@jackcoder0 I think the recent news about companies limiting their AI spending accounts as a counter example. Did the study actually take into consideration the cost of AI? Running agent workflows with some of the latest AI models is expensive.
For those that moved to the South, please say the following statement 25 times — “We DO NOT call the cops on kids doing donuts in empty parking lots.”
We don’t do that. You don’t do that. Thank you.
Europe can't fine or regulate its way back to technological relevance. Monopoly interventions must be based on simple economics. Having Brussels design the color of the checkmark is retarded. The DSA, DMA, and even GPDR has got to go. Full reboot required.
In 2015, I marched for Bernie and donated to his campaign.
In 2019, after years of being a miserable democratic socialist who blamed everyone else for my sadness, I decided that I couldn’t stand being a miserable fuck anymore, and needed to start taking risks and aggressively started doing stuff to change my life.
I started working multiple jobs. I had 3 I was juggling at one point. I funded my life with one of them, and with the additional jobs, I invested all of my dollars in Palantir. It was honestly fun. Yeah, I worked 70 hours a week usually and sometimes would go 60 days without a day off, but it was exhilarating. I was making changes and doing things. It was way better than being miserable and angry and making my entire identity about politics and my disdain for “the rich.” Those were hopeless times and I was glad to be doing something for myself.
I was able to grow a portfolio of 4,000 Palantir shares at an 8 dollar cost basis between 2021-2023. 32,000 dollars from hardcore grinding. Between 2023-2025, that 32 grand grew to over 400 grand. In May 2024 I started rotating some of the profits into TSLA, along with purchasing with new income.
I’ve learned so much about capitalism since 2019, how wealth is created, and the difference between makers and takers. I’ve been inspired by so many amazing builders and entrepreneurs on this platform. I’ve even interacted with many of them. Totally surreal.
Today, I cheered in my car as it drove me home when I heard that Elon’s pay package was approved. I voted my 750 shares on it with a huge grin on my face. If Elon gets paid 1 trillion dollars, I will be a multimillionaire.
After all I’ve been through and after everything I’ve done for myself over the last 10 years, I look at this post by Bernie and know I would’ve cheered it on in 2015, but today, I see it for what it actually is. Manipulative, depressing rhetoric intended to depress a base of voters and make them feel hopelessly dependent on him and his colleagues. None of them build anything or create value or give working class people like me the opportunity to peg my labor against their genius. They did nothing but make me miserable.
I hope even one person can read this get pumped to start doing shit. There are ups and downs, but it’s yours. Nobody can take your grind away from you. Kick ass and build over years of time and watch what happens along the way. Don’t listen to sad miserable people like Bernie.
@rossiadam I did recently shoot a 38 special revolver, the target was roughly 30 yards away, and evening sun was behind me, and yes, I was able to see the trajecrory of the bullets, they were not tracers…
“I’m striving for less.”
It’s become my mantra.
There’s a season for expansion—when you add to your life and bias toward yes. You’re trying things on to see what fits, accumulating resources, learning through experience.
And there’s a season for contraction—when you remove things from your life and bias toward no. You know what you want and everything else becomes a distraction.
When asked how he created the statue of David from a block of marble, Michelangelo said:
“I removed everything that wasn’t David.”
Life is no different.
I’ve run harder and longer than most. I’ve tasted the best this world has to offer and discovered what brings me joy. Now, like Michelangelo, I’m chipping away everything that isn’t my best life…
I’m not networking, I’m going deep with a small inner circle.
I’m not optimizing my bankroll, I’m optimizing my camera roll.
I’m not filling my calendar, I’m emptying it (and sacrificing money to do it).
I’m not dabbling in a bunch of things, I’m pursuing mastery in a few.
I’m not placing speculative bets, I’m doubling down on what works.
I’m not accumulating stuff, I’m purging.
⚠️Whatever season you’re in, here’s the thing to beware of:
Society tells us there’s no such thing as enough—that we should always expand, never contract. You see it everywhere—people who are forever chasing…
💰more money
💃a hotter partner
🛥️cooler toys
📈more followers
They think they’re leveling up, but the truth is they’re racing to the bottom. It’s a road to misery.
A beautiful life awaits you. You may already have the raw materials for it—your block of marble.
Maybe your next step isn’t to add more, but to remove everything that isn’t the life you want.
P.S. If you enjoyed this post, would you please like, comment, and repost? The algo hates content like this.
.@github seems to have banned @vmfunc's account over opening an off-topic PR on the linux kernel
Suspending an active account like this with a ton of open source activity is unacceptable
Help get the word out there and make as much noise as possible
Hey @FrameworkPuter ... if my post gets 10k likes, can you guys send me a semi beast mode diy setup?
I'd buy one, but I'm broke atm & my current Asus is complete ass for my workflow.
Podcaster Chris Williamson is battling the same chronic illness I faced in my 20s—a devastating combination of mold, Lyme disease, and other opportunistic infections that wrecked my health.
I’m the only person I’ve heard of who fully recovered from this type of illness. It’s not a brag, it’s a sad statistic.
Here’s what I learned:
Like Chris, I spared no expense in my search for a cure, trying all sorts of cutting-edge (and sometimes wacky) treatments. As he points out in his video, there are so many symptoms and potential causes that it’s overwhelming.
It’s easy to become what I call a “Professional Sick Person” (PSP)—someone whose illness dictates their entire life and becomes their identity. PSPs are always looking for the next miracle cure, always adding more to their treatment regimen.
Here’s the danger of becoming a PSP:
It’s self-fulfilling. I noticed over the years that PSPs never got better. Eventually, they accept bad health as their new normal.
I wanted nothing to do with that.
I was unwilling to become a PSP, so I stopped taking dozens of supplements and spending hours (and hundreds of dollars) each week on exotic treatments that weren't resulting in clear improvement. Instead, I focused on the basics:
— Movement & Exercise: At my worst, walking around the block was a challenge. I’d be sick for days after any activity that caused me to break a sweat. But I powered through and inch-by-inch regained fitness. Exercise isn’t working out a few times a week—it’s a lifestyle. Humans need WAY more movement than most of us get.
— Nature & Sunshine: Homo sapiens evolved over 300,000 years to live in harmony with nature, and only recently have we retreated indoors under artificial light. If you’re not spending time outside, getting sunlight and touching earth, you’re fighting biology. (Hint: You won’t win.)
— Diet & Fasting: It’s not complicated, folks. Just eat clean, single-ingredient foods and avoid garbage (which increasingly means anything you don’t cook yourself). And NO ALCOHOL!
— Joy & Love: Don’t roll your eyes—this might be the most important part. Toxic relationships and emotions (especially loneliness) manifest physically, but the good news is it works both ways. Renowned longevity doctor Vass Eliopoulos says, “joy is anti-inflammatory.”
— Hormones: This type of chronic illness wreaks havoc on the endocrine system—adrenals, thyroid, and more. Hormones are foundational to metabolic health, and I believe it’s impossible to recover if you don’t correct imbalances. For men, the master hormone is testosterone—you simply can’t be healthy with low T (and I’m not just saying this because I own a T optimization company.) When sick people get their hormones into the optimal range, it’s like a rising tide that lifts all boats—seemingly unrelated symptoms disappear because their metabolic health improves.
— Oxygen Therapies: The one thing I found that absolutely works is oxygen treatments such as ozone infusion and hyperbaric oxygen. These therapies help with detox, kill infections, and heal the body. I have a home ozone setup.
When you’re struck with a chronic illness, there’s no easy way out. It takes years of disciplined effort to recover. But if you focus on the things I listed, you won’t live like a sick person along the way. And here’s the best part:
I eventually realized that not only could I recover from my illness—I could become healthier than before. Now, at 54, I’m feeling and performing better than ever.
I wish the same for you!
PS:
1) If you found this post valuable, would you please like, comment, and repost? The algorithm hates this type of content.
2) There’s a link to a mega-thread with more details on my journey in the comments below.
cc: @ChrisWillx
Imagine the amount of narcissistic behavior you need to try kicking the creator of a technology out of its own project because of your ideological views (cult?).
In time: the Fork button is right there, and works for everyone. You don't need a stupid open letter to use it.
Yes, big bad tech companies. That's the thing, there is a reason why Google and Facebook became so big, and the reason is, let me take a step back first.
Before Google and Facebook all you had was trade magazines or hobby magazines to reach your target audience, if you were selling a specialized product for specific people.
The other option was to build something that has big enough margins to allow hiring a sales team, or something that was useful for almost everyone and in this case you could use TV ads etc.
Enter Google and Facebook, who actually enabled so many specialized product businesses to start marketing efficiently to the people who were interested in their products. They enabled so many profitable businesses, and was able to get some of that value to themselves.
Somewhere out there is a kind-hearted young person reading this who has been tricked into not having children because of some foolishness like climate change or WW3 or kids are too expensive or focus on your career.
Listen to me. It’s not too late.
This is why we are here.
@shagbark_hick Might, or it might be that Catholic doctrine empasizes the Church, as the authority, and is a lot more collectivistic in nature than protestant churches who empasize the Bible and individual faith. People just extend their trust of the Church to the government…