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It’s Primary Election Day in Ohio. Get out there & vote! The government we elect is the government we deserve…

Did your slop Python script accidentally transfer $10,000,000 to a stranger? Did your vibe coded app accidentally leaked 300,000 peoples phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and passport? Don't worry, fam. The folks over there at ... Corgi ... now provide AI insurance.

"Changing consumer habits" They mean the new Americans steal.

This is what racing should be. Fuck NASCAR, give me a race with 10 drunk dudes who stole the family truck & escaped to the track without the wife knowing

Claude Code 4.7 is insane. i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO. and i just built 3 fully functioning web apps in 30 minutes. http://localhost:3000/ http://localhost:8000/ http://localhost:5000/ check it out.

The expression of the group of raccoons trying to stay perfectly still and “play dead” after being caught breaking into someone’s house makes me laugh so hard I can’t stop: They like:“No one sees us. Don’t move.” 😂🤣

@statue_baker @SimpleT_Motors @Half_A_Pond That is what we call confidently wrong.

Sorry Bro, Thats wildly incorrect. I own several Valero Stations So I absolutely am the authority on this matter. E85 = up to 15% Ethanol Blend E10 = up to 10% Ethanol Blend Conventional or Pure = 100% Gas No such thing as E15 in the Petroleum Business. When exceeding 10% Ethanol the EPA requires Petroleum to be labeled by the gas %. >/= 10% Ethanol, EPA requires Petroleum to be labeled by the Ethanol % . This is an EPA rule and applies to all 50 states. Argue with them. 87, 89, 91, and 93 are Octane numbers , Jet Fuel is 100+ Octane A combustion engine cannot run on 85% Ethanol.

Explain to me like I’m 5 why E85 is magically ALWAYS exactly .30 less then regular even though it’s 85% corn that is grown in and processed in America and does not, in my understanding, go anywhere near the strait of whatever.

@HankVenture5 @Xfinity That's true. Mine goes down a lot. So much so that I have a starlink as a failover. Also they can suck it with the data caps, not paying them $30/mo to take it off.

@Defiance000 @Xfinity I mean on the one hand I'm happy that I had something other than the garbage the local telco offers, but on the other hand Xfinity sucks ass so I'm glad I'm out of there.

So I got fiber internet hooked up on Monday. Completely blown away with it. No longer need my @Xfinity service, because the fiber is much faster and is less expensive (I got a static IP address as well which is amazing). Call to disconnect service on Tuesday (24 hours after verifying that the new stuff is working great). Get an agent at a call center probably in India. Fifteen mins of back and forth getting him to agree to cancel... I mean, this should have been easy, I don't even rent any equipment from them. Says it's canceled will see a final invoice for $5 for the pro-rated part of the billing cycle. Get an email today that there's a $115 bill due later in May for the current period. Hmmmm.... Log into Xfinity app... sure doesn't look canceled. Call in again, get a different call center agent in the 3rd world. INSISTS on going through the entire disconnect questionnaire again. No. Just no. Get frustrated, hang up on the 3rd world idiot, drive 20 mins over to the local Xfinity retail store, where Americans are. They explain the guy dated the service disconnect to the end of the billing cycle instead of when I called, probably to "help his metrics" and they have it all taken care if in a few minutes. What I want to know now is when big corporations like Xfinity eventually outsource these call center jobs to AI is the AI also going to be incentivized to lie to customers in order to extract more money from their bank accounts? The executives who create these policies that make it hard for you to turn a service off know what they are doing.

"You spent $3,000 on a pressure washer to land a $600 pressure washing job?" "That's right" "But a Mexican took the job for $100?" "That's correct, Dave" "So you spent $22,000 on coding school, but the coding jobs are all taken by Indians and AI?" "That's right, Dave"

@malletcncworks @SharkFloppKing Yep

@SharkFloppKing Nope

Well the amazing k5 has left me dead looking at shop buildings. Help the way

This was on Instagram, it literally has RAW as the #6 Intel service in the world, I’ve now seen it all! And since I’m blocked in India, I won’t even have to deal with their complaints, win-win.

Oh. "You don't have to implement betrayal mechanics — just not preventing it and letting the LLM reason about loyalty vs self-interest with the right prompt framing creates it emergently."

@RampCapitalLLC @joshkaye Yes

@joshkaye Hear me out: Tungsten spoons

Every order... it's just spoons now... everything is spoons... we're... we've become a spoon company...

The soldier placed a bet and used his own life and blood as a wager. Every penny was earned.

@sentdefender Okay, but only if they bring this back

The Trump Administration is considering using the Defense Production Act as part of a strategy to save the beleaguered Spirit Airlines, who has declared bankruptcy for the second time in two years as the Iran War drives up jet fuel costs for all domestic and international airlines, according to U.S. officials familiar with the discussions who spoke to CBS News. Under the bailout plan being discussed, the government would lend Spirit $500 million at a reasonable rate interest, and become the top debtor in the bankruptcy pecking order. The loan would be protected by Spirit assets that would exceed the government's costs, while providing taxpayers with a warrant - the right to own 90% of the company after it emerges from bankruptcy, then likely being sold to another carrier, potentially American or Delta.

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late. The right stack is always taller. On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN. I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS. The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts." I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes. The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200. I waived it. I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness. Let me show you what I processed this year. January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%. February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed. March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file. I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again. In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not. I want to tell you about the soldier again. He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in. In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on: Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee. Defense appropriations they voted on. Trade policy they negotiated. Pandemic response measures they drafted. Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public. None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012. Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that. The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop. She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. I want to tell you about the fine. $200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk. Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself. On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office. The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year. The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million. The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write. He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million. The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised. In my field, we call this self-regulation. The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate. Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return. I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process. As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

@BigDickBarclay Let's build one and find out

Would this bicycle work?

@HinduAmerican @POTUS Go back to the subcontinent.

We are deeply disturbed by @POTUS sharing this hateful, racist screed targeting Indian and Chinese Americans. Endorsing such rants as the president of the United States will further stoke hatred and endanger our communities, at a time when xenophobia and racism are already at an all time high. We ask @realDonaldTrump to reconsider, delete this post & recognize the indelible contributions of Asian Americans to our great country.