A few things about this giant dividend payout by an indebted company with pension liabilities and a low-wage workforce that worked through the pandemic so that white shoe lawyers & economists could safely work from home & which is about to be bought.
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IDK folks but it's almost like people whose entire job is to comment on discourse and flatten real world asymmetries of power into neatly balanced clauses that pivot on meaningless moralistic abstractions will somehow inevitably overrate the power of people talking about things

There were 8 murders on the NYC subway last year. There were over 760 million riders. Odds of getting murdered on a subway ride: 1 in 95 million. If you ride 700 times per year, odds are still less than 1 in a million.

Odds of dying in a car accident: 1 in 8,500.

False populism is a scourge of our age. The blue check obsession is ridiculous. Yes it apportions a minor degree of privilege on this dumb site, but nothing substantive and it's embarrassing to obsess over it. Many blue checks are not conventional 'elites.' I make $50k/year.

I see a David Sacks tweet and I see his last name and for some reason immediately think of him getting a wiffle ball bat to the balls funniest home videos style

Just want to point out that the person deriding elites is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is helping his good friend, the richest person alive, decide the future of this site, with little to no public input.

Democratic Party leaders in New York have been noticeably silent about Starbucks’ escalation of illegal union busting in our state

Edward Snowden it's more akin to being afraid of putting cats in charge of vital public services

The hilarious tragedy of Elon Musk is he really wants to post but he can’t. The man can’t post. It’s not in his blood and it never will be. He can spend all the money in the world and he’ll never be a poster. The real ones know exactly what I mean.

I would like to pay tribute to my good friend Simon, permanently banned from Twitter after switching his display name to be Elon Musk and posting. Forever silenced, so that freedom of speech may live on. I salute his sacrifice.

I'm only half joking when I say this understanding of politics is why a guy like Ed was hirable to CIA recruiters. What does 'leave people alone' mean when eg landlords want to raise rents and evict or there's a movement for land reform?

I’m a food influencer now.

Bolsonaro tells his supporters to clear the roadblocks, says “please don’t think badly of me”. Losing the election really broke him, what kind of aspiring fascist strongman is this?

i'm not sure what the complaint is here, but also the billionaires are funding the election deniers? twitter.com/JimPethokoukis…

Insulin is grown in huge vats by modified bacteria for basically no cost. It was the intention of the people who developed this technique that no one who need it ever be without. It does not have any justification costing any amount of money.

The Fed is going to keep raising interest rates until the dude at Arby's loses the fifty cent raise he got a year ago while the CEO of Moderna will be able to keep every last penny of his $926 million golden parachute. This is what a rigged and corrupt economy looks like.