Jitin Saigal

A common guy with uncommon sense
Your offense does not supersede my right to free speech. Retweets are Retweets

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk isn’t automating jobs. He’s deleting companies.

Project Macrohard. Painted on a roof in letters visible from space. Musk calls it the most important thing xAI will build.

Musk: “We aren’t just automating tasks. We are automating the corporation.”

The insight is surgical: if what you produce is digital, you don’t need to exist.

Musk: “It should be possible to completely emulate any company where the output is digital.”

The world’s most powerful corporations produce nothing physical. Google doesn’t make objects. Meta doesn’t manufacture. Microsoft ships bits, not atoms.

If your product is information, your company is just organized thinking. And thinking can be replicated perfectly at zero cost.

Musk: “Their output is digital. So they don’t actually make hardware.”

That’s the vulnerability. Every company that doesn’t touch physical reality is just expensive middleware between a problem and a solution.

Project Macrohard removes the middleware.

No employees. No politics. No overhead. Just function. Pure output at near-zero marginal cost, 24/7, forever.

This isn’t about making companies more efficient. It’s about making them unnecessary.

The Fortune 500 spent a century optimizing competition against other humans. They have zero defense against entities that don’t sleep, strike, or resign.

The largest corporations on Earth are just legacy architecture waiting to be compressed into executable code that does it better, faster, and free.

[victor lazarte @victoralazarte]

The AI scientist is here. This will be the end of wokeness

A paper just published in Science — the most prestigious journal in the world — claims to have discovered how humans achieve the highest levels of performance. Its conclusion: child prodigies don't become top performers, early excellence negatively predicts peak performance, and parents should not push their kids for fear of burnout. I found it odd. I asked Claude to analyze it. Claude found a statistical error in the paper's core claim, designed a counter-study with 3x the sample size, ran it, and proved the paper wrong. The correct conclusion: talent is real, it's measurable by age 14, and it predicts who reaches the absolute top. We are not all born equal. The AI scientist doesn't care about your feelings — it just follows the math.

Here's what happened:

The paper (Güllich et al. 2025, Science) claims that elite youth and elite adults are "discrete populations" — that the kids who dominate at 14 are not the ones who dominate at 30. Its key chess finding was based on 24 players. It told millions of parents: don't push your kids, prodigies burn out.

Claude applied Bayes' theorem to the authors' own numbers and showed the data actually proves a strong positive correlation between early and adult performance — the opposite of what was claimed. The "negative correlation" was a statistical illusion created by extreme quantile selection.

Then Claude designed the study the authors should have run: collected age-14 Elo ratings and lifetime peak ratings for every super-grandmaster in chess history — 67 players, nearly 3x the paper's sample. Ran the regression.

Result: β = +0.167, p = 0.003. Early achievement positively predicts peak performance.

An AI just peer-reviewed the world's top scientific journal and won.

[INSV Kaundinya @INSVKaundinya]

On 17 Dec 2021, a moment of serendipity brought @sanjeevsanyal and the Indian Navy together into a discussion on the feasibility of designing & constructing an ancient stitched ship. That discussion culminated into INSV Kaundinya Project.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this image is insane.

New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.

The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.

Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.

The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

[Deep Halder @deepscribble]

Violence over Osman Hadi is about the creation of an Islamist Bangladesh, far removed from electoral demicracy. India-baiting is a distraction.
I write for @ThePrintIndia. https://t.co/1m2MYEuwQi

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@shamron_ar7851 Book name?

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@ayeshaijazkhan Rest 11% belong to Pak Army...

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@aradhna00 @plot_twistttt 21/39

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@Naam_kafi_hai @Hassi_tohAayegi MTNL

[Jeff Jacoby @Jeff_Jacoby]

Who ever claimed that "a free market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty"? No rational capitalist would ever say such a thing. What is true is that free market economies generate far more wealth, so that far, far less of society ends up trapped in poverty.

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@ItsSelenaMaris @DefiantLs https://t.co/a5BrX54XmZ

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@SwiggyCares अरे भाई, Stop copying & pasting. सीधे सीधे बताओ, Are you planning to bring it back online again in Mathura in near future as in let's say by 1st week of next month??

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@SwiggyInstamart

What happened to your store in Mathura?

It's been unserviceable since at least last one month or so?

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@Hassi_tohAayegi @grok which series??

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@gharkekalesh @grok Is this a verified video??

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@malpani No, the problem is stupid and useless rules which give them so much power.

[Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline]

No government knows everything. Freedom lives in the actions of each individual.

[Jitin Saigal @jitinsaigal]

@OfficialDMRC
Hi, Why has DMRC stopped selling its own Metro cards?

[The Exploited TaxPayer @IndiaNewGen]

A 10L car becomes 13L post 28% good & service tax. It becomes 15L post 14% road tax.

To pay 15L, you need to earn 23L if in 30% + 10% surcharge + 4% cess.

To buy a small car to protect your family from public transport, govt takes more than 100% tax.

You pay tolls separately.