chris wallace

[Shaky the Conquerer🥕 @ShakysBasement]

@ZeldaZealot Doing this little dance right before getting absolutely slaughtered is pretty much their entire history

[Jenny 🌺 @G0AwayHeat]

Hawk Tuah really fumbled the bag, she could be Secretary of the Interior by now.

[Kama @Kama_Kamilia]

At this point I believe that KFC HQ is just afraid to even say anything to KFC Spain.

[KFC España @KFC_ES]

tu como no te saques el carnet de coche ya

[Lou Stagner (Golf Stat Pro) @LouStagner]

This might be the most backwards golf cliché on the internet.

The straight 200-yard hitter does not beat the wild 300-yard hitter “9 times out of 10.”

It’s actually about the opposite.

Of all the male golfers that average about 200 yards off the tee, I took the most accurate 5% of players from that group. I compared those short hitters to players that hit it about 300 yards off the tee, and I used the least accurate 10% of players from that long hitting group.

It wasn't even close.

Median Handicap Index:
▶️200-yard straight players: 11.3
▶️300-yard wild players: 5.1

The full percentile table of handicap indexes for each group is in the comment below

CONCLUSION:
▶️The 300-yard player will have the better index 81% of the time.
▶️That means the 300-yard player is the better player 8.1 out of 10 times.

****For a player to be included in this analysis they needed at least 50 shots with driver in a given calendar year. These are male players only. This is TOTAL distance, NOT carry distance.

Data from Arccos Golf.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

[Fourth-Wall Break]

Because many have been asking the l about how I’ll be covering September 11, I’ve put together a Frequently Asked Questions list. I’m pinning it until that day. Please refer to this for your questions and feel free to ask more.

Q: How many posts do you have planned for the event?

At present, about 410, or one every three minutes for the entire day, though there will be an average of two posts a minute between 8:46 and 10:30. It is my earnest hope that the account doesn’t get suspended for spamming at the very beginning. I hope someone from X is reading this.

Q: Is the posting going to be in real-time?

Yes. I worked very hard to learn the exact minute and if possible, the precise second that events occurred on 9/11, and I will post at those exact moments. It will be a completely real-time retelling of the day.

Q: Do you/Will you schedule posts?

No. Automation is impersonal and unnatural. On these accounts I’ve always manually written the posts as I’m posting them, and 9/11 is no exception to the rule.

Q: Are you posting alone, or do you have a team?

All alone. Have been doing this alone for years. It’s a lot of effort.

Q: Will you be showing sensitive content?

No. I had the option to and I decided against it. Graphic photos and video exist, but it would be disrespectful to the victims to show it. You’re welcome to look it up for yourself.

Q: How did you do your research?

I watched 240 hours of video footage, from news reporting to on-the-ground stringers to eyewitness testimony to academic documentas, with the intent to form the most accurate-possible timeline of the event. I also had people professionally associated with and familiar with the event provide their own research, which was helpful. I did my very best to corroborate stories for accuracy and gather every possible detail of the day, and I hope that my work was adequate.

Q: Will you be including any conspiracy theories?

I don’t entertain the conspiracy theories. From my research, I have developed what I believe is the most accurate picture of what happened, and it’s straightforward and logical. There was no conspiracy related to the September 11 attacks. Those who seriously entertain conspiracy theories in the comments will be blocked.

Q: Why do this much? Do you have a personal connection to 9/11?

None. I was too young to remember it. I’m doing this because this is what I’ve done on these live history accounts since 2018. 

Q: Was this the whole point of the account?

No. I started this account in “1997” (2022) with the intent to report world news, and that’s what I’ve done for nearly five years. It was not the intent of the account, or I would’ve done thousands of hours of research and posted tens of thousands of unrelated stories just to set up one day.

Q: But it seems like all your posts are 9/11 foreshadowing lately.

Fewer than 1 in 10 of my posts has had any relation to 9/11. I’m insulted when people insinuate that “the account only posts about 9/11.” It’s a gross exaggeration. 

Q: Will the account continue afterwards?

Yes, indefinitely. I’m excited to cover the 2000s and the 2010s. I hope that you all stick around for it.

Q: Won’t you make loads of money off this, a tragedy?

Probably not. Last month, X decided to permanently suspend its creator monetization program and replace it with another program. I have not yet applied for the new program, and 9/11 will not be monetized. I am doing this as a passion project and because I love history and have been live-posting history for eight years - long before I was ever paid to do so.

If I do end up being monetized for this day, I’ve had ethical qualms. Earlier this year I decided to donate all the money I made off my posts on September 11, 2026. If I make any money off this, I will do that and post receipts. I encourage you also to donate to the charity of your choice. This was a tragic event and funds deserve to go to the victims of the tragedy and rememberance of it.

[Ricks Drapes @PatsCurtins]

Oh thanks for the heads up, gambling addiction website.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Normalize cutting politicians off mid-word-salad and saying, “Answer the fucking question.”

[blue @bluewmist]

You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.

[djcows @djcows]

we must stop the evil golf courses from drinking our water

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A guy named Kelly Johnson designed a plane in 1939 that crossed America in 7 hours. Twenty-five years later he designed another one that did the same trip in 64 minutes. Nothing has flown faster on jet engines since.

Lockheed hired Johnson in 1933 at age 23 for $83 a month, about $2,000 today. Over his career he led the design of around 40 planes.

America's first jet fighter, the P-80, came out of his shop in 143 days, built under a rented circus tent next to the Lockheed factory. They had run out of space inside. A decade later he led the F-104 Starfighter, the first plane in mass production that could break twice the speed of sound. Then came the U-2, a spy plane that could fly above 60,000 feet for hours, far higher than commercial jets cruise. The C-130 Hercules, his cargo plane, first flew in 1954 and is still being built today in Marietta, Georgia. No other military aircraft has been in continuous production for that long.

But his most famous plane was the SR-71 Blackbird. The whole thing is 93% titanium, because at three times the speed of sound, the plane gets so hot from cutting through the air that aluminum starts to soften. In the 1960s, America barely had any titanium of its own. The world's biggest supplier was the Soviet Union, the country the plane was being built to spy on. So the CIA set up fake companies, including one that pretended to make pizza ovens, and quietly bought tons of Soviet titanium. The Russians thought their metal was going to a kitchen equipment business. It was actually going to a hangar in California to build the plane that would soon photograph their missile bases.

The titanium caused a weird problem on the ground. The panels were built to expand when they got hot at full speed. So when the plane was sitting still, there were tiny gaps everywhere. The SR-71 leaked fuel onto the runway. It only sealed up when it was flying fast enough to need the fuel.

On July 28, 1976, one SR-71 set the world speed record for a piloted jet plane at 2,193 miles per hour. The same day, a second SR-71 set the altitude record at 85,069 feet, about 16 miles up. Both records still stand. More than a thousand anti-aircraft missiles were fired at SR-71s during the Cold War. Not a single one hit.

The Air Force retired the plane for good in 1998. Nobody has built anything faster since. Johnson retired in 1975 after 42 years at Lockheed, having designed the fastest jet plane humans have ever built.

[chris wallace @chris_waIIace]

“And a winning attitude” 😂😂

[Dudley McCringleberry @DudsMcCrings]

@unvarnishedvoid @DocStrangelove2 A bayonet on a musket can be a terrifying thing, if the wielder has some killer instinct and a winning attitude. 😃

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Something interesting you might not have realized:

A number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable...

But VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.

-SUSpect/susPECT
-CONflict/conFLICT
-PROtest/proTEST
-CONvert/conVERT

[𝟷𝟹𝟹𝟽𝙋𝙀𝙏𝙀 @1337PETE]

@snowleonesis @om_patel5 Don’t claim a territory if you ain’t ready to defend it

🔫Gang shit🔫

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Carvana made about $6,800 in profit on every car they sold last quarter. The typical used car dealer makes around $1,500. Carvana makes four times as much because the car is just the start of what they sell you.

About 85 out of every 100 Carvana buyers finance the car through Carvana. At CarMax, their biggest competitor, the same number is closer to 40. When you click "finance" on Carvana's website, they write the loan at one interest rate, then sell that loan to a bank or pension fund within days. They keep the gap between what you pay and what the bank pays them. That gap, multiplied across hundreds of thousands of buyers, is how they print money.

Then come the add-ons. An extended warranty. Coverage that pays off your loan if the car gets totaled. An insurance referral to Root, a digital car insurance company Carvana owns a piece of. Each one stacks on top of the same checkout. The car is the bait. The loan is the meal. Everything else is dessert.

This is why selling them your car at a price that felt too generous still works for them. The money they make on that trade-in shows up later, after the next buyer signs. They clean it up, sell it to someone else, and that someone else signs another Carvana loan.

This is also why they aren't going anywhere. In May 2022 they bought ADESA, a used car auction company, for $2.2 billion. ADESA came with 56 auction yards across the US. Now Carvana owns the auction yard, the body shop that fixes the car up, the trucks that deliver it, and the lender that funds the next buyer. Every step of that car's journey happens inside something Carvana owns.

Three years ago none of this looked like it would survive. Carvana's stock hit $3.55 in December 2022. They had over $5.7 billion in debt. The market thought they were going bankrupt. Then Apollo, a giant private equity firm, led a deal with their lenders that cut $1.2 billion of debt and pushed the deadlines out to 2028.

Last quarter they sold 187,000 cars and made $405 million in profit in 90 days. They joined the S&P 500 in December. Their market cap sits near $84 billion. Bigger than Ford.

The whole business looks confusing if you think of Carvana as a car company. The math gets simple once you see them as a lender that happens to deliver cars.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Humans win. Not close. The mechanism is the most underrated story in evolutionary biology.

You have 2 to 4 million sweat glands. The cheetah has zero functional cooling beyond panting, which loses CO2 and water faster than it dumps heat. After one full sprint, a cheetah's core temperature spikes 1.5°C and it needs roughly 30 minutes of forced rest before it can move again. At 100km, the human is asleep before the cheetah finishes.

The horse has the second-best cooling here and still loses. Horses sweat, but their skin sits under hide built for open-plain weather, not extended midday output. Above 30°C, a galloping horse runs into "thumps," a synchronized diaphragmatic flutter from electrolyte collapse. The Man vs Horse marathon in Wales is 22 miles. Horses win most years. Humans have done it twice. Triple the distance and the race inverts.

Lions sprint at 80 km/h for under a minute, then sleep 20 hours a day. Bears top out around 56 km/h carrying fur coats designed for Arctic winter. Wolves do well to about km 30 and then thermoregulation breaks. Ostriches have the leg geometry for 70 km/h and burn through their glycogen by 40 km. The camel is the closest competitor in this group, built for desert distance, and still loses to a trained ultrarunner over 100km.

Now stack the human kit. Roughly 1 liter of evaporative cooling per hour while you keep moving. An Achilles tendon that stores around 35% of your stride energy and returns it on the next step. A nuchal ligament that pins the head while everything below pistons. Quadrupeds are locked into discrete gaits, each efficient only at narrow speeds. Humans run at any pace with steady efficiency, which means we match speed to terrain and hold it for six hours.

The persistence hunter hypothesis is that humans are the only mammal evolved to chase prey to death by overheating. Kalahari San hunters still do it. They follow a kudu in midday heat for 4 to 6 hours until the animal collapses from hyperthermia, then walk up and finish it.

The cheetah can clear 100 meters faster than Bolt. The horse can clear 5 km faster than any human alive. At 100 kilometers, the cheetah is dead, the horse has thumps, the lion is asleep, and the human is still running.

Fur, claws, and raw power went out the door. What we kept is the only fully functional cooling system in the animal kingdom. Physics finishes the race for you.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Humans are the greatest endurance animal on the planet. Also now struggling to hit 10,000 steps.

[picardie aurora @picardie_aurora]

whoever named the amoeba knocked it out of the park, that’s what that thing is

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[chris wallace @chris_waIIace]

@Legal_Aces @ACantshoot @SiFiSignal @TheDonSerge @Home_of_Fight She is a Physician Assistant (PA-C) with a Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc)… probably making over $200k