Live abroad (for now). Yes I’m American. Reformed tech consultant. Ex-corporate drone. Markets. Gold. Housing. AI and crypto nonsense. Travel more, work less.

Joined January 2013
Caesars' Las Vegas net income fell 40% this summer, to $79 million from $132 million a year ago. The company pays $6 million a day in interest — more than all 8 of its Vegas resorts earn. In possibly related news, they're bringing back 24-hour free parking for Nevada residents.
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Inflation in housing, healthcare and education caused by large government spending helps explain why people are rioting all across the western world. Naturally, the rioters are demanding more government spending to fix the problem.
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Anthropic is essentially uninvestable at this point.
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Tobias Maximus retweeted
Remember a couple years ago when Elon bought twitter and told the advertisers to get lost while laying off most of the employees and people who still post on here every day said that those moves would destroy the platform?
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Average conversation men have when there are no women around to interrupt
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Tobias Maximus retweeted
openai's internal model still has not produced a single result in gender studies
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Instead of bringing in millions of illegal immigrants to burn down the country, has France ever tried just doing something productive instead? Maybe create new businesses, encourage manufacturing, develop new technology, invent something, develop new energy sources etc?
JUST IN: 🇫🇷 France to vote on granting amnesty to up to 400,000 illegal immigrants.
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Not that all illegal immigrants want to burn down the country. I’m sure lots of native French people do too. But why compound the problem. Mass illegal immigration puts a huge strain on government budgets, hospitals, schools etc. Prioritize your native population. Less riots.
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This is one reason the casinos were actually more responsible for all things degenerate sports betting, you needed physical cash to place a bet up at the sportsbook counter. Plus you had to get in your car and drive there. Helped contain societal damage.
BREAKING: 23% of sports bettors use credit card cash advances to fund their bets
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Another California success story.
I've uncovered why LADWP water rates are skyrocketing. LADWP's supplier said water conservation was too successful, leading water use/revenue to collapse— justifying a 40% rate hike. They asked us to save water, so we did. But we saved too much, so they're spiking our rates.
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Schools have been brainwashing kids in the West for decades to hate their own countries, cultures, history etc. Then they ship millions of illegal immigrants in who don’t care about the West either. Not sure why anybody would be surprised by any of this.
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There goes that housing market talking point popular with “it’s only the sunbelt” crowd.
Inventory is accelerating most in the northeast now.
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That’s like saying you want to drive up the price of food or energy and expecting people to clap.
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“Eventually if you add up $80 billion enough times it equals $2 trillion, so the company is worth $2 trillion” - Claude (probably)
Anthropic explaining why their IPO is worth $2T while running up $80b in debt
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Tobias Maximus retweeted
10x engineer pt.4 - AI psychosis
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What did the cars do wrong?
Cars burned as riots erupted in Bilbao, Spain.
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Be mentally prepared and financially secure enough to not make any money on your house for several years.
Any tips for a first-time home buyer in today's market? 🏡
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Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy one. Just assume you went be able to pull cash out, refi etc. even if rates drop. And don’t lose your job.
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