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Finally got my blue checkmark after getting bullied by @dvassallo , when do I get my complementary one-word reply from @elonmusk ?
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Fernando TF
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Fernando TF
@YvrFernando
entrepreneurship, crafting stuff, architecture, philosophy, history, whatever interests me at the moment, i'm just here to blurt out my thoughts
Vancouver, Canada Bergabung Eylül 2020
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@0xb____ @PochardCapital Being a wagie that can't afford to waste time is more depressing imo
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@PochardCapital Amsterdam is depressing because it's a city completely stuck in the past. People who built it would be depressed seeing no improvements
Riding a bike for everything is fun as a tourist, forcing people who have to work to waste time they don't have, biking, is a humiliation ritual
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I spent about a year doing this day in day out in Amsterdam and it might have been the worst year of my life
ruben@rubentothewild
peak euro living
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@MexCathAes except that the cartels run the country, just look at the US indictments of 2 Mexican state governors about their links with them.
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Hacienda Zotoluca. Originally built In 1710, underwent a full restoration In 2016. Mexico is recovering the greatness of its past.
Zotoluca, Hidalgo 🇲🇽
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@kebabpicante_ En piso compartido y en un pueblo? Perfectamente realista. Hace 10 años pagaba yo 220 por una habitación en Oviedo.
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@BullzOverBearz @AConlaunchpad @Tablesalt13 How does licencing work in Ontario? At least in BC you need to pass the test with ICBC so it's not like the driver school can hand you a license
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@AConlaunchpad @Tablesalt13 They open their own driving schools and then take bribes to hand out licenses.
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New: Brampton, Canada which has the highest foreign born population in the Western world at 59.1%
- now has the highest insurance rates in Canada
- mortgage delinquencies up 10x in 6 years
-a car accident rate 5x the national average
-Fire deaths 3x higher per capita
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@wolfstrength I've been doing squats and deadlifts for 16 years and I've never once been close to getting injured. On the rare occasions that the load has been too much it's been easy enough to drop it
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The reason there’s a thriving market in posting “hot takes” that any of the Big 3 basic barbell lifts are ineffective or dangerous, is because it’s obvious via thousands of people over numerous decades, that they’re very effective and safe when performed correctly with proper load
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@QuetzalPhoenix This makes zero sense, and even if it did, repainting a building isn't going to break the bank.
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I have an architect friend and he said like 80% of what makes a building beautiful or memorable is usually the Facade and also that 80% of all maintenance costs are usually the Facade and that this is why everything is just a block now.
Maintaining paint falls under this.
Elijah the Middleborne@TheMiddleborne
Unironically every single one of these painted brutalist structures gets 98% better
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@FochVal @BenRabidoux I'm a naturalized citizen and i agree. There are massive conflicts of interest
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100%
I'm a dual citizen myself but would fully expect to denouce one to be in position of power in the government.
It's a no brainer and a HUGE security risk for Canada to allow foreign citizens into positions of power and influence.
There are dual loyalties at play.
I wish Canadians understood that.
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It’s a real problem
I am entirely open to the idea that MPs, MPPs, senators, etc must be natural-born citizens with no dual citizenship
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
China and India among 'main perpetrators' of foreign interference, Canada's spy agency reports #cdnpoli trib.al/BzUdUvd
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@andrew___wells @Molson_Hart Wow, do you have lots of family around to help? How do you manage 7? I have two and i feel my wife and i are at maximum capacity.
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@Molson_Hart Families are not so hard! I've never trained for a race in my life, I work a regular 40 hours a week, and I have seven kids at age 40. My wife is an amazing stay-at-home mom, but any couple who want to can have 2-3 kids at least.
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There are only 2 types:
A. Start a family + obsessed with work + training for something
B. Disappeared
Starting (and maintaining) a family is so difficult today that the only way to do it is to obsess about work and be the type of person who trains for something.
meme bastard 🍕@mask_bastard
which friend are you
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How exactly do you lose 85% of your audience in a year? Isn't that kind of unheard of? Did the company just stop paying for fake audience, or did people just decide they really hate his ass that badly all of a sudden?
Popstonox@Popstonox
The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year
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@WalkerMarcus The mosque is extraordinary.
The cathedral inside is tacky Spanish baroque : horrendous.
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The Cathedral in the former Mosque in Cordoba is quite astounding. I’ve never seen anything like it. Don’t really know how to describe it. Two thoughts:
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When they say "missile" here it's meant literally as in deploying one missile because that's all they've got
Clash Report@clashreport
US Central Command has requested approval to deploy the “Dark Eagle” long-range hypersonic missile to the Middle East, aiming to target Iranian ballistic missile launchers that are now beyond the reach of current US systems. The missile has a range of about 1,725 miles and is designed for fast, precise strikes against heavily defended or time-sensitive targets. If approved, this would mark the first operational deployment of the system, which is not yet fully declared ready. Each missile costs roughly $15 million, and only a limited number are available. Source: Bloomberg
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@iker_rasa @MyLatinLife Lots of Spaniards in high level white collar work in Mexico in my experience
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@MyLatinLife Latin America is going to be filled with Spaniards
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Europeans are leaving Europe for higher salaries in... Latin America.
Salaries in Brazil are often higher than Portugal. 🇧🇷🇵🇹
Salaries in Mexico or Chile are higher than Spain. 🇪🇸🇲🇽
Maybe not on average but the ceiling is higher
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I remember when Wired was a magazine about technology.
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@yacineMTB Marxists always talk out of both sides of their crooked mouths, to sow confusion.
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@GreenPlusAnE Back in the day they were saying the exact same things.
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I don’t get the hate - Mark Rippetoe never said Starting Strength was a bodybuilding program.
Back in the good old days (2012), men lifted to get strong. Today’s obsession with online aesthetics would have seemed totally foreign.
asparagoid@asparagoid
2026 is the year I undo all the damage “Powerlifting” and Mark Rippetoe did to me No man has harmed more young men than Mark. He turned a whole generation of men into fat unaesthetic >30% bodyfat human pears with huge asses and wide birthing hips He is going to hell
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@ApplePieIsBest @bruce_lambert @rpondiscio Doesn't Amazon pay pretty well for unskilled work? Wasn't that guy who burned the warehouse making like 27/hr
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@bruce_lambert @rpondiscio The part where they (and Walmart) destroy existing businesses and then pay their employees so little that they receive welfare (food stamps)
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Yesterday I ordered an obscure book and a 20 pound bag of dog food on Amazon. Today it was delivered to my house in rural upstate New York. Remind me again why Jeff Bezos doesn’t deserve to be a billionaire?
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@PedroCo67443965 @TheCityMentor Why should architecture be beholden to arbitrary rules like these?
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@TheCityMentor You can't using an example of, maybe, bad architecture, or "ugly" facades, to validate pastiche architecture. The answer must be new styles, not going back.
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One of Berlin's better decisions
East German Visuals@GDRvisuals
Men only want one thing and it's the glory days of Palast der Republik
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@DeSalviati "colonizada por pijos", maldita Selectividad colonialista!
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institución boutique? chica, es una universidad puesta en barrio obrero y que está colonizada por pijos que quieren decir que han estudiado en la pública pero sin mezclarse con nadie de madrid sur.
EL MUNDO@elmundoes
Las claves de la universidad de Leonor: una institución 'boutique' con politólogos como Sánchez-Cuenca, Lluís Orriols y Pablo Simón de profesores #Echobox=1777287982" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">elmundo.es/espana/2026/04…
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@benhayesnyc @simonsarris I'm always astounded at how much people bitch about having to pay for parking.
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I get why this "feels" insane, but if the entire planet wants to run roughshod over your island of 100k people, you should make sure that your people benefit from it in a *big* way.
Many over-touristed places capture too little money, get too little localized benefit
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@Smirkley @BowTiedGlobe For the Latino countries there's a selection bias at play. Mexicans in Europe are almost entirely students or skilled workers. Very different demographic compared to Mexicans in the US
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With sample sizes over 14k
Hispanic countries
Colombia 2.29×
Spain 1.72×
Brazil 1.43×
Mexico 0.82×
African countries
Algeria 18.40×
Gambia 7.93×
Guinea 7.54×
Libya 7.45×
Tunisia 6.52×
Morocco 5.08×
Somalia 4.33×
Nigeria 4.17×
Cameroon 3.74×
Ghana 3.04×
Egypt 2.98×
Eritrea 2.57×
Ethiopia 2.00×
MENA (overlap with above)
Algeria 18.40×
Libya 7.45×
Tunisia 6.52×
Morocco 5.08×
Lebanon 5.03×
Iraq 3.73×
Syria 3.65×
Jordan 3.05×
Egypt 2.98×
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