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[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

A 25-year old married couple earning $150k will pay over $3k more in federal income tax in 2026 than a 65-year old married couple with the same income.

(note: assumes no social security - 65-year old couple is waiting to age 70 to get max benefit).

This is a fair tax policy?

[James @jamesbosgood]

@HVNYrefugee A, obviously

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[James @jamesbosgood]

What a joke. Stop tearing up our local course @LPGA @AstrosGolf @Chevron_Golf

[Joseph LaMagna @JosephLaMagna]

Next major up: the Chevron Championship at Memorial Park in Houston, where they’ve installed a 4-foot deep pool on No. 18 to continue the tradition of the winner jumping into water 🥴🥴🥴

[Joel Beall @JoelMBeall]

The Masters has radically changed over the last decade —gnomes, celebrities, sticky social content—to reach new, wider audiences. But can the Masters be everything for everyone without losing what it is?

https://t.co/VWj0DEThFE

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

If the average person getting $4k/mo from social security could have put that 12.4% of every paycheck into the S&P instead, they would currently be getting $32k/mo instead of $4k.

And their kids would continue to get that $32k/mo after they died.

Social Security is a scam.

[parks @parkersity_9]

If bartenders can go to jail for over-serving alcohol to someone who then kills another person, judges should go to jail for releasing criminals who do the same.

[James @jamesbosgood]

They ruined several resorts and mountain towns for a negative real return to shareholders #shrink

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Vail Resorts ($MTN) likely to open tomorrow down to where if you invested 10 years ago you’d have done as well putting your money in a hole. It’s time for a change to become more asset-light, sell off resorts, and allow character and differentiation to return to skiing.

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

Nobody wants to admit to this or be honest about it but the actual price everyone paid for the utter stupidity in the covid era was that the monetary supply doubled, which means everything inflated by 100% and that is actually why you feel like you can’t afford life anymore.

Stay home stay safe had a price. Now you’re paying it and you will continue to pay it for as long as you live. Food for thought next time someone tells you it’s a good idea to press pause on the economy.

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

> Perfect size to reach across screen with one thumb
> Premium materials
> No camera bump
> Touch ID
> Thin & light
> Beautiful dual tone finish

This design is the definition of perfection.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Sometimes I just marvel at what we've been through these years. Groceries are up in price 41 percent from 2019, all because of INSANE spending and money printing in the name of virus control. The story is wicked bonkers evil. No apologies, no taking responsibility, no justice.

[James @jamesbosgood]

Super lame. The equivalent would cost ~$4200 today and there are only 116 gold medals. Can’t even spare $500k for the winners…

[History Defined @historydefined]

Olympic gold medal 1908: 100% Gold vs 2024: 1% Gold

[Swingtrader @Swingtrader]

Brilliant article by @profplum99 - I don’t think this could have been articulated anyway possibly better.

https://t.co/UpG6MwvmiM

[OSINT Gorilla @GorillaOSINT]

donald trump and bill clinton seeing each other at epstein's house

[Mason Home Builder @bankertobuilder]

Millennials are craving Country Living.

So we built it for them.

For only $950k, they can live out in the country - 2.5 hours from downtown of the nearest city - on a beautiful 0.27 acre ranch with only a few dozen neighbors.

Enjoy the peace and quiet of true country living…for the next 18 months until major highway construction starts behind your backyard thanks to the expansion of the suburban sprawl.

[EB (Derogatory, Respectfully) @EllliotttB]

I cannot stress this enough, they need to perfect the breakfast burrito and go all in on breakfast burritos. I have been saying this.

[Jeff Park @dgt10011]

Look at this chart carefully. Realize that the growing deficit is mathematically unsolvable with a declining population in labor (#1 inlay) and increasing population in retirement (#1 outlay).

This is guaranteed to break in our lifetime.

Risk-free will become risk-guaranteed.

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

iPhone 5s was the best design ergonomically. Perfect size to reach across the screen with one thumb, no camera bulge, fingerprint sensor, nice materials, and 33% lighter than the latest iPhone 17 Air.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Eyeglasses aren’t opioids. There’s no reason we should need to see an optometrist to buy glasses. You don’t in the rest of the world, and you didn’t in the US either until optometrists lobbied aggressively under the banner of “public safety.”

For decades, opticians, trained with just a few weeks of coursework, tested vision and sold glasses directly, just like they still do in Europe, Asia, and most of the world. Outside the US, vision correction (opticians) is kept separate from medical eye care (ophthalmology). In the US, we created the field of optometry and then they lobbied hard to take over vision correction because there is more money in selling glasses than in doing medical tests.

By the 1970s, every state required prescriptions, shutting out opticians and cementing an optometrist monopoly.

The result: in Europe you can walk into a shop, get tested, and leave with glasses for about $50 all-in. In the US, you are forced into a $200 exam and $300 frames. What should be simple and cheap has been turned into a racket, and consumers pay the price.

Much like barber licensing (some states require 2,000 hours of training just to braid hair), this kind of gatekeeping drives up costs without protecting consumers. Vision correction should be cheap and accessible, not locked behind a monopoly!

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

The US dollar has lost nearly 30% of its purchasing power since 2020.

1/3 of your savings has been destroyed in half a decade.

The silent destruction of a generation.