Socialism and communism sell a beautiful lie: that if we just hand enough power to the right planners, we can abolish scarcity, greed, and unfairness itself. History keeps answering with the same brutal receipt. The system does not fail because the wrong people ran it. It fails because it treats human beings as raw material for a blueprint. Once the state owns the factories, the farms, the prices, and the future, two things disappear almost immediately: the information that prices carry and the reason anyone has to work harder than the next person. You cannot calculate what a society actually needs when no one is allowed to bid, refuse, or walk away. You cannot keep people producing when the extra effort they give is treated as a crime against equality. What remains is envy dressed up as virtue. The gospel is not “let us create more.” It is “let us take from those who already created.” The result is not shared abundance. It is shared shortage, shared suspicion, and shared permission for the new priesthood—the planners, the party, the bureaucrats—to decide who eats and who waits. Look at the pattern, not the slogans. Collectivized farms that produced less food than the peasants they replaced. Industrial plans that built monuments while hospitals ran out of basic supplies. Borders that had to be guarded not to keep invaders out, but to keep citizens in. Every time the experiment is run at scale, the same sequence appears: first the confiscation of “the rich,” then the ration book, then the secret police, then the explanation that this time it was not real socialism. Markets are messy and unequal. They leave some people richer than others. They also leave most people better off than their grandparents, because they reward the person who figures out how to make something cheaper, faster, or better. Socialism promises to erase the first fact and quietly delivers the second in reverse: it equalizes downward. The inherent virtue, as the old line goes, is the equal distribution of misery. That is not a talking point. It is the empirical record of a century. People do not flee capitalist countries in homemade rafts. They do not invent new words for “empty shelves” under free exchange. They do not need a political religion whose god is the state when they are allowed to keep what they earn and trade with whom they choose. The next time someone tells you we just need to try it again, only smarter this time, remember what the experiment actually measures. It measures how quickly a society can turn the desire for fairness into permission for control—and how long it takes ordinary people to remember that control is never temporary.

Despite broad and vocal pushback from citizens who questioned the rushed science, unknown long-term risks, and one-size-fits-all approach to COVID vaccines, governments and health authorities forged ahead with coercive mandates that stripped away bodily autonomy and ignored natural immunity. Scott Adams, who got vaccinated himself but later admitted his error, captured the truth perfectly: the anti-vaxxers were right—they proved to be the smartest, happiest, and still-alive group—while those who pushed mandates on the innocent revealed themselves as the truly evil ones. This disastrous overreach shattered public faith in government health policies forever, awakening millions to the dangers of blind compliance and leaving society far more resistant to future top-down mandates that treat citizens like subjects rather than free individuals.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A thread on vaccines and mandates👇

ELON MUSK IS THE GREATEST ENTREPRENEUR OF OUR TIMES… NO DOUBT When the corporate world decided X needed to be starved into submission, Bob Iger didn’t just pull Disney’s ads. He joined a wave of blue-chip brands trying to make an example of Elon Musk. The message was clear: fall in line or we’ll cut the oxygen. Most CEOs would have issued a groveling statement, hired a crisis firm, and begged for the money back. Elon walked onto the DealBook stage, looked toward the audience, and said the quiet part out loud: “If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel. Don’t advertise.” That was the moment. Not a tweet. Not a ratio. A live, public, unfiltered rejection of the idea that advertisers get to set the terms of speech. He even said the boycott could kill the company—and that the world would know exactly who did it. No spin. No “we value our partners.” Just the raw calculation that some things are more expensive than lost revenue. That’s the difference. Most executives optimize for the next quarter and the next invitation to the right rooms. Elon has repeatedly chosen the harder path: electric cars when they were a joke, reusable rockets when they were science fiction, a social platform when every incentive said to keep it polite and captured. You can hate the style. You can argue he handed critics ammunition with the original post. What you can’t deny is the pattern: he would rather take the hit than let money dictate what can be said. That’s why the GFY moment landed so hard. It wasn’t just defiance. It was a CEO treating his platform like a principle instead of a hostage. Greatest entrepreneur of our times isn’t a popularity contest. It’s who keeps building when the people with the checkbooks try to shut the lights off.

Charles Barkley tears into radical Democrats — We cannot have open borders — We cannot have mass illegal immigration — We cannot have socialism & social welfare — We cannot have child gender transitions — We need to have Voter ID for voting — We must have ICE, Police and rule of law

You don’t get rich without taking risks Wealth gives you leverage to live life on your own terms

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You don’t hear space. That’s the part that unmakes you. You float out of the airlock and the sound of the world just… stops. No wind. No engines. No distant city. Only the mechanical hush of your own suit: the pumps, the fans, the rhythm of your breathing suddenly too loud, too human, too small. Earth is not “below” you. It fills everything. A living, glowing sphere so vast and close it feels like you could drag your gloved fingers through the clouds if the suit would let you. The blues are wrong. Too vivid. The storms look like bruises. The thin glowing line of atmosphere is all that stands between eight billion lives and the black. You are moving at 17,500 miles an hour and you feel none of it. You are falling around the planet in perfect silence, a tiny pressurized animal on a leash. The suit fights you. Every movement is work. Your hands ache inside stiff gloves. Sweat beads and has nowhere to go. The sun is a knife. Shadows are absolute. Turn your head and the universe is a wall of black so complete it feels like it has mass. For a few seconds the task disappears. The bolts, the cables, the checklist. You just look. And something in you quietly rearranges. You understand, in a way no photograph ever taught you, how thin we are. How temporary. How lucky. The station behind you is a collection of shining cans held together by human stubbornness. Home is a blue marble hanging in nothing. Then Mission Control speaks in your ear, calm as a librarian, and you turn back to the work. You keep going. Because that’s what we do out here. We float in the dark, fix what we can, and try not to forget the view.

It’s a shame that a first world developed country like United States still doesn’t mandate Voter ID Need ID to buy a beer Need ID to enter Costco Need ID to travel by air Need ID for a bank account Need ID for driving Need ID to buy cigarettes/tobacco Need ID to rent a car Need ID to check into a hotel Need ID to purchase a firearm Need ID to apply for a job Need ID to open a credit card or a loan Need ID to enter a casino or gamble Need ID to pick up prescriptions Need ID to get a marriage license Need ID to cross an international border Need ID to board a cruise ship or a flight … … But you don’t need an ID to vote

DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT HYPOCRITES In 2021 they told you a government card was the price of a normal life. No card, no restaurant, no concert, no job, no flight. The people who couldn’t produce one were not victims. They were the problem. In 2026 the same people say a government card for voting is racist. Not inconvenient. Not fixable with free IDs. Racist. You already need that card to buy beer, cash a check, pick up a prescription, or board a plane. None of that was called Jim Crow. Only the ballot was. The rule did not change because the card got harder to get. It changed because the activity being gated stopped helping them.

The tribalism is insane

FORMER FINANCE PROFESSOR at NYU Stern: "After 25 years teaching finance, I just realized at 58: If the money printer grows 8-10% annually and the S&P 500 returns ~9%, it's just treading water. True wealth comes from outpacing the printer. That's the Bitcoin journey." H/t: @fiatarchive

NO WONDER ELON MUSK IS PUSHING FOR SCALING ENERGY AND AI COMPUTE IN SPACE STARTING WITH NVIDIA ORBITAL VERA RUBINS NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 One orbital Vera Rubin NVL72 is a whole AI factory: 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs in one NVLink domain, about 3,600 PFLOPS of NVFP4 inference, ~20.7 TB of HBM4, and ~120–150 kW. No building. No grid. No water loop. That is the unit cell. Heat goes straight into vacuum through radiators. Power comes from solar that never sees night in sun-synchronous orbit. The same NVIDIA stack runs on the ground and on Starmind, so software does not fork when the rack leaves Earth. Scale is just launch cadence. At ~150 kW each, roughly 7,000 satellites are a gigawatt. Tens of thousands are multi-gigawatt. Starship flying dozens per flight turns that into a production problem, not a permitting problem. Land, substations, and cooling towers stop being the ceiling. Petawatt-year is the end state of that loop: continuous orbital power, rack after rack, year after year, outside Earth’s energy and real-estate limits. Vera Rubin is how SpaceX makes each satellite a coherent supercomputer instead of a box of chips, so the constellation can actually add up. NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 — space-optimized AI computer A rack-scale system that behaves like one giant GPU. SpaceX and NVIDIA redesigned it for orbit: radiation-hardened, vibration-tolerant, radiator-cooled, and built to run unattended. 🚩Configuration • 72 Rubin GPUs + 36 Vera CPUs in a single coherent NVLink domain • 18 compute trays plus NVLink switch trays • ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and BlueField-4 DPUs • Ground version: cable-free MGX trays. Orbital version: denser, lighter, simpler than a standard rack 🚩Compute • 3,600 PFLOPS NVFP4 inference • 2,520 PFLOPS NVFP4 training • 1,260 PFLOPS FP8/FP6 • 288 PFLOPS FP16/BF16 • 9,360 TFLOPS FP32 / 2,400 TFLOPS FP64 • Fits trillion-parameter and long-context agentic models inside one rack instead of a cluster • Cuts GPUs needed for giant MoE training by about 4x versus the prior NVL72 generation 🚩Memory • 20.7 TB HBM4 (288 GB per GPU) • ~1,580 TB/s GPU memory bandwidth (~22 TB/s per GPU) • Up to 54 TB LPDDR5X on the CPUs • Large models stay in one fast, unified memory pool 🚩Interconnect • NVLink 6: 260 TB/s all-to-all inside the rack • 3.6 TB/s per GPU • 65 TB/s NVLink-C2C between CPUs and GPUs • Scale-out over Spectrum-X Ethernet and InfiniBand • Non-blocking fabric — program the rack as one accelerator 🚩CPU • 3,168 custom Olympus cores (88 per Vera CPU) • Built for agent orchestration, RL, data prep, code, and simulation • Up to 1.8x faster than x86 on those workloads, so GPUs stay on the model 🚩Power, cooling, space • Terrestrial rack: fully liquid-cooled, roughly 180–230 kW • Orbital version rejects heat into vacuum through deployable radiators • Typical satellite compute envelope: ~120 kW average, ~150 kW peak • No facility water loops. No on-orbit servicing. 🚩What it can do • Train and serve frontier models off Earth’s grid, land, and cooling limits • Run Grok-class agentic workloads in low Earth orbit • Keep the same NVIDIA software stack from ground data centers to Starmind satellites • Scale from one optimized payload to a constellation of orbital AI nodes