Ray Cerro

Engineer, Former athlete, Thinker

🇺🇲 Manufacturing

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

You cannot flood local housing markets with millions of people and expect prices not to rise.

Now the Fed is confirming what common sense already told us: Open borders make the American Dream more expensive.

[Ray Cerro @ray_cerro]

@propilot123 Who do you think is the right subset of customers for testing and feedback?
Maybe the people who make a living reviewing and testing stuff?

[Clavicular @Clavicular0]

One of the strategies I used to become more neurotypical was to pick out a random person on the street and follow them around for the entire day. I would carefully log all of their movements and observations I made.

I still try to do this from time to time, but I get recognized alot which makes it hard.

[Ray Cerro @ray_cerro]

@danjw1234 @aelluswamy It's not favoritism, it's simple safety logic. They can only do so much pre-testing before release. If the product has unexpected flaws, it's better to reveal them on a small fraction of customers in a beta release than suddenly in a full release.

[Ray Cerro @ray_cerro]

@brucefenton Any outcome that reveals the truth is a good outcome, even if it appears like a step backwards in the short term. Now we know the GOP is corrupt to the core and must be deleted and replaced.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Trump’s flip to suddenly being tough on Israel, ending his war on Iran that he started, threatening big oil to lower gas prices that he caused to skyrocket, and red meat tough takes are ALL a result of really bad polling that he can no longer ignore.

Also, if he had stuck with America First campaign promises, the polling would’ve never been bad in the first place.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Happy Father's Day to my dad, @RonPaul. No one did more to wake up a generation to the ideas of sound money, limited government, and individual liberty. His courage to stand alone and speak the truth when no one else would is something I carry with me every single day in the Senate.

I’m grateful to have him as my dad. I’m wishing him and every father out there a wonderful Father's Day.

[Clavicular @Clavicular0]

I need to become more interesting so I can carry convos better, im fucking brutal rn

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Elon Musk is a trillionaire. I am not a trillionaire. This strikes me as unfair. Nobody should be allowed to have more than me. The amount of money a person should be allowed to have is exactly the amount I currently have, and no more. I am smart. I really am. I’m serious.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

The dating market is brutal.

Elizabeth Bruch, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan analysed data from online dating.

Here are some things she discovered…

-Men’s desirability peaks at ages 40-50. But women’s desirability starts highest at age 18 and falls throughout their lifespan.

-Both men and women pursue partners who are on average about 25% more desirable than themselves.

-Women’s prospects dim as they achieve the highest level of education.

-Almost no one messages users less desirable than they are. Everyone’s understanding of their place in the hierarchy is very accurate.

-Men experience lower reply rates when they write more positively worded messages.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Listen to this video.
All these promises, he told us exactly what we wanted to hear.
And then he turned around and broke them all.
He protected the elites, built a fortress around the swamp, endorsed all the RINOs, and became a warmonger waging wars.
Trump is the very snake he warned us all about.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Imagine your boss doubled your pay tomorrow. Henry Ford did exactly that to his factory workers on January 5, 1914. The New York Times' financial editor walked into his newsroom and asked if Ford had lost his mind. It built the American middle class.

Before Ford's announcement, the auto industry paid roughly $2.34 a day for nine hours of work. Ford bumped his minimum to $5 for an eight-hour shift. More than double the pay for one less hour of work, and no factory in America had ever paid that kind of money for unskilled labor.

Twelve thousand people showed up at the Ford factory gates the following week, sleeping outside in a January blizzard. Fire hoses came out to push the crowds back. Ford had to announce that only people who had lived in Detroit for six months would be hired.

Two years later, Ford's profits had doubled. Before the raise, he had been losing nearly four workers a year for every single job on his factory floor. After, he was losing barely any. Output per worker rose 40 to 70 percent. In 1914 alone, Ford sold 308,000 Model Ts, more cars than every other carmaker put together.

A Model T in 1908 cost the average American 18 months of pay. By 1925, it cost 4 months. The car got faster to build too: twelve hours per car dropped to 93 minutes. By 1918, half the cars on American roads were Model Ts. Fifteen million rolled off the line over 19 years.

Then in 1926, Ford did it again. On May 1st, he gave his workers a five-day, 40-hour week, with no cut in pay. Other manufacturers were forced to match, and the two-day American weekend spread across the country. Twelve years later, federal law made it official.

Henry Ford was generous with his own money too. He gave away about a third of his income every year, well above the 5 percent that rich Americans typically gave back then. He also put about $14 million into building the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, which is still one of the city's largest today. The Ford Foundation, set up in 1936, was originally a way to avoid taxes and keep his family in control of the company.

The foundation got huge later, but only because Ford Motor Company stock kept rising. Even his charity money came from the business.

Ford's personal giving helped a few thousand patients at his hospital. The $5 day, the cheap Model T, and the weekend reached hundreds of millions of working families over the next hundred years. Almost everything that became normal "middle class life" in America, a steady paycheck, the weekend off, a car in the driveway, came from choices Ford made to win in business.

Bezos has a point. Ford's wages, his car, and his weekend did more for the average American family than every check Ford himself wrote to charity.

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

I agree that the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax. My reason for it is different: it's about clarifying who pays.

Right now you have tens of millions of people paying painful taxes, and they're under the impression that their taxes make a difference. They assume that the government budget is funded by taxpayers exactly like them, they've been told that the rich aren't paying their fair share, and so forth.

The reality is different: the income taxes paid by these people are negligible (~1.6% of total federal tax revenue). It doesn't really matter. But it has an enormous political impact: they believe that by paying these dollars, they are core contributors, and the outrage press has them believe they're getting short-changed for their contributions. The reality is the opposite, they are net beneficiaries by a long shot.

As usual, there is a huge difference between "almost zero" and "zero" -- taking their contributions down to zero would make it abundantly clear that they are net beneficiaries, pure recipients, not payers. The value that this provides in terms of restoring some sanity to political discourse will probably outweigh the equivalent loss of tax revenue.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Massie's not only the most conservative member of congress - in the freedom and constitutionalist sense - but also the smartest.

He graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and while there, invented a haptic computer interface, founded a technology company in his dorm room, got dozens of patents, and made millions of dollars.

Today the tech he invented is used in surgical training, robotics, and molecular research, among other things.

[Julie Borowski @JulieBorowski]

Proud to endorse Ed Gallrein against Thomas Massie.

Massie keeps voting against trillion-dollar spending bills, foreign wars, and giving the federal government unlimited power.

I want a candidate who will put America second, raise the debt ceiling to infinity, and get us involved in every conflict on Earth.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Massie: $5.5M raised. Average donor gave $100. His opposition: $32 million. Three billionaires, Secretary Hegseth on the ground, four presidential attacks in one day, all to silence the guy fighting for the Epstein files. Trump calls elections rigged. Look in the mirror. Go Massie.

[Ray Cerro @ray_cerro]

@TjChallstrom @elonmusk @GeniusGTX Just a hunch, but probably too much evaporation. If you use either of the liquid propellants as the coolant, they likely evaporate faster than the engines can use the fuel, which means waste. Alternatively, adding a liquid coolant strictly for evaporative cooling adds more weight

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.”

- C. S. Lewis