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1) I was close friends with Clifford for the last 10 years of his life. He was one of the kindest people I've ever known and the real deal. He was part of #UFO crash retrievals. He had the largest private collection of official gov. documents on this matter. #UFOtwitter #UFOX

@SaltyGuy117 @FWPlayboy New england is rough...

I advise moving. Geography Matters. When I moved out of New England for work assignment in the DFW area of Texas, it was like I had been living on another planet. Same dating app, same profile pics. Zero matches to 10 matches in a week. It was a struggle to get “a” date with a 4 for 2 years to multiple dates every weekend with 6-8s. Women were far more normal and genuine about dating. Again I didn’t change my appearance, my lifestyle, clothes, personality and I was treated immensely different by women. So yes you should seek to improve yourself, I eventually did more but sometimes it is just the women in your area It’s essentially Passport Bro ing within the continental US

Your ENVIRONMENT matters. Master the basics and still not getting the results you want? You may have to physically MOVE to a better city.

Testnet Update: The numbers tell the story. Now, a little over a week into Phase 1 of the RealFi Testnet, we wanted to share where things stand – because the growth has been nothing short of exciting. Here's a snapshot of our Pioneer Season so far (14/07): 🔹 Over 1,000 users have joined the Testnet. 🔹 Near 500 active, verified wallets participating in Phase 1. 🔹 Over 2,000 new followers here on X. 🔹 Over 420 new joiners over on Discord. These aren't just numbers – they represent a growing community of people who believe in what we're building: a smarter stablecoin backed by real-world assets, with transparency at its core. Join the @realfi_co Testnet today: preprod.realfi.co

@AydinPaladin I own the DVD. It was my favorite role of his. The 90s were an awesome time for these type of productions.

It's been a life-long question of mine how a film with such a star-studded cast, spectacular practical effects, set pieces, on location filming, and massive scale ended up being dropped on the Halmark Channel, cut to pieces, and direct to VHS. I've looked into it, and there's no indication of who initially financed this thing, but I highly doubt it was Hallmark. Regardless, it's such an amazing adaptation of the Arthurian legends that I cannot more highly recommend it. It takes plenty of liberties with the legends, none of which I think are poor decisions, and hangs a lantern on it as "no one would believe it if I told it the way it really was." If you've never seen it, as I presume many have not, definitely give it a watch.

The 1998 "made-for-TV" film, Merlin, is my favourite movie of all time. Something very strange happened with what was clearly a massive production that led to it being split into miniseries and dropped straight to VHS, but it is legitimately my favourite adaptation of the Arthurian Cycle. I've had a crush on Sam Neill since I first saw it when I was 8. My first innocent crush. He was one of my favourite actors (if not my favourite) of all time, from Merlin to Jurrasaic Park to his incredible performances in the horror genre such as Possession, In the Mouth of Madness, and Event Horizon. May he rest in peace. 😭💔

@IGN My favorite role Sam Niell played was Merlin. In the 1998 TV miniseries. Amazing. Watch it here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZL5tI…

Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor most famously known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park series, has passed away at the age of 78.

@niroshan682 Competent executive function.

What’s the biggest milestone you’re looking forward to on #Cardano over the next 12 months? 💙👇

@crybabybtzzz @KaitWillett I believe this 100%

@KaitWillett I like staring at myself in the gym

I hate to tell men this but The women dressed provocatively in the gym do want attention They are only upset when it comes from the guy they didn’t want it from That’s why the reaction is what it is It’s not your fault for noticing And yes, they will continue to deny this.

@benohanlon @realfi_co @Jennycitalinda @jjtoconnor @coc_space @dynalpatel @IOHK_Charles Happy to host a space.

Building our the @realfi_co calendar page here @Jennycitalinda. How about we get @jjtoconnor on @coc_space this week? If you've got room. luma.com/calendar/manag…

I came to this conclusion on my own long ago. Ultimately, when you realize that money is merely a proxy for scarcity and that scarcity itself is eliminated with free abundant energy and that technologies have existed in some form for over 100 years to provide that energy and have been suppressed to prop up that scarcity because it allows for the control of people, you realize we're living in the Truman show.

Wow. Facts and not even % of the full reality the majority of us suffer.

I share your concern on concentrated authority for ₳120M. For a fixed 12-month initiative like PRIME however, preselecting capable OG members via AG's judgment which is what they're being hired for in the first place, with lighter oversight (with transparency/checks) makes sense to move fast without heavy bureaucracy, even Hydra risks adding extra layers, despite its technical prowess. For permanent structures like a reimagined Intersect board with executive function I'm working on, for example, I favor, though I'm not militant about it, a phased hybrid with an initial preselection for expertise, then community retention votes after ~1 year. Pure open election for every org role upfront often creates its own delays and theater that many in the community have grown extremely tired and weary of.

@EdnStuff @EricWaisanen It can be done through Hydra, for example. It can be decided within 2 weeks.

I'm looking at the AlphaGrowth proposal. I don't think it is ready for approval yet. My main concern is the authority delegated to an unelected five-member Operating Group (OG). AlphaGrowth formally prepares the funding recommendations, so the OG members are not the proposers. However, the OG serves as a binding approval layer. The release of approximately ₳90M for Phase 3 requires an explicit 3-of-5 affirmative vote from the OG. Only 3. For individual decisions above the ₳400,000 threshold, an AlphaGrowth recommendation proceeds unless at least three OG members veto it within the review window. In other words, fewer than three vetoes authorize execution. The OG has substantial authority over the ₳29M performance-fee reserve. It activates the reserve and approves the final TVL-attribution methodology and baseline after the withdrawal is approved. The performance fee itself is calculated solely from verified qualifying TVL growth. Transaction volume, protocol fees, active users, and longer-term TVL persistence are reported, but they are not separate conditions for earning the performance fee. The responsibility of OG members is therefore high. In my view, the OG should not be appointed as a fixed part of the Treasury withdrawal. DReps should first decide whether to approve PRIME as a program. After that, the OG members should be selected through an open nomination process and elected separately through on-chain governance. I remember that some DReps opposed Elder's liquidity proposal for a similar reason. That proposal plans to request ₳50M and has a nine-member unelected committee. The Strike proposal requests only ₳9M, and they have a three-member administrative structure. In that context, I would expect a ₳120M program with such a broad scope to have a significantly larger and more representative oversight body, perhaps 17 or 21 elected members. I am afraid five members are not enough for a program of this size. The small group creates an unnecessary concentration of authority. It makes the system more vulnerable to capture, conflicts of interest, or simple errors in judgment. This is relevant because one of the main arguments previously used against the Innovation & Growth DAO and other DAO-based funding structures was that too few people would make allocation decisions, the system could be captured, and DRep oversight would become too complex. We have discussed this topic with several DReps, including one OG member. Some of them have repeatedly argued that all Treasury allocations should be processed exclusively through on-chain governance. DReps vote once on the full withdrawal, but they do not directly approve the individual grants, liquidity deployments, or the final Phase 3 allocation plan. The average Treasury allocation processed through on-chain governance is approximately ₳28M. In my view, on-chain governance is not suitable for smaller requests, especially Catalyst-sized grants. Some form of delegated allocation system may therefore be necessary. But if we accept that delegation is necessary, it should be designed with strong legitimacy and diversity. A five-member unelected OG is a weak point of the proposal in this context. This concern is even stronger because PRIME has a very broad mandate. The OG may be expected to assess ecosystem grants, protocol teams, liquidity incentives, DeFi risks, capital deployments, attribution disputes, remediation plans, and AlphaGrowth's performance compensation. The proposal does not meaningfully explain what specific skills and qualifications each OG member brings to these responsibilities. It lists names and affiliations, but it does not provide individual bios, relevant experience, or prior capital-allocation expertise. DReps are being asked to trust the selection rather than being given enough information to evaluate whether the selected group has the skills required for the OG role. For a ₳120M program, including a ₳11M fixed fee and a potential ₳29M performance fee, direct DRep and community control after enactment are too limited. What is your opinion on it? Would you accept the proposal as is?

@EricWaisanen @JaromirTesar Generally, with any governance structure, selecting through an open nomination process and elected separately through on-chain governance will dramatically slow down any org that needs to iterate with brevity. Especially when rolling out something for a fixed term.

17-21 elected members is very much overkill. We’ll do public transparency reports? But something like that will delay progress by 3-6 months and slow work down incredibly. There’s enough bureaucracy in Cardano. We’ll operate with oversight and checks and balances, as recommended by core Cardano teams… but full on-chain voting metrics for tons of unpaid positions, or votes on every payment that will be subject to private information, opinions, and strategies does not make any sense. That’s not a normal way for a team to work/operate. Then we have to staff up and charge more just for bodies to liaison and politic? Then we run more risk of saying the wrong thing and become dependent on not saying things out of line and muffling our opinions for political fear? What you’re describing creates bureaucracy and slowness and detracts from the goals we’re here to reach. We’re a general contractor. We’re not receiving the withdrawn budget, and we have tons of oversight. We’re some of the most public operators in the space. Processes for the sake of processes will lead to a continued slow death of Cardano. We want to, and can, come in and make things a lot better, pretty quickly. Let us?

@Gavin_McInnes I need to become a personal trainer.

@IOHK_Charles New painting to hang at the ranch.

Handling Bison is a dangerous business. People confuse their normally docile behavior for being slow and kind. They are as fast as horses and can easily kill you

@FrenchOG3 They really are a social media led hivemind.

My friend on Bumble matched with this girl who asked him what his plans were for the week. He said he was going to watch tennis at Wimbledon on Centre Court. He told me she was actually a feminist influencer/podcaster who had quite a following. She started suggesting they go together after he claimed he had free seats. He did not particularly like her physically, so he decided to see what he could get away with. He eventually got her to agree to meet early in the day to fuck before going to the venue. Considering she had never met him, she was fine for him to go raw and swallow his cum ("feminist", eh). I wonder what she would have done to be part of the Royal "Box". He then fell asleep, and when she followed up for the logistics, he unmatched her. When he told me this story, I had just opened my IG and seen a friend of a Russian influencer I knew posing on the grass on Centre Court (I did not know it was allowed). Looks like Tennis has become like F1, a place to be where the sports matter not, but where status posturing is what it is all about. Some derivative of the travel whores. Another thing I have noticed: during the Wimbledon weeks, Wimbledon Village is heaving with people. Nothing new, you may think, but being quite local to the area, I find that since Post Covid, the place is dead, whereas before COVID it was not. Yet the residents all want to be seen during that time.

@MLDMotivation It looks like AI slop.

No shit

@Cryptofly777 I can see up your nose young lady.

It appears that all Pokémon cards are sold out in Western Australia. I guess, I’m not the only one with an addiction.

Then don’t be average.

@snj_peters @arbitrum Xerberus = Safer.

The open house by @arbitrum is a weekend-long accelerator for founders in and around their ecosystem. The focus is on building products that solve painful problems and find real adoption. One thing that stands out to me is how many people tell me they stopped farming yield because they got burned badly. DeFi must feel safer.

@alphagrowth1 @Cardano @Cardano_CF @emurgo_io @IOGroup Happy to host one. I did the same for the @OrionFund before it was voted on and passed. I've been in the Cardano community for over 8 years. Feel free to reach out.

PRIME should be discussed in the open. By the community. With the community. Where should we go to answer your questions and hear your feedback directly? Which forums, calls, or Spaces would you like us to join? @Cardano @Cardano_CF @emurgo_io @IOGroup

@Cryptofly777 @UtxoSaint They have the resources to just crib what we do.

@UtxoSaint Adoption first. I had this exact thought the other day.

So $ETH is trying to get into UTXO. And $SOL is getting into governance. But both of them first went after adoption before other things. #Cardano chose the opposite path! We took the togher UTXO path and also did the much tougher governance… but on adoption we are nowhere close. This is in many ways a litmus test. Which approach is/was better? So far it does look like focus on adoption first definitely has been better… Let’s see in the coming days if that holds…