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Eric Westphal retweeted
Top earners make less than half of all income and pay over 83% of all income taxes. When the Left says the rich need to pay their “fair share,” ask them what number would finally be enough. They never have an answer.
Eric Westphal retweeted
So much of the climate hysteria is just aimless guilt roaming the earth in search of futile acts of atonement.
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Climate policies have consequences
EU pays 1.9x US prices and 3x China and India
UK has the costliest electricity in the world
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
ember-energy.org/data
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/en…
US industry price
eia.gov/electricity/annual
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
abs.gov.au/statistics/econom…
South Africa industry price
eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploa…
Taiwan industry tariff
taipower.com.tw
Egypt industry tariff
egyptera.org/en/TarrifAug202…
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
web.archive.org/web/20250614…
Azerbaijan industry tariff
regulator.gov.az/en/istehlak…
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: nepra.org.pk
Thailand: erc.or.th
Ghana: purc.com.gh
Paraguay: ande.gov.py
Kazakhstan: stat.gov.kz/en/industries/ec…
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
globalpetrolprices.com/elect…
web.archive.org
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
pucsl.gov.lk/end-user-tariff…
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
esdm.go.id/id/media-center/a…
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
statista.com/statistics/1369… (business prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1461… (household prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1173… (Latin America business)
statista.com/statistics/1123… (Latin America households)
statista.com/statistics/1373… (China business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico households)
statista.com/statistics/1617… (South Africa households)
Eric Westphal retweeted
Fun fact: nationalization’s require the government to pay fair market value for the company,
Also, SpaceX is projected to be worth over $5 Trillion dollars by 2029 according to some estimates.
For reference the entire federal budget is $7.4 trillion dollars.
So, good luck!
Eric Westphal retweeted
Just get the audio or print version by @WalterIsaacson.
Looking forward to the follow up.
What an interesting and compelling life.
Eric Westphal retweeted
Shirky’s law: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
teapawt.net/polymarket/status/2114…
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Who else thinks you shouldn’t be able to vote if you’re on any kind of welfare? Doesn’t that seem like a conflict of interest?
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We manifest what we believe.
We need more Star Trek, less Terminator. The world needs hopeful, optimistic Sci-Fi.
Eric Westphal retweeted
One of the most famous inventions in science fiction was created because a TV show couldn't afford to land its spaceship. 🖖
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, creator Gene Roddenberry faced a problem.
Every time Captain Kirk and his crew visited a new planet, the Enterprise would somehow have to land, and then take off again.
For a weekly television series with a limited budget, filming those sequences would have been expensive and time-consuming.
So the production came up with a much simpler solution.
Why land a spaceship when you can make the crew disappear from one place and reappear somewhere else?
The transporter was born.
With a glowing platform, some clever camera effects, and that unforgettable shimmering sound, the Enterprise crew could travel from ship to planet in seconds.
And just like that, a practical production shortcut became one of the most recognizable pieces of technology in television history.
The funny part? The transporter eventually inspired decades of conversations about whether human teleportation could ever be possible.
All because a television show needed a cheaper way to get its actors onto a planet.
Sometimes the best science fiction begins with a budget problem.
Eric Westphal retweeted
.@Starlink has had the SAME terms of use since the beginning. Not one of the elected officials currently speaking out against the Russia-Ukraine peace deal or Starlink EVER bothered to pursue peace. They only wanted more war… and they sent billions. Then those billions came right back into Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election and the Democrat National Committee. ODNI Gabbard declassified that information.
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It would be nice if X automatically provided better headlines for news articles so the public could see how much they deviate from the truth.
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It’s fascinating to see the AI doomers building stories about the current ‘bugpocalypse’ when the high profile bugs at the root of the drama (pun intended) are things humans created.
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Alex Epstein, brilliant, eloquent proponent of liberty, energy, capitalism. Extolls fossil fuels. Humanist, in contrast to the green religionists & climate catastrophists.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc00Hw…
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The only way out is through.
They're calling it the Bugpocalypse. LLMs are being used to find long-hidden cracks in the software infrastructure, and it's happening at a furious rate. 3% of all compromises in computing history happened in the last week, claims one source? I believe it.
There are people saying public access to the frontier models ought to be locked out, or heavily guardrailed, over this. The problem with that idea can be summed up in one sentence: when lockpicks are outlawed, only outlaws will have lockpicks.
The lockpicks will be Chinese open-weight models, if nothing else. There's no way to stop those from becoming ubiquitous.
There are two futures in front of us. One in which only the bad guys have lockpicks, and security holes go undiscovered until they're exploited. Another in which everybody has lockpicks and is aggressively red-teaming their own software so it gets fixed before the holes are exploited.
The corpus of human code is huge but finite. The number of defects in it has to be finite too. We can fix those defects now; we have a million friendly robots to do it with.
The only way out is through.
Eric Westphal retweeted
Dodge Introduces New Truck Headlights That Blast Gamma Ray Bursts Into Your Eyeballs buff.ly/axOTzQy
This perfectly sums up the progressive approach to government, straight from the horse's mouth. I've been looking for this analogy for so long, but never expected them to admit it themselves!
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GM
Details and full painting:
'Human Nature' 22x40 inches, oil on aluminum composite panel
There's a subtle detail in this one...not exactly an easter egg...that no one has mentioned yet. Maybe too subtle?
