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Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem: "The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist." "I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra." Elon breaks it down: Step 1: Question the requirements. "Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question." Step 2: Try to delete it. "Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there." Step 3: Optimize or simplify. "The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete." Step 4: Speed it up. "Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist." Step 5: Automate. "And then the fifth thing is to automate it." Elon explains why the order matters: "I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."

@MerlijnTrader Not true. The EU is slowly squeezing the politicians who stand against their control out - Meloni either ties the line or is out. She just turned into another EU pupit lossing all integrity.

INSIGHTS: 🇺🇸🇮🇹 Trump just publicly called out Italian PM Giorgia Meloni. "She is no longer the old Meloni. I thought she was brave. I was wrong." Meloni's response: "Italy does not care about what Donald Trump said." Read the Meloni situation carefully. She was Trump's strongest European ally. The one leader who publicly supported his agenda. NATO exit threatened. Iran talks cancelled. Meloni gone. The U.S. is increasingly isolated on the world stage. When you lose your last friend in Europe. You're not winning anymore.

@marjanul78 @Barchart @grok @grok what does mean for the us bond market?

@Barchart @Grok, how much have they bought back their own debt in the past 12 months?

U.S. Treasury projected to buy back $15 Billion of their own debt this week, equaling the largest Treasury buyback in history 🚨🚨

True

Elon Musk: "We should really accept no racism or sexism in any form, no matter what it’s called" If 'wokism' means judging people by race, gender, or identity - that's racism If DEI means giving advantages based on skin color - that's racism rebranded Racism against white people is still racism Racism against black people is still racism There are no exceptions We need a meritocracy - where people rise based on talent and hard work, not identity politics And free speech only means something when people you disagree with are allowed to speak

t.co/1nzTdKVB9J Turkey’s President Erdogan proudly supports Hamas’s October 7 massacre: 1,200 slaughtered, women and children raped, and hundreds kidnapped, all in the name of Islam. Erdogan insists that Hamas actions are reflection of true Islam. He’s not just complicit—he’s celebrating terror. The media is silent about this to avoid damaging the image of Islam as a “religion of peace”. So share this post to destroy their false narrative on Islam

@FoxNews If there are any Americans who still support this crazy thinking, then the US empire is crumbling. I pray their eyes will open before it is too late.

House Dem compares Trump's illegal immigration crackdown to 'terrorism,' vows to abolish ICE foxnews.com/politics/house…

@TTammenmaa @Barchart So you prefer America to be bad and poor?

@Barchart Buahahhaha kill that maga bullshit

JUST IN 🚨: U.S. Treasury just bought back $2 Billion of their own debt 👀 That makes $6 Billion this week 🤯

@PhilWMagness @OPECnews “May have cost” - “may”, “quietly”?When will they come with real facts and stop twisting everything to their own agenda - stop insulting the public’s intelligence

As predicted...

@BDliveSA I disagree. China has the tendency to infiltrate and dominate a market and then it uses that as leverage to control other areas and in RSA it could be government. It’ll be a slow but gradual death of democracy. We need a balance not cheap imports

High vehicle tariffs could backfire, as SA needs investment, not pricier imports businessday.co.za/opinion/2026-0…

@greendragonhq @JDVance Just by acknowledging the resistance ICE are now getting compared to Obama era, you know they were not doing their job during Obama or Biden - again democrats twisting facts.

@JDVance You sound woke JD. We are not going to change what qualifies as a deportation to make you feel better about yourself. You are spending 400% more than the Obama administration and have a fraction of the results. You are failing even at deportations. Facts > feelings.

This argument is just entirely fake, for two reasons. 1) In the Obama administration, they counted being turned away at the border as a deportation. A person would show up, be sent back, and counted as a deportation. We have to do deportations from the interior of the country because Biden and Harris let them walk in. 2) In the cities that are not sanctuary cities, the deportation process is orderly and normal--like most law enforcement. In Minneapolis and a few other sanctuary jurisdictions, local jurisdictions and a few leftwing agitators have decided to wage war on all immigration enforcement officers. They are hoping that a little chaos will convince us to give up on immigration enforcement. They are wrong.

@Rothbard1776 @DowdEdward @RepThomasMassie @RepMTG Why does everyone try to distort what Trump keeps telling everyone. He is on a war path on drugs from the start of the new term. Nobody seems to listen. Well then it is time to show the world he is serious. All they had to do is show convincingly they will stop the drug flow.

Am I hearing this correctly, the “no new wars” President is plotting regime changes in Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland and Iran after handing Syria over to the former head of Al-Qaeda and trying to kick @RepThomasMassie and @RepMTG out of the Republican Party? And all of the “conservative” influencers are cheering him on, along with the likes of: Lindsey Graham John Bolton Nat Rothschild Laura Loomer Meghan McCain Ben Shapiro Bill Ackman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

@Barchart What would happen if under these circumstances China suddenly dumps all the US Treasuries it holds?

Foreign Central Banks now own more Gold than U.S. Treasuries for the first time in almost 30 years 🚨🚨🚨

@StandUpForTrmp B

🚨BREAKING: If you could choose between a ticket to watch the next Starship launch here in Texas with me, or front row at a Taylor Swift concert with a meet and greet, which would you choose? A) Taylor B) Starship

@GrandDaughterX Yes

Do you think women with no tattoos are more attractive. Yes or No?

@GodlyNations Yes absolutely- any person can be racist

Say Yes

BREAKING: BBC’s director general Tim Davie, and the chief executive of the news division, Deborah Turness, have RESIGNED after it was revealed that BBC EDITED Trump‘s quotes on January 6th to make it look like Trump was calling for an insurrection

@ElephantSignal A

🚨BREAKING: Would you switch your internet carrier to Starlink if it only costs $10 a month for unlimited data worldwide and gets free X premium? A. Yes B. No

@onechancefreedm I disagree. Why can everyone not just believe that the true motivation of the US is to break the massive drug industry that destroys so many lives?They really care about their citizens - not something we can say of most other governments. Healthy citizens leads to strong economy.

Monroe Doctrine 2.0: Why Venezuela, Guyana and Colombia suddenly matter a lot Strip away the rhetoric and Washington’s fixation on the northern rim of South America is about two things: who controls the hemisphere’s next decade of oil flows, and who controls the chokepoints and minerals that power modern industry. Venezuela holds the world’s largest crude reserves, with heavy barrels tailor made for U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Guyana has become one of the fastest growing oil provinces on earth, anchored by a U.S. operator. Layer onto that the scramble for rare earths and magnet materials and Beijing’s tighter export controls on the heavy REEs used in advanced weapons and EVs and you get the real logic of a modern Monroe Doctrine. The United States is trying to redraw supply lines so that American and allied firms, not China or Russia anchor the energy and mineral streams coming out of the Americas. Venezuela is the fulcrum. Beyond sanctions talk, the practical U.S. aim is to prevent Caracas from mortgaging its oil system to Chinese and Russian state companies, or using barrels as geopolitical leverage. That explains pressure campaigns, naval and air shows of force in the Caribbean, and talk of covert authorities: crowd out outside patrons, deter adventures against neighbors, and keep a channel open for managed production growth that stabilizes prices without ceding control to Beijing. It also explains the obsession with the Essequibo dispute. If Venezuela coerced Guyana, it would directly threaten a U.S. major’s flagship project and America’s preferred marginal barrel. Guyana is a hedge. Defense cooperation, aerial surveillance and rule of law support protect the Stabroek ramp up and signal that Washington will underwrite the security perimeter around Western operated offshore infrastructure. It also gives the U.S. a friendly anchor on the Atlantic frontage of the Amazon, where future deep water cables, energy corridors and mineral logistics will run. Colombia ties the picture together. It is the hinge between the Caribbean and the Pacific and the neighbor that buffers both Venezuela’s oil belt and the Panama Canal. That makes Bogotá the natural platform for intelligence, interdiction and logistics, whether the public rationale is counter narcotics, migration control or maritime security. For years analysts have warned that Colombia’s geography with two oceans, borders with Panama and Venezuela and the fusion of insurgency, trafficking and illicit mining make its alignment a strategic interest. The subtext in today’s war of words with President Petro is whether Colombia tilts toward Chinese capital for energy, ports and minerals, or stays inside a U.S. led security and supply chain architecture. Minerals raise the stakes. With China tightening licenses on dysprosium, terbium and magnet‑making gear, non China supply chains carry a premium. South America has reserves and hints of scale, Brazil most obviously, but Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas have prospective REE bearing deposits and coltan flows. Recent seizures in Colombia of coltan bound for China and new rare earth extraction licenses show where this is headed: Washington will try to route whatever regional capacity emerges into allied processing networks, while using law enforcement and financial pressure to choke the gray trade that funds armed groups. Colombia’s role as a maritime riverine gatekeeper matters as much for strategic materials as for drugs. Seen this way, the sudden hard edge with boat strikes, visa actions, aid leverage, public threats looks less like a scattershot drug war and more like pre‑positioning. The goal is to lock down energy from Guyana, keep a hand on the valve in Venezuela, and build a friend shored, rules based path for rare earths and other critical inputs, all while pushing back on Chinese and Russian reach in.

@dailymaverick Journalism worldwide has been captured by a minority- very few report truth and fact only- fact and truth are twisted to fit journalists or his/her bosses’ own agenda - sadly that is what I believe is the real truth.

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