Justin Rapacz

Division by zero is undefined — so am I. Tech exec. Security-obsessed tactician. Whiskey. Cigars. Pinball. Chicago. Christian. Will retweet your enemy.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

We’re barreling toward podcaster singularity — the moment when every podcaster has been a guest on every other podcaster’s show.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Shawn Ryan takes Megyn Kelly out to his private gun range for a hands-on session that starts with a suppressed SIG Sauer P365 and works its way up to a 300 Blackout rifle.

@megynkelly
@SilencerShop

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

@WesleyLHuff @crossway This is a great Bible. It’s so beautiful that I’m almost afraid to use it.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

@RT_com Gross.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Two ex-Cubs catchers getting into it at the plate.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Creepy but cool.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

I would absolutely watch this.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Not a drop of talent.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Damn that sounds good
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[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Cool. Nice work.

[Cory Sechrest @CorySechrest]

You know it's going to be a good day when one of your projects finally comes together:

I present the Digital #Cubs Wrigley Field Scoreboard 🎉
Live scores for the today's games ✅
Live Wrigley Clock (synced to Central Time)✅
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More details/plans below! 👇🏻

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

This story doesn’t hold up under serious scrutiny. If the government was truly briefing pastors on an imminent UFO disclosure that could “shatter faith” and rewrite Genesis, why choose a tiny, seemingly random group of about six pastors for a secret Airbnb meeting in the Tennessee mountains? These are not America’s most influential Christian leaders. Where were the actual heavy hitters? Instead, the lineup looked more like a handful of end-times YouTubers—great content for their audience, but hardly compelling evidence for anyone else.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

@Super70sSports Way better.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

I’m growing increasingly fond of the way this guy works.

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://t.co/ufoTeQd8yA

[lordoflolz @Lordoflolz]

$GME offer $125 a share for $EBAY Uncle Bruce brakes down the potential play and shares his insights. A must watch!

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

You make a good point, and it highlights why many women may find video gaming unattractive. Some women associate video games with a lack of productivity, yet some of the most productive and successful people I’ve met are avid gamers. If you knew a man was far more productive than most people, would his gaming still seem unattractive?

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Women do seem to dislike when adult men play video games. Still, I’m not convinced that female instinct should be the standard for male behavior. Women might find it more attractive if a man spent his free time at bars, but that hardly makes it a better long-term option. Men need healthy ways to decompress. Compared with drinking, gambling, and other common outlets, moderate gaming is relatively harmless and may offer cognitive benefits. Studies link gaming with improvements in attention, spatial reasoning, processing speed, multitasking, and decision-making. People unwind in different ways. Men and women enjoy different things. That’s fine. If a man is fulfilling his responsibilities, gaming shouldn’t be viewed negatively. Women also do plenty of things that men find unattractive or irritating. Think it through.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Majestic.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

Place is packed. The line moves like a production line and the orders move in code — “Combo, juicy, hot, fries.” “Beef, dipped, sweet.” “Beef, juicy, mixed.” “Two beef plain, dry, fries.” Middle-aged blue-collar guys hunched at the high counter, elbows out, heads down, executing the Italian beef stance — that prayer-posture forced on a man by a sandwich too wet to hold level. Grease blooms through the paper bag like a wound through gauze. Sweet peppers slump green and obedient. Giardiniera hot enough to make your eyes water from two stools down. Behind the counter the gravy steams in its vat, beef bobbing in its own broth. All tables occupied. Negotiation by eye — the nod, the held look, the freemasonry of the hungry waiting on a chewing jaw to finish so they can take a seat while it’s still warm.

I feel good. I like beef.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

@GovPritzker Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[Justin Rapacz @dividebyzero]

@TayXLamar @Breaking911 Sure, he inherited some deficit from the prior Dem mayor. But Mamdani ran on empty promises he’ll never deliver. There will never be enough money for socialist promises—they destroy incentives to produce wealth.
Most tested & failed system in history.