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41 minutes ago, bolverk said:

More or less, yeah, except for the towns with oil, but that's going to go away, too (at least as an industry with job prospects).

Something to keep in mind is that, in some weird ways, small towns might actually be the canaries in the coal mine. Harbingers, so to speak, of the eventual changes to the labor market as AI hits the White Collar class and replaces more of those automated or back-office kinds of jobs in the cities and suburbs (obviously, there are risks to more jobs than those).

But don't worry; this isn't a treatise, pompous lecture, or grand theory but only a thought to seriously consider. It's more or less the same concern that leads to grappling with the possible necessity of UBI over the long-term.

 

that oil money is held by a very small group

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Medicaid covers:

- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

 

 

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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Medicaid covers:

- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

 

 

Fuck those people -- Elon needs to break records for total wealth. We need to focus on what's important - Elon being the bestest!

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8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Medicaid covers:

- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

 

 

Well, all that will have to be done on 880 billion fewer dollars. Rich people need their money! 

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30 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

that oil money is held by a very small group

Living back in the Permian now, believe me, I know. I was just mentioning the one and only thing keeping them afloat with any kind of real opportunity.

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what is this bullshit
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/us-gold-card-foreigners-trump/index.html
Asked whether he would consider selling the cards to Russian oligarchs, Trump responded: “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.”
 

I saw this on Reddit and thought it was a fake quote. Stupid me.

Close your eyes, relax and go back in time and imagine Obama saying and doing this. It would have been talk radio fodder for at least 18 months. We’d still probably be talking about it.
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With the Academy Awards coming up, Trump gives you this:

It beats out the Ron DeSantis bodybuilder video for the Oscar. There's something funny about the dancers at :16 but I can't put my finger on it.

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49 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

With the Academy Awards coming up, Trump gives you this:

It beats out the Ron DeSantis bodybuilder video for the Oscar. There's something funny about the dancers at :16 but I can't put my finger on it.

This type of shit is the thing that should have him run out of town on a rail. But his Cult is completely cool with it. It is really unfortunate he is a narcissist, because he needs to Jim Jones himself and his cult (and Elmo). The world would be better off. 

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9 hours ago, F250 said:

A nation to save from the global hive?

These are the dumbest fucking people.

They could just restore Taxes back to 1999-2000 levels.

But no, they will just watch everybody starve. To save the youth who have really bright prospects.

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9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

small town texas is heavily reliant on govt money / checks 

In some states, over 25% of the population receives assistance. Fascism has no use for those who no longer contribute to capital so they must be relegated to the human capital stockpile of bodies that are a drain on the system. The elderly, women past childbearing age, the disabled, etc. That's fascism and the only remedy to it has already been prescribed over and over again.

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14 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I've been behind a little so SIAP, I wonder if Nazi appears when one says "Musk"

 

Unironically this is some incredible data science. That means apple has enough linguistic data that its embedding process is finding "racist" in the same vector-space as "trump". 

It's a shame that the underlying data is a trade secret, those sorts of insights are the actual utility of this """AI""" dystopia were barreling towards

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16 hours ago, jw4381 said:

Why in the ever loving fuck is there no one putting a boot to those goon’s’ faces?

They'll kick you back with their jackboots.

 

This is an ourtageously chickenshit angle to add to this story from NPR:image.png.2d46dc17467cdbe2e76ffbae79e7eb69.png

What even vaguely suggests it was an error? It's not a reporter's place to line out something that may be true and then validate it by asking around for a quote. Thanks for pre-empting the administrations lie about what happened. Fuck you.

 

 

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You care about youth? So far they rank below hamburgers, big pick-ups and SUVs, higher prices for anything, and anything else faux-alphas of the right feel entitled to. Fuck you, too.

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Too crowded. Let the RomaVicta bloviation breathe!
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@C-man says:

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Um, I assume this has been covered. (My apologies — I’ve been at a work conference since Monday.)

Is that Bibi sunbathing with Trump?

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7 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

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You care about youth? So far they rank below hamburgers, big pick-ups and SUVs, higher prices for anything, and anything else faux-alphas of the right feel entitled to. Fuck you, too.

Well, the user name from a RW account should have been the tip off. While Mr. (I'm assigning a pronoun) Mad Maximus likely thinks of himself and identifies as the road warrior from the franchise; per usual he completely misses the point because his attitude is more along the lines of Toecutter or Immortan Joe, brutish selfish men for whom violence and oppression were breakfast foods upon which to feast. But then again, Mr. Maximus missing the point from a film is no surprise--liberal arts is one of those fancy dandy beta topics and comprehension above a six grade level not in his wheelhouse.

Hugh Keays Byrne | Fact# 13059 | FactRepublic.com

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38 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I watched the first half of "Einstein and the Bomb" on Netflix last night.  Einstein had a quote about Nazi Germany in the 30s: "The present state of affairs in Germany is a state of psychic distemper in the masses. Hitler picked up human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself."  I think that describes the American Right perfectly. Trump didn't "organize" anything but his violent rhetoric drew them to him like flies to a huge steaming pile of shit. 

The problem I see with your example is that both Trump and the American Right are huge steaming piles of shit.  No flies whatsoever.

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38 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I watched the first half of "Einstein and the Bomb" on Netflix last night.  Einstein had a quote about Nazi Germany in the 30s: "The present state of affairs in Germany is a state of psychic distemper in the masses. Hitler picked up human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself."  I think that describes the American Right perfectly. Trump didn't "organize" anything but his violent rhetoric drew them to him like flies to a huge steaming pile of shit. 

Michael Richards Yes GIF
 

Ooh oooh I’ve got an Einstein story!

We moved to Los Alamos in 1998. There was an older lady I worked with who was born there in like 1946 or something like that. Her father was in the army and stationed there during the Manhattan Project and was in the transportation group. One day he was told to go down to where they would pick up personnel at the Rio Grande. 
 

Imagine his surprise when he got down there to see Albert fucking Einstein standing in what at the time was the middle of BFE (it still is actually). Clutching his suitcase, wondering what the hell he had gotten himself into. 

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3 hours ago, Bullneck said:

With the Academy Awards coming up, Trump gives you this:

It beats out the Ron DeSantis bodybuilder video for the Oscar. There's something funny about the dancers at :16 but I can't put my finger on it.

 

1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Um, I assume this has been covered. (My apologies — I’ve been at a work conference since Monday.)
 

 

2 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

This type of shit is the thing that should have him run out of town on a rail. But his Cult is completely cool with it. It is really unfortunate he is a narcissist, because he needs to Jim Jones himself and his cult (and Elmo). The world would be better off. 

Fucking crazy. Reposting to this page

 

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5 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

 

I saw this on Reddit and thought it was a fake quote. Stupid me.

Close your eyes, relax and go back in time and imagine Obama saying and doing this. It would have been talk radio fodder for at least 18 months. We’d still probably be talking about it.

Remember this "scandal"? By golly, they were so mad!

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/obama-tells-russias-medvedev-more-flexibility-after-election-idUSBRE82P0JI/

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I guess this goes here:

Quote

Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction

Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html

I guess that whole "Democracy dies in darkness" thing was a goal to achieve, rather than a warning.  

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Posted
15 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

From 1997!

From today

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I just have a really hard time believing that someone with the ability to spend $5 million would want to spend that to move here. I'm looking at places that offer golden visas so I can move out. This isn't a very affordable place to retire and we have other, much cheaper options if you are young and looking to move here to make money.

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I just have a really hard time believing that someone with the ability to spend $5 million would want to spend that to move here. I'm looking at places that offer golden visas so I can move out. This isn't a very affordable place to retire and we have other, much cheaper options if you are young and looking to move here to make money.

Some Russian Oligarchs are gonna want to get on the action here.
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4 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

I just have a really hard time believing that someone with the ability to spend $5 million would want to spend that to move here. I'm looking at places that offer golden visas so I can move out. This isn't a very affordable place to retire and we have other, much cheaper options if you are young and looking to move here to make money.

Where is the statutory authority to offer this? Can we all step back and remember we have to pass laws in this country? They might not even be able to pass a budget with their own votes through reconciliation- they surely won’t be able to pass anything that needs to beat a filibuster 

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2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Where is the statutory authority to offer this? Can we all step back and remember we have to pass laws in this country? They might not even be able to pass a budget with their own votes through reconciliation- they surely won’t be able to pass anything that needs to beat a filibuster 

We aren't operating under the constitution anymore. Don't even have a country, really.

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3 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

They could just restore Taxes back to 1999-2000 levels.

But no, they will just watch everybody starve. To save the youth who have really bright prospects.

And pray about balancing the budget, otherwise known as more tax cuts for the rich.

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Elon not just speaking but holding court at Trump's cabinet meeting.  Press is just bypassing Trump, who hasn't said anything in like five minutes.

This is embarassing.

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4 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Elon not just speaking but holding court at Trump's cabinet meeting.  Press is just bypassing Trump, who hasn't said anything in like five minutes.

This is embarassing.

Trump is still saying that we're paying SS to a bunch of 200 year-olds. I'll wait patiently for one of these reporters to correct him.

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And look who's gaining by this.  I'm so tired of winning!
 
 

My daughter is looking at grad programs. I have lobbied hard for her to apply to US schools, and this shit ain’t helping my cause. FFS, she has an open invitation and full ride to UT if she wants it…but her trust in our system is approaching zero.
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8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

My daughter is looking at grad programs. I have lobbied hard for her to apply to US schools, and this shit ain’t helping my cause. FFS, she has an open invitation and full ride to UT if she wants it…but her trust in our system is approaching zero.

 

Yup, my daughter is 15 hours from her bachelor's at UT and is looking to apply to a variety of elite PhD programs in the US.  Those plans may get put on hold.  Thanks, (f)Elon.

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Just now, TexArcher said:

If I were a bright young woman who could go anywhere to establish the next 60 years of my life, America wouldn't even be in my top 20 choices.

Schools like the University of London and the Sorbonne are climbing the charts.  (She has a minor in French which *might* make the latter possible.)

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29 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I'll wait patiently for one of these reporters to correct him.

Keep waiting.  He's kicking the malcontents out of the White House Correspondents Association and replacing them with MAGA media.

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11 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Trumpism is hedonism for assholes. It’s a license for callous shitheads to indulge their greediest, most inhumane impulses. So the idea that we should murder and/or displace an entire population of human beings, raze their homeland, and erect a tacky gilded monument to the Ugly American tourist on the ashes of this genocide couldn’t be more perfectly on brand.

Don’t forget the trans Hamas belly dancers. 
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32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

My daughter is looking at grad programs. I have lobbied hard for her to apply to US schools, and this shit ain’t helping my cause. FFS, she has an open invitation and full ride to UT if she wants it…but her trust in our system is approaching zero.

 

27 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

This fucking guy.  What a rambling dolt. 

You're rather harsh on Brisket.

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6 minutes ago, South Austin said:

 

You're rather harsh on Brisket.

Yeah, I know, but he's good for it.

Seriously though, popped over to the live Cabinet meeting and it was just as miserable as I had figured it would be.



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