My daughter works full time here in Florida. Let me run her numbers. State minimum wage is $14/hour. She’s making $15. 40 hours a week = $600/week That’s about $2,600/month before taxes. Florida has no state income tax, the thing they love to sell you on. After federal and FICA, she takes home roughly $2,200. Average one-bedroom in our area? About $1,600. That’s 73% of her entire paycheck gone to rent before she eats a single meal. That leaves her around $600 a month for: groceries gas car insurance health insurance phone emergencies savings Car insurance alone eats a huge chunk of that in this state. She works 40 hours a week and still can’t save a dollar. Not because she’s careless. Because there’s nothing left to save. I spent thirty years paying off a house here. She’s doing the same thing I did at her age, working full time, and she can’t even afford a one-bedroom apartment. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s not avocado toast. The floor moved and nobody lowered the ceiling. Working full time should be enough to afford a roof over your head. In Florida, it barely covers the rent on one.

You keep saying you don’t have time, he did this in 27 seconds.

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NETTR is just Marcuse's "Liberating Tolerance" for "New Right" chuds. Marcuse: "Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left." Just swap Left and Right and define "Right" as "based" chuds.

Want to know if your wife is hot? Ask her how she feels about Sydney Sweeney. Want to know if she’s stupid? Ask her how she feels about Kamala Harris. What to know if she’s evil? Ask her how she feels about Lindsay Clancy.

Seriously there so many bosses that are literally just this

not picking a side is picking a side

I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.   But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.   I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.   I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction. But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

At times, the joy that life attacks me with is unbearable and leads to gasping hysterical laughter. I find myself completely out of control and wonder how could life could surprise me again and again and again, so completely. How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin.