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@nicholadrummond A recoilless is superior to any tank from ww1 or ww2. They're cheap and require minimal maintenance. They can cross any bridge and are easy to conceal. They can penetrate any tank's armor. A tank is the most expensive and inefficient way to get 1 more cannon to the front.

Working in the Defence industry, I keep two tank models on my desk: a Tiger I and M4 Sherman. The Tiger reminds me that innovative engineering can deliver stunning competitive advantage. Though much less capable in pure performance terms, the Sherman was a design of equal genius, because it was designed to be simple and inexpensive to produce and easy to maintain. Only 1,347 Tigers were produced versus 49,234 Shermans. The economics of the Sherman achieved an asymmetric effect that was far more decisive than the Tiger's technical brilliance. Today, as UAS / drones demonstrate an ability to destroy weapon systems that are a thousand times more expensive, we are relearning the same lesson: conflicts are won in the factory as much as on the battlefield.

@AdamKoffler Dave Ramsey knows that the median family income in the USA is $81,000. He knows his plan doesn't doesn't work. He keeps promoting it because Boomers love his show.

In order to comfortably afford a house you need at least one of these things: - Be a director or vice president - Already own a home and have $200K + of equity for that next down payment - Have a couple that makes > $250K - Have parents willing to give $ for a large down payment

@BasilTheGreat Driving a BMW.

> Crashed his car > Woman tries to help him > Kills her > Laughs about it Of course his name is Chukwuemeka Ahanonu

@zuess05 youtube.com/shorts/p1ld4nd… Less time coding frees up time for to get expert fashion advice from AI.

Genuine question. We got into software because solving complex logic problems was genuinely fun. Now Claude instantly solves the fun parts. If we accidentally automated the creative work and kept the garbage work... what exactly are we going to be doing all day?

@CtrlAltDwayne youtube.com/shorts/6-61PSR… AI is the biggest scam of my lifetime.

The vibecoders are starting to give up because they're learning AI can't do everything for you. They're tools that are powerful in the hands of people who can code, but vibecoders are not real devs.

@WarMonitor3 Because Spain will declare war on the USA for Canada. Got it.

Canadian leader Mark Carney has said in an address to his nations Canada's US ties have become a weakness for the country. Good luck with future defence...

@MAGA_X_Times paulyshoretour.com

Pauly Shore’s career appears to have fallen on hard times, he finds himself being harassed outside of a Bristol Farms market by another “influencer” trying to provoke a response for clicks, Shore went on to say “I have moved on from the business” and “I do Uber eats on the side” I understand but despise the metric when they try to provoke a celebrity looking for a big payday, but to harangue someone that is down on their luck… Come on man.

@theficouple Care homes run $5,000+ per month. Every baby boomer is going to sell all of their real estate.

Baby boomers aren't selling their homes & why would they? They paid $100,000 for a home 25+ years ago, owe $0 & have $500k+ of equity. "Downsizing" means they'd need to buy something for $450k + take on a 6.5% loan. Many won't move & this will keep inventory low.

@bryan_johnson If AI was world changing they wouldn't sell it to the public for $20 per month.

I got C-holed. Suffered sleep consequences. I busted my screens-off rule. Turned down socializing. Fell behind on work. Kate is now upset. AI is preposterous. As close to magic as I’ve experienced (except a seed becoming a tree and a zygote becoming a baby). It started on April 2nd when Karpathy shared LLM Knowledge bases. I wondered if this was the opening to structure the 1.5 billion data points I’ve collected on my body over the past five years. It's the most dynamic n=1 biomarker dataset in history. It was just sitting there. Next thing I knew two weeks had passed and Kate was wondering if she lost her boyfriend to Claude. I’m non-technical. Which honestly makes me sad. I wish I’d grown up with a computer or at least been around engineer culture. I didn’t know anyone technical until my early 20s. I became an entrepreneur at 21 and had my first of three kids at 25. I sold Braintree Venmo at 34. Learning to code stayed on my to-do list through all of it. The timing was never right. I was always on the outside looking in, wishing I had the skills to assemble 0's and 1's into digital structures. The exhilaration I’ve felt in the past two weeks is hard to explain. The 1.5 billion data points became a functional database, queryable, and microscope into my 70 trillion cells. The biological age of my organs updated in real-time like stock tickers. My build morphed from a knowledge base into a breathing organism that was self-learning and in sync with my heartbeat. I did this entirely on my own. It’s buggy, breaks and the data needs to be cleaned, but damn it’s cool. It became a mirror and ledger, one I could ask questions to. About my psyche, behavioral patterns, biology and protocols. Patterns across my life I couldn't previously connect. It’s made me insatiably hungry for more data. I’ve written about Autonomous Health, how cars now drive themselves and software wires itself. Health is next. My build showed me what it looks like in practice. Before Kate started protesting, she joked that she felt relieved for herself, our colleagues, and the world that I’d found something that matches my energy. That they could all express a sigh of relief. It’s true. This experience left me wondering if I’ve been bored my entire life. Never having found something that could match my work ethic, speed, intensity, and build capacity. Something that didn’t have the delays of the real world, human complications, or logistical drag. Two weeks deep in AI and I'm realizing that when people talk about AI, they're not talking about the same thing. Someone using a chat interface has a completely different opinion than someone building with it. And that chasm deepens for the people seeing what's coming next but isn't yet public. Society can't have a coherent conversation about AI because everyone's intuitions are calibrated to a different version of it. Off-the-shelf LLMs are mostly useless beyond narrow tasks. When they get you 80% there, it's often faster to do the whole thing yourself. And they're dangerous because the hallucination is hard to detect. Now you don't know what you don't know. Give them expanded context, memory, and architectures for self-reflection and autonomous learning, and you start to realize that AI is bigger than any of us can fit in our context window. I need to take Kate on a date, turn my screens off on time, and get some work done. And then properly dose C. Note: the image above is my 2021 baseline when starting this longevity project.

@DefiantLs Americans don't want to work in tech. That's for foreigners.

Q: "Do you feel that they're taking American jobs?" Newsom: "I don't see many people who look like me jumping at those jobs."

@ronmortgageguy What about the housing shortage?

Total Collapse Is Here: New Condos Construction Officially Goes To ZERO But those of us who follow the Great Condo Crash have known New Condo Starts in Ontario was pretty much dead for the last 3 years This is just the exclamation point NO new projects What's next? 2/

@KirkLubimov Canada could have turned itself into Switzerland. Wealthy, free, respected. Instead it turned itself into Bangladesh.

Mark Carney decided to release another fear mongering statement to do to keep the charade going; "Many of our former strengths based on our close ties to America have become our weakness." No, Canada won the lottery being right next to the largest economy in the world and selling to them with the best trade deal in the world. The problem is that we squandered it all with red tape and lack of ambition to do anything and build anything ourselves. We got so used to thinking we can just make more money off the US which gave us the false confidence that we can solve the world's problems with carbon tax, mass immigrating refugees and virtue signaling. In other words, Canada became delusional, ungrateful and complacent.

@Budgetdog_ A job that pays over $40,000. Although to be fair when adjusted for inflation most Americans will never make much more than that.

By age 35 you should have: - A maxed Roth IRA - 1-5 low cost ETFs - A zero based budget - $0 non mortgage debt - Auto investments on payday - 4-6 months expense in a HYSA - Term life insurance for dependents What am I missing?

@rohanpaul_ai youtube.com/shorts/ylFMdvz… AI can't spell. How is a random word generator going to replace anyone?

Mo Gawdat, ex Google senior executive: "Your life and mine will witness times where there will be 20%, 30%, or 50% unemployment in certain sectors, maybe even more. Most of us are going to witness something we’ve never seen before. The interesting thing is that this is not unlike humanity’s origin. Jobs are an invention that serve a capitalist system that has served humanity for a while and sustained humanity for a while. And the question is, is the capitalist system going to survive artificial intelligence? Funny enough, the capitalists that are celebrating the productivity gains are not realizing that, one, without consumption, there is no economy. So even if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobody is able to buy what you’re making. So we’re going to have to find an economic model that works with that." --- From 'Business Insider' + 'Insider' + 'Insider Tech' YT channel (link in comment)

@rohanpaul_ai youtube.com/shorts/pS8OD39… AI can't even say click the correct number of times. It's not replacing anyone.

Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone. Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation. "I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody. It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)

@NipseyHoussle youtube.com/shorts/p1ld4nd… Fashion experts stand no chance against AI.

Why hasn’t he come forward with a proposal for what happens next

@realBrandonGill California is patient zero.

Amnesty won’t make the GOP a “big tent party.” It will just burn the tent to the ground.

@AdamKoffler Median family income in the USA is $81,000. Dave's math is comical.

Here’s Dave Ramsey’s advice on buying a house in the year 2026: - Have 20% for a down payment to avoid private mortgage insurance (PMI) - Do a 15-year fixed rate loan - Make sure your monthly payment isn’t more than 1/4th of your take home pay Let’s put that math to the test 👇🏼

@akafaceUS x.com/FCNightingale/… If you need to lose tens of millions fast commercial real estate is the perfect vehicle. It's not a 6, it's a 0. Below vending machines.

Ranking everyway to make money. Seeing as owning your first McDonalds requires minimum 750k in liquidity and assets of 2.2M+.. He's not wrong in saying it guarantees you being a millionaire. 😂

@ScottJenningsKY Billionaires campaign for infinity immigration. New 3rd world voting block votes in Marxists. Marxists take billionaires money. I don't feel sorry for them.

You might think California dodged a bullet afer Eric Swalwell was forced to exit the governor's race in disgrace. However, the leading Democrat is now a fringe Looney Tunes billionaire whose platform is nothing short of horrifying. Vote wisely, California.