@PeterBruinsFan

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Proudly working class with a Masters degree. Make of it as you will. Trickster. I throw grenades of love.

About 109 billion people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10 million.

This stunning data visualization of human life by Max Roser was published in 2022.

Today there would be 805 green grains representing 8.05 billion people living on Earth. #science #art

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 45 years has shifted $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. That’s $50 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of working Americans.

The wealth doesn’t “trickle down.” It gushes up.

EIon Musk’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $249B

Jeff Bezos’s Wealth
2009: $6B
2023: $153B

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $105B

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
Worker tax rate: 13%

Pay workers.
Tax Billionaires.
Save our economy.

@MarkRuffalo I prompted ChatGPT to write a summary of a middlingly popular education book, and it was awful, clearly written by scraping reviews of the book (which apparently missed the point of the book). It’s going to be difficult to prove that OpenAI didn’t train itself on “Fair Use” materials alone. I doubt it’s going to be a game-changer…if it even goes to trial.
@MSNBC To quote Chomsky: “The only conspiracy is capitalism, and it’s not secret.”
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@MarkRuffalo America wouldn’t have this problem if you could have mustered more enthusiasm to vote for Clinton in 2016. And then America got a giant hate boner to vote out Trump. Trump is an idiot carnival barker but, policy-wise, much better than the vast majority of Republicans. Everyone needs to keep their motivation high. It can and will get much worse.
@nasa I’ve enjoyed the retrospective. Skylab, for me as a kid, was just something that was going to crash into the earth…lol

Don't take the bait! Debating someone with zero credibility or validity only helps them to gain status and spread lies.

By trying to negate their false ideas, you'll end up activating them. They win by making the difference between lies and truth seem like a matter of opinion.

Maddow on @MSNBC on a Friday afternoon. Shit getting real. 😂