pi.mento mori

Did what I did, got what I got.
Past Lives Include: USN Submariner, Tech Sales, Data Center, Real Estate.
Now: Construction. Armchair Philosopher.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God Bless America

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@cosyposter

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@RealDonKeith The best you can do with this kid is show compassion and remorse, one day in his future he will remember the look of pity on your face and put it together, and change his mind. Kid really needs a spanking and a hug from someone who loves him.

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@Polymarket The "China AI Race" and resource hogging of data center construction feels like a narrative to push the space-based AI data center funding forward. Especially in front of a Space-X IPO.

[Jim Breuer @JimBreuer]

Everything comes and goes. The only question is what are you doing with the time in between.

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

You guys absolutely need to see this! This is Rodney Smith Jr and through his organization he’s connected 6000 children to help in the community by mowing lawns for free for those in need.

This is what real patriotism and community service looks like! Let’s get him to DC!

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

a horror movie made for $750,000 is about to become one of the most profitable films ever made.

Obsession - shot in 20 days in Alabama by a 26-year-old YouTuber with no stars in the cast - is now eyeing a $250 million+ box office finish. that's a return north of 300 times its budget. it's already the highest-grossing release in Focus Features history.

now look at what the industry spent that same money on:
- Joker: Folie a Deux - ~$200 million budget. a punchline.
- Mickey 17 - ~$118 million. forgotten in a month.
- The Mandalorian & Grogu - $165 million, 7 years, the entire Lucasfilm machine. it's currently losing the weekday box office to... Obsession.

Hollywood keeps insisting you need $200 million, a pre-sold IP, and a marketing budget the size of a small country to make a hit. then a guy with a camera, a wish-granting toy, and three weeks in Alabama outearned all of them on a rounding error of their catering bill.

the most profitable movie of the year cost less than a single second of screen time in the average blockbuster. turns out audiences never wanted the budget. they wanted a good movie.

[RxCKSTxR @therxckstxr]

Gary The Gibbon Out Here Hustlin! RxCKSTxR Comedy Voiceover.

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@nicksortor Love it

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@OwenShroyer1776 Sunday, 4 hours meal prep, no cooking or $20 sandwiches all week. Go cook and stop pushing narratives dude.

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@AutismCapital Courage

[Tatum Turn Up @tatumturnup]

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@BRICSinfo Kinda inaccurate and misleading. Trump share's Russia and China's interest in breaking down the hegemony in favor of regional spheres of influence. US cannot afford the status quo: https://t.co/3nnYbjmuDU

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@realjoshuareid @elonmusk @Tianmere maybe we don't understand the nature of reality and so this whole question is moot.

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Man Who Got Rich by Failing at Everything.

In 1790s America, a barely literate leather worker named Timothy Dexter bought up mountains of worthless Continental currency, paper money from the Revolution that everyone treated like trash. His neighbors thought he'd gone mad. Then the new U.S. government honored the old notes. Overnight, Dexter was rich.

His rivals, furious and baffled, decided to bankrupt him through bad advice. They told him to ship bed warmers to the West Indies, a tropical region where no one needed heated beds. Dexter did it. His ship captain sold them as molasses ladles to sugar plantations. Massive profit. They told him to send wool mittens to the same place. Asian traders bought the entire shipment and exported them to Siberia. They told him to send coal to Newcastle, England, the coal capital of the world. His ship arrived during a miners' strike. He sold every last lump at a premium.

Dexter declared himself "Lord Timothy Dexter, First in the East, First in the West, and the Greatest Philosopher in the Known World." He built a mansion in Newburyport, Massachusetts, lined with 40 wooden statues of famous figures, George Washington, Napoleon, and himself. At age 50, he wrote a book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: 8,847 words without a single punctuation mark. When readers complained, his second edition included an extra page of nothing but periods and commas, with a note telling readers to "pepper and salt it as they pleased."

Then he faked his own death. About 3,000 people showed up to mourn him. When Dexter noticed his wife wasn't crying, he leapt from hiding and berated her for insufficient grief. He died for real in 1806, still wealthy, still ridiculous, still undefeated by every scheme designed to destroy him.

History's greatest proof that sometimes the universe just picks a guy and refuses to let him lose.

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@CopyRebeldia Skyrim

[🅱️ete oaks @b0newalljackson]

every single thing about this video is funny to me

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

"I don't wanna lose you as a customer" 😂😂😂😂

[pi.mento mori @TimothyNurre]

@libsoftiktok Nobody saw this coming.