don’t forget to stretch

got to eat some awesome sushi & watch an crazy sumo exhibition tonight 💪🏽🍣 🍺 fun AF!

the 87 global mean is sourced from Lynn & Becker (2019) IQ tests are normed periodically via Flynn Effect

my IQ is 69

🤯 stack sats

the Chinese playbook for outside technically & innovation: * Deceive: foreign companies into bringing their technology & expertise in with special deals & promises. * Duplicate * Denigrate * Dominate * then Displace

I wonder why China bent the rules for Tesla in ways no foreign automaker had ever seen. In July 2018, they allowed Elon Musk to build a wholly owned factory in China… the first time ever a foreign car company didn’t require a mandatory 50/50 local Chinese joint venture partner. Giga Shanghai broke on January 2019. Just ten months later, cars were rolling off the line. Then the incentives: • Over $1.6 billion in low-interest state-backed loans to Tesla. • A reduced 15% corporate tax rate. • The only foreign automaker ever granted a purchase tax exemption. No other foreign company has received a package remotely close to this… 🤔

my teenage son had his buddy spend the night so they could go out on a boat this morning. I said: “you got cut the grass first.” he said: “yo dad, I’m not trying to be lacking in front of my friends.” I said: “you better get your ass out there & start lacking.”

the world idolizes the tech moguls… but what about the craftsman, the coopers that build & keep the wooden beer casks in order… 🍺🫡

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I open YouTube & this is the ad that they serve me… 🤷🏻‍♂️ WTF

Every generation, a bold thinker breaks the mold. Today, Steak ’n Shake is pushing that frontier with Bitcoin payments & a return to real ingredients. Before Diners Club International, most consumers purchased using only cash, checks, or store credit. In 1950, Diners Club introduced the first widely accepted charge card, changing commerce forever. Then Bank of America scaled the model nationally with BankAmericard, which later became Visa. The companies willing to challenge broken systems are the ones that truly reshape industries.

absolute fkn legends! 🍔🍟

relentlessly stacking sats for a brighter tomorrow ☀️

where is this $6+ Trillion of IPO capital come from exactly? is this what Berkshire has $7 Trillion sitting on the sidelines…

optical illusion , Two-Faced portrait…

FINALLY! I got my friends that own one of the best breweries in Florida to activate their Bitcoin payments via the Square POS system & I bought a beer 🍺 plus, I got 5% of the transaction cost back in sats for paying with @Cash App ⚡️💪🏽

Real wealth is having control over your time, command over your mind, & the health to enjoy both. 💪🏽

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Socrates’ Warning Socrates warned that democracy had a fatal flaw built into its foundation: it treats every opinion as equal. The expert & the ignorant get the same vote. An uninformed citizen holding the same power as a statesman is not fairness… it’s a recipe for disaster. He used a simple, brutal analogy. If you’re sick, you don’t hold a vote on your treatment. You find a doctor and ask him. Letting crowds decide complex political questions is just as absurd. Skilled orators replace skilled thinkers, and feelings replace facts. Democracy rewards performance, not wisdom. He watched talented speakers manipulate entire crowds using fear, ego, and comfort… promising simple answers to complicated problems. The crowd applauded loudest for whoever made them feel best, not whoever told the truth. He warned that charismatic frauds would always outperform honest experts in a popularity contest. Incompetent people make bad decisions… & in democracy, they make those decisions for everyone. The system hands power to the loudest voice, not the sharpest mind. Then came the final irony. Socrates, who dedicated his life to truth and critical thinking… he was sentenced to death by democratic vote. The same system he criticized proved his point by executing him. The crowd chose comfort over a man who made them question themselves. Popularity won. Truth was defeated.​​​​​​​​ 399 BC, Athens, Greece. Socrates was tried before a jury of 500 Athenian citizens & convicted on charges of impiety (failing to acknowledge the city’s gods) & corrupting the youth. The vote was close, roughly 280 to 220, but it was enough. He was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. Socrates had multiple chances to escape or soften the verdict. He could have proposed exile as an alternative sentence, but instead he argued his work was a service to Athens… which only further antagonized the jury. He accepted the death sentence on principle, which many see as the ultimate act of intellectual integrity, and others as deliberate provocation.