Dave Dixon

Retired Oilfield Business Owner, Veteran, and Proud Cajun American

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@r0ck3t23 @RattlerGator This is a great post. If you are fortunate enough to be a citizen of this country you have won life’s lottery. Make good use of your opportunities. Do not be a victim - be PROUD to be an American!! And thank God you are an American!

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

This is a great post. If you are fortunate enough to be a citizen of this country you have won life’s lottery. Make good use of your opportunities. Do not be a victim be PROUD to be an American!! And thank God you are an American.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

YES the time has come AGAIN! We have HAD ENOUGH……

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

To those in the future that think Americans never fought back against uncontrolled immigration and who think we have never pushed back before,

In 1919 America had enough.

The globalists do not teach this lesson about our history...

After World War I the country was flooded with millions of immigrants in a very short time. Many refused to assimilate. Labor strikes paralyzed cities. Bombs were mailed to politicians and businessmen. Radical anarchists and communists openly called for the overthrow of the United States. Crime and unrest exploded in major cities.

The American people reached their limit.

What followed was called the Red Summer and the Palmer Raids. The government rounded up thousands of radicals, many of them recent immigrants. Ships were loaded and they were sent back to Europe. In some cases even American-born children of immigrants were deported with their parents if the family was deeply involved in revolutionary activity.

Then came the Immigration Act of 1924. It slammed the door shut. National origins quotas were put in place. Immigration from certain countries was cut by over 90%. The message was clear: America was for Americans first. We needed time to assimilate the people already here and restore order.

That policy worked. Immigration dropped dramatically. Wages for American workers rose. Assimilation improved. The country stabilized and the greatest middle class in history was built in the decades that followed.

We are at a similar moment today.

Once again our borders have been wide open. Once again our cities are strained. Once again American workers are pushed aside. Once again many newcomers show little interest in becoming American.

The lesson from 1919 is simple: when Americans decide they have had enough, they will act. They will vote. They will demand enforcement. They will change the laws. And yes, they will put their own people first.

We are not the first generation to feel this way.

We are simply the latest one that is finally willing to do what is necessary to take our country back.

Has the time has come again.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@ChiefEngineerCE YES the time has come AGAIN! We have HAD ENOUGH……

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

Much Thanks to the DOGE Team that took this on. Huge win!!
I work around and with the US Army Corps of Engineers and their projects. Lots and lots of issues that need fixing.
Seems like they want to do “a study” which on the latest projects takes 3-5 years AFTER CONGRESS provides funding for the study. Then if a project gets identified typically it gets shelved and forgotten about or ignored.
You might have seen in the news 2 weeks ago that a devastating flood hit Louisiana. A project that was identified over 20 years ago that would have significantly reduced the damage still sits in their file. So now they want money for a new study before doing the fix.
In my research I found projects like the above going back nearly 100 years that sit uncompleted or just a design on paper in a file. We need DOGE to take on this bureaucracy now.

[Spike Brehm @spikebrehm]

they did it. the mad lads actually did it.

i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?)

early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem.

processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet.

each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago.

since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up.

to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it.

when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor.

the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned.

we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch.

it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it.

huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality.

while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together.

what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

Much Thanks to the DOGE Team that took this on. Huge win!!
I work around and with the US Army Corps of Engineers and their projects. Lots and lots of issues that need fixing.
Seems like they want to do “a study” which on the latest projects takes 3-5 years AFTER CONGRESS provides funding for the study. Then if a project gets identified typically it gets shelved and forgotten about or ignored.
You might have seen in the news 2 weeks ago that a devastating flood hit Louisiana. A project that was identified over 20 years ago that would have significantly reduced the damage still sits in their file. So now they want money for a new study before doing the fix.
In my research I found projects like the above going back nearly 100 years that sit uncompleted or just a design on paper in a file. We need DOGE to take on this bureaucracy now.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

The Supreme Court decision is an example of “Suicidal Empathy” that will destroy our country.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Stephen Miller just OBLITERATED the Supreme Court allowing birthright citizenship for illegal aliens

"Some of the justices think they're SO INTELLIGENT — there is NO POSSIBLE READING of the 14th Amendment that applies to foreigners with foreign loyalties, foreign citizenship, foreign obligations, foreign EVERYTHING!"

"The idea that you can have a cruise ship FILLED with foreigners and they just dock at a port for an hour and someone has a baby,, the baby is an American citizen!"

"They can vote in every election for the rest of their lives. They can be living in a foreign country and cashing welfare checks from American citizens."

"We have people from all over the world, from third world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel. And they can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for it by you and me!"

"And then that baby is automatically a citizen that baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones can decide who our mayors are, our governors are, our presidents are."

"Citizenship means nothing if it is open to everyone."

🔥🔥🔥

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@EricLDaugh The Supreme Court decision is an example of “Suicidal Empathy” that will destroy our country.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@herknav143 @FreddyLA7 Wonder what them purple hairs are grazing on??

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@MammaMema65 @WallStreetApes YEA! 100% - Only way we are going to solve the homeless problem which is really a few crazy people and a lot of drug addicted people.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

YEA! 100% - Only way we are going to solve the homeless problem which is really a few crazy people and a lot of drug addicted people.

[Mamma Mema! @MammaMema65]

@WallStreetApes We had places to house them in the past.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

I suggest you moderate Democrats swallow a Red Pill then join and vote with the Republicans if you want to save your city from the communists

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino says the Democrat Party in New York is pushing candidates who believe that illegals should be able to run for office

She says the Democrat Party is even replacing their own people who don’t go along with these radical agendas

“That is why the Democratic Party is falling to their knees to the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), because you see what they're doing. They're primarying solid Democrat people who have held an office. That's what's going on in the Bronx. Held the office for so many years. And now they get this young, very young woman, anti-American, believes that even though you're an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, you should be allowed to run for office.

She, she says she would use the American flag as a dishrag to wipe her hands. This is what's running for Congress up in the Bronx to unseat an already Democratic seat. So they're coming after these Democrats hard, and they're eating the party up from inside”

This is just the logical next step for Democrats. They’ve already been making it legal for noncitizens to vote in local elections throughout America, I provide examples, so of course the next step is to let them get elected and serve in government

This is the takeover

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@WallStreetApes I suggest you moderate Democrats swallow a Red Pill then join and vote with the Republicans if you want to save your city from the communists

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@realmikolson @mirandadevine The people who go to Texas Roadhouse are not the crazy types. They are the HUNGRY types!

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@MilesTrav Well stated. I live in a state with about a 33% black population. I see exactly what you have described. We have a fairly large Asian population , mostly Vietnamese and Laotian. Same observations but not so extreme as our black neighbors.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

Two primary reasons.
. 1. Destruction of black family units because of the “Great Society” programs and the resulting welfare state they created.
2. Constant demeaning of white people by the media and leftest elites, and the catering of the Democrats to the race hustlers.
Time, no it’s over time, to fix this. Period….

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The truth is that there are VASTLY more hate crimes, especially aggravated rape and murder, per person by Blacks against Whites than the other way around.

The is not remotely debatable, as the numbers are so extremely lopsided!

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

Two primary reasons.
. 1. Destruction of black family units because of the “Great Society” programs and the resulting welfare state they created.
2. Constant demeaning of white people by the media and leftest elites, and the catering of the Democrats to the race hustlers.
Time, no it’s over time, to fix this. Period….

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

James, you make some really good points in this post. The combination of the extension of tax cuts, expensing CAPEX, and the CAPEX boom to build AI infrastructure are like pouring gasoline on a raging fire for the economy and corporate profits . The thing that concerns me is the potential of a black Swan event concerning crude oil inventories which are drained far below working tank levels disrupting the world economy due to demand destruction prices for crude oil.

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

$500-2000 month for AI per engineer. I would suspect that the average engineer for these hyperscalers cost something like $15,000 month+. Is this a budgeting problem vs an expense problem? If the AI usage increases their productivity by x% tell be how this is not a good investment?

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[Dave Dixon @daveralphdixon]

@Ric_RTP $500-2000 month for AI per engineer. I would suspect that the average engineer for these hyperscalers cost something like $15,000 month. Is this a budgeting problem? If the AI usage increases their productivity by x% tell be how this is not a good investment?