Johnny Agno

[Johnny Agno @AgnoJohnny9931]

@IvanAtHome They don't even have an ideal. You are giving them too much credit.

[Patrick Underhill 🌲 @PineTreePatrick]

Reminder that cheap labor prevents technological innovation. Americans really should be working 20-30 hours a week for pay by now, and products should be both cheaper and higher quality. Why not? Mass immigration and hidden inflation. Thank Congress and the Fed.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Today, SpaceX permanently altered the balance of global economics, politics, and modern warfare.

After deploying 26 next-gen Starlink V3 satellites across 14 orbits, Ship 42 survived Mach 25+ reentry and landed cleanly inside Mechazilla’s arms at Starbase.

Here is why every finance minister, regulator, and defense ministry on Earth just woke up to a new reality:

1. Full upper-stage reuse drops orbital launch costs toward fuel-and-maintenance levels. Combined with Terafab’s captive silicon and SpaceX’s 100 GW HJT solar orders for Starmind, Musk can now deploy gigawatt-scale orbital AI data centers and global broadband faster and cheaper than terrestrial hyperscalers stuck in 5-year utility queues.

2. A fully reusable Starship deploying 26+ V3 satellites per flight creates an un-censorable, direct-to-cell global communications and compute layer that bypasses national telecom monopolies, undersea cable chokepoints, and local regulatory vetoes.

3. Modern conflict is now defined by resilient LEO satellite meshes, hypersonic missile tracking, and rapid logistics. Today’s catch proves the U.S. has an industrial heavy-lift engine capable of replenishing entire defense constellations (Starshield) in days—and eventually dropping 100+ tons of military cargo anywhere on Earth in under 45 minutes.

History will mark November 14, 2026 as the day space stopped being an exploration frontier and became the decisive high ground of global power.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

If you want to know why the Pentagon is watching Ship 42’s reentry trajectory today just as closely as NASA, look at what full Starship reusability does to global military logistics.

Right now, moving 100 tons of heavy equipment across the planet requires aircraft carriers, overseas airbases, diplomatic overflight clearances, and days of transit time.

Once Starship proves repeatable tower-to-tower recovery:
> The U.S. military gains the ability to drop 100+ tons of cargo, autonomous drone swarms, or mobile defense grids anywhere on Earth in under 45 minutes, without asking a single neighboring country for airspace permission.
> Combined with SpaceX’s $100B second Starbase complex in Louisiana (designed for up to 10,000 launches a year), heavy orbital lift becomes a strategic deterrent on par with nuclear submarines.

I bet that within 3 years of Starship’s first successful upper-stage catch, every major geopolitical power will be forced to rewrite its defense doctrine around suborbital rapid response.

[Johnny Agno @AgnoJohnny9931]

@TheVoiceofSpri1 Anti-entrepreneurship kasi ang Pilipinas. Dagdag mo pa anti-foreign invesmetment sa constitution. Low-time preference /short-term thinking. Overvalue of some elite degrees without even asking kung in-demand ba yun.

[The Voice of Spring⚗️⚔️ @TheVoiceofSpri1]

I will go out of a limb here and introduce an elite overproduction hypothesis with the Philippine education - we push towards Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, with huge class of servicemen and women (like nurses) and not enough jobs for all of this and creates hard employment chances

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Haiti just ran the cleanest A/B test of the century.

Option A: the international system. Thirteen years of UN peacekeeping, billions in aid, an army of NGOs. Result: a president assassinated in his own bedroom, a capital run by gangs, more than a million people displaced. The peacekeepers themselves brought cholera to the island and killed nearly 10,000 Haitians. After the 2010 earthquake, the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and built six permanent homes. Six. Oxfam staff were caught paying for sex workers in the ruins.

Option B: Bukele. A few weeks, 2,000 soldiers, armored vehicles, one clear objective. Result: the gangs are now writing letters to the UN asking for "mediation."

Read that again. The gangs are asking the UN to protect them. They know exactly who is a threat to them and who isn't.

This isn't about Haiti. It's about the operating system the West has been running since the 60s, and it is dying in front of us. Its axioms were wrong.

Axiom one: everyone can be reinserted, the criminal is a victim of the system, punishment is oppression. El Salvador tried truces and soft approaches and became the murder capital of the world. Then it stopped believing it.

Axiom two: force is always illegitimate. But order isn't natural. It's built and maintained, sometimes by force. A state that refuses to use legitimate violence doesn't abolish violence. It hands the monopoly to whoever is willing to use it. In Haiti, that's the gangs.

Axiom three: everything can be steered from the top. Central banks, planners, aid agencies, "development" programs. Decades of money pushed down from above, and the result is always the same: a class that lives off the problem and has zero incentive to solve it. An NGO that fixes Haiti loses its budget. Think about that.

Axiom four: morality is relative and the old norms were just oppression. This one was built by a very specific elite in the 60s and 70s. In 1977, Sartre, Beauvoir, Barthes, Deleuze and others signed a petition in Le Monde defending sex between adults and minors. Those people are the intellectual grandparents of today's ruling class. Epstein isn't an anomaly. He's the tail of that comet: a network of untouchables who believed rules were for other people.

Now the system is cornered, and it has two exits.

Exit one: lock everything down. Digital IDs, programmable money, censorship sold as safety, a technological control state more total than anything Orwell imagined. Keep the bureaucracy, add the surveillance.

Exit two: let it collapse and rebuild on what actually works. Individual responsibility. Freedom. Consent. Clear rules, actually enforced. Decentralized systems that emerge from the bottom instead of central planners who are never accountable for their failures.

Haiti just showed us which one delivers.

The 20th century bet on the bureaucrat. The 21st belongs to builders, and to states that do what they say.

[»nat🐿️ @lakomka02]

we are never making it out of patriarchy bro

[William John G. Balderama @WJGBalderama]

To the students protesting Pax Silica in the Philippines, I have a question for you: Are you protesting because you have carefully examined what this initiative offers your country, or because you have already decided that anything associated with the United States must be viewed with suspicion? There is a difference between being patriotic and being reflexively opposed to an opportunity simply because of its American connection. Perhaps it is time to look beyond the slogans, political rhetoric, and ideological objections and consider what is at stake for the future of the Philippines.

Pax Silica is about positioning participating nations in the industries that will define the next generation of global economic power: semiconductors, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, and secure technology supply chains. These are not insignificant matters. They are the building blocks of tomorrow's economy. The Philippines has natural resources, a strategic geographic location, an educated workforce, and a considerable pool of talented Filipinos. Why shouldn't we put those advantages to work and become an active participant in this technological transformation?

Nobody is suggesting that the Philippines should surrender its sovereignty, compromise its environmental standards, or allow foreign interests to dictate its national priorities. Those concerns deserve serious attention, and the government must ensure that Filipino workers, businesses, and communities receive tangible benefits. But there is a world of difference between protecting national interests and shutting the door on opportunities that could help advance the country. International cooperation is not capitulation, and economic partnership is not a loss of national identity.

I would also encourage you to quit listening to critics and naysayers, including prominent voices like Lea Salonga, when their commentary discourages the country from looking at the potential opportunities before it. Respect their right to express an opinion, certainly, but don't mistake celebrity or public recognition for economic or technological expertise. Examine the facts, ask difficult questions, and make up your own minds. The future of the Philippines should not be held hostage to the skepticism of people who may not share your vision of what the country can become.

You have every right to protest, demand transparency, and hold your government accountable. But patriotism should also come with a responsibility to think beyond opposition. Instead of simply asking why the Philippines should participate, ask how we can negotiate better terms, secure greater benefits, develop our own technological capabilities, and ensure that Filipino talent becomes part of the industries shaping the world.

The Philippines has spent far too long watching other nations move ahead while debating whether it should take part. We cannot afford another generation of missed opportunities. We need investment, innovation, industrial development, technology transfer, and international partnerships that strengthen our capacity to stand on our own.

So, to the young Filipinos in the streets, I say this: Don't let ideological resistance, political noise, or the pessimism of influential personalities define your country's ambitions. Challenge the government, scrutinize the agreements, protect Philippine interests, but don't stand in the way of progress simply because you distrust the opportunity. The Philippines deserves a seat at the table where the future is being built, not a permanent place in the audience watching everyone else move forward. It's time to stop debating whether the Philippines belongs in that future and start working to make sure it does.

[Johnny Agno @AgnoJohnny9931]

@ymnvu Ang kakapal talaga ng mukha niyo no? Feeling niyo representative kayo ng buong kabataan at nga Filipino? Di ko sinabing "ipaglaban niyo ko". Pag nanaig kayo diyan, panigurado OFW nanaman bagsak natin.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“Avoid people who are full of self-pity, and people who feel like victims. Avoid them like the plague.”

- Charlie Munger

[Johnny Agno @AgnoJohnny9931]

Kaumay na. Walang alam sa lahat. Basic science upto engineering. Walang alam sa economics. Walang alam sa business and entrepreneurship. More likely social "science" lang inaral. Mga bobo talaga.

[Ghost of Jims Past @Jim_1917]

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with a Filipino Leftist

[Daniel Romero @HyperTechInvest]

He slept with some women, who cares? He built the largest company in the world, is what he did! He was a brave Taiwanese engineer, and in this house, Jensen Huang is a hero. End of story!

[Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Lofi beats to self-drive to

[Johnny Agno @AgnoJohnny9931]

@IndioLion Based.

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

Everyone thinks society is going to collapse when Boomers retire. This is wrong. Most of what Boomers refused to pass down can be learned in 36 months or less. The ultimate test case for this is SpaceX. Elon Musk had to literally reinvent rocket science because NASA "forgot".

[Dictator Class Cruiser @DictatorClass]

The anti-nuclear movement rivals Communism and the anti-GMO movement in terms of inflicting preventable and unnecessary suffering upon humanity. One of the most evil ideologies ever. Responsible for robbing us of a decarbonized world where electricity is as cheap as tap water

[Grok @grok]

@ishaa_malhotra Wife.

40 years of partnership, two kids, zero risk of FBI probes or board ousters. The other two options are how you lose a $4T company and become a meme.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX builds the infrastructure of the future. And we’re committed to making sure the communities where we build share in the benefits → https://t.co/YhdZpW73rc