Gil Shafir

@elonmusk One vote per dollar of taxes paid.

Yes

@VinnyLingham Their entire economy is based on exports through a cheap Yuan.

Let me spell this out for everyone: The fact that China wants the world to use the Yuan as the reserve currency, and not the US Dollar, is de facto signaling that it will be backing the Yuan with Physical Gold. China's (and Russia's) position is that the US Dollar is backed by US Treasuries and by a large and growing deficit ($2 trillion/year and climbing), which results in high inflation and, eventually, a worthless currency. Gold is the only neutral reserve asset in the world that has the scale to back fiat currencies. This is the final battleground to determine who gets to print the world's reserve fiat currency, with gold being the world's reserve asset. Gold will be $10,000/oz by the end of next year

@foundmyfitness What are the two brands?

Beware of most creatine gummies. Recent third-party testing found that 2/3 of creatine gummy brands contained virtually no creatine, despite label claims. Several brands advertised 5 g of creatine per serving, but testing found most delivered <0.5% of the stated amount. Only two brands actually matched (or exceeded) what they claimed. Gummies are often a bad delivery system in general, not just for creatine. Manufacturing heat and processing can degrade sensitive compounds and reduce biological activity. You’re also paying for sugar, fillers, and convenience, not potency. Plus, if you’re aiming for a meaningful daily dose (e.g., 10–20 g/day), that’s a lot of gummies. Creatine monohydrate powder is still the gold standard for those who want to supplement.

Evyatar David. 24. Kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023. Held by Gaza jihadis for 2 years underground with little food and no daylight. Tortured. Forced to dig his own grave. Finally, coming home.

@hahussain Just the countries accepting refugees.

Egypt released a list of heads of state attending President Trump's Mideast Peace Summit on Monday, including France, Norway, and Spain, but excluding Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Lebanon. Who exactly is negotiating peace with whom?

@AvivaKlompas So he can be among the countries being pressured to accept refugees?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney - who did exactly nothing to get the hostages out and secure a ceasefire - will fly to Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt for the global summit on ending the Gaza war.

@VerminusM Here in America we have it with every meal.

When was the last time you ate cotton candy?

Something that strikes me most about the current moment: when we protested the Iraq war it was "Don't Bomb Iraq" placards. We were asking our government not to do something stupid. Today, people carry the flags and photos of our enemies through the streets of our capitals.

@gummibear737 @ComicDaveSmith Enriching to 60% and then not building a bomb is an incoherent position. You take all the risk of instigating a preemptive strike and gain none of the deterrence of being able to respond to a nuclear attack in kind.

@ComicDaveSmith The hard part was enriching the uranium Your analogy to WMDs in Iraq is faulty…that was a question of “if”. This is a question of “when” The real intelligence failure this time would be not knowing they are building a bomb before they succeed in doing so

Wow, Tulsi is now the Colin Powell of this administration. She knows better but has chosen to lie through her teeth to sell a war. She’s worse than the others because she spent her career pretending to be against regime change war in Iran. What an utter disgrace! Weeks?! Weeks?! This is just made up today. It contradicts every single piece of intelligence on Iran for 20 years. Even Netanyahu never went so far.

@jeffreytucker @NassMeryl Pure delusion. Internet is out in Iran, not Israel. No evidence of an F35 shot down. I understand people like to be contrarian, but this take is brain dead.

Iran-Israel today, by @NassMeryl open.substack.com/pub/merylnass/…

@Osint613 So I guess that means it's happening tonight?

JUST IN 🔴🔴 White House spokeswoman, speaking on behalf of President Trump, said a decision on whether to strike Iran will be made within two weeks, depending on the outcome of ongoing negotiations. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@gerstenzang Then the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and partition of Trans-Jordan, along with 1948 and 1967 Wars are all much more historically relevant. Gaza war is recency bias and likely equivalent to 9/11 and aftermath in US history.

@gilshafir Gil, you’re better than this. This isn’t a good argument specifically or (even if I was wrong) generally. As you know, histories begin before a founding. Or every American history would start at the moment the constitution was signed.

.@elonmusk really is a genius. In the history of how to reform government, no one to my knowledge suggested getting hold of the systems controlling personnel and payments. Obvious in retrospect but totally new play.

@Osint613 Just stop aid shipments in.

Getting back to reality for a minute, what’s the best way to actually get the terrorists out of Gaza? Like what are real life plans? These hamasniks aren’t so easy to deal with to say the least…

Imagine writing an entire book about the TSA––a book that ultimately condemns it––without mentioning 9/11, or in fact, the entire phenomenon of airplane hijacking. That is what Coates has done, in a nutshell. The fact that he did it with characteristically nice prose hardly excuses it. If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.

@PalmerLuckey lol, yes

Would people buy an Anduril Pager in our merch store?

@shellenberger Can victims of this law qualify for asylum in the United States?

Soon, in the UK, you'll be able to report your sexist uncle as a terrorist threat to the police.

@ErikVoorhees It doesn’t. But if we insist on subsidizing the MIC better it goes to Israel than to Pakistan, Egypt, etc

If god has blessed Israel why does it still need money and weapons from US taxpayers Maybe god actually blessed Raytheon