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[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

WE GOT A FLYOVER TO KICK OFF THE UFC WHITE HOUSE EVENT 🔥

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

another reason we don't fly to the US

[Austin | @ReclaimYourEdge]

Insane

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

Society isn’t ready for datacenters dedicated to pumping out these kind of ideas all day every day

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Okay. I'm ready to talk about this.

It was the worst month of my life. Also ironically the greatest blessing god has ever given me.

Last month I was held in the Cayman Islands facing 15 years in prison.

The charge: illegal firearm importation. Here's what happened. More importantly what I learned.

Short answer: no. I haven't been smuggling guns.

In the States I legally carry a gun on me at almost all times for self defense. Part of this is ensuring I am trained.

Hence why I routinely go to the range to shoot. When I do I pack the firearm I intend to use in in a backpack.

Last month I was in a giant rush to make a private flight and didn't fully check my backpack before leaving. In it was a small firearm I missed.

It was discovered when I went through immigration.

At first I assumed I'd just be sent home.

Then my wife did some quick research. She pointed out the minimum sentence for importing a gun is 15 years. The police who showed up confirmed it.

To say I nearly pissed my pants is an understatement.

This was completely my fault. I'm an idiot. The point of this post isn't to blame or complain about anything. The laws there are fair. I'm a grown man capable of checking his bag before flying.

The point is: for three weeks on the island (on bail), I got to take a long hard look at my life.

I've built a high net worth and a company I love, with people I love working with. I have a beautiful wife who is my best friend. I do whatever I want all day every day. My parents are alive and I get to see them almost every week.

Still, despite all this, I often wake up annoyed I haven't done enough with my life. Asking myself "is this it?" In fact I'm pissed half the time, feeling I can do better.

Which is ironic. I made $20,000 a year in the military. If you'd told me then I'd achieve a 9 figure net worth and all the above, I would've assumed I'd consider my life a dream.

The twist truly hit me on the island as I watched everything I worked hard for in my life held at "gunpoint". Pun intended. Everything I worked so hard to get — poof. Didn't matter for shit.

The way the law works there are simple : if you can't prove it was an accident, the minimum is 15 years.

It became glaringly obvious. Not only was I an absolute idiot who couldn't pack his own bag. I'd also become a fool who couldn't enjoy the blessings I already had.

I'd taken all the people in my life and the success totally for granted. Blind. Blind. Blind.

Nothing like a 20-year potential sentence to make you realize: waking up with fun stuff to work on, then chilling on the couch reading with your wife at the end of the day — that's about as good as it gets.

I should be euphoric 24/7.

To go from having it all, to potentially not even having the option to piss and shit when you want — that's a wake up call if there ever was one.

Luckily, the Caymans is a fair place. I was found under exceptional circumstances during my trial. AKA the judge and the courts reviewed the case and agreed it was an accident.

I still love the island. It's probably my favorite place to vacation. Just check your luggage before you go. Ha.

My point is this: be present. Enjoy your life. One day something could happen — even by complete accident — and yoink it all away.

I have so many friends who'll read this and by all definition live a "dream life" — and yet are dissatisfied just like I was. If anything this is the default for most successful men. Not the exception.

I'm writing this to help you stop.

It took god slapping me across the face with my own ignorance to see it. It was painful and scary. Dark.

But honestly, it was the greatest blessing I've ever received. I'm writing this from my office at home, giddy as absolute fuck about my life and everything I have the option to do today.

If anything, I'm sad about how much time I wasted feeling otherwise.

Don't be ignorant and stupid like me. You might not get the blessing of a 15-year prison threat in a foreign country to wake you up.

Wake up. Appreciate what you have now.

[Austin | @ReclaimYourEdge]

@PopeDefi @TylerDurden He’s not wrong my fiance has multiple friends reporting same thing. Reta is killing dopamine enjoyment. A buddy said he doesn’t want to have sex anymore but he’s countering that with testosterone

[TBC @TBC_on_X]

Prattman: The Origin Story - Episode 1

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

Brothers in Christ, a girl from Hinge nearly exposed me. But I held firm, doubled down like Trump, & lied.

[Austin Videos @ATXVideos]

This particular individual threw objects at cars, prompting a large police response. A Violent Repeat Offender the DA failed to keep locked up? Almost certainly so!

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

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GLM 5.1, Kimi K2.6, Deepseek V4... these models are as powerful as any frontier model from just 3 months ago, yet are open source and can be run without betraying your life and data to any 3rd party.

Point your agent to Venice for every private model in one place (plus crypto tools, web search, embeddings, image and video models...).

Could not be easier. Be intentional.

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[Lilith @liiliith0]

Bana göre otizmin zirvesi bu.

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

Oh
My
Gawd

[Austin | @ReclaimYourEdge]

@LCizzzzle SMH

[Austin | @ReclaimYourEdge]

@WallStreetApes @Sh8dy24 Fun fact they are always late paying vendors who work for them

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Wake up babe, Iran is trolling Pete Hegseth now

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

Ok this is kind of wild.

A mystery 100B model just appeared at the top of OpenRouter out of nowhere.

No model card. No announcement. No idea which lab made it.

It's called Elephant Alpha and it's already beating half the paid models on the leaderboard.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

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