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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.” - Mary Shelley

Claude won't tell you your business is doomed. It'll help you build it and quietly watch you burn $10K. It's not Claude's fault. AI is built to agree with you. It's up to you to avoid these 5 mistakes.

@mcuban This already exists. It's an entire category of businesses ... There are several types of these ... joincrowdhealth.com/how-it-works?u…

What if there was a bank account available, that required you to deposit monthly, what you would have paid an insurance company in premiums, for an ACA silver plan. So for a family of 5 about $2100. The amount would then be used for Stop Loss Insurance set at $30k dollars. About $300. Another $200 would be used for local Direct Primary Care for your family The balance would be in YOUR bank account. Like an HSA, It could only be used for approved medical expenses. If you never have any medical expenses, you will get to keep the money plus checking act level interest, when you turn 65 If you have a medical event that is more than what you have saved, your bank will loan you the money you need to pay for it, up to the $30k stop loss trigger You would repay that amount using the monthly $1600 net deposit. Once the loan is paid off, the deposits start to accrue to you again. This is not insurance. It’s a specially designed bank account that gives you control, support, a doctor to work with and catastrophic financial protection. Lots of work and issues to be addressed. But I was curious what people think Let me know !

After 30 years in the classroom, here's what I know: The system bends over backwards for the kid causing the chaos. The 28 kids just trying to learn? They get whatever's left. A mom finally shadowed her son all day, and what happened next says everything. 🧵

It really is bizarre. Most of my friends don't have FSD (or a Tesla). And it is the single biggest lifestyle difference between us. They drive their cars. My car drives me. They don't get how much--even at its current capability-level--the product changes life-feel. FSD truly is a mass luxury product. That it is still so narrowly enjoyed is mind-bending.

@CollinRugg @keens_milt1959 If miserable was a person…

@CollinRugg It takes YEARS of frowning to get this mouth

Why is that?

@LamarMK @grok Need ASS first. We got a ways to go I'm afraid. Rollout in TX is sloooow.

The entire SaaS industry is building software for a customer that is about to go extinct. The human buyer. Insight Partners co-founder Jerry Murdock just exposed the fatal architectural flaw in every incumbent tech company’s business model. Your dashboards. Your UI. Your enterprise sales motion. Your human-in-the-loop workflows. All of it was engineered for a buyer that is disappearing in real time. Murdock: “If you’re not making your software for autonomous agents today, you’re going to be challenged in the future. Maybe it’s six months, maybe a year, maybe 18 months, but you’re going to be severely challenged if you still think human beings are going to buy your software.” Not disrupted. Not pressured. Structurally eliminated. For two decades, software was built around the cognitive limits of human biology. Dropdowns, dashboards, and notifications existed because the human brain needed them to navigate digital space. An autonomous agent needs none of that. It doesn’t browse your product page. It doesn’t sit through your demo. It doesn’t respond to your sales email. It doesn’t care how clean your UI is. It just executes. The agentic era runs on machine-to-machine infrastructure. Frictionless. Autonomous. No human in the loop. No patience for friction you built for a species it replaced. The window is six to eighteen months. The builders who survive will tear out the entire human interface layer and replace it with pure, unthrottled infrastructure that agents can consume at full speed. Everyone else will spend those eighteen months perfecting a dashboard that no one is ever going to log into again.

This is probably the best answer I've ever heard to the question, "Why did God create evil?" A professor at the university asked his students the following question: “Everything that exists was created by God?” One student bravely answered: “Yes, it was created by God.” The professor asked : “If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.” The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth. Another student raised his hand and said: “Can I ask you a question, professor?” "Of course," replied the professor. “Professor, is cold a thing?” “What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?” Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered: “Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.” The student continued: “Professor, does darkness exist?” “Of course it exists.” said the professor. “You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.” In the end, the young man asked the professor: “Sir, does evil exist?” This time it was uncertain, the professor answered: “Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.” To this, the student answered: “Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s no light.” 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Shutting this thread down. John and I got help almost immediately from the very top. Then Tesla fans immediately started calling me names, cursing and saying I’m a liar. Me who has his entire retirement account invested in Tesla. A guy on his 5th Tesla, including a Cybertruck. Pathetic people. Do better.

No amount of money will fix inner-city schools because the pull of urban culture is too strong and destructive ... Move out of the city! Do it for your kids and watch them thrive!!!

Twenty years ago I created Montessori middle schools in the Bay Area. Half the students came up from Montessori elementary, half transferred from public schools. No matter how bright and well-behaved the public school kids were, when we gave them an environment where they could pick what they wanted to work on, they couldn't function. The Montessori kids walked into the room every morning and got right to work. They knew how to manage their time. They had been doing it for years. The public school kids took a semester or sometimes a full year to learn how to use their time responsibly. Six years of being told what to do every minute of every day had trained that capacity out of them completely.

As soon as Tesla unleashes Unsupervised FSD and you are allowed to be in your phone, sleep, do whatever you want in the car as it drives you autonomously to your destination… there will be zero reason to own anything other than a Tesla

@SawyerMerritt That's good but many people are still waiting for the 500 miles version...

@SawyerMerritt Tesla should release the $75k 600 mile range Cybertruck too! @tslaming

If Elon makes it a 500 mile range like originally said in 2019 watch how many we sell. The range is what keeps most people away, not the price, it’s a truck. Obviously people want to be able to travel longer distance. Someone living in LA wants to be able to go to Vegas in one charge, as they do with an ice car. (Tesla investor here) just my 2¢

@SawyerMerritt Give me the claimed 500 plus miles at original reveal please. Have to charge frequently when used as an actual truck in the mountains of Colorado.

@CalvinBorisuk @SawyerMerritt My son's F150 has a 600+mile range, which is needed in a truck because as soon as you go to do rail truck stuff it drops to a normal amount of miles.

@SawyerMerritt I’ll keep my F150 with over 700 mile range, higher towing/carry capacity, 6 minutes to ‘recharge’, ‘charging stations’ everywhere and doesn’t look like a spaceship

The $50k dual-motor AWD 300-mile Cybertruck trim unveiled in 2019 is equivalent to $63k today with inflation, so this new $60k 325-mile dual-motor AWD trim is a good value. It delivers on what people want: good range, fair pricing, bed outlets, a motorized tonneau cover, solid towing, 325kW charging, etc.

@SawyerMerritt It does deliver to some people, not to truck guys 😞 ... We need 600mile range because as soon as you go to do truck stuff it drops (like all trucks gas included). I'm rooting for Tesla, they can build one fit for truck people!