“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

I’d actually be okay letting these self-centered assholes not pay property tax if there was a way to cut off their access to police, fire, ambulance, and every other public service that’s funded by their property taxes. Let their insurance go through the roof bc no one is coming to put a fire out… why should I care? I pay my property taxes.

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

What do we think here? I have mixed feelings. He's in a football game, concerned about a teammate and he gets pushed out of the way when he's doing nothing wrong. She's doing too much. She tried to manhandle him, he manhandled back. Ask him to back away, don't push him.

He stopped the shooter, but he didn't stop the shooting. That's the difference. Three kids and their teacher were already dead, and an unarmed teacher had tackled him first. YOU spent decades blocking laws that keep guns away from kids. Now you're taking a victory lap? Fuck that.

Oregon shooting leaves children and a teacher dead! And no discussion to ban guns! My take: - Gun supporters are accomplices. - The gunman was a coward who chose innocent, unarmed people to achieve his deviance. - Thoughts or prayers won’t help.

….we literally tried to warn you that this is what happens when abortion access isn’t accessible... ouch !!

TMZ obtained a text chain between Jonathan Newell and Jane Doe. On the evening of October 21, 2024, Jonathan apologizes to Jane and says, "You're an amazing person and I genuinely hope ur not catching as much heat from this as we r. We've been shutting down any stories we've heard but again I'm so so sorry."

This has the potential to be disastrous for the tech innovation in the U.S.. It means Microsoft cannot sponsor green cards and it could expand to other major firms. No new top talent almost all of which has advanced degrees in STEM.

If your argument is that Jane Doe consented to a threesome and did drugs so nothing else that happened to her was rape, you’re a repugnant human being who doesn’t understand consent. Rape doesn’t happen because women hang out with men or because they do drugs. Rape happens because rapists have learned that they can use those things as a handy excuse when they want to violate someone and then avoid justice. It is disgustingly clear that a sizable percentage of you think that a woman’s right to say “no” is conditional, and can be invalidated if she drinks too much or dresses revealingly or sleeps with other men, but that’s not actually the case. A man who ignores a woman’s “no” is a rapist, even if she’s stark naked and three sheets to the wind. If she’s too intoxicated to say no, guess what – you’re still a rapist, and like all rapists, you deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and then hanged by the neck until dead.

Men can consent by achieving an erection. In fight or flight moments, such as if they didn't consent to being raped, arteries would constrict and blood would be kept close to the heart...

Years from now, my grandkids will ask me how humanity allowed Gaza to happen. I still don’t have an answer for them 💔 xitter.cf/mhmd_s09/status/209257…

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…

very disturbing how men can be spending time with their children, holding the childen, watching the children's show, and still be thinking about sex

The new tax "will trigger a series of devastating effects for the US economy: disinvestment from the US economy, offshoring of US jobs, a decline in innovation and entrepreneurship, and an enormous blow to the US Treasury." cato.org/blog/dhs-adding-ano…

North African Muslim criminals have just broken into Spain from Morocco via Ceuta. Europe is under attack.

NEW: Woman who was caught on video dumping out a Knicks-themed trash can & stealing it during the parade revealed to be a JPMorgan Chase DEI executive — who has since been fired.

I understand that theft is a crime, but why should she lose her job over that? On what basis was she fired? You do something cringe in public and you lose your job? That is so stupid