability for "mental health" and "joint paint" which he says in the episode is from "having to wear heavy equipment once a month". Keep in mind he works a full time job making 200k per year and also has a side business where he helps other veterans "get their disability benefits" which means he helps other people commit fraud. End this insane program now and restart it with actual oversight. *Mutes post*
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@JohnSmith410846 @chriswithans @GreenPlusAnE No one has ever "paid in" to Social Security. Biggest myth in the game. There have only ever been transfers from workers to retirees. In the beginning, the ratio was 12:1 and people were expected to die before retirement age. Now it is unsustainable.
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@chriswithans @GreenPlusAnE Russ NEVER seems to understand the pay in part. Also NEVER acknowledges that we got in this cash flow predicament not because of “greedy” seniors but runaway deficit spending which ignored future obligations
It’s like arguing with a parrot
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@chriswithans She didn't "put in" anything. She paid for someone else's benefits, when the old age dependency ratio was 12:1. She paid $11.5k/yr and takes $60k/yr. Unsustainable.
It's possible to criticize two things at the same time, by the way.
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Yes. And many don't pay Social Security taxes, especially the higher-paid workers (teachers and police). But they advocate for increasing all taxes on the rest of us. And have the ear of politicians and the money from taxpayers to sell their ideas.
This is also why it's maddening that some conservatives are obsessed that grandma is taking home more than $4000 a month at age 70 after working 45 years at or near the maximum Social Security contribution limit. She put in the 2026 equivalent of $20,000 a year of her own money for 45 years to get $5000 max at age 70. Oh joy.
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
About half of current NY government workers are already able to retire at 55 with full benefits after 30 years. This was changed to 63 after 2012. Unions went to roll back that change so everyone can retire at 55 and ALSO lower their pension contribution amounts.
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@Itsjoeco The redistribution will continue until outcomes improve (hint: never).
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This is mostly accurate except for the fact that Newark is not actually paying for anything.
They are using funds from suburban and rural New Jersey taxpayers to acquire these things.
Dawn Fantasia@DawnFantasia_NJ
So let me get this straight: Newark spends $500M to LEASE a building for 667 kids, buys ANOTHER building (in an under-enrolled area with a 7:1 student-staff ratio) for $7M OVER market & gets ANOTHER $60.5M this year?!🤯 Meanwhile in Jefferson? NJDOE enforces a 21–24 class size cap in Newark, yet tells Jefferson 30+ kids in a class is fine? Jefferson is now running on a $2.9M deficit. Already closed 2 schools & eliminated 100 staff. On the table: more teacher layoffs, sports cut, busing eliminated in a town where walking isn’t an option, and there’s NO MASS TRANSIT. What the hell is going on here??? Jefferson is sending tax dollars to pay for "priorities" in Newark that include open bars, parties, tropical trips & no-show consultants - TO THE DETRIMENT OF THEIR OWN STUDENTS. @NewJerseyDOE? @GovSherrillNJ? @njassemblydems @NJSenDems — where are you??? How can you do this to these kids? Is this your brand of "equity"? @HIGHLANDSIMPACT AID NOW ➡️Budget deficit puts Jefferson schools 'in uncharted territory' northjersey.com/story/news/202… via @northjersey
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The best part of sharing Japanese Twitter posts in the group chat is that the preview doesn't spoil the punchline.
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@Duderichy Trump 1 had no difference, which suggests it's not as simple as "Trump is evil". All the other comments rushing to accept the conclusion unquestioningly don't even need to see the chart.
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@Itsjoeco This is me. I called myself atheist for over 20 years. I still have deep-seated doubts. I went through baptism to get married. I attend Mass. We will try to send our children to Catholic school, and I hope they will not suffer the doubt that I must live with.
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And there's nothing wrong with this whatsoever! Blaise Pascal talks about "fake it til you make it" converts in his Wager.
Even if you're just going through the motions to avoid damnation or get some education, you may end up seeing something or someone that makes you a believer.
"But at least learn your inability to believe, since reason brings you to this, and yet you cannot believe. Endeavour then to convince yourself, not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your passions. You would like to attain faith, and you do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of unbelief, and you ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of a disease of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness."
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I always joke when my kid recruits another friend to church youth group that this is how us Catholics get you.
All over the world we entice you with healthcare, education, Thursday night youth group, etc.
"But wait, there's more!"
Cranky Federalist@CrankyFed
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@LionsofLaw @chriswithans The presumptive cost basis should be zero.
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The obvious wealth and inheritance tax compromise is to just eliminate the inheritance tax entirely and have heirs inherit the original cost basis for anything they inherit. You inherit a home that's now worth $3 million? You should inherit the original $300,000 (or whatever) cost basis.
In other words, let capital gains be uniform for everyone's assets.
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