Paul Hill

Classical liberal, aka: libertarian. Working in private sector econ. Work, play, repeat.

[Edmonton Explorer @EdmontonTwitte]

A few bear cubs playing in the middle of the road. Mama bear watching nearby. Cars stopped. Time slowed down. 🐻✨
Straight out of a movie scene 🎬🍃 #bear #animals #wildanimals #canada

[B Dawg @TennisGuy_31]

Remember when they tried to shove trann*es and fat women in our faces

[Luis J. Gomez @luisjgomez]

Tits are so back

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Geddy Lee as one of the craziest baseball collections you’ll ever see 😳

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The Russian foreign minister is the single most talented foreign minister in the whole world.

‼️You might learn something.

[DFF @DumbFxckFinder]

Bass fishing with Spencer Pratt 🎣

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

James Garfield could write a sentence in Greek with his left hand while writing the same sentence in Latin with his right.

At the same time.

Before politics, he was a classics professor. Spoke seven languages. Read theology, philosophy, and mathematics for fun.

Four months into his presidency, he was shot.

The smartest man to ever hold the office.

American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸

[Paul Hill @pauldhill2000]

Slow day at Topanga Beach 🏖️

[Dead to Sin ✞ @deadtosin610]

This comedian hilariously explains why atheism makes no sense.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 Scott Bessent just dropped a NUKE on Gavin Newsom and then WALKED OUT of the room 😂

REPORTER: Newsom says he wants a 100% tax on Californians that receive money from Trump's anti-weaponization fund. Your response?

BESSENT: "There's no cure for STUPID" 🤣🔥

*walks out*

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybercab driving itself out of the GigaTexas factory

[Overton @overton_news]

Fidel Castro’s daughter Alina Fernández addresses the rumors that Justin Trudeau is her half brother.

The strangest part of her recent interview with @KatiePavlich is that Fernández did not outwardly deny the story.

PAVLICH: “For years, we’ve heard rumors that Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, could be your half brother. What do you think of that?”

FERNÁNDEZ: “Uh...the only thing I can say is that his mother used to visit the country very often...”

PAVLICH: “Well, that might be a tell then. I guess, that’s a half answer.”

FERNÁNDEZ: “Yeah!”

PAVLICH: “Do you plan to call him and maybe find out?”

FERNÁNDEZ: “No...no. Uh...I won’t do it. If he wants, he’s going to be welcome, but I won’t. I won’t.”

“I think he keeps that to himself and you have to respect that.”

Interesting.

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

Jean-Paul LaPierre, a 54-year-old boxer and marathon runner from Weymouth, Massachusetts (Boston area), was riding a CTA Blue Line train in Chicago heading to the marathon.

He stepped off, learned a man was robbing passengers at gunpoint, went back aboard, confronted the robber, grappled with him, disarmed the gun, and held him against the train wall until police arrived.

In the video, LaPierre says, “That kinda made me mad” and “I’m a boxer. I’ll break your head in one punch.” He later added, “It matters to me.”

The robber, Tremaine Anderson (30, with prior record), was arrested and charged with armed robbery.

LaPierre then ran the Chicago Marathon (his 12th) and later received a Carnegie Hero Medal for his bravery.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell on the fundamental difference between intellectuals and everyone else:

"Intellectuals... people whose end products are ideas."

But a scientist like Salk is judged by the vaccine. An engineer by whether the building stands.

If it collapses, no one cares how brilliant the idea was.

Yet when intellectuals rearrange society and it ends in disaster? They pay no price at all.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before.”

“Nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A frog swallowed a firefly and is now glowing from the inside.

Congratulations, we now have Firefrog.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Kyle Busch was driving down the road when he noticed the woman in the passenger seat next to him was wearing his hat and her reaction is priceless when she realizes

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“You cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration.”

— Milton Friedman

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week
She said the campus was beautiful
I asked what's the tuition
She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost
I made a note
She said don't make a note
I said I always make notes
She said this isn't a deal
I said everything is a deal
She closed her eyes

She said we'd discuss it Saturday
I agreed

Saturday 7:02am
She came downstairs in her Saturday robe
Coffee in hand
I had my cargo shorts on

The dining room had been cleared
The projector was on
The analyst was at the head of the table
Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops
He had been there since 6:44am

I texted him at 11:14pm Friday
The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model
He sent a thumbs up

My wife stopped in the doorway
She said what is this
I said you said you wanted to discuss it
She said this is not a discussion
I did not respond
She sat down anyway

The analyst stood
He said good morning ma'am
She did not respond
He sat back down
A printed deck in front of each seat
A fourth copy in case

Slide 1 Tuition Schedule
$38,500 per year
Thirteen years
$500,500 nominal
Before escalators
The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade
With escalators $648,000
My wife said okay
I said I'm not done

Slide 2 Opportunity Cost
Even before escalators
$38,500 invested annually
10% nominal return
S&P long-run average since 1928
By his eighteenth birthday $944,000
My wife said we can afford it
I said I know that's not the slide

Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65
$83 million
She was quiet

The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table
8% return $31 million
10% return $83 million
12% return $222 million
She did not look

She said this isn't about money
I said it's always about money
She said no it isn't
I said then what is it about
She did not answer

She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment
I said I can the analyst already did slide 6
He flipped to slide 6
She did not look

She said the school is the best in the city
I said best is a feeling
She said it produces the best students
I said the students were already the best before they got there

She said our son deserves it
I said our son deserves $83 million

My son walked in
He is five
Dinosaur pajamas
He looked at the projector
He looked at the open deck on the table
He looked at slide 3
He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax
The analyst opened a new tab
My wife looked at the ceiling

He said what's the discount rate
The analyst set down his pen
She closed her eyes

He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation
The analyst stopped typing
He looked at me
I did not say anything

She stood up
Sat back down

He said dad can I help
I said yes
He pulled up a chair
The analyst handed him a printout
He started reading

My wife watched him read
She watched him for a long time

She said his name
He looked up
She said do you like school
He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions

She did not respond
She looked at the ceiling
She walked out of the room

The analyst started packing up
He said should I follow up Monday sir
I said no follow up needed

He'll be fine

Sent from my iPhone

[BLESSED @ntaaribi]

Most insane thing I have ever seen 😳