Dario Meli

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." —Mark Twain

Time to ship some oil

@ColinDelReyCA @DailyHiveVan On nothing

@DailyHiveVan BC is broke. There is no more money left. Eby spent it all.

New calls for B.C. government to create a province-wide passenger rail strategy 🚉 dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-g…

Witness how effective mainstream media propaganda can be against a population.

@jackunheard @contrariansmind Canada apparently welcoming the fleeing rats w open arms 🤢

🚨BREAKING: Scott Bessent says Iranian leadership is FLEEING and their bank accounts are being FROZEN: “We’re starting to see defections at Treasury. We now know where the Iranian leadership bank accounts are, and those are being frozen.”

@morganlinton Just subscribed 🚀

Okay, here's the data from my newsletter relaunch today. Not quite sure how to look at the metrics, but will keep studying and learning as I go. And apparently six people didn't like the name change, or didn't know about it and thought it was spam. If anyone who knows a thing or two about newsletters wants to tell me how good, or bad, this looks, I'm here to learn. Definitely not remotely close to a newsletter pro, but I am excited about the journey ahead.

CNN just fact-checked Chuck Schumer live on air and wrecked him. Schumer claimed the SAVE Act “appeals to only the most fringe element of the MAGA base.” CNN instantly put up the numbers: White Americans: 85% support voter ID Latino Americans: 82% Black Americans: 76% The anchor straight-up said: “Voter ID is NOT controversial in this country. Not by party. Not by race. The vast majority of Americans support it.” Schumer just called 76% of Black Americans, 82% of Latinos, and 85% of Whites “fringe MAGA.” They don’t oppose voter ID because it’s unpopular. They oppose it because it works. Time to nuke the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act.

@by__brittany WAY past ‘out of hand’

Squamish is about to approve a “Land Back” task force. It will explore returning public land and changing how land decisions are made. They’re calling it a framework. But frameworks turn into policy… And that’s how this starts. Is this getting out of hand?

@EricLDaugh I doubt they’re furious. This is what they voted for, straight up.

🚨 BREAKING: New York voters are now furious that NYC is spending more PER HOMELESS PERSON than the *median income* at $81,700 Homeless spending has SURGED from $102M to now over $368M in just 6 years! This is freaking ludicrous. I bet a LOT of it is fraud. NY must wake up!

@SatireSquadHQ Profiting off human suffering is not progressive or compassionate. It’s diabolical and shameful.

Vancouver Has Created an Entire Tax-Funded Economy Around Homelessness Vancouver officials confirmed this week that the city now spends between $100,000 and $220,000 per homeless person annually—making homelessness one of the city’s fastest-growing public sectors. What began as a crisis has since evolved into a fully integrated economic ecosystem, complete with multiple layers of administration, overlapping services, and a level of coordination typically reserved for major infrastructure projects—minus the visible results. “We’re making historic investments,” said one official, standing near an encampment that has also been making a long-term investment in the same location. “The situation is complex.” The exact cost depends on how it’s calculated. Divide total spending by the entire homeless population and the number appears manageable. Divide it by those actually living on the street, and it begins to resemble a mid-level executive salary. City insiders say the flexibility is intentional. “It allows us to communicate progress while maintaining urgency,” one source explained. Residents say they’ve noticed a different trend. “I’ve seen more programs, more funding, more announcements,” said one taxpayer. “Just not fewer tents.” Officials emphasized that the issue is not a lack of resources, but the need for more coordination, more investment, and more time—confirming plans for a new multi-agency task force to study why current spending levels have yet to produce measurable change. The task force is expected to cost $50 million. “Solving homelessness isn’t cheap,” officials added. “Managing it, apparently, isn’t either.”

this is so good.

@canarymission Boycott A&W

BREAKING: The captain of Iran’s women’s soccer team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia after her family went missing. UN Women has not said a word.

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Citadel watching crypto bros trading oil on a Sunday

@SilentSnow89 @tobi Is there nothing in between? Does everything have to be on an extreme end of the spectrum?

@tobi So, you're saying we should accept oppressive, colonial racists?

Stop hiring woke administrators

@tobi Is Canada even a country at this point? Seems more like a loose collection of self deprecating apologists.

Of course it is. This can NOT be surprising to anyone with half a brain. This ridiculousness needs to be walked all the way back.

@CapitalViper @seth_fin You do.

@seth_fin Don’t you have to pay the tax when you move it into the trust seeing as though you’re disposing the asset?

Imagine a father who secures $100,000 in spot Bitcoin. He holds the asset until the valuation hits a massive $5,000,000. Liquidating the position directly triggers devastating taxes on $4,900,000 of pure profit. So he executes the perfect institutional maneuver instead. He locks the Bitcoin in a legal trust, takes out a collateralized loan against the stack, and lives off the borrowed liquidity. Because he never executed a sale, his tax liability remains at absolute zero. Upon his death, the heirs receive the Bitcoin with a brand new cost basis set exactly at $5,000,000. The government cannot legally touch a single cent of the accumulated gain. This is exactly how generational wealth is permanently secured.

How founders feel when vibe coding their 15th SaaS with zero users: