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@HansMahncke @elonmusk Typical New Year times. Things never change as we now know.
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The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.
So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
Aaron Ng@localghost
"Man won't fly for a million years" – NYT 1903
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@d_grimripper Agreed. Fkn 9-5 er corporate slaves spewing knowledge is funny af
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Corporate dudes seeing the affiliate space for the first time is hilarious to see. Most of us become aware of this shit gradually so it's not as shocking.
Dan @ AdRevival.io@DandiG_
Annoying larping losers will go ahead and hyper analyze every image, email, and piece of copy when someone scales big This whole Medvi situation on Twitter is genuinely sad to see Shoutout Medvi and @galligator, at least a third of our monthly spend goes to there
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@Fortuze U can test way more with bid caps. They wont spend if ad sucks
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nobody is actually testing 100 creatives a week
the only person I know doing that is doing $15M a month
to test 100 creatives properly you need at least $100 on each one
that's $10K a week just on testing
do the math
people just be yapping about it like they're actually doing it
what you should actually be doing is testing 10 different angles a month
find which angle works
then make 5-10 creatives from that angle
test angles and offers
not creatives
DT Thomas@realdtthomas
question for media buyers ripping 100k+/mo is 100 new creatives a week too much or too little for finding winners if your winning creative % is around 15-20%
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@DandiG_ @galligator So many retarded 9-5ers in this post wow. Go die for the company. Ill enjoy my freedom traveling all around the world while you slave away
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Annoying larping losers will go ahead and hyper analyze every image, email, and piece of copy when someone scales big
This whole Medvi situation on Twitter is genuinely sad to see
Shoutout Medvi and @galligator, at least a third of our monthly spend goes to there
Alex Cohen@anothercohen
Friend got a marketing email from Medvi this morning. Email copy aside, the provider they are using in the screenshot is an actual doctor, not an NP, whose real name is Alec Wier, and he is COMPLETELY UNAFFILIATED with Medvi. This entire company is run on fraud and deception and I hope the founder ends up in prison
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BREAKING 🚨
🇸🇦 🇵🇰 Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked Pakistan to repay a USD 6.3 billion loan after Pakistan failed to honor the bilateral defense pact, under which an attack on one is considered an attack on both.
⚡️Saudi officials are reportedly unable to reach Pakistan’s PM & army chief.
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An Indian father has been arrested in Dubai.
He will be in jail for 2 years.
His crime was sending images of missiles to his family through DMs.
More than 21 Indians are in jail for the same reason.
They are not allowed to contact their families.
Many are facing physical abuse.
Police officers are beating them up.
They have not been allowed to have lawyers.
No trials are expected to take place either.
Dubai has rejected the requests of the Indian Embassy.
Sources. NDTV, The Sun and DailyMail.
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@newtechfinds @Jason______A What moat? The hidden mrr scam one?
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@Jason______A no real reason other than you use X to sometimes drop info/insight on the aff industry. Even posts like this guys keep things pretty vague, but still reveal more than you've ever mentioned running x.com/adv_ceo/status…
Dom 🧙♂️@adv_ceo
Aff Marketing Side Quest 35 days ago I started to seriously play around in the aff space (still running our own eCom, so it was just a side thing). Team was literally for the most part myself and my right-hand person (we had some help from our creative team but not too much). Feels like I still got it as a media buyer myself. What we have done: - Heavy manual media buying - Heavy, heavy, heavy ADV/funnel testing/copywriting - Nearly 100% static images/slideshow What we have been running: - All WH only (no Casino, Dating or whatever, I don't even know how to run that) - eCom offers (mostly bigger brands where I know the owner personally with a CPA deal) - CPL offers (insurances, loans) - Digital CPA offers (digistore shit) I still have absolutely no idea what we are doing here. We have no biz dev, no media buyers besides me, no devs, so please don't ask me in DMs how to get started with it. I don't even know! The only reason I think it worked out OK for us is because the only thing we are good at is running ads and landing pages/advertorials, everything else we suck at. So by finding a biz model that only focuses on that, it somehow worked out. Take it as inspiration: if you are doing something right now that isn't working out, maybe you are just in the wrong biz model. Check what your actual skills are and go all in on them. If you are an Affiliate yourselfe or run an Affiliate Team, hit me up I want to connect
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Will assume he has some sort of plan to exit because allowing this article to be written has to be the absolute dumbest thing on the planet for anyone to do.
I see zero pros and about 1000 cons to having this published.
Sar Haribhakti@sarthakgh
.@eringriffith: "His start-up, Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, got 300 customers in its first month. In its second month, it gained 1,000 more. In 2025, Medvi’s first full year in business, the company generated $401 million in sales. Mr. Gallagher then hired his only employee, his younger brother, Elliot. This year, they are on track to do $1.8 billion in sales." nytimes.com/2026/04/02/tec…
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Meta spent $2 billion on Manus AI and shipped it inside Ads Manager in 7 weeks... fastest product integration in Meta history
right now you type "why did my ROAS drop 18% last month" and Manus investigates across your data, pulls competitor activity from the Ad Library, and returns structured findings
the analysis layer alone does what agencies bill $10K/month for... and 4 million advertisers have access under the Tools menu without knowing it's there
it has never been easier to run ads
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Recently got sent an investor deck in a niche I’m also involved in.
They’re raising $2M on a $10M cap with barely any revenue… and I’d bet that round fills fast. It’s a SAFE too which is laughable.
Meanwhile I’ve had people trying to invest in my stuff for 10+ years and I’ve always said no.
I never wanted a boss. Or even worse… feeling like I owe someone a phone call. I’d actually rather be homeless than have to speak to someone on the phone.
I even thought about starting a car investment fund years ago. In this market it probably would’ve printed 3–5x. I have a slight regret for not doing it.
But the negative thought of someone wiring me money and then calling me for an update? Yeah… no thanks.
For the guys who have raised…
How bad is it actually dealing with investors?
Be honest.
PS: I invest all the time.
If it works, I’m not calling you.
If it goes to $0, I’m still not calling you.
I underwrite everything to zero.
I know most people aren’t built like that though.
Which is exactly why I’m hesitant to take their money.
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Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view. on.wsj.com/4bvwz3R
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@KrsteKovaceski @d_grimripper What happened why did you guys only enjoy such scale for such a low time? What changed?
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THE strategy we used to scale affiliate campaign to 5M+/month on Meta with NO losing days ft. @d_grimripper
** i messed up the recording, it's 8x not 9x and this my new laptop and OBS doesn't seem setup properly... sorry but you get the sauce either way
give it a shot...
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@PicaPaudiablo @BallerBusters Stereotype yes. Reality doesnt matter
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@Historybuff888 @BallerBusters He's Not a Miami bro. Also Epitome. We don't claim him, he lives in Hallandale Beach and he claims Daigo
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#WesWatson 🤡 enjoy prison!
Charges:
1. ROBBERY BY SUDDEN SNATCHING WO FIREARM OR WEAPON
Bail: $0.00
2. FELONY BATTERY
Bail: $0.00
3. AGG ASSAULT W/ INTENT COMMIT FELONY - DATING VIOL
Bail: $0.00
4. TAMPERING W/WITN HINDER/DELAY/ETC WITN COMMUN TO L
Bail: $0.00
5. FALSE IMPRISONMENT OF PERSON
Bail: $0.00
Arresting Agency: HALLANDALE
Arrest Date: 03/17/2026
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A drunk Russian tourist in Phuket, Thailand, mocked local ladyboys, insulting them, waving her arms, and demanding they “prove their gender.”
Her behavior wasn’t tolerated for long, and she was eventually "explained" that she shouldn't have done that.
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