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Avid Generalist & Fervidly Curious

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@theallinpod @DavidSacks @Jason how does such a smart guy take such a long time to figure this out.

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@AICyberHome @van00sa haha

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@rektmando hanging about in the Cascais area helps

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@PhilippeBaril2 @blockchainchick Who hurt you? Was it a transaction fee?

[Sérgio Oliveira @sfoliveira]

Carlos Manuel: “Perdemos porque confundimos uma seleção com um altar”.

[Daniel Filipe @Daniel_FilipeMR]

Tem que ser um analista de basquetebol a constatar aquilo que os "especialistas" de futebol em Portugal não são capazes de descortinar.

Grande @lucasdedirecta

[Chris @CWeatherspoon_]

Entire Portugal World Cup campaign was essentially a case study of football in service of a celebrity. An immensely talented group of players all made to kowtow to a 41-year-old acting like a child up front. Embarrassing

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

The culture wars over Cristiano Ronaldo - clearly no longer up to speed, but not the point - distract from Portugal's wider output which was utterly abysmal. Many of the world's most talented footballers in a dysfunctional, incoherent, disjointed, poorly-coached team.

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@LiebermanAustin sour puss

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@mikealfred Grande Cabo Verde. @mikealfred estudasses!

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

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@EricBalchunas @DylanByers @kowarski miau

[Bitcoin for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

A house in 1970 cost $23,000. The same house today costs $400,000. Wages since 1970 have grown 4x. House prices have grown 17x. This is not a housing crisis. This is what 56 years of broken money looks like in bricks and mortar.

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@bluewmist colonoscopy

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️A salary colonizes your time horizon.

That is the deeper truth.

Once your life is built on recurring payroll, you stop making decisions from conviction and start making them from continuity. You do not ask what is right, what is true, what is worth building, or what future you actually want. You ask what keeps the stream uninterrupted. That shift is everything. It turns a human life from directional into maintenance-based. The goal stops being creation and becomes non-disruption.

That is why salary is such an effective control technology. It does not need chains because it installs self-censorship. The employee learns to pre-eliminate dangerous thoughts before they ever become actions. Do not say that. Do not risk that. Do not leave yet. Do not start now. Do not offend the wrong person. Do not become unrecoverable. The system does not merely purchase hours. It shapes the boundaries of imagination.

And the trap gets tighter the more “successful” the person becomes. Higher salary often does not mean more freedom. It often means higher burn, higher social obligations, higher identity fusion, and a more expensive prison. The person mistakes rising compensation for rising sovereignty while their true dependence deepens. They can afford more and choose less. That is one of the cleanest lies in modern professional life.

The darkest layer is that salary reorganizes courage. It turns bravery into an unaffordable luxury. A person with no cushion can still be bold for a moment. A person whose entire household, status, family identity, and psychological stability depend on one stream usually cannot. The wage relation trains a person to fear interruption more than deadness. That is how people spend ten or twenty years living lives they privately know are wrong. Not because they are weak. Because the architecture around them has made deviation feel catastrophic.

And that is why most salaried people become defenders of structures they do not love. They are not paid enough to become free. They are paid enough to become invested in the avoidance of rupture. That is a very different thing.

The monthly deposit becomes a pacifier for deferred grief.

Each paycheck says the same thing: not yet. Not yet. Not yet.

Then a life passes.

That is the real leash.

It turns fear of losing income into fear of becoming who you actually are.

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@anyatrades panda

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@masterkyle13 @natbrunell @cuboplus @shakira @LaCajitaKitchen sniper

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@Ekalo25 @heraskevych stfu.

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@natbrunell @cuboplus @shakira @LaCajitaKitchen Shooting your shot. Love it