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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 22h

"How many car dealership ads do you get in each commercial break, and how many of those ads have a college football player/coach" answers a whole lot of questions without even having to ask them

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 2d

If he couldn't manage that with COVID, I think he's going to have a hard time with it when he's even less popular.

I think Republicans would *like* for it to be true, but I don't think it is and I'm not gonna do their work for them by acting like it is

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 2d

There's only so much he can cook the midterms when his popularity is sub 30 percent with everyone who isn't Republican. These are the kinds of numbers that can turn every Republican gerrymander into blowout numbers in the midterms, if Dems would just take the chance

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 3d

There's no one more condescending to rural voters than the assholes who claim to speak for them. I can almost guarantee this dude has never once talked to a rural conservative before. A lot of them aren't shy about it

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 4d

Meanest thing anyone's said about Charlie Kirk yet

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 5d

Oh that's definitely a problem too, most of them are too chickenshit to go on the offense with that kind of stuff. But you also can't criticize hegseth's racist tattoos and defend a Nazi tattoo in the same breath

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5d

I am very much afraid that "this non nazi leftist was so dumb he spent 18 years wearing a nazi tattoo"is not the endorsement that you seem to think it is

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 5d

Because the press is going to be thrilled to ask every Democrat running what they think of the Democrat running with a Nazi tattoo. If you can't see that coming from a thousand miles out I don't know what to tell you. And every criticism of Israel will be met with some mention of it.

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 5d

Which is why this is a great time to find someone without a Nazi tattoo who won't be a drag on every other race in the country next year. There must be someone in Maine who can run on Platner's platform without having a Nazi tattoo or working for Blackwater.

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 5d

It doesn't just affect Maine. Just as an example, Mark Warner will absolutely be getting questions next year about how he feels about potentially serving with someone who has a Nazi tattoo. Every Democrat will, and the *only* reasonable answer is that they won't seat him if he wins

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 5d

Why does he deserve the benefit of the doubt? He's applying to be one of the 100 most powerful people in the country, with no track record, a Nazi tattoo for half his life, and experience working for Blackwater. He's not a friend who made an off color joke

Kawoold @kawoold.me · 6d

And the easiest way to do that is to tax people to incentivize what society views as more important. It's so much more efficient than shipping bread/people/houses across the country

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 6d

"There's no housing shortage in New York, why can't we just redistribute the housing in Iowa"

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 9d

It's right up there with "did he mean to lie, or does he just believe <obviously stupid/racist> thing?". It's a distinction without a difference

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 9d

For what it's worth (basically nothing in Python) you can provide type hints. It's not enforced at runtime, but for larger projects it's at least enough to keep you from completely losing your mind

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 9d

It is far past time to stop tip-toeing around people's feelings and start being upfront with members of the gerontocracy. Sometimes it is just time to take away the keys.

www.thedailybeast.com/police-repor...

Police Report Says Member of Congress, 88, Has Dementia

A police report says D.C.’s congressional delegate, who was scammed out of thousands, exhibits “early stages of dementia.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 10d

Even if they rule against the tariffs, the odds of them requiring the administration to reimburse is even lower

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 11d

Where it really falls apart is when you have any kind of internal tooling. Things like that need to be documented to the gills, and that documentation needs to be something the LLM has been trained on.

Fortunately developers just *love* spending time documenting things!

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 11d

The cuts are so jarring too. Not just the cuts between him and the Whitehouse, but also the little snap zooms they do on him.

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 11d

And if they can get on board with this being bad, maybe it'll be easier to convince them, or at least talk to them, about the absolute evil that is ICE

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 11d

It's an extremely visible thing you can point to and say "look, he's actually destroying American institutions". It's exactly the kind of thing that normal people can get worked up about, if they just see it happening.

The White House isn't his, it's ours, and it's worth making that point

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · May 23

I've received 100+ replies like this, claiming game revenue goes directly to executives & shareholders. So I checked & made this chart.

This is what happens when you buy a $69.99 game from EA, the company with the WORST reputation in the industry.

0.8% goes to c-suite. 53% goes to devs & workers.

A detailed table explains how a $69.99 purchase of a AAA video game is allocated across different cost categories. It has four columns: “Bucket,” “What it pays for,” “% of your payment,” and the dollar value out of $69.99. Eight spending categories are listed:

Labor costs for individual contributors and middle management – 53.2% or $37.23: salaries, bonuses, and benefits for ~13,400 engineers, artists, QA, producers, sales, and support staff.

C-suite compensation – 0.8% or $0.56: salary, bonus, equity awards, and benefits for the CEO and five other named executive officers.

Storefront & platform fees / hosting & payment costs – 7.0% or $4.90: fees to distributors like Steam, Sony, and Microsoft; data-center and bandwidth costs; manufacturing for physical units.

External dev tools & outsourcing – 10.0% or $7.00: engine and middleware licenses, motion-capture studios, co-development and localization contracts.

Paid advertising & promotions – 4.0% or $2.80: media buys, influencer deals, trailer production, and esports sponsorships.

Other overhead (non-labor) – 3.0% or $2.10: office leases, insurance, legal and audit fees, depreciation.

Taxes & interest – 5.0% or $3.50: corporate income tax and financing costs.

Net profit – 17.0% or $11.90: after-tax earnings either reinvested in business or returned to shareholders through buybacks and dividends.

The percentages total 100%, accounting for the full $69.99 retail price.

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 13d

Man a bunch of people put their whole necks out on the line for this Nazi mediocrity yesterday, and I hope it gets brought up every time they wanna be taken seriously

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 13d

... Not familiar with that one, but JFC someone get this guy out of here

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Kawoold @kawoold.me · 13d

Wait, do you mean the cover-up he got, or is there some third tattoo?

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