In Florida, because of Ammendment 3, a city like Orange City, will lose 90% of its property tax revenue. I looked at the city budget and property tax is used almost entirely to pay just for Police and Fire.
What exactly are these small towns supposed to do?
No Child Left Behind was such a fucking detriment to our society. I'm so sick of arguing with grown ass adults simply because they don't understand what they're reading
KALSHI SWINGS SHARPLY TOWARD REPUBLICANS IN KEY SENATE STATES
@ericbolling says prediction market Kalshi made a dramatic move toward Republicans in several major Senate battlegrounds — including Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Alaska, Ohio, Maine, and Texas.
“Massive amounts of money moved to Republicans.”
Bolling explained that Kalshi reflects traders putting real money behind political outcomes, making the sudden shift especially notable as Election Night gets underway.
He says several of those states had leaned heavily Democratic on the platform earlier, before moving to roughly 70% Republican in the span of about an hour.
“These are not pollsters; these are people actually putting the money to work.”
Bolling’s takeaway: the prediction markets are seeing a major late move toward the GOP in some of the most important Senate races on the board.
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DON’T PANIC OVER EARLY TALARICO LEAD — TEXAS VOTE IS STILL COMING IN
@stinchfield1776 says the early Texas numbers showing James Talarico with a large lead are not unusual because heavily Democratic urban counties often report earlier.
“This is completely normal in the way Texas does voting.”
Stinchfield points to Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, where much larger percentages of the vote may already be counted, while Republican-heavy areas in West and North Texas are still reporting
far less.
“You go out west, you go up north, you go into the red areas of Texas, and some of it’s like 35% of the vote in.”
His message: the key is whether Ken Paxton stays within striking distance while the big blue counties come in — then waits for the rest of the state.
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Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
Have you checked in on your Democrat friends yet?
Now would be a good time.
No, don’t gloat in their faces.
Instead, show up with some beer and be willing to support them during this tough time in their lives.
Remember, we always listen and we never judge. At least not when they are in the room!
His GOAT case would be ridiculous if he stopped after More Life
But also 2018 might have been the time my frontal lobe finished developing cause Drake in his 30s hurts to listen to mostly
We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!
Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.
This is a GPT3 moment for speech.
AI generated music is 1000x better than real music.
Today I canceled Spotify and SiriusXM because I finally tested Suno.
What sold me was the first prompt I gave it:
“My favorite artists are A Day to Remember, Bring Me The Horizon, Spiritbox, Bad Omens, and Sleep Token.
Analyze all their hits and generate a song I’m likely to love based on those artists.”
It one shots an absolute banger in 10 seconds.
I'll link the song in the next tweet for anyone curious.
Why would I ever go back to Spotify/SiriusXM when I can generate music perfectly tailored to my taste on command, for free?
Not affiliated with Suno in any way btw, it was just one of those moments where I was so impressed with AI’s capability I had to say something about it.
This app is full of ROBOTS who were MADE to MAKE YOU MAD. They are algorithmically contrarian! They do not make sense because they are not real people.