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Taco Bell's Butter Chicken Taco is releasing in the US later this year
Posted by rickgrimes on 4/3/26 at 11:07 am
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If tweet fails to load, click here. They were not going to let ozempic win without a fight were they?
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If You Were Born Between 1976–1985, This Video Will Finally Make Sense of You
Posted by rickgrimes on 3/31/26 at 3:37 pm
AI can't replace the trades, huh?
Posted by rickgrimes on 3/23/26 at 9:33 pm
United CEO Scott Kirby says the airline is prepping for oil to hit $175/barrell
Posted by rickgrimes on 3/20/26 at 7:58 pm
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re: Houston Mechanical Engineer + Claude Code = Silicon Valley’s Nightmare
Posted by rickgrimes on 3/19/26 at 8:55 am to CootKilla
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What does it do with this info? Does it go into a spreadsheet. We have someone that manually has to put this into our database.
Watch the video. It is totally worth the 13 mins of time you are in that industry. It exactly does that. He feeds the isometric drawings into the tool and it gives an Excel file as an output with all the details that you need regarding types of welds, carbon steel vs stainless steel etc. You can spot check things before it exports to Excel. And using the tool you can do batch processing and load 100s of drawings at a time and it processes them in parallel.
Houston Mechanical Engineer + Claude Code = Silicon Valley’s Nightmare
Posted by rickgrimes on 3/18/26 at 11:38 pm
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I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....
But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.
I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal
He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it.
He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code.
Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time.
His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages.
His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything.
My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five."
Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder.
I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.
Trump’s Justice Department launches a criminal investigation of Fed chair; JPow responds
Posted by rickgrimes on 1/11/26 at 7:12 pm
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“The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, the central bank said Sunday, tied to the central bank’s renovation of its headquarters office”
“Powell accused the Justice Department of using the threat of criminal prosecution to pressure the central bank to lower interest rates, calling newly issued grand jury subpoenas an unprecedented challenge to the Fed’s independence.
“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President,” Powell said in a statement.
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
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If tweet fails to load, click here.“Exxon CEO calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without ‘significant changes’”
Posted by rickgrimes on 1/9/26 at 5:18 pm
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“As President Donald Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting on Friday, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting”
“CEO Darren Woods said that Venezuela is "uninvestable” after Trump asked him how long it would take the firm to restart operations there. He added that “significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections,” and there needs to be a rewrite of the laws governing oil production in Venezuela.
He would only commit to sending a technical team to the country shortly to begin assessing the situation. The exchange underscored how the industry is struggling to chart a course that will please the president without spending recklessly on risky drilling ventures.”
“At White House meeting with oil executives, Trump vows they will spend $100 billion. The companies worry the numbers don’t add up”
Life Inside a Town Owned by One Company
Posted by rickgrimes on 1/6/26 at 12:53 am
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Today we’re heading deep into the desert to the largest functioning company town in America where one company owns everything and almost everyone works for it. Most think company towns are a thing of the past, but a few still exist. We’ll explore the town, meet the locals, and see a side of America most never do.
Earning $80K with full health benefits while paying $360 a month rent for a 3-bedroom home sounds pretty compelling actually.
Huge tunnels discovered in Brazil and Argentina that were not made by humans or geology
Posted by rickgrimes on 12/14/25 at 10:36 pm
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Deep under the hills of southern Brazil and northern Argentina, scientists found huge tunnels that appear to be cut into solid rock. They say no human or geological process created them.
They do not follow river channels, they show no signs of mining, and they look nothing like normal caves.
Many of the passages are longer than 600 yards (550 meters) and tall enough for an adult to walk through without bending.
The leading idea is that giant, extinct ground sloths dug these colossal shelters, turning parts of South America into a maze of underground homes.
Over the past decade, a detailed study mapped more than 1,500 giant burrows across southern and southeastern Brazil.
These tunnels can reach several hundred feet in length. They branch into side passages, and display long, parallel claw marks etched into their walls.
The work was led by Heinrich Frank, a geologist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. His research centers on paleoburrows – fossil tunnels carved by large, extinct animals that once reshaped the landscapes of southern South America.
Many passages appear in consolidated sands, sandstone, or weathered volcanic rock. These materials are hard for machines to excavate, and harder for humans with simple tools.
Collapsed ceilings and overlapping tunnels show that some routes were widened and reused, a pattern outlined in a chapter on Cenozoic tunnels
Geological processes such as landslides, joints, and natural caves rarely create long, nearly circular tunnels that slope up and down or branch like these.
Frank notes that the tunnel walls are packed with claw marks, sometimes in three parallel grooves, right where a digging limb would bite into rock.
Similar tunnels crop out along road cuts in Argentina, where they intersect and crisscross in dense clusters on some hillsides.
Taken together, the layout looks less like an accident of erosion and more like a network of shelters dug and maintained over long periods.
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re: Help me allocate my rollover 401(k)
Posted by rickgrimes on 12/14/25 at 10:33 pm to PlanoPrivateer
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You are a lot more aggressive than me. I would put all $350,000 in VTI. Then I would ladder some stop loss orders on NVDIA and Tesla. I get nervous when any single stock is much more than 10% of my total.
Sounds like a very reasonable suggestion. Any thoughts on splitting the new cash between 5-6 different low cost Vanguard ETFs vs. putting it all in VTI?
re: Help me allocate my rollover 401(k)
Posted by rickgrimes on 12/10/25 at 7:28 pm to tigerforever7
I literally did what I said I would do here in May 2020 - LINK
I went big on Big Tech, specifically the Mag 7, ironically based on Jim Cramer's suggestion of all people during the height of the pandemic. It was pure luck. Not much thought went into it. If I were really smart or could predict the future, I'd have put all my money into Nvdia and not just bought 3000 shares at $14.
I just want to get the MB's advice on whether to keep riding the tech wave, or should I start diversifying a bit at least starting with the $356K cash I rolled over. It's very hard to bet against tech stock returns though...even in the future.
Screenshot from my Robinhood account if it helps:
I went big on Big Tech, specifically the Mag 7, ironically based on Jim Cramer's suggestion of all people during the height of the pandemic. It was pure luck. Not much thought went into it. If I were really smart or could predict the future, I'd have put all my money into Nvdia and not just bought 3000 shares at $14.
I just want to get the MB's advice on whether to keep riding the tech wave, or should I start diversifying a bit at least starting with the $356K cash I rolled over. It's very hard to bet against tech stock returns though...even in the future.
Screenshot from my Robinhood account if it helps:
Help me allocate my rollover 401(k)
Posted by rickgrimes on 12/10/25 at 4:54 pm
I have been lucky with the Mag 7 and tech stocks when it comes to my IRA, which currently has ~$1.4M. Below are my current holdings.
I recently rolled over $350K from an old 401(k) into this IRA. How would allocate the $350K? While individual tech stocks have been good to me so far, I wonder if I should start getting more conservative and split the cash into low cost ETFs across sectors to change up the mix/diversify? I am 44 years old. Thx.
I recently rolled over $350K from an old 401(k) into this IRA. How would allocate the $350K? While individual tech stocks have been good to me so far, I wonder if I should start getting more conservative and split the cash into low cost ETFs across sectors to change up the mix/diversify? I am 44 years old. Thx.
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