I’m a real mother, a real wife and a real woman, a creator of things, artist, musician, poet, amateur philosopher and theologian, riddler, entrepreneur.
I gave my children pots and pans with dirt and water to play with. I let them paint with their bare hands, Potions were made and we built forts, lots of them! I spoke to them with several accents and we always read at night. This is why they are brilliant!
Yes, NYC has become a cult. And so have London, Paris and many other cities.
A city is supposed to be transactional. You move there to get access to better jobs, smarter people, capital, culture, dating markets, ideas, luck. You tolerate the rent, noise and chaos because the city increases your surface area for opportunity.
But a lot of people now treat living in NYC/London/Paris as the achievement itself. They’re not building much, not saving much, not owning anything, not starting families, not necessarily living that well.
Social media (and short visits) made this worse. People not living in those cities romanticise them and feel FOMO, while people living there turn the city into their entire personality / personal brand.
Even San Francisco, which used to be somewhat immune to this, is starting to turn into a status symbol for wannabe entrepreneurs...
@TheOfficerTatum@FreddyLA7 Love this! My second cousin is from Germany and he dreams of moving here and being a firefighter. He's just like Freddy when he comes! Just so damn happy and amazed by everything we overlook so often.
@anish_koka@LaLaRueFrench75 Yes! I know longer have standard coverage because it quadrupled my costs, and I refuse to be played by the system for garbage coverage and high deductibles.
@noahkaufmanmd many don't realize you can have supplementary plans without having a standard plan. Supp. insurance gives decent payouts for major med expenses (hospital stays,surgery) giving peace of mind. They range from 30-500 a month. Submit your own claims but cash pay w this =major savings
@noahkaufmanmd I went to the ent this week no insurance $250.00 pressure tests, sinus scope, ct scans all included. My monthly insurance bill (for spouse and I) if I had it would be roughly 1000 & high deductible that still wouldn't have been met. I have countless stories like this
@typesfast Haha, you stirred up the Portuguese, easily ruffled. Worst airport I've ever been through. Last time I was there for a layover, my son caught such a violent case of food poisoning from one of the airport cafes,he was "hugging the porcelain god" the entire flight & during landing
@agingroy@T7EJY many things can do this In vitro, e.g. aspirin can:
slow proliferation cancer cell lines (colon, breast, prostate in some models)
promote apoptosis in some conditions
reduce inflammatory signaling pathways like NF-κB
inhibit COX-2 (an inflammation enzyme often elevated in tumors
@agingroy Also, we must mention the proven loss of lean muscle mass, bone density loss, pancreatitis, gall stones, possible increase of thyroid cancer and loss of feeling anything when we speak so highly of this "miracle drug"
@agingroy Biggest studies funded by the big pharma profit makers, I'll never trust them. meanwhile Mariano Barbacid was able to eliminate deadly pancreatic cancer in mice and can't get the funding for human trials I'll trust big Pharma when they throw their money into those studies
@agingroy Only facts we have are that metabolic disease is a huge contributor to cancer. Take that away and cancer goes down. "Talking directly to the cancer"when it's only been shown in tiny in vitro studies is misleading. Could say the same for aspirin statins antibiotics & so many drugs