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Treading the path of Trading after @oddsmonkey opened my eyes an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases."

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Sport has been thin on the ground, but still offers around so been dipping back into some #MatchedBetting to boost the bank account a little.
Still very much worthwhile joining @OddsMonkey to make some spare cash
#makemoneyonline #EasyMoney

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@wushi330078 @TheEuroFE Sorry? 🤔

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@TouchlineX Wtf

Are there clearly defined rules as to what an influencer is then?

What happens if you've only got 500 followers, post a video, goes viral and you all of a sudden become "an influencer" off the back of it?

Deportation for a video going global? 🤔

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@mrdanwalker Good on the BBC

Just need them to stop over paying ex-pro's now as majority of them do little homework and churn out the same old tired stuff.

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@MarkOHaire

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@NeilMac555 Haiti now have Wilson, Wilson Isidor 😉

They're a far far stronger side now 😀

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@EricNjiiru The first part of his response was a straight Donald Trump style play. Through back a veiled threat at the journalist.

After that, he at least tried to explain that it's not always straightforward etc.

But the man is a shyster. All he cares about is money and power

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@BobbyManzi What difference does it make where the pundits are sat?

When they actually provide is often very basic anyway

No need for the BBC to spend bundles of money on having them sat in the USA when a green screen studio will do the job.

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@NeilMac555 @bet_105 I clearly need to start looking into this. Assumed it would need ways and means to get around the restrictions

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@ZachLewis3187 Its NYC - they cope with big events going on all the time. Barely a murmur on the richter scale

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@NeilMac555 @bet_105 Haha well thats a response that smashes me out of the ball park Neil 😂
My apologies for that.
So, same point, didnt think it was available to us in the UK AND Ireland! :-)

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One day to go until the World Cup

A nice start to the trading on the Outright Winners market

Still plenty of positions sitting waiting in the queues

Then a case of which positions do I hold and which do I trade for some profit

#WorldCup #Trading

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@Amerzaben1 @SouthamptonFC about to launch another appeal against their cheating

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@2147mill First place you should be putting any Bonus is your work place pension so that you don't pay the tax on it.

The full 100% bonus then goes into the pension pot for you.

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@shaun_elliott11 @Lyndonx @robprogressive Only does two jobs a year maybe 😉

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

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What an absolute mess Trump and his Merry Men have created throughout the World

This should be taught in history / politics lessons in the future to teach kids how social media lies caused so many problems.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

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@Acyn What an absolute...