jorge

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[signüll @signulll]

apple may have one quality no other tech company has truly mastered which is patience.

the willingness to wait it out & even having that leverage without feeling public fomo shows how durable / profound of a business they have.

also if you're john ternus, you're taking over a $5t company as ceo, i can't imagine that pressure.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@YIMBYLAND Ummm wut

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@martindelp parece que fue algún tipo de bot / grupo; la misma cuenta puso más de 1000 apuestas en una hora. Según openclaw:

“Trade count + cadence: ~1,681 trades in ~64 minutes, with hundreds in the last 5 minutes before kickoff. That’s not human manual behavior.”

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@martindelp @MartinoliCuri @nikitabier and team have been actively penalizing accounts that do this recently. I think if you tag him and get his attention you might be even get some of the monetization back.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

it finally happened 🥹

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

really cool to see Starlink take off in Mexico. From our Airbnb in Puerto Escondido, to random little hostels all over, to intercity buses.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@mcuban @tjparker I’d be curious if there’s any evidence that this would create real harms. Seems like we should be able to tell by looking at countries with more liberal OTC policies (eg Mexico).

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@JoosyJew v2 in my gym

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@s8mb And if congestion really did get much worse in city centers, you could always introduce a congestion charge and use that to fund transit or other infrastructure. Win-win 😁

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@martindelp Habiendo vivido en los dos por muchos años, y viviendo actualmente en Europa, estoy de acuerdo con el tema calidad de vida pero también es cierto que nos hemos rezagado en cuanto a crecimiento económico comparado con EEUU y creo que es importante priorizar cerrar esa brecha.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@michelleefang I’ll take one 👀

[bernoulli_defect @BernoulliDefect]

Great post.

I can’t help notice the case for libertarianism getting stronger, if only due to the lack of competence in British political institutions.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

⚽ 90'+3' | 1-2 | Gol de Martinelli.

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

Time for the @Aella_Girl <> @patio11 crossover episode we’ve all been waiting for

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

Maybe my least libertarian opinion is I think that if payment processors are hosting over a certain volume of transactions, they should not be allowed to refuse transactions that are not illegal

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@SCP_Hughes There are some really good ones in a different style in Bermondsey/Shad Thames

[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@martindelp Creo tiene que ver también con la profundidad del plantel. No hay estrellas nivel Cardozo, Gignac, o hasta un Cabañas, pero todo el equipo es de buena calidad y cuando alguien baja su nivel parece que siempre hay alguien que lo reemplace de buena forma

[Club América @ClubAmerica]

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[jorge @JorgeLaing]

@mprkhrst @amasad send it please!