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The problem with Social Security isn't "fraud."
The problem with Social Security is that as the rich have gotten richer, more of their income has escaped the cap on the SS payroll tax.
In fact, millionaires stop paying SS taxes today.
We can fix this by scrapping the cap.
WONDERUL NEWS!! Warren Buffett's son Howard has given $500M to Ukraine — he warns the US is making a historic mistake by pulling its support
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Zelenskys support in Ukraine went up 15 points to 67 after the Oval Office meeting.
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This is the craziest thing I have ever written. Many indicators are coming in that Trump fully intends to invade Greenland and Canada. “Annex” is just a nice word for killing Canadians/Greenlanders and seizing land we do not own for Elon Musk’s technologist dictatorship. It would cause the Armed Forces to mutiny and Civil War in America to start. Take this talk seriously. Read this assessment.
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For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme."
Un-fucking-real.
Yes! I have a premium model, but largely use it for images -- almost all my images from my substack over the last few months have been Gemini-created. The OpenAI image models are bizarre and overly dramatic. Interestingly, in an environment when humanists like me and @HenryOliver are having conversations about AI taste, there isn't yet enough attention paid to the visual capabilities. I can usually tell which model created which image. Yes it took me many back and forths to get the image of Sisyphus working on his laptop sitting on his rock; yes it took equally many to get the image of a chip covering the sun in an eclipse from the perspective of a university, but they are both excellent images and worth the time spent.
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