Private Equity killed my Cat

Almost 20 years ago my graduate thesis was that meaning in human life requires temporal transcendence The Santa Book I am successfully avoiding through the distractions on X, 3 kids 3 businesses 70 employees and trying to stay healthy and fit on sub 6 hours/night sleep is an offshoot of that. I expect it will contain many run on sentences and made up words when I finally finish it. Santa’s Imbeddedness in American culture is to me a symptom of a superficial lack of understanding and connection with children, a failure of parenting, and a preference for appearance over substance that has taken over our culture. Stories of Santa misadventures, disturbing anecdotes or personal experiences are welcome. Direct respond or DM. I hope you enjoy the journey while I try and pole this together

🙏 My wonderful friend, the host of splendid and well attended cigar nights, the father and husband to a beautiful happy family. 🙏 If I may share my thoughts, i believe them to be well founded. Should I be wrong in any point, trivial or consequential , i invite correection. use PL and as it so happens, I’m also an investor 📈 My take is: a. we know that there is Chinese sat imagery. This is undeniably true. But that doesn't mean the data is reliable. b. What is unknown is the AI enhancement, detection, tagging etc. “this is WHAT we are looking at” c. The output of the AI, in itself, is not ‘actionable’ - because just like LLM’s - these things hallucinate - and frequently misinterpret the data - it can, and does lie - AI creates artifacts and then the AI treats it as “true” Side note: this is one big reason why Hegseth and rank have referred to a “kill chain” that’s been taken out - because getting “information” is one thing, but acting on that information, or not, is something different - when the kill chain has been killed, what do you do? It’s a very big problem for Iran right now - They have no way of knowing if what China has given them is “true” and they no longer have that layer of war decision management to make a top level determination. d. No doubt Iran has used China imagery militarily - but also no doubt they are willing to kill by friendly fire very large amounts of their own vast expandable forces. - They have a very high pain tolerance for civilian casualties - if they are given a pizza pie it has the potential to be used militarily e. One very likely reason the Trump administration has closed up PL imagery is because China extensively relies on Western data and removing that imagery is one less crucial data point for them to draw on. Yup! They buy the data and then reprocess it - “attribution” f. The only way to determine if what China “has” is “true” is to do pixel by pixel forensics and cross reference with other data points: 1. known satellite ephemeris/ orbit paths/timing/etc 2. ground data, flight tracks and shipping etc of the type that is not in the public domain 3. visuals assessment from multiple angles AND, probably what's most important is Historical accuracy. In America the "experts" who inform top down decisions and pundits and 'news people who got a tip from a source' - don't get killed, nor do their families, when they're wrong, or have lied for political reasons, mischief, subterfuge, or financial gain. In China and Iran - those same people get killed, as will their families - and in the most inhumane ways conceivable. - It's shock and awe so that the others know not to "do what that guy did" g. China, like any other customer, buys Western sat imagery from PL, and then blends that product into its own clusters of data from its own indigenous military and commercial sat providers sell - then they add those same layers of AI etc that I've already discussed. h. Not all satellite imagery is the same. How can this be thought of? How can i judge a good Jitterbug dancer from a bad Jitterbug dancer if I don't know the dance and the rules of the contest? No doubt the simple photo data from Chinese satellites is reliable for the BROAD features. In my example the dancer is dancing - But the added AI tagging etc introduces uncertainty. In my example the person is making what appears to be wild motions. You have no idea if what you have seen the dancer perform is good, or not. You can't judge it. It is my experience that 'OSINT' is garbage and its a world of cut and paste. OSINT seems to derive from obscure'd source(s) of unknown provenance and then diffused out via social media thousands of times. Each paste'r adds a little here, subtracts a little there, adds, their own stylistics, and then posts, of fourse claiming authorship or attributing some part of their source info to another post'r doing the same copy and paste. i. The info from China must be treated as a “credible operational threat” to American forces - because if its not treated in this manner people may die, just as bomb threats are treated. This is a long response to a short question that i felt should be broken into bite-sizes. PL has been closed up because it is the right thing to do to keep our service members alive. China has, like with people dying on the streets of Wuhan, released videos, or directed others to release images and videos on its behalf, that must not be believed without critical analysis - and the tools of analysis and forensics, we, you and I and everybody else here, do not possess. Only a few people do, and they just rescued a service member deep in iran Should Trump and Hegseth release the actual coordinates of our service members in and around Iran to prove China sat imagery is lying? /end You are a wonderful person Mike, beautiful family and a happy life. Everything else, is just everything else. Your friend, Adam

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I don't think most Europeans fully understand the gravity of the situation they're in. Americans are ANGRY. And I don't just mean MAGA supporters. I mean everybody. Europe took advantage of the US for decades and what did we get in return? Sneering. Condescension. Thinly-veiled loathing. Never ending criticism and moral grandstanding. Now they are refusing to help us - refusing to let us access the bases WE fund ourselves - and openly siding with our adversaries. And why? Pathological Jew-hatred? Hatred of Trump? Unthinking sympathy for anything Islamic no matter how atrocious it is? All of the above? Whatever the answer may be, Europe has crossed America for the last time. I hope they are prepared for what's coming. They won't like it.

@adamscrabble What do you think of Sphere stock? Given where entertainment is headed

i write long replies 🤷‍♂️

Because they cannot reach us and aren’t even close. When they can we will. Moreover, the Norks haven’t been murdering Americans for 47 straight years and aren’t even REMOTELY close to being a state sponsor of terror, let alone the single largest one. Was that even a serious question??

Chuck Norris is the main character in every movie.

@piersmorgan @realDonaldTrump What a Twat you are

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

Yes we will, we’re not NATO bro 😂

As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.” At the same time, I felt a deep envy. Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses. In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak. The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference. One side risks everything to save their own. The other sacrifices their own to stay in power. This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

Ah, but remember, they live in a “full democracy” and we live in a “dictatorship”. 
I’m sure the people who make the freedom and democracy indexes will be updating them immediately.

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: This footage from a A Tesla in self-driving mode avoiding a crash surrounded by clouds of smoke and dust blocking visibility has left thousands of viewers impressed.

Imagine being Iran's leadership right now You once were the feared boogie man of the Middle East. Instead, you get the complete shit kicked out of you for 5 weeks straight, your entire navy sunk, your supreme leader killed, and you FINALLY shoot down 1 plane This is finally your moment. You can parade the pilot on TV and use him as negotiating leverage But instead, Air Force Pararescue puts boots on the ground on your home turf, we basically build a whole patrol base including a Forward Air Refueling Point, kill hundreds of your dudes, something goes wrong with one of the C-130s at the FARP on our way out, we're not even cortisol spiked so we simply just fly in another plane and blow up the old one instead of even bothering to do any maintenance just because of how much money we have that we can simply buy a new plane Good grief. I haven't seen a beatdown this bad since Will Stancil got molested by Grok. This is honestly embarrassing for the IRGC at this point. That was LITERALLY your home territory where you know all the terrain and have home field advantage, we have never done real boots on the ground operations in Iran before, and you still lost. Everyone throw up the set right now

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This is a woman and America is losing the war

I don’t get it. Why doesn’t Tesla just recklessly deploy thousands of Robotaxis before validating the first few in Austin? Too much focus on being “safe” and “responsible”, and not enough on making the stock price go up

Some of the highest quality businesses in the world are trading at extremely cheap prices. Ignore the MSM. One of the most one-sided wars in history that will end well for the U.S. and the world. And we have the potential for a large peace dividend. One of the best times in a long time to buy quality. Ignore the bears.

Where this woman (not a biologist) goes, walk the other way

@ChrisRamsey60 I’m no mathematician but I think it’s 50x

Can we stop saying that there’s no difference between…. $2 million and $100 million Seems to be the same post said in different ways going around. it’s ridiculous. There’s a big difference.

President Trump’s military demonstrations in Venezuela and Iran were acts of supreme kindness towards Chairman Xi, as they have given him the first **real** information about the Communist Party’s military capabilities. Marxists use language to persuade, not describe, both internally and externally. So the CCP military was never **not** going to develop “a stealth fighter,” or “stealth-detecting radars.” To fail at these tasks would be an unacceptable humiliation. But the question is: did they really? The answer is no. Which is to say: Xi lives in a world where he cannot trust ANY information presented to him by his own system, because it arrives via a filter not only of consensus but also of pride. “The CCP cannot fail, history is on our side!” Except it isn’t. Realty exists. And the total failure of their equipment in VZ and IR was the first time Xi has ever received REAL information about his military’s capabilities. And it’s not good. Xi must now revisit every assumption he has about action in Taiwan. And he is now forced to confront reality, that his staff lie not out of malice but because COMMUNISM DEMANDS YOU IGNORE REALITY. Interesting days ahead.

Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat: “We did not come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah!” Thoughts?!