Watching Ken Burns "The National Parks." A lot of our national parks came from people of means setting aside parts of the country for enjoyment. This doesn't happen anymore with our ultra wealthy except for one guy buying up NC forests. Our modern oligarchs are failures.

In a surprise move to no one at this point:

I very distinctly remmeber liking this post at 2am when I had to let the dog out. Came upon it again at 8:15am and it showed I hadn't liked it. Curious. Is it because it is a bit anti-elon coded that it is getting de-liked or whatever the term is?

First day of summer break. All internet except to my computer is set to shut off at 10am. Get outside kiddos!

Got to Dr appointment 15 minutes early. 15 min after it is supposed to start I am told to go to radiology. Radiology has no clue how ling it will be until they can see me. Watch half dead geriatrics that arrive after me get called before me. Wtf. I have shit to do.

When my kids attended public schools the system used Payschools to invoice us for lunches and little things. Never received a single email about the invoices during that time. Kids have been private now for 2 years and I am suddenly getting monthly $0 invoices? Wtf.

Call me a snob, but I prefer this locally ethically sourced hantavirus I am getting from cleaning my garage over that imported stuff.

Not that anyone is asking but Cavill is not too old to play bond. Brosnan started at 42.

Elon Musk is the Ivar Kreuger of our time, and the OpenAI trial is PROVING it in real time. If you don't know who Kreuger was, you should: In the 1920s he was the most admired businessman in the world. The "Match King." He controlled 90% of global match production, lent money to sovereign governments, and his securities were the most widely held in America. But after his death in 1932, auditors spent 5 years untangling over 400 subsidiary companies and discovered the whole thing was held together with fictitious assets, forged bonds, and the unquestioning loyalty of people too dazzled to ask questions. Investors lost $750 million (~$17 billion in today's money). His deficits exceeded Sweden's national debt. Doesn't this sound familiar? The Musk playbook is the most DANGEROUS house of cards I've witnessed in my career. This week in federal court, Musk took the stand to argue that Sam Altman stole a charity. 3 days later he'd contradicted himself under oath so many times that the judge told his lawyers she suspected plenty of people don't want to put the future of humanity in Mr. Musk's hands. OpenAI's attorney asked if Tesla is pursuing AGI. Musk said no. The attorney then pulled up Musk's OWN post from March 4 where he wrote Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI. His own words entered into evidence against him. BY HIM. Then the attorney asked if xAI used OpenAI's models to train Grok (which violates OpenAI's terms of service). Musk called it a general practice among AI companies. Pressed for a direct answer, he said "partly." Think about that: Musk is in court accusing OpenAI of betrayal while admitting under oath that xAI violated the very same company's terms of service to build Grok. Then came the credibility test: Musk was asked to name his companies that benefit society. He listed Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X without hesitation. Every one of them is an uncapped for-profit enterprise. Then why did xAI start as a benefit corporation and quietly flip to a for-profit C-corp? No clean answer. This is someone who repeatedly launches entities with noble-sounding charters and converts them into for-profit corporations once the money gets serious. Then his money manager Jared Birchall took the stand: OpenAI's lawyer asked about the donor-advised funds at Vanguard and Fidelity that Musk used to send his $38 million. Did Musk have any legal right to direct where the money went once it entered the DAF? Birchall couldn't answer. Said the legal question was beyond his expertise. The entire lawsuit hinges on that donation creating enforceable obligations. But the man who managed Musk's money just told a federal jury he can't confirm Musk had any enforceable claim over those funds. Now step back... This is a man who promised full autonomy by 2018, a million robotaxis by 2020, and unsupervised FSD by June 2025. EVERY deadline was missed. He claimed he invested $100 million in OpenAI. The real number was $38 million. His defense? His "reputation" made up the difference. Kreuger had 400 subsidiaries and used one entity to prop up another through structures nobody could follow. Musk has Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and X. He shifts AI talent from Tesla to xAI, has xAI building the brains for Tesla's Optimus robot, and uses X as a megaphone while the algorithm amplifies his narrative to 200 million followers. Kreuger's investors trusted the man, NOT the math. They loved the confidence. They stopped asking questions because the aura of genius made questioning feel foolish. The same psychology applies to Musk's empire today. Kreuger's reckoning took 5 years of forensic auditing after his death. But Musk is providing his in REAL TIME: contradicting his own posts under oath, admitting to the practices he's suing others for, watching his logic collapse under cross-examination. Different decade. Different industry. Same ending. The truth always catches up.

I am so sick of seeing shiny wrapped PE backed plumbers/hvac/roofing guys driving down the street. Bring back the sketchy white vans with a dude that will do it for a reasonable cost with a quote written on a piece of paper.

Trying to get a new ceiling fan for our bedroom. Is there some conspiracy that majority of fans only come with 3000k integrated LED lights and remotes now? I want wall wired w/ changeable lights and there are either busted $100 options or offbrand questionable $$$$ ones.

This is the same reason I've let Usain Bolt 100m record stand. I don't want the competitors to study me frame by frame and replicate my sub-9 second 100m run.

Home internet was down and a bunch of systems at work were down this morning. Went to the shooting range during that time. Much better way to start a morning.

At least half the responses on this tweet are bots.

Counterpoint: I've shown up early, went into the room on time then heard the Dr. go enjoy lunch that was brought in by a drug rep in their breakroom next door. I waited 45 minutes and then left when she never came in.

Trying to get a used car. 2024 model 15k miles on it. There is a 2025 model with 6k miles,same spec about 50 miles further away. 2024 dealer wants the same price as the 2025 one (which is priced appropriately). They won't come down. Why are they like this.

Driving down highway, semi-truck in right lane, me in left trying to pass. See a car on the shoulder up ahead so I slow down so truck can move left and give shoulder car space. Blink highbeam, wave him over. Doesn't move and nearly hits that car. Drive past truck. Non-domicle CDL

Well, beach time is ruined. Some a-hole showed up with his shibumi. There should be a class action lawsuit against this company for noise pollution.

Boat I've been eyeing just dropped the price 7% right as boating season is coming. It's starting.....

Put a space heater in one of the kids rooms about 2 months ago. Set it low enough it should only kick on when its really cold. Welp... Just went in there and its been set at 78 degrees for who knows how long. Now I now why my electric bill was so high this past month.