Last Days of Rome

I keep seeing posts of President Nixon eating cottage cheese and pineapple for lunch - with a glass of milk. My grandfather ate a grapefruit for breakfast, then a tomato/lettuce sandwich for lunch. Our ancestors were thin because they didn’t eat much! We can do it too….

@BowTiedMara How is Saifedean wrong?

Unfortunately these people will pay no price for being wrong (same with Saifedean)

Every time I want to humble myself, I read entrance exam questions from formerly prestigious universities that were written over a century ago. We live in the ruins of an advanced civilization.

This is a 1902 Oxford scholarship exam. How would you do?

Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘Rule of 30’: ‘Before appointing a minister, you should ask them a simple question that’s more useful than any CV. How many women have you been with? Because if they say fewer than thirty, they can’t be a minister. They’re not vaccinated against life.’

Men who FUCK a LOT of girls follow the EXACT same system: 1 Date System: Meet for drinks Bounce to 2nd location Offer Plausible Deniability to Your Place (ex:I own a midget want to see him?) Close Drinks and FUCKING. No coffee, no running, no hiking, no rock climbing, no bullshit. Drinks and FUCKING.

@lawrencekingyo You've been absolutely killing it the last 24 hours with these bangers.

Craziest part about closing your first sale is you realize you can just put something together and then ask for money for it and people will actually give it to you It becomes impossible to happily work a 9-5 ever again after that

@BuySellBA @juancarpetela "vast majority of people are shady" this's exactly what I don't understand about people who rave about BA. Full of scumbags at all levels of society. Inescapable. Glad to see you call it out, fair play

Really with any administration. Systemic change is almost impossible in a country like Argentina which is plagued with corruption. First came in 2002. Built up a successful business in Argentina and even got acquired by a multi-national. Mostly that is because I operated it like a company in the USA. Had the worth ethic like I was still in the USA. Did everything legally like the USA. Treated the employees great like I was in the USA giving them true cost of living inflation raises each year. Paid for their OSDE 310/410 healthcare. Went above and behind the call of duty like many companies in the USA. But unfortunately vast majority of companies in Argentina aren't like that. Taxes are too high which causes everyone to work in black under the table. Totally bogus taxes and fees like getting charged 0.6% to deposit money and 0.6% to write a check. Just crazy things. Vast majority of people are shady. It's a low trust society. People don't say what they say they will do. Not many like to work hard. The judicial system doesn't work. Employment laws are terrible. Currency controls in place where you can't easily repatriate your funds (still in place today). This isn't the type of places foreign direct investments want to invest. Why do you think the government has to do RIGI's, and Super RIGI's and Mega RIGI's. 🤣 It's because foreign investment doesn't want to be here. That is why systemic change won't happen in most of our lifetimes. People that truly know Argentina realize that. It will mostly be some periods of calm between economic blow ups.

🇦🇷Argentina 14 years. 45 million+ people. Only 96,052 new formal private jobs. Without the energy boom in Neuquén (+58k jobs), Argentina’s private sector growth would be virtually non-existent. Meanwhile, CABA and the South (Santa Cruz/Chubut) are deep in the red. The "stagnant decade" isn't a theory. It's right here in the data. Between December 2011 and December 2025, employment in the private sector in Argentina grew by just 1.6% at the national level: only 96,052 jobs were created, according to PwC Argentina.

an entire generation of young people could be saved from algorithm-driven lives and complete offloading of their taste, just by making a habit of reading something relevant to their interests for 45 minutes each day

I really underestimated how much dudes like geography. This might be the most suppressed male interest

@chasedbywasps he who loves the flower leaves it, bee

@thedulab Used to be called politeness, manners or saving face

Cardinal social rule is to never make someone feel like an idiot. Perpetually have to assume that everyone is deathly afraid of being perceived in this way. Preempt the interaction by letting them know that stupid questions don't exist. Briefly jest about how they're already in a better position compared to when you were in their shoes. Slip in an anecdote about something embarrassing that happened to you with a level of unreactive casualness that indirectly signals to their brain that it's safe to relax. Chuckle in response to any semblance of an amusing remark. Liberally administer daps when you start to notice them entering conversational flow state

Kevin O’Leary says consultants go to a special place below hell "consulting is a life of mediocrity, it’s a failure of a human soul, there’s a special place in hell for when consultants die, it’s below hell" "after 2 years they have what’s called consultant virus, they can’t ever be a CEO"

This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

@nomadgeist Seems to be the same everywhere. Brazilians, Spanish and other foreigners in Ireland say Irish will chat to you on a night out no problem but very hard to break into a friend group. My mates and I were surprised hearing that because we thought Irish were so friendly

Scrolling insta and I saw this video by a French girl, and it reminds of a frequent complaint of expats in Australia: it’s actually really hard to make local Australian friends there You see this complaint all over expat forums, even white Brits talk about it, so it’s not even primarily a racial or religious thing In my opinion it’s because Australia is a culture which ranks very high in the “cliquey-ness” extremity. Australia often catches people off guard, because they can’t comprehend how people can be so friendly and outgoing, but also very closed socially, and it’s because they confuse the qualities of extroversion and warmth with actual social-group openness There is a graph I made around this theory (based on the 4 square political compass chart) that I use to roughly plot the primary social dynamic of cities, and I think it can be helpful in selecting a city that best suits your situation and social style. Will do another post about it

@AlanLevinovitz Wreck your ass sitting on for too long. Even for intervals

why is the indoor rowing machine so widely ignored in discussions of the "best" exercise? IMO it's not even close: a unique combination of resistance training and aerobic training, extremely easy on your joints so low likelihood of injury...is it just b/c ppl find it boring?

Spinning HELLBOW from Akif Guluzada 🌪️ #ONEChampionship

This is a Top 3 most beautiful throw ever 🔥

@asparagoid Totally agree. Obsessive vacuumer to combat the width. However I would say, I avoided weighted ab crunches (using the cables) but starting them last year n the difference is massive with no comparable I crease in hip width

Squats. Absolute waste of time for straight men. They gave me enormous legs relative to my upper body, wide birthing hips and an absurd big momma ass. The damage was permanent. I was told they'd make me "strong overall" but this was a lie. Only women and homosexuals should squat

This guy escaped the bull with a goated jump