Daniel Bogda @dabogda

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

Great post by @smalzner, the founder of Franz He launched 10 years ago, went superviral, got lots of offers to get VC funded, didn't see the point Instead he asked for donations from users and with that money was able to hire a team of 5 people But a team slowed him down and made him very money focused (because he had high labor costs) and less fast in shipping (because of the design by committee problem) So he fired everyone and went back to a team of one Just him (and probably AI) shipping very very fast!

Radical responsibility doesn't mean everything is your fault, it means everything is your move.

best possible lee kuan yew quote: “the american culture is we start from scratch, and we beat you”

Yesterday I testified in front of Congress and only TWO Democrat congressmen showed up to the hearing Not ONE question was directed towards me from the democrats about the fraud. Weird… I wonder why lol If Congressmen don’t show up to their hearings they aren’t representing their constituents, wtf are we paying them for?

i took a 45-minute uber ride home from the airport last night after a brutal, three-day business trip. i was completely emotionally and physically drained, and my social battery was at absolute zero. when i got into the car, the driver.. an older guy named kabir.. didn't say the usual "how was your flight?" or turn on the radio. instead, he just handed me a small, laminated piece of paper attached to the back of his headrest. it was a literal "ride menu." it said: 1. *the silent ride* (total quiet, no pressure to talk). 2. *the therapist ride* (if you need to vent about your day, i am listening). 3. *the tourist ride* (i will tell you cool facts about the city). 4. *the radio ride* (we just listen to old jazz and coast). i smiled, pointed to number 1, and whispered, "silent ride, please. thank you." he gave me a warm nod in the rearview mirror, adjusted the AC, and drove the entire 45 minutes in absolute, beautiful silence. it was the most peaceful, therapeutic boundary i’ve experienced all year. i felt my entire nervous system finally reset. when he dropped me off, i gave him a massive tip and told him, "that menu is a genius business idea. you must get amazing reviews." He looked back at me and said, "i didn't make the menu to get better tips, dear. my daughter has severe social anxiety, and she told me that the hardest part of her day is navigating small talk with strangers when her brain is tired. she told me it feels like running a marathon. i made the card so that anyone who gets into my car can feel completely safe dropping the mask for a little while." i walked into my apartment and just sat on my suitcase. we live in a world that is constantly screaming at us to perform, to network, to be "on," and to over-communicate. but sometimes, the deepest form of love and respect you can show another human being is just creating a small, safe pocket of silence for them to rest in. pay attention to the people who give you permission to be quiet. they are rare.

Marc Andreessen: We need to drastically increase the number of founders: "It's shocking to me how few people actually give entrepreneurship a shot. The fate of the world over the next 1,500 years is riding on the people who actually want to give it a shot." — @pmarca

My Redpill moment - When Lois Lerner was caught weaponizing the IRS against conservatives while the Republicans let her get away with it. Losing emails, hard drives, and refusing to say anything while the Republicans let her get away with it. Reminder she didn't just 'lose' the hard drives ...she lost the backups, then the backups of the backups but apparently didn't lose anything else that would have interrupted filing taxes. That was when I realized the Republicans hated us too. That was my first suspicion that the deep state was more powerful than the voters. I bet those hard drives still exist and are perfectly fine. Yet we still hear nothing about them - has anyone even looked? Here's the uncomfortable truth there are probably REPUBLICANS in congress still to this day that would be embarrassed by their release. @Kash_Patel any comment?

BREAKING: Sheriff Dar Leaf has made a criminal referral pertaining to Non-Citizens on our voter rolls. Turns out, our voter rolls are used to determine jury pools. So...not only are our elections compromised by illegal voters on our voter rolls, so is the criminal justice system. Which means, many of the trials which have been conducted in Michigan may have significant grounds for mistrial if it is determined that an illegal immigrant served on a jury. Pandora's box has been opened. Defense attorney's seeking to overturn convictions for their clients will be flooding the judicial system with motions. This is what happens when MI SoS Jocelyn "we will come for you" Benson engages in willful neglect of duty regarding the integrity of our voter rolls. @HarmeetKDhillon @EdMartinDOJ @AttyStefLambert @SidneyPowell1 @RealLindellTV @EmeraldRobinson @VanessaBNews @realMikeLindell @MrJustinBarclay

Sheriff Dar Leaf @SheriffLeaf

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The fallout here is likely to get ugly. And by that, I mean really, really bad. Now imagine this nationwide b/c sanctuary cities and sanctuary states use voter rolls as one of the key sources for selecting people for jury duty. Stop and think about the consequences that are now a lock to unfold from sea to shining sea. "...not only are our elections compromised by illegal voters on our voter rolls, so is the criminal justice system. Which means, many of the trials which have been conducted in Michigan may have significant grounds for mistrial if it is determined that an illegal immigrant served on a jury. Pandora's box has been opened."

Patrick Colbeck✝️ @pjcolbeck

2 days ago

BREAKING: Sheriff Dar Leaf has made a criminal referral pertaining to Non-Citizens on our voter rolls. Turns out, our voter rolls are used to determine jury pools. So...not only are our elections compromised by illegal voters on our voter rolls, so is the criminal justice

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The idea was brilliant. The execution was catastrophic. Allied planners knew that the men hitting the beaches of Normandy would be cut apart without armor support in those first critical minutes. The solution was the DD tank. The Duplex Drive Sherman. A standard 33-ton Sherman tank fitted with a collapsible canvas flotation screen and two small propellers bolted to the rear. Raise the screen, drop into the water, swim to shore, lower the screen, start shooting. Tanks arriving with the first wave, ahead of the infantry, suppressing German positions before the ramps even dropped. The concept worked perfectly in testing. The designers had one requirement: waves no higher than one foot. On the morning of June 6th, 1944, the waves off Omaha Beach were six feet high. Nobody stopped the launch. At 5:40 AM, the 741st Tank Battalion began dropping their DD tanks into the English Channel, six thousand yards from shore. More than three miles of open water, in seas that were six times rougher than the tanks were designed to handle. The first tank hit the water. The canvas screen, designed to hold the weight of a Sherman afloat, was immediately overwhelmed. Waves crashed over the top. Water flooded in. The tank went down. Then another. Then another. The canvas screens collapsed like paper bags in the swell. Tanks that had been designed to float became 33-ton anchors the moment they hit the water. Crews inside had seconds. Some got out through the hatches. Many did not. The tanks took them straight to the bottom of the English Channel. Some crews managed to get a radio signal out as their tank went under, warning the following units not to launch. The warnings either did not get through or came too late. 29 DD tanks were launched by the 741st Tank Battalion that morning. 27 sank before reaching the beach. The entire left flank of Omaha Beach, where the 1st Infantry Division was assaulting, had five tanks to support it. Five. Against fortified German positions housing hundreds of machine guns, 88mm guns, and mortars zeroed on every inch of that sand. The infantry arrived first. Alone. What happened next at Omaha Beach, the 2,400 casualties, the slaughter in the first ten minutes, the near-total destruction of Company A, is inseparable from the loss of those tanks. They were supposed to be there. They were supposed to be firing at German positions while the ramps were still closed. Instead they were on the bottom of the Channel with their crews. The story of the 743rd Tank Battalion makes it worse. The 743rd was assigned to the western sector of Omaha Beach. Their LCT flotilla commander looked at the sea conditions that morning, looked at the waves, and made a different decision. He refused to launch his tanks into the water. Instead he drove his LCTs directly onto the beach and dropped the ramps in the shallows. The tanks rolled off onto sand. Nine tanks were knocked out by German fire during the assault. But they were there. They were fighting. The infantry had armor. At Utah Beach, the sea was calmer, protected from the prevailing winds. 28 of 32 DD tanks launched there made it ashore. The infantry had support. Utah Beach cost 197 casualties. Omaha cost 2,400. The sunken tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion still lie on the bottom of the English Channel off Omaha Beach. They have never been raised. Divers have visited them. Inside some of the wrecks, they found what they expected. They are still there today, 82 years later, three miles off the coast of Normandy, on the bottom of the sea. Today is June 6th. Remember them.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present... Your Democracy.

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati

2 days ago

🗳️ Many have been asking me describe the potential signature verification loophole for Los Angeles mail in ballots. It says: “If a voter is unable to sign, the voter can make a mark witnessed by one person.” Here, the person drew a happy face & “witnessed” it with a scribble.

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@spencerpratt You gotta sue.

@spencerpratt they steal the money and they're stealing the election from you. We need federal troops and federal lawyers to save California from the fraud!

Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA

This is so sad 😰

Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt

a day ago

Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA

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.@elonmusk Ti is the best interviewer in tech. You won’t regret it.

Ti Morse @ti_morse

2 days ago

Set is ready @elonmusk We built it 25min from downtown Austin and can shoot anytime in the next 7 days on 1h notice. Humanity is on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species and spacefaring civilization. My goal with this interview is to help people viscerally feel what

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Over the last 20 years… Elections decided on Election Night: Republicans: 52% Democrats: 48% Elections decided AFTER Election Night: Republicans: 20% Democrats: 80% This is totally insane. Nothing to see here…

Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment. 5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds. On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore. Then he turned around and went back in. A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore. But he didn't stop there. He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details. He did this for hours without stopping. His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will. He survived the war. His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles. 5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in. Remember him.

If the key to becoming a billionaire is to exploit people, as some politicians claim, we at YC are idiots. We've spent the last 20 years choosing the wrong founders and teaching them the wrong things. Or maybe we do actually understand startups, and the politicians are wrong.