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On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

I don't care if a majority of the world doesn't share the same values as America. That's their bad.

What happened to the Jews of Lebanon?

@zriboua I wish I had Sephardi homies. I wanna go to a Mimouna.

Happy Mimouna ✡️ 🇲🇦 With friends and family

@ChiefEngineerCE I'm a firm believer we are going through a cyclical period of elite overproduction as presented by Turchin. The extreme wealth pump since the 1970's which has enriched dynastic elites at the expense of labor and now new tech elites is the source of instability.

Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie cruises on her 300 million dollar superyacht Kaos. Meanwhile, Walmart and its contractors have been one of the heaviest users of H-1B visas in retail bringing in thousands of cheaper foreign workers for IT and management roles. Rules for thee but not for me. Luxury for the Walton family. Wage suppression and replacement for American workers. This is the globalist double standard in plain sight. What you don't like free market capitalism? says the H1B willing to share a room with 12 others and make a fraction of what an American needs to in order to pay off loans or have a family.

@PPJSteyn @Handre Fascinating

@Handre I continue to explore this wonderful idea. youtu.be/GWlytrN0Kh8?si…

Ludwig von Mises warned us decades ago: "The middle classes are the chief victims of inflation." While the wealthy own real assets that rise with monetary expansion and the poor receive government transfers, the middle class gets crushed holding cash savings and fixed incomes. Their purchasing power evaporates as central banks print money to fund government spending. Look around today and you see exactly what Mises predicted. Anyone who saved in bank accounts earning 0.5% interest while inflation ran at 8% lost massive wealth. Meanwhile, asset owners — those with stocks, real estate — saw their holdings soar. The Fed's money printing didn't create prosperity; it redistributed wealth from savers to debtors and asset holders. What makes this particularly insidious is that politicians sell inflation as helping "working families" while systematically destroying the middle class foundation of society. They promise stimulus and easy money will boost employment, yet ignore how monetary debasement hollows out the very people who built their savings through productive work rather than financial speculation. Mises understood that sound money isn't just an economic issue; it's a moral one. When you can print money, you don't need to convince people to fund your programs through taxes. You just inflate away their savings instead.

@Rothmus Incentives, there is a thin margin of people who genuinely should get help from the Gov we saw that in the depression and the disabled. Bc vicissitudes of capital can be elemental. People get smashed on the rocks. They need rescue. They just can't be permanent welfare recipients.

“How free are the poor under capitalism?” Friedman explains. Milei shows once again.

Victor Glover is the embodiment of modern exploration: U.S. Navy Captain, test pilot, and NASA astronaut who piloted SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational Crew Dragon mission, helping restore human spaceflight from U.S. soil. He spent 168 days aboard the International Space Station, conducted multiple spacewalks. Coming back to earth today as the pilot for Artemis II, he’s is a true Hero of the Planet. 🚀

@Kazanjy @SFMTA_Muni @MTA @SFBART Yeah I had an analyst on wall street point out to me the Federal and Local Government system had become a social welfare jobs system 4 preferred voting blocks about 2 years ago. He still supported Dem, bc he really didn't like white people even though he was white himself.

Today I learned that @SFMTA_Muni, @MTA, and @SFBART all have ~20x - 70x more staffing costs on a per rider trip basis than Tokyo's Metro system. US public transit is a scam that exists to employ politically desirable populations in exchange for votes.

@3Tony48 @ChiefEngineerCE Thank you that puts into perspective while there were many winners from the wealth pump there were also many losers, not by their own lack of effort.

It sucks to be a boomer. We had to make a lot of sacrifices for our children. A lot of us didn’t have working wives so the men shouldered all the financial burden just to be let down by the system when we got older. Anyone who says OK boomer should have had to work through the 80s when middle class manufacturing jobs got gutted and sent to China. It wasn’t a bed of roses like some younger generations think. You’re right, the golden retirement does not exist. The companies I worked for gutted their pension plans in favor of 401(k) putting a person who worked on the assembly line in charge of investing in Wall Street. It was very ill conceived.

Pensions were common for the older Boomers. Most of them got gutted or frozen in the 80s and 90s. The big shift to 401(k) plans moved all the risk onto the workers. These unfunded liabilities still plague the mostly blue states and cities across our country where union deals were struck in return for votes. A lot of Boomers are still working past 65 because their pensions did not survive. It was not the golden retirement everyone pretends it was. Reply with what happened to the pension plan where you or your parents worked if it affected you.

@ChiefEngineerCE @mhdp Golden Parachute

@mhdp I think we all would talk about it too. I wonder how the execs made out?

Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil's appeal, bringing activist one step closer to deportation trib.al/ZYHdolX

Fun fact: Observant Jewish life would inspire most young American conservatives tremendously if they saw it for real and ditched the propaganda against it.

@KMNDR_ It's the over emphasis of sociology departments in colleges. It's a really valuable field with extremely powerful ideas in it that in the hands of mid wits turned into a locus of grievance, power obsession and disruption.

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate what a brilliant but powerfully insidious message it was to preach "education will save you" to an entire generation? Like mental fentanyl. Invisible but laced into everything in the information age. Just learn more bro. For two decades that was the mantra. Now we see what a fatal error that was. I mean look at the bodies that are going to stack up over the next few years from those four words. Look at the ones that already have. Educated into a self imposed classically conditioned prison of inaction. All the while the real truth was - high agency will save you.

Since being beefed up in 2020, California's state density bonus law has facilitated over 140,000 new homes, during a period when US permitting otherwise fell. If you're wondering whether YIMBY reforms matter, the answer is: yes!

Anthropic just made one giant leap in the field of cybersecurity zero day hunting. red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-pr…

@nypost This is why we really need a serious dynastic wealth tax...not first generation so Xavier would squeak by. But by 2nd or 3rd generation we should absoloutly be hitting their SFO's and other mechanisms with 50+% wealth taxes every year. Heirs are free riders on our system.

Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, moans about ‘isolating’ childhood of endless wealth trib.al/Ox5p9iu

Seen through the lens of intra-elite civil war. This announcement by AG Rob Bonta can be seen as an attempt by traditional elites in CA to appear sympathetic to the concerns of a broad swathe of the voter population. When for years billions have been being stolen and they did 0.