Warren Platts

Japan-born US Navy vet ⚓️Gulf War QMOW | Son of Confederacy🇺🇸 | Econ Nationalist Populist | anti-CCP | Amateur Lunar Geologist🌛| DMs open

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

This is the guy who made that map. He's been rotting a CCP gulag for the last four years (assuming he's still alive) for making that map.

Jacob Pius is a staunch Roman Catholic..

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

"1 China bro..."

More like 50 "chinas"..

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@fedelecrus3 @Magnum_442 In Spain, they are called "tortillas."🤷

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@Magnum_442 I made one the other day except it was with potatoes & tomato slices. Quite good. Got it off that Jacques Pepin show.

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

(4/4) To put this in perspective, the SSTF brought in about $655 billion from 2017-2025. Not bad, right? Well, until you contrast the counterfactual where the SSTF was fully invested in the S&P 500 whose annual rate of return over the same period was 12.5%; in that case, the SSTF would have raked in $3.2 -- actually it would be much more because the principle of the SSTF would also have greatly increased.
https://t.co/Uv2SudnoZC

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

(1/4) The problem that's causing social security to go broke is not that there are too few workers supporting too many boomers who are receiving excessively high SS payments. It's that the other side of the government uses the Social Security Trust Fund as a slush fund. That is, the SSTF is forced to invest in low-interest government T-bills.

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(3/4) Thus I can see why it's running on fumes. But apparently it's a law that they're only allowed to invest in U.S. government securities. The problem is since at least 1990, the interest rates on social security securities have steadily declined. The last time the interest rate was above 3% was 2016. Since then (2017-2025) the average rate of return was 2.6%; keep in mind these are nominal rates; in real terms, the rate of return is zero, optimistically.
https://t.co/3BwI2He3cq

[Charles R. Smith🔹 @softwarnet]

QUAD A-10 REPORT:

QUAD units engaged and brought down @En_chinaNews a pro-China X account with 50 thousand followers that specialized in English-language propaganda, AI fake video news stories and notably fake/misattributed quotes from Chinese officials. It has now been suspended by X for violating the platform's rules.

WELL DONE TEAM!

ACES UP!

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

Late night ballot drop for L.A. Mayor election consisting of 25,000 votes, and zero votes for Spencer Pratt. Hmm...🧐
https://t.co/3R0h2a0yiG

[Jack Jolis @JackJolis]

@C_3C_3 This⬆️ is intolerable

The us Const. allows states to manage elections,

... but Californians are American citizens, & normal, legal Californian voters are having their votes

diluted/discounted/negated

by this blatant unconstitutional behavior by CA elections "officials.

RICO!

[Mike McCulloch @memcculloch]

I'll get all Asimovian now but the death of a civilisation has a massive inertia and it's very hard to stop. You need a lot of people working to stop it, or a carefully judged shove at a pivot point, as @elonmusk did with X.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

SpaceX benefits if a competitor develops AGI—or at least AI so close enough to it that it’s incredibly useful. SpaceX is building more compute capacity than Earth alone can handle, & as long as someone pays for it, SpaceX will do incredibly well.

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

@wanghui90 @yeshuaformosa @Sohnie @GeorgeDienhart Do you think they're actually fishing within the 200 nm EEZ?

[Sohnie Hill @Sohnie]

@wanghui90 @yeshuaformosa @GeorgeDienhart @WarrenPlatts

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@CEOofFuggy @Robotbeat "resource extraction from other planets at scale"

There are a lot of resources on the Moon.

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@richardhutton @Robotbeat They're losing money at present...

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@mitch_7w @Robotbeat Grok said it's usually better to wait a couple of days after an IPO before investing.

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@JackJolis @Francis76243108 @GordonGChang We already closed down the Houston Chicom consulate. Time to finish the job..

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

It is a Cold War II proxy war, for sure...

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

We call it “the Iran war,” but the enemy is really China. We should call it “the China war.”

[Jack Jolis @JackJolis]

@WarrenPlatts @Francis76243108 @GordonGChang Step #1 is to close down all 4 ChiCom consulates (NY, Chi, LA, San Fran) --

and when they reciprocate and close down our 5 consulates over there --

-- SO MUCH THE BETTER.

[Warren Platts @WarrenPlatts]

@learning_yohei @spicymamajapan There have been studies in the U.S. where they compared the performance of jelly displays that had 35 different flavors versus displays that only had 6 flavors. The displays with only 6 flavors consistently outsold the 35 flavor displays on average...

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@Francis76243108 @JackJolis @GordonGChang There's a third one we know about, but we don't yet know exactly where it is...