Alex Rettelle

Soccer, Golf, Photography; you name it. September 18, 2013

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

We don’t need flock cameras.
We don't need data centers.
We need clean produce.
We need clean water.

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

It physically pains me that we live in such an anti-science world. We could have so much if people actually listened to credible scientific research instead of conspiracy theories.

[E M M A ✨ K A T H E R I N E @TheEmmapreneur]

🗣️ The only ‘data center’ that should be funded is the fucking library.

[blazer @blazer39214]

@Suffragent_ Norway got robbed.

[Alex Rettelle @YourPalAle]

What a terrible call against the US. Yellow card absolutely, red card not at all.

[Kevin Kijewski @KevinKijewski]

Screwing Michigan: Sell 13 Michigan dams to a Wall Street private equity firm for $1 each, then force 1.9 MILLION ratepayers to buy the power back at DOUBLE the market price for 30 years, and hand the utility a $270 million profit on top.

That is the deal Consumers Energy is fighting for right now.

The out-of-state buyer's plan? Split the dams into 13 separate LLCs so it can pocket the profits and dodge the liability when these century-old structures need repairs. And when a state judge called the deal 'highly problematic' and 'unreasonable,' Consumers' answer was a threat: approve it as-is, or we tear all 13 dams down.

Your rivers. Your money. Your safety. Sold to Maryland financiers and handed back to you with a bigger bill.

The Whitmer-appointed Public Service Commission decides by September. They work for you, not for Consumers. Make sure they hear it.

Let's make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸

@realDonaldTrump @JDVance @MIGOP @MI_Republicans @Th_Midwesterner @stevegrubershow @MrJustinBarclay @gatewaypundit @Rescue_Michigan @HarmeetKDhillon @elonmusk @timlovesann @mifairelections @TruckerRandy @DonnieDetroit19 @downi75

[Luc @theashcity]

@MapleLeafs The NHL should make it less obvious when they are going to rig a draft lottery.

[Alex Rettelle @YourPalAle]

Jason Myers better get MVP for this boring Superbowl. He's carried Seattle. #SuperBowlLX

[Matt Giannino @MarketMovesMatt]

The recession indicator nobody's watching just collapsed 32%.

Heavy Truck Sales.

When companies stop buying $150K trucks, they know something you don't.

Here is the rule:

Truck sales rising → Businesses expanding, economy strong
Truck sales flat 3+ months → Warning, growth slowing
Truck sales crashing 20%+ → Recession already here

Heavy truck sales just dropped 32% year-over-year—steepest decline since 2009.

2008: Truck sales crashed 40% → Great Recession
2020: Truck sales crashed 35% → COVID recession
2024: Truck sales down 32% → ???

Trucking companies aren't buying because freight demand is dying.
Freight demand is dead because consumers stopped spending.
Consumers stopped spending because they're broke.

This isn't a leading indicator.
This is a confirmation.

The recession isn't coming.
It's already here.

Watch truck sales.
Ignore the GDP "growth" numbers.

[NikTek @NikTek]

So far, AI has:

- Ruined Memory Prices
- Game Optimization due to relying more on fake frames and AI upscaling solution rather than optimizing first.
- Social Media since half of the content now is AI Slop
- Made fake movie & game leaks so easy to make that you keep seeing them everywhere (more AI slop)
- Wrongfully flag Content Creators for Spam and delete their channels
- Made every app have some useless AI slapped onto it

Why do we need this much AI for again?

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

the only reason we aren’t technically in a recession right now is that seven tech companies keep passing around an “IOU $10 Billion” note and for some reason we’re counting that as real.

[kb ◡̈ @_kimberlybates]

*breathes in deep*

THE NORMALIZATION OF SPORTS BETTING AND GAMBLING HAS RUINED THE INTEGRITY OF SPORTS AND MADE BEING A GENUINE FAN OF SAID SPORTS AND ATHLETE OF SAID SPORT NOT FUN AND, MOST OF THE TIME, MISERABLE.

NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR PARLAY. GO OUTSIDE.

*breathes out*

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

It is frustrating seeing how bad things are in the goods economy, while the Fed seems completely clueless about what is happening on Main Street

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

The Cass Shipment Index, the goto benchmark for freight volumes since 1992, has dropped to 2009 levels.

Freight volumes currently match the Great Financial Crisis levels.

Main Street is experiencing a massive recession.

[Alex Rettelle @YourPalAle]

AI art and music is a disgrace and absolutely stealing content from actual artist.

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

The worst part of this economic slowdown is that the people that could do something about it are completely unaware/uninterested in doing so.

Everything is about "AI".

The Fed, Administration, and Congress are so disconnected from Main Street that they have no idea how fast things are crumbling.

Wall Street is sending the wrong signal.

[Alex Rettelle @YourPalAle]

The Ford's should threaten to pull funding from the league for all the BS we deal with.

[Alex Rettelle @YourPalAle]

It really is Detroit vs. Everybody. The league really hates us.

[Caroline Renard @carolinerenard_]

When they say "you must embrace AI" it's cause they have a financial stake in it. They spent billions and their new business models are reliant on it. They don't want to lose their money. I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

we’re actually about six months into a recession, it just hasn’t penetrated the stock market yet because the speculative AI bubble is keeping it completely divorced from what’s happening on the ground level