@RnaudBertrand Old adage: "some people are so poor that the only thing that they have is their money". In case of those kids even money are not theirs.
@RealEmirHan In the movie he says to the guy: "Много говоришь" (You talking a lot). It was spot on for the guy from Russian prison culture. Mickey Rourke did his homework for sure.
@k_on_warlord My grand-grandpa was a machinegunner at WW2 and used to praise german soldiers as good ones. He said they could crawl faster than you could run. Come to think about it, pervitin coud've contributed to this.
Evidence of exceptional ability and asking how they solved hard problems down to the brass tacks level is what matters.
Those who actually deserve credit know the details of the solution, because it was so hard it got seared into their brain. The phonies and posers who falsely claim credit will flounder at the second or third level of detail.
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
Charlie Munger: "I won't play in a game where the other people are wise and I'm stupid. I look for a place where I'm wise and they're stupid. And, believe me, it works better."
"God bless our stupid competitors. They make us rich."
Charlie Munger: "One of my favorite tricks is the inversion process."
"If somebody hired me to fix India, I would immediately say, 'What could I do if I really wanted to hurt India?' I'd figure out all the things that could most easily hurt India — and then I'd figure out how to avoid them."
"It works better frequently to invert the problem."
I remember reading a classified booklet for Navy SEALs (I think?) on how to handle/survive in serious crisis situations. Like in a t3rror attack or finding yourself kidn4pped in a bunker or whatever.
The primary directive golden rule in a crisis/dire situation, it said, was to only focus on the next step - sometimes it's just surviving the next 10 seconds. Anything else can & will come after.
I believe this is almost always the case, it's just that when we're not under serious threat, we mistakenly think and feel as if we have all the time and resources to not be serious (illusion).
Women are born at the top of the mountain. Men are born in the valleys around it. A man is judged by how high he climbs. A woman is judged by how far she falls. Men have much to gain. Women have much to lose.
Masculinity is built. Femininity is preserved.
@reptomaniac@prophethusband it sounds weak by default. When you hear "n*gger", you can't guess. He might be dumb, he might be tough - you don't know. Your thing sounds whimpy.
@TateTheTalisman lol, don't forget about lawsuits and divorces
Even if you are extremely rich guy or even the head of the state for that matter - you shouldn't relax your asshole.