Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.
“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.
There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.
At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.
And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”
New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023
The mainstream media is now confirming we are being robbed at grocery stores and Walmart
Product after product they take off the shelves and weigh is always short
They test Walmart shrimp, bring it to the studio and every bag is half a pound short
This has to be an intentionally large scale scam to defraud Americans at the grocery store
One or two items is a mistake. Every item they pull off the shelves being underweight at specific locations is fraud
And the amount products are underweight isn’t a small amount, it’s a huge amount
We are being robbed blind
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Nick Shirley FOLLOWED the California Speaker of the House and a Senator for pushing the Stop Nick Shirley Act, which CRIMINALIZES anti-fraud journalism
They were stumbling, panicked, REFUSING to acknowledge that levying up to $50K fines for journalism is TYRANNY
SHIRLEY: "Speaker Rivas...AB 2624? Is there a conflict of interest with Mia Bonta, and her husband being the ATTORNEY GENERAL?"
RIVAS: "I don't know." *Runs into car* 🤯
SHIRLEY: "These people won't even answer the questions."
This is not only giving Mexican congress corruption, but it is extremely anticonstitucional.
At the end of the day California is the way it is because of legislation like this and a population too self centered to be concerned with the implications of politics.
🚨 NICK SHIRLEY JUST CALLED IT OUT!
Gavin Newsom's California is moving to pass the 'STOP Nick Shirley Act' that would criminalize exposing FRAUD
"They're literally willing to impose a $10,000 FINE or imprisonment if you go and seek to find out the truth about a location that could potentially be fraudulent inside your own neighborhood!"
"They're trying to make it so citizen journalists or just average Americans who are going about seeing what's happening inside their community, they're trying to scare them from talking about potential fraud taking place inside of these communities."
Gavin is panicking. @nickshirleyy
A whale opened a $15M long position (145M FARTCOIN tokens across 4 wallets) on Hyperliquid to pump the price ~27% in thin liquidity, aiming to trigger momentum and profit.  
It backfired: rapid reversal caused $3M+ liquidation of their leveraged (5-10x) position and hit the HLP pool with bad debt. 
Linked to same team behind recent XPL flash crash.
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.