Kasumi

[Kasumi @KatyushaMisha]

@elonmusk @JuicyCreativ3 Then if we,humans, live for such a short period of time, how can we learn the tragedy of our past mistakes? How can we have enough time to develop the wisom of the world and fix our shortcomings? Isn't our short life span also the reason why history keeps on repeating itself?

[Tim 🙂⏹️🙂 @MasterTimBlais]

ok japan is serving me weapons grade ai content holy shit https://t.co/yOkJXgU0r3

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

Did you know there’s a place in Arizona where ancient trees literally turned to stone?

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Cinema doesn't get much better than this.

[Vlad @VladTheInflator]

The horrors that await will be unfathomable

[Kasumi @KatyushaMisha]

@VladTheInflator Exactly. It only takes one extra step for that to happen.

[Kingmaker @MindHealthMaker]

Intelligent people don't waste energy exposing everyone. They simply notice everything and adjust their distance

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.

He said pain tolerance.

The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.

He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.

He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.

Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Elite performance isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing less with greater intensity. Pick fewer battles, master fewer skills, tolerate fewer people. Be narrow, focused, and brutal in execution. Precision over chaos. Always.

[Kasumi @KatyushaMisha]

Nice 😎

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Competence frees you from dependence; the more you can solve, build, and adapt on your own, the less leverage anyone holds over you, and in a world where control often comes from scarcity of skill, self-reliance is the highest form of strength.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Farmer communiting 1.5km to his banana farm using a drone.

We truly live in the most epic times.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Aristotle wrote the operating system Western civilization ran on for two thousand years – and quietly abandoned in the twentieth century, around the same time all the catastrophes we have been describing began.

1. His central question is not “what are your rights?” It is “what are you for?”
Eudaimonia — flourishing, not happiness — is the answer: the full realization of what a human being can become. The moment a civilization stops asking this question and starts asking only about rights, equality, and safety, it has already chosen administration over life.

2. Virtue is not a rule you follow. It is a habit you form – through practice, through the right environment, through a community that models and rewards excellence. This is why negative selection is so catastrophic in Aristotelian terms: it doesn’t just promote the wrong people. It corrupts the very mechanism by which virtue is transmitted across generations.

3. Man is a political animal – not in the sense that man should be governed, but that man is constituted by his community. You cannot flourish alone. But the corollary is equally precise: the polis exists for man’s flourishing, not the other way around. The moment the state becomes the end and the citizen becomes the means, you have not just bad government – you have the inversion of the natural order.

4. Aristotle catalogued the corruptions of every form of government: monarchy becomes tyranny, aristocracy becomes oligarchy, polity becomes mob rule. The pattern in every case is identical – the rulers stop ruling for the common good and start ruling for themselves. This is not a modern insight. It is the oldest political observation in the Western tradition. Every system contains the seed of its own corruption. The question is always: who is it for?

5. Phronesis — practical wisdom — the ability to judge particular situations correctly, without a rulebook. The bureaucratic state destroys phronesis systematically, replacing judgment with procedure, wisdom with compliance, the experienced man with the certified one. This is Aristotle’s explanation for why the credentialed class produces so many wrong decisions with such complete confidence.

6. He identified the middle class as the foundation of the stable republic – the ballast that prevents the ship from capsizing toward oligarchy above or mob rule below. Not as a sociological observation. As a structural necessity. Destroy the middle class and you have not just inequality – you have the preconditions for every tyranny he ever described.

7. The West replaced Aristotle with procedure, utility, and rights. It gained a framework for managing conflict but lost the vocabulary for saying what a good life is. The system can optimize for GDP, equality of outcome, measured safety – but it cannot tell you what you are for. Aristotle could. Every civilization that forgot that question discovered, eventually, that someone else was happy to answer it for them.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

You should be suspicious of any person that rewards the weaker version of you. If your friends mock discipline, your coworkers reward gossip, or your circle makes ambition feel embarrassing, you are surrounded by a social immune system against your growth.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“A man wastes, his life preparing for a future that was never promised, while the life he truly owns passes right through his hands.”

- Seneca

[Bear Grylls OBE @BearGrylls]

Power comes from relinquishing control. Every expedition taught me that. You cannot control the storm. You can only control your response.

[浄土真宗本願寺派龍城山長松寺 @ryujounet]

「リズムを守る」

私たちの心と身体は、一定のリズムの中で最も
よく働きます。

朝起きる時間。
食事をする時間。
働く時間。
休む時間。
眠る時間。

このリズムが整うと、心も自然と整っていきま
す。

逆に、生活のリズムが乱れると、心も乱れやす
くなります。

イライラしやすくなり、集中力が落ち、感謝す
る心も薄れてしまいます。

だからこそ、人生を整えようと思うなら、まず
生活のリズムを整えることが大切です。

早寝早起きを心がける。

朝、静かに手を合わせ、「今日も生かしていた
だいて、ありがとうございます。」
と感謝から一日を始める。

集中するときは集中し、休むときはしっかり休
む。
食事も睡眠も運動も、できるだけ一定のリズム
を大切にする。

これは特別な修行ではありません。
自然のリズムに自分を合わせる生き方です。

太陽は毎日昇り、四季は巡り、潮は満ち引きを
繰り返します。

自然は決して急がず、決して怠けず、自分のリ
ズムを守っています。
私たちも自然の一部です。

自我は無理を続けようとします。
しかし良心は知っています。

自分だけが無理を続ければ、どこかで心や身体
が悲鳴を上げます。

毎日の小さなリズムを大切にする人は、人生の
大きな流れも整っていきます。

今日も自分のリズムを守り、自然に、生かされ
ていることへの感謝とともに、一日を歩んでま
いりましょう。

合掌

👉「リズムが整えば心が整う。早寝早起き、
感謝の朝の合掌。自然のリズムに合わせて生き
よう。」
🌿今日も、いのちとご縁とご先祖にありがとう。
●調律とは宗教や信仰ではありません。
良心・感謝・思いやりに立ち返り、心と生き方
を整える実践です。

[Kasumi @KatyushaMisha]

@GoyGems @FoxfordComics I will always press that renegade interrupt whenever this happens and I regret nothing.

[Kasumi @KatyushaMisha]

Prevailing culture is stronger than your free will.

[Psyche Wizard @PsycheWizard]

To heal, you've to change where you are.

[Kasumi @KatyushaMisha]

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