Patrick O'Kane

@bdguan @jimchang I know it's kinda like the hare and the tortoise we all grew up on.

@jimchang they have better manufacturing but they copy and optimize they’re never the first

just spent 2 weeks in china. went into it thinking we're cooked. came back more bullish on america than ever. here's why: 1. chinese citizens are way more chronically online. on the subway, train, anywhere, literally everyone is glued to their phone. gaming, short form, wechat. "don't walk and look at your phone, it's dangerous!" announcements flood crowded areas. their tiktok isn't any better, its still garbage, soft-core porn, etc. 2. everyone's using AI — deepseek, kimi, doubao. but nobody's afraid of losing their job to it. here it feels like there's an existential crisis every week. in china, nothing. i think the CCP won't let companies mass-layoff workers. great for short-term stability. terrible for long-term competitiveness on a global scale. 3. china doesn't produce weirdos. i sat in on a class at tsinghua (china's MIT). not one student spoke unless the professor read their name out loud. no questions. no debate. chinese education produces world-class executors, not contrarians. it does make it a safer place to live though. 4. china doesn't have christianity but it has something america doesn't have: a shared story everyone believes in. every person age 25-70 watched their country go from abject poverty to skyscrapers in one lifetime. that kind of collective proof has a deep unifying effect. compare that to how divided we are right now. america has a huge meaning vacuum that needs to be filled. nevertheless, i return back to my home in america reinvigorated. because everything i saw confirms one thing: china optimizes. america innovates. and the innovators always win.

@nxt888 In the Irish war of independence ​it is a striking historical detail that the men and women who took on the British Empire—the world's superpower at the time—were largely middle-class professionals and intellectuals rather than career soldiers.

Here is something American culture cannot process and has spent fifty years refusing to process: Vietnam did not win because of luck. Vietnam did not win because America made mistakes. Vietnam did not win because of Soviet weapons or Chinese support. Vietnam won because Vietnamese people were better at this war than Americans were. Better strategists. Better at understanding the terrain. Better at sustaining morale across decades of unimaginable suffering. Better at building an underground economy of resistance that no bombing campaign could touch. Better at turning every American escalation into a recruitment tool. Better at knowing what they were fighting for and why it was worth dying for. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who defeated both the French and the Americans, was a history teacher before he was a general. He had no formal military training. He studied the Vietnamese landscape, the Vietnamese people, the psychology of colonial occupiers, and he designed a strategy around all of those things. He understood something American generals, with all their training, all their technology, all their experience, did not understand: This war would be won by whoever could outlast the other side's will to continue. Not firepower. Will. And he was right. He was right about the French. He was right about the Americans. The most powerful military on earth was out-thought by a history teacher from a colonized country. That is not an accident of history. That is not a mistake or a miscalculation. That is what happens when you underestimate people. When you look at a rice farmer and see someone beneath you. When your own arrogance becomes your greatest strategic liability. America's arrogance cost it Vietnam. That arrogance has never been honestly examined. It has never been corrected. Which is why the same pattern keeps repeating in different countries with different names.

This is the new community we're building 85 miles southwest of Cleveland 1,650 beautifully crafted single-family homes starting in the low $800s We call it the Meadows at Pine Ridge Bluff Creek We've showed this rendering to a few prospective buyers and many of them cried when they saw the natural beauty of this development Breaking ground next week. The first homes will be ready by late April thanks to the efficiency of our proprietary building process. Excited for this one!

@SpencerHakimian Cos the oil/gas is not the real problem. It's the desalination plants if they get hit it's endgame.

This is probably a stupid question but can someone explain it to me like I’m 5. If Iran blocks off the Persian Gulf/Strait of Hormuz, why can’t countries must move their oil through The Red Sea/Gulf of Aden?

@teachthemx3 We’re still using a 19th-century system in a 21st-century AI world. If a student can master a concept in 10 minutes with AI, why force them to sit through an hour long lecture? The overhaul shouldn't just be about tech,it should be about ending the age-based assembly line

The current format of schools: Teacher teaches a lesson then assigns practice. Some students finish in 10 minutes and sit for the remainder of class. Some finish by the end of class. Some finish at home or over multiple days. Some never do it. These students should not all be in the same class together.

@ClwnPrncCharlie @David_N_Frank @JP_Biz @secretsandlaws Copilot is the most retarded AI Agent. I mean try and ask it to summarize the last 3 email threads from anyone ....

@David_N_Frank @JP_Biz @secretsandlaws What if I don’t want to use copilot at all?

Ok brother, do you think you could make Outlook search work when you have a minute?

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@elonmusk @SecRubio "You can change the chapter, you can change the book, but the story remains the same if you'd take a look"

@SecRubio At the risk of asking a silly question, what about the other chapters?

Today, we are designating the Lebanese, Egyptian, and Jordanian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups. Under President Trump's leadership, the United States will eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that threaten U.S. citizens and our national security. state.gov/releases/offic…

@Anele Airport Assisted Syndrome seemingly.

Okay please may you help me out… why is the daughter sometimes in a wheelchair and sometimes not?

@antmiddleton My dog is bigger than that Lion

When strength is guided by values, it becomes leadership. 🫡🇬🇧

Even without the ability to do new things like output polished files, GPT-5.2 feels like the biggest upgrade we've had in a long time. Curious to hear what you think!

@mgshanks @GBEgovuk I'd love to see the cost v output from that.

An extra £12m has been awarded by @GBEgovuk to governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to deliver local energy projects. From community owned wind farms in Aberdeenshire to solar panels on museums and leisure centres in Wales, GB Energy is delivering for communities.

FTSE 100 continues to rise post budget. On its way to an all record high.

@JesterJum Unless she asks you why the stain on the wall keeps coming back even when she's washes it then go with it

I sold a house like 3 months ago and the lady who bought it keeps texting me asking questions (I was dumb and gave her my number at closing). I really don't want to keep answering her questions but it feels rude to ignore her. Any advice?

More balls than most of the men on the world stage.

Once again retail sales are strong. People are shopping because wages are rising faster than inflation Consumption-led recovery latest.

@Mrcryptoxwhale dONE

@floboflo @DailyPolitik

@DailyPolitik I don’t need someone who posts on a social media site run by a Nazi to explain anything to me thanks.

I have never met anyone in real life who doesn’t think Keir Starmer is doing a great job. Social media and the MSM are really gaslighting us.

@elonmusk Actually making stuff needs power.

People don’t understand

@GeorgeFoulkes @UKLabour

There's never been a time when I have been more proud to be a member of @UKLabour Our policies to reduce poverty, increase opportunity, rebuild our infrastructure, build up the NHS & return to growth are needed more than ever & are threatened now by both Reform & the Tories.