Peter Ryan

Living the dream in Northern Michigan paradise 🇺🇸!! Dad, Husband, Son and Brother!! God is Great!!
We have the Family we're born with and the Family we choose.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

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[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Least serious creature on the planet

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Stopping into a store to buy sunglasses in 2026 will have you shocked at how expensive they all are now

Most people don’t know this, but almost all sunglasses brands have been taken over by one company, it’s a monopoly and prices have risen 25-50%+ on average since 2016

The company’s name is EssilorLuxottica, the company formed by the 2018 merger of Luxottica and Essilor

Major Owned Brands:

• Ray-Ban
• Oakley
• Persol
• Oliver Peoples
• Costa (Costa Del Mar)
• Vogue Eyewear
• Arnette
• Alain Mikli
• Native Eyewear
• Sferoflex, Bolon, Bliz, Foster Grant reading glasses and more

Major Licensed Brands: EssilorLuxottica produces frames for these under licensing deals. They don’t own the brand but control production and distribution for their eyewear:

• Chanel
• Prada (including Miu Miu)
• Giorgio Armani
• Burberry
• Versace / Dolce & Gabbana
• Michael Kors
• Coach
• Tiffany & Co.
• Ralph Lauren / Polo
• Tory Burch
• Jimmy Choo
• Ferrari
• Brooks Brothers, Brunello Cucinelli, Swarovski, Diesel

America is run by monopolies and we are quite literally paying the price

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.

[Monica Yatooma @MonicaYatooma]

Michigan taxpayers just learned the @gretchenwhitmer administration sent more than $4 million in food stamp benefits to out-of-state addresses since 2024.

Not because the rules are unclear. Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because the state apparently couldn’t be bothered to verify whether recipients were still eligible.

MDHHS wouldn’t even respond to multiple requests for comment. Meanwhile, investigations have uncovered a 400% increase in SNAP fraud between 2023 and 2024.

Now republican state lawmakers are stepping in with a simple fix: verify residency when benefits are being used outside Michigan for extended periods.

Taxpayers deserve accountability. Instead, they got $4 million in waste and a state government that wasn’t paying attention.

@JocelynBenson isn’t running as the outsider. She’s running as the heir to the Whitmer administration. Why would anyone expect different results from the people who created the problem?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

German photographer Christian Vieler captures the hilarious moments when dogs try to catch treats mid-air.

[📹 vieler. photography]

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla and SpaceX over the next few months:

• June 18: CRSP index inclusion for SpaceX. Triggers an estimated $4-7B in forced buying by passive funds.

• June 18: FTSE Russell index inclusion for SpaceX. Triggers an estimated $6-9B in forced buying by passive funds.

• June 26: MSCI index inclusion for SpaceX. Triggers an estimated $3-5B in forced buying by passive funds.

• End of June: HW3 Tesla owners get FSD V14 Light. Expect possible delays.

• July 2: Tesla Q2 vehicle and energy storage delivery report.

• July 6: NASDAQ 100 index inclusion for SpaceX. Triggers an estimated $8-12B in forced buying by passive funds.

• Late July: Tesla Q2 earnings call.

• Early-mid August: SpaceX Q2 earnings call, their first earnings call as a public company.

• 2 trading days after SpaceX's Q2 earnings released: 30% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 12% of all outstanding shares).

NOTE: Since only about 40% of all outstanding shares are eligible for early release lockups, that 30% above equates to 12% of all outstanding shares. Elon's shares, board member shares, and some others, are subject to an extended lockup of 366 days. Together, the shares subject to these extended lockup restrictions represent 60% of SpaceX's outstanding shares.

• August 21: 7% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 2.8% of all outstanding shares).

• September 10: 7% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 2.8% of all outstanding shares).

• September 25: 7% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 2.8% of all outstanding shares).

• September: Indexes rebalance. SpaceX will then have a higher weighting in those indexes due to an increase in the public float from insider shares being unlocked. Passive funds would likely need to purchase billions of dollars worth of additional shares to bring their holdings in line with the new index weight.

• October 2: Tesla Q3 vehicle and energy storage delivery report.

• October 12: 7% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 2.8% of all outstanding shares).

• October 26: 7% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 2.8% of all outstanding shares).

• Late October: Tesla Q3 earnings call.

• Early-mid November: SpaceX Q3 earnings call.

• 2 trading days after SpaceX's Q3 earnings released: 28% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 11.2% of all outstanding shares).

• December 9: 7% of eligible insider shares unlock (equates to 2.8% of all outstanding shares).

• December: Indexes rebalance again. SpaceX will then have an even higher weighting in those indexes due to an increase in the public float from insider shares being unlocked. Passive funds would likely need to purchase billions of dollars worth of additional shares to bring their holdings in line with the new index weight.

(The Cursor acquisition will likely affect these lockup percentages slightly)

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨IT HAPPENED AGAIN!!!

A mob of "teens” turned a FAMILY FESTIVAL into UTTER CHAOS in Dearborn Heights, MI...

...sending parents and little kids running, fights breaking out, and SMALL CHILDREN NEARLY TRAMPLED, SO THEY SHUT IT DOWN EARLY!!!!

This was the Spirit Festival, one of the city's oldest family traditions.

Carnival rides.
Live music.

They even held quiet "sensory hours" for kids with special needs.

A FAMILY event.

AND THESE TEENS SWARMED IT!!!

They ran through the crowds like maniacs.

Fights broke out.

Families RAN FOR THEIR LIVES.

A dad who was there with his children said:

"I saw two, three, four, five, six year olds about to get TRAMPLED… they were running through here like it's a big game. It's not a game."

It got so dangerous that police had to SHUT THE ENTIRE FESTIVAL DOWN early.

Kids who waited all year got ONE ride before police cleared everyone out.

It took NINE different law enforcement agencies to get it under control.

WHERE ARE THE PARENTS?!!!!

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

That’s not a man cave that’s a lair

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Child activists at Elon Musk's Los Angeles diner,

What are leftists doing to their children?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

SpaceX a clôturé son premier jour de cotation à 2 100 milliards de dollars, +19%. Tout le monde regarde le chiffre. Personne ne regarde ce qu'il price réellement.

Laissez-moi vous dire ce que le marché vient d'acheter, et pourquoi je pense que cette boîte vaudra 30 à 50 trillions d'ici 5 ans.

D'abord, le symbole. Cette IPO est un référendum. D'un côté, 20 ans de discours sur la décroissance, la sobriété, la redistribution, la fin de l'histoire gérée par des comités. De l'autre, un homme qui a dit "je vais rendre l'humanité multiplanétaire", que tout le monde a traité de clown, et qui vient de créer la plus grosse entreprise cotée de l'histoire en partant d'un entrepôt à El Segundo. Le marché a voté. Le wokisme avait des départements RH, SpaceX avait des fusées. Les fusées ont gagné.

Ensuite, la mécanique économique, parce que c'est là que tout le monde se trompe. Les analystes valorisent SpaceX comme une entreprise de lancement plus Starlink. C'est comme valoriser Internet en 1995 sur le marché du fax. Starship ne réduit pas le coût du kilo en orbite de 20%, il le divise par 100. Et chaque fois dans l'histoire qu'un coût d'infrastructure est divisé par 100, ce n'est pas le marché existant qui grossit, ce sont des industries entières qui naissent. Le coût du calcul divisé par 100 a donné Internet, le smartphone, l'IA. Le coût de l'orbite divisé par 100 va donner une économie spatiale complète.

Faisons la liste de ce qui devient rentable quand le kilo en orbite coûte le prix d'un billet d'avion. Les data centers orbitaux, avec énergie solaire continue et refroidissement gratuit, au moment exact où l'IA fait exploser la demande énergétique terrestre. La fabrication en microgravité de semi-conducteurs, de fibres optiques, d'organes imprimés impossibles à produire sous gravité. Le tourisme orbital de masse, puis les hôtels lunaires, qui passeront du fantasme au business plan exactement comme la croisière de luxe au 20ème siècle. Le transport point à point terrestre, Paris-Tokyo en 40 minutes. L'industrie minière des astéroïdes, dont un seul corps de classe M contient plus de métaux que tout ce que l'humanité a extrait depuis le néolithique. Et Mars en ligne de mire, pas comme destination touristique, mais comme le plus grand projet d'infrastructure jamais entrepris, avec tout ce que ça implique de demande en énergie, matériaux, robotique, IA.

SpaceX ne participera pas à ces marchés. SpaceX possède le péage d'entrée de tous ces marchés. C'est AWS, mais pour la civilisation. Apple vaut 3 500 milliards en vendant des rectangles de verre sur une seule planète. Le premier monopole d'accès à une frontière infinie à 30 ou 50 trillions dans 5 ans, ce n'est pas de l'exubérance, c'est une simple règle de trois sur l'expansion du marché adressable.

Et maintenant, la partie que je préfère. Ce futur n'a pas besoin de bureaucrates. Il n'y a pas de comité consultatif en orbite. Pas de commission Théodule sur Mars. Chaque dollar de cette nouvelle économie sera créé par des ingénieurs, des techniciens, des soudeurs, des pilotes, des entrepreneurs. Les diplômés en gestion de la norme vont devoir apprendre un métier utile, et franchement, c'est une excellente nouvelle pour eux aussi : construire est infiniment plus fun que contrôler.

Parce que c'est ça, le vrai signal d'aujourd'hui. Pendant 50 ans on nous a vendu un futur rétréci : moins d'énergie, moins d'enfants, moins d'ambition, gérer le déclin proprement. Et là, d'un coup, le plus gros actif financier du monde est un pari sur l'abondance, l'expansion et l'aventure. Le pessimisme vient de passer en position vendeuse sur lui-même.

Le futur sera méga fun. Il y aura des hôtels avec vue sur la Terre, des honeymoons en orbite, des gamins qui diront "papa, c'était comment avant les fusées réutilisables" comme on dit "c'était comment avant Internet". Et quelque part dans les années 2030, un humain marchera sur Mars en livestream devant 5 milliards de personnes, et ce jour-là plus personne ne se souviendra du nom d'un seul de ses détracteurs.

Achetez de l'optimisme. C'est encore sous-valorisé.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year.

ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.”

One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year.

Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year.

P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’”

“The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.”

“A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.”

“It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.”

“Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Russell Crowe says he pushed back against studio pressure to include sex scenes in GLADIATOR, arguing they didn’t fit the story.

Crowe also said GLADIATOR II didn’t connect with audiences in the same way as the original because it lacked the “moral core”.

[Matt Stamper @Sneketoshi]

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[@amuse @amuse]

ISLAMIFICATION: If you were wondering what Islamic rule would look like in America you need only tune into a livestreamed Hamtramck, MI city council meeting. Multiple members of the all-Muslim council were charged in a ballot fraud scheme pled down & kept their seats. The whistlblowers that cooperated with the Michigan AG were all fired. This is America.

h/t @EndWokeness

[Marty Hogan @marty_hogan]

OK... take my money

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Elon Musk's full speech ahead of SpaceX IPO

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This band, Cor64, plays the GoldenEye cover from Nintendo 64 and it goes incredibly hard