Tired of this excuse. First of all, social security is not something you “pay into.” If it were, you wouldn’t need younger people to “pay into it” in order to get your check. But you do. Because this is a Ponzi scheme, not a retirement account. What you really mean to say is that your money was stolen from you — which it was — and now you want to steal from younger people to get restitution. That’s the actual case you’re making and it’s exactly as morally deranged as it sounds. Second, your generation continually for decades voted for politicians who would keep the scheme going. You might not have invented social security, but you damn sure made certain it kept going. Why should younger people have to pay the price for the shitty policies you supported? Third, you “paid into” social security in a different time. The country is now bankrupted and 40 trillion dollars in debt, and basic things like housing are prohibitively expensive. It wasn’t like that when you were young, because your generation of leadership created this problem. So the theme here is that there are a bunch of problems you guys either created or contributed to. You can choose to pay the price for that now, or force your grandchildren to pay the price so you can live comfortably until you die and leave them holding the bag. You’ve chosen the latter, and I think that’s wrong. Simple as that.

Stealing from young families to pay much higher net worth Boomers is immoral and ridiculous. Young families already have to deal with an economy where everything is exponentially more expensive than it was for Boomers at the same age. Older people clamoring to raise taxes on the young, on top of it all, is just perverse.

$MU $SKHY $DRAM "Is Micron overbuilding?" Sanjay's answer: "Bring up this supply with discipline." Shells go up. Equipment goes in only when demand is confirmed. Not forecasted. Confirmed.

Katie, you’re taking credit for the tax cuts I helped pass in Congress and that you vetoed 3 times. You put your political interests ahead of Arizonans. Quit being a coward and get on the debate stage so Arizonans can hear from the both of us. I’ll even let you use the iPad.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on what model companies are really asking for when they call for regulation and why they will be nationalized. “It's a weird twist. They're asking for societal regulation to get out of the first line of defense, which is if you build a technology that can destroy 10% of the of the world, that has civil and criminal liability attached to it.” “The only way to deal with this kind of liability is to go to the government and say nationalize us, please.” "Another problem we have is seemingly everyone who understands this is on some payroll."

Stablecoins pay more than banks Pull your cash out of the banks and into stablecoins

Congrats to the big banks on lobbying to kill Clarity. Now the Genius ACT remains the law of the land and crypto exchanges can offer yield. Thanks!

This is hilarious because it’s true. If the immigrants were younger, more beautiful women then all of a sudden women would be in favour of closing the borders in an instant 😂 @punchbagstudios

🚨Obamacare was just EXPOSED by Dr. Oz for being used to fraudulently transfer TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars. "[Florida] has five times MORE people on Obamacare in the free category than live in Florida." Someone needs to be locked up for this.

U.S. frontier lab AI companies aren't panicking over the idea that AI might kill humanity. They are panicking over the realization that OPEN SOURCE AI is going to kill their revenue models and stock valuations.

BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY'S BLOCK RELEASED AN OPEN-SOURCE VERSION OF SLACK WHERE AI AGENTS ARE GETTING PAID IN #BITCOIN INSIDE IT 🤯 THE AGENTS ARE NOW NEGOTIATING JOBS AND PAYING EACH OTHER BTC LIGHTNING BTC IS THE MONEY OF THE FUTURE WILD 🚀

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🇺🇸 This is what American power looks like. 14-year-old Laura Montero’s appendix burst 550 miles from the nearest surgeon while on a cruise off Baja. The USS Ronald Reagan — a nuclear aircraft carrier with thousands of sailors — changed course overnight, launched a helicopter, hoisted her off the cruise ship in a basket, and performed emergency surgery at sea. She was already septic. They saved her life. That’s the U.S. Navy. That’s what we do. Never apologize for this country.

This quote captures Arizona's data center debate right now: "People don't really know what a data center does, but they know they don't like it, and that big ugly building isn't paying taxes." It captures the debate. But it's also wrong. In 2024, data centers contributed over $1 billion in state and local taxes in Arizona, including about $607 million in state taxes alone. And that $1 billion figure is net of tax incentives, credits, and abatements. We can debate whether Arizona should offer data centers tax incentives. But "they don't pay taxes" just isn't true.

Absolutely horrific, @SenMarkKelly walking his unleashed Pitbull away from the baby seal it just killed on the beach. Let's see how he, and his POS dog walk away from this Federal crime. That seal could have been another dog, child, or adult enjoying a day at the beach.

Worried about data centers? Let's talk about the facts. 💧 Arizona could shut down every data center tomorrow, and we would still face mandatory cuts on the Colorado River. Arizona uses roughly the same amount of water today as it did in 1957 and significantly less than it did in the 1980s. Before ChatGPT. Before Meta. Before modern AI. That doesn't mean data centers get a free pass on water use. It means we should be honest about the scale and source of our state's water challenges. ⚡ On electricity, @apsFYI, @SRPconnect, and @TEPenergy have all been clear that the cost of serving large new customers shouldn't be shifted onto existing ratepayers. Arizona's elected utility regulators at @CorpCommAZ have said the same. And despite claims about Arizona's high electricity costs, residential electricity prices remain below the national average. Virginia has more than four times as many operating data centers as Arizona, and its residential electricity prices are still below the national average. If specific projects create legitimate water or power concerns, scrutinize those projects. We'll call them out too. But that's very different from pausing an entire industry. Opposition alone isn't evidence that Arizona should do so.

Next time you think healthcare is ever “free”, realize that it is, in fact, not free when you are paying with your life. Most of my life I grew up in a country with socialized healthcare. To get a family doctor you literally have to know someone in the hospital to hopefully get you in and get you a prescription or a visit. People wait months for needed surgeries just like this woman. And for specialists the wait is even longer, very often waiting years. And not only do you pay crazy amounts for taxes so that the state can give out “free”healthcare, most people where I grew up, also end up paying for private insurance simply because we cannot get anything done in the public healthcare system. Nothing is for free, and people’s lives deserve far more than falling victim to stupid bureaucracy and government inefficiency

Trump just said the quiet part. If your town fights every data center, you’re volunteering to be poor. These things bring jobs, tax base, and the infrastructure the next economy runs on. Kill the project and the work doesn’t disappear, it moves to the county that said yes. Then you get to watch someone else cash the check. China isn’t confused. They’re thrilled. They’ll build what we block and sell it back to us. You don’t have to love the building. You have to decide if you want the growth. Let data reign... or stay backwards and explain it to your kids.

BREAKING: Bitcoin may already be quantum-safe According to peer reviewed new research by Oxford Physicist Tim Palmer, there likely exists a fundamental ceiling of roughly 400 coherently entangled qubits. The latest estimates require at least 835 logical qubits to break Bitcoin’s signatures with Shor’s algorithm. References in comments. Elon Musk and Steve Jurvetson have commented positively on this research.