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Bitcoin holder since 2013, software developer and political nihilist.
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Girino Vey! 5 hours ago
image In 1848, engineers planning the first permanent bridge across the Niagara Gorge faced a basic but dangerous problem. They had no safe way to get an initial line across the nearly 250-meter wide chasm below Niagara Falls. The gorge was too deep for boats, the currents were violent, and walking or climbing across was impossible. Without a first line, construction could not even begin. To solve this, a kite-flying contest was organized on the American side of the gorge. A young local boy successfully flew a kite across the gap, allowing its thin string to be secured on both sides. That string was then used to pull across a thicker cord, followed by progressively stronger ropes. Each replacement increased the load capacity until heavy cables could finally be drawn across the gorge. Those cables became the basis for a temporary footbridge, which allowed workers to begin construction of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, completed in 1855 under engineer John A. Roebling. The bridge later carried rail traffic and directly influenced Roebling’s work on the Brooklyn Bridge. What started with a kite became a key step in modern suspension bridge engineering. #history #niagrafalls #WittyHistorian Source:
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Girino Vey! 7 hours ago
image The Conventional Wisdom Was Clear For decades, academics insisted commons resources faced only two solutions: government control or complete privatization. The "tragedy of the commons" was treated as gospel. Communities managing shared resources themselves? Dismissed as naive fantasy. Then Elinor Ostrom asked a simple question: What if we looked at what is actually happening? She Studied Reality, Not Theory Ostrom traveled to fishing villages, irrigation systems, and forest communities worldwide. She documented hundreds of cases where communities successfully managed shared resources for generations. No central planners. No privatization. Just voluntary cooperation and locally adapted rules. She proved cooperation doesn't require state coercion. In 2009, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for doing it. Her Legacy Lives On at Students For Liberty Ostrom showed that rigorous research and intellectual honesty can challenge establishment consensus. She proved that patient scholarship can shift entire paradigms. Social change doesn't happen through activism alone. It requires an intellectual foundation. That's exactly why SFL created Ostrom House for Academia & Reasearch. Named in her honor, it's designed for students who want to advance liberty through deep intellectual work. Ostrom House is Where Future Scholars Are Built → Focused retreats developing research skills and rigorous thinking. → Mentorship from established scholars in classical liberal thought. → Training in philosophy, economics, and effective communication. The goal: cultivating scholars who can shape academic discourse for decades. Intellectual Impact Takes Different Forms Not everyone advances liberty the same way. Some build businesses. Others shape policy. Some change culture through media. And some, like Ostrom, change how entire disciplines think about fundamental problems. That's why we created the House System. Each House provides focused training for different paths. Bastiat House → Politics & Law Hazlitt House → Media & Journalism Spooner House → Entrepreneurship & Business Ostrom House → Academia & Research Douglass House → Activism & Organizing Your path determines your training, mentorship, and community. Discover Which House Fits You Whether you're drawn to academic research like Ostrom, or policy, media, entrepreneurship, or organizing; there's a House designed for your strengths. Take our 60-second assessment and discover which liberty house matches your leadership style. 👉 https://buff.ly/WFBqQoM Now tell us in the comments: if you joined Ostrom House, what issues concerning freedom, cooperation, or institutions would your research focus on? Source:
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Girino Vey! 7 hours ago
The boss is always struggling 社長はいつも大変 By subscribing, you can see lots of our private photos and videos that are exclusive to subscribers. We would be so happy if you subscribed. サブスクに登録するとサブスク限定のプライベートな写真や動画が沢山見れます！ぜひ登録してね！ 居酒屋 哉月 名古屋市中区栄五丁目3-4 栄ゴールドビル1A TEL052-746-9960 Sakae Gold Building 1A, 3-4 Sakae 5-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya #funny #funnyvideos Source:
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Girino Vey! 7 hours ago
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Girino Vey! 7 hours ago
image Everyone nods when you say “separation of church and state.” But what about money and state? Education and state? Business and state? The more government tries to “fix” things, the more problems it creates — and the higher your taxes go. That’s why it’s up to us to raise kids who understand that real progress comes from freedom, not control. 👉 Teach them what that means with the Tuttle Twins books: https://buff.ly/c1N8OSX #TuttleTwins #TeachFreedom #ParentingWisdom #FreeMarkets #RaisingThinkers Source:
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Even if you have your papers, and just want to exercise your first amendment right, the boot government will come for you. it’s easier to trust a stranger than government officials. Both parties spit on our freedoms and are tyrants. If it comes to it, we must be willing to water the freedom tree with tyrant blood. The political system is nothing more than socialist and fascist tyrants trying to brainwash our society into terrorism and freedom infringements. Never stop advancing freedom despite the number of jackboots the big government republicans and democrats throw at us should-be-free people! Source:
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Girino Vey! 18 hours ago
🎶🇭🇺 Franz Liszt – La Campanella Sofia Ros | Accordion 🎹 @sofiarosmusic • La Campanella is one of the most iconic pieces in the repertoire. Liszt composed it after attending a Paganini concert, whose violin technique seemed to defy the laws of physics. The idea was simple and brutal: to prove that the piano could also reach this level of demand. The result was a work full of extreme leaps, high-speed trills, and a melody that sounds light but hides tremendous difficulty. • The piece gained fame precisely for this illusion: the listener hears something delicate, almost playful, while the performer faces one of the greatest precision tests in the repertoire. Each octave leap must be exact. Each trill must maintain clarity. And the lightness of the melody cannot be lost, even under extremely high muscular tension. • Here, Sofia Ros brings La Campanella to the accordion. And this changes everything. The piano has a sustain pedal, which allows notes to resonate while the hands move. The accordion does not. Each sound depends on continuous bellows pressure, requiring coordination between hands, arms, and breathing. The absence of natural resonance forces the performer to recreate the piece’s brilliance only with air control and millimetric articulation. • What Liszt did for the piano, Sofia Ros does for the accordion: pushes the instrument to its limit without losing musicality. It is pure technical mastery, at an even higher difficulty level than the original instrument. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music, daily on your feed. • • • #classicalmusic #accordion #piano Source:
166K views · 14K reactions | 🎶🇭🇺 Franz Liszt – La Campanella Sofia Ros | Accordion 🎹 @sofiarosmusic • La Campanella is one of the most iconic pieces in the repertoire. Liszt composed it after attending a Paganini concert, whose violin technique seemed to defy the laws of physics. The idea was simple and brutal: to prove that the piano could also reach this level of demand. The result was a work full of extreme leaps, high-speed trills, and a melody that sounds light but hides tremendous difficulty. • The piece gained fame precisely for this illusion: the listener hears something delicate, almost playful, while the performer faces one of the greatest precision tests in the repertoire. Each octave leap must be exact. Each trill must maintain clarity. And the lightness of the melody cannot be lost, even under extremely high muscular tension. • Here, Sofia Ros brings La Campanella to the accordion. And this changes everything. The piano has a sustain pedal, which allows notes to resonate while the hands move. The accordion does not. Each sound depends on continuous bellows pressure, requiring coordination between hands, arms, and breathing. The absence of natural resonance forces the performer to recreate the piece’s brilliance only with air control and millimetric articulation. • What Liszt did for the piano, Sofia Ros does for the accordion: pushes the instrument to its limit without losing musicality. It is pure technical mastery, at an even higher difficulty level than the original instrument. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music, daily on your feed. • • • #classicalmusic #accordion #piano | ReelsClassics
🎶🇭🇺 Franz Liszt – La Campanella Sofia Ros | Accordion 🎹 @sofiarosmusic • La Campanella is one o...
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