People complaining about @elonmusk becoming a trillionaire don't know that wealth is literally infinite. We're living in the era of humanity in which it has never been easier to make a living. Good money. Wealth. Whatever you want to call it, you can make it. The very fact that you're reading this post means that you have all you need. You know English, you have access to the internet and you have a miracle machine in the palm of your hand. Don't waste it doomscrolling anon! This boils down to your locus of control. Do you believe that things happen to you? you're going to be miserable and envious no matter what. Do you think your thinking and actions can change your circumstances and future! welcome to the club of the hopeful and visionaries. You have the tools. Everyone has them. If you think things just happen to you, just stop thinking that things happen to you. Start thinking that you make things happen. It's that simple. And while we're here, thanks Elon, for getting us close to the stars. A kid who used to dream of becoming an astronaut salutes you. I have made the decision to start dreaming about it again. Ad Astra Per Aspera

Everybody wants something and is running away from something. - Helping them get what they want, grants you 1 persuasion point. - Helping them escape what they're running away from, grants you 3 persuasion points. - Helping them to stop fearing whatever they're running away from, grants you 10 persuasion points. Do you understand?

"It's like Oppenheimer was jumping on podcasts to warn about the dangers of nuclear weapons in between detonation tests." I've always loved you, @Knesix, bravo! It can't be said better👏

Leaning in does

We used to say that we don't know what 2050 will look like. Now it's more like we don't know what 2030 will look like. Strange and FAST times

There’s a specific, deeply disingenuous breed of guy who sells you the cigarettes, funds the cancer ward with the profits... and acts genuinely wounded when you point out the two are connected. Enter Dario Amodei. He runs Anthropic. He builds Claude, the god-machine. And for reasons I'm about to explain, he won't shut the hell up about how it’s going to ruin your life. He casually predicts half of all entry-level white-collar jobs will vanish in five years, pushing unemployment to 20 percent. He says this job loss "intrinsic", which means that layoffs are an inherent, feature-not-a-bug property of the exact thing he is building. In fact, he dropped a 20,000-word essay about this (maybe even Claude helped him write it!) Every few weeks, he begs the government: Please regulate this dangerous thing I refuse to stop building! Prepare the workers! Give them Universal Basic Income so they don't riot! Then his company says that his next model is way too unsafe to be released, just to immediately ship it to the public, and then get pulled by the government because of security concerns. Why is he doing all this drama, you might ask? I'd say he's meticulously future-proofing himself by collecting receipts. There are only two options: If AI saves the world, great! he built the future. If it guts the labor market and the middle class cannibalizes itself, Dario has a folder. He’s got clippings of himself on the panel, in the essay, looking into the camera with the chilling composure of a man who already wrote your eulogy and is picking the suit for your funeral. It's like Oppenheimer was jumping on podcasts to warn about the dangers of nuclear weapons in between detonation tests. (If) the economy burns, he doesn't want to be remembered as the arsonist. He wants to be remembered as the guy who warned everyone about the inevitable rise of the machines that he helped create.

It's great to see America becoming America again 🇺🇸🫶

Second best thing of @SpaceX's IPO is the huge signal that makes it easy to block commies by the hundreds

Another thug glassed! Thank you @realDonaldTrump

You have to out-earn what you see around you. Rent/housing, groceries, healthcare, etc. If you're just getting started...stop complaining that things are hard, and start finding paths forward. Yes they are hard, and they will always be hard. What are you going to do...give up? You do not yet know, how hard poverty will be...and that it will touch everything in your life & your family's life. Be bitter if you want, that's fine. Carry anger and direct that energy to finding a way forward and being resolute about it. Never give up. Keep pushing. Life is not easy for many people, and coming from 0 is hard stuff. But if you need a wake up call, let this be yours... Start today, and do *something* Do not give in, and do not give up. Not everyone needs a Ferrari, but you should have security and no one will give that to you, but you. You may have health issues, a terrible job, barely making ends meet, or waiting for luck...but there is rarely luck you do not create. You are on your own. Time to make a strategy, and act now.

US partnership with “Little Sparta” UAE stronger than ever. 🇺🇸🇦🇪

Reuters dropped a massive “Exclusive” claiming the United Arab Emirates just agreed to unlock up to $20 billion (with three billion already hand-delivered in a briefcase or a giant cartoon sack with a dollar sign on it) to appease Iran. I guess it had a post-it yellow sticker with “Please stop bombing our ports, here is your protection money, signed, the richest guys in the desert.” Within two hours, every major outlet on Earth copy-pasted the exact same story, terrifying investors and making cheap geopolitical analysts choke on their almond lattes. Here's what I see: This entire earth-shattering narrative relies on exactly four people. Although "people" is a stretch. They are described as "anonymous sources with knowledge of the arrangement." that sounds more like “guys who whispered something at a bar and/or a Telegram chat who may or may not exist.” Not to mention that the math is wild AF. Two sources say it’s $10 billion. Two other sources say, “Nah, make it twenty.” That is a $10 billion margin of error! If I tell you I’m buying a house for either $300,000 or $600,000, you’d ask me if I was in drugs. But in international journalism, I guess that you just average it out and hit send. Reuters even admits they don’t know if this is new UAE money or just Iran’s own frozen bank accounts being unlocked. That is the difference between giving a mugger your wallet or just handing him back the jacket he left at your house. But "UAE Pays Off Attacker" gets way more clicks, of course. Not to mention that just weeks ago, the UAE was publicly demanding Iran pay reparations, freezing IRGC funds, and launching retaliatory airstrikes. Now we’re supposed to believe they just completely rolled over? The article treats us to a fly on the wall account of ultra-high-level espionage, claiming Iran’s Revolutionary Guard rolled into Abu Dhabi last week, stayed at the National Security Adviser’s guesthouse, and hammered out a multi-billion-dollar extortion deal while the two nations were actively shooting at each other. Real, elite, backchannel diplomacy is grimy, paranoid, and aggressively leak-proof. It does not neatly package itself into a Reuters press release forty-eight hours later. But as usual, making the UAE look bad is still profitable.

Today reminded us that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who understand capitalism, and those who envy what others have created.

Insane that Elon could have just retired on a private island at 30 and walked into the sunset Instead he chose to build the technological infrastructure of the future for fun, save civilization as a side quest, and make a trillion for the lols

Now that the globalist Pope just said that "we're all migrants", it's a good time to remember this post

On May 28, JD Vance said Iran was “negotiating at least so far in good faith.” On June 12, Trump said “with them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith.” The same two words changed meaning in two weeks (!?) Now, you could say this is just the usual Trump administration communication chaos (which would be bad enough), and I can understand that “negotiating with Iran” means you’re dealing with at least two factions pulling in different directions, and that alone explains a lot of the noise. What it does NOT explain is Trump's reaction this morning. Iran leaks a 14-point demand list and Trump, on cue, calls it fake. Fine, but... if the thing is fake, then why respond to it at all? If it’s local propaganda aimed at Tehran’s domestic audience, the correct play would be just not reacting. You don’t validate a fake by screaming that it’s fake at full caps on Truth Social. The response itself weakens Trump's stance because a man who was actually winning the negotiation doesn’t need to litigate the paperwork in public. And the obvious question: if those 14 points are fake, why not post the real terms? My guess is that Tehran will countersignal exactly the same: "those are fake!". Then what? More “negotiation”?

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Trump famously holds his cards close to the vest when it comes to military action. He believes in the element of surprise, rightfully so. Unpredictability is one of the better parts of his leadership style. Thus, seeing him telegraph everything we intend to do in the near future likely means he’s bluffing in the hopes of getting the ‘deal’ he wants. If Kharg were really on the chopping block we wouldn’t be hearing about it.