Alan O'Regan

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

This is a false dichotomy. It is not BEE or Apartheid. Both have been massively damaging to RSA.

Equal opportunity (not equal outcomes like BEE biases for) is hard to achieve, but it is impossible while the kleptocrats steal the resources and mismanage the infrastructure, all while pandering to teachers (for votes) so that RSA education is bottom of the world class. RSA has the most expensive worst education in the world. And the real treason is that that suits the ANC.

For a case study in warped BEE outcomes look no further than Starlink. In one affordable move, the ANC could have accessed infrastructure they cannot mismanage that brings improved information access (& education) and jobs to rural areas - but stopped it just so a few cadres could eat? Actually, that’s more real treason right there.

We could go on - the ANC cosying up to Iran’s wallet has come at the cost of AGOA (10s of thousands of jobs lost) and lost AIDS funding (lives lost) - effectively the country takes the hits while the ANC party gets funding. How is that not treason?

RSA badly needs a reset, and part of that reset needs to be the scrapping of all race-based laws, including BEE and the transition to a small, capable merit-based government that avoids debt, grows the economy and ensures education is the best for everyone.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@LimitingThe @xdNiBoR 🎯

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@nymbusjp Through a hepafilter (preferably).

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@JOBhakdi X is informing multiple countries to get there simultaneously. Couldn’t have happened without X.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@RyanCoetzee Preemptive defense?

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

I have mainly used grok and recently upgraded to Supergrok but it has felt like a down grade. Take any consumer question and submit it to grok and google and for the last few weeks at least the answers are fuller and more informative via google’s default search AI.

e.g, I am hiring a 6m bareboat from Sorrento to circumnavigate Capri - explain the procedures for the grotto’s and what I should consider taking.

Grok clearly reports searching the internet & social media sites but the answers are less detailed / comprehensive.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

To my limited observation AJ is a good analyst. Not a great one because he wastes cycles denigrating other analysts and doesn’t handle criticism well, esp. when valid. Borderline mute for me.

Where a lot of these analysts (unlike Roland) drift into opinion it holds a lot less value for me and seems more noise than signal. Roland is production focussed pure signal. 🎯 I still miss Rob Maurer - pure signal but financial and news focussed.

AJ seems down on Tesla being overvalued based on current / historical numbers (it is) but I don’t want to listen to endless posts where he predicts market movements rather than value generation and then is self-congratulatory if right. This is trader froth rather than investor info wanting to observe continued underlying execution.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@wilkinsoncape All of the above.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@wilkinsoncape @MsMelChen American spolling.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

Sounds like Suicidal Empathy except in this case it is the pupils and teachers at risk not the dept, so that would make it murderous empathy.

Did not think it possible that the dept could act more egregiously than that previous case, but I guess we live to be unpleasantly surprised again, and again.

Thanks for keeping a bright light on this. Hopefully Gauteng voters use the ballot box to send a clear, if indirect, message this year.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@Mike_the_Elder @sergiumogan @Tesla @yunta_tsai “Current” = for the last decade. And I am willing to bet you can throw in the next decade too.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@TeslaJigsaw Nailed it.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@nymbusjp In addition, the challengers have to cross the (technical crocodile infested) moat with the added uncertainty that customers might have become loyal to, or simply sunk investment into, the first mover.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@mozzer39 @MaeveHalligan Why are you choosing to engage with literally none of her arguments? Choosing ad hominems for your response communicates the fact that you may not have one. If you can’t add meaningfully to a discussion, rather not contribute.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."

I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@nymbusjp @raines1220 Nothing to see here. That’s really something.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@Kekius_Sage Oh that’s just great. As if we didn’t have enough problems, now we find our universe has leaks.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@MarioNawfal This blatant content stealing / rebranding is unacceptable. Blocked.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@JessePeltan Sigh.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

@JessePeltan They are no longer teaching. You suggest the only logical course of action.

[Alan O'Regan @AlanJORegan]

Let’s face it, it is a long list.

But chief amongst them has to be the failure of education, and the result that the undereducated electorate has continued to vote for the same corrupt party (while protesting them at the same time) until recently.

Probably second is the political encouragement of a victim / take mentality, killing agency and allowing people to believe livelihoods are handed to you - not built painstakingly over decades.

We need very much smaller, capable and accountable governments but without accountability, nothing will get fixed.

Voters need to bring it to the ballot box.