Jonluca

Hospitality professional, husband, father, engineer in a former life, investor and uber nerd.

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@warrioraspie @BenStoeger187 @textacdesigns @TREXARMSinc 😎

[Warrior Aspie @warrioraspie]

Ok weirdos, here it is. This Giveaway is all about firearms training. The prizes:
A copy of @BenStoeger187 new book on dryfire training
A set of simulated distance targets for your training at home
2 Glock 19 Dry Fire training magaines from @textacdesigns
A used @TREXARMSinc AIWB G19 holster with sidecar.
This gives you everything to start carrying and training properly. Just add Glock 19. In all the years I have been in and around the firearms world I often hear the same excuse for why people don't train or carry appropriately. "I already spent $600 on the gun and $200 on ammo. I don't want to spend another $100-300 on that stuff if I don't have to." Ok fine. Now you don't have to.
Let's get this one out there as far as we can so maybe some normies can get some chances to win. If a post about vape cartridge components can get 300k impressions then this should do better. Let's help somebody get trained up.
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Winner will be announced in 1 week
Good luck everyone

[Jonluca @Luca280]

I can get behind this...once I can pronounce it

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

New word for the Singularity:

Patriziermuße
pat-REE-tsee-er MOO-suh
noun

Wholesome, old-money leisure with no economic output.

From German Patrizier “patrician” + Muße “cultivated leisure.”

Usage: “After work was automated, he devoted himself to patriziermuße: opera, rowing, private tennis, and chess under oil portraits.”

Not laziness. Aesthetic uselessness.

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@t_blom 💯

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@BMT094 I am requesting

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@tonysimons_ 👊🏽

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Feels like a huge own goal.

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@theallinpod @NYSE @Jason @chamath @DavidSacks @friedberg Wow. Jealous of this experience

[Jonluca @Luca280]

The game is afoot. Wish me luck.

@TeslaBoomerMama @SawyerMerritt @herbertong

[Jonluca @Luca280]

Jesen having a great time at Computex

[HKEPC @hkepcmedia]

Gave Jensen Huang my wallet to sign, and he straight up emptied all my 1,000-dollar bills to tip the pretty ShowGirls ⋯⋯ WTF 😂😂😂

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@bauminater Gotta stagger the rear guns my dude

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@WeaponsVault Cringe of the Day, you win

[Sam Korus @skorusARK]

“We’ve done the analysis, reusable rockets aren’t economic.”

SpaceX makes reusable rockets economic.

“We’ve done the analysis satellite internet isn’t economic. The antenna alone is tens of thousands of dollars. The cost to manage a constellation that size, the radiation, the space hardened solar cost…”

Satellite internet appears to be a very good business with antennas in the $100 range.

“We’ve done the analysis, orbital data centers aren’t economic. The radiators, launch costs, the radiation, the solar…”

You are here.

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@HermesAgentTips Yes

[@jason @Jason]

Business AI is here.. for your business! 😂

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@LenaMiculek @Smith_WessonInc didnt even have the sounds on and I got what your putting down

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@HermesAgentTips I hear ya. I hesitate to call myself a power user but I will definitely test some out on some side quests.

[Jonluca @Luca280]

@dinkyvision @goodbreffis Everyone posting here is my hero.