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[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

Se si può essere appassionati di qualche cosa e quello diventa il tuo lavoro, non puoi augurarti niente di meglio

[Financial Times @FT]

Italy’s €194bn share of the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund was meant to deliver a 'once-in-a-generation' reboot to its lagging economy. But as the deadline to use the loans and grants looms, Italy’s economy remains sluggish. https://t.co/9t2Ou5jNGz

[Tommaso Monacelli @monacelt]

Regola #1: a rincari energetici NON si reagisce con sussidi.
Non si soffia su domanda (di energia, benzina) quando prezzo elevato é sintomo di *eccesso di domanda* (= offerta troppo bassa).
Così facendo si spingono i prezzi ancora più su.
É come spegnere il fuoco con la carta.

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@Agenzia_Ansa Ha rotto i coglioni, ma pensi a fare il sindacalista, sta facendo politica da 10 anni e per il sindacato il nulla cosmico. Cialtrone imbarazzante

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@Forchielli Alberto perdonami, ma Italcer era un asset all’interno di un FIA gestito da Mindful, di cui tu sei partner, se non sbaglio. State creando campioni o state costruendo aziende per venderle? Eh mi sa la seconda

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@levrierog @ASparaciari Ma cosa vuol dire “svariati miliardi di euro a carico dello Stato”? Quello sviluppo è stato fatto all’interno di un fondo d’investimento sottoscritto da investitori privati, italiani ed esteri, tra cui CDP. Dove sono questi “svariati miliardi di euro a carico dello Stato”?

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@ASparaciari federalberghi ha rotto i coglioni, fosse per loro l’Italia sarebbe un paese di camerieri, pizzaioli e cuochi sottopagati ove il turismo sarebbe l’unico volano di (sotto)sviluppo. Mandarli a fare in culo ogni tanto sarebbe cosa buona e giusta

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@Drittorovescio_ Si ok raga tutto meraviglioso, ma che valore aggiunto dá? Compra e rivende orologi. Per carità, chapeau. Però non sta occupando tecnici o graduates altamente specializzati con salari over 100k. Ridimensioniamo dai

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@EnricoLetta 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@localteamit Liberalizzare e aprire alla concorrenza senza se e senza ma. Ora più che mai. Una democrazia liberale non si fa intimidire da un gruppo sociale rumoroso e privilegiato

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@Rmcfmjay Cassano & Cannavaro

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@lorepregliasco Paese che sta collassando su se stesso

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@ItaliaViva Una cagata di elefantiache proporzioni

[City Chief @City_Chief]

🗣️ | Pep Guardiola: “Work harder. Work better. Be humble. Be ambitious…if not, the Academy is ready.” 🥶🐐 [MCFC/Netflix]

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@pinapic Grazie ♥️

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@michelepiz @GioB1974 Vorrei tatuarmi queste parole

[he.s.busta @MatteoBastasin]

@spondanews Ma chi cazzo è

[Inter ⭐⭐ @Inter]

Il messaggio di Simone Inzaghi

#FCIM

[Luka Modrić @lukamodric10]

No llores porque terminó, sonríe porque sucedió.