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[Bay jeonjjk @bayjeonjjk]

Jungkook Epik High'dan Tablo ve Dasan Jeong Yak-yong'un Hayata Dair Sözlerini içeren anlamlı bir gönderiyi yeniden paylaştı ❤️‍🩹;

Tablo'nun söylediği sözler arasında en havalı olanının şu olduğu söylenir: "Gerçekleşmeyen bir aşka bile 'aşk' diyebiliyorken, neden gerçekleşmeyen bir hayale 'başarısızlık' diyoruz?" İstediğiniz şeye ulaşamamış olsanız bile, eğer kalbinizde hâlâ küçük bir kıvılcım kalmışsa, o kıvılcım sizin harıl harıl yanan "hayalinizdir". Bu yüzden insan, hayallerini olabildiğince büyük tutmalıdır; çünkü o hayal kırıldığında bile geriye kalan parçaları büyük olur. Örneğin, sınıfta birinci olma hayali kurup bunu başaramasanız bile edindiğiniz bilgiler yok olup gitmez. Büyük bir şirkette işe girmeyi hayal edip sonunda kabul edilmeseniz bile, özgeçmişiniz için edindiğiniz deneyimler ve hazırlık süreci sizin en büyük varlığınız haline gelir. İşte bu yüzden, gerçekleşmeyecekmiş gibi görünse bile hayalleri büyük kurmak gerekir.

Nitekim ünlü düşünür Dasan Jeong Yak-yong da bu konuda şöyle demiştir: "Bir amacın varsa, buna ulaşamasan bile o amaç insanı zaten dimdik ayakta tutar." İnsanı gerçekten insan yapan şey, "bir amaca tutunarak yaşama kararlılığıdır". Yani bir şeyin gerçekleşmemiş olması, onun bir başarısızlık olduğu anlamına gelmez. Sonucu ne olursa olsun, elinden gelenin en iyisini yapan bir insan zaten çok önemli bir şey kazanmış demektir. Bu yüzden, birinin kendi hayalini gerçekleştirememiş olmasını ya da büyük hayaller kurmasını bir başarısızlık olarak görmemeli ve bununla alay etmemeliyiz. Dasan Jeong Yak-yong'un da belirttiği gibi: "Eğer bir amaç edinmezsen, başarabileceğin hiçbir şey yoktur." Haksız yere 18 yıl boyunca sürgünde kalmış olan Jeong Yak-yong öğretmenimizin söylediği her bir kelimede, yaşanmışlığın getirdiği o derin anlamı hissetmemek elde değil.

[kanishk @kaxishk]

never getting over the fact that teenage dream cover art was a painting… AI could never!

[Nicola Burkinshaw @NABurkinshaw]

Nick Cave responding to a grieving mother who worries that she forsaw, or perhaps even willed, the death of her young child is one of the most beautiful things you will read today.

[; @notliwen]

eh cb

[mary @elaine_stritch]

April is also National Poetry Month and this is a Gwendolyn Brooks poem that I keep close to my heart and think of often

[mary @elaine_stritch]

April is also National Poetry Month and this is a Gwendolyn Brooks poem that I keep close to my heart and think of often

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nestle just lost 413,793 KitKat bars. Someone stole them off a truck heading from their factory in central Italy to Poland, about 1,300 km away. Roughly $1 million in chocolate. The truck, the bars, all of it, just gone.

A European Parliament study puts cargo theft costs across Europe at €8.2 billion a year. That works out to about €2.5 million worth of goods disappearing from trucks and warehouses every 24 hours.

The industry group TAPA tracked 157,421 cargo thefts across 129 countries between 2022 and 2024. Only 6% of those included how much was actually taken, and that 6% alone added up to €2.7 billion. The real number is way bigger.

Germany gets hit the hardest. DHL's own data shows that a truckload is stolen every 20 minutes there, costing roughly €2.2 billion a year. The fastest-growing method is "phantom carriers," where criminal groups register fake trucking companies with forged documents, show up at warehouses with legit-looking paperwork, load the cargo, and drive off. No weapons, no break-ins. Just forged IDs and a clipboard. The German Insurance Association logged 88 phantom carrier cases in the first seven months of 2025, matching the total for the previous year.

Food is the most-stolen category in Europe, accounting for 10-20% of all cargo thefts. Chocolate is a top target because it doesn't spoil, everyone wants it, and it sells fast on unofficial markets. 20 tonnes of Nutella and Kinder Eggs were stolen in Germany in 2017. A crime ring that moved 287 tonnes of Swiss chocolate worth $8 million over the course of 2014. 20 tonnes of Milka were taken from an Austrian factory in 2019 using forged pickup papers.

Timing makes this one sting. Cocoa went from about $2,400 per ton three years ago to over $12,600 in late 2024. Prices have dropped to around $5,000-$6,000 in early 2026, but that's still double the historical average. In Poland, where these bars were headed, chocolate retail prices jumped 32.6% last year according to EU data. The product is worth stealing right now more than at almost any point in the past decade.

Nestlé says each bar has a scannable code that routes back to the company. Decent tracking. But when €2.5 million in cargo disappears from European supply chains every single day, 413,793 KitKat bars are a rounding error.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Thai food is treacherous because it sneaks up on you. If you take a bite of a hot Mexican salsa it's WOWEE that was hot! and you can back off.

But your first bite of a spicy Thai dish isn't really that hot you can take it and then the next bite is additive - just a little bit more still not too bad and then ten bites in you realize your horrible mistake and there's no way to back out, you just have to fight your way through to the other side.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. The dancing is the tamest part of the story. Marine biologist Amanda Vincent has spent decades studying seahorses, and what’s underneath that morning ritual goes way deeper than a cute video.

The morning ritual lasts about 6 minutes. Both seahorses brighten their skin, link tails, and pirouette around a shared piece of coral or seagrass. Researchers call it “the carousel dance.” But it has a specific biological function: it synchronizes their reproductive cycles so the female’s eggs are ready the exact moment the male’s brood pouch is empty. That timing matters because the male can’t accept new eggs while he’s already pregnant.

The male gets pregnant. The female transfers her eggs into his pouch through an organ called an ovipositor (a tube for depositing eggs). The whole transfer takes about 6 seconds. His pouch seals shut immediately. Inside, he grows a network of blood vessels that works almost exactly like a human placenta, delivering oxygen and nutrients to up to 1,000 developing embryos. Research from the University of Sydney, published in the journal Placenta, found the pouch wall thins and builds new blood vessels during pregnancy in ways that closely mirror what happens in a mammalian uterus.

He gives birth using skeletal muscles, not smooth muscles like in mammalian labor. That means he has conscious control over the process. Labor can take hours. And within hours of delivering up to 1,000 fully formed babies, he’s ready to mate again. The female already has her next batch of eggs prepared, sometimes the same day.

Less than 0.5% of those babies survive to adulthood. Fewer than 5 out of every 1,000. No parental care after birth. They get swept into ocean currents, eaten by crabs, or starve before they find food. That survival rate is why the morning dance matters so much. Every lost mating cycle is hundreds of offspring that never existed.

The monogamy is extraordinary for a fish. Only about 3% of mammals form lasting partnerships. For fish, it’s rarer still. But in species like the Australian H. whitei, pairs are genetically monogamous across multiple breeding seasons. They greet each other every morning and ignore other seahorses entirely. The bond only breaks when one partner disappears. Amanda Vincent once watched a female keep visiting a male whose brood pouch had been punctured by a predator, making pregnancy impossible. She showed up every morning for weeks until his pouch healed. Then they remated.

About 150 million seahorses are pulled from the ocean every year for traditional medicine and the pet trade. Most pet seahorses don’t last six weeks. 14 of the 47 known species were only identified in this century, meaning we’re losing populations of animals we barely knew existed.

[renata 🎷🐅 ADL AVCON JULY 4-5 ✨ @gremren_]

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥

[James Shields @scaling_shields]

my uber driver last night makes more from his passengers than uber pays him to drive them

picked me up at 11pm in marbella

car was spotless
smelled like cleaning products
QR code taped to the headrest

"whats the QR code for"

"my detailing business. you need your car cleaned?"

"nah im good. but whats the business?"

he pulled over and showed me his phone

live booking calendar

4 appointments already scheduled for tomorrow

€150-200 per car

all from people who sat in his uber and scanned the code

the play:

he drives uber 4-5 hours a day in wealthy areas

every passenger sits in a spotless car that smells like a showroom for 15 minutes

QR code on the headrest goes to a booking page

he shows up at their house next day and details their car in the driveway

90 minutes per car
4-5 cars per day
€150-200 each

"uber is my lead gen. they sit in my work for 15 minutes. if its clean they trust me. i dont need ads or a website. the car sells itself"

last month:

- drove 140 uber rides
- 38 people scanned the QR code
- 22 booked appointments
- average job: €170
- detailing revenue: €3,740
- uber revenue: €980

makes nearly 4x more from the passengers than uber pays him to carry them

"doesnt uber have rules against this"

"probably. i dont read the terms"

"what if someone reports you"

"then i drive for bolt. same thing"

no ads
no content
no website
no marketing budget

a €6 QR code sticker from amazon and a car that smells like his portfolio

most people would hear this and spend 6 months building a brand and a website and an instagram page

marcus bought a sticker and started the same week

the best marketing in the world is 15 minutes of someone experiencing your work

he just figured out that uber gives him that for free

and pays him while it happens

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

I recently met an interesting manager.
He lets his staff use their PTO and sick time.

He doesn't need much explanation—no guilt, no essays, no begging.
They use a shared calendar. They put their own time off in. He doesn't care if it’s same-day.

The only rule is: as long as the office is covered, take your time.
They do not get paid enough for him to be micromanaging who takes a nap or goes to a dentist appointment.

Because of that, his retention is amazing. His staff shows up for him because he shows up for them.

Another thing, if you’re getting your work done and hitting your deadlines, he doesn't care if he walks past your office and you’re watching TikToks or texting in between.

He says he is not the phone police. Do your job and handle your business.
Also, please don’t come to him announcing you’re “done for the day.” If you finish early, just look productive until it’s time to go.

He doesn't have the time or energy to invent busywork when it's almost 5 p.m.

[sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹 @simscircuit]

Did not expect a question that starts out 'Do you think before you speak?' to go so well. A+ question from Charlotte Harpur A++ response from Eileen Gu.

[•Mel•🏂 @DrMel_]

Spontaneously asked a pretty girl out, she accepted and we had one of the best nights I’ve had this year.. we’re talking and she’s making it easy for me, asking questions and literally being open

Guess who’s waiting for the other shoe to drop, guess who’s looking for faults to classify her as “not my type” lol

Sometimes trauma shows up even when you think you’ve healed, your ability to spot it and do something about it tells how much healing has actually happened

[oog @oog84__]

fru ask oog: "how you forgive someone who not sorry?"

oog quiet long time.

oog: "you ever carry heavy rock up hill?"

fru: "yeah."

oog: "whole way up. arms burning. legs burning. and rock not even YOUR rock. someone put it in your hand and walk away."

fru: "..."

oog: "forgiveness is not handing rock back to them. they gone. they not taking it. forgiveness is just. putting rock down. on ground. walking away without it."

fru: "so they get away with it."

oog: "they already got away with it fru. question is. you going to carry their rock to your own grave?"

fru look at hands.

long quiet.

fru: "hard to put down."

oog: "hardest thing oog ever do. oog put down slow. over long time. some day oog pick it back up without meaning to. then put down again."

fru: "it get lighter?"

oog: "you get stronger. not same thing. but better thing."

love, oog

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This line hits 10x harder when you know the backstory of who said it.

Alysa Liu just won the first American women’s Olympic figure skating gold in 24 years. Two days ago. She’s 20.

She became the youngest U.S. women’s national champion at 13. Won two senior titles by 14. Landed the first quadruple jump by an American woman. By every external metric, she’d already won.

Then at 16, she quit. Her father said she was “traumatized” and “wouldn’t go near the ice rink.” She’d been dropped off at the rink since age 5, told what to do, what to eat, what music to skate to. Eleven years of elite performance without a single year of agency.

A ski trip brought her back. In January 2024, she went skiing for the first time and felt an adrenaline rush she hadn’t felt since leaving skating. She got on the ice that same month, landed a double axel and triple salchow like she’d never left.

The Alysa Liu who returned is a structurally different athlete than the one who left. She picks her own music. She designs her own costumes. She controls her training load. Her coach said before she was “dropped off and told what to do.” Now everything is collaborative. She fired her own father from the operation.

The word doing all the work in that quote is “I.” She chose the struggle this time. The version of her that grinded from age 5 to 16 under someone else’s plan collapsed at the Olympics, finishing sixth. The version that walked away, got her driver’s license, cuddled her cat, attended birthday parties, and then voluntarily returned? Olympic champion in 22 months.

Every burned-out founder, athlete, and overachiever should study this timeline. Agency was the only variable that changed. Same athlete, same coach, same sport. Add ownership, subtract obligation, and a sixth-place finisher becomes a gold medalist.

[L. David Fairchild @David_Fairchild]

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.

That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?

The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.

[oog @oog84__]

people say “time heals.”

time does nothing. time just pass. what heal is what you DO inside the time. oog know oog who still bleeding from wound twenty season old because they just… waited. time is empty cave. you decide what live in it.

love, oog