Chester Smith

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@navigatinglies What a beautiful baby!

[Marvelous Jesus @Marvel0usJesus]

God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other, passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings. 1 Peter 4:10

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@joehas Some people actually like staying home. Stop telling people what they should be doing. Ffs.

[Marvelous Jesus @Marvel0usJesus]

Jesus said, “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid." John 14:27

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

The ColdCard attacks have not stopped.

Remove all BTC from ColdCard devices as soon as possible.

If you have been affected, reach out to Galaxy as every piece of evidence can help identify who committed this heinous crime.

[Marvelous Jesus @Marvel0usJesus]

We don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. 1 Corinthians 4:18

[Marvelous Jesus @Marvel0usJesus]

Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Navigating The Lies @navigatinglies]

Life is short and to die without Christ is the real tragedy…

“Remember how short my time is: Why hast thou made all men in vain? What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?”

[Psalm 89:47-48]

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@NickHintonn Just an fyi, Cholera leads to GI symptoms. It doesn’t cause breathing problems.

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@KnivesOut The worst movie I have ever seen. I don’t say that lightly. So disgusting! Don’t waste your time or money.

[Swerdy @2Swerdy]

If you don’t face your own capacity for evil, you’ll keep dehumanizing others and falling for divide and conquer propaganda.

We all think we’re the exception. And that’s the problem.

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@unusual_whales They must have invested in methadone clinics.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

“In the last 2 years, more people died of fentanyl than every single soldier that’s died since WWII," Palantir, $PLTR, CEO has said.

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@Mrcryptoxwhale Done

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@wliang Sounds to me like she chose the right one.

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@docanarchy Now do nurse practitioners

[Doctor Money Matters @drmoneymatters]

Meanwhile physician reimbursement by Medicare has remained basically the same actual dollar value for last 30yrs. If account for inflation it should have doubled. Doctors are being driven out of private practice. https://t.co/GzeI9djQFm

[Chester Smith @chestersmith29]

@TheLongInvest SBSW price target

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

If Democrats Win, Wall Street Wins

Everyone’s pretending this ACA subsidy fight is about helping families.

It’s not.
It’s about who gets the check.
It’s why politicians are posting as fast as fat little fingers can type.

If Democrats “win” on healthcare, insurance companies and banks also win because every ACA subsidy dollar goes straight to the insurer.

Patients never touch it.
The Treasury wires it directly.

This has naught to do with healthcare reform or helping voters.

It’s a liquidity program for carriers and financial institutions and big donation grab for lawmakers.

The mechanism is beautifully perverse:
The bigger the premium, the bigger the subsidy.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid just raised the fees for health systems.

Insurance companies then raise premiums, and the government aka the taxpayer pays the difference.

Wall Street analysts call this “predictable cash flow.” Patients call it getting fleeced with extra steps.

The subsidies aren’t really “aid” in any meaningful sense.

They’re float.
The money sits in insurer bank accounts, invested, leveraged, earning yield, while Berkshire Hathaway, BlackRock, and JPMorgan quietly applaud every extension.

Health systems and insurers have perfected the art of splitting the spoils.

Health systems inflate costs.
Insurers “negotiate” theatrical discounts.

Both sides collect taxpayer-funded premiums.
It’s a perfectly choreographed dance; you’re paying for the venue.

Meanwhile, patients and independent physicians get precisely nothing.

There is no transparency, no price discovery, and no real competition.

It's just a system that’s optimized for everyone except the people it’s supposedly designed to help.

So yes, if Democrats “win,” insurance companies and banks win too.

If Republicans “win,” patients lose coverage, and nothing structural changes anyway.

The cartel wins either way.

The genius of the current system is that it’s made “more subsidies” sound progressive while functioning as a direct wealth transfer to the most profitable corporations in America.

It’s like campaigning for better school lunches while quietly routing all the money to Sodexo’s shareholders.

Lifetime lawmakers have built a system in which the solution to healthcare being too expensive is to have the government pay the inflated prices, which makes everything more expensive, requiring more subsidies, making insurers more valuable, attracting more financial engineering, and making everything worse.

And somehow we’re all supposed to pretend this is what winning looks like.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​…