Charles Como

My dad bought this Mercedes 220D in the 70s and we picked it up from the factory and I remember all the knobs and switches and even though ours was the cheapest in the line it shared its interior and instrument components with its larger counterparts so you still felt like you were sitting in luxury. It was wonderful.

Accumulated small changes over the years shows the horror of consistently making bad decisions. However you slice it, may be they're targetting a different market now and their priorities have changed; the ethos of the company was eroded in small indiscernible steps.

@stats_feed All this means is that if the wealth were distributed equally in America each American citizen would have $113,604 in their bank accounts. Each tax payer would have $357,068. The national debt is not the issue it’s where all that money is going.

🚨 U.S. NATIONAL DEBT HITS $39 TRILLION TODAY! 📈 As of March 18, 2026, the total gross federal debt has officially crossed $39 trillion. Key Statistics - Per American citizen: ≈ $113,604 - Per taxpayer: ≈ $357,068 - Debt-to-GDP ratio: 124.8% - Daily increase: ~$7 billion - Annual interest payments: On track to exceed $1 trillion (one of the largest budget items) Milestone timeline (accelerating pace): - $1 trillion → 1981 - $10 trillion → 2008 (27 years) - $20 trillion → 2017 (9 years) - $30 trillion → 2022 (5 years) - $39 trillion → TODAY (4 years) The debt is now larger than the entire U.S. economy and growing faster than ever. Future generations inherit both the principal *and* the massive interest burden. Data sources: U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data, US Debt Clock, CBO projections. What does this mean for the economy long-term? 👇 (Thoughts below!)

@Handre Making your entire country’s economy based on an arbitrary metal seems a bit odd and limiting and almost archaic, wouldn’t you think?

The British return to gold in 1821 triggered one of history's most spectacular economic booms—accompanied by relentless deflation that modern economists would call catastrophic. Yet this "disaster" coincided with the Industrial Revolution's explosive growth, railroad expansion, and unprecedented rises in living standards across all classes. Here's what actually happened: sound money forced inefficient businesses to die while rewarding genuine productivity gains. Prices fell because production costs plummeted through innovation, not because of some deflationary death spiral. Factory workers saw their wages buy more goods each year. Capital flowed to its highest uses instead of being misdirected by government manipulation. The invisible hand operated with surgical precision. But this terrifies statists because it proves their core lie wrong—that falling prices mean economic collapse. They need you to believe deflation kills economies because sound money kills their ability to steal through inflation. When money holds its value, governments can't fund endless wars and welfare schemes by debasing the currency. They actually have to tax honestly or cut spending. The 1821-1873 period stands as brutal refutation of everything John Maynard Keynes later preached about deflation and government intervention. Real wages doubled. Life expectancy soared. Technology advanced at breakneck speed. All while prices consistently fell and government spending remained microscopic relative to the economy. Modern central bankers study this era with horror because it exposes their entire profession as parasitic. They've convinced generations that 2% inflation is "price stability" while the gold standard era delivered actual price stability with explosive growth. The choice is stark: sound money with falling prices and rising prosperity, or fiat currency with perpetual theft through inflation.

@competitionreal A Lamborghini with Audi emblems… could happen one day as they are the same company.

Audi RSQ Quattro 👽

@MrTimDunn @RegenerationEX @Adobe I think Acrobat is more for creating and editing PDFs whereas Acrobat Reader is the slimmed down reader at 500MB+ which is still huge!

Hey @Adobe. 1.14GB just to *read a PDF*? Your Adobe Reader is now officially bloatware. We don't want "podcast summaries of your docs" we just want to read, print and maybe annotate. Please make this insanity STOP

@sniffpetrol Toyota reliability with V12 engine? I love it!

TV's James May urged me to bid on this Toyota Century. I wavered because there seemed to be a lot of interest and I assumed bidding would soar into the teens. But no. Someone got a bargain. And it wasn't me. Bah!

@CarlZha I guess someone needs to get their priorities straight.

China's high speed rail costs about $17-21 million per km to build. China built over 1,000 km of high speed rail for the cost of US war on Iran so far

@NBCNews No Euro either.. have their own currency. The złoty.

A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output. nbcnews.com/business/econo…

@tannokasa3 I would have been all over this!

80年代にTEACが作った「オープンカセット」は、1つのシェルに小さなリールを入れ替えて使うという奇抜な発想のテープ。 ・目的は「大きくて重いカセットを持ち歩かなくていいようにする」こと ・ しかしリールの付け替えが面倒で痛いし時間がかかる ・ テープの種類を変えられるというパーティートリックはあった ・50分しか録音できず、長時間テープが普及すると利点が消滅 ・ 金属風の外観も実はプラスチック ・結果としてアイデアは失敗し、日本のみで発売 ・今では激レアでコレクター人気が高い

@MV33Racing Being on the road with so many amateurs must be so dangerous!!

Real racing is back next weekend at the Nürburgring. NLS2 with Max Verstappen 🏎️
 📅 Saturday, 21 March [local time, CET]
⏱ Qualifying - 08:30 am 
🏁 Race - 12:00 pm 
 📺 How to watch: check pinned post.

Loved my Range Rover.. it had the BMW 750 engine where a little plastic timing chain piece always breaks at 100k miles.. I kept the car to 101k miles plastic thing of course breaks and the cost to fix that plastic thing was more than the car was worth so I literally gave it away for free! Such a bummer!

If Range Rovers are so unreliable, why do people still buy them?

@OliverKamm @Frances_Coppola @DianeCoyle1859 @ForeignAffairs Great article. That Milton Friedman continuing to make our lives hell, long after his death!

Diane Coyle (@DianeCoyle1859) no longer tweets, I think, but she’s written an excellent piece for @ForeignAffairs on Milton Friedman’s famed dictum that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”, and where it’s brought us. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

@goodwoodrevival Lotta play in that steering wheel compared to cars of today!

Climb onboard with Damon Hill for 5 minutes of madness in a #Ferrari 250 GTO! There really is nothing better than a V12 Ferrari being pushed to the limit at the #GoodwoodRevival! #Ferrari250GTO

@matcoch Without the entertainment factor there is no money for the sport, thus no sport.

Max Verstappen's comments about those who like F1 2026 racing shows they don't understand racing cuts to the core of modern F1. Is it a sport, or is it entertainment? On balance, one has to say entertainment for a few reasons. #F1 1/3

@PippaCrerar @MarketBlondes How about free?

NEW: Britain in standoff with Brussels over demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, with row threatening to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset. EU officials say European students should pay “home” fees of about £9,500 a year as part of youth mobility scheme, rather the higher international rate, which can rise above £60,000. But British negotiators have been blindsided by the demand, which they say was not mentioned in framework agreement signed last year and would cost British universities around £140m a year. Sources say the disagreement has brought talks to a near standstill with just three months left before summit in Brussels in late June or early July. @kiranstacey reports 👇 theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@startonpole Individual cables is better.. more maneuverability all over the track plus they’re going around in a circle so it all works out!!

I think I found a solution to the battery recharge issues

@Rainmaker1973 It’s so symbolic that the toilet waste goes right on to the street!

Royal flush. The 1954 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith toilet. There was no waste container: feces just landed on the street.

To think journalists who know the value of anonymous sources, decide to out Banksy for what reason? Makes the journalists not look good. There is nothing to be gained but everything to be lost.

@NicoleOnRacing They want to bitch. That’s what.

I’m a little confused about what F1 fans actually want. Battery management but a ton of battles: bad DRS: bad KERS: bad V8/V10’s with minimal passing: bad (but at least they sound good?)

@BetterCallMedhi While we’re busy over here starting wars that are cutting off our supply to oil while we cut investments in other forms of energy.

China just dropped its 15th five year and I genuinely think this is the most important document of 2026 & almost nobody in the West is talking about it what gets me isn’t any single number…it’s the systemic vision, in one document they’re planning GDP growth, highvalue patents, digital economy at 12.5% of GDP, non-fossil energy at 25%, CO2 reduction, surface water quality at 85%, life expectancy at 80, forest coverage rate, grain production capacity…ALL of it in the same table with hard targets & binding indicators through 2030 in the West we treat economy, ecology, education, healthcare & energy security as separate ministries fighting over budgets, China treats them as organs of the same body, every line feeds the others, urbanization fuels productivity, R&D fuels patents, patents fuel the the digital economy, non-fossil energy fuels strategic independence….every variable is designed to accelerate all the others & that reflect china’s deeply HOLISTIC worldview look at line 5, high-value patent going from 16 to over 22 per 10,000 people by 2030, quietest line in the whole table and probably the most important, a high value patent is the intellectual property of a technology that will structure a market for 20y MINIMUM China is literally planning who owns the technological future, the licenses & dependencies other countriees will rack up on Chinese tech, this IS the economic and industrial colonization of the 21st century I keep talking about in my threads but with patents instead of cannons while america bombs & europe debates, China plans, builds & executes and the scariest part is that based on their own audits the previous plans hit ove 90% of their targets Western leaders rotate every 4 /5 years and make promises they’ll never have to keep, CCP plays on a 50 y horizon…this table isn’t a campaign platform, it’s a national spec sheet & that changes everything about how you read each number in it