Mark Friend

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Trump: I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran. I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran.

Markets:

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Give a man free sex, entertainment, and comfort, and he’ll forget his goals.

Give him pain and heartbreak, and he’ll feel like conquering the world.

Dear bro, hard times are a blessing, not a curse.

[Don’t Follow Shardi B If You Hate Money @ShardiB2]

This is why I have a hard time hiring remote employees

And then it becomes a job to stay on top of them

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Billionaire investor Ron Baron explained the silent math destroying your wealth:

Your money loses 4 to 5% of its purchasing power every single year. The economy grinds higher at roughly 2%. That is a relentless 7% headwind against you, annually.

What that really means. Prices double every 10 to 12 years. Your savings are cut in half in real terms within about 15 years. Cash sitting idle is not safe, it is decaying.

The system is structurally engineered to punish savers and force capital into risk just to survive.

[Kris Kay | 🎲 444 Capital @thekriskay]

tech stocks not even close to dot-com mania.

"everyone should be excited, you can now buy at a cheaper price" - Jensen

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

The market right now

[Micro2Macr0 @Micro2Macr0]

This is very close to the time frame.

[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

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

Genuinely curious to hear everyone’s thoughts on this…

[La Píldora Roja @LaPildoraRed]

“You’re not virtuous. You’re harmless. You’re like a rabbit. Rabbit isn’t virtuous. It can’t do anything except get eaten. It’s not virtuous. If you’re a monster and you don’t act monstrously, then you’re virtuous. But you also have to be a monster. The hero has to be a monster” – Jordan Peterson

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

I reached this conclusion 20 years ago via philosophy and religion.

The three-dimensional meat sacks we inhabit severely limit our ability to experience the universe.

We assume that “aliens” must also be meat sacks, but our type of embodied consciousness might be rare and low on universal food chain.

For Christians, God tells us this explicitly in Isaiah 55:8-9:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways.
As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Most people gloss over this verse, but I call it “the first principle of Christianity.” God isn’t an old bearded man sitting on a cloud. He is infinitely beyond our comprehension—we literally can’t even speculate what that means.

Science increasingly suggests that consciousness is a field (not a local phenomena) and our particular embodied form is a “VR headset”.

To me, this points to an afterlife beyond these meat sacks.

The truth is we don’t know and never will. All we can do is choose our beliefs—that’s what faith is.

[Crypto Tea @Cryptotea]

S&P 500 closes at new ATH again

crypto guys:

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[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

Happy pride month to all the men who don’t own Bitcoin

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[Mark Friend @markwfriend]

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