Jacob hitz

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

Finally fucking did it, benched twice my body weight. Weighed in just under 225 and benched 450

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX engineer once watched Elon Musk reject a part that cost $120,000 from an aerospace supplier because he believed SpaceX could build the same thing themselves for $3,000.

The engineering team thought he was insane.

He walked into the machine shop, sat down with two junior engineers, and started sketching an alternative design on scrap paper. For the next 14 hours he didn't leave. He didn't eat. He barely spoke except to ask technical questions or reject ideas that didn't reduce cost.

By morning they had a working design. They manufactured it for $3,900. It performed identically to the $120,000 part.

The engineer who was there said that was the day he understood why SpaceX was different from every other aerospace company. It was that the CEO would personally sit in a machine shop for 14 hours to save $116,000 on a single component. Multiply that obsession across every part on every rocket and you get a company that launches for one tenth the cost of its competitors.

Most CEOs approve budgets. Elon approves bolts. That's the difference between running a space company and revolutionizing space travel.

[varrock @varrock]

>stops prosecuting robberies
>makes theft under $1k legal
>shops stop reporting robberies

"Wow robberies are down!"

[Izengabe @Izengabe_]

Mamdani's new proposed salary would pay him more than the combined salaries of the Governor of Florida & Texas. NYC Council Members would earn more than Members of Congress and the state legislators in all 50 states. Legalized robbery.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

@ThisbeMadsen How are they braindead I'm pretty sure the men played not the women?

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Inflation is a five-alarm emergency when it's time to pad the salaries of elected officials, an 18.2% "cost-of-living adjustment" they simply must have to survive rising prices.

But when a landlord faces that exact same inflation, rising fuel, insurance, labor, and repair costs, suddenly inflation is imaginary, and rents must be frozen solid.

So in Mamdani's New York, inflation is real for politicians and a myth for property owners. The cost of living rises for the people who govern, but never for the people who house the city.

One rule for the guys setting the rules. Another for everyone forced to live under them. The commissars get their raise. The producers get a freeze.

Somewhere, an economics textbook is filing a missing-persons report.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

@ThisbeMadsen Well if you never worked before or ran a business or been in management and have them run a massive city it's kind of wild to think about. Having ideas of how you want things to run verse actually understanding the ins and outs of running it are 2 different things

[Darren Bailey @DarrenBaileyIL]

JB Pritzker is heavily invested in companies that receive state contracts — including data centers — that he signs into law.

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

After listening to this speech I’ve come to the determination that the worst part is not that a joyous event like America’s 250th generated a scowl on the face of a guy who is almost never not smiling in front of cameras; nor the glum, hostage video-like demeanor of his NPC props.

It is that the speech is just plain boring. He says nothing profound nor fresh. A lot of it also just doesn’t make sense. For example: “It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it. After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free?” …Huh? What sacrifices have he and his in-group of new arrivals made to “make America free”? He also takes a shot at oligarchs with “soft hands” as if he’s not a spoiled theater kid who walked red carpets with his mom and who never had a job before politics.

And come to think of it, none of his speeches have been memorable. He finds a way to make everything about himself. This one, like most of his others, has the predictable “woe to us, oppressed minorities” undertone which is also prevalent in all his wife’s and his mother’s art. He’s quickly become a guy who has huffed enough of his own farts to think that people care about his take on every topic and that anything he says will be fawned over.

He’s exceptionally good at short form social media clips but he is an uninspiring public speaker. And this was bad judgement. Nobody asked for a struggle session about our independence from a socialist Debbie Downer. This was his first notable PR mistake.

(It’s also weird and a bad look that his wife chose to travel solo internationally for her first 4th of July as First Lady.)

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@SenGillibrand This is exactly the kind of political deception that failed my daughter Katie and countless other American families.

In court, through an interpreter, the man who killed my daughter Katie testified he had no formal education, could not read, write, or speak English or Spanish, and spoke only K'iche'.

Yet he still obtained false government documents and an Illinois driver's license before driving drunk and killing two young women.

That's what reckless "welcoming" and sanctuary policies produce.
They erode the safeguards meant to protect law-abiding Americans while rewarding those who ignore our laws.

But instead of fixing those failures, too many Democrats fight harder to protect illegal immigrants than the citizens harmed by their policies.

Our family learned the hard way:
when tragedy strikes, they'll protect the policy before they protect the victims and they will fight harder for ballots than for the actual voters they were elected to represent. We need to ask why, what's the real reason.

American citizens are at the bottom of the Democrats' hierarchy of compassion.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Mamdani attacked Elon Musk for being a trillionaire.

Yet his own political rise was backed by Soros-linked money. Open Society Foundations reportedly sent over $37 million to progressive groups that supported his campaign, while George Soros is the top individual Democrat donor with $102 million.

So billionaires are evil when they build rockets, EVs, Starlink, Robots and 𝕏....

…but fine when they fund your political machine?

Pure hypocrisy.

America needs more builders like @elonmusk, not Soros-backed socialists.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

@ThisbeMadsen Dudes shouldn't compete with girls that's what it vindicates

[New York Post @nypost]

Mamdani can't even get City Hall to stick to his 78-degree AC rule - as temps in building hit as low as 54 https://t.co/YqumJAj8Rd

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Zohran Mamdami lecturing Americans about how our country is terrible on the anniversary weekend of our founding is exactly the type of thing that drives anti-immigrant sentiment.

The guy became a citizen of the greatest country in the world less than a decade ago. That has allowed him the opportunity to have incredible success. But instead of gratitude, he shows only disdain for the country that welcomed him and his family.

He never really adopted the ideals that make this country what it is, and instead spends his time bashing the country and trying to impose the same backwards policies that have failed elsewhere. Including the country his family escaped from.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

@ThisbeMadsen Yeah so asking people to keep their AC at 78 is ridiculous when it's politicians that give these data centers massive tax breaks to build there and this fucking the power grid and driving up every day peoples electrical bill

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

Okay don't buy their product then? It's that simple

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Apple is a $4 trillion corporation.
It's spending $310 billion on stock buybacks.
It made $112 billion in profits last year.
It's CEO, Tim Cook, is worth $2.9 billion.
Cook made $74 million last year.

Apple is screwing you over because it is addicted to greed - period.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

This guy is on the spectrum, no one gets paid a billion dollars they start a company and the public invests in it to make them a billionaire like how fucking stupid can you be

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

A billion dollars is not earned. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

Don't buy an iPhone then it's that simple like no one is forcing you to buy a certain service or product

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.

These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

If all the money I paid into social security I had invested myself I'd be set to retire way earlier and get way more in retirement

[Angela Mannarino ✨ @amannarino_]

Social security is coercive. Participation isn’t voluntary. It’s also a poor return on investment- workers would accumulate more wealth by investing the same money privately.

Social security needs privatized or abolished, stop trying to “save it.”

I don’t know one person that actually believes they will see one cent.

[Jacob hitz @Cousinjake]

This is below room temp IQ, someone should learn the difference between income and assets increasing in value (momentarily)

[Michael Linden @MichaelSLinden]

A) No sillier argument than "taxation is theft." Just totally juvenile.

B) Elon's supposed $5 billion in taxes last year equates to a whopping 3% effective tax rate for him.

(according to Forbes 400, Musk's wealth *increased* by $184 billion in 2025, so 5/184= 2.7%).