foxxtrotremade.bsky.social
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Back in 2002, I worked a call center taking Mortgage Applications over the phone, and I saw a lot of cases of people coming in to get huge mortgages with low salaries but big bonuses. I can definitely see that kind of thing being branded as "tips" in a such a poorly written Big Beautiful Bill.
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And none, I assume, are good people.
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I just can't believe that the public in the most heavily policed city in the US (cops per capita, but a WIDE margin) thought "cop mayor" was a good idea.
www.governing.com/archive/poli...
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New York is so weird. I can't think of anywhere else where a former Governor would "downgrade" themselves by running for Mayor.
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And a16z gave Adam Neumann a bunch of money for a second Real Estate "startup". As long as you flog your worthless company out on Retail early enough for the VCs to cash out, they're happy to keep financing your scams, clearly.
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Best be careful, Cops don't like statistics that don't back up their preconceived notions.
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Why does a company that doesn't make a profit need TWO CEOs? One is usually too many.
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I think it was good that George wanted to do a more adult Star Wars story. I just wish he wasn't so bad at it.
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It is weird how often the NYTimes covers these pronatalists. Suspicously weird.
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Look, I understand that everyone is entitled to a zealous defense, but man, filing stuff like this has got to feel degrading.
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Probably too many CVEs related to Tesla products. Because this will fix that.
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Wow, why not just advertise with the 14 words at this point?
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The primary people who deserve the Leopard.
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What was even the point of militarizing the Police, a force conditioned to view the Public as "The Enemy", if you're going to outsource that violence to a force conditioned to view the Public as "the people we risk our lives to protect"?
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Okay, SWEs doing an SRE rotation, preferably doing grunt work in an actual Datacenter, should no longer be optional.
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And you know what Winners do? Cut bait and cancel their planned spend on the thing that they're "winning" with.
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Yet another reason Musk and other Reactionary Conservative Capitalists want to gut the SEC.
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For what good remains in this country, I hope the DNC doesn't force this man through the 2028 Primary.
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Reason has been undermining it's credibility for years, decades even. There is definitely good there, but there's a lot of crack-pottery too.
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I am *barely* here, and I'd apparently already blocked that guy...
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I tend to believe that most voters aren't issues voters, they're"vibes" voters. They look at how they are doing on the day, and vote for or against the incumbent party based on that.
This isn't unfair of these voters, but it is exactly why the political class being so out of touch is a problem.
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Well, it hurts someone. The nickel lobby has been keeping pennies in production against all logic for decades. There are a few representatives that are definitely getting some pissed off donor calls right now.
But yeah, stopped clock, twice a day, yadda yadda.
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Trump's tone here has really made me question my conviction that maybe letting some more banks fail in 2008/9 would have been worth the short term pain.
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"All politicians are liars" is a core belief of a lot of reliable American voters.
It's a weird "schadenfreude while we row into the abyss" that I'll never really understand even though I was raised around it.
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I have to believe this is just some Staffer, but Chuck should absolutely tell them to knock it off. Though that would require him getting off his ass, and I'm not sure he's able anymore.
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Which is wild, because if something were to happen to Musk, the only one of his companies that would survive would be SpaceX.
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The ADL hasn't been an anti-extremism organization in YEARS.
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I was pretty sure the Presidential Immunity decision would go differently because it could undermine SCOTUS power, and they still did it, so while I *generally* agree that SCOTUS is going to protect SCOTUS first, there are some (apparent) counter-examples.
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Genuinely irritated that douchbags like this have made nice watches look like you're trying too hard.
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So...nothing of value was lost.
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Man, the hot potatoes that Democrats throw to incoming Republicans are a lot less volatile than the ones that Republicans toss up (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc).
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Anyway, if you're out here clamoring about how Congress needs to do something about 230 to crack down on Zuck...you're just playing into exactly what these tech billionaires want.
The ones who will actually feel the brunt of it are (1) startups and (2) all of us who regularly engage online.
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He's complaining about the congestion fee for a trip of under 1 mile; he absolutely has a driver.
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Always was. But I strongly suspect Silicon Valley is about to get a lot more paramilitary in general.
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Letitia James has never been appointed to any Federal office, and definitely not by Biden.
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I'm not surprised Biden pardoned Hunter. We all knew he was going to. I did think it was going to be closer to January, but I guess you can't fault a man for wanting his son home for Christmas.