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Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction. Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.” Think about what property tax actually means. You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name. Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will. You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with. Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging. The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep. That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first. Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen. Now stack all three. Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children. At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours. Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan. Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone. The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back. And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose. The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year. SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors. The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction. The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect. The past belonged to the people who taxed the world. The future belongs to the people who build it.

A friend was trying to find out more about a topic for a business idea. She doesn't have much formal education, and whilst street-smart, never learned really how to do research. I got ChatGPT to do deep research on the topic, including trends globally, ideas, etc. That produced a fantastic 13-page report with loads of great info in it. But she is not a great reader, and that was hard for her to digest and really get into. So I took the paper and put it in Notebook LM and got it to generate a few podcast-style 20 minute discussions on the topic about what was in the PDF. She loves it! She has been listening through them the past day and excitedly coming up to me to discuss the ideas, and her ideas and how she can adapt, and enhance some of the ideas in the podcasts. I love this for her! This has given her access to research she never would have had access to. Not because it wasn't there (she has access to the internet), but just because she doesn't know where to start, where to look, how to assess information. She never had the education to help her learn how to do this. I'm now showing her how to use Notebook LM and ChatGPT so she can continue using it to help her with her research and ideas. This is unlocking so much for her and enabling her to level up so much quicker. Anyway, Happy Father's Day!

Born this day in 1925 in a Texas sharecropper's shack, one of twelve kids. His dad walked out, his mom died young, and Audie Murphy quit school in fifth grade to pick cotton and hunt rabbits to feed his brothers and sisters. He got deadly accurate with a rifle for one reason: the family couldn't afford a wasted bullet. After Pearl Harbor he tried to enlist and got laughed off. The Marines rejected him. The Navy rejected him. The paratroopers rejected him. He was 5'5" and barely 110 pounds, and they all said he was too small to fight. His sister had to fudge his paperwork just to get the Army to take a 17 year old. Then he went to war and became something out of a legend. January 26, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France. His company was down to a handful of men facing six tanks and 250 German infantry. Murphy sent his men back, then climbed onto a burning American tank destroyer that could have exploded under him at any second, grabbed the .50 caliber machine gun, and held off the entire assault alone for nearly an hour. He was wounded in the leg and kept firing. When a buddy asked over the field phone how close the Germans were, he reportedly said hold on and let me ask them. He came home the most decorated American soldier of the entire war. Every valor award the Army could give, some of them more than once, plus French and Belgian honors on top. Life magazine put his baby face on the cover, James Cagney saw it and invited him to Hollywood, and the cotton picker who couldn't pass a physical became a movie star. He made over 40 films. In 1955 he played himself in To Hell and Back, the movie of his own memoir, and it was Universal's biggest hit until Jaws came along twenty years later. But the war never let go. He had what we now call PTSD, slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow, and got hooked on sleeping pills trying to outrun the nightmares. He kicked the addiction by locking himself alone in a motel room for a week. Then he did something almost no famous man did back then: he went public, told the country that combat had wrecked his nerves, and pushed the government to study and treat what war does to a soldier's mind. He died in a plane crash in 1971 at just 45 years old. They buried him at Arlington, where his simple headstone is the most visited grave in the cemetery after John F. Kennedy's. Every branch told him he was too small to fight. He outfought all of them, then spent the rest of his life trying to help the men who came home broken like he did.

Fatherhood is the greatest gift GOD can give a man.

@eightbeat8b Screen grabs works just as well

ほんと疑問なんですけど エラーダイアログって何でコピーできないようになってるの!?!?! AIに聞けないだろうがよおおおおおおおおおおおおお!!!!!!!! エラーはコピペさせろ!!

🚨 SPACEX IS ABOUT TO TEST A RADICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACECRAFT AND IT COULD UPEND THE ENTIRE ORBITAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to fly the first prototype of Starfall, a flat, disk-shaped reentry capsule designed to return up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo from orbit in a single flight. That’s roughly 30 times more payload capacity than current commercial return vehicles (like those from Varda Space Industries). It’s not a scaled-down Dragon it’s a completely different approach: no onboard deorbit engine, a wide flat disk geometry, and Starlink terminals mounted to maintain communication through the plasma blackout during reentry. Why this matters: • Current orbital manufacturing companies are limited to returning only dozens of kilograms per mission • Starfall’s design could make large-scale commercial production in space economically viable for the first time • SpaceX would be directly competing with companies (like Varda) that currently pay SpaceX to launch their capsules • Successfully testing Starlink through reentry plasma would be a major technical win with applications across SpaceX’s vehicles The deeper implication: SpaceX is quietly expanding its vertical integration. They already dominate launch. Now they’re moving into the return leg of the orbital manufacturing supply chain the part that has been the biggest bottleneck for companies trying to make products in microgravity and bring them back to Earth. If Starfall works at scale, it doesn’t just give SpaceX another revenue stream. It gives them significant control over the economics of an entire emerging industry. The disk shape and high-capacity design suggest they’re thinking about high-cadence, lower-cost returns rather than the traditional high-value, low-volume approach. This is classic SpaceX: take an existing problem (expensive, low-capacity return from orbit), apply first-principles thinking to the vehicle design, and try to make it dramatically cheaper and higher volume. How do you think this move into orbital return changes the competitive landscape for companies trying to build businesses in space manufacturing? Follow for more analysis on SpaceX’s expanding role across the space economy.

Now this is an authentic carbon capture machine. Cheap. Long lasting. Natural. 🌳

@tecmint Recently put Lubuntu back on an older laptop and I am pleasantly surprised at how much it has changed in comparison to several years ago. It's fast and lightweight, suiting me perfectly.

Which distro would you recommend to someone starting with #Linux today?

Lubuntu 26.04 LTS: The Ultimate Lightweight OS is Here! youtu.be/dFcfMyiZGww #opensource #linux #lubuntu @LubuntuOfficial @LubuntuLinux @ubuntu @lxqt_project

@yourclouddude @NaivaidyaY66600 Been using Gemini every day to aid my learning of python. I have to say, I am honestly impressed.

@NaivaidyaY66600 Cannot say gemini is bad with current updates its very useful

Current Situation of AI race 🤧 Why Gemini is behind? What is going wrong with it?

Python simplified for you 🚀

@ArchRose90 Utterly abhorrent. They should hang their heads in shame

“We have taken the steps to ban your children from watching YouTube but if you would like to sign up for them to be chemically castrated, go right ahead.”

@vegastarr Smiling as I read it

The Power of a Smile 😊✨

Net zero rules for us plebs. Energy guzzling, polluting AI data centres for the tech giants…

Python Cheat Sheet for Beginners 2026

This is most of us now! Time to flip the switch Earth Alliance... Humanity has suffered enough. Namaste 🙏🕉

@NormanBrennan I'm getting Bill Oddie and the Goodies vibes 🤣

Folks I have been given a verbal warning by South Wales Police for worrying live stock under the protection of Wild Life Act as apparently waving a Jar of Colman’s Mint Sauce out the window & shouting see you on Sunday is not accepted here!!🤷‍♂️😉👍

France's New Quantum Rule May Favor The XRP Ledger France’s cybersecurity agency, ANSSI, announces it will cease certifying all non-quantum-resistant cryptographic products effective in 2027. The mandate requires a high-priority engineering shift for blockchain protocols that currently use legacy RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography. This regulatory pivot accelerates the "Quantum Proofing" timeline as developers race to integrate post-quantum cryptography (PQC) before the sovereign certification cutoff. The directive places immediate pressure on privacy-focused protocols like $ZEC and high-cap L1 networks to finalize their security migrations. However, it suits the XRP Ledger, which is being upgraded for post-quantum cryptography.