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“$125?? Nice try fam $19k” -Eth

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@deluxe_pepe 🤮🤮

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

For the record, Drag Queen Story Hour now receives more city funding than the Department of Veterans Services.

Understand where we are.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Communism always goes the same way. They smile & promise you the world. Free this, free that, abundance for all! How? Don't ask!
Then they get into power, and the rationing begins. First a smiley ask. Then a demand. Then a bullet. "You used too much energy, comrade"

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@SeanMcCarthyCom Damn imagine how retarded you have to be to think low income housing can exist without rich people. My guy has never set foot in government housing and it shows

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

He did the budget with an $8bn bailout and delaying pension payments? Commie Mamdani put the NYC budget on Klarna LMAO.

Don't let communists run your city, folks.

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@iraqismoker2 @JaySwahSports @JUBBAMAYNE

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

My official statement on the budget, as read in chambers this evening, before I was muted:

"I’ve been a member of this city council going on five years now. And I’ve voted yes on the budget every year so far. All of them had problems. All of them contained things I didn’t like or agree with. But I’m not here to demand perfection, I’m here to work with what we have — within reason.

Unfortunately, this year is very different. And I must vote no.

Even in the context of our dysfunctional city government, this year’s budget represents a complete departure from reality, spending more money than we’ve ever spent — precisely when we can least afford it.

We have never seen a larger single-year increase in spending in the history of this city. Requiring not only new taxes from Albany, but pension deferrals and an eight billion dollar bailout from the Governor. And even still, the revenue projections are optimistic at best.

This isn’t a ‘balanced budget’ — it’s budget by bailout. A ticking time bomb.

And it’s the beginning of a fiscal death spiral that our current leadership will not be able to pull us out of, because they lack both the experience and the seriousness to do so.

What will we do next year? And the year after?

The only responsible way for our city to spend more is to grow the economy. New businesses, new private economic development, major investment. That’s how you grow an economy, and get more money into the city budget.

But we’re doing the opposite. Deliberately chasing away everything our city needs to sustain our spending with childish political attacks on very people we need most.

Our tax base is isn’t growing. It’s leaving.

The middle class, the financial sector, and businesses of all sizes are choosing to go elsewhere. And they’re being replaced with low-income foreigners and transplants who require significant subsidies just to survive here.

We’re trading investment banks and small businesses for delivery app drivers on welfare, and nonprofit workers whose paychecks ultimately come from government spending. That isn’t growth.

And when ordinary New Yorkers complain, they’re told to shut up and leave if they don’t like it. And that’s exactly what many are doing.

This is obviously unsustainable. But nobody in this chamber really seems to care.

And what are we getting for our money? We already spend more in real dollars AND per capita on everything from schools to housing to healthcare than anyone else in the country.

We can’t even build a public bathroom for less than three million dollars.

Why would anyone believe that shoveling even MORE money into this broken system will improve anything?

It won’t. I guarantee that we’ll all be sitting here again a year from now, with the exact same problems, listening to the exact same lectures about how the city needs even MORE money, AGAIN.

At what point do we, as a City Council, start to demand results before we allow more spending? When do we demand accountability?

The answer seems to be never. Because this spending isn’t really meant to fix anything. It’s meant to keep the machine going, keep the money flowing into the special interests and nonprofits and the political allies of the Mayor, with no real consideration for anything else.

I realize a lot of people don’t want to hear this, but we are a municipal government, not a sociology experiment or a political slush fund or the United Nations.

We are here keep the lights on, keep the water running, pave the roads, and put criminals in jail. That’s it. And we would be very well advised to get back to basics. Because we’re failing on nearly every count, other than our peerless ability to hand out free money.

Shame on this Council for pretending this budget is anything other than a disaster. I know that my single vote ultimately doesn’t matter here, but nonetheless I won’t put my name on it. I respectfully vote no."

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@ryancconnell @JaySwahSports

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@JaySwahSports @Zerigala69 Ohhhhh buddy ☠️☠️

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

this is f*cking gold

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic five weeks ago.

A friend on his team just showed me the exact Claude.md file he actually uses.

I dropped it into my setup. The very first response was different.

Not slightly different. Completely different.

Claude stopped giving generic answers and started working exactly the way I think.

Bookmark it before it gets lost in your feed.

Read it now, then check the article below.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

BREAKING: Claude can be used as your habit design coach trained in Atomic Habits to make new
behaviors stick in 30 days.
Here are 5 prompts to use it:

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Success has a way of testing how badly you want it right before it shows up.

Stay the course.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:

“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”

“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”

“I never take in any negativity.”

[Dovy🔌 @DovySimuMMA]

Merab says he faked his Covid vaccine for $100

He paid someone to make him a fake certificate

Neon: “why would you say that on stream?”

Merab: “I don’t care bro”

via @N3onOnYT

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@bigcontentguy @JUBBAMAYNE @JaySwahSports

[st1ne @SolSt1ne]

one fund owns about 1.5% of every public company on earth - more than $1.8 trillion built almost entirely from Norway's oil

it is the single largest investor in the world, and almost nobody outside finance can explain how it works

Jens Stoltenberg can - he shaped it as prime minister, led NATO for a decade, and now runs the country's finances

he just gave the full story on its 30th anniversary

45-min and you'll understand the playbook every other nation wishes it had copied

bookmark & watch today

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@nytimes @TheAthleticFC @JUBBAMAYNE @JaySwahSports who you got winning this episode of the oppression Olympics? While the Muslims have an explosive offense, the gays do have a real run it down your throat mentality and have home field advantage in Seattle.

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@Rachel__Nichols @JaySwahSports @JUBBAMAYNE
Losing the blazers will definitely improve our schools that libs made not require math or reading to graduateHS but teach ice protesting and gender studies in kindergarten.

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@TX4LIFE01 @BitoTx @FOS Lol thanks fam, it’s worse than you think. Unless of course you smoke Fenty!

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@KatieDaviscourt Welcome to PDX. The felony gets dropped and the rest is a slap on the wrist. He’ll be out immediately and do something worse soon.