Creates cyborgs for a living.
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RhythmDoc retweeted
I am 50 years old. I have been working since I was 16 years old. I have no savings, I will die with my boots on, and retirement is a joke.
There is a trillionaire; and I am blessed with a wife, twelve children, and the patrimony and promise of 2000 years of Holy Mother Church.
Jun 12
I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
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RhythmDoc retweeted
Jun 12
I'm a bit angry.
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Jun 10
Shockingly few of the replies give the correct answer of Hollow Knight.
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I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.
As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.
But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.
After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?
Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?
Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).
Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?
The editors said it was too much, they explained.
The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.
It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.
And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.
Still fawning after all these years.
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Jun 3
It is incumbent upon the United States to protect the human rights of this religious minority. Samuel Colt and John Browning demand it of us as a moral imperative.
I have started a religion in the UK called Gunism.
A core belief of ours is that we should carry firearms and are therefore religiously exempt from any law prohibiting us
Who wants to join?
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RhythmDoc retweeted
May 29
Charitably, there are I think two ways to help seniors manage their property tax burdens:
1) Deferment. 17 states do this, more should. Basically allow property taxes to be punted onto the point of sale or the next owner.
2) Automatic citywide revenue-balancing rate-adjustment
May 28
Social security is inflation adjusted.
Medicare is taxpayer provided
The mortgage is paid off.
You're not raising kids.
You can afford a property tax bill which averages out to 1% of the equity you could withdraw from the house.
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RhythmDoc retweeted
May 27
The Cybertruck is objectively uglier, but is at least consistent with the ethos of Tesla fanboys.
The Luce is the result of a bunch of outside TED Talk "disruption" cultists deciding, for no reason, Fuck 80 years Ferrari, it's Year Zero and I am the captain now
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RhythmDoc retweeted
May 27
Educated people who value civic virtue do not stand with a party nominating an actual Nazi, a guy calling Oct 7 a “false flag,” and whatever that is in Michigan.
Criticize Republicans all you like—reject them entirely even—but let’s stop pretending that Democrats are virtuous.
As an unrepentant Romney voter, I’ll say this: the time has come to join the side you’re on. If you’re a staid, upper-middle class, educated man who values civic virtue, your place (and mine) is with the Democrats.
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RhythmDoc retweeted
May 22
I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
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May 17
As a native New Yorker, I really hate how good this is.
May 17
The vibes in NJ feel pretty great right now. The convergence in outcomes is the best I've ever seen.
Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - guys who own paving companies, guys who own marinas, ShopRite deli managers, Wawa shift leads, and a guy named Sal - have quietly become millionaires and nobody knows because they still drive a Silverado from 2008. Back of the envelope Taylor ham estimation.
Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job their whole life and easily get there. My cousin works at PSE&G. He has a boat.
Better yet, hiring is in full swing. Many tradesmen feel like their life's skill is more useful than ever. The day to day role of most jobs has stayed exactly the same for 40 years.
As a result,
1) Everyone's settled into a tried and true set of career paths: take over my uncle's HVAC, get my CDL, get into landscaping, marry into a pizza place. People are switching diners less and less. You can't betray your home diner.
2) There's a deep contentment about work (and its future). Why chase "tech" when you can own three rentals in Hoboken and complain about your tenants at a barbecue. Will my job exist in a few years? This is Jersey. The job is paving things. You hear the "I'm never leaving" conversation a lot, especially from people who tried Brooklyn for a year. They come back saying the energy was off. The energy was fine. They missed their mom.
3) The mid to late middle managers feel energized. Many have families and plenty of energy to open a pizzeria with their cousin Anthony. Not that Anthony. The other one. They don't particularly have any AI skills and they don't need any. Middle management is alive and well at PSE&G and you get a pension. My uncle retired at 58. He's been on a boat since 2019.
4) The rich aren't particularly humble either.
They're at the shore house. They've been at the shore house since 1987. Some have gone from <$150k to >$5M slowly, through a paving company, or by buying a duplex in Jersey City in 2003 and just kinda holding it. For some, they escape to LBI to live life, which means sitting on a deck. For others, they buy a boat just cuz, use it four times, and describe it as the best decision they ever made at every party for the rest of their life. I asked a contractor friend why he didn't retire. He said "and do what, Donna does NOT want me home all day."
I understand many reading this scoff at the simple pleasures of the Garden State. They live in places where the bagels are bad and they've made peace with it.
But the truth is, you can surf Belmar in the morning, skate the Asbury bowls in the afternoon, hike the Delaware Water Gap, and camp the Pine Barrens by nightfall. You can drive an hour and be anywhere. You can see Bruce at the Stone Pony for what feels like the 400th time and cry about it. The slice somehow tastes better than every slice in every other state. It's the water. It's always the water.
Unlike many other places, knowing a guy, having a guy, and being a guy is tightly correlated with outcomes in NJ. Need a permit? Tony's brother. Need a kidney? Probably still Tony's brother. Call him.
Ironically, a frequent side effect of this clarity is to spin up the very pork roll egg and cheese making everyone happy in hopes that you too can SPK your way to economic enlightenment. Salt pepper ketchup. Hard roll. Don't ask for it on a bagel. That's how civilizations fall.
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May 16
Challenge: Accepted.
May 16
After months of planning, Red Lobster executives believe they have cracked the code on Endless Shrimp. on.wsj.com/4uirrHk
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RhythmDoc retweeted
May 14
It is not unreasonable for people to criticize the unusual casting choices for a movie. It is also not unreasonable to say, "let's wait to see the movie before passing judgment." We used to be better at balancing opposing, reasonable arguments without excessive rancor.
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RhythmDoc retweeted
May 11
Brendan Fraser walked out of a Hollywood luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2003, past a police officer in the lobby, and could not bring himself to say what had just happened to him. He went home and told his wife. He stayed quiet about it for fifteen years.
The man who had groped him in that room was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that ran the Golden Globes. In the years after, Fraser sank into depression, watched the work dry up, and wondered if the silence that followed was a coincidence.
His body had its own bill coming. Fraser did most of his own stunts across three Mummy films. By the third one in 2008, he told GQ he was "put together with tape and ice." The surgeries that followed kept him in and out of hospitals for roughly seven years, including back operations, a partial knee replacement, and vocal cord repair.
His divorce became final in 2009. A judge ordered him to pay 900,000 dollars a year in alimony plus another 300,000 in child support. By 2013 he was back in court asking to reduce the payments because he no longer earned enough. In November 2016, his mother died of cancer in Seattle after several years of treatment. His eldest son is autistic. Almost none of it made the news.
In September 2022, his film The Whale premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The audience clapped for six minutes. Fraser sobbed on the balcony and tried to leave at one point, but the clapping wouldn't stop. In March 2023, at 54, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He thanked his three sons by name. The last years, he said, had felt like "a diving expedition on the bottom of the ocean," and his sons had been the ones holding the air line.
Last week, he sat on Jimmy Fallon's couch and said he is training to play Rick O'Connell again. "I'm doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape," he told Fallon. Universal has Mummy 4 penciled in for October 2027. He first played the character at 30, and he'll be 58 when the new one comes out.
May 9
Brendan Fraser dice que “estoy haciendo lo mejor que puedo” mientras se ejercita activamente para ponerse en forma para “The Mummy 4”.
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No credible records exist for this image, which has an embedded SynthID AI watermark and is identified as AI by AI detection platforms.
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May 10
The iPhone was released in 2008.
May 10
Another way to express the reposted chart is that the fertility rate peaked in 2007, which was 19 years ago.
We still underestimate the extent of the damage the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis (aka the "Great Recession") inflicted on society.
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May 9
All or almost all pharmaceuticals should be sold over the counter in all fifty states. Caveat emptor.
Antidepressants should be sold over the counter in all 50 states
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May 9
He is singing the song of my people.
May 8
The “prestige” professions of finance, tech, law etc are only available in high cost metros where you barely keep up with neighbors. The real arb is being a doctor or SMB owner in a random suburb where you can be the richest guy in the Costco parking lot
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RhythmDoc retweeted
Can’t believe this guy’s goal is to hoard a $10T net worth.
I would think with all that wealth, he would use it to help people more.
Like ending deaths in car accidents, or providing affordable transport for everyone, or offering internet to isolated people groups or something.
May 3
JUST IN: Elon Musk says his goal is to reach a $10 trillion net worth.
"$10T or bust"
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