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OIF/OEF vet. Dallas service-business owner. I post markets, rates and what they cost Main Street.
30-yr mortgage: 7.40%. Last year: 6.30%.
Diesel: $6.20. Last year: $3.71.
Wall Street calls it "sticky inflation." Main Street calls it Tuesday.
Once @bot and brain interfaces like @neuralink mature, I think downloading knowledge straight to the mind makes traditional learning mostly obsolete. Bots have already enhanced our lives a 100 fold. What's to stop a future like @AltCarb from becoming reality?
That day is coming at some point. At least I believe so.
"Enhanced" people will generate a new class, and if you think it gets rolled out to the general public first, you're fooling yourself.
Almost like the mid 90s movie Gattaca,only instead of genetics, who has the enhancements allowing them to pull any knowledge they want at any time, just by thinking it. Employers want them first, and @DollarGeneral only needs them in their C-Suite team.
If you can't see it, look at what the people building this are working on. @elonmusk is a prime example.
And then comes the enhancements in warfare, EMP and sonic weapons become much more significant as they can knock out an entire battalion or more with relatively little effort or money. Escalation creates the need for defenses against that.
Not an alarm, this is a potential reality that we are moving fast towards.
Accepting reality and the societal tides pushing us there isn't fear, it's prudent and smart.
Group think that this could never happen is fear in numbers.
Just sent crypto to @Lina_CryptoA by telling my AI assistant to do it. No menus, no steps to hunt for. I said what I wanted and it handled it. Most people have no idea it's this easy now.
I'll upload pictures of my purchase once it arrives.
I think they call this free fall.
Collapse was yesterday
🚨 Something is happening in China and it’s a fucking DISASTER…
China's AI stocks were 42% of their entire stock market.
42% of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.
Those stocks are down 40% since June. $3.5 trillion GONE. Reuters used the word "burst" this week.
Even after dropping 40%, the STAR50 still trades at 100x earnings. It was at 250x. The Nasdaq 100 is at 30x.
The crash didn't make China cheap, it simply made it less insane.
Morgan Stanley says another 10 to 15% to go.
Unitree's IPO was 8,000x oversubscribed in August. Halved since. MetaX and Moore Threads were up 700% and 400% on their debuts. Both halved since July. CXMT lost a quarter of its value in a month.
Washington is also moving to ban two of China's biggest optical suppliers from US data centers. Those two are down 60%.
Chinese blue chips are in a bear market and the market is now trailing the US by the widest margin ever recorded.
The Nasdaq is down 6% from its high.
China already found out what happens when nearly half your market is one trade.
But guess what? We haven’t.
I've been an investor for more than 10 years, and I share all my moves in The Assembly, my private investing community with 3,700+ members.
If you're serious about investing, join today so you don't miss my next move. The link is in my bio.
If you don't join, you will regret it later…
Well that sends of some red flags.
Anthropic might as well use smoke signals at this point, they've used everything else.
BREAKING: Anthropic warns in its IPO filing that a catastrophic AI-related incident could cause harm on a scale that no single insurer, and “potentially the insurance industry in the aggregate,” could cover.
The filing says Anthropic’s insurance may not be enough to cover the liabilities it faces, especially if one incident or a group of incidents causes disproportionate harm.
One bad dude.
June 6, 1944. An American paratrooper jumps into Normandy in the dark and lands on the roof of a church.
By the end of the war he had been declared dead, held a funeral he didn't attend, escaped the Nazis, and fought his way toward Berlin in a Soviet tank unit.
His name was Joseph Beyrle. He's believed to be the only American soldier to serve in both the US Army and the Red Army during World War Two.
Beyrle was from Muskegon, Michigan. He joined the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles. His buddies called him Jumpin' Joe.
On D-Day night his plane was hit by flak and he jumped early. He came down on a church roof, slid off, and lost his unit in the chaos. For a few days he fought on his own, blowing up a power station and cutting German communications.
Then he was captured.
Here's where it gets strange. A German soldier ended up wearing Beyrle's uniform and dog tags. That German was killed. When the body was found, the Americans identified it as Joseph Beyrle.
The army told his parents their son was dead. His hometown held a funeral mass for him. His obituary ran in the local paper.
Meanwhile, he was very much alive, being moved from one German prison camp to another.
He escaped more than once. One time he and two other prisoners jumped off a train heading east. They thought they were heading for Russia and freedom. They got lost and ended up in Berlin, where they were caught by the Gestapo, beaten, and tortured.
In January 1945, from a camp in eastern Germany, he finally made a clean escape. He went east, toward the gunfire. Toward the Soviets.
When he found a Soviet tank unit, he walked out with his hands up, holding a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes, and shouted the only Russian he knew. American comrade.
It worked.
He asked to join them. And they said yes.
For about a month, an American paratrooper rode with Soviet tank crews as they pushed toward Germany. He used his demolition training. He fought. He was reportedly welcomed by a Soviet officer who was one of the rare women commanding a tank battalion.
Then a German dive bomber attacked. Beyrle was badly wounded.
He was evacuated to a Soviet hospital. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov reportedly visited, heard his story, and gave him papers to get to the American embassy in Moscow.
When he showed up, the embassy didn't believe him. As far as the US was concerned, Joseph Beyrle was dead. They held him under guard until his fingerprints proved who he was.
He made it home to Michigan in April 1945.
In 1946 he got married. In the same church where they'd held his funeral.
Decades later, in 1994, he was honored at the White House by President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin for serving both countries.
And the last twist. His son, Joseph Beyrle II, grew up to become the United States Ambassador to Russia.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Joseph Robert “Joe” Beyrle had two sons. The elder son, Joe Beyrle II, served during the Vietnam War, but wasn’t a US Ambassador. That was the other son, John Beyrle.
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Mister Dividend retweeted
Saying there’s no reason to buy Bitcoin because anyone can create a cryptocurrency is like saying there’s no reason to learn English because anyone can invent a language.
I'm curious how you come to this conclusion. Elaborate clearly.
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.
I love how Houston is shaped like a rocket. 👀
Updated @Tesla Robotaxi geofence sizes (in square miles):
• Austin: 272
• Houston: 254 (916% increase today)
• Dallas: 81
• Miami: 31
• Orlando: 26
• Tampa: 24
All these areas are fully autonomous/unsupervised robotaxis only.
Anything that government touches seems to become radioactive, why should lab grown gold be any different?
There is something almost ethereal about firewood processing as the extra component to woodworking.
People say pay for it, let someone else do the work, but cutting down a large white oak tree, limbing it, bucking it into rounds and loading trailers with it is rewarding, smells amazing, and reminds you that nature provides the best materials for making beautiful art.
More to follow, but I have a white oak live edge table I am building for myself. I've decided to get back to woodworking and build high quality furniture, and use the excess as firewood.
I may or may not make custom items for people. I made a bedframe with inlaid lighting that came on automatically when your feet hit the ground for just enough lighting to illuminate in the middle of the night. It was beautiful, stained in Early American to bring out the grain structure, and protected by a spar urethane to give it that long lasting protection.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Nature still provides the most beautiful structures and materials.
