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[Aporia @aporia9n]

Madrid is speedrunning the “superstar city” cycle.

For decades it was a stunning capital but still strangely local, Spanish and underrated vs London, Paris or NYC.

Then post-Covid, everything changed. Rich Americans moving in. LATAM money. Luxury hotels. F1. International schools. Coffee shops. Private members clubs. €8 pistachio lattes.

Now house prices are +62% in 5 years, rents +64%, and locals are protesting because the city is becoming a lifestyle product for people who don’t actually need to live there.

This is basically what happened to Lisbon/Barcelona/NYC/London, but compressed into one post-Covid cycle.

This is the tragedy of great cities: the more desirable they become, the less they belong to the people who made them desirable.

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Stella Okoli, the founder of Emzor Pharmaceuticals, how Obasanjo always engaged all the manufacturers in Nigeria.

During Obasanjo 's regime, all manufacturers in Nigeria used to have a meeting with the president in Aso Rock every Saturday.

The meeting was to discuss about manufacturers' challenges and how to drive the economy forward.

It was during that time he assisted Otedola,Tony Elumelu and Dangote.

That meeting quietly fizzled out and none is being held today.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[fyrwox @fyrwox]

@EuginhoCortez After destroying their cities they'll move to red states that are thriving in search of a better environment and opportunities then go on to vote communist again because it's the 'morally right' thing to do.

[Kessiena Redemption Isaac @writewithkess]

@readswithravi Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

—Matthew 6:34

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

@k0ncept Remove every politician tomorrow and surgery still happens, the grid stays up, rockets still launch, food still gets harvested. Remove the doctors, engineers, farmers, and operators instead and civilization ends within the week.

[BIG HYCE @thehyce]

do not marry a woman who does not know how to be bored!

[blue @bluewmist]

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE CERTAIN I AM THAT WE KNEW EXACTLY WHO WE WERE WHEN WE WERE LITTLE, AND THEN ADULTS TALKED US OUT OF IT

[Oil Co Intern @OilCoIntern]

Single women sway left with the peer group vibes

Dating a man? ‘I’m not really into politics’

Married? Quietly right-leaning while playing centrist

Then kids hit: Mom’s loading the family into the 6-ton grocery hauler with a ‘Protected by 2A and Prayer’ sticker, suddenly obsessed with the gubernatorial race

Many such cases

[Alexander Augustine @WurzelRoot]

what the fuck does this even mean? my grandma didn't have 50 bodies by 22 like half of gen z

[fyrwox @fyrwox]

@cknze1 @samson_samsen When a woman can't collect the world from a man, she wants him to give her his next best thing. His dignity.

[fyrwox @fyrwox]

Lagos doesn't even have any economic model that's inherently superior to other states.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

@PetinaVox With the money we don’t steal.

[Daquan Wiltshire DSG 🤘🏾🐝 @DAQUANDSG]

As a man, you have to experience what it’s like to have an abundance of options at least once in your life. It’s so much easier to understand why women treat men the way they do. A lot of men can’t get even one woman to match with them, so they couldn’t fathom having multiple women trying to get their attention. You’ll end up matching with and ignoring or ghosting plenty, flaking on dates, entertaining conversations you know will lead nowhere, basically everything women do to men. You won’t fault them as much once you’ve been in their shoes

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.

[fyrwox @fyrwox]

@Olu_Lumotz Praising a player actually builds their confidence. Makes them more comfortable with the ball.

From that confidence comes your ability to play your best football.

[fyrwox @fyrwox]

Nothing new is being produced.

You are experiencing behaviors you never knew existed.

[M. P. Ireol @MPIreol]

I think modern society is producing entirely new forms of human behavior faster than people can psychologically process them.

That is what I spend most of my time studying here.

Follow if these ideas interest you.

[Sxnti @PeakSxnti]

I’ve said this over the years that academy players break into the first team for three major reasons:

Injury crisis
Financial crisis
Generational talent

The only generational talent to break into Barcelona’s first team in the last few years is Lamine Yamal. Around 80% of the rest wouldn’t have played that much if it weren’t for the financial crisis. It’s no surprise that the moment money entered their hands, they forgot La Masia existed and were ready to spend €80M on Anthony Gordon.

If there’s no injury crisis or financial crisis, and the talent isn’t generational, most academy products would be sold to inferior teams for pure profit.