flim

"u either die a degen or live long enuf to see urself become a leveraged perp trader" --Harvey "didn't-make-a" Dent

.@grok is actually my go-to sous chef & I do this kind of thing all the time. Last Thanksgiving I wanted to make a pie for the first time. Decided to give the reins to Grok and make the first response to my prompt no matter how it responded. It stole the show. Try it: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic. giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year. this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D). in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%. the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers" of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents. the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker. the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

Yes.

By enabling high-speed, low-latency and affordable Internet globally, Starlink will do more to educate and lift people out of poverty than any NGO ever

@AutismCapital “It really whips the llama’s ass!”

Never forget how good we had it

There is no path to One that does not involve going through Zero.

I was just told that @eBay is aware of this, but is choosing to not do anything about it. First time I have felt discriminated against since going free. Gee, maybe I should start my own ecommerce website. What'll I call it...?

This is either commentary on how touring pros have it good in @livgolf_league Or how difficult reading comprehension is post-NFL #CTESPN

They are trying to break your spirit @elonmusk, because they cannot create, only destroy.

2017-2020: Public sector: 9% of U.S. job growth Private sector: 91% of U.S. job growth 2021-2024: Public sector: 31% of U.S. job growth Private sector: 69% of U.S. job growth February 2025 job report: Public sector: 7% of U.S. job growth Private sector: 93% of U.S. job growth

Anything the red Feds do, blue can undo, and vice versa. But *transfer* power and money from the Feds to the states - both red and blue states will take it - and resist giving it back. Make government compete daily across fifty models rather than every four years across two.

Ultimately, you attract the complement of what you project.

The currency of life isn’t money. It is not even time. It’s attention.

Anderson Coper

@bennyjohnson Beautiful 🥹

🚨BREAKING: Google Maps OFFICIALLY changes the Gulf of Mexico to THE GULF OF AMERICA. It’s BEAUTIFUL 🇺🇸

@micsolana Brings a tear to my eye 🥺

they fucking did it