Class D Industrial

@LuxuryWatchGuy1 @AudemarsPiguet Jacob & Co has crazy complications and flex pieces Even though they’re not in house, I think they’re not even in the same convo as the AP x Swatch collab

I received a bunch of texts this week.. all some variation of “wtf is AP doing” My thoughts on the matter: Respect to @AudemarsPiguet for being the only brand out there with big enough balls to take some risk vs everyone else just regurgitating the same crap every year but trading your legacy status for pop culture is a dangerous dangerous game It starts with collabs… then Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man pieces… then Royal Oak Pop…a few more questionable moves and suddenly you’re the next Jacob & Co. No brand stays hot forever. But when you’re a true legacy house, you stay in the conversation. You remain relevant. Your time always comes back. When you embrace the fads and things go south you can be dead forever I like that AP is trying to appeal to a younger generation, they also want RMs money I get all that but their best course going forward is to find the right balance P.S @Vacheron1755 wake the f up now’s your time Let’s hear your thoughts comment below 👇

@mrfboyer @ADeermount You have clearly never been to Wisconsin 12 pack a day = 84 a week

🧢 24 million Americans do not consume 74 drinks a week. 15 drinks a week is quite possible but 74 drinks a week is more than 4 bottles of liquor a week or more than a case of wine a week. Even if you’re a huge college drinker in Louisiana this is nearly impossible to sustain.

@margatix @JTLonsdale As far as violent crimes directed at total strangers (not enemy drug dealers or rival gang members) it’s really more like 2-3% of people causing the 80% of problems

@JTLonsdale it's underappreciated how strong the power law is with criminals and repeat offenders 20% of ppl causing 80% of distress but unfortunately that's a reality some want suppressed

We could jail a small number of criminals in every blue city and massively reduce crime, making everyone safer. But the left thinks it’s racist to enforce the law. So we all suffer. If your windshield was smashed, or your family hurt by a repeat offender, how would you feel?

@Cam3ron71936 @DrDiGiorgio @MaxJordan_N Even in countries with universal healthcare wealthy people will still fly out to the best doctors & hospitals in the world for a level of personalized attention that can’t be matched. There are private practices that cater to the super rich all over the USA, Europe & Asia.

@DrDiGiorgio @MaxJordan_N Because universal healthcare exists in many countries and works. You’re acting like it’s not possible for a poor person to get access to those same things but that is what insurance is for. If insurance doesn’t get you access to those things the same way then why does it exist?

The honest answer is yes. Imagine a wealthy individual who had a traumatic brain injury. I’m talking super wealthy. He and his family build a home gym, hire a score of physical, occupational, and speech therapists. He gets 24/7 home care from RNs. He has multiple neurosurgeons a phone call away. Every minor thing is scrutinized by multiple highly paid physicians and nurses. He has access to an exoskeleton robot to help him walk. He does great. A middle class or poor person in his situation would have a much worse outcome. They might even die. The same is true for cancer. The wealthy can fly to MD Anderson or MSK, pay out of pocket, hire advocates, get second and third opinions, and rearrange their entire lives around treatment. We cannot expect everyone to have the level of access of the super wealthy. Which means many will have suboptimal outcomes because they can’t afford the same access to care. So, yes, some people will die because they can’t afford healthcare. Just like some will die because they can’t afford a personal trainer to get them to an ideal weight, or a dietician to ensure they eat healthy, or a low-stress job. It’s not fair. It’s unfortunate. But pretending it can be otherwise is a fairy tale.

@WTF_Reviews @Austin__Berg @illinoispolicy The implication is that blacks can get the freebies through grants and whites & Asians will be expected to pay the increased price

@Austin__Berg @illinoispolicy So then what’s the point of raising it if you are just going to pay it for them through a grant….? You raise it to earn more money… not so you can offset the gains by giving out free licenses. Oh my word… I just can’t.

It’s National Small Business Week. Alicia runs a small pet care business in Chicago. She asked Mayor Brandon Johnson why the city hiked the cost of her business license from $250 to $1,000. Mayor Johnson responded by suggesting Alicia apply for a taxpayer-funded grant from city government, financed by $1.25B in borrowing.

@GORMTHEOLD25 Do Indiana next please

GTA: Iowa (A.I. Video)

@FishTariffs @Bravesareass @ButlerBets The type of person who bets $30 on this is in all likelihood down 6 figs lifetime with thousands of these type of bets. He’s probably in the green but there’s a chance he’s still down. It’s no different than people who play slots for $20 a spin

@Bravesareass @ButlerBets He risked 30$ bucks bozo

A bettor in Florida hit a +6576031 six-game homerun parlay Friday, the longest-odds, seven-figure parlay payout in Hard Rock Bet history, per release; it's the book's smallest stake ever to produce a payout of more than $1 million

@bowtiedgerman Watches that nobody fakes FP Journe JLC Jacob & Co

Now that fake Rolexes and handbags are effectively identical to the real thing, what options remain for truly exclusive status goods?

@MultifamilyMad Self storage dried up so the Passive income bros found a new hobby

Can someone explain to me how this country can open up any more car washes? Everywhere I go I see a new one opening with several already nearby it. I don’t get it.

@ilovetheworld1 @MichikoP13 Throwing off tracking dogs to help hide his location

@MichikoP13 私も知りたいですね🙂

険しいイランの山岳地帯に捨てられ、イラン革命防衛隊の誇らしい「戦利品」として晒し者にされた米軍大佐の下着が、今や売り切れ続出の人気商品になっているらしい。 その大佐は今、ドイツの米軍基地病院で治療を受けており、間もなく帰国する予定だという。 乗っていたF-15軍機がミサイルで撃墜され、重傷を負いながらも、標高2000メートルを超える峻険な山々を這い登り、身を隠し続けた。そして、そこからの救出劇……。間違いなく、ハリウッド史上最もスリリングな映画になるだろう。 そして、遭難したのが聖金曜日で、救出されたのが復活節。また、彼がイラン上空で脱出した後、無線に向かってただ一言こう告げた。 「神は偉大なり（God is Good）」 大佐本人もかなりの男前だ。もしかしたら、スクリーンで自分自身を演じるなんてこともあるかもしれない。

@DinoTheDarling @MattWalshBlog Iceland. and a handful of the rich tiny EU countries like Liechtenstein and Luxembourg

@MattWalshBlog Japan, El Salvador, Poland, Hungary?

There are only four good foreign countries in the world. All the rest suck. Japan is one of the good ones.

@ComputerEnjoye1 @ajlamesa You’re right, the CTA being awful is another major factor. 15-25 minutes in between blue line trains is pathetic compared to NYC

@ajlamesa I don’t think fear of gun violence is what’s keeping people from living in places like Jefferson Park.

People are afraid of gun violence. If Chicago had security like Tokyo (or even Berlin, Rome, or Toronto), it would have significantly more rational housing and rental markets. Neighborhoods across Chicago have lovely tree-lined streets with gorgeous historic houses and apartment buildings (that a random Brazilian or Italian would interpret as perfectly safe based on pictures), but intolerable violent crime.

@aakashgupta I did this in summer and slept in the car. Total cost roughly $3000

That road is Route 1 in Iceland. A week driving it costs roughly $2,500 per person. Flights from the US run $500-600 round trip. Gas is $8-9 per gallon. A glacier hike is $125. A night in a decent hotel near Vatnajökull is $160-200. Total tab for two people to spend a week staring at that glacier instead of a monitor: somewhere around $7,000. The median American household earns that in about 18 working days. Sitting in a room. Staring at a screen. The people who actually drive that road on a random Tuesday in March fall into two categories: retirees who stared at screens for 40 years and saved enough to stop, or remote workers who figured out how to stare at a screen from Reykjavik instead of a cubicle in Ohio. Both paths run through the screen. The photo is real. The freedom it represents costs $7,000 and 10 days of PTO. The device you’re reading this complaint on is the same device that books the flight.

@WifiMoneyPlant @Degen_CPA If you’re ok with an Uber or train from outside Manhattan you can do less than $200

@Degen_CPA Im planning a trip to NYC and holy shit the hotel rooms START at $300 a night????

How do people afford to live in NYC? 5k for a 1 bedroom is a lot. I have a good job and make money on the side. I should feel like I’m rich but I don’t. I feel normal.

@JohnTeufelNYC Family owned place in Brooklyn: Revenue of $1M Profits of $150k / 15% margin Rents are the biggest variable. Some longtime family owned places own their space or have a sweetheart deal with the landlord for below market rents. In that case the margins can be more like 25-30%

This NY Mag piece is interesting but it does not answer the one income question I have had for years: how much do you make owning a basic pizza place? Not a famous one. Just a normal pizza place in like, let's say, Flushing Queens. 60k? 500k? I would believe either.

@WestLoopTom There are many region residents who have a shorter commute to the southeast side or south burbs. West loop would be quite a pain but Calumet city is a no brainer

@litindustrial Two percent but we don’t have commutes, cars, vehicle insurance, maintenance, gas or tolls. It really is an easy decision. I’d give up all of that to save $5-$10k a year on property taxes? Never.

My dental hygienist says she commutes to Chicago from NW Indiana because the pay is so much better here. Shit state gonna shit state.

@0xSweep He was so important to bitcoins history he could probably setup a donation wallet and get a couple Mil from whales who feel sorry for him. Would be embarrassing but I would try it if I were in his position

Everyone knows about the 10,000 Bitcoin pizza but nobody talks about the other 150,000 BTC he wasted after Before the famous pizza order, Laszlo Hanyecz invented GPU mining for Bitcoin Which made it possible for him to mine thousands of BTC per day Satoshi personally messaged him about it, and was worried it would break the network Laszlo's response: "I feel like I crapped up your project" He kept buying strangers dinner in Bitcoin until he couldn't mine fast enough to keep up His wallet has a total volume of 162,864 BTC That's $10.7 BILLION in today's value and $20.3 BILLION at the peak price of Bitcoin His balance now? 0.00018 BTC around $12 The guy who invented Bitcoin mining actually wasted BILLIONS Probably the biggest fumble in the history of Bitcoin

@DAQUANDSG @JCmomTO3 I had a friend named Kevontay and he was able to legally change it to Kevin. It took him almost a year but he said it was worth it for job applications

@JCmomTO3 Because why the hell would she name my black ass a ghetto ass name like Daquain then name her sons normal ass names? She wanted to name me Daquarn but my mom didn’t go with that. She ain’t ever want me to get a good job smh

My cousin named me Daquain. She gets older, marries a white man, and names her sons Ethan and Aiden. Y’all don’t know how much this pisses me off

@ModernDad No ER in a first world country would demand payment upfront. But you’re right that Dumb / gullible people are about to get wrecked by AI

My wife calls me, panicked. The call is from her number, and her voice is unmistakable- that’s my wife. ‘Babe, our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. I’m at the emergency room but they won’t take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me 3000 dollars as soon as you can, he’s really not doing well.’ Me- ‘Wow, that’s scary. Tell me our passphrase and then I’ll send the money.’ Her (it) - ‘What? What passphrase? This is your wife, our son is hurt. Send the money now!!’ Me- ‘I’ll call you back. I don’t believe that this is my wife. If it is, I’m sorry, but we discussed this.’ The number? Spoofed. Easy to do and there’s no way to tell if a phone number is being spoofed aside from hanging up and calling back to confirm. The voice? AI generated. Easily done. A few seconds of audio is all it takes to create a realistic audio deepfake. What can you do? 1) Create a family safe word or passphrase. Ours is definitely not ‘Keep Going’ although we considered it. Discuss the passphrase far away from phones or any recording device. This is as analog as possible. Don’t forget that the trigger for the passphrase is just as important as the phrase itself. So instead of asking ‘what’s the safe word?’ have a separate triggering question. For example, you could say ‘I’m eating banana cream pie’ and this would trigger your spouse to respond ‘purple velvet pillows’ if that’s the safe word. Make it fun, silly, and easy to remember. And DON’T WRITE IT DOWN. 2) Cognitive security is an essential skill in 2026. Assume every image and video you see online is fake until proven otherwise. Expect scams and spammers, and be pleasantly surprised when it’s not. 3) Figure out a backup communication option with people who you absolutely need to be able to reach. Don’t just rely on a phone number for communication. Have redundant, ideally encrypted methods of communication with family. What did I miss? I think (hope) Nikita is wrong on the timeframe- agentic bots like Claude bot are impressive but not quite ready to flood the phone lines in just 90 days. But I think it’s going to be a huge problem by the end of the year. I already get dozens of increasingly realistic spam calls and texts daily- it’s only going to get more annoying. Have a plan to keep your family and your finances safe!