Caleb Mock

@jakeisacrazy1 Ever try it in a 2005 LX 470? You're looking a closer to $800. Still rather have that car and $30,000 than anything new today.

@caleb_mock Now you're getting fancy! That would cost a hundred bucks for a double DIN Carplay head unit...big spender. :-)

Anon, did you know you can just keep driving a 22 year old Suburban and install your own built-in USB chargers? For $40.

@425CougFan @carterwhoosh @cremieuxrecueil whooshwellness.com "Physician-prescribed protocols for recovery, performance, & longevity."

@carterwhoosh @cremieuxrecueil I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess that you're selling peptides for 10-20x the gray market cost

A new study has just come out vetting the quality of gray market peptides! What did it show?🧵 First result: The median and the 25th/75th-percentile peptide vials tend to be filled correctly, with between ~95% and ~110% of the amount they say they contain:

@LaneSmithScott @shawngorham Good taste in cars. We would be doing this in South Georgia if I could get her to let go of the Suburban.

@shawngorham @caleb_mock I live this exact life in California, right down to the 470. No flip phone though--husband and I both work remotely to afford it. But really it's not that hard. You can live within 3 hrs of the Bay Area and do this, easily

IF it were up to my wife... We would live in a small town. She would drive a Jeep Cherokee Flip cell phone she rarely answered White Farmhouse with a wrap around porch No TV, No technology Land, Animals, Farmers Markets I think she is stuck in a 1990's Hallmark movie At the same time I want her to have an experience outside of city life

@JoshuaAtLarge Bought a few RX-8's this year too. Can't wait to open a Sobe and listen to Linkin Park.

Shia Labeouf arrested. Brittney Spears arrested. We are back at war in the middle east. Pokémon is popular. Hillary Duff is on tour. There is a new scary movie coming out. Bill Clinton is testifying about not having sexual relations, and the kids are wearing Jncos again. Think I'm gonna Crack an ice cold Zima and enjoy the nostalgia.

@soupremejelly @EricBalchunas @MurrayHillGuy1 That goes away when normal eating resumes.

@EricBalchunas @MurrayHillGuy1 Probably does have the saggy face ozempic syndrome

Friend of mine started “Reta” and it’s honestly wild. He says he barely eats ~1000 calories a day because he’s just not hungry. Still lifts 5x a week. In ~2 months: 21% → 10% body fat Down 30 total lbs Lost only ~1 lb of muscle on the InBody scan. This isn’t an ad I am genuinely curious. He’s basically the same guy… just way leaner and way more confident. But what are the long-term side effects of nuking your appetite like this? Anyone seen issues?

@CarAlerts As beautiful as the 100 series is, the 570 is a much better vehicle.

what a big BIG difference a few generations makes

@CoffeeBlackMD The HRV and RHR might not be. But the skin thing is real. I get all tingly and sometimes need to take a Tylenol to help with it.

I’m not convinced the RHR or HRV changes on retatrutide are meaningful in any practical sense.

@MWillzz @SBGMarc While three RX-8 shells cost me about 3 grand.

@SBGMarc Yep. A clean low mileage RX7 still hitting between 30-40K

There are deadass some 15+ y/o sport cars that never depreciated

@ZaneCata @SBGMarc @INFINITIUSA This is not one of them...

@Chris_arnade @FistedFoucault It's a stiff upper lip.

I'm actually surprised there isn't more political anger in country -- it has the fly-over versus big city thing in spades, given there is really only one big city that makes it more extreme. Then again the decline has been so constant, for so long, I guess they have just become resigned to it.

My Official Statement on the Bongs and Bongland If you want to see a country in actual real-time decline, go visit Bongland. I have been going there for almost a quarter century now, and over the past few years I took some time out to go visit other places besides London to try and get a better grasp on the country. I spent a few weeks in places like Preston and Blackpool (including return visits) to speak to locals ranging from those working in town halls down to service economy level. Some of these places are down bad (I am being polite here). There is a lot of money in that country, but it is so concentrated in a few key economic sectors that it also negatively impacts much of the white collar class who are horribly underpaid in a country with a relatively expensive cost of living. I can't think of a single country in the so-called "West" that has a larger distance between voters and elected representatives in terms of politics. IMO, it would be more than fair to describe the UK political class as being openly and overtly hostile to its own citizens who are not immigrants nor the progeny of recent immigrants. When you monitor and observe the thinkers on Blighty who fall on this side of the political aisle, you see that they too have come to recognize that "Empire has come home", and you realize that some are now adding two and two together and realizing that long-standing Anglo political philosophy contained the seeds of its own destruction...but these are few and far in between. Most, naturally, still harbour a strong affinity for their historical greatness (you can't blame them for this), and are yet to make this necessary leap. Yet many have made a partial leap by default by insisting on an ethno-state-based form of politics. This is an inherent rejection of the hyper-individualist strain that has coloured English political philosophy for centuries now. It is this hyper-individualism that has political and culturally (in political terms) separated them from Continental Europe. They are European, but not "of Europe'. It will be hard to divorce them from a worldview and a belief in a system and style of governance that was widely successful for their nation in the past.....but if they do manage to unshackle themselves from these increasingly-heavier chains, they can re-Europeanize themselves.* *leaving the subject of the Continent out for now due to desired brevity

@MikeCalcara Buy a car with 60,000 miles. It's 20%-30% discounted. Buy a car with a reliable powertrain and learn to fix little stuff.

Everyone says buy a car that's 1-2 years old and let someone else take the depreciation hit. Here's why that advice doesn't always hold water: A 2-year-old car with 25,000 miles in some cases may only be $6,000 less than new. But you just lost two years of warranty. You're financing at a higher interest rate because it's used. And you have no idea if the previous owner beat the hell out of it for 25,000 miles. So you're just telling me the prior owner just ate the worst part of the depreciation curve cause he's a nice guy?? Meanwhile, the new one has $4,000 in manufacturer incentives. Full factory warranty, lower interest rate, and the option to lease. The 1-2 year used car strategy made sense in 2015. It doesn't always anymore. The gap between new and lightly used has shrunk so much that you're not always saving what you think you are. And you're giving up a lot to save a little.

@MikeCalcara @zrickety Ebay.

@zrickety What about my infotainment screen thats $5k to replace?

I am the warranty. Learn to wrench.

@shawngorham You are hurting yourself by not including the 2013-2015 LX or the modern GX in your search. That year LX has all the features you could ever want without looking overly like a space ship and the new LX has the only twin turbo that Toyota didn't build with extra debris inside it.

Now I have to hunt to find: 4Runner - 5th Gen Landcruiser - 2021 or older Lexus GX - 2023 or older (Nori Green is first choice) I dont think I can bring myself to buying a turbo v4 (new models) I also prefer (NOT) to buy my wife a used car, is what it is.

@AJA_Cortes How vertical? All the way to gathering the raw materials?

@caleb_mock Only with vertical integration and automation

WHY CREATINE LEFT AMERICA: Over 25 years ago in January of 2000, a report was published by the United States International Trade Commission In the report, the top creatine manufacturers in the USA alleged that the creatine industry was materially injured by imports from China sold at "less than fair value." China had flooded the market with low quality creatine starting in 1996. The creatine was between 91-98% purity Contrast this with the US companies, who were producing 99.9% pure creatine monohydrate As a result of this investigation, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed antidumping duties on these imports. But the American companies didnt survive At the time, the market was entirely athletes, hardcore gym bros, There was no real knowledge around purity, creatine was constantly lambasted as being a STEROID (its not, its a nitrogen molecule) in popular media This audience is uniquely tolerant of poor product quality at times. The creatine smelled weird? Felt sandy? Gas you indigestion? Whatever, it was cheap, and the Bros of the time didnt care. Unfortunately the US companies at the time were not vertically integrated, precursors were imported still, their labor costs were higher Competing on price wrecked their margins, the market was not sophisticated like it is today in wanting purity They all closed down, or pivoted to other industries. 85-90% of production went to China, the rest to Germany. -Which to their credit, Chinese creatine today is excellent and on par with Germany. and today America is the largest market for creatine monohydrate with explosive growth in demand, but we make none of it ourselves. The irony is that the USA has abundant feedstocks to make the precursors for creatine monohydrate, which also are precursors for over 100+ different critical chemicals across multiple industries, and making them here would power our industrial growth for all time -Which is what Im setting out to accomplish. Reindustrialization via Creatine We can make American Creatine again, and so much more.

@USALawnChair @shawngorham @carsales_guy "Removable."

@caleb_mock @shawngorham @carsales_guy Land Cruiser has the removable running boards for clearance and better resale value. 🤘

Lots of nostalgia for 2016 and honestly it's justified Cars were modern but analog. Things were less expensive. The music was good. Peak millennial fashion - what's not to like? Spoken like someone who's about to turn 40

@shawngorham @carsales_guy It was definitely peak Toyota.

@carsales_guy What was your favorite 2016 vehicle?

@USALawnChair @shawngorham @carsales_guy I was going to say LX 570!

@shawngorham @carsales_guy 200-Series Land Cruiser