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Ursa-Major
Replying to @RealDavidXRP
The reason Trump can't just come out and say "Stop paying the IRS" is because he would then be sued for interference in commerce. Despite all appearances to the contrary, the President can't just say whatever shit he wants... He has to be very careful how he tells us we're not obligated to pay, when it's our own signatures declaring, under penalty perjury, that "you owe." I wish more people could see that with no commissioner, the IRS cannot perform its legal mandate. You can do what you want but I'm not paying personal income tax anymore. By my reading of the code and laws, corporations are still obligated to pay taxes and they get corporate personhood and limited liability in the realm of commerce in exchange.
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People think I'm crazy for saying this, but I believe there is a pretty solid chance it will happen. Tesla is going to be a $25 trillion company that trades at a $1.60 trillion valuation today (15.6x from here). SpaceX is going to be a $1 quadrillion company that trades at a $2.05 trillion valuation today (488x from here). That's equates to $6,325 per $TSLA share and $73,632 per $SPCX share. I did my homework on what these companies are going to be worth. You can laugh at me today, but I'm pretty sure I'll be the one having the last laugh. And this is why I'm going to be a billionaire one day.
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Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me. Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets. Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method. Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid. Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann. Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once. Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk. And Elon is an anomaly. Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here. Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move. October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day. He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch. 2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent. September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit. December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract. December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses. That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right. Now the real question: why do we only have one? Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed. And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years. They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality. They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form. They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything. They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt. The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one. Just one. And you want to put him in prison. You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars. You're disgusting. History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.
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stop thinking you can change your life by building your own product... you literally have a ~0.03% chance of becoming a founder who makes $1M net income a year from his business within 5 years most of you will fail, and don't think you're the one who won't just because you never give up (lol) because 80% of a successful business is timing and luck, and the only founders you ever hear from are the ones it worked for stop looking at the geniuses on X making $350k MRR solo and assuming you can repeat it listen to me, the guy who provided marketing services for 35 AI/software products in 2026 and worked with 3 multi-billion dollar companies this world is already programmed and sponsored by the same people you can't be that ambitious founder from Silicon Valley anymore, the one who came up with a revolutionary idea, grew a billion dollar company from nothing and became a billionaire at 23... no, you could not... stop getting inspired by these hustler stories like Quittr or Cal AI or any of the others (where a group of students sold their startup for $50M+) oh, and i have one more insider take for you, from the fren who sometimes resells huge, profitable companies to big investors (and helps founders make a real exit) on average, the founder of a $50M+ valuation startup walks away with less than $3-5M, and here's why nobody posts this part: you raise twice, you're diluted to 15-25% before anyone says the word exit your investors hold a 1x liquidation preference, so they get paid out before you see a cent whatever's left vests over 4 years with a 1-year cliff and a chunk sits in an earnout tied to you staying and hitting numbers let's do the real math: $4M over 4 years is $83,333 a month, which honestly sounds incredible now multiply it by your 0.01% odds of ever getting there that's an expected value of $400 four hundred dollars. for six years of your life. you think you make money from the product's revenue instead? naaah man, stop living in a fantasy, for the first few years you reinvest 90% of revenue back into the product just to keep growth positive f*ck, the most famous unicorn of the decade, Uber, took 14 years to post its first annual profit and look how they did it: $1.1B income from operations, against a $1.6B gain from revaluing their stakes in Aurora, Didi, Joby and Grab they became profitable as investors, not as a company until you're 35+, with no background working at leading global companies, no VC background and none of the most influential people in this world in your network don't waste your time on these stupid attempts to build something HUGE... think about building the way you think about university it's your basic school for making your first good connections, getting experience and understanding how every process in a company works from A to Z but let's be fair, is there any chance to make decent money while you're still at school??? absolutely f*cking not... so as an alternative, i really recommend having something else as your main thing and keeping building as a side hustle for learning i picked these directions for myself: > creator, because an owned audience is the only asset with no CAC > growth operator, taking equity in other people's personal brands > distribution services, the core moat in 2026 > angel checks into early stage, written from the first three it's hyper simple: the first three pay cash, the fourth turns that cash into ownership, and i never need a single exit to work out and i keep building as a side hustle for the soul, where i'm just learning to be a professional service provider over the next 10-15 years that compounds into a real portfolio and it survives the coming crisis, because nothing in it depends on one outcome and after i go through this path, i'll be a C-level service provider, a professional advisor and a reputable angel investor with a lot of VCs in my network then i'll start building my own startup with trillion dollar potential learn this and stop making dumb moves...
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🚨#BREAKING: A family in Georgia is outraged after they paid to have their 4-year-old pug named Cha Cha euthanized... ...and then MONTHS LATER later saw a photo on Facebook of their dog ALIVE AND WELL with a vet from the animal hospital The story is wild. According to the family, Cha Cha the dog got very sick, the vets told them it was organ failure and diabetic ketoacidosis... so the family decided euthanisia was the best course of action. The family said goodbye in March, paid the bill, and went home grieving. But according to the family, someone at that hospital was very attached to Cha Cha, because a worker took her home instead. Months later, Rebecca (the owner of Cha Cha) was scrolling Facebook and saw a photo. Her words: “I knew scrolling like that’s my dog.” Even more wild...the vet's husband confirmed it, his wife not only had Cha Cha, but he says the pug was in GOOD HEALTH. The dog they were told was dying was actually ALIVE and DOING WELL. But it gets worse. When the family went to the hospital, managers DENIED IT, Rebecca says they got a LAWYER and won’t talk about it. Then, the family believes, the hospital put Cha Cha down to hide what happened. Rebecca’s words: “The fact that they put a healthy dog down. That’s just sick.” And this is NOT the first time. Earlier this year, another family said their cat Annie was supposed to be euthanized at the SAME hospital, and a worker took her home too. The hospital admitted it “fell short” that time. And Annie? She was put down too. So twice now, a dog or cat has been alive and cared for after the family said goodbye. ...this is beyond insane
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This is absolutely insane. Homeowners in Magnolia Cove, a neighborhood in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, are watching their HOA fees spiral completely out of control. Earlier this year, residents were paying $350 a month. In June, those fees jumped to $1,250. Now, just four months later, the HOA has voted to DOUBLE them again to $2,500 A MONTH. And believe it or not, it could have been even worse. The HOA had initially proposed raising the fees to an unbelievable $7,500 a month. That’s $90,000 a year! The final approved amount of $2,500 still means homeowners are expected to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees alone, compared to just $4,200 annually earlier this year. Some residents are now worried about liens, foreclosure, and bankruptcy because they simply cannot afford these increases. Imagine working your entire life to buy a home, only to have an HOA increase your fees by more than 600% in a matter of months and potentially force you out of your own house. How the hell is this even allowed to happen?
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Replying to @lukepierceops
the window is real. it closes the day the labs ship the implementation layer themselves, which is what Anthropic and OpenAI buying consulting shops actually signals.
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Son of a bitch this stings.
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🚨🇺🇸 HISTORIC BOOM: $22.2 TRILLION POURING INTO AMERICA — AND THE MEDIA IS COMPLETELY SILENT 🇺🇸🚨 President Trump just dropped the numbers they don’t want you to hear. $22.2 TRILLION in investment flooding into the United States in just 15 months of America First deals. Biden’s entire four years? Half a trillion. China? Not even close. ENVY. OF. THE. WORLD. 🔥 The only thing running short right now? Construction workers. Trump’s advice is simple: if you want a high-paying job that actually exists, learn how to BUILD something. The radical left media knows every one of these numbers. They’re just praying you never see them. WAKE UP. ⚡ The biggest investment wave in American history is happening right now — and they’re doing everything they can to hide it from you.
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American who lives and grew up in Los Angeles just took a 5 day trip Miami, Florida She says she can’t believe how clean it is there, how there are no homeless and how much less expensive it is “I didn't realize just how dirty and gross and expensive LA actually is just because I'm used to it. I live here, I live in it. I saw 2 unhoused people the entire time I was in Miami. The whole week I saw 2 unhoused people, and we went to a bunch of different parts in Miami. And the cost of living, it's like gas is half the price. Traffic? What traffic” She says the cleanliness of the city was amazing, it was nothing like Los Angeles After realizing other cities aren’t like this and you don’t have to live like this, she says she’s moving out of LA and to Florida “I am so ready to get out of LA. Like, I understand now why people are moving out of LA. Again, I'm from here, and LA is just… it's not the place to be. It isn't” Los Angeles is a literal dumpster. Unless you’ve been to LA recently you have no idea how bad it’s gotten. It would make you physically gasp to see the streets of LA in person, it’s that bad
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I was just assaulted in Minneapolis at the infamous ‘SHARIA LAW POST OFFICE’ located INSIDE a Mosque!!!! 😲😡 This black Muslim USPS Federal employee ‘Jean Paul’ didn’t allow me inside a Federal Building!!!
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It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
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Elon Musk is investing in culture. A billion into Skydance, Grok Imagine aiming to release its own Odyssey before the end of the year. I think a few years from now, this will be seen as one of the smartest moves he's ever made. To understand why, you need to reread Gramsci. Delicious irony: it was an Italian Marxist who best understood how power actually works. From his prison cell in the 1930s, he theorized that domination doesn't rest only on force or economics, but on consent. Whoever controls culture controls what people consider "normal," "fair," "obvious." That's cultural hegemony. Before you win political power, you have to win minds. And to win minds, you have to hold the schools, the media, the universities, the movies, the music. The left applied this lesson perfectly. Look at Hollywood today. A huge share of actors aren't artists anymore, they're relays. Puppets of a system promoting an ideological model that, everywhere it's applied, makes people poorer. Mark Ruffalo is the perfect example: every role, every interview, every awards show becomes a pamphlet. And millions of people absorb the message without even noticing, because it comes wrapped in entertainment. For decades, the right and the tech world believed the battle was about numbers, innovation, the economy. Wrong. The battle is about the stories we tell. Elon gets it. He's not just building rockets anymore, he's building the narrative. And the real revolution is that AI is breaking the monopoly on cultural production. Making a film used to require studios, hundreds of millions of dollars, a Hollywood network. Tomorrow, all it'll take is an idea and something to say. That's exactly what we're building at Argil: a product that lets anyone make films far more easily. We abstract away all the technical stuff so you can focus on what matters, the story. I made the video below with it. Watch it, it's pretty funny. try it here : argil.ai
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🚨 WOW! President Trump just announced anyone who successfully reports voter fraud in the 2026 midterms or ANY election will receive $1 MILLION DOLLARS upon the arrest and conviction Amazing idea 👏🏻 "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP" 🔥 This is in ADDITION to 47's new plan to give a commission to people who prove taxpayer welfare fraud, an announcement made with @nickshirleyy TRUMP JUST DEPUTIZED THE ENTIRE NATION. Fraudsters are livid tonight!
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My predictions over the following months: 1. Stock market will get hurt bad when the music stops on data centers, models, and chips. Too much froth, too high of investment, too many companies will fail. The switching costs are low. I don't know how these companies will become profitable. Its a mega bubble. The rest of the economy is already in a deep recession. Real pain will set in when the public markets dive. 2. Power is the bottleneck. AI is burning an absurd amount of power. The cost of electricity is skyrocketing which is making the cost of everyday life more expensive and hurting quality of life. I'm against data centers because of the power, not the water. The grid is extremely fragile and the weakness will be exposed in the coming months. 3. Subsidies are skewing the market. AI isn't cheap. The prices to use it are artificially low because of subsidies all the way up the chain. You pay $20 or $200 a month but the true costs are 10x That spread is venture capital money being incinerated at scale. When they raise the price, the users will disappear and investors will hold the bag. 3. A big security breach is coming. A bank, a certain model, something is going to rock our world. People are letting bots log in to their banks, their email and everything else. Big trouble coming. 4. Grokbot is exceptional. Its the first model that is adding significant value to my everyday life. I don't know why anybody would use a different personal assistant. 5. AI is insanely high maintenance Billions are being poured into training the next model. They day it comes out its already behind. China has cheaper electricity and more chips. The chips they bought will be obsolete in 18 months. Companies are stuck paying big money every month to maintain and update all of their AI tools. Its a mess. 6. The power companies will renege on their deals. Political pressure will unwind all the unsustainable power deals these data centers and LLMs have negotiated. Power costs will explode. Then comes the choice: Do we jack up costs for our AI / compute and watch everybody switch to the next model or do we incinerate more VC capital? Nobody wins. 7. Credit will be the first domino to fall. Data centers are already struggling to finance the GPUs over 10 years when they will be obsolete in 18 months. We'll end up with a shit load of half built data centers who can't negotiate power rates or buy chips because nobody will let them borrow money. The money will get cold feet as soon as the markets tank and the show will be over. 8. It'll be a dark, dark period in economic markets. The people who own assets that make real money (real estate or businesses) will win. The people who plan ahead and avoid massive leverage will win. The people with cash on their balance sheet will accumulate more assets and generate exceptional wealth. -- Don't listen to me. I'm just a bear. Not investment advice. Good luck!
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🚨 SOMEONE JUST BUILT CLEANYOURTV — A FREE TOOL THAT TURNS A MESSY ANDROID TV INTO AN APPLE TV STYLE HOME SCREEN Most Android and Google TVs ship with sponsored rows, tracking apps, and endless “Discover” nags. CleanYourTV strips all of that out over WiFi and drops a clean, minimal home screen in its place. No cable. No root. No opening the TV. A coding assistant connects on the local network, finds the junk the manufacturer preloaded, turns it off, and replaces the launcher. Nothing gets deleted. → Sponsored rows gone → Tracking apps switched off → “Discover” nags removed → Clean Apple TV–style home screen → One-line undo if you change your mind → Already works on 316 TV models from 89 brands (Sony, TCL, Xiaomi, Philips, Hisense, and more) Change your mind and one command puts the original screen back, ads and all. Who’s cleaning their living room TV with this next? 🔥
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🚨 BREAKING: SpaceX locked Anthropic into paying them $3.1 billion per MONTH for compute starting December $37B a year = $120.5 BILLION through 2029 Every month, ~80% of Anthropic's current revenue would be SpaceXSI compute bill BIGGER than its Google and Amazon long-term deals Anthropic warns short-term compute "carries a higher cost per unit" and will "compress our operating margin"
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Listen to the leaked Flock CEO audio we got from a private police conference: 404media.co/in-leaked-audio-…
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Activist arrested for placing signs on Flock cameras ----- I'm passing this press release along: For Immediate Release 10/26/2026 Indivisible Ogden Local community activist David Belnap was arrested on Sunday for placing signs identifying the locations of ALPR AI surveillance cameras, commonly known as 'Flock'. Information about surveillance technology, such as camera locations and use, should be freely available to the public. By placing signs, ones that do not obstruct the camera's use, Mr. Belnap provided information that should already be accessible to the public. Agencies across Weber County, including the Weber County Sheriff's Office, various municipalities, and private businesses, operate hundreds of AI surveillance ALPR cameras. These cameras are leased from companies including Flock, Motorola, Axon, and others. No official registry lists ALPR camera locations, and community advocates struggle to get information agency by agency. Significant gaps remain in Utah's ALPR policy as an ever-interconnected world creates more avenues for abuse and misuse. According to the Utah Civic Compact, the Weber County Sheriff’s ALPR data was searched five million times, with 96% of those searches coming from outside Utah, including 125,719 from federal agencies. Utah law offers some protections against agency misuse of this technology, but none limit how companies use the data analyzed from ALPR systems. Local community activists were notified that sheriff's deputies were harassing Mr. Belnap while placing non-obstructing markers identifying the location of AI surveillance cameras. Activists arrived at the location to find Mr. Belnap's car being towed, and Mr. Belnap arrested. The County has not yet made bail available to Mr. Belnap. We demand that the Sheriff's Department not arrest people who simply want to clearly mark when civil rights are being endangered by privatized surveillance. We are asking community members to speak out against injustice. Contact the Weber County Sheriff about the arrest of Mr. Belnap; your state representative to ask for clear policy governing ALPR companies and agencies; and your mayor or city councilor to ask them not to spend tax dollars on AI surveillance technology. On Monday, Oct. 26th, join us at 4 p.m. to stand in solidarity for our valued colleague. We will gather by the road leaving the jail, at the NW corner of 12th and Depot Drive (700 West 12th Street), to demand his release! Then join us on TUESDAY, Oct. 27th, at 6:00 p.m. for a Community Forum on FLOCK cameras at Pleasant Valley Library, 5568 S. Adams Ave., Washington Terrace, in the Black Box Theatre.
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A college student tries to lecture Will Witt that capitalism and billionaires are the root cause of young people’s pain. Then he asks her to explain what capitalism is, and it’s over. WITT: “How does capitalism cause the problems that you’re seeing for young people in this country?” WITT: “What does capitalism do?” STUDENT: “I feel like I already kind of explained that…” WITT: “So what is capitalism?” STUDENT: “What do you mean what is capitalism?” WITT: “What would you define capitalism as?” He keeps handing her chances. She keeps refusing to take them. WITT: “Just a definition, so we’re on the same page, because definitions are important. What would you describe capitalism as?” Cornered, she tries changing the subject to immigrants. STUDENT: “No, I’m saying that it’s not immigrants that are causing the problems for America.” Witt drags her right back. “So what is capitalism? Just tell me what capitalism is.” STUDENT: “Okay.” Then she walks away. She’s not the exception. She’s the rule. A poll of 2,000 young Americans found most couldn’t define socialism or capitalism. And the more they learned about socialism, the less they liked it. These people can tell you exactly what to hate. Just don’t ask them what it means. CONTEXT: Capitalism pulled 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990. Worldwide, the rate fell from 43% to 10%. Nothing else in human history comes close.
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Google says it’s okay to ask for a doctor by race is okay for any race other than a White doctor Asking for a black, Indian, Asian or even Muslim doctor is great. But asking for a White doctor is an “ethical concern,” it’s“bigotry” and is racist I tried it myself and Google makes it very clear you cannot ask for a White doctor because it stems from “racial bias and prejudice” But literally every other race is fine to ask for Anyone else so sick of this?
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