Rich Santalesa

Attorney & lawyer focused on #infolaw #technology #privacy #cybersecurity #infosec #trademarks & IP; writer/editor, RichNet, rower, epee fencer & beekeeper.

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

@kaotik747 I thank our founders in the US for the Second Amendment!

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@paulsaladinomd No. You're just a bullshit artisst.

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@infantrydort That's a mike drop post.

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@kaitlancollins Stupid much?

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@Bananicon @WorstToiletInSC @mooniegirl_ Malarkey

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@burkov @TheEconomist Sure thing dude. Put the bong down.

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@TheEconomist In other worlds, the Democrats suffer mental health issues where ever they are.

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@CoachJoeShehan @infantrydort Yep. They should read up on the Balkans post-Yugoslavia breakup. Nothing was clean. No one was no a potential target.

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This was a good one.

[Grummz @Grummz]

Okay, this is the best way to explain why AI Slop is not what you think.

By using AI Denzel Washington to explain it all. This is actually really good. Well written, directed and generated.

It's about you not needing the studios anymore.

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@999veronica999 @delilahmused @magills_ Glad you're not President then. Feel free to run.

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@DianeCox741868 @SteveGuest Sod off, Swampy.

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@realBrandonGill Reminds me why I quit my ABA membership

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@kharyp Not accepting your terms.

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Flushing NY is where I lived for a solid part of my life. I'm absolutely not surprised.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Nick Shirley uncovers an adult day care in Flushing, Queens with 7,000 phantom members.

Nick: “This public document says you have 7,899 members.”

Employee: “No, we don’t have 7,000 members.”

Nick: “So you’re overbilling then? You’re getting paid $1,600 per patient — that’s how you got $12.9 million in 2024.”

Employee: “Please leave.”

American taxpayer dollars at work.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just so we are all on the same page:

>White male surrounded by Black males
>Black males ASSAULT White male on camera
>White male gets arrested (???)
>By White female cop (?!!)
>Police ask for footage not to be shared

...what are we even doing here?!

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https://t.co/Fx4nJ53v9g #AI

[Clinton @614clinton]

I forgot to post my D-Day joke yesterday, so here it is! 😂

An old veteran was looking through his bag for his passport. The woman on passport control asked him, “Have you visited France before?”

“Yes,” replied the old man.

Sarcastically she responded, “Well surely you should know to have your passport ready,” to which he answered, “I didn't have to show it last time.”

“Impossible!!” she barked.

The old man looked her straight in the eye and said, "Last time, when I landed on D-Day in 1944, I couldn't find a dadgum Frenchman to give it to.”

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

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@BjornLomborg Somebody better tell Harrison Ford.