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[President-Elect Toguro @PresidentToguro]

Dennis Rodman would go party in Vegas, take enough cocaine to kill a bear, drink copious amounts of alcohol and them fly back to an nba finals game and lock up Karl Malone.

This guy drinks a glass of wine and can't podcast for 3 days

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

@vrilegion Will take a look

[The Hawk Tuah @Khalai_Zealot]

@CC_Cowboy1 "I do not like le nicotine patches, it is... how do you say? Beneath me."

[David Senra @davidsenra]

This conversation with @RickRubin is special. Here's a 2 minute preview that I’ve watched 15 times.

The episode will be out tomorrow:

[Zain @NotZainAgain]

@mil000 He's manufacturing in China but seems like he'd love to manufacture in the US if there were price competitive, quality manufacturers in the US.

Why shit on him for it?

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

It’s a slop post but older you get the more you appreciate this efficiency

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

@severijnss posted heavy on biz before twitter became gay

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

my korean girlfriend is starting a business (🫩) and so far she’s develop logos, mockups, and the website on her phone. refuses to use a laptop. i don’t know how it’s possible. she doesn’t know what claude is. she doesn’t know what photoshop is. i feel as though i made a mistake.

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

what do you go by?

judgement

who’s judgement did you take?

mine

who did you consult about it?

nobody.

few

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

In short, you need to create an identity. There are two types of desire. The first is a physical desire- I'm hungry and I need to eat, so I eat and I am satisfied. The second is I want to eat at a nice restaurant, because when I eat in this nice restaurant I am surrounded by associations that affirm this meta-physical identity of who I want to be. We all have this desire, innately, to move towards something. It is our hubris that demands we have this far out goal. For whatever reason, through your social interactions of the people who are around you, and the way you've been brought up- you have an ideal in mind. Many are not aware of this ideal, but you have it.

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

In branding I like to consider “Cafe Question” - Apple build cafe- you know what it would looks like. Aime Leon Dore build cafe, you know what it would look like. Kill Crew build a cafe- they wouldn’t. They’d build a gym. In branding, your aesthetic principles should be clear.

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

#FossilFriday

[Ioniancel @Ioniancel]

Even their hags are better #FossilFriday

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Picasso’s reply when asked for his thoughts on computers in 1964 is more relevant than ever:

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

my love for the japanese is infinite

[超つよい犬、ゼマ @Zema_Zodo]

俺が貧乳好きなの、貧乳の女友達とファミレス行ったらなんでかノーブラで、そいつがテーブルに置かれた料理取ろうと前屈みになった時に性癖書き換えられたからなんだよね

[Shopify @Shopify]

manage your store inside ChatGPT or Claude

get insights, add products, look up orders, and more

without ever leaving the chat

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

This laptop era will seem barbaric to future people. They need to put everything in the sunglasses already. You should be able to work on your sunglasses without any other equipment. Save the commons

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

It is undignified for a man to yearn on main

[Dan @ AdRevival.io @DandiG_]

Bruh Ecom guys manage to get everything banned 😭😭

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

There is power on falling on your own sword

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

an extremely high level strategy for getting unstuck is to commit to the stuckness

try to be 10x more stuck. act out the persona of the perfectly stuck person. indulge the stuckness. savour it. enjoy every moment of it

paradoxically, by leaning into stuckness, you create relaxation. you take all the energy that was going to shaming & beating yourself up and you free it. now that energy can go towards fun. when you’re having fun, things start moving

I have given this strategy to a handful of clients and used it myself and it has never failed. the only way out is through

[Cakekicker @cakekicker]

“Scientists still cannot explain the navigation. B6 had never made this flight before. Adult godwits leave Alaska weeks earlier, so young birds fly alone with nobody to follow”

Its me, the B6. I know in my heart I must fly. My soul will tell me when Ive reached my destination.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Before it took off, the bird ate parts of its own liver, kidneys, and gut. That was the only way to be light enough to fly. Then it flew 8,425 miles from Alaska to Australia, in 11 days, without eating, drinking, or landing once.

The bird is called B6. It's a bar-tailed godwit, four months old, weighing about as much as a can of beans. In October 2022, scientists at the US Geological Survey tracked its flight from Alaska all the way to Tasmania. The trip took 11 days and 1 hour. It is still the longest non-stop flight of any animal on Earth.

For two weeks before takeoff, godwits eat until they almost double in weight. Fat ends up being 55% of their body, more than any bird ever measured. Then they shrink their own insides. About a quarter of their liver, kidneys, stomach, and intestines gets broken down and reused for fuel, making room for the extra fat and cutting weight. Their heart and wing muscles grow bigger at the same time.

They never drink along the way. The water they need comes out of burning fat, the same reaction their muscles use for energy. They also never really sleep. B6 flapped its wings for 264 straight hours, cruising around 35 miles per hour with help from storm tailwinds. By the time it landed, it had lost almost half its body weight. The shrunken organs grew back over the following weeks.

Scientists still cannot explain the navigation. B6 had never made this flight before. Adult godwits leave Alaska weeks earlier, so young birds fly alone with nobody to follow. How a four-month-old bird finds its way across 8,425 miles of open ocean to a place it has never seen is still an open question.

About 100,000 bar-tailed godwits leave Alaska every fall. Most of them land in New Zealand or Australia 10 or 11 days later, having eaten parts of themselves to get there.