why don’t we just make taiwan a state?

literally never bearish on america! if you’re short the usa you need to take a long look in the mirror!! you can make and do anything you want in this country. if you don’t believe that it is a personal skill issue that you should aim to rectify

“passive income, bro i need massive income”, the public bus tells me, advertising bets on unlikely outcomes of sports games

you can choose not to do stupid things that you think are stupid.

america still maintains global memetic dominance. if you see that slipping, run for the hills

the best defense innovation happens when you are at war

please don’t use big words to mask simple, unoriginal ideas

our country, america, is not actively engaged in full-scale, near-peer war like ukraine-russia. our ability to innovate on weapons is stymied by lack of demand to complete real combat objectives at scale. we are, however engaged in full-scale information warfare. and we are

do you think it makes more sense to trust internet articles written by strangers, with little to no context on their biases, incentives, and shortcomings on how to live your life? or to put your faith in a higher power, to listen to god and his plan for you

we love to claim as americans our “free market approach” will let us beat china in innovation, yet we are far more regulated. we artificially constrict supply of all valuable industries while they subsidize and pray we will stay ahead because of what… history? 20th century

as total information increases, the social costs to government censorship of information may decrease. no person is able to parse the firehose of data, who will notice (or care?) if a bit of information goes missing?

what are the drone products with the highest MAU, DAU? how many people do you think use mission planner each day? what are the defense products with the highest MAU?

the pull to 996 is not necessity but instead a freudian death drive. offering the rootless founder a respite from introspection, a home in the pain. death of self in favor of goals in short, constant work offers meaning to those who have none

the meaning of life is love, family, and locking in with your boys

modern man seeks to become sisyphus such that he may avoid dionysus. where have the farmers gone?

has anyone used tauri? thoughts?

nasa put a man on the moon with 1/6 the compute from a graphing calculator, but they had 400,000 people you give me the compute for GPT-5 and i'll put a man on the moon with 6 people