Rob H.

Same advice for student athletes receiving NIL 🎯 "Treat financial windfalls as capital not income!" • Allocate appropriately • Spend wisely • Invest securely or it will disappear as quickly as it came

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

what it's all about 🤘 #HookEm

@KStark1220 @trendyhoopstars not like any of them shot the lights out that night 🤷‍♂️

@trendyhoopstars As they should. Why should they waste their career watching someone shoot 23 times and miss 20 of them?

Three of Texas’ top four returning scorers have entered the transfer portal: Jordan Lee (13.2 PPG) Justice Carlton (8.5 PPG) Aaliyah Crump (7.9 PPG) This comes as the program was already set to lose Kyla Oldacre (10.5 PPG) and Rori Harmon (8.4 PPG, 6.3 APG) due to exhausted eligibility.

@TheChiropracti3 @FahaAnthony @thefutxre Is it in their best interest? Time will tell. It could definitely be more lucrative for 1 year to jump teams, but that could also mean losing built up good will & relations cultivated with the prior fanbase. The game isn't forever, so better make strong connections at last stop

When a coach comes in an processes kids you don’t care, but the minute someone you like operates in their best interest it’s “they chase money”, as an adult I’m not loyal to anyone but my friends and family, that includes my job, i do my job and do it well, but if opportunities for advancement, better work life balance or money come I’m taking that, why would you expect her to be loyal to a school ???

SEC champs, Final Four appearance and still leaving like what exactly are these kids looking to accomplish idgi

Lighting the Tower is one of our most iconic traditions... but how does it work? Step inside the control room and discover how our dedicated team continues to celebrate every moment in Longhorn history, year after year. 🤘 Read more here - utex.as/3Okd2uq

“You can see the surface of the Moon…we just went sci-fi.” On flight day seven, images from our @NASAArtemis II crew amazed, turning science fiction to reality. From the lunar far side to a solar eclipse from the Moon, the views are EVERYTHING. No pressure to pick a favorite.

@JerkinLeeroy @TaliaGoodmanWBB @On3 they all did that first half 🤢

@ShonenVentures @TaliaGoodmanWBB @On3 True but she played terribly in the beginning.

BREAKING: Texas’ Justice Carlton plans to enter the transfer portal, her representative Trey Pinkney told @On3. The 6-1 sophomore averaged 8.5 ppg, 4 rpg and 1.1 spg this season. TRACKER: on3.com/her/news/on3-2…

@JerkinLeeroy @TaliaGoodmanWBB @On3 What? She almost single handedly got them back in it with 7 unanswered points.

@TaliaGoodmanWBB @On3 She did poorly against UCLA.

@MuhammetDagdev2 @ErhanG73564 Why stand with a regime that launched ballistic missiles at you? We stand with the people of Iran, too - the ones that want to throw off the yoke of the IRGC & Basij ⛓️‍💥

@ErhanG73564 Beter olurlar inşallah, biz Türkler İran halkının yanındayız.

🟠Eski CIA analisti Johnson: Pilot kurtarma operasyonu aslında doğrudan bir kara harekâtıydı - 400 milyon dolar değerinde hava aracı kaybedildi – Trump delirdi 🔹İskoç kökenli politikacı ve televizyon/radyo sunucusu George Galloway’in sunduğu The Mother of All Talkshows (MOATS) programına konuk olan eski CIA analisti ve BERG Associates kurucusu Larry C. Johnson, ABD’nin son askeri operasyonuna dair çarpıcı iddialarda bulundu. 🔹Johnson, resmi açıklamaların "mantığa aykırı" olduğunu savundu. 🔹Johnson, operasyonun arkasındaki asıl amacın çok daha büyük olduğunu öne sürdü. 🔹Operasyon planlandığı gibi ilerleseydi, şu an sahada İran’ın Natanz nükleer tesisine yönelik özel bir operasyon yürütülüyor olacağını belirtti. 🔹Yaşanan 'fiyaskoların' ise bu nükleer operasyonu şimdilik ertelediğini sözlerine ekledi. 🔹Resmi makamların operasyonu "bir pilotu kurtarma girişimi" olarak sunmasını eleştiren Johnson, bölgede yaşanan askeri kayıpların 'devasa boyutlarda' olduğunu vurguladı. 🔹Johnson, Müşterek Özel Harekat Komutanlığı’na (JSOC) ait özel donanımlı iki C-130 uçağı ile çok sayıda helikopterin imha edildiğini aktardı. 🔹Operasyonun maliyetine dikkat çeken analist, sadece bir kişiyi kurtarmak iddiasıyla yaklaşık 400 milyon dolar değerinde hava aracının kaybedildiğini ifade etti. 🔹Bölgeden gelen görüntülerin resmi verilerle uyuşmadığını kaydeden Johnson, en az bir C-130 uçağının alevler içinde çöle çakıldığını, iki Pave Hawk (Black Hawk), dört MH-6 Little Bird helikopteri ve bir A-10 Warthog uçağının düşürüldüğünü ya da yakıtsız kalarak bölgede bırakıldığını öne sürdü. 🔹Küçük kapasiteli Little Bird helikopterlerinin operasyona dahil edilmesinin, bölgede ciddi bir çatışma yaşandığının kanıtı olduğunu dile getirdi. 🔹Johnson, özellikle MH-6 helikopterlerinin sadece 300 millik savaş menziline sahip olduğunu, bu nedenle operasyon için C-130’ların yakıt ikmali taşıması gerektiğini söyledi. 🔹Ayrıca kurtarma operasyonunun mantık dışı şekilde çok sayıda helikopter ve uçak kullanılarak yürütüldüğünü, tek bir pilotu kurtarmak için operasyonun aşırı maliyetli hâle geldiğini belirtti. 🔹Eski CIA analisti, operasyonun arka planında Natanz’daki İran nükleer tesislerine olası bir saldırının hazırlığı bulunduğunu ve operasyon sırasında yaşanan aksaklıkların daha geniş bir askeri girişimi geciktirmiş olabileceğini öne sürdü. Johnson, ölen ve yaralanan asker sayısının belirsiz olduğunu, ancak kayıpların ciddi olduğunu ifade etti. 🔹ABD Başkanı Trump’ın yönetim anlayışını sert bir dille eleştiren Johnson, durumu "Donald Trump’ın Deliliği" olarak nitelendirdi. 🔹Trump’ın "kayışı kopardığını" ve kontrolsüz bir kara operasyonu emri verebileceğini ileri süren Johnson, askeri komuta zincirinin bu "hukuksuz" emirlere karşı istifa yolunu seçebileceği uyarısında bulundu. ydh.com.tr/d/37776/eski-c…

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

@pratyushkisor @Rabid_jackalowp @FreightAlley That's because we have the cult of shareholder primacy here in the USA which first led to off-shoring, then on-shoring via H1B scams and now wholesale replacement of roles with Agentic AI.

@ShonenVentures @Rabid_jackalowp @FreightAlley No Asians don't have this privelage of getting paid so much for little work . Part of the reason why companies are hiring Asians over whites in USA , Asians work longer at less pay.

During World War II, Hitler was convinced that Americans lacked the will to fight and that any who did would be quickly overwhelmed. When early reports arrived from the battles in North Africa, German observers noted that Americans fought differently from the Europeans. Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available. This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces. In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment. This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead. It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand. Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.

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@excel_rator @deminimax @benjamincowen Correlation vs causation 🤔 This may also just highlight the prevalence of comorbidities in the US demography influencing the "excess deaths" TLDR: too many sedentary/excess BMI patients in the USA

@deminimax @benjamincowen this is proof that Covid is when low class retards like u began their assault on reality all that happened in COVID was that the richest country in the world killed its civilians on the same rate as 3rd world shitholes

Someone could go to school for 4 years and study aerospace engineering, then get a PhD with a dissertation related to orbital mechanics, and some instagram influencer who watched a youtube video will be like "actually that guy is wrong" on a topic related to space travel and people will believe them. I'm not sure how we got here, but I hope we go back to a society where credibility is earned with rigorous training in the associated field, not by a popularity contest.

@pratyushkisor @Rabid_jackalowp @FreightAlley Bro... the youth of China aren't playing that 'cog in the machine' game anymore. They're laying flat because they know they're being used and spit out for nothing in return.

@ShonenVentures @Rabid_jackalowp @FreightAlley Yes but the majority of men and women of America during WW2 were focused on work/productive not on being confused about gender and not protesting. They are not way close to that like now. But china can have their people work like machines, it's allready the factory of the world.

@ChuckMurison @btcWhaleclub @ArmedBearCaucus @sentdefender Closing the base does not advance the purpose those bases exist for - aiding the US in its ability to project power to any part of the globe to protect US interests - at least not until a suitable alternative is in place.

@btcWhaleclub @ArmedBearCaucus @sentdefender A US base has rights to operate based on the agreements with the host country. The UK had veto power over our use of our base to conduct offensive operations. That shit needs to be renegotiated or close the base.

The United Kingdom will refuse to allow the United States to use its airbases, particularly RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia which long-range strategic bombers with the U.S. Air Force have previously utilized on a case-by-case basis to carry out strikes on Iran, for missions that target Iranian bridges, power plants, or other civilian infrastructure, citing concerns that such strikes could harm civilians and constitute war crimes, senior officials tell The i Paper.

@pratyushkisor @Rabid_jackalowp @FreightAlley THE arsenal of democracy during WWII and for a decade after was the United States of America. Upon entry into WWII - In just three years, American manufacturing produced approximately 300,000 aircraft, 124,000 ships, and 89,000 tanks!

@ShonenVentures @Rabid_jackalowp @FreightAlley So would be the usa . But you can read how communist in USSR moved entire factories and supply chains under a month and started a new production under freezing in humane conditions during WW2. China can try to replicate but not democracies

@JillyJSB @vivchook @FalkTG @_HenryBolton

@vivchook @FalkTG @_HenryBolton They don’t get oil through the straight?

I repeat: The U.S. sent thousands of its 19 years old soldiers to die in Normandy, to free Europe and to end the biggest crime against humanity ever commited - by Europeans. It was just 81 years ago. The whole reason, France, Benelux etc. 🇫🇷 exist today is because of this heroism. My grandparents could grow up in a liberal democracy. Without the U.S. they would be raised at the H*tler Youth. We Europeans would still be in wars again and again, like 1914, 1866, 1870, 1795 etc. They brought peace, democracy, liberty and human rights. They invested billions of U.S. Dollars into Europe with the Marshall Fund. They gave us more than we ever had in our history before. They protected us for 7 decades with hundreds of thousands of soldiers against the cruelties of the Soviet Union. The terror we can see nowadays in Donetsk, would have happened in Bavaria, Bourgogne or the Netherlands in 1950 if there wasn’t the U.S. 🇺🇸 Who do we Europeans think we are to let that nation down, act like bad allies, calling their President names every day on television - and have full confidence we stand better alone. All of instagram is just about, why we’re better than the U.S. We owe them so much. We Europeans are most arrogant species on earth. And to cure this we have to face the truth.

@OzSalmond @PatellaPhalange @abierkhatib @MichaelWestBiz What an illuminating retort. You are certainly entitled to your ill-informed opinion. G'Day

@ShonenVentures @PatellaPhalange @abierkhatib @MichaelWestBiz Vietnam it is, OBVIOUSLY, fuckwit

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims. Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." Mar 13: "We won the war." Mar 14: "Please help us." Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it." Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait" Mar 22: "Iran is Dead" Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran." Mar 24: "We’re making progress." Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away." Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO." Mar 28: No major quote Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences." Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing" Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon." Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen." Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." 😂

@PatellaPhalange @OzSalmond @abierkhatib @MichaelWestBiz this isn't anything like Vietnam... more like Syria

@ShonenVentures @OzSalmond @abierkhatib @MichaelWestBiz So how’s it going so far? Winning? Welcome to your new Vietnam, except this time you’re on your own.

@OzSalmond @abierkhatib @MichaelWestBiz Who's the dolt if you really believe Maduro was "democratically" elected in a free and fair election?

@ShonenVentures @abierkhatib @MichaelWestBiz "kidnap a democratically elected national leader" from a TINY nation in a region which has been under America's thumb for CENTURIES, in an operation which was not military AT ALL, but employed subversion in a society riddled with American agents. You fucking dolt.