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pro Freedom, pro Space, pro Genealogy.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke

Big thanks to magician @elonmusk

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@GOP_is_Gutless Not enough. If they have sonsored a chain migration deport them.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@OfficialCSAF @anduriltech YFQ-44A - IPO when?

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@Jackerofmeat @OfficialCSAF Yes, cheap munitions is good.
This YF44 uses same munitions and three major advantages:
a) unmanned
b) cheap compared to F35/F22/F47
c) force multiplier

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@MickeyDangerez Even tho I'm an Amazon shareholder, I recommend you first check out your local thrift stores.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@WR4NYGov @HealthRanger Kentucky, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin; are the four states where the governor cannot appoint an interim federal senator when a vacancy arises. (File under useless info for $0.10, Alex) 🤣

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@ChuckCook @SpaceX Sub-orbital means less than one orbit. Anything deployed from a sub-orbital vehicle will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere unless the deployed payload can quickly raise their orbit. Starlink satellites have onboard propulsion, but their low thrust (~70 mN) is likely insufficient.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@Olivia_LaGrange In the 1980s, after witnessing the decolonization of the Congo, Rhodesias, and reading the writing on the wall for South Africa; I voted with my feet and left. It was the best decision I ever made.

How do you see your life unfolding, Olivia? And of your children/grandchildren?

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@RandyWKirk1 We are still eating FUD from the change of targets from 20m annual vehicles per year by 2030 to a more modest 20m cumulative vehicles. Delivering on S-curves is more important than creating more S-curves.

YMMV

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

There is another part to America. The capitalism bandwagon. Step aboard!
1) setup a bank account
2) setup a brokerate account (@RobinhoodApp is a great choice)
3) Fund the brokerage, start small and regular.
4) Buy shares in the products you love, like Wendy's or ticket symbol $WEN - you can start with just $1!
5) Your investments will pay you for the rest of your life and that of your progeny.

Welcome to America.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@HungD0ArtShow @CensoredLeak This is what can happen when you put aircraft momentum into a crowd. That is why this should be avoided at airshows. Air show tragedy in Germany kills scores https://t.co/utW5hroYwQ via @YouTube

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@surfranchvibes Happy for you. I know the feeling. Not to be admited in public. One day someone will hit you, be their fault, and your post may be used against you by the slip and fall brigade.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Such a beautiful tribute. Congratulations❣️🎉🎈👏

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@JDunlap1974 This is old footage, back when Swallwell was in congress.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@BillsR_Electric @RandyWKirk1 The old "I just followed the law" trope. Damn inflation. Damn the lack is fiduciary diligence for the FICA payer. So never mind the pending trust insolvency in 2032. Sounds like SSA is working as designed. The clock is ticking, I'll revisit the wonders of SSA in 2032.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

LOL — it sounds like you’re agreeing that restricting 30+ years of SSA surpluses to Treasuries was a dumb idea. I blame the SSA; you blame Congress. Either way, that’s the raid: 37 years of raiding the surpluses. Now the surpluses are gone, so Congress to the rescue!

I wish I were Amish and SSA-free.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

You say: “The SS fund is set up to have tax FICA dollars in, minus money out, and not have a surplus.” Yet from 1983 to 2020, the program ran consistent surpluses—peaking at $190 billion in 2007 alone.

You also claim that your entire 2006 FICA contribution was paid out to beneficiaries. In reality, total 2006 income to the SSA was about $745 billion, while total benefit payments were about $555 billion. That means roughly 74% of your FICA contribution that year went to then beneficiaries, while the remaining 26% was added to the surplus and invested in Treasury securities.

You say, “Now we have too many folks NOT working vs retired.” It’s odd to present this as a surprise. The SSA’s Office of the Chief Actuary is explicitly responsible for developing long-range demographic and economic assumptions for projections. Yet leaders like Karen P. Glenn (or her predecessor of 25 years, Stephen Goss) appear to have failed to adequately plan for the Baby Boomers entering retirement.

The deeper failure was not anticipating that the Boomer-generated surpluses would eventually end—and choosing to invest those surpluses solely in Treasuries rather than, at least in part, in a simple, low-cost broad market fund such as Vanguard’s VTSAX (Total Stock Market Index Fund).

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@TPostMillennial Some are more equal than others.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

I have a little portfolio at @RobinhoodApp, and hold both $TSLA and $SPCX. ALL my SpaceX shares are out on loan, and zero shares of Tesla out on loan. SpaceX shorts must be hungry.

[pro Freedom 🇬🇷🇨🇩🇿🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 @usamat]

@BillsR_Electric @RandyWKirk1 So it’s a tax, with changeable payouts as determined by Congress. And there is no apparent fiduciary duty to OASDI contributors to seek maximal returns on surpluses. If it walks like a raid and quacks like a raid… Now the surpluses are almost gone. What a waste.