Lev Peker

Husband. Father. CEO

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[Lev Peker @LevPeker]

@vermilionpixie This didn’t age well

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life

The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

AI startup CFO, CEO, CMO, and CTO

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Finance, Sales, Marketing, IT

[Herbert 0-3 vs Lawrence @BoldCityCap]

Found another one, friends. Swede discovers “Ranch sauce”.

[Пр��ф. Преображенский @prof_preobr]

"Мы движемся очень быстро, хорошим темпом, но, к сожалению, не в ту сторону".
Это сказал на форуме в Петербурге глава набсовета Мосбиржи Швецов. ��н имел в виду российский фондовый рынок, который не растёт, а падает.
Но его слова применимы ко всей экономике РФ.

Фондовый рынок, впрочем, наглядно иллюстрирует суть происходящего. Путин издал указ о том, что капитализация фондового рынка РФ должна вырасти до 66% от ВВП к 2030 году. Понимаете? Государство на полном серьёзе считает, что стоимость акций компаний можно установить указом президента. Путин же не сам этот указ написал на листочке, его готовил и согласовывал аппарат.
То есть государство берёт абсурдную предпосылку, выводит из неё абсурдную цель, а п��том начинает требовать реализации этого абсурда.

Реальность, разумеется, ровно противоположна. Капитализация фондового рынка РФ падает, сейчас она едва дотягивает до 20% ВВП. Весь российский фондовый рынок суммарно стоит в 2 раза меньше, чем одна-единственная компания Tesla. Об этом и говорил Швецов.
Но все, включая самого Швецова, продолжают делать вид, что работают на установленную Путиным абсурдную цель.

И так во всём.
Путин поставил абсурдную цель в 1000 гражданских самолётов, и теперь Чемезов регулярно докладывает, как целые отрасли на эту цель "работают". Хотя понятно, что она абсурдна, что ни 1000, ни 500, ни даже 300 самолётов не выпустят.
Путин поставил абсурдную цель залить ВПК деньгами, и теперь Греф с Костиным регулярно докладывают о финансировании ВПК, хотя это выброшенные деньги.
Путин поставил абсурдную цель наполнить бюджет за счёт роста налогов, и Силуанов побежал выполнять. Хотя сам Силуанов прекрасно понимал, что это абсурд, что бюджет так не наполнить, а вот миллионы людей поставить на грань банкротства - очень даже. И так и вышло: бизнесы закрыввются, а дыра в бюджете растёт.

Проблема не в том, что Путин несёт околесицу, когда говорит об экономике, в которой ни черта не понимает.
Проблема в том, что государство и даже бизнес пытаются эту самую околесицу претворить в жизнь.

[ZubastyCat @ZubastyCat]

Вице-премьер России заявил, что песок на пляжах Анапы чище, чем на Лазурном берегу. Об этом Дмитрий Чернышенко рассказал в интервью ТАСС во время ПМЭФ.

А какая вода – не рассказал. Забыл, наверное.

[Lev Peker @LevPeker]

@Sakuravu7a @SoarAI I thought anything with AI in its name is better.

[Lev Peker @LevPeker]

@themichaelkonen @SoarAI If it has ai on the name it must be better

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[ Q-Cap  @qcapital2020]

This is an excellent interview btw

Nicolai (Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund CEO) asks the IBM CEO if AI a bubble

Listen very very carefully to his answer

[MindBranches @MindBranches]

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How to fix your entire life in 1 day

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[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

people aren’t celebrating this pancreatic cancer breakthrough enough. it should be international news

[Lev Peker @LevPeker]

@OwenShroyer1776 The sad part is that many Americans will think that this is talking about aliens from outer space

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

I see two takes when it comes to Russia:
— Putin's regime is collapsing as we watch
— It will never fall

Both are wrong. Here's what is actually happening.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[⭐️Oles Filonenko⭐️ @FilonenkoOles]

Русские больше не готовы терпеть. Путин и камарилья заебли уже всех

[жозефина бонапард @gozefinagold]

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