Elliott

On this day in 2008: production starts for Tesla’s first vehicle, the Roadster.

The proposed Danish wealth tax is (supremely optimistically) estimated to bring in 7 billion DKK. That just happens to be almost exactly what the Danes spend every year to host the 35,000 Syrians who haven't returned to their home country yet. ft.dk/samling/20241/…

OK, OK apart from giving away the Chagos Islands, recognising Palestine, 13 Ministerial resignations, having full confidence in Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandelson, Sue Gray and Lord Alli, blaming the far right for being an island of strangers, 16 policy u-turns, having no operable warships, smashing the gangs, approving the chinese embassy, spending 17 seconds laying a wreath in Southport to rush back to a drinks party, appointing an anti muslim hostility tsar, raising income tax, Inheritence tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, council tax, Value Added Tax and mansion tax, increasing welfare spending and the minimum wage while freezing tax allowances, cancelling the a303 widening, scrapping jury trials, speaking like an unexcited deaf man, Not holding a rape gangs inquiry, have a long and proud history of free speech, thinking David LAmmy is suitable for high office, thinking women can have a fat phallus, Why is Keir Starmer such a cunt?

the internet created global liquidity in everything. this includes talent markets, jobs, dating, attention, & status among many other things. this is the single most under realized structural change of the last 20 years. almost no one understands this well. what this means practically is that whatever you're pursuing, you're now competing in a pool that's orders of magnitude larger than any previous generation faced. the distribution of outcomes gets fatter on both tails & the middle hollows out. you either benefit from the expanded opportunity set or you get crushed by it. the people who thrive in liquid markets are the ones who figure out which game is still inefficiently priced & get there first. but these windows close faster than ever before.

My new favorite insult is calling someone’s job a Claude skill.

It's not long before Amazon will be the physical incarnation of AI slop

The entire British property industry is made up of fully grown adults just sending each other documents that have already been sent to each other and charging a fortune for the process

2026 and this is still the hardest question you get asked if you're in the ecommerce business...

Dear @ICC, It is with a heavy heart that we now announce our unavailability to replace Pakistan in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Regardless of whether they now withdraw, the short timescales ensure it is impossible for our squad to prepare in the professional manner necessary to compete effectively in this global cricketing spectacle. We are not like Scotland and able to turn up on a whim, with no kit sponsor. Our players are from all walks of life and cannot simply drop their occupations to fly halfway around the world to experience temperatures only normally felt in Finnish saunas. Our captain, a professional baker, needs to attend to his oven, our ship captain needs to steer his vessel, and our bankers need to go bankrupt (again). This is the harsh reality of cricket at the amateur level of the game. This news will be extremely disappointing to our fans. Despite being the most peaceful nation on Earth, we maintain an army of online followers, and are the world's 14th most followed national board on X. We were ready to give the Dutch the biggest shock they have experienced since William of Orange lost the Battle of Landen in 1693. And the Americans were looking forward to taking on Greenland, or so their orange-dyed leader thought. Our loss is likely Uganda's gain. We wish them well. Their kits cannot be missed unless you have epilepsy, in which case they are probably best avoided. The future is always ice, until it isn't. Yours sincerely, Icelandic Cricket Association

I have been forensically digging through these asylum contracts, and one stands out to me. It is absolutely staggering. Please read on. £1,593,535,200 for 'Provision of Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services’ awarded to ‘Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited’. According to the official record, they’re based in Bradford… Let’s dive into it. It’s related to the Bibby Stockholm, housing illegal migrants on a barge off the coast of Dorset. Bradford is certainly a strange place to base such an enormous contract. What is all of that money, OUR money, being spent on? All this information is taken from official documents, labelled ‘sensitive’. The illegals must be provided with a ‘varied daily menu’, taking into account all religious needs. If the illegal arrives late and missed the evening meal? They must be provided with a ‘light snack’. What about cleaning? A ‘cleaning programme’ must be delivered to the standards set by the ‘British Institute of Cleaning Science’. Routine cleaning must be provided, and their cabins are cleaned on a ‘twice weekly basis’. A ‘house-keeping laundry service’ is included, with a maximum '48-hour turn around’' Information on the local area is provided - including amenities and facilities. Illegals are assisted to make contact with a local GP surgery and dentist - they are assisted to do this. The illegals are to be taken and returned from medical appointments. A ‘programme of organised recreational activities' are provided, seven days a week. Activities available ‘morning, after, and evening each day’. Full Wi-Fi coverage is required, with a bank of mobile phones available '24/7'. Transport requests will be taken at short notice, all day every day. The transport must be ‘punctual’. ‘Adequate transport links’ must be provided to assist the illegals into the local area - and booking of transport services must be delivered for those ‘who wish to travel beyond the local area’. Warnings against ‘unconscious bias’ are made, and it’s adamant that ‘the interests of the Service Users are best served.’ It goes on and on and on. Are you happy that your tax is being spent on these services for illegals? For transport? Recreational activities? Shipping them into local communities to roam the streets? One of these illegal migrants was sentenced for sexually assaulting a teenage girl on a beach. There will be many, many, many others. 'Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited', based in Bradford, received this astronomical contract. A strange company name for such a service. What was the procurement process? How was this decided? I have put these questions to the Home Office, and I am demanding answers. The Bradford firm was told on the 24th of February 2023 that they had been awarded this £1.5 billion contract, excluding VAT (with an extension option.) Who was the Home Secretary at this time? Reform’s Suella Braverman. Who was the immigration minister at this time? Reform’s Robert Jenrick. They were the ministers, they were responsible. I want to know exactly why these outrageous contracts were signed off. It is scandalous. SO much more information on these contracts is redacted. I am going to find it... We should not be caring for these illegals, we should not be housing them, we should not be accommodating them. We should be deporting them. On an industrial scale. They are treated better than British citizens. FAR better. It makes me sick. The amount of OUR money that has been spent on these third world criminals by politicians (Reform, Conservative and Labour) is the biggest scandal of our time.

Turns out I spend 4500usd in GorillaROI last year to automate getting data out of Amazon and into google sheets so we can manipulate / build live forecasts / set our own inventory triggers etc. This feels crazy expensive - are there any better ways?

This perfectly describes the liberal of today. I would love to hear some thoughts on this.

You can literally murder your wife and get a better eulogy than if you supported Trump:

@RupertLowe10 Sounds like they'll still waste a few billion making it anyway though?

We won. Starmer abandons plans for compulsory Digital ID. This is a HUGE win. Well done to EVERYONE who has been fighting - from all political parties and none. A team effort. It proves that we can make progress when we come together to fight this appalling Labour Government.

Sounds more like a hunger relay at this point...

Result aside, 5 days of cricket with @triplemcricket on the ear piece has been utterly superb 👌

We need more rugged individualism, not less. Build on the frontier. Be independent. Decentralize power. Accelerate civilizational progress. Celebrate economic freedom.

let me get this straight… socialism is the belief that you can siphon resources from the most productive people, sell the masses a warm story about collectivism via redistribution & free shit, & then still expect everyone to remain productive & continue to generate real output. all while willfully & systematically erasing & misunderstanding incentive structures. ignoring almost all of human nature, indeed almost all of nature itself. & substituting vibes for any sense of economics. what a beautifully packaged crock of absolute shit. it’s beautiful because tons of humanity tends to prefer to learn lessons the hard way when history is totally forgotten. & this is being pitched to americans by someone who voluntarily left another system to come here. this is how you know america is different because these types of regarded ideas would never even be tolerated in many places.

yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from. plastic recycling is a scam. always has been. the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically” they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the alternative was banning plastic. only 5-6% of US plastic actually gets recycled and europe isnt better. the EU exports 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste per year, 3 million kg leaving every single day. 31% goes to turkey, 16% to malaysia, 13% to indonesia, all labeled “recyclable” most plastics cant even be recycled to begin with (thousands of types, different chemical properties). and for the few that can, the output is lower quality and more toxic than virgin plastic. you literally degrade the material each cycle until its worthless. so what happens to the other 95%? western countries ship it to southeast asia and africa under the label “recycling exports” with the receiving countries promising to recycle it in their stead for a price, but those countries dont have facilities either. so they burn it or dump it in rivers. every 20 minutes, a 10-tonne truckload of plastic enters the ocean in indonesia alone. it may look like indonesians pollute more but that’s because we ship them our garbage and they have no infrastructure to handle it. china used to absorb it all. when they banned imports in 2018, the west just redirected to countries with weaker regulations. malaysia, vietnam, philippines. the map below shows the result. you sort your trash so you feel like youre helping, the plastic goes on a boat, gets burned in a village without emissions controls, poisons their air and water, flows into their rivers, enters the ocean, and in your food and water. you feel good about the plastic you recycled and never think about it again but you end up eating it anyway. then we ban straws and plastic bags and call it environmentalism