Sly Maximus

Economist , Think Tank, Christian, Loner, She-Monk, Extreme Introvert, Per Aspera, Ad Astra!

[RT @RT_com]

Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk reveals the brutal math behind why a single hour of his time is worth $100 million

"Tesla this year will do over $100 billion in revenue, so that's $2 billion a week. If I make slightly better decisions I can affect the outcome by a billion dollars. The marginal value of a better decision can easily be in the course of an hour $100 million"

"You have to look at it on a percentage basis. If you look at it in absolute terms, I would never get any sleep. I'd just keep working and work my brain hotter, trying to get as much as possible out of this meat computer"

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

@Claire_mesi Those energy drinks might one day put him on dialysis. He has no idea

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mark Cuban told his daughter that critical thinking, tool fluency, and curiosity guarantee a job. The same week, Cost Plus Drugs grew its headcount 42% over the last twelve months.

Cost Plus Drugs runs on a vertically integrated supply chain. 115 employees. A 22,000 square foot Dallas manufacturing facility. Over 1,000 generics shipped nationwide on a 15% markup with a $5 fee. The SwiftyRx platform handles intake, benefit checks, and order routing in software. Humans handle manufacturing, regulatory, payer negotiation, formulary selection, and the new Humana CenterWell partnership that gives Cost Plus access to a $13B pharmacy distribution channel.

The advice Cuban gave his daughter at Convergence AI Dallas was framed as career guidance. The same three words show up in his hiring spec for Cost Plus.

Cuban said AI doesn't know the consequences of its actions. That's a precise claim. Pharmacy benefit managers run on billions of dollars in opaque rebate structures and biosimilar formulary decisions that can move a manufacturer's quarterly pipeline. An agent can't decide which rebate carve-out lawsuit is worth the brand risk. A critical thinker with tool fluency can.

The other thing Cuban said on the same stage: over the next three years, two types of companies will exist. Those great at AI and those out of business.

He's running the great-at-AI version with 115 people and growing 42% a year.

Translate the framework into pharma operations. Critical thinking is "absorb the latest CMS rule and pick the next generic to launch." Tool fluency is "deploy agents to triage prior auth denials at scale." Curiosity is "read the Aon employer healthcare report and notice CenterWell was the only pharmacy that grew margin."

The advice he gave his daughter is the job description he gives every Cost Plus hire.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just WALKED OUT to an electric UFC 327 crowd in Miami — and Sec. MARCO RUBIO is with him tonight!

The man is in his element 🔥

LOVE that Marco is here, he's been crushing it lately 🇺🇸

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

.@marcorubio : “If you invite me into your home for dinner, and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray-painting your kitchen, you’re going to kick me out. We’re going to do the same thing if you come into the U.S as a visitor.”

[Simon Squibb @simonsquibb]

I don’t sell courses! I give it all for free because that’s the right thing.
👇🏻

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

On Gid DJT

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN:

🇺🇸🇫🇷 Trump mocks Macron again:

“I called up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly and he’s still recovering from the right to the jaw.”

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

From Day One, the mission was crystal clear: This was the final, best chance to wipe out Iran’s threat for good - so they can never have a nuclear weapon.

@SecRubio breaks it down ⬇️

[Congressman Byron Donalds @RepDonaldsPress]

WE'RE MAKING CRIME ILLEGAL AGAIN IN DC.

If you're 18-24 y/o, you're an adult.

If you commit crimes as an adult, you should treated as one.

THIS IS COMMON SENSE. But in DC, 18-24 y/o criminals can be sentenced as juveniles.

My bill, HR 4922 "DC CRIMES Act" ends this loophole.

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

@Adele_lide OmG like how

[⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ @EnergyAbsurdity]

This clip from Marco Rubio's speech to the Munich Security Conference is one of the most beautifully written and forcefully delivered speeches by a Senior American official since Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"

Rubio lays it out in a way that leaves no doubt in Europe's collective mind: America wants an alliance with countries who are proud of their native cultures and willing to defend them.

Here's the full text:

For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding. Its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires, extending out across the globe.

But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. Half of it lived behind an iron curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow. The great western empires had entered into terminal decline accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come.

Against that backdrop, then as now, many came to believe that the west’s age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choose they refused to make.

This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now. Together.

And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker. We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.

We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who together with us are willing and able to defend it. And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it.

For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.

We do not seek to separate but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history. What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that what has ailed our societies is not just a set of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.

An alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed into an action by fear. Fear of climate change, fear of war, fear technology. Instead, we want an alliance that boldly races into the future. And the only fear we have is the fear of the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier for our children.

An alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests and to preserve the freedom of action that allows us to shape our own destiny. Not one that exists to operate a global welfare state and atone for the purported sins of past generations.

An Alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained, subordinated to systems beyond its control. One that does not depend on others for the critical necessities of its national life. And one that does maintain the polite pretense that our way of life is just one among many and that asks for permission before it acts.

And above all, an alliance based on the recognition that we, the West, have inherited together, what we have inherited is something that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable. Because this, after all, is the very foundation of the trans-Atlantic bond.
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Magnificent.

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

@footsoldierRow This is big you haven’t seen rats at NY subway

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

@nojumper Pazhalustya

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

@Roselyn_Ngeci 2024, 16

[Sly Maximus @Slyrajon]

@roxie_ug @grok what’s the name of this show and where can I watch it

[Diamante 🇨🇩 @HTugende7198]

Look 🙈 The Minister of ICT In Rwanda🇷🇼,Paula Ingabire,explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) helps fight diseases like malaria and improve healthcare during a discussion with Bill Gates and Peter Sands at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 LOL!! President Trump just WALKED INTO DAVOS and IMMEDIATELY started dropping nukes on the WEF clowns!

“To address respected business leaders, friends, a few ENEMIES…”

Crowd laughs their asses off
“It’s a who’s who, I will say that!”

The globalist room is already sweating. Trump strolls in, calls half of them enemies to their faces, and they clap like trained seals.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is CALLING OUT the "stupid people" who support wind energy in Davos

"China is smart. They make windmills, sell 'em for a fortune, and sell 'em to the STUPID PEOPLE that buy them!" 🤣

"Windmills all over Europe, all over the place, and they are LOSERS. One thing I've learned: the more windmills a country has, the more money that country LOSES. CHINA makes almost all the windmills, and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China!"