private equity is buying up nursing homes so they can drain boomer estates in the final years of their lives. but don't worry, more than half of states have filial piety laws, so those private equity nursing homes will be able to use lawsuits to take your personal money too
The theory that Katie Z got to cosplay for a week so that she can claim "executive privelege" is appealing, but it requires planning and foresight
Waymo is cops. It's a remote control car data scraper and surveillance system pretending to be a cab. The secondary revenue stream is you paying for a ride. The main source is selling data. And they're dangerous as hell. I'm always amazed how many people are unwilling to see that shit.
jentrification ♎@jentrification.com · 21h agoso banks are using waymo footage to repossess vehicles?
there is a kind of collective suicidal exhaustion in the 70+ crowd as though the unspoken wish is to beat the end of civilization by being entombed alive with their family and possessions to all die together, the friction of living finally at an end, suburban pharoahood culminated
Politico@politico.com · 2d ago“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.
While I agree with this (we'd all still be drinking MGD without Billy Beer) I don't know how rolling this out in the Raw Milk era is going to go
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterdayWASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court agrees to review Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits in private homes.
New America (formerly New Mexico), not to be confused with the great states of New America (formerly New Jersey) and New America (formerly New Hampshire) or the great states North America or South America or West America).
AOC's campaign spending reflects political theory: She's transferred $1 million to help Abdul El-Sayed. She argues that "Once you elect one person like that, people will then catch on, and we will start electing more people like that again." thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/who-is-win...
Who is winning the 2028 money primary?
JB Pritzker drops money bombs, AOC is cautiously investing and Mark Kelly opens the warchest while Newsom and Harris keep their powder dry.
thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com
A mozzarella stick is the snack you eat while you figure out what snack you are going to eat
Why, this would only make sense if... [fetches megaphone] THE PURPOSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TO SET THE LEFTMOST BOUNDARY OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN AMERICA, NOT TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVE ANYTHING NEAR THOSE BOUNDARIES
Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social · 2d ago"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville
obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops
I'm going to file "grievances by ignorant, solvent homeowners" wayyyyyy down at the bottom of the list of things that could use attention right now
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 2d agoi think a big tell on what is actually going on here is that it's always framed around "i paid my home off, why do i need to keep paying taxes." when you have a mortgage your taxes are almost always just rolled into that payment so a lot of ppl don't think abt it, esp if they're stupid
whenever i see a pastry in a showcase, my first instinct is to set it free
part of getting your breeding license is promising you won’t make a kaiju dog
You can see the silhouettes of people taking pictures beneath the gateway arch at night projected up onto its legs :)
Hey man, amazing seminar. I'd really love to do business some time. *hands you a business card and all that's on it is this image*
As long as Elon is getting ideas from the back of Popular Mechanics I want to see him in that Genuine French Beret that's been running a 1/9 page ad for 40+ years
this reminds me of the Food Truck Mafia in DC www.nbcnews.com/news/world/l...
Behind the shelves of candy, a darker side to London's mysterious American candy stores
A rash of the stores has taken over one of the top shopping streets in the British capital. The question confounding officials: Where did they come from?
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thinking about becoming a prolific vandal in the next city i move to
The part of the election runup where every day brings videos of Trump getting up in front of some battleground audience in his dumb hat and going "frankly you're terrible people, really disgusting. A bunch of stupid people and their awful kids. [long break for laughter and applause] Ugly as shit,"
there are two and a half more weeks where the president believes he will not lose congress if he is more racist than the day before, and then we will be able to lurch to revenge for not enabling this fantasy
I don't think Paul Hollywood has ever eaten human flesh but he *has* definitely fucked bread dough
the Lord is my shepherd, He shaves my entire body to make sweaters
