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Rodney BM🤔🇧🇷🇮🇹
@RBMonte
Be a normal human being driven by ethical principles.(lived in US/Ecuador/Hungary/Czech/Switzerland, but my hearth stayed in Prague)
Katılım Mayıs 2010
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May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.

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O presidente Bolsonaro sofre hoje com as graves sequelas do atentado sofrido e das cirurgias decorrentes.
Ele precisa ir para casa, é uma questão humanitária!
A saúde frágil do presidente é incompatível com a realidade carcerária da unidade prisional onde estava custodiado.
Rogo que as autoridades do Poder Judiciário reflitam sobre o caso e tomem a única decisão que uma consciência cristã pode adotar, ou seja, prisão domiciliar já!
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@AudiSport27 Dumb move, controversial personality , he is definitely not missed
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@freedomNov5 @KurtSupeCPA Improve relationship is money related?! Really?
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Every Boomer parent and grandparent hold onto their money and don’t even think about passing it down to their kids or grandkids when it could actually do some good or improve their relationship with their children.
The fact that these grandparents have $3m in investments and pension income, while their daughter and grandkid are renting and paying $1800/m for daycare is insane.
1. They could help watch the kids instead of daycare. Better for the family and relationships
2. The Finacial help should have come sooner
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Couple comes in for their annual review.
$2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track.
I ask the question I ask everyone.
"How is your daughter doing?"
Mom's face changed first.
Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained.
But she's been in the same apartment for six years.
Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible.
Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually."
I pulled up a simple chart.
Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60.
At 60 her own retirement is eight years away.
The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close.
Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way.
The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child.
They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications.
Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter.
Dad looked at his wife.
"Why are we waiting?"
Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.
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@lulu_lemon213 @KurtSupeCPA Life changing help is the educational availability, we as son’s should go out there make our own living and not be waiting,
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Man this hits hard. My parents did the exact opposite they waited. I got the big check at 54… right when the mortgage was almost paid off and the kids were already through college. It was nice, don’t get me wrong, but it felt more like a retirement bonus than life-changing help.
If they’d given even half of it 15–20 years earlier? We could’ve bought a house instead of renting forever, cut the daycare stress, maybe even started a small business. Instead it just sat in their accounts “for safety.”
The math is brutal but simple: $38k/year now at 39 can buy freedom. The same money at 58–60 mostly buys comfort you already mostly have.
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Rodney BM🤔🇧🇷🇮🇹 retweetledi

@DaniloGentili voce ouviu falar do trabalho,se nao me engano, Betinho do quarteto MPB4? similar mas sem ONG, tudo dele...
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Vou ser direto: tem uma mulher em SP chamada Dona Sônia que há 38 anos cuida de crianças que crescem no meio do tráfico. Só ela, do zero, sem parar.
Ela nunca teve sede fixa. Apareceu um terreno por R$ 200 mil. É agora ou nunca.
Eu sou padrinho da ONG Nova Esperança e tô pedindo ajuda.
vakinha.com.br/6013334
Se não puder doar, compartilha esse post.
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@SF_Moro como pode o senhor apoiar quem destruiu seu trabalho!?
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Atualmente, as CPIs do Congresso fazem o seu trabalho e tentam investigar crimes graves, enquanto alguns Ministros do STF atuam para impedir as investigações.
O Min Gilmar Mendes acabou de suspender outra quebra de sigilo fiscal e bancário que poderia elucidar as relações entre o Banco Master e o Min. Dias Toffoli.
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@RBMonte True, there's risk of some kind everywhere.
I think the OPs point was that these countries were presented as risk free when that's not the case
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I feel sorry for those who have moved there & not everyone did so for tax reasons. A winter in the UK is reason enough 😂
Joni Askola@joni_askola
The dream of Dubai is officially over, and it will never be the same. The illusion of a tax-free lifestyle and perfect security for Westerners in the Middle East has collapsed. As regional realities set in, it is clear that this artificial paradise is truly vulnerable
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Luxembourg is the world’s first nation to offer free public transport for all, tackling traffic and climate change in one bold move.
Luxembourg has pioneered a bold new era in urban mobility by becoming the first nation on Earth to eliminate fares across its entire public transport network. This groundbreaking policy covers every bus, tram, and train route nationwide, offering free rides to residents, cross-border commuters, and visitors alike.
Financed through general taxation rather than ticket sales, the initiative was designed to tackle the country's severe traffic congestion—once among the worst in Europe per capita—and to sharply cut carbon emissions from road transport. By removing the cost and hassle of tickets, Luxembourg effectively turned public transit into a basic public service, as essential and accessible as clean water or electricity.
The impact has been profound and measurable. Ridership surged as people left their cars behind, leading to noticeably less road traffic, shorter commute times, and a meaningful drop in urban air pollution. While first-class rail options remain a paid upgrade for those wanting extra comfort, the standard second-class system is now truly seamless: hop on, hop off, no barriers.
Luxembourg's experiment has demonstrated that removing financial obstacles can drive a genuine shift toward sustainable travel habits. It has also served as an inspiring model for other countries and cities grappling with sprawl, gridlock, and climate goals. In an age when radical solutions are needed to address the mobility-climate crisis, Luxembourg proves that treating public transport as a universal right is not only feasible—it can be genuinely transformative.

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