GilbertMountainDog

In a world of Memes and GIFs ...I prefer naps.

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:

“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.

At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.

But cancer doesn’t care about plans.

Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.

I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.

Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.

Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.

Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.

Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.

Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.

Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.

Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.

And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.

Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.

And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”

Holly 🩷

Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️

[R @AlphaWizarDD]

Charlie Munger on India: "One of my favorite tricks is the inversion process."

"If somebody hired me to fix India, I would immediately say, 'What could I do if I really wanted to hurt India?' I'd figure out all the things that could most easily hurt India — and then I'd figure out how to avoid them."

"It works better frequently to invert the problem."

[癒される動物 @cutest_animal1]

永遠に続く追いかけっこ

[😈 Xavier ✞ @RealXavier011]

This dog is being sent to go collect groceries at the market 😅

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Why do podcast bros and worse, the Dem Party itself, keep legitimizing Piker?

Hasan Piker is not just some streamer who spouts hot takes from his million-dollar LA setup. He's someone who has done campaign events with Abdul El-Sayed, Summer Lee, and Bernie Sanders.

El-Sayed made excuses for a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack on a synagogue and refused to say anything negative about Ayatollah Khamenei. Meanwhile, his preferred candidate for the Michigan Board of Regents, Amir Makled, has been frantically deleting pro-Hezbollah and pro-Nasrallah social media posts.

Piker himself has said his favorite flag is Hezbollah's. Recently, he visited Tiananmen Square for the flag-raising ceremony (in front of Mao's portrait), held up Chinese flags, and said on stream "I have no patriotism in my heart for America."

Needless to say, you can guess what his position is on the ongoing repression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. He also loves the Cuban dictatorship and Putin.

So when he says he supports Hamas, he is literally saying that FFS. All these pod bros and abundance democrats need to stop pretending he's just some anti-war dem. He's not.

Piker is just serving up a TikTok-ified version of Maoist Third Worldism, an ideology which upholds the "global south" as the pure revolutionary vanguard against the evil imperialist West.

Forget actual class analysis or workers' rights. Forget that Hamas and Hezbollah are Islamist fascists who hang gays, stone women, and execute dissidents. In this worldview, any brown or Muslim group pointing a gun at Israel (or America) gets a free pass as "anti-imperialist." It's the same brain rot that had Western leftists simping for the Khmer Rouge for no other reason than their status as Third World resistance fighters.

There are a million ways to support Palestinians without supporting Hamas and Hezbollah - indeed, actually supporting Palestinians *requires* rejecting Hamas and Hezbollah.

In reality Piker is holding up a death cult's flag feeling morally righteous about it since it serves "decolonization." Every person espousing this in the free world should be forced to live in the totalitarian states they simp so hard for.

Conservatives are also now minting their own Third Worldists; in this case they're all masquerading as "multipolarists." Say whatever you want about the right but at least they don't legitimize them the way the Dems do with their Third Worldists.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

[Sunchartist @sunchartist]

How to prepare yourself to trade oil on Monday

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@Ozard_OfWiz Giddy Up! Yee-Ha!!!

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@HusseinAboubak I'm stealing this idea for next year

[Quillette @Quillette]

Standing up for due process, free speech, civil liberties, intellectual pluralism, and scientific rigour doesn’t win you many friends these days, writes @jonkay.

https://t.co/HhLQUQyoD6

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@ItIsUnclear @hkuppy It's scary how willing people are to throw free speech out the window when it's not 'their side.' That said, fir better or worse, an employer doesn't need to abide by free speech.

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@Quillette @jonkay On second thought I do 'get it' the piling on & believed schadenfreude is from those who have no intention of delving deeper into an issue, just gather the pieces of info that confirm your bias then proceed to attack.

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@Quillette @jonkay I don't get the piling on of Gladwell. He was moderating a panel discussion. He wasn't supposed to be representing a side as the others were. In his recent comments, he said he knew the trans side's position was nonsense and he should have said as much at the time. That's it!

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@avidseries Don't let your poor comprehension of my comment get in the way of understanding that it wasn't directed at you. But hey, when you are the main character, it's always about you.

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@christopherrufo I am all for revealing the lunacy of the woke grifters, but if you want to be considered a serious person in these matters, be less sloppy.

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@christopherrufo "...star writer at the The New Yorker"?
There was a Michelle Taylor (feministajones? I don't think so) who wrote a book review in 2020. https://t.co/sFzZ0Iik2v
They don't appear to be the same Michelle Tayor.
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a juicy narrative.

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@avidseries "...star writer at the The New Yorker"?
There was a Michelle Taylor (feministajones? I don't think so) who wrote a book review in 2020. https://t.co/k8zcGiRvvO
They don't appear to be the same Michelle Tayor.
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of a juicy narrative.

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@hkuppy @BarbarianCap So much winning!

[GilbertMountainDog @GilbertMountai1]

@ParrotCapital @FCNightingale I live & have a business in the city; believe me I have witnessed changes in the 2 decades. Among my cohorts I am known as one of the more vocal critics of the local gov. But the issues of 2020-2022 (repeated in your posts) are not the issues of today.