Rick Armanino

Husband, Father, Believer in Christ as our Savior, Love Technology, Lover Continual Learning and Self Improvement.

[Blondelady2024 @arva61138]

I’m just going to say it: I think Elon Musk has done more to help America in the past two years than all 53 GOP senators combined.

[Texas Twins Dad @Texas_Twins_Dad]

My impressions just passed 20 million in 3 months. There was a time when every post felt like talking to a wall. But I just kept going.

If I can do it, you can do it too.

You can be a creator. Do what you're passionate about and keep pushing your limits.

Thank you everyone for reading!

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@EricLDaugh True !!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! HHS Sec. Bobby Kennedy is facing massive blowback from leftists for dropping this truth nuke on Islamism:

"There's 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don't produce. They don't win the Nobel Prize...they don't produce literature. They used to produce. They were the first to make books!"

"All of that tradition has been destroyed by the Muslim Brotherhood."

"They've created stagnant societies that do hatred and war and victimization. And they've let down their own people and destroyed those societies!"

RFK Jr. is not afraid to say it.

In the modern world, Islamism has taken root and NONE OF IT is compatible with western civilization

Notice how their sole goal is to conquer us and destroy...not build up their own.

Or else they'd stay put.

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@pmitu Not fast enough

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@ResethO Best post of the day !

[Reseth @ResethO]

If we took all of Elon's money to pay off the national debt, we'd still be 39 trillion dollars in debt. Maybe we have a politician problem, not a billionaire problem.

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@Texas_Twins_Dad You have great and inspiring content!

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@imhermes_os @dhh Thank you Josh !!

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@dhh

Question — Can Omarchy run on old 2011 Mac Mini?

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@plbiojout Thank you for this perspective

[Pierre-Louis Biojout (PLB) @plbiojout]

Armed guards at the door. Opioids offered on repeat. Apple Pay at my bedside. Welcome to the American Emergency Room.
The French think it bankrupts you. Americans think France does it for free. I’ve been to the ER in both. Both are wrong.

Mountain bike crash, dislocated and fractured shoulder. I’m French, I live in San Francisco, and I take slightly too many risks. Let’s compare.

Security

🇺🇸 Kaiser in Marin. Three armed guards and a metal detector. My phone set it off, so with my shoulder out of its socket I walked through again. And again. Then a pat-down.
🇫🇷 A couple of unarmed guys with walkie-talkies. Still not sure what they’re for.

Wait

🇺🇸 Three people in the waiting room. Seen in 15 to 30 minutes.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: packed room, 4 hours before anyone touched me.

Records

🇺🇸 Kaiser is vertically integrated. Insurer, hospital, doctors: one system. They had my file before I sat down.
🇫🇷 Every new doctor is a fresh context window. Zero history, maybe a printout from last time.

Infrastructure

🇺🇸 Small hospital, serious kit. Straight to the trauma bay: real bed, IV, vitals monitoring, ready for surgery if needed. All imaging on the spot.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: a plastic chair and a Doliprane.

Drugs

🇺🇸 Strong opioids were the default offer. I said no. They insisted. The doctor came in personally, confused why someone in that much pain would refuse. I stuck to Tylenol, an anti-inflammatory, to put the shoulder back in.
Yes, it hurt. No, I didn’t tap out. My mom is proud of me.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: Doliprane, opioids never mentioned. I have friends who got their shoulder popped back in with nothing at all.
US default: opioids. French default: Doliprane.

Bill

🇺🇸 Every nurse warned me: “You’re French, this bill is going to traumatize you.”
Before discharge, someone came to my bed to collect payment. Apple Pay, from the hospital bed. $300. For everything. On a ~$500/month Kaiser plan.
🇫🇷 A flat ~€20 ER fee, usually reimbursed by your mutuelle. The real bill shows up later, on your payslip (see below)

followup

🇺🇸 Kaiser called me right after to set up follow-up and physio, all in their system. So far, so good.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: discharged, figure it out yourself. A friend dislocated her finger. They put it back in wrong, sent her home with bad instructions, it locked up, and she needed surgery months later. Still not fixed.

“Free healthcare” in France

It’s not free when your marginal tax rate nears 70% with social charges. And if you want quality care fast, more and more people pay for private clinics anyway.

Verdict

One person, one data point. But the care was 10x better than anything I’ve had in France, for a price that’s completely fine.

France has a lot to learn.

And yes, I refused the narcotics to stay sharp enough to launch a NanoCorp from my hospital bed. Launch your first company run by an AI agent: nanocorp .so

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

Absolutely

[Squinty the Cat @initforthetek]

@Cernovich @VeritasAntequam And every H-1B currently employed at Microsoft should be first on the chopping block.

[Squinty the Cat @initforthetek]

@Cernovich @VeritasAntequam And every H-1B currently employed at Microsoft should be first on the chopping block.

[Texas Twins Dad @Texas_Twins_Dad]

Grok Bot can make videos like this. Just tell your Grok Bot what you want to create. Grok Imagine is super fast and awesome!

[𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝚟𝚜 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫 @DanielvsBabylon]

When you study the Bible and become familiar with what is written, the Holy Spirit can begin to plug those verses, passages and concepts into your mind, in real time, while you’re handling life situations, and if you listen, this is how you are molded to the character of Christ

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

My saturday evening project: hacking my remarkable to see if Opus 5.5 can help me draw (and also animate cuz why not)

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

@phyronnaz This is the coolest project I have seen this week!!

[Rick Armanino @RickArmanino]

Yes, those are very reasonable limits !!

2 terms for a senator
3 terms for a congressman

[Ryan @Ryan_Parkerrr]

Trump is proposing term limits of 6 years in the House and 12 years in the Senate. That would remove 73% of Congress. Do you support this?

[Ryan @Ryan_Parkerrr]

Trump is proposing term limits of 6 years in the House and 12 years in the Senate. That would remove 73% of Congress. Do you support this?