@Jason@jalenbrunson1 Congrats to the Knicks, butâŠ.this happens every season. Teams will try to emulate that years champ when making roster moves/coaching changes/off or def philosophy changes.
Atlas Shrugged made simple:
1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers â industrialists, inventors, engineers â whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted.
2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more youâre expected to sacrifice for those who arenât.
3. Success gets treated like a debt â taxed, regulated, resented â until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all.
4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw â walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing.
5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the âautomaticâ prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people.
6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever â Randâs stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it.
7. âShruggedâ is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesnât fight, doesnât protest â he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isnât.
You donât want us? We just goâŠđ€·đ»ââïž
Narrative violation: A new study of 21,559 firms in the U.S. finds that âcompanies that adopt AI tend to grow faster following adoptionâ.
âFirms making the largest AI investments grow employment by roughly 10% following adoption, while low-intensity adopters see no statistically significant change.â
âEntry-level headcount rises 12% for high-intensity adopters.â
âGains emerge gradually and are broad across roles, including engineering, sales, administration, and customer service.â
âThe results counter predictions that AI adoption will lead to broad job loss.â
The study is based on observed AI spending from Ramp card and bill pay data linked to Revelio Labs workforce records.
You become more fiscally conservative as you get older because youâve had more time to watch your federal government fail to solve any problems despite taking in trillions of dollars in revenues per year.
Youâve watched the private markets deliver life-changing technologies that bring the entire tide up, all while these hypocrites and fools bark the same nonsense year after year, and somehow cannot manage to deliver anything but massive deficits, finger pointing, and divisive rhetoric.
In this post, Warren transfers nonsense from her brain to her thumbs, and through the magic touch-screen slab to tell you that sheâd be able to do something with a few billion more dollars that her and her colleagues havenât been able to do with a multi-thousand-billion dollar annual budget for years and years.
What is the meaning of her post here? There is no meaning. It is meaningless. The intention? To stir emotions in anyone who isnât aware of the obvious things Iâve written here. To manipulate and gain the support of sheep.
If you actually think revenue is the bottleneck for government output, you lack basic financial literacy and are being conned by con artists.
Peace through Strength in Action.
President Trumpâs Iran deal lands at a moment when American power has delivered outcomes that not long ago read like fantasy: NicolĂĄs Maduro captured and removed from Caracas, several hot conflicts pushed toward ceasefire, and now a framework that both blocks an Iranian bomb and begins to redirect Tehran from running a network of proxies to behaving like a state. It is a classic expression of Trumpâs national security doctrine: use overwhelming pressure and credible force to bring adversaries to the table, then cut a deal that serves U.S. interests. In that sense, it is âpeace through strengthâ made concrete, not a slogan. The Camp David analogy fits, but the potential ramifications are broader than EgyptâIsrael peace, because this deal touches nuclear risk, global energy, and the financial plumbing of terrorism all at once.
Camp David is the right historical template for the reaction, but not for the punditry now pretending to be shocked. Sadat did not solve the Palestinian question or produce a grand regional settlement. He pulled Egypt out of a ruinous war cycle, recovered Sinai, and left the hardest files for later. For that concrete gain he was branded a traitor by people who had never borne his responsibility and who retroactively demanded a âperfectâ peace that had never been on the table. Todayâs critics in Washington and on Wall Street are replaying the same script, marking down a real strategic gain against imaginary maximalist alternatives they themselves could never have delivered, and ignoring that it was American military and economic leverage that made the deal possible.
Seen through a Hegelian lens, this is how history actually advances. The coercive âmaximum pressureâ era was the thesis; Iranâs nuclear acceleration and proxy expansion were the antithesis. The emerging settlement is a tentative synthesis whose core project is simple and radical: turn regimes that behaved as proxies for terrorism into functioning sovereign governments embedded in markets and institutions. That is the logic behind both a postâMaduro Venezuela and an Iran that earns its way through regulated energy exports, trade, and diplomacy rather than clandestine enrichment and militias, outcomes that only become negotiable when American strength has first reset the balance. Yes, the strategy of Peace Through Strength has delivered. A global peace dividend is emerging.
Voltaire warned that the perfect is the enemy of the good. The real irresponsibility now lies not in signing a deal, but in those who would casually sacrifice a hardâwon synthesis on the altar of their own rhetoric. Camp David removed Egypt from the war system. An Iran deal that locks out the bomb, vindicates peace through strength, and drains the business model of terrorism could reshape even more, if the commentariatâs performative purism is treated with the skepticism it deserves.
@Clevta The answer is very simple. Itâs summer time and there is not a lot of other NFL topics to fill the airtime right now. This situation is a gift to the mouthpieces. Lots of talk that will all be forgotten about in 4-6 weeks.
@Jason Noble idea Jason, but greed has no bounds. I sincerely feel that if this plan were to be implemented, they would still do the things. Never enough $$$$
Elon Musk is not stealing from you.
Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.
Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.
The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.
@Super70sSports@joedrape This is fantastic. Congratulations on all your success. Love your account. Me and my buddies are always texting each other your posts. Being a kid in the 70âs brings all the feels!
đš Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.
We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.
It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.
Alysa Liuâs father was persecuted by the CCP for the Tiananmen Square protests and fled to America
His daughter became a world-class figure skater and refused to skate for the CCP when they tried to recruit her
She just won the gold medal for Team USA đșđž
Wow winning in overtime and then entire womenâs hockey singing the national anthem all together plus the crowd it was so moving! #USA#NationalAnthem#Gold