Rick Hightower

Java Champion: Poet, Cold Stone Coder. Creator: Boon & QBit. Streaming Microservices advocate. AWS, Kafka, Scala, Devops, Arch. Lifter. Krav Maga enthusiast

[Rick Hightower @RickHigh]

Can’t wait to start hitting the gym again!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Democrats are now only 1% away from taking the top spot for Governor away from Steve Hilton and only “59% counted”

This is why California Democrats mandated statewide universal mail in ballots

If they can just keep counting until they win, they can literally never lose

Federal audit California

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@FritzPeasant @DrunkRepub No we don’t

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Theo Von: "There's just something about [Tulsi Gabbard] that seems genuine to me."

John: "And that's why [Democrats] tried to destroy her… They were threatened by her message. She just wouldn't get with their program."

[Rick Hightower @RickHigh]

On what grounds could the feds get involved? These are state elections. I don’t think the feds can get involved only when the elections are for congress or president or national/federal elections. Isn’t it a jurisdiction thing? Do we want the Feds involved in Texas local elections?

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@scotsrule08 @wholemars @yacineMTB I was thinking what you wrote but didn’t want to write it. Summers are brutal but I love it here. Love the hiking trails and greenways. Natural springs everywhere. We have what California is missing. Water. ;)

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@GuntherEagleman Kona coffee. Hawaii. Final answer.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life.

I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days.

Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever.

So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth.

The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power.

The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps.

I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED.

Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box.

I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank.

I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it.

And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything.

"Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing."

The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect.

I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins.

I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one.

So tell me, America.

Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law?

I have decided there is not.

You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins.

It is the most insane way to hold a war.

I will fight in every single one.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

RFK Jr.: "I spent 30 years trying to get mercury out of the fish in this country, and nobody ever called me anti-fish."

[Rick Hightower @RickHigh]

@RobertKennedyJc Probably that pesky pardon

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@AmericaPulseNew Go after all of them. Both parties. Clean house.

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@Milajoy Uh oh!

[Jay @jayair]

OpenCode in May

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@GuntherEagleman I ate there three times growing up and each time got super sick. No idea why. I think it was a coincidence.

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@elonmusk Grok Build is pretty amazing. Considering how new it is and full featured. I also like how compatible it is with Claude Code. It makes switching back and forth easier.

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@Tech_girlll I find it hard to keep up. So many tools. So many announcements. I focus a lot on Anthropic. Mostly due to just finding hard to keep up with them. I do love NotebookLM and Gemini too. We live in a wealth of AI tools.

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@Tech_girlll I am not sure if they are or not. I use Claude every day and I use Gemini and NotebookLM every day. But

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So government mismanagement? Or corruption or both? Idk.

[Paola Neira @paoneira1]

@TheATX1 because the convention center didnt happen - all hotels locally are struggling. there is no demand.

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@cactusncookies Brisket sandwich.

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@LoewyLawFirm We just say that to Californians.

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

You're sitting between the largest oil field, the largest semiconductor buildout, the largest datacenter buildout, the 5th largest port, income/wealth tax is unconstitutional, and you have the most pro business and housing politics in the US right now. I'm all in on Texas.