Aaron Simmons

@Elder_Species @shipwreckedcrew The HQs of these companies don't have to leave. All the executives who can work remotely will be headed for Florida, Texas, or Tennessee. The CEOs and their direct reports may stay, but watch the 2-3 levels beneath them head for the exit.

What she may not understand is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. It’s a certainty. MS won’t leave until Bill has passed on so that is the longest runway. Boeing and Amazon may not be willing to stay for as long as that. Functional small business will be driven out even faster. Then what? Government groceries with empty shelves. I guess that will, at least, fix the shoplifting problem.

Here is what she knows: Yes, there will be a loss of income tax revenue when high earners leave the state for lower tax alternatives. But the Wash. legislature -- like the Calif Legis -- has a long-line of targets it will go after to tax in order to replace that revenue. The Climate Commitment Act passed in 2021 by Washington is now extracting about $3 billion a year out of various industries, and directing that money to fund local projects that in years gone by might have been funded out of general treasury revenues. When one taxation target abandons the state, the tax and spend progressives simply go to the next one on the list.

@aakashgupta Did they have two Microsoft Outlooks or two Microsoft Surfaces? You would think an astronaut would know the difference between software and hardware?

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices. And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works. Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse. This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster. The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit. Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.

Not sure why you are in Europe, but if your travels take you to Prague, make sure you check this place out. enginegroup.cz/en/home The collector keeps his cars in part of a shopping mall. There are probably 250+ cars at this place. Supposedly the owner also has a 959. Message me if you have questions. I live in Prague and get my car serviced by this place.

Yesterday in Vienna, Hertz randomly rented me the new E-Class. This is a big deal for a guy who’s owned all five E-Class generations and considers the current model to be the best daily driver car he’s ever owned!

@FR6_Detainee @GenFlynn This gets weird. That ship is called White Lion. Baltimore ship was flagged in Singapore. The Merlion is one of Singapore's national symbols.

@GenFlynn It was Called by the Obamas in their Movie. It's Called PREDICTIVE PROGRAMING youtube.com/watch?v=gBKkqo…

This is a BLACK SWAN event. Black swans normally come out of the world of finance (not military). The standard operating procedures for all U.S. ports, harbors, and bays that transit commerce and military activities are supposed to maintain an incredible level of discipline, rigor and awareness for these very type events to not occur (ever!), yet here we are. There are harbor masters for every single one of these transit points in America that are in charge of assuring the safety of navigation…start there.