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@MarioNawfal Good, Spirit Airlines was a terrible airline.

🇺🇸 Spirit Airlines is gone. 17,000 jobs. 34 years. Shutdown effective immediately. In 2024, Elizabeth Warren celebrated blocking its merger with JetBlue as a win for consumers. The logic: stop the merger, protect competition, keep fares low. What actually happened: Spirit filed bankruptcy twice anyway, couldn't survive soaring fuel costs from the Iran war, and no buyer materialized. The Trump administration tried a bailout. That also failed. Warren's "win" didn't kill Spirit alone. But she handed a terminally ill airline a shovel and called it a rescue. @EricLDaugh

@cremieuxrecueil @ChrisPalmerMD Although, it's a lot easier to over diagnose.

@ChrisPalmerMD As we should, since schizophrenia is a lot worse than high LDL.

Evidence-based treatments for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder often lead to increases in LDL cholesterol. We offer them to millions of patients anyway.

@TzviGot @iam_elias1 Your example provides evidence against your claim; it doesn't support it. Computers have been here for decades, yet people buy more computers than ever.

@iam_elias1 I think any reasonable person could have reached this conclusion without math, no? Computer replaces employees - unemployed cannot afford to purchase - companies cannot make money. The next part is also interesting: Unemployed take their torches and storm the castle of the owners

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617

@akafaceUS Why does it need to shrink? I'm no worse off if you get a better house or car than I do through your own work and risk management. That increases the gap, but not my actual wealth.

The only argument I have is the wealth gap needs to be shrinking. I don’t think people should be punished for success but that statistic has to improve somehow before things can become affordable again. A McDonalds employee should be able to afford a home.

@newstart_2024 James Sexton is great. However, the statement "If you get married, there’s roughly a 56% chance it ends in divorce" doesn't disentangle the reality that repeat divorcers increase the divorce rate. Chance of divorce if it's both your first marriage is around 30%.

James Sexton (America’s top divorce lawyer) said something pretty sobering on Diary of a CEO: If you get married, there’s roughly a 56% chance it ends in divorce. Add in the people who stay together but are miserable (for the kids, money, etc.), and he estimates the “failure rate” jumps to 70-75%. Yet here’s the wild part: 86% of people who get divorced remarry within five years. Marriage is one of the biggest decisions we make, but the odds aren’t great — and we keep rolling the dice anyway because humans are wired for connection and partnership. It reveals something deeply philosophical about human nature — our almost stubborn optimism and longing for connection. Even after pain and failure, most of us still choose hope and the possibility of love over permanent solitude. What’s your honest take — is marriage still worth it in 2026, or are the stats too discouraging?

@SenWarren Thanks Pocahontas! If you had read our Constitution better than you read your family tree, you'd know that the word "democracy" isn't in there at all because we are a republic, which the founders chose because of the attendant dangers of democracy.

Donald Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court just took a sledgehammer to one of the most important civil rights laws in American history. This decision is yet another brazen power grab to diminish Americans’ right to vote. Congress must respond to protect our democracy.

@DevOps4Market @nickshirleyy Could you please help us understand why it's so important to you that the taxpayer get defrauded? Are you in on the fraud, or are you so incompetent that you don't realize that you are paying for the fraud that is uncovered?

@nickshirleyy Bro you’re a 17 year old douche bag on twitter, no one gives a shit about you. Walz accomplished more in his life than you ever will. Viral videos don’t mean you’re a successful person, you’re still a fucking chud loser who works with his mommy.

Tim Walz called me a “far right delusional conspiracy theorist” and said exposing the fraud in his state was “white supremacy.” It was the classic false smear tactic that has worked for so long… but it didn’t work this time. Tim was exposed and dropped out. Tim leared.

@cremieuxrecueil Um, this seems like good marketing of the data rather than an honest assessment. Let's read the inverse. "Pesticides detected in 1% of sample, 5 of 30 PFAS compounds detected, 5% of samples had PFAS and phthalate levels above 28 ppt and 116 ppb, respectively. Doesn't sound good

A lot of people were hoping the FDA's infant formula testing would show that America's formula supply was contaminated with heavy metals and forever chemicals so they could blame obesity and chronic disease on contamination. The results are in and the formula is totally fine:

@babybeginner @Cernovich @SydneyLWatson Well, we had open borders and zero of the millions who came across the border are allowed to be practicing doctors in the United States. Further, they can’t pay, so they need you to pay to make up for their lack of payment.

I got into a car accident. Hit my head. Went to the ER. I was there a total of 43 mins. The doctor saw me for all of 10 mins. Maybe. First to tell me to get a CT scan. Then to tell me the radiologist said it was clear and I could go home. She charged me $5000. The radiologist charged me. The hospital charged me. $13,500. $5000 for ten minutes of work is $30,000 an hour. The medical industry is out of its ever loving mind.

Lmfao I just got my mail and I have ANOTHER bill from the hospital - exclusively for the doctor's time. $985. I am not exaggerating when I say he spoke to me for all of 30 seconds RIGHT as I was leaving. Lmaoooo. The medical system is so fucking cooked. 😂

@teslayoda As an owner of two Teslas who is strongly considering getting a third...Tesla insurance is obscenely overpriced where I live. Fortunately, with my perfect driving record I get a good rate (and I shop it every two years or so). This is one area that is over-hyped.

Wait wait wait... let me get Tesla insurance startup straight. We give Tesla money for a piece of paper or PDF. Meanwhile FSD keeps us safer, statistically 7X fewer major and minor collisions, therefore reducing the probability of payout. The money we pay becomes float for Tesla. In flow of capital that it can invest and compound. Nah... probably nothing.

@niccruzpatane Here is the data via cargurus. cargurus.com/research/price…

Pre-owned Tesla values are surging. According to data via CarGurus, the average price for a used Tesla has increased nearly 20% in the last 90 days. Increase in the last 90 days: • Model X: 33% • Model Y: 11% • Model 3: 10% • Model S: 9% • Cybertruck: 2%

@nicksortor I'm also hopeful that this is true. Although, I'm quite doubtful that anything will come of this.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says Iran has informed him they’re in a “STATE OF COLLAPSE” “They want us to ‘Open the Hormuz Strait,’ as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their leadership situation (Which I believe they will be able to do!).” Hopefully this’ll be wrapped up soon!

@cafreiman For any rational human this would be checkmate. North Korea, backed by another communist country, China, lives in destitution, especially as compared to South Korea, backed by capitalist United States.

Counterpoint:

@TeslaCarey @NickGibbsIAG @NevrEnoughX @Tesla Which also causes me to question how smart they actually are...

@NickGibbsIAG @NevrEnoughX @Tesla Owning a Tesla has made me realize how many smart people actually listen to BS and just believe it.

I’m stunned. I just spent the last two days in DC meeting with people to discuss AI projects. These people are leaders in finance and security. Not a single one believed me when I said my @Tesla drives itself. The common responses were: 1“But you have to hold the steering wheel.” 2“But you can’t use it everywhere.” 3“No one wants to charge for two hours.” 4“It doesn’t really work. Not like a Waymo.” 5“How can Tesla be ahead if they don’t have robotaxis?” 6“The Cybertruck is ugly.” The funny part? When I calmly told them they were wrong and explained my actual experience — that I don’t have to touch the wheel, I’ve driven it from Florida to Boston and NYC, we use it every day, charging only takes 15 minutes on road trips, and it actually works better than Waymo in many real-world situations — they hated it. They doubled down. So I asked: “Do you have a Tesla?” Blank stares. My response: “Maybe don’t question the guy who actually owns and uses the thing we’re talking about — especially when you’ve never tried it.” Believe it or not, they did a 180. A few of them immediately softened and said, “I’ve actually been wanting to test it out. My wife keeps talking about it.” 😏 We are so early $TSLA.

@SawyerMerritt I'm paying ~3.7 cents per mile for my tesla, and I was paying about four times that for my gas car. Maintenance over two years in has been zero, none, nada, not even windshield fluid. Insurance is higher, though. I'm netting quite favorably, even with insurance.

EV vs Gas: • Current average cost in the U.S. to operate a Tesla Model Y Premium: 4 cents per mile • Current average cost in the U.S. to operate a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid: 10.4 cents per mile Model Y is 61% cheaper per mile (excluding maintenance). National average gas price:

@SydneyLWatson You are correct that this isn't a free market. You know why the cost is so high? It's because you are paying for the people who don't pay.

Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.

@RobertMSterling @RonColeman Problem is that many are indoctrinated, not educated

The assassin being a CalTech grad is *insane* CalTech undergrad is legit the most difficult school in America. Off-the-charts IQ required to even get in the door. It does not bode well for our country that people this smart and well-educated are going off the rails like this.

@cenkuygur I think violence is the answer against the attempted shooter

Shooting at WHCD!! Five shots fired! Trump and Vance taken out of the building. They appear to be fine. Reports that the shooter has been killed. Violence is never the answer. Another sad day in America!

@DerrickEvans4WV 100%

What are the odds the shooter is a registered Democrat?

@heynavtoor Then it sounds like it is time to be smart enough to use the tool.

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.