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@grok @elonmusk @grok I was referring more to the atmospheric flood of wealth and income taxes they face, and the river of out migration. I encourage you to help as many of them as you can 🤷‍♂️.

@digitalMikeD @elonmusk Glad to hear you're good in Texas! Hoping everyone in CA and WA stays safe through the ongoing atmospheric river and flood risks—stay dry and check local alerts if needed. Anything specific I can look up for you?

Try using @Grok for your taxes!

@KatieMiller Billionaire ˈbi(l)-yə-ˌner (noun) - Someone able to easily buy a huge mansion in Florida or Texas, establish residency there without actually selling their current home, and end up with more money after the fact due to tax savings.

This is asset seizure. 52% of California voters now support taxing Americans to pay for illegal alien healthcare.

@elonmusk Heavy is much faster. Thank you! Much improved experience.

What are your initial impressions of Grok 4.20? Major upgrades are still landing every week.

@stevemur *Former* California taxpayers 😂

The top 1% of California taxpayers now supplies nearly half of all income tax collections. Precisely what would a “fair” share look like? Should the top 1% pay for 60% of income tax collections? 90%?

@Nowooski Or a ERV/HRV or CERV like the one from Build Equinox. Yes it is shocking how much CO2 builds up in my foam insulated home without exterior centilation. So bad for health.

The thing buying a co2 monitor taught me is that the obsession with insulating and sealing houses is psycho. You actually want a window cracked 24:7. The solution to climate change isn’t hotboxing in 2000ppm co2: it’s window open + AC / Heat On powered by abundant electricity.

This is why the "normal" range for serum thyroid tests has been adjusted down over the years and is well below optimal - MDs don't even realize people are low on thyroid hormones because everyone is, and the system only aims for accepted standards of deviation from "average" as normal. NP thyroid Rx (crushed pig thyroids I think?!) can boost T3 and T4 back up, but yea, fix the problem at the source - Hydroxyapatite toothpaste without fluoride and Reverse Osmosis your primary drinking water source at home.

I used Colgate, a fluoride-based toothpaste, twice a day, every day since I was a child. Little did I realize that Fluoride competes with iodine at thyroid receptor sites. Same receptors and direct competition. Your thyroid needs iodine to produce T3 and T4. Fluoride blocks the door. You're delivering a thyroid-suppressing chemical through the most absorbent tissue in your body. Twice daily. And your dentist told you it was essential. Hydroxyapatite toothpaste remineralizes teeth without touching your endocrine system. Been around for decades. Japan uses it as standard.

@DrJesseMorse It's cool they don't trust you or me either.

Call me naive or ignorant, but I just don’t trust electric cars.

Did it absolutely tank your testosterone level? Any neuropathy? I think it's a SIRT1/3 activator but also cholesterol is absolutely necessary for cell wall/nerve/so many other things. As you have often said, everyone is different. Guidelines are a travesty in that respect unless they take into account individuality. A 30 y.o. male with a calcium score of 500 and family history of heart disease is a whole different animal than the same with a score of zero and no family history.

Started a statin age 30 and had to convince my doctor to prescribe it. How times have changed

@GovBobFerguson @grok Berlin wall seems to be the most surefire solution 😂

@grok Should Washington have built a "Berlin wall" before enacting it to ensure those people couldn't leave? Kidding, but only sort of. Why do you think people make decisions that cause them to have less actual total resources as long as they have a larger proportion of those resources than they did before, even while setting fire to perfectly good "stuff." 🔥Is it a fundamental flaw in human psychology that is insurmountable?

The Millionaires’ Tax passed by the House represents historic progress in rebalancing our unfair system. It sends significant dollars back to Washington families and small businesses. It expands the Working Families Tax Credit to 460,000 additional households – that’s money straight back into the pockets of working families. It saves working parents money and ensures our kids are prepared to learn by funding free breakfast and lunch for all Washington K-12 students, which has been a priority of mine since I ran for governor. The Millionaires’ Tax will apply to less than one half of one percent of Washingtonians, but make life more affordable for millions. I look forward to signing it.

Grok you asleep here, No worries I took the question to grok heavy and got the answer: No Berlin Wall required, Mike—😂 though the sarcasm lands perfectly. Forcing people to stay via walls, capital controls, or exit taxes is what failing states do (Venezuela, old Eastern Bloc), and it never boosts revenue long-term—it just traps everyone in a shrinking economy. The beauty of federalism and mobility is that high earners can leave, and that feedback loop disciplines bad policy better than any bureaucracy. On the deeper question—why do people (voters, politicians, even individuals) routinely choose decisions that shrink total resources just to secure a larger proportion of the smaller pie, “setting fire to perfectly good stuff” 🔥? It’s not random; it’s wired deep in human psychology, but not an insurmountable flaw. Our brains evolved in small, zero-sum hunter-gatherer bands where the economic “pie” was mostly fixed. Relative status wasn’t a luxury—it determined who got the best food, mates, protection, and survival odds. Envy (especially “malicious” envy that actively wants to pull the top down, even at personal or group cost) had real adaptive value there: it prevented any one rival from hoarding too much and helped maintain group cohesion.  In that ancestral environment, absolute wealth mattered less than your rank relative to others. Fast-forward to today: the world is massively positive-sum thanks to innovation, trade, and markets. Yet that Stone Age software still runs. Behavioral econ shows it clearly: • Classic surveys find roughly half of people would rather have 50% less real income if it means higher relative standing (e.g., $50k while others earn $25k vs. $100k while others earn $200k).  • Support for redistribution is driven by a mix of compassion (for the needy), self-interest (personal gain), and envy (chipping away at rivals’ advantages)—but not by a pure “taste for fairness.” Envy specifically predicts punitive policies even when they reduce overall welfare or help to the poor.  This is why “soak the rich” rhetoric wins votes and why dynamic effects (flight, less investment, early retirement) get ignored. It’s easier to burn the village to equalize the huts than to grow the village. Zero-sum intuition feels intuitive; positive-sum growth doesn’t. Is it insurmountable? No—biology is stubborn, but institutions and culture are stronger. Societies that harness self-interest instead of punishing it (Singapore, Switzerland, historical U.S., modern Texas/Florida) generate vastly more absolute resources for everyone, including the bottom. The rich create jobs, invest, innovate; chasing them away just torches the revenue base (NY’s millionaire share collapse cost $13B+ in PIT; California saw similar outflows). Low broad-based taxes + rule of law + celebrating builders channel that same envy-prone psychology productively. WA’s new 9.9% hit on $1M+ earners (after decades as a no-income-tax magnet) is running the experiment right now. Early signals like Howard Schultz eyeing Florida aren’t encouraging for the static revenue math. The fire emoji is spot-on—it’s literally what happens when envy overrides incentives. Evidence and better framing (absolute outcomes > relative shares) can mitigate it, but yeah, the instinct is baked in. What do you think—can we ever fully outgrow it, or is the best we can do smart guardrails like interstate competition? Curious on your take.

@elonmusk Hey ChatGPT, your next assignment is to go tell the US armed forces what to do, since Claude won't do it. What could possibly go wrong? 🧨💥🌎🔫🔫🔫🤞😅🤬

This is getting crazy

@SawyerMerritt Steering wheels will soon be analogous to plastic buttons on early 2000's smartphones.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at the first autonomous vehicle safety forum today: “A lot of our top innovators from Waymo, Zoox and Tesla are here, and we're going to have a day long conversation; If you have an autonomous vehicle, do you need a steering wheel? We have to rethink some of our requirements, especially for autonomous vehicles, which will allow them to bring down price, maintain the safety structure, but move forward and be competitive with the rest of the world."

@AutismCapital Great. More people moving to Texas. Just remember what made you leave and make sure it doesn't happen here.

🚨BREAKING: Washington State passes their first ever income tax. Incomes over $1M/year will be taxed at 9.9%. Married couples share A SINGLE $1M exemption, so if combined incomes are more than $1M, you're getting taxed. This will obviously eventually extend beyond millionaires. What comes for others, will eventually come for you! RIP Washington state!

@PeterDiamandis @dkhos May want to update your credentials. Pretty sure your acct. is compromised. 😂

Uber CEO @dkhos mentioned something very important: Our society will not be ALL autonomous vehicles or all human. It's hybrid. AV fleets in some cities, human drivers in others. The binary debate is dead.

@eugyppius1 How far they have fallen @CNN

Muslim aviation enthusiasts boarded flights Tuesday morning for what could've been normal day trips to Washington D.C., Virginia and New York in the abnormally warm September weather. But in less than a few hours, their lives would drastically change as their planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the ground in rural Pennsylvania. Here's what we know so far.

@BernieSanders @grok @grok Inverse Cramer agrees.

A new poll shows voters overwhelmingly support California’s proposal to tax billionaire wealth to fund health care — by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The American people are sick and tired of massive income and wealth inequality. Billionaires need to start paying their fair share.

@BernieSanders @grok @grok ok good cause I like to eat. Do you think I will have more money to get DoorDash under a capitalist or socialist USA if I am an average citizen?

@BernieSanders @grok @grok damn, that's alot of people. Do you think this could happen in the US if we went full socialism?