I think they’re talking about people you may have lost contact with. Where do you find anyone for a quick text? Facebook. What is the substitute platform for finding just about anyone?

Shut up, Wesley!

The byline for everyone around but not in the Trump administration right now.

Wait. Events are moving too fast to keep up with, now free speech is illegal. Great.

Unless you live inside a major city in America, you can’t get to work without a vehicle. It’s either have a car or be homeless.

They were manufacturing original Volkswagen beetles in Brazil and Mexico up until 2003?. Illegal to sell in the USA.

So our government is now doubling as advertising executives?

Dementia. Allegedly.

If “engagement” is a tap in, which this article is not clear on, then it’s a piss poor measurement of engagement.

I think bots are “good” for making an item appear viral through artificial amplification of visibility. Of note, the headlines in Gaza and Israel pre 2024 election were a deluge. Multiples every day. Post election, that deluge of posts dropped abruptly, to 0-1 a day.

There also needs to be a distinction between passive and active engagement.

I love jeans, I don’t love the almost fake pockets that barely hold an ID card in women’s jeans.

Any of these have actual pockets?

Wakefield was paid to create that paper and he lost his medical license for his lack of ethics. RFK wants to study him.

What was RFK’s profession? Did he have one besides being a Kennedy? Did he study anything legitimate in depth in his life?

Isn’t this President Musk’s baby? This will never happen.

It’s the high tech higher money version of taking advantage of migrant workers. It’s like legal indentured service for a visa, and you can bypass some of those pesky labor laws.

A large flip book, maybe. Flip it open and use it like a 15” tablet.

The shipping rates will shock you but yes, you can find so many useful things on this site.

To be fair, economics is not intuitive. Half of it is built out of unicorn dust and human imagination. How else would bitcoin even exist? For those of you who are economists and love the money side, vs the behavioral side, that’s great, we need people like you to explain it to the rest of us.

I work with a real system that will still exist no matter what happens with politics or money, so it takes work, for me. That said, tariffs and inflation are not difficult concepts provided you simply take the time to learn.

I know someone who lost their job in December due to tariffs anticipation, and they were not alone in that group of layoffs. The effects are there even if you fail to learn the reasons.

My closest genetic link on the planet is a conservative. I feel like the MAGA part is as committed as simply staying conservative. They’re my 1.

Everyone else can go to Hell, granted, I speak to many people in the course of my job. Since these people discuss all manner of things with me, invited or otherwise, I do my job and listen, always.

So, who is going to offer themselves up as bait to find out what her scam angle is?

Scammers don’t spam unless it “sticks”.

I too received this.

Check your DMs. You’ll probably get one eventually.

The question that remains is: what does she want?

Exactly. And part of that infrastructure is the same person filing the paperwork, making sure it’s done right.

Talked to my MAGA blood again yesterday. Apparently, the conservative talk radio is telling listeners Europe and Canada have had tariffs on us from day one and trump is just trying to level the playing field. America is always paying for them and now it’s their turn to pay.

In addition, firings are “political reward” jobs being removed, because that’s not fair. (Injustice and not fair resonates with everyone.) And a caller apparently called in to talk about his government employee buddy upset that his job credit card he normally uses to buy lunch was cut off, discovered when he tried to buy subway. Again with the “not fair” because most jobs don’t buy you lunch.

They still haven’t told me what show they heard this is on, because I invariably listen and pick it apart and they find my “over-analysis” upsetting.