retired at 33; former engineer and attorney; FIRE blogger; professional dilettante

North Carolina
Joined September 2013
Growing your wealth may require a bit of struggle and sacrifice at times. It might even be a grind! You know what's even more of a grind? Being poor forever.
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USB-C as a standard is a big pro-consumer big win. I also like some California regs like including taxes and fees in online travel listings. Makes price discovery infinitely easier so the free market can operate better.
Have to give the EU regulators credit where it’s due for making all Apple products use USB-C
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Forecast for the next week. *Almost* time to turn on the heat. Holding strong though!!
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Rooftop Parisians
JUST IN: Paris resident dumps pots of scalding hot water from apartment window onto rioters attempting to loot stores in the streets below.
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This is messed up. I had to get my SpaceX shares fair and square just like everyone else through the IPO allocation. And he's just giving them away to kids?
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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Me watching the news tonight and researching potential next trip... 👀👀👀
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Educating my kids on southern American food and just said "Country ham is like a really thick slice of prosciutto". My apologies as I've probably offended 2 continents at the same time!
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2 more perfectly placed adjacent tweets cannot be imagined. I guess "nothing works at the IRS" is kinda how it was before! ha ha ha
Be honest, we know you guys miss us…😏🥰 “In about a year and a half, the federal workforce shrank by more than a tenth, while targeted grants and contracts declined as well. The government kept functioning much as before. One might call that a success.”
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RIP Southwest Companion Pass :(
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"If you have a child under 18, claim their account and see how much is in there now." Am I missing something? If your kid was born in 2015 or earlier (age ~11+) then the amount in the account is exactly $0, right?
Promise made. Promise kept. By tomorrow, 25 million American children will have our gift of $250 in their accounts. $6.25 billion. Invested in kids. Compounding for decades. If you have a child under 18, claim their account and see how much is in there now. $250 is only the beginning. 🇺🇸
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Buggy whip lobby has taken up the cause of artisanal mathematics
*Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done" WTF?!! Since when was math something that was only done at the request of professional mathematicians?!! Mathematicians don't own mathematics! This is crazy!!
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This new tool looks pretty cool. Hotelist.com It contextualizes a bunch of different hotel ratings from various platforms and normalizes them to give a better relative ranking.
Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7 Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7 Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7 I made a site called Hotelist.com (or HotelList.com whatever you prefer, I have both!) It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5) It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist! It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!) Hotelist.com Tell your friends please!!!!!! 🙏
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This is why America is great. Trump posts this on Elon's platform; a friendlier large social media does not exist. 20k replies, basically all of them making fun of the president (plus Elon's community note) 1st Amendment maximalists winning! (also we are far from dictatorship)
If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 Midterm Elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, $5,000! Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to signing those checks!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This repeats a promise Trump made in September 2026. The US has approximately 250 million adult citizens so the total cost would be over 1.25 trillion dollars. Congress must approve any such federal spending. nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/… pbs.org/newshour/polit…
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Every airline ticket decision: 60% which one is cheapest and 40% which one has the best connection/flight schedule.
Every airline is equally mid.
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So, France just lights their country on fire when they get unhappy about living conditions? What's going on?
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Just figured out where he's building his off-grid bunker...
Palantir, $PLTR, CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden, per FORTUNE
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Reinventing dirt roads as a status symbol, from first principles
The aristocrats on this website should be talking about gravel driveways more
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"Create an image of what the world would look like, if I were in charge, based on my tweets" (from @grok) Pretty accurate (except the bamboo part??)
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My favorite part was the very end of the Commission meeting when the Commission Secretary Sam Cho is all like "Who leaked the news of this lounge?! If it's Chase Sapphire they're gonna have to come here and appoligize!" Then staff lets him know the agenda was public last week
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