Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴

Philosopher-historian, classical liberal & centre-left (European-style), crypto enthusiast focussed on #Cardano. Let's democratize finance and institutions 💪

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@GeorgeNimi3 @narendramodi Checked timeline, 99% certain automated AI slop account, blocked.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@6Merican @Daractenus *Something does not fit my narrative*

"He's clearly being paid to say that!"

Buddy you don't have cognitive dissonance, your brain has just stopped working entirely.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@KutarkV @aakashgupta How is it anticapitalist to demand that all the parties agreeing to a contract have to respect it?

Incredible how you seem so willing to lick the boots of your techno overlords, all because of some silly dream that you, too, might one day maximally extract value out of society.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@MarcHoag @gmiller Define 'worked' in this context?

To me, he seems like a shallow human being whose definition of a succesful life is quite miserable.

I'd prefer my own life over his every time I'd get the choice, not a doubt in my mind.

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

And, just like that, Andreessen's total lack of self-awareness, his unreflective hubris, and his colossal overconfidence, suddenly make sense.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@MorePerfectUS Holy shit this guy is so retarded it is just unbelievable.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@Ytd22T @compliantvc Well, I do think it is really part of the culture here, so a petty manager can hardly succesfully take it away. But I get you, it is indeed ultimately by the grace of 'higher ups'. That's inevitable, isn't it? But workers certainly can set boundaries if they unite somewhat.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@Ytd22T @compliantvc (Netherlands btw)

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@Ytd22T @compliantvc Yeah same, 30 mins lunch (unpaid) but we do have quite a relaxed work culture so that nobody whines when you take a coffee break for 10 min or so (effectively paid).

In my experience, this creates a heck of a lot of loyalty. My colleagues can be counted on to finish their work.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@VoicuDragomir @milesdeutscher Miles lives by the spin, he's not worth listening to at all and never has been.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@TheDamaniFelder @Microinteracti1 As soon as that absolute nincompoop of a 'leader' of yours stops mingling in our internal affairs, we'll gladly leave you to yourselves.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone is missing the real story here.

This tweet frames Gates selling Microsoft shares as a mistake. The math says otherwise.

Gates started with 44.9% of Microsoft in 1986. If he’d held every share, sure, he might be worth north of a trillion dollars on paper. But that analysis ignores what actually happened with the money that left Microsoft.

The Gates Foundation has given away over $100 billion. That money funded Gavi, which has saved an estimated 17 million lives. It helped cut annual child mortality from 10 million to 5 million. It nearly eradicated polio. Gates just committed another $200 billion over the next 20 years.

And Buffett? The person this tweet implies gave “bad advice” by recommending diversification? He’s donated $47.9 billion to the Gates Foundation. The advice wasn’t “diversify into index funds for personal wealth preservation.” It was “diversify so you can fund the largest philanthropic operation in human history.”

The counterfactual also ignores market reality. A single person holding 45% of a $3.8 trillion company creates enormous overhang. Every share sale would move markets. The liquidity doesn’t exist to actually realize that wealth. Paper trillions aren’t spendable trillions.

But here’s what this framing really reveals: we’ve optimized for “world’s richest person” as the default success metric. Gates explicitly rejected that game. He’s said he wants to die with less than $100 billion precisely because hoarding wealth while children die of preventable diseases seemed absurd to him.

The question isn’t “what if Gates had held?” The question is “what would we lose if he had?”

The answer is millions of people who are alive today.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@neolatyno @edmund_vilchez Bro this aint it.

Don't affiliate the pro-European camp with childish anti-theistic nonsense. Just let people believe whatever they want without scoffing at their 'myths', and work together to focus on a stronger and independent Europe.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@joshwhiton This hilariously betrays your level of historical understanding, nothing more. Back to the tech bro circle jerk with you, thank you.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@drisslepoete @Jeepsteratti @gaughen Mate take a hard look in the mirror and consider how 'humble' you sound to a Dutch person right now. You will not ever have a normal, constructive and polite conversation with people online with your attitude.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@GrahamsNoPlus1 @hippyygoat Nah mate, most of us feel that way over here in the European homeland, seems like the USA has lost its touch 🤷‍♂️

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@roaringpeasant @Microinteracti1 What are you blabbering about? There's no protected areas, this is just a very average street picture of European inner city life.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

MAGA influencers and Russian propaganda outlets are increasingly painting Europe as “unsafe.”

That is, of course, a lie.

On basic safety, Europe massively outperforms the United States, and Russia isn’t even close.

Some examples:
Homicide rate (per 100,000 people)
- United States: ~6.4
- Russia: ~6–7
- Europe (average): just over 2

Europe is about three times safer than the U.S. on murder rates, and far safer than Russia.

Mass shootings

Using the standard definition (4+ people shot, excluding the shooter):
- United States: hundreds every year (586 in 2024 alone)
- Europe: rare, often zero in most countries in a given year

The U.S. has a mass-shooting problem. Europe does not.

Prison population (per 100,000 people):
- United States: ~540+
- Russia: ~300
- European Union: ~111

The U.S. incarcerates about five times more people than the EU.
Russia incarcerates almost three times more than the EU.

Despite this, both still have higher violence levels than Europe.

Gun deaths (scale matters):
- United States: ~47,000 gun deaths per year
- Europe: a fraction of that, despite a larger population

To conclude, Europe is:
- Less violent
- Less lethal
- Less carceral
- More stable

The claim that Europe is “dangerous” (usually blamed on immigrants) compared to the U.S. or Russia is simply bullshit.

[Fresh Equinox 🅾️🌴 @FreshEquinox]

@Mathonymics What meaningless blabbering by one of the world's best known pseudo-intellectuals.

[Joel Willans @VFinnishProbs]

Watching MAGA attempt logic is pure comedy.

Hate Europe but claim to be European.

Hate immigrants but descend from immigrants.

Hate elites but worship billionaires.

Hate globalism but cheer American hegemony.

MAGA = Mostly Angry, Generally Confused.