Alex B. Fitzgerald

curious. pen name.

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

@JoshuaLisec Doing chores because she expects it ≠ respect

Doing chores because you care about your home = respect

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

@JudgeMiller Same

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@mageeclegg I just want to see more pictures of the house. Looks cool!

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

Welcome to X

[Tomas Salvo @tomas_salvo22]

My OG post now has a completely false community note that claims I did not design this plane, so I would like to clear some things up.

This plane is my design. The body shape is similar (not identical) because that’s what’s optimal for these design constraints. Rockets are all tall and pointy.

I’m sure Niels is an incredible engineer, and his plane is amazing. But this is my plane, designed by me from scratch (you can see a full 5-month building in public series on my LinkedIn, posted in realtime) and I’ve been building RC planes continuously since I was 10 (https://t.co/pajDW5lAtv). Took a closer look at Niels' video now, and here’s just a couple of the most obvious engineering differences I can reveal:

> Niels’ plane design is literally not available online. There were no build plans to copy from, but from photos it looks like he used foam+fiberglass overwrap. My plane is fully custom carbon fiber (internal structure CNC cut + skin, which I designed molds for and laid up myself).

> My fusion file has 1480 operations. I pulled dozens of all nighters (in my dorm!) to make it fully myself, from scratch.

> Fully custom inlet design with a bled boundary layer (not pictured in the OG post CAD, I iterated on it later. Pictured here)

> Fully custom DMLS 3D printed titanium nozzle (looks like Niels uses a stock nozzle? either way looks nothing like mine, feel free to look at photos of my nozzle + dev process on my LinkedIn)

> FPV (mine) vs line of sight (Niels)

> Launch method: I use a completely different custom 30ft aluminum extrusion catapult

There’s several more innovations that I can’t reveal right now to protect IP.

The design is mine, and I’ve had no problem proving that to any VC who has asked. You don’t have to take my word for it: more to come, stay tuned.

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

Are you asking ai when you should be asking the Holy Spirit God sent to be your helper?

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

@Fat_Electrician They want it to be all about climate change.

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

@Inv3ntive15 2 miles for me

[Ali Abdaal @AliAbdaal]

I recently had a chat with a friend who's in the middle of his neurosurgery residency. Here's how it went:

Me: So how’s things going with neurosurgery? Must be pretty stressful right?

Him: Well… you’d think so, but it’s actually not too bad.

Me: What do you mean? Don’t you have to work insanely long hours?

Him: Well yeah… like over the past few weeks, I’ve had to stay behind for hours after the end of each shift to deal with emergencies. But hey ho, that’s just what you sign up for right?

Me: Haha yeah, but most of the doctors I know love to complain about their lives… you seem pretty chipper about it in comparison :)

Him: You know… I’ll be honest, sometimes I’m tempted to complain about stuff… but then I remind myself of something.

Me: What’s that?

Him: I worked really really hard to get into neurosurgery speciality training. I remind myself that the problems I have now that I’m inside it, are EXACTLY the problems I DREAMED for a few years ago when I was working to get in. While I was grinding away on my CV and doing interview practice, I was literally dreaming of the day where I’d get to deal with a neurosurgical emergency and potentially save someone’s life. So now that that’s happening for real, what’s there to complain about?

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Note to self: next time you catch yourself complaining about something, pause and ask: "Is this a problem that a younger version of me was once dreaming about?"

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@Molson_Hart Scribe

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@cynicpolitic Oregon is pretty sweet though

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@contractorkeith Bro, that’s just the entrance to the bat cave.

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@jamesonhaslam I’d go help him get it going but not taking it back

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Counter offer: lower the effective tax rate for wage earners.

If me and another guy were getting tortured and I noticed I was getting tortured a little harder than the other guy, I would request the torture stop, not demand the other dude get tortured harder so it’s fair.

[Good Morning Liberty @GoodAMLiberty]

Dude. We spend $2T more than we take in every year and all you can do is talk about more ways to spend money. Even when you talk about raising taxes you talk about more ways to spend that money. Meanwhile we are paying over a trillion just on debt interest every year, and you completely ignore it. If spending were at 2019 levels we’d have a balanced budget and you still act like the problem is we aren’t taxing and spending enough. Get your house in order.

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@JoshuaBarzon 2

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@cynicpolitic Good for them

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@shawngorham Nice hat

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

1) The US already collects FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF TAX REVENUE A YEAR. The idea that you need to collect even more taxes — when you parasites already confiscate the equivalent of Elon’s entire net worth five times over, every year — is lunacy. Stop wasting billions of dollars a month of stupid bullshit. How about that for an idea?

2) We do not need more children in taxpayer funded daycare centers. Our goal should be precisely the opposite of that. We need more women at home raising their kids.

[Alex B. Fitzgerald @AlexBFitzgerald]

@SenWarren But you wouldn’t.