Brandon Kruger

@LiquidData @tunguz Wealth is not cash

@tunguz I think we should tax 100% of wealth over $100Bln. There is no good argument against it and it only effects like 5 people, all of who still will have $100Bln.

I appreciate this sentiment, but I strongly disagree with it. What all research has shown is that there is a *HUGE* psychological difference in people's minds between paying $0 and just a small nominal amount. When you don't pay anything for something, you end up not valuing it at all. As long as we collect revenue for the public services through individual taxation, paying even a small nominal amount by everyone gives everyone a sense of the stake in the system.

@3chaptersclub @JoelWBerry @ConceptualJames Ramsey is only good advice if you're stupid

@JoelWBerry @ConceptualJames Most of the world's problems would be clear up if we all committed to a daily Scripture routine and binge watched the Ramsey Show for a year.

A few years ago, I tried to help out a family member who was having trouble, alternating between renting and homelessness. He had a job, and I told him I’d help him with his finances. When we met up, he was wearing a new pair of Jordans. When I delved into his spending, I found he was renting all his furniture, his TV, and a video game system from Rent-A-Center. He ate fast food every day. I explained to him why that was such a bad idea. I told him how I get most of my furniture from Goodwill and garage sales. Told him rich people don’t wear new Jordans. I even showed him how much his money would be worth in 30 years if he invested the money he was giving to Rent-A-Center. His response? “Sorry, I need nice furniture and I need to look good.” These are the people blaming the rich for their problems.

The reason the youth don't like AI is literally because of youtube "content creators" came out hard against it because they saw a clear threat to their slop monopoly

@askmomaitv @RachelVT42 Nobody is losing power. You are an idiot

When I water my lawn, the water isn't getting polluted, I'm not causing my neighbor's water pressure to be low. 49,000 ppl are going to lose electric so the electric can be routed to google and other data centers. As for the old people, first quit eating so much sugar and carbs and the Alzheimer's will go down. BUT, and this may come as a shock to you, good people take care of their parents when they are elderly and frail, they wouldn't leave them unattended with a robot. You're tossing out all this text trying to show us how AI is for the greater good, but I can name more things (besides the data centers) that AI has brought that is destructive to society and the future of our kids. So go sit down and just stop whining that everyone doesn't agree with you (and plans to keep fighting the madness)

Looks like I’ve angered some AI haters, so I’ll repeat this one last time: you have no idea what you’re talking about and you’re simply not keeping up with what’s going on in the real world. Stop acting like a know it all when you’re just speaking from your own privileged position and when you’re basically just trying to protect your own selfish interests instead of rooting for what’s best for humanity as a whole. AI has been around for literally decades, robotics too. But we’re finally reaching the point where things are getting some serious traction, and it couldn’t arrive at a better time. But go ahead, tell me how you’re going to take care of millions of dementia patients and other elderly folks without figuring out some decent solutions to address challenges caused by shortages in skilled workers to keep operations running smoothly. Keep ignoring the massive increase in retiring workers we will be seeing every month for the next two decades. And while you’re moaning about data centers and their water usage, don’t forget to actually check what it costs to watch crap TV, water your lawn or do other mundane tasks which use up a lot more water and energy. Do boycott all those first.

@JerrBearr @sean_from_earth Please cite some evidence for this "total lack of consumer demand"

@sean_from_earth Why doesn’t Temu Asmongold mention the historic tax credits and subsidies these companies are getting? Why is he ignoring the total lack of consumer demand for this increased compute?

What's notable about this video is that the people who hate technology will completely ignore the logical arguments he makes and keep spouting nonsense because they just want to be mad at the system rather than trying to make anything better.

@jasonbourne4206 @Stephanos_ @QXsToo If it's only going to work in one position, they could just leave it connected to power and your argument is worthless

@Stephanos_ @QXsToo Except the robot took a break every 3-4 hours to charge and they rotated in another robot....

Not really a loss here. Just a ~187 difference after 10 hours. The real difference is economics: One human = salary + benefits + taxes + HR + turnover + fatigue. One robot = electricity + maintenance. Runs 24/7 with zero drama. China is almost unbeatable in manufacturing, and humanoids are probably the only chance for the US to revamp its manufacturing sector.

@SethL_intheWord @QXsToo Do you have to work at writing shit this dumb or does it come naturally?

@QXsToo It's profane, the metric itself is corrupt. Once you accept that a human can be fairly “compared” to a robot in speed, endurance, or cost, you’ve already accepted a dehumanizing frame. The competition is a humiliation ritual by design and it borders on pornographic exploitation.

@coolsilver @01Ananto If that happens to you all the time, you're the problem

@01Ananto People do that garbage to me all the time. Matter of being predictable

FSD literally saved my life and my wife’s tonight. Watch carefully - a car suddenly races in and merges into our lane with almost zero gap at highway speed. On the footage it’s hard to tell just how close it was, but in that exact moment me and my wife both thought “there’s no way a human could react fast enough.” FSD did. In milliseconds it calculated the distance to our front bumper and instantly slowed down perfectly, leaving safe room. Slow-mo shows exactly how razor-close it was. This wasn’t a minor correction… this was a massive accident avoided because of Full Self-Driving. This is why we trust Full Self-Driving with our family. Thank you, @Tesla . This tech is next level.

The average Massie type right winger thinks data centers are secret government surveillance repositories. The average Mamdani type left winger thinks data centers use so much water it kills people. Both think it increases cost of living. America is at risk of losing the AI race

@Teslarati ....are they pulling it using the liftgate striker?

Someone shared with us this video of a Cybertruck being pulled out by a minivan on the beach

@missspelle91173 @felpix_ Takes electricity to refine oil into gasoline dumbass

@felpix_ How does driving a gas car consume electricity?

america uses 15x more water on its lawns than it does on all of its data centers driving a gas car is 10x the per capita electricity consumption of all u.s. data centers in defense of the data center on substack

@JWSPEED2 @mikepat711 What if I'm a shareholder, HW4 owner and HW3 owner? As a shareholder, I'd like to see more subscription revenue from the HW3 fleet

@mikepat711 Fiduciary duty is to shareholders. Not HW3 holders. ☠️

If Tesla is delaying the spring update/new FSD HW4 release because they are working on FSD V14 lite for HW3, I recommend stopping development on FSD V14 lite to prioritize the next HW4 update. I wouldn’t even bother releasing FSD V14 lite for HW3 users. Just leave them all on V12. Who cares? Lmao

@KingBootoshi They are themselves exactly what they hate about AI. Just regurgitating BS they've been trained on with no critical thinking

this thread is a perfect example showing that the loudest critics are just animals driven by emotion, typing away with no logic or intent simply yelling at a screen, attacking an illusion they made up and perceive in their own reality this is a real Monet painting, but the simple label of 'ai' triggered a complete delusion HAHAHAHA tldr: nobody's opinion fucking matters lol. do what makes you happy!

@NoGrammer @peterrhague Lol no. Show me an engine in a production car than can use gas or diesel. I'll wait

@peterrhague An ICE car can run on Wood Gas, Town gas , Natural gas , propane, ethanol, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, French fry oil, waster oil and butter if your desperate...

Get an EV. Abstracting vehicle propulsion from its power source is amazing. My car can run on wind power without a sail. It can run on solar power despite its roof area being far too small to collect significant energy itself. It can run on nuclear power without needing controlled fission under the bonnet. Yes, it can even run on natural gas burned in a power station, which even with transmission losses still leaves it with lower emissions than an ICE car. The future of driving is here and you're in denial if you don't see it.

@TeslaJigsaw China just discovered Pimp my Ride

Strong evidence for 'Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should' Can anyone think of a good use case for this? 🤷‍♂️

@Zaphoid13 @atrupar I don't give a fuck. It's cheaper.

@atrupar Windmill blades not recyclable, solar panels not recyclable batteries not recyclable so where is the green in green energy?

MIN: Do you know how much new energy China put online last year? BURGUM: Intermittent or base load? MIN: All energy. 543 GW. How much was renewable? 434 GW. BURGUM: But only when the wind is blowing and sun is shining MIN: Meanwhile, the US put up 53 GW of new energy last year -- less than 10% of China. You're clear bias against renewables is harming our national security.

@greggertruck Half the time I'm not even paying attention so technically....

Idk man my supervised is really feeling kinda unsupervised lately.

@christophermaj_ @judcrony @vancemurphy @JDVance Better to be out of touch than out of money 🤷

@judcrony @vancemurphy @JDVance insanely out of touch bud

The American Dream doesn’t belong to the highest bidder on Wall Street. It belongs to the American people, who work hard, save up, and play by the rules. I applaud President Trump’s leadership on this issue and urge the House to pass this bill.

@TESLA_winston People don't appreciate that Teslas are the most right to repair friendly cars you can buy

I have been hearing reports of wrecked Lucid vehicles being purchased at auction, then bricked by being put in "service mode" when connected to wifi. This typically happens after the airbags deploy. In order to get the car out of service mode, you need to take the vehicle to Lucid to have them inspect the vehicle. Really not cool @LucidMotors. I heard it can cost upwards of $15,000. Lucid Airs have been selling at auction anywhere from $15,000-$20,000 with "light damage." The kicker is the part pricing and availability.

@PeaceD1 @LASPORTSFANATIC @exec_sum Where the fuck did I say free dumbass?

@brandonkruger @LASPORTSFANATIC @exec_sum Nothing is free. There is a cost to anything offered for "free". A rental unit is passive income too.

BREAKING: Nvidia and PulteGroup are partnering with startup Span to install mini data centers on the walls of new homes Each unit packs 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, 4 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 3TB of RAM - and taps unused home electrical capacity to run AI inference workloads