@_GlobeObserver UAE has not issued official confirmation of a $530B action. The $ amount comes from Iranian government media. Likely propaganda.
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Ron Barrett
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Ron Barrett
@Ron_Barrett
CEO, Founder of Deliver On Success, a management advisory firm, "To improve our business client's quality of success." Co-founder of Wacom Technology.
Vancouver, Washington Присоединился Ocak 2009
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🚨 BREAKING: The UAE has seized $530 billion in Iranian assets, revoked all Iranian residency permits including Golden Visas, despite earlier “99‑year residency” promises
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@yoyonofukuoka @chamath Oh, I'm sure leaders will find something to fight about.
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@joekent16jan19 @TuckerCarlson It's funny that Democrats labeled him a white supremacist, blah, blah, blah. But now that's he's disagreed with President Trump, "Oh, he's so brave. "
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CALL TO ACTION:
Tell President Trump, your Congressional Rep, & your Senators that you don't support American boots on the ground in Iran.
White House Comment Line:
(202) 456-1111
Congress Switchboard:
(202) 224-3121
This is how We the People make our voices heard. 🇺🇸
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My how the times they are a changin'.
Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt: Best programmers don't write code anymore share.google/CxWTbn7RLEnt5h…
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It's generally said, "Wealth doesn't make a person good or bad. It simply amplifies who they already are." AI, too, is an amplifier. In an environment of:
Abundance + AI
cultural norms will likely determine a future utopia or dystopia.
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A strange paradox: If consciousness is a function of the brain, why is the awareness of consciousness inversely correlated to the amount of brain activity? Mediators report high degrees of consciousness while neroscans report lowered activity.
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California had/has every conceivable advantage (weather, tourism, tech industries, universities, agriculture, entertainment) and still the government could screw it up. It's not the people, it's the policies!
Molly O’Shea@MollySOShea
BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt" "People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union. "$250 billion to $1 trillion short." "This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension." "California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it." How we got here: "California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in. $250 billion to $1 trillion short. If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits. There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits. It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California. So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services." Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum)
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This is why California’s fraud is so massive:
Just look at their Medi-Cal budget vs Medi-Cal enrollment and population
In 2022 the budget was $108 B and this year it will be $222 B, for what?
Their population and enrollment hasn’t increased exponentially but their spending has more than doubled.
Prime example of fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars.
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Albany Mayor Dorrcey Applyrs is asked by a reporter how she plans to fix their city debt situation…
Her response (not satire):
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I wonder what a chart would look like for "State budget per capita (legal resident)".
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
FAFO
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This morning at PIT, so many TSA employees expressed their appreciation for standing with them and shared their financial hardship.
End this ridiculous DHS shutdown NOW.
Pay these hardworking TSA agents and all DHS employees who collectively keep our country more secure.
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BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US will have “50 days of higher prices for 50 years of no Iran nukes.”
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@elonmusk
Assume the amount of energy from the Sun received by the Earth is a period (".") in a book. How many words are in the book? According to Grok, the length of the book would be 2.2 billion words. A single "." among 2.2 billion words.
youtu.be/OjeuXdTij4g?si…
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@DevinSoto @chamath The AI5 chip will be employed in the next generation of vehicles (mid-2027) and Optimus robot models.
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@chamath Once FSD is solved, then what?
Does the tesla team just start working on optimus bots to further that mission? and energy? Keeping the brilliant minds?
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"anyone who believed they had the "opportunity to opt out" of AI is "not going to be here that long,"
PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI share.google/TeiTcyEdMirDcv…
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