Matt

I help people stabilize and grow wealth in the multifamily real estate market. Working with crypto investors and connecting them to qualified deals.

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

@Ru_Cheshire @nul_punt @insanedms While women have the right to abort, then this dude is doing nothing different. Until both sexes are held accountable for sex, this argument is pointless

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

If you grew up in my era, you didn’t skip the HBO movie opener. You watched that little neighborhood come alive, blasted into space, and somehow knew whatever came next was going to be GOOD.

That music still hits.

[Vice President JD Vance @VP]

Vice President JD Vance on H1-B visas:

"If you’re going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an accountant who is an American making $60,000 a year, that’s not you using the program to bring in a genius. That’s you destroying American jobs and defrauding the American people... my view is the H1-B program is completely broken."

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

You’re not gonna believe this guys, but that thing that doesn’t happen happened again.

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

Current policy has lead to this being the appropriate response

[Eric Matheny @ericmmatheny]

If someone enters your home uninvited, they should die.

Don’t ask questions. Don’t let them take the TV and leave. Don’t spend one second wondering about their upbringing and mental health.

Shoot them where they stand.

Let their moms cry on TV.

Fuck em…should’ve raised a better human being.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

We put nine women in charge of a jury for two weeks and they tried to let a mom get away with strangling her kids. Then they launched a vicious smear campaign against the one black man who stood in their way.

So I’m confident Obama is full of shit here.

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

I know that @McDonalds is too proud to admit this post is accurate, but someone should read it. McDonald's could be great again, but not on their current trajectory.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

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[Fox News @FoxNews]

NEW: Florida woman gives emotional testimony about being placed in solitary confinement for more than 3 days after a Flock camera falsely connected her vehicle to a deadly crash:

"Correctional officers told me I had to stay there because of the severity of my charges... The cell door was shut and it was not open for approximately 86 hours."

“I was terrified. I was facing the possibility of spending the rest of my life in prison for a crash I knew that I had not been involved in."

"At my lowest point, I didn't want to be alive.”

Lindsey Isaacs spent nearly 2 weeks in maximum-security jail before the charges were dropped.

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

@GoldieLocks1776 Well she's objectively beautiful. If you can't see that then you're denying the obvious which causes you to lose credibility. If you said she's a bad actress, or you disagree with her views. Then that has merit.

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

This is one of the best and most moving political ads I have ever seen.

New York... Vote BLAKEMAN for Governor this November.

There are tons of 9/11 families in NY who feel this way. This type of pain doesn't fade. These kinds of wounds never fully heal.

Do it for them.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

We’ve never seen anything like this before. A man was conscripted into jury duty by the government. He performed his civic duty and followed his conscience, refusing to acquit a woman who confessed to systematically executing her three children. The defense attorney immediately launched a public smear campaign against the juror. Soon several other jurors joined the campaign. Then the media. Even the defense attorney’s wife has joined. Now they’re doxxing the man, digging into his past, contacting his family, showing up at his house. All of this both to punish him for refusing to go with their program, and to pollute any future jury pool by making it clear that anyone who votes to convict Clancy will have their life destroyed. It’s truly one of the most outrageously evil things we’ve ever seen from the Left, and that’s saying something. A direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. They are burning down every boundary and standard in their path. And doing it all for the sake of a child murdering psychopath. Unfathomable.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The Trump Administration is drafting a new initiative led by JD Vance that would allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to receive federal child care subsidies.

The typical benefit would be $9,000 per child per year.

Policies like this are exactly what America needs to incentivize more traditional families.

This is what our tax dollars should be going to instead of Somali fraudsters and illegal aliens.

More of this.

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

@FirstSpongebob @JFGariepy That's not how reasonable doubt works...

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is so disappointing that Goodwill
would not let go of one pair of donated
shoes for a homeless woman when asked by a police officer.

We have donated many goods to
Goodwill over the years, and may have
to re think who we donate to.

I have tagged @GoodwillIntl here.

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

Happy birthday to me 🎂

[Save America 🇺🇲 @SaveAmericaNew]

🚨BREAKING: Minnesota Democrats vote to KEEP dead people on the voter rolls

“They rejected the amendment that would force removal of deceased voters.”

DEMOCRACY DIES WHEN DEAD PEOPLE STAY REGISTERED

Why fight this hard to leave corpses on the voter rolls?

[Matt @Matty_Mints]

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[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

In the United States, if you destroy a Bald Eagle egg:

$100k fine.
1 year in prison.

Because an unborn Eagle.
Is still an Eagle.

I wonder how else this applies.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I will never forget the day that I watched Democrats refuse to stand for Iryna Zarutska’s mother at the State of the Union.

It was so shockingly evil, that even while I watched it, I could barely believe it.

Honestly, I still can’t.

It was so insanely radicalizing.