This isn’t even true. People will invest in well-run economies that happen to be autocratic. What money hates is incompetence.

Markets are complex, but there’s never been a moment where the lay person could more easily understand what’s happening. We signaled to the world, including our own businesses, that America is no longer a safe place to do business, and the world is acting on that information.

If Trump knew how to play 10D chess he’d backchannel with Congress to take away his “emergency” tariff powers and say “I tried but the swamp” because the markets would *love* a vertebrate Congress and there’s no other way out of this where he doesn’t look like more of a chump.

It must be weird to be so rich you forgot you spent $44B on a propaganda campaign to make yourself popular that backfired.

~90% of America’s growth has been “sprawl” for at least 75 years because American cities hate growth. There’s not a contest of ideas here, density conceded three generations ago. Suburbs are America’s future. The more interesting question is what is the future of the suburbs.

This looks like a throwback to the days of practical trucks you’d use for real manly activities instead of commuting to your office job, so I fear it will sell terribly in America.

Urbanist line dependency is really sad. These people need a Dunkin drive through on every corner.

My wife has been reading American tourists are getting harassed overseas and is worried about our European trip this Summer. Thinking of making these for the family.

I guess we don’t want those jobs in America.

The hardest thing getting kids excited about coding is that it takes so long to get to something they think is cool, so the fact you can make a basic iPhone app before you have to figure out what a Swift is seems exciting.

They are not so much playing 10D chess as they are throwing chess pieces at other nations the way chimpanzees throw their feces at rivals to assert dominance.

It’s weird to call someone in middle management CEO. If you want someone to be a CEO, create a subsidiary non-profit that creates a subsidiary for-profit, then raise $5-10B into it and make them the CEO of that.

Because when you send two thirds of 18-year-olds to college, most of them have zero interest in learning. But they need the piece of paper to get a desk job, so they are there.

The future is already here, some of us just haven’t created a free account yet.

This is why xAI is not a serious company and the people who invested in it should never be given another LP dollar. No business is ever going to build software on a model that exists to please a drug-addled weirdo first and to make money second.

The average car sits parked 95%+ of the time, so it’s more like there are 6000 of these out there.

The lowest US tariff rate is 10%. On China it is 30-145% depending on the day. Walmart’s profit margin is 2.4%. The shart of the deal.

If they were serious about countering CCP influence, they’d ban TikTok like Congress mandated. But nope, they used Asian students to overturn racially conscious admissions at the Supreme Court and eventually they’ll invoke the spectre of “the CCP” to turn on more Asian

Happy pride month to all the individuals and corporations celebrating. I look forward to hearing about your meaningful relationships and/or successful advertising campaigns, respectfully.