I don't wanna hear this bullshit... My wife and I worked in restaurants for years.
I made my salary as a chef, she served... She still brought home more money than I made... $200-400/night...
If you can't afford your salary you can't afford to run a restaurant...
This shit is literally blowing my mind.
>Black man kills a white girl
>Has sex with her corpse
>Not charged with murder
>$15k bond
>Chud the Builder shoots a black man after he assaults him
>Doesn’t kill him
>Charged with attempted murder
>$1.25 MILLION dollar bond
We have a two tiered system of justice where criminals walk free and the innocent are imprisoned.
Ffs... Gotta find a temporary place to hold my assets until I can get Cold Storage... Suggestions? @daetalys guess you've seen the whole "non-technical shipping code" line?
🚨 HOLY CRAP! FBI Director Patel says leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center, which has now been indicted, was using donor to pay leaders of the KU KLUX KLAN to stage "HATE CRIMES"
"They used the FRAUDULENTLY raised money by lying to their donor network—THOUSANDS of Americans—to go ahead and actually PAY the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups.
"Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center—on TOP of perpetuating this widespread decade-long multimillion dollar fraud—conducted more criminal activity.
They attempted to HIDE their criminal activity from our financial banking network.
They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions that we rely on as everyday Americans were DECEIVED in believing that money was NOT coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud."
@FBIDirectorKash
Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.
Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.
Here's what happened:
Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."
And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.
Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.
The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."
Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.
Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.
Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.
Same playbook with Hanes:
Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."
Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.
But it gets even worse...
Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.
Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.
They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.
The mechanism is simple but terrifying:
If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.
Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."
Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.
Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.
So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.
You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.
"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."
3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.
This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.
And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.
"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.
Grok-4.20 just ranked #1 in Legal & Government on Chatbot Arena
It’s officially outperforming Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro
Grok is actively helping people navigate real lawsuits and do complex tax management (I've been personally using it for my own taxes)
The ability and accuracy to get high-level legal reasoning across different countries is an absolute game-changer
Grok can help you stop overpaying and save you real money
Observations on X over my tenure:
Past:
- Posts were shared out to your followers and non followers quickly based on heuristics and formulas
- If you wanted more reach, you would have to get more followers (a clear goal)
- As soon as you posted, the tweet would be sent to a lot of people at once, and you would have instant engagement - getting 30k impressions in an hour with 120K followers was normal for me back then
Now:
- Posts are shared to a small 'pool' of people
- The more followers you have, the pool is slightly increased
- You could have the best post / content ever, but if the initial pool does not react to it because it was not interesting to them, then it goes no where
- Your following account hardly matters any more except in some instances
- Engagement is delated - big time. Now most of the time you dont know if something is doing well or not until a day later sometimes, taking away much of the excitement of the platform and making it feel dead
- There are chosen accounts that get priority and are boosting, taking away impressions from everyone else
- Foreign accounts now appear on the timeline, even if you have zero interest in them, have ever interacted with them, and dont want to see them
The 'new' system in place only knows how people react to something - it doesn't know if something is good or not, how can it.
Instead of an organic system, we now have socialism - In an effort to make it 'fair' for everyone, now no one is seen since there is too much noise.
If something doesn't trigger the initial pool of people to react, then the post is effectively DOA -
This causes the majority of high impressions posts to be only extremely ADHD content, with either boobs or some other form of instant gratification posts to be pushed to the top.
This explains why so many accounts are not seen - the algo thinks whatever your posting is boring because there aren't explosions or boobs instantly that makes people want to watch it.
Here are some boobs to make this post more appealing, even though it has nothing to do with anything.
Want your blood to boil?
The average private sector American has 10-14 paid vacation days per year if they’re lucky.
Members of Congress have 98-105 vacation days per year paid for by private sector Americans.
Totally unacceptable.
It needs to change.
🚨 BREAKING: The House of Representatives has just PASSED a bill requiring AUTOMATIC deportation of illegals who commit welfare fraud, 231-186 🔥
This is a NO BRAINER! But of course, 186 Democrats voted AGAINST this.
REMINDER: Democrats are NOT ON THE SIDE of Americans.
The fraud encompassed in this bill includes:
- Social Security fraud,
- SNAP (food assistance) fraud,
- Mail fraud,
- Conspiracy to defraud the U.S.,
- Theft or bribery involving federal funds,
- Identification document fraud,
- And other similar crimes involving government funds or public benefits.