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OpenAI isn't on the path to becoming a for profit company! They spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion last year! And if you think Sam Altman is some virtuous guy being pushed around by venture capitalists you are a god damn mark, holy shit

Or, "She was asking for it."

Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

Some great advice!

It's just a movie, it will never happen...

WATCH: ā€œSo far DOGE has saved enough to buy each of us 3 cups of coffee.ā€ Economist Justin Wolfers on the *DOGE DIVIDEND* Itā€™s all a trick. Their goal is tax cuts for the rich. And they never cared about the debt.

Buffettā€™s annual letter is out ā€” and includes this message to ā€œUncle Samā€ about the tax Berkshire will pay: ā€œSpend it wisely. Take care of the many who, through no fault of their own, get the short straws in life. They deserve better.ā€ šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2024...

I, too , believe Michael did a pretty good job explaining the value of public-sector employees.

If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazineā€™s Women of the Year. Amandaā€™s Story: Citing the stateā€™s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Herā€¦

So we spent a ton of money to move 170+ Venezuelans from inside the United States to #GTMO, where we spent a ton of money to hold them for less than a month, before we spent a ton of money to bring one of them back stateside and repatriate the rest. Talk about wasteful government spendingā€¦

*stares in historian*