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Jefferson retweeted
Believing that Cash for Clunkers are the primary cause of today’s sky-high used car prices requires you to think that removing 700,000 cars with an average age of 14 years from the market in 2009 had a larger impact than removing 2,000,000 cars with an average age of 0 years in 2020-2021, among other things.
Jefferson retweeted
I’m young. I’m raising two kids. Why would I pay Social Security 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.
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Jefferson retweeted
Perhaps the best thing to remember when we see riots and arson attacks on historic buildings in France, or hundreds of drug addicts sprawled out on the streets of San Francisco, or thousands of murders per year in America’s cities, is that things don’t have to be this way. There are places in the world that you can visit that are not like this. There are a set of policy choices that we can make at any time that would ensure these things simply don’t happen, if our civilization had the will to enact them
Jefferson retweeted
If you solution to Social Security insolvency involves raising taxes on the blue line to give more benefits to the orange line, you should at least acknowledge the profound intergenerational injustice involved.
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Did you know if your house on the Chesapeake Bay is in Virginia, the water 15 feet off your dock is in Maryland. @GovernorVA, seize the water rights. Restore the Chesapeake to its once and future GLORY!
Jefferson retweeted
People say California is soft on crime but if you systemically torture and poison a colleague over two years you will serve EVERY LAST MINUTE of your probation.
A Berkeley chemical engineer who suffered years of unexplained illness discovered through a spy camera from Amazon that her coworker, David Xu, was poisoning her food and water with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019. The victim experienced significant health problems and at times required emergency care at a hospital. Newly released video shows Xu appearing to put a substance in her water bottle in 2019.
Xu was arrested that year and charged with attempted murder and two counts of poisoning, offenses that could have sent him to prison for life. But under a plea deal, the attempted murder charge and one poisoning count were dropped. Xu pleaded no contest to one felony poisoning charge and received two years of probation, with credit for one day served. He completed probation in March and is now seeking to have his felony conviction dismissed.
Jefferson retweeted
Jobs was a terrible person. Period.
Anyone with a brain could sus it out very quickly.
In 1975, Steve Jobs told Steve Wozniak that Atari had paid them $700 for a game they built together. He handed Woz a check for $350.
Atari had actually paid Jobs about $5,000.
In the video below, Woz says: "Who cares about money? Well, you do care about friendship and honesty."
Jobs was working the night shift at Atari. The company wanted a new arcade game called Breakout, built with as few chips as possible.
Jobs couldn't build it. Woz could. He already had a full-time job at Hewlett-Packard, and Jobs said they had four days. Woz went four days with no sleep. Both of them came down with mono.
Woz did it in 45 chips. Atari's own engineers were using 150 or more.
He took his $350 and was happy with it. Jobs took the rest and went up to Oregon to buy into a farm.
About ten years later, Woz read the real number in a book about Atari. By then the two of them had built Apple, and Woz was a multimillionaire.
If Jobs had just told him he needed the money, Woz says, "I would say take it all."
It wasn't the last time. Before Apple went public in 1980, Jobs refused to give stock options to Daniel Kottke, his friend since college, who had helped build the first Apple computers.
Woz did the opposite. He sold his own shares cheaply to Kottke and other early employees who had been left out.
One friend kept almost all of a $5,000 bonus. The other gave away millions.
Was Jobs a genius who knew what business takes, or just a bad friend?
Jefferson retweeted
"I spent my entire life planning for retirement with Social Security."
That's really the difference, because as a Millennial, it's a *literal zero* on my personal balance sheet.
I'm not planning my life around a government handout. Doesn't matter to me if it's cut entirely.
Usually I agree with you and I’m a staunch Republican but if you take away my Social Security I’m a Democrat for the first time in my life. I spent my entire life planning for retirement with Social Security a major part of it and paid into the systems as a young person so that the older generation could have some support
I’ll make a deal with you, pay me back every penny I put into it and every penny my employers put into it on my behalf at 5% interest and you can take away the monthly checks.
Jefferson retweeted
Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.
He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."
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Jefferson retweeted
Defenders of Social Security need to decide whether it’s meant to function as a personal retirement plan or redistribution.
