Greg Porto

Karate Instructor * Former investment Banker

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

Learning to spar (martial arts, boxing) where u are taking hits is necessary for men.

Why? You learn to stay calm under the worst kind of pressure - physical threat

I'm not saying where you get brain damaged...

Just enough so that you brain sees that punch, kick, clench and says 'I'm going to protect myself and fight back'

In a focused, calm, quick and capable way

Learn this and you can handle anything.

[nomadgeist @nomadgeist]

Learn to fight well, take up any martial art that involves actively (and realistically) resisting other men in sparring on a regular basis, and just keep going no matter how much you hate it. We really underestimate how much of male confidence is rooted in primal survival ability

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@MyLatinLife hiring a lawyer, anywhere , even in the US, for anything serious - high stakes economics, criminal , liability - requires hired a connected lawyer
Do they have a relationship with the judges, regulators, etc - connections and influence matter just as much as competence

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@financedystop When the power goes out and they can’t use the phone / iPad, they become kids again…

Making games out of anything they find around the house

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@Cernovich I am not psychologically designed to be a minority investor with ‘maybe, kind of , some day’ liquidity rights / options.

I accept and embrace my personality.

I focus on what is first (!) a fit with me personally and I am at peace

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@MyLatinLife Next easiest is Italian.
But that is not the next most practical..
....unless you are an artist or like to argue about everything

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

At least in the US we have embedded in our roots, what President Lincoln described as

“government of the people, by the people, for the people”

Bloated bureaucracy and institutional corruption have diminished that somewhat, but the foundation is there.

That is not the way most governments think

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[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

Spain will make it illegal to invoice with an Excel spreadsheet in 2027

I’m not exaggerating. This is a real law

The plan was this. Every self employed person has to buy government certified invoicing software. From 2026 on, you can’t use things like Word, Excel or a PDF to invoice your clients

Only certified software that reports each invoice to the tax authority in real time, the moment you create it

Use a spreadsheet instead? The fine is up to €50,000 per year. This is not for hiding income btw. Just for owning the wrong software

To make things even worse, it was supposed to be mandatory in 2026

So thousands of small businesses did the responsible thing. They panicked, they paid for the software, they retrained their staff, they rebuilt their entire invoicing on a tight deadline because Hacienda told them to…

Then, less than a month before it kicked in, the government pushed the whole thing back a year

Read that again

Companies had already spent real money preparing for a deadline that suddenly evaporated. Following the rules was an expensive mistake

This is the Spanish system in one story. Invent an absurd requirement. Threaten you with a €50,000 fine. Make you pay to comply. Then move the goalposts and punish the ones who took it seriously

This is why I left

I’m done paying to be allowed to do my own work, and paying again when they change their mind

[Lancesico 🇱🇨 @Bornakang]

Reason #5059 why women live longer than men

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@hispanicnomad Warning sign - the trains will start running on time 🤣

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@girdley It is the best hamburger and fries.
It’s always been more expensive.
It’s a luxury burger

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

AI ought to be able to scan social media accounts, give police advance notice and preempt this.

Throw organizers and their parents in jail with harsh sentences.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!

An absolutely MASSIVE "teen-takeover" at Clearwater Beach in Florida led to a 17-year-old being hospitalized with GUNSHOT WOUNDS.

Hundreds of teens swarmed the beach, then began BEATING EACH OTHER on the FIRST WEEKEND OF SUMMER.

WHERE ARE THE PARENTS?!!!!!!!!!

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@jaynitx If he wants to form a ‘shitty employee’ club, I’ll sign up.

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@GayBearRes @ControGorilla Parents need to be reasonable. I went through the same thing. Unfortunately in my case there was no reasoning. It was extremely difficult, no way around that . But if you lay out a solution that works, and they don’t want to do it, you cannot sacrifice your life and family.

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@TexasRose1836 @Cernovich There’s a cultural reluctance among many traditional Protestants to talk about their faith openly.
I’m talking about the ones who belive the bauble is the word of God, not the watered down woke mainline Protestant denominations.

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@PretentiousT10 @BowTiedBull Every messed up kid I knew was shipped off to prep school in New England , where they perfected their substance abuse problems

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@Iberian_America jaja, can do that in many cities, the bad guys sleep late!

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@Jason______A Like trying to save a drowning person , if you’re not careful, they’ll pull you under with them

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

There are two kinds of national anthems.

The ones you politely applaud, and the one Metallica played before Game 4 of the '16 Stanley Cup Final. There is no third kind.

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

“Money goes a long way when nobody steals “

[Freedom Journal @sv_journal]

Los avances en la infraestructura de El Salvador no se detienen. “El dinero alcanza cuando nadie roba.”

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@StraightFlorida Florida, I understand. It’s California I don’t understand.

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@ExpatChron @Iberianamerica La necesidad de decir estadounidense en vez de americano es ridículo

[Greg Porto @GregPorto]

@GoodVeganPizza @BoringBiz_ Yeah, my professor friend’s solution…. Go back to using written answers in blue books for exams.