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I thanked bro for lunch. He said, “Well, you paid for it. Thank you.” I told him, “A great lunch is about who’s at the table, not what’s at the table.” Made me think— the best meals don’t just fill you. They stay with you. #J3Gratitude

@UziCryptoo For a fast food worker… guys don’t make a living off fast food. That job is for kids to part time at and don’t work your way up the ladder

In my area, In-N-Out and Chipotle are hiring around $20/hour for new workers. Let’s say you even land full-time at 40 hours/week: $20/hour = $800/week That’s $3,467/month before taxes. After just 12% in federal taxes, you’re left with about $3,051/month take-home. Now here’s the reality: Average one-bedroom apartment is around $2,000/month. So even working full-time in fast food, 65% of your income disappears to rent alone. That leaves you with about $1,050/month for: • food • transportation • insurance • phone • savings • emergencies This isn’t a “budgeting problem.” This is a cost of living crisis. Working full time should never mean barely surviving.

@gnoble79 I think you looked at the ludicrous novel and made that your opinion. They have a pessimistic view and that’s where criticism stems. They talk about model 3 as if it was a failure but it’s a great affordable product. Now your saying FSD is bad, but it’s the only agentic Ai.

Tesla is the most successful CON in the history of capital markets. Not because the cars are bad. But because the entire business is engineered to impress on first glance and collapse under scrutiny. And the culture around it has made facts completely IRRELEVANT. I've never seen a company where the gap between what is promised and what is delivered is this wide, for this long, with this little accountability. Tesla's Full Self-Driving system is marketed as autonomy. But it is not autonomy. It is a camera-only system running probabilistic inference. The car is making statistical guesses about what it sees, thousands of times per second, with no redundancy when those guesses are wrong. Probabilistic inference controlling a two-ton vehicle at highway speed with your family inside. NHTSA has two open investigations covering 3.2 million Tesla vehicles. One was escalated to a formal Engineering Analysis in March after 9 crashes, including a fatality, where the system FAILED to detect sun glare, fog, and dust. The cameras went blind and the car kept driving. In Austin, Tesla's robotaxi fleet has reported 15 crashes across roughly 800,000 miles. One crash every 57,000 miles. The average American driver has a police-reported crash every 500,000 miles. Tesla's robotaxis crash at roughly 4x the human rate, WITH a safety monitor sitting in the car whose only job is to prevent crashes. Waymo operates over 2,500 fully driverless vehicles across multiple cities with no human backup and maintains a crash rate 85% below human drivers across 127 million autonomous miles. Tesla has ONE unsupervised vehicle in a tiny section of Austin. But here's what really makes Tesla different from every overvalued company I've ever analyzed: The facts do not matter to the people who own this stock. Every missed deadline, every broken promise gets filtered through the same response: attack the messenger. Call them a short seller. Call them a hater. Anything to avoid looking at the actual numbers. It's an online ecosystem that has made itself completely immune to facts. And Musk baked that dynamic into the culture from the beginning. Every time the fundamentals deteriorate, the faithful don't sell. They double down. When your shareholder base treats every dip as a buying opportunity regardless of the data, the stock becomes untethered from reality entirely. That's literally a religion with a ticker symbol. I highly suggest you read Edward Niedermeyer's book Ludicrous on this. And now it even gets WORSE... CapeFearAdvisors published a piece this week that should be required reading. Tesla's 2025 CEO Performance Award contains a change-of-control provision: In the event of a change of control, ALL operational milestones are disregarded. No million robotaxis, Optimus robots, or $400 billion EBITDA. NONE of it. So if SpaceX acquires Tesla at $8.5 trillion, every tranche of Musk's 423 million share award vests immediately. A single acquisition at that price triggers the full vesting of both plans at once, with no way to claw them back. The milestones everyone argues about are just a distraction. The mechanism is the change-of-control language buried in the SEC filing. This is about engineering the largest personal wealth transfer in modern financial history and using the narrative machine to keep the price elevated long enough to execute it. I've seen every bust of the last four decades. But this one is different because the cult of personality is stronger than anything I've witnessed. The movement around this stock cannot be touched by facts, and that is what makes it so dangerous. But the math always wins. ALWAYS. It just takes longer when the con is this good.

@DarrigoMelanie I can appreciate you hating being born in the rat race that is American capitalism. That being said someone embracing your hell isn’t their sickness it’s yours.

This level of wealth hoarding is a mental illness.

@Aria_Churchill @sourceryy @friedberg Because of the heavy taxes. So for instance two Google founders left and took money with them. If the trend continues then your data starts to look like what he’s saying because they are leaving to red states as of now yes your correct but eventually to his point he’s right.

@Aria_Churchill @sourceryy @friedberg I see. You’re taking last years data but I think you’re completely missing Friedburg’s point. Let me break this down as billionaire Californians leave your metric goes down.

.@friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt": "People don't realize how screwed California is. I worry that if California falls, so does the union." "We're $250 billion to $1 trillion short." "If it was the federal government, they would just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits." "There's a Supreme Court case in California that said once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever." "And the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it." "No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." " This isn't about taxes and Billionaire Tax Act. I don't think you can tax your way out of this problem. People will just leave the state." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country and we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." At the @HillValleyForum 2026

@CharlieK_news How is she not top 10?

🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Rep. Tim Burchett just ripped the mask off Washington’s insider-trading machine. He says D.C. isn’t just a “swamp.” It’s a sewer where career politicians get rich while taxpayers get drained. And then he dropped the line that should make everyone stop: “Everybody wants to knock Pelosi; she’s not even in the TOP 10.” Read that again. If Pelosi isn’t even top 10… how deep does this go? Congress should not be a personal stock market for politicians. Ban congressional stock trading. Audit the worst offenders. Expose the whole sewer.

@SpencerAlthouse He got metoo and came crawling back not because the liberal media wanted him but because Trump hired an Indian guy.

Aziz Ansari just appeared as Kash Patel on SNL, and they went innnnn on him "I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."

@Fari31415 @RogueTRD @MarioNawfal Who? Most founders consider him a genius.

@RogueTRD @MarioNawfal You know Elon is considered an idiot among smart people right?

This video says it all on who won and who lost the war You don’t need to ‘pick sides’ to acknowledge facts

@PalmerLuckey @MinuteofZombie Dude why do ppl hate you lol

@MinuteofZombie Argue with the Air Force I guess, they are the one that gave it an F-designation.

It’s not a fighter you pube faced moron

@RedWavePress She is so invested in getting him to admit “I fell” but remember the first time they shot at him? They threw him down then too.

CBS News’ Norah O'Donnell: “It took 10 seconds for them to flank you, Mr. President, and then 20 seconds to get you out. It looked chaotic at one point, you were down, what was happening?” President Trump: “It was a little bit me—I wanted to see what was happening, and I wasn't making it that easy for them... By that time, we started to realize maybe it was a bad problem. A different kind of a problem, a bad one.” “I was surrounded by great people, and I probably made them act a little bit more slowly. I said, ‘Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me see. Wait a minute.’” 
Norah O'Donnell: “Just at that moment it looks like you go sort of down. You were telling them to wait?” President Trump: “No, what happened was then I started walking with them… and they said, ‘Please, go down! Please, go down on the floor.’” “First Lady went down also.”

@skumWgmi I don’t even care about how true this may be.

CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT, I turn 27 this year and I have realised , as a man, no one cares about you. Not your wife. Not your family. Not your friends. Not your workmates. Nobody. People act like they care, but deep down, they don't. Youare on your own. Always on your own.

@MarioNawfal @HappyCamper2626 My Almighty God, in the name of Jesus, I ask for justice and that your angels protect the innocent children and women in the Middle East. I ask for your justice, amen.

@sophmayor @Rainmaker1973 @grok @grok is this a clear indication that seagulls will take over human race after learning the same can be done to humans?

@Rainmaker1973 @grok did the Seagull unlock that 😳😳

Seagulls know that if they drop crustaceans from above many times, the food will come out.

@ChrisMurphyCT This is actually a straightforward idea. Completely destroying the facilities that arm them and their proxies is a good plan. @grok back me up if you can

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

@AOC @MollyJongFast Only the first point would be considered a “reason” where it’s almost actually a coverup. Celebrities get exposed no matter the reason. The rest is a bunch of nonsense don’t you have Ai? LLMs are especially good a rewriting text. Nothing should be considered rushed in this age

The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through. It violated a lot of standard practices to protect survivors and due process: 1. It also released documents related to allegations found to be false or unsubstantiated, not just verified violations or settlements. So innocent people would get lumped in with violators. 2. To our knowledge, there was zero victim consent or consultation on this text. That is very different than with Epstein, where victims are centered and consulted at every step. Here, victims offered all their statements with the promise of protection and anonymity. The text gave them no way to have a voice in what information of theirs or their accounts they wanted public or keep private. That is important because… 3. Although there was a throwaway line about redacting victim names, I do believe full witness or victim statements would have been released. With the way employment at the House works (offices are small, time periods of staff employment are publicly disclosed, etc) it means that even with names redacted you can definitely track details in witness statements and use that to ID victims without their consent. And there was zero mechanism for victims themselves to assert their privacy. Originally we were supposed to debate the details of the text over two days but for some reason they rushed the vote so we couldn’t iron out any of these details to get this information properly disclosed in a way that guarantees victim safety. If the text was clean I think you’d get a lot more support. As a survivor, I know why the vast majority of women never report at all and a lot of those reasons, even if unintentionally or inadvertently, were included here. For me at least, guaranteeing the safety and agency of victims and survivors would get me to a YES.

I don’t understand why anyone voted against this

@alman08 @Vivek4real_ @grok A lot

@Vivek4real_ @grok how does this guy know so much? Is his opinion the correct one?

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 RAY DALIO JUST DROPPED A MASSIVE WARNING AGAINST BITCOIN: “BITCOIN DOES NOT HAVE PRIVACY. ANY TRANSACTION CAN BE MONITORED.” “CENTRAL BANKS DON’T WANT TO BUY BITCOIN.” “AND THERE ARE ALSO QUANTUM COMPUTING ISSUES.” “IT’S A RELATIVELY SMALL AND CONTROLLED MARKET.”

@Vivek4real_ It’s not a surprise. Most people don’t understand it’s ambiguous market. I’m sure most people buy to see what kind of surplus it brings during good economies.

Pure software is rapidly becoming un-investable.

Cargo ships are sailing with the wind again

It’s funny how biblical scripture and Financial engineering reached the same conclusions of the apocalypse. We are experiencing four calamities BTW. Keep clam and have faith.