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@Rrrrooster @s8mb 100%

@OfficialHob @s8mb Point taken, but in the long the term visual appeal is much more important than we give it credit for

The new build estates on the outskirts of Cambridge are truly shocking. Is it any wonder that people there hate the thought of expanding the city when this is what they can expect will be built?

@AugusteCom30151 @RollingHedge Would like to see your list also if possible please

@RollingHedge Btw can help you with places to consider. I looked at a *lot* of places when researching this for myself. Leaving is also the other way to build wealth as a British person.

For the last ~15 years since I left uni, I’ve been a consistent top 1% (at the start) to top 0.1% taxpayer (last few years). I’m not rich, though. We live modestly. We save. We invest. We are sensible. But I work hard. Really hard. Most weekends I’m writing strategic go to market plan, white papers for new products, attending ExCo calls, or sending data to our major stakeholders. I’m also the only real income in our household for the last few years. My wife runs her own small company and they do quite well for their size - they paid our kids school fees for a few years, sure it’s up and down, as any new endeavour tends to be - but she also gets absolutely hosed by Reeves for any success she can manifest. And I’m sick to the back teeth of the way the economy treats risk-takers and entrepreneurial people, and the general way it is configured. It’s all wrong. I’ve absolutely had enough. The social contract is totally and utterly broken. The state is eating the economy; it rewards indolence and kills ambition. I’ve left the country before for work opportunities and better prospects, so I’m not averse to the idea. Though I don’t really in my heart of hearts want to and I suspect this is what the state is betting on more broadly. This time around, I have remained in Britain so far because: it’s our home, our families are here, our friends are here, we bought a big pile in Surrey to put down roots after a lot of travel, our kids are settled in school, and our parents are in their twilight years. It’s not easy to just up roots like it was in the past. But it is inescapable that the country is structurally fucked. In every conceivable way. You can’t build. You can’t keep what you make. There’s very little to zero return on your taxable income and efforts. Long term, the delta between state spending and borrowing and its productivity and wages/tax receipts is moving in an exponential K-shape. The pension system is geared against people like me who put in, and geared towards a critical mass of indolents - both domestic and imported - plus a big proportion of boomers who have never contributed what I have. And in my pond, I’m not even a big fish. 16,500 of us have already voted with our feet. I’m just absolutely done paying for welfare socialism and Islamist scope creep. I see the Greens waiting. Reform is the main alternative to the traditional parties and they’re a total joke. Despite their membership numbers and THE EXCELLENT @RupertLowe10 - I am unconvinced Restore will ever be given a fair hearing by the mainstream media. Their electoral cut-through is likely to suffer as a result. The SDP led by the brilliant Clouston still have no cut-through. It’s collectively all so disappointing. I will continue to support both parties as they are the only patriots left. My friends - many of them - are out already, and many more are about to be. It’s 90% of what we discuss when we meet. Tonight I made a decision. I’m out. Do what is best for your family now. No one you know in your day-to-day life is remotely aware of what’s coming. It will be swift and it will be unforgiving. No one is coming to save you. Good luck. Godspeed. ✌️ (Red pilled for years, radicalised by @trevgoes4th and @db_fink)

@internetvin @kepano Please make a documentary about the obsidian team

@kepano can you please make a video about this or let me make a documentary about this and Obsidian, please.

are any of you using Obsidian with a team? what's your set up?

@moranjohna1 👏💯

I bet I am not the only mayor who can relate a bit to this statement:- “Changing a city is complicated, because even the most progressive people don’t want to alter their habits. To succeed, you have to have a strategy, be determined and, yes, accept being unpopular.”

@CyrusYari @sebs_tweets what phone are you using atm?

phones should be for communication (of any form) & nothing else. no social media. while we on this topic, great new essay by @sebs_tweets : sebs.website/social-media-a…

this is the long-awaited clicks communicator phone. coming out this Q2. sounds so promising so far. pls pls don't be another overhyped product that fails to deliver on quality. the hunt for a more trad daily driver continues & eventually leaving ios which is over-engineered & shouldn't be accessible from one's pocket. as someone who used a blackberry up until 2022 before they discontinued support (could no longer work), am excited for a qwerty trad replacement without bells & whistles but having all the essential things. genuinely "few" X turboscrollers get why you'd want a phone like this or would be willing to have agency & give up their bs phone habits. countdown begins. cc @JanOleHelmbold great coverage on this.

@calotonterias makes sense. never been a gay player in the mens premier league, but 1/6 in the womens premier league are gay. clearly something genetic going on here

Un nuevo metaanálisis con +200.000 participantes concluyó que las lesbianas suelen estar expuestas a niveles más altos de testosterona en el útero que las mujeres heterosexuales, mientras que los hombres homosexuales suelen estar expuestos a niveles más bajos que los hombres heterosexuales. Se basaron en la comparación de los ratios 2D:4D de las personas, es decir, la proporción entre la longitud del dedo índice y la del dedo anular. Se considera que los ratios 2D:4D más bajos se asocian a una mayor exposición a testosterona prenatal.

Late night vibe coding session courtesy of @supermirror_app

@moranjohna1 @s1_tracey Keep up the good work John.

@s1_tracey And as for the “private rental” that is not true either. These are to be homes rented under rules and management from the local authority. Tenure and rents set by us. As private rental sector is not working in Limerick I want the public sector to intervene.

The Mayor of Limerick, turns up for a community meeting in a community building, flanked by 4 security guards, displaying absolute arrogance & disrespect to the people of Janesboro! The modular homes he wants to erect on a community green space is for the PRIVATE RENTAL SECTOR!

@CyrusYari places that meet this criteria, off the top of my head (could be wrong): cyprus, lisbon, dubai, austin, melbourne, sydney, miami, bahamas, singapore, hong kong, kuala lumpur

some requirements for main base: 1- SUN, all year, high uv, my genetics 2- low taxes & friendly policies towards business & self-employment. low friction + digitised 3- safety 4- good infra, e.g. not falling down a ditch like thailand sidewalks 5-high quality organic produce

@_welf @supermirror_app @daylightco great product

today I'm launching @supermirror_app the #1 performant Mac-to-Android mirroring app 60 fps, <10ms, lossless, optimized for E-Ink devices which means: you can now use your mac, on paper for calm computing, deeper focus and better sleep first prototype built with Opus 4.6 in a few hours, relentlessly optimized since - beautiful menu bar app - clamshell mode, touch input - keyboard shortcuts, full CLI (hi claude) - any android 8 device or newer - 5 min setup it's been such a joy to build this simple product to autistic levels of quality and performance free 7 day trial, then $29 forever really hope you enjoy it link below

@caydengineer @MentraGlass send me a free pair and i will write you an app that factory workers can use to improve QC

We worked 996 in Shenzhen making smart glasses so you don’t have to. AI has made us 100X smarter… unless you work in the physical world. That’s because AI can’t see, can’t hear, can’t act in the physical world. But now with smart glasses, it can. But making smart glasses is really hard and expensive and you’ll probably fail. That’s why we made open source smart glasses, so you don’t have to. Mentra Live is for building and deploying apps that let AI see, hear, and act in real time. Think of frontline workers wearing smart glasses as AI whispers repair instructions in their ears, salespeople getting live tips to close a deal, manufacturing inspections verified with AI vision, delivery drivers saving minutes per door. The software under-the-hood (MentraOS) is open source, which means you own the app, the data, the glasses, the deployment. You can start deploying smart glasses now. Mentra does the glasses OS, hardware, and infra - you build the app and deploy it. What will you build?

The town of Tønsberg, Norway planned a new modernist building by the main square, but a counter proposal was given and according to the local newspaper. after 5,000 votes the result was firmly—92%—for classical architecture in harmony with the existing town architecture. Obviously the architects and modernists are upset the people aren't buying their ugly proposal.

Reminder that Ireland once sourced 100% of its natural gas from its domestic offshore fields but by 2030 will invert that to rely on 90% foreign natural gas imports all thanks to an arbitrary decision made by this bright bulb.

@CyrusYari thank you

@OfficialHob depends on the company. some tech companies have aggressive "always on slack" culture. but with most remote roles u can usually get away with a lot more freedom than being in an office. get paid (non-dilutive financing) & build ur self-employment at home

“Random Tinkering (antifragile) → Heuristics (technology) → Practice and Apprenticeship → Random Tinkering (antifragile) → Heuristics (technology) → Practice and Apprenticeship … In parallel to the above loop, Practice → Academic Theories → Academic Theories → Academic Theories → Academic Theories … (with of course some exceptions, some accidental leaks, though these are indeed rare and overhyped and grossly generalized).” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

been living in this country for 6 months and have fallen in love with the place. the people are warm and humble, the architecture is stunning, in many ways it represents the peak of human civilization.

Public utility infrastructure has no need to be ugly. We do it to ourselves.

@iamreddave @gafa_le_tae Remember my mum saying petín growing up but never really thought about the word itself. Had no idea it the English word came from that

Pet in English comes from the Gaelic word peta for "beloved child". At this hackathon we are going to try make an Irish language computer pet 🐶