Jean-Luc Janeway
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Everyone is slamming this guy: “What a wuss!”
But…
1) Most people have forgotten what it’s like to feel great. Their baseline for health is low, so they don’t notice subtle changes. That’s not a good thing.
2) Most people don’t do anything that requires their absolute best performance. I promise you that elite athletes notice the effect of 3 or 4 drinks.
3) As he points out, there are second order effects of drinking beyond feeling suboptimal.
I drink on rare occasions, but in general I don’t have room in my life to feel less than optimal. I get a much better buzz from feeling and performing my best.
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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@tanmaye_bhatia @WillManidis @Jack_Raines gives strong ''can I have some ice cubes for my champagne" vibes
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@sarah_cone @WillManidis @Jack_Raines She might even end up pouring him more of that beautiful Bollinger rose
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@WillManidis @Jack_Raines Also, he should lower his glass so it’s easier for her to pour. Etiquette 101 is noticing things to make life more graceful for others.
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is it not weird to anyone else that the trump kids are basically tasked with nonsense like crypto and insider trading while his son in law kushner is tasked with the Iran deal. You'd think the proteges of the best dealmaker ever would be who kusher is rn
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Financial Times@FT
Donald Trump Jr’s venture capital firm said its assets under management jumped from $200mn to $3.5bn over the past year after a dealmaking spree. ft.trib.al/IHsszUI
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@cornoisseur @buccocapital I believe Ashland leather sources from Horween. I stopped by their shop in Chicago for a shell cordovan watch band (totally elevated the old citizen watch btw) and the guy that helped us out had previously worked at Horween as a tanner. That to say, their people know leather.
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@buccocapital Horween makes Ashland Leather, and all the NFL footballs too
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Just buy a shell cordovan wallet.
It will age beautifully and will last multiple lifetimes. Literally. You can pass it on to your kids if that's your sort of thing
I personally like Ashland Leather and think they make great stuff
Ashley Schendel@ashleyschendel
Very rarely will you need to buy your husband a new wallet, but when that day comes, it is somehow a major household decision and you cannot screw it up. Men will carry the same wallet for 20 years with the corners falling apart and still say it’s fine. So this is not the moment for creativity. Slim, durable, leather if he’s a leather guy, metal if he already likes that kind of thing. Do not surprise a man with a weird wallet.
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@Microinteracti1 Let's be honest here - you're still bitter that the US won the revolutionary war and you lost your empire. No one cares what you think. why not focus on the myriad problems you have at home and leave geo-pol to the big boys 😉
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Let’s be honest about what we’re watching here.
🇺🇸 330 million people, the country that put men on the moon, defeated the Nazis is now sitting on its sofa watching its president post crayon drawings of Venezuela with an American flag on it.
At least the Russians who oppose Putin have a reasonable excuse not to speak up. Siberia is cold and windows are tall. At least North Koreans can point to the very real possibility of their entire extended family being relocated to a concrete box with no heating. These are legitimate barriers to civic engagement.
What’s America’s excuse?
You can vote. You can protest. You can run for office. Nobody is sending you to a gulag. The worst thing that happens is someone calls you a name on Truth Social. And yet, there you all sit, 330 million of you, watching a man who cannot spell “Venezuela” claim it as American territory, while nodding along like this is a completely normal thing for a head of state to do.
No dictator in modern history has done more damage to the prestige of a country’s highest office than this man, and he’s done it entirely voluntarily, with access to the full resources of the American government, and a communications team that apparently just lets him post whatever falls out of his head before breakfast.
Kim Jong-un, for all his considerable faults, has never once posted a map with a flag on it and called it foreign policy.
Think about that.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
The White House@WhiteHouse
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@poopoothepirate @mollyfleck agree. most cyclists would prefer to use the side streets anyways. safer, less can go wrong and you're on a bicycle you can pretty much go where you want, sidewalk/wrong way on a one way, through a park
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@mollyfleck My hot take... Bike lanes should be on sidestreets. There is no reason to force bike traffic onto main thoroughfares when there is a grid system.
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On Lincoln Ave right now, we have:
-a truck parked in the bike lane
-a truck parked in the bike lane AND a bus stop
-another truck (not pictured) blocking the crosswalk
-a car (not pictured) blocking a different crosswalk
We have to get our streets to work better than this.
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@KF1NN @skippertonfs1 those damn kids and their polka house music
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@skippertonfs1 real ball knowers go to Podlasie Club in the background
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@UrbanCourtyard it's interesting because both cities were rebuilt around the same time. hausmannization had a more overarching plan it seems tho, possibly due to wealth disparity at the time. If only they had rebuilt Chicago with an eye towards walkability, beauty and an eye towards the future
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While I would tend to agree that current year Chicago looks like shit compared to Paris, I am confident that Chicago and American cities generally will surpass European cities for livability and aesthetics in the next century.
At the same time that social media allows for the spread of better urban design ideas, advances in construction technology and regulatory reform will make them buildable and legal.
FINMAN@erikfinman
Then why does Chicago look like shit compared to Paris?
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@ErikKaiser so what? maybe he'll have kids in ten years. meantime he's enjoying life and applies himself positively to his world and seems genuinely happy can't take that from someone
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Young men: this person is peak loser. Childless. Take away the money, and you have a vagrant.
Ezzy@ezzyskii
Seth Rogen invented a rolling tray
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@kofinas Through the lens of indigenous American culture Id say that even if I'm not Christian it's the better alternative than being Aztec. Do you think the Christian conquest of the Americas devalued life in Europe at the time and the world following that 'evangelization? greater good?
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“I don’t want other young Americans to go through what I’ve been through. And I don’t want to send other young Americans to inflict the horror that I had to inflict on people.”
Polling suggests that most Americans agree with him.
Ben Rhodes@brhodes
"War does that to societies: Once you normalize taking human life abroad, you tend not to value it at home." nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opi…
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@johnsummit remember seeing Damian at City club Detroit movement 2016 - same place I met summit with his Chicago friends during DJ Tennis movement 2019
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@____Mhutch007 ame & damian lazarus. true pioneers and innovators of electronic music
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@the_P_God John Adams knew that an ocean port without a river is just a dead end. He saw the interior waterways as the 'noble' engines of the economy—without the Mississippi, the Atlantic coast would have just been a thin strip of land waiting to be conquered.
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If your state doesn’t touch the ocean it’s not a real place.
Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck
What's everyone's most elitist opinion?
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Just so fucking insulting to lie like this.
Acyn@Acyn
Reporter: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? Trump: It wasn't a depiction. I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker, which we support and only the fake news could come up with that one.
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It's not that coffee sucks in Italy. It's fine. It's just normal. Simple fuel.
It's that Coffee went through a huge craft revolution in America which ended up exceeding quality in most other countries.
They found out Americans would pay 6 dollars for a cup of coffee as long it was good.
lito@litocoen
this made me lol italy is the most beautiful country in the world but god its coffee sucks
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@TXMCtrades @alstopp @EpsilonTheory Would a refinery infrastructure project led by the federal government be a feasible 5 to 10 year goal for the US? seriously wondering - would seem worth it especially in a fracturing macro environment
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@alstopp @EpsilonTheory Those are finished petroleum products which include fuels and distillates that we refine. We are a net importer of CRUDE and a net exporter of said products.
𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂@TXMCtrades
As I said weeks ago, the US pulls the opposite kind of crude oil from the ground than what our refineries specialize in, thus we must import the right one. There is a friction to us becoming "energy independent" (which is false to say) and it involves heavy investment to retool our refining capacity otherwise we would produce far less efficiently. We are net importers of crude oil so that we can be net exporters of an array of "petroleum products". The administration either doesn't understand this themselves (big doubt) or expects you not to (probably).
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The US is a net importer of oil, and expanding exports + blockading the Persian Gulf is hilariously catastrophic for the US consumer.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump on the phone with Maria Bartiromo: "We don't get our oil from there. We have so much oil. We have boats pouring up to the United States. They'll be filling 'em up, and they'll be leaving and they'll be packed with the best oil you can get. Light, sweet, crude. We don't need the strait."
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