Drew Rant

An old man is selling watermelons by the side of the road. His sign reads: 1 for $3 3 for $10 A young man stops and buys one watermelon. “That’ll be $3,” says the old man. The young man then buys a second watermelon. And then a third. After paying another $3 each time, the young man picks up his watermelons and starts to walk away. Then he turns back, grinning proudly. “Hey old man,” he says, “you realize I just bought three watermelons for $9 instead of $10? Maybe business isn’t your thing.” The old man smiles and shakes his head. “Funny… every time somebody comes by, they buy three watermelons instead of one… and then try to teach me business.”

For me it was Tim Garvin in Cincinnati. I invested $6,000 of the $8,800 in my account to integrate my site CabinIndex․com with his reservation software. He ghosted me and never did anything. I never pursued it legally because it taught me a lesson in trust.

@aj_inapi They didn't mean to do it, but their elected reps gamed the entire system to benefit them at the cost of younger people. Now They'll die happy and leave the world worse off than they intended. Laws and assets protecting them and handcuffing the future.

I don't want to act like I know, only because I don't live in America. Why are boomers being vilified in America and more so in the West? I see a growing trend of this online.

@Bitcoin_Teddy I'm impressed he's figuring it out. Has to be hard to see as a billionaire.

RAY DALIO: “I’m worried about something worse than a recession… We have something that is much more profound, we have a breaking down of the monetary order.” Get some Bitcoin... 👀

@mazemoore One of them is the president.

2024. While defending Biden's cognitive decline, Stephen Colbert calls Trump a rapist. Immediately after that he told a vile joke about Trump's marriage. This was his show night after night for ten years and yet people are whining because Trump posted a meme of Colbert.

@T_Manzana27 I agree. I also don't think it was canceled by the president.

Idgaf if you hated this guy or watched him religiously, any show getting canceled by a President is Anti American

@realDonaldTrump Both are puppets.

AI is being built and we don't even know why. What are we trying to optimize? That is the fear you feel. The fact that God's are being built and there is no purpose. We're optimizing for uncertainty and it won't go well.

@VladTheInflator Essentially the boomers are figuring out how to force their values on humanity even after they are gone with AI. Kids aren't stupid.

Students are booing CEOs when they mention AI I guess the whole "AI is taking your job and your degree is worthless. Oh and we need all your water and electricity." Isn't going so well.

@WallStreetApes Shareholders want profits. This gives profits... it fucks the everyone else, but your stock goes up. Don't buy stocks.

New data shows once an Indian CEO gets hired at a major company, what follows is Americans getting pushed out of their jobs and replaced by Indians Major Companies with an Indian CEO: - Google - Sundar Pichai - Indian - Microsoft - Satya Nadella - Indian - YouTube - Neal Mohan - Indian - Adobe - Shantanu Narayen - Indian - IBM - Arvind Krishna - Indian - Infosys - Salil Parekh Indian - NetApp - George Kurian - Indian - Arista Networks - Jayshree Ullal - Indian - Novartis - Vasant Narasimhan - Indian - Micron - Sanjay Mehrotra - Indian - Honeywell - Vimal Kapur - Indian - Flex - Revathi Advaithi - Indian - Niyafair (Wayfair) - Niraj Shah - Indian - Chanel - Leena Nair - Indian - Shantanu Narayen (Adobe) - Indian - Cognizant - Ravi Kumar S. - Indian - Cognizant (variant/duplicate) - Indian - Vertex - Reshma Kewalramani - Indian - Escaler Indian - Zscaler - Jay Chaudhry - Indian - Microsoft Gaming - Indian - FedEx - Indian “There's an observable correlation between the rise of Indian-born CEOs taking the helms at major U.S. companies and increased offshoring and outsourcing activity to India” There is also a massive correlation to once an India CEO gets hired, H-1B visa applications skyrocket This needs to stop

@EmbracingTara I've opted out of so many restaurants that I always eat at home. My family of 3 spends around $1200/month on food. Including a weekly out meal. My meals are prepped by a $1600/month assistant. We can just do OTHER things.

Chipotle burritos cost $17 because the market supports $17 burritos If everyone said, I'm not paying $17 for a burrito, fuck that, Chipotle burritos wouldn't cost $17. Chipotle burritos cost me $0.00. Do you know why? I choose not to purchase them. Is this clocking at all?

We had MAHA. We had DOGE. We had Congress, the popular vote, everything we needed! You could’ve shut your mouth, deported the illegals, eliminated the IRS, released the files, stayed out of new wars, and drained the freaking swamp. It was perfect. But, nooo, you just had to blow it up! You just had to go after Massie, the one guy actually pushing the America First agenda that *you* ran on! You and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man. If you’d done your job, known your place, we’d all be fine right now!

@JohnnyAGI But the other option was Harris. Don't play innocent. The only real conclusion is politics is pointless.

They loved Marjorie Taylor Greene, now they hate her. They loved Thomas Massie, now they hate him. They loved Lauren Boebert, now they hate her. They made fun of Biden for nodding off ("Sleepy Joe), now they ignore Trump outright falling asleep. They put "I Did That" Biden stickers on high gas prices, now they ignore gas prices being even higher. They bragged about Trump being the no wars President, now they support war. They bashed Biden for sending money to Ukraine, now they ignore Trump sending money to both Ukraine and Israel. They demanded the Epstein files, now they bash anyone asking for the Epstein files. To be a MAGA is to be a slave. Not physically, but mentally. They stand for nothing. We're up against people who stand for nothing. And with the most misplaced confidence you've ever seen, they try to tell us whats-what. We shouldn't even acknowledge these people. The Trump supporters that remain are mentally too far gone. I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country." An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️

Trump was way better when his threats kept us out of wars. While in war he just makes us the villain.

@joeroganhq They are still on hold.

JD Vance: "If the government shuts down your main source of revenue, do you write a letter?! Do you make a phone call? 780 of those that we've closed down. We haven't even heard a single thing from anybody. That's how bad the fraud is!"

@LCSlates @stripe Basically, the cost of fighting is more than what we were paid. We are going back to not fighting chargebacks and keeping a black list, or public shaming. (Like you are doing with the images).

@drewrants @stripe I think that auto-settle is what happened here with me. If I'm reading their judgment report back correctly, they 1) didn't even read my report 2) already decide the fate of this BEFORE (something called pre-assumption) before I even knew in the stripe system this was a dispute.

Well so much for that. Already lost. The system is utterly fucked and broken. @stripe 48-page evidence package. Easy to read, Table of contents, filled with visuals (a junior bank employee could easily understand everything). The customer used the product for 49 days, was logged in 13 hours before filing the chargeback, then canceled the subscription 5 hours after the dispute was already filed. *Technically they are still ACTIVE. Here's everything we submitted: PAYMENT INTEGRITY • AVS postal-code check: PASS • CVC check: PASS • Stripe Radar score: Normal (22 / low risk) • Auth success rate on customer email: 100% • Card brand, last-4, fingerprint, exp, billing ZIP all confirmed by issuer CUSTOMER USE POST-CHARGE • 35 distinct active days in 49 days • 393 authenticated session-refresh events • 17 long-form SEO articles generated • 18 AI images generated • 3 WordPress sites configured (admin credentials added) • 4 Google accounts authenticated via OAuth • Customer added their own paid OpenAI API key (BYOK) • 4 team members added TIMING • 49 days between charge and dispute • Logged into the dashboard 13 hours BEFORE filing the chargeback • Canceled the subscription 5 hours AFTER the dispute was filed INDEPENDENT IP CORROBORATION • Stripe captured IP at checkout: Manchester, UK • Microsoft Clarity captured 22 of 38 sessions over 60 days: also Manchester, UK • Two unrelated 3rd parties placing the same person in the same city across payment + 60 days of authenticated use THE KICKER - THE CUSTOMER'S OWN PUBLIC WEBSITE CURRENTLY DEPENDS ON OUR PRIVATE CDN • Articles generated on his account are LIVE on his own public WordPress sites • Page source contains img tags pointing INSIDE our private R2 bucket • Last-Modified headers on those CDN files match the EXACT minute his account generated them • Currently fetched by every visitor to his website CRYPTOGRAPHIC IDENTITY CHAIN (Automattic / Gravatar) • Every WordPress author avatar = SHA-256(author email) • 3 of his sites, 3 perfect SHA-256 matches against the gmail addresses in our DB • Automattic has no relationship with us, the customer, or the bank • Effectively unforgeable email-to-WP-admin binding DOMAIN OWNERSHIP (third-party attestation) • Google Search Console verified ownership on 4 separate domains • Public WHOIS: 2 of his domains registered 9 SECONDS APART through the same registrar account • Both registered 5 MONTHS BEFORE he bought our subscription • Pre-existing content business, not a stolen-card test VISA CE 3.0 ELIGIBLE • Same payment credential had a $0.00 trial-start invoice marked "paid" 7 days before the disputed charge • Same customer, email, payment method, subscription • Exactly the prior-undisputed-transaction proof Visa CE 3.0 requires The chargeback dispute system is broken.

@dougboneparth So the bank is right... you seem to make bad long term decisions that will increase the risk of financial demise over 30 years.

The bank says you can’t afford a $2,700 mortgage, so you pay $3,250 in rent instead.

@PalmerLuckey You know you can opt out of all mail right? The USPS sucks and is always in the red. But they can only exist at all because junk mail gives them much of their revenue. Your mail is binary. Turn it off. Or keep it on and deal with what they deliver, and failed deliveries.

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!