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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

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Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

"Let them eat a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing."

Bitcoin was invented 16 years ago. If crypto provided any utility beyond buying drugs online, creating a new form of gambling or indulging Libertarian anti-state fantasies, it would have broken into the mainstream by now.

fuck around and find out? ha ha.. skill issue, my friedn. i regularly find out w/o fucking around at all

One thing I kind of hate about the customer experience in 2025 is that everything sucks ass but then asks you to take a five minute survey on it sucking ass

Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Culture war or class war?

“Don’t replace the culture war with class war” is such a fun way of saying, “Please don’t unionize, I just bought a yacht that parks inside another yacht.”

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

oh my god

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

This is unfortunately just truth. If they want their bailout, their message needs to be tailored to the mad king they are currently dealing with.

Just so that I am clear then, this technology doesn’t replace trained employees?

Is this how we get management to abandon ai?

“If you replace your staff with ai, you are depriving yourself of valuable scapegoat strategies. Hi, I’m Bill Lumbergh and I’m here to talk to you about ai, mmmkay?”

Just finished, The Flesh King by @richardkadrey.bsky.social .

I love this series. The characters have a great dynamic, the monsters are nasty as hell, and the story is fast-moving, but still has plenty of twists. The monster POV sections are chilling, like they were in the last book.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Dudemeister: “Hey Bros, you know how we want to sell AI search results as a tailored solution, without, you know, tailoring shit? But Pres-Stone’s dad keeps saying we will get sued, and I quote, ‘to hell and back?’ I solved it. We just add, ‘Nuh-uh’ to the Terms.”

Bros: “I think he’s done it!”

This is very true. Entire industries with vc proposals claiming unlimited growth in the separating-people-from-their-money departments. Not a single person with a fiduciary duty around.
It reminds me of the old cartoons, when a cloud of termites would sweep thru the screen and leave nothing behind.

YouTube video by Hank Green This Autism Stat Makes No Sense

I think this is the angriest I've seen @hankgreen.bsky.social get. "Lawyers doing lawyer shit." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpS...

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

That would definitely be a nice surprise! I wish my corner of the state had less of a presence. Just a bunch of faceless people here discussing our collective love of leopards.

HEY! Everything SUCKS!

But force me to wear a duck on my head? For CHARITY???

That’s aces!

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Sam Reich, the host of Game Changers, doing a lewd, lascivious, fandango. The captioning reads, “it feels like an animal that I’ve released from a cage.”

So, my wife and I were watching the Samalamadingdong episode of @gamechangershow.bsky.social , when I paused the episode. She couldn’t stop laughing, and, while I am sure what I was saying was hilarious, it didn’t merit that level of reaction. Looked back at the screen to find this freeze frame:

In my state, these machines often have those gas station slot machines next to them. I told my coworkers, if I ever win the lottery, I am retiring and parking myself at one of those, trying to discourage everyone who walks up. That way I am a customer and the employees might not chase me off.

ADHD PROS:
- brain go fast
- it feels like magic sometimes
- when the threads align i am God

ADHD CONS:
- brain go fast
- oh my god please focus on what i want to focus on
- can someone tell me how to start things