Russ Vanderpool

Enjoys teaching yoga, dabbles in clouds, a Christian, and is a brain aneurysm survivor. Dedicated his Boston M. medal to health care providers as a sign of hope

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@mattvanswol @RoKhanna so so so good of a post. thank you.

Seems people like Ro are just the takers of the world - taking other people's success and wasting it by giving $$$ to the takers.

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@saylordocs what bothers me more about this is that CNBC provides a platform where these talking heads can profit from pushing a narrative. Cramer is the MASTER of this....

Wonder how much CNBC profits from Cramer-like influencers.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@grok - what date did Chamath do the "Breaking News" interview encouraging people to invest in Tesla.

Then what date did Chamath do the interview where he stated that he sold Tesla?

Then, speculate on what changed between dates. Give some insight on what might have changed. And, speculate on the narrative @saylordocs is pushing by framing Chamath stance based on the timing.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

おっしゃる通り、日本とイランの間には、アメリカとイランのような数十年にわたる敵対関係はありません。また、原油の輸入国として、日本がイランとの関係を軽率に損なうことに経済的メリットがないという点も理解できます。

しかし、もう少し深く考えてみてください。
もし第二次世界大戦で日本軍が勝利していたら、アジアや太平洋地域の人々にとって、その世界はどのようなものだったでしょうか？歴史が示す通り、当時の日本軍は中国や東南アジアで極めて残虐な行為を行いました。そして何より、軍部は自国の国民を守ることよりも、戦争の継続を最優先にし、日本の都市が焼け野原になることさえ厭いませんでした。

あのとき日本を解放したのは、アメリカでした。そしてアメリカは戦後、勝者として日本を搾取するのではなく、日本国民が自らの代表を選べる民主主義の礎を作り、経済再建を支援しました。歴史上、敗戦国に対してここまでしたのは、ほぼ前例のないことです。

今、イランの状況を考えてみてください。イスラム共和国体制は、核兵器の獲得に向けて動き続け、もし手に入れれば使う意思を示す全ての行動を取ってきました。自国民が街頭で抗議すると、銃で鎮圧します。経済は世界を人質に取るかのような形で運営されてきました。

日本が核兵器の脅威にさらされた世界で本当に繁栄できるでしょうか？イスラム神政体制が中東のエネルギー市場を支配し続ける世界で、日本経済は安全でいられるでしょうか？

かつてアメリカが、軍の支配から日本国民を解放する一助となったように、イランの人々もまた、自分たちの利益など全く顧みない体制から解放される権利があるのではないでしょうか。

日本がその解放に直接加わることを求めるのではありません。ただ、自由で安定した世界を守ることが、日本自身の国益にもつながるという視点を、もう一度考えていただきたいのです。

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

Fellow Massachusetts resident here. Posts like Sen. Markey's reveal a breathtaking ignorance of actual safety data — the kind of willful blindness that gets people killed.

FSD doesn't just perform well in statistics. It saved my life. On the highway, it reacted to an aggressive driver I never saw coming — couldn't have seen coming — and avoided what could have been a fatal collision. No senator's press release would have saved me. The technology did.

Let's be honest: does anyone really think Ed Markey wrote that post himself? This has the fingerprints of staffers and lobbyist-fed talking points all over it — the same way autopen signatures directed federal policy for four years under Biden while the country pretended not to notice. Agendas don't require authors anymore.

And speaking of agendas — it's embarrassing. Every statewide office in Massachusetts. Every federal seat. City halls wall to wall. One party, unchecked, creeping further into the daily lives of residents who just want to drive their cars, run their businesses, and raise their families without a bureaucrat second-guessing every decision.

Our ancestors dumped tea in Boston Harbor over less. The overreach that sparked a revolution is alive and well — it just wears a suit and sends tweets now.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@M3mph1sB Forgot to mention the Norwegians pantomiming a viking boat rowing up an escalator here in the USA :-)

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@charliebcurran Love the Elizabeth Warren comment that she could be using Musk's $$$$ for fraud - instead of advancing human civilization.

I am embarred she represents Massachusetts - she creates nothing and plays on human emotion for her own power

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@theepicmap @Wikipedia @grok, comment on traditional education institutions as depicted in this Boston map in relation humanity ability to learn from AI (anthropic, grok(you), OpenAI, etc.)....

Is traditional tuition worth it today?

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@grok, what was the general opinion from the interview between Jack Ma and Elon Musk in terms of their ability to marshal resources and build successful business?

Give a description of their ability to combine their business savvy, leadership qualities, and intelligence to create new value for the world.

Regardless of the government system each operated in.

In addition, do a comparison in table format.

One column named: "Elon Musk". The second column named "Jack Ma"

in each row list:

leadership
innovation
intelligence
business intelligence
financial intelligence
creativity

use a scale between 1 to 10. Where to is highest and 1 is lowest

Add any other value I am missing in order to fully compare Jack Ma to Elon Musk.

Write as much as you can to accurately answer this ask. Do not shorten reply to appease people's attention span.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@AccessIPOs My sense is that SpaceX share allocation from the IPO, had in its formula, a calculation which included Tesla stock ownership loyalty

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@sporadica Please don’t try. And please don’t feel any anguish.

Predicting future stock prices is impossible

Just remember that as time goes forward, the price will go up and down

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@jvbonaiii @JohnTinsman Ok. I can only speculate that the awarding of shares as directed by SpaceX might have been tied to Tesla stock owners. But that is only speculation and I don’t know.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@grok what is Richard doing these days? Is he still working at Arianspace? Has Richard commented on SpaceX at all within the last five years and if so, what has he said

This clip was from 2013. 13 years ago so it’s hard to look at space X at that point and know what the future is be.

But still, it’s endemic that people hold back from trying the impossible and failing. Because in failure, you learn.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@stonky_top @PTrubey Smart. Especially when Schwab is not supportive of retail investors.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

Well, Schwab did listen to ISS in Glass Lewis to vote against musk pay package. Schwab clearly doesn’t support retail invest investors.

So it makes sense they might not have been allotted a lot of SpaceX shares and existing customers suffered.

I’m thankful I moved away from Schwab years ago because of their vote against musk.

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@jvbonaiii @JohnTinsman Have you ever owned Tesla shares in this account? If so, have you held them for a long time?

I’m just wondering if Tesla shareholders were awarded more versus non-Tesla shareholders

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@d_lo187 @JohnTinsman You should’ve moved from Schwab long ago after they showed their cards by voting against musk’s pay package

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@edgiesversion @JohnTinsman I moved my shares from Schwab long ago because they voted against musk’s pay package

Perhaps Schwab‘s strategy to demonize musk might’ve played into it

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@elon2therescue @altcap @Gwynne_Shotwell I will reply to you because it will resonate with you

Can you imagine the outcome if Kamala Harris won?

I think they would’ve tried to nationalize musk’s companies and we might not have seen a day like today

[Russ Vanderpool @russvanderpool]

@fhools @MilkRoadAI I know right!!! at least get your story straight

Right now, SpaceX is trading at 174.

Which is a cool $1.1 million