Carl Black

Life Observer, Truth Teller, Sustainable/Org Lover, Creative, Urban Explorer, Photographer, Volunteer, Writer, Listener, social media monster (per @cl_atlanta)

[Carl Black @Carl]

I'd forgotten that Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), while containing no words, contains the answer to every question in life.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@CathyJoeGPT @SundaeDivine @cindyhydesmith Excellent choice! I believe you’ll be much better served by that one. 🗳️

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@CathyJoeGPT @SundaeDivine Mississippi Senator @cindyhydesmith says you can just pick a different protein. She’s super helpful like that. 🙄

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@eric_adelson @MarriottBonvoy Better yet: @Marriott franchises could pay staff properly!

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@adampnathan E gets my vote for worst concourse anywhere.

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@SouthwestAir At what point are you going to fix this? Have uploaded screenshots hundreds of times for nearly 45 mins. Unreal

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@covie_93 We can tell she’s been through whatever required procedure(s) that must be performed on female MAGAts.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@BernieSanders 16M people. Much worse.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@adampnathan Exactly. Had this conversation at brunch yesterday. Hard to recommend any premium card to average folks who don’t want to play games.

[Ferrek 🌲🔻🌲 @TugboatBowline]

@dieworkwear They survived desegregation in Texas in the 60's but couldn't survive two years of private equity ownership

[Carl Black @Carl]

@theefamilyjules @kpottermn Actually, I realized there are a couple of differences: status is effective as soon as you’re approved (no qualifying flight requirement) and it works for those who are disqualified from the regular challenge if they’ve completed it in recent years.

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@theefamilyjules @kpottermn It looks essentially the same. The regular match is 4500 PQP, and this is $4,500. Seems they’re spelling it out since DL folks are used to MQDs.

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@BrianNorgard @united This is just a link to the ongoing status match. Nothing special here.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@ButFirstDignity @adampnathan I was dumbfounded to see that item as an exclusive preorder option when flying SFO>ATL this month. What does that cost them, $8? If F pax want that, they should just buy at the airport, where it will at least be hot and fresh.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@ChipotleTweets Large chips and guacamole + cilantro lime sauce were left out of my very delayed Chipotlane order. Pepper gave credit for the chips but not the sauce. It’s always frustrating that AI gives less than what was lost, not more.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@_sn_n Except most of us didn���t vote that way. The angry person screaming about elections being stolen did just that.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@StaceyJSpiehler CFA in general is that way. Artificial flavor, MSG, etc. There are so many better options.

[Carl Black @Carl]

@StaceyJSpiehler Guess I’m now in the right place, having lived most of my adult life in #3

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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[Carl Black @Carl]

@FullOfGraceUS @HunterBiden Because neither their wives nor Peter Thiel are putting out.