Abinashi Khalsa
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The Chuddysey is already better than anything Emily Wilson ever wrote.
I'm trying to talk @romanhelmetguy into working with me to publish this.
Captain Doombeard@CDoombeard
Would you listen to an entire audiobook performance of the Chuddysey?
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@CynicalPublius @edels0n But.. the spreadsheet says it's bad...
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@edels0n All it takes is one mined asteroid and SpaceX just became the richest company ever to exist.
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I read all 277 pages of SpaceX's IPO filing so you don't have to.
Losses up 700%. Revenue decelerating. 107x price-to-sales multiple.
It's a trainwreck. Full breakdown below 👇
Ed Elson@edels0n
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@laethcore @gagemurphy777 Does Messi have the “mind of a soccer player”? Does your 4yo playing his first games of soccer have that mind? That’s all it’s referring to.
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@gagemurphy777 'mind of the church' sounds like invasion of the body snatchers. or AI. and it's both.
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It’s interesting how he seems to miss the symbolism here…
Where you go after you die is an extremely intuitive way of thinking about your own wholeness and participation in eternal time
The Protestant having an eschatological “symbol” for what salvation is makes perfect sense
Jonathan Pageau@PageauJonathan
Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines. A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us. For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when @OrthodoxEthos and @Acts17David were discussing and it is what I have seen in @gavinortlund's videos. In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on? I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.
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@gagemurphy777 I don’t think it’s intuitive at all. It never made sense to me and despite the best attempts of my small church group to explain “saved” I only ever achieved a vague understanding of what they were getting at.
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Abinashi Khalsa retweetledi
I’ve completed the opening lines of the Chudyssey. I’ll provide a detailed breakdown of my choices below.
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@romanhelmetguy I unironically want to read this. I was poking at the translation words and even Grok agrees νήπιοι can be fairly translated into "retards" lol.
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crafty: I chose this word for πολύτροπον because I think previous translators overlooked the fact that Odysseus was actually pretty smart.
chud: ἄνδρα is often mistakenly translated as ‘man,’ but actually every time Homer uses it, he means ‘chud.’ This is an easy mistake to make, because back then every man was a chud.
reckless retardation: This is just literally in the Greek. Homer calls them reckless (ἀτασθαλίῃσιν) and retards (νήπιοι).
@Cernovich A buddy of mine got banned from our cigar hangout because he was too vocal about their pricing model.
He meant well, but it rubbed the owners the wrong way and they decided they just didn't want to have him around talking to other patrons.
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I read this account. I like this account. The problem is that people who aren’t aware of its themes would see a lot of red flags, most of which could be explained. It’s important to talk to Nikita with respect. He has a hard job.
Open Minded Approach@OMApproach
Here's what happened to my account and my impressions after I got blocked by Nikita Bier for asking him why he considers my original content to be stolen. Yesterday, he removed a large account from monetization because it posts content from other platforms. He also made a list of multiple smaller accounts that post the same stolen content as if they were the original creators, but they are not. They all take content from other platforms. He is a vindictive guy. Don't mess with him. I don't know if my account is safe anymore...
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@teriyakityrant @Alexfeinberg Both jobs are technically demanding in different ways. But the McDonald's job doesn't require you to be a savvy businessman on top of it.
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@Valsivus @Alexfeinberg the great irony is that working at McDonalds is far more difficult
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Judging by the comments, Uber & Lyft are effectively high yield payday loan companies as drivers are aware of the high depreciation rates of their driving but still drive because they need cash today
Alex Feinberg@Alexfeinberg
I thought the same about Uber & Lyft but as it turns out there’s a near infinite supply of questionable drivers who aren’t aware that most of every dollar they earn in fares is lost in vehicular depreciation
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@Alexfeinberg @MichaelGuimarin Last time I read up on this it would make sense for BoFA to trade you their whole balance sheet for $1, that’s how much their unrealized offbook losses are.
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@MichaelGuimarin Aren’t many banks insolvent save for the post SVB accounting changes that allows them to not mark their bonds to market
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Today I learned that the bank reserve ratio, you know the ratio that says how much in deposits banks are supposed to hold and keep back to keep stability
That ratio which historically has been 9-10% since the 1929 crash, has been 0% since March 2020.
They sent the ratio to zero in 2020 and never sent it back.
😂
David Andolfatto@dandolfa
I don't think people appreciate how little monetary policy has to do with inflation right now. And those that believe it's all about monetary policy do not appreciate how insane fiscal policy has been the last 5 years.
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First time I’ve flown Southwest with assigned seating. Back of the plane is packed and the front is mostly empty. And the stewardess made a point of announcing it was empty because no one bought them and that you can’t move unless a stewardess gives permission. What a downgrade.
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My son is 3 and I give him creatine gummies every day
Kyree@Kyreeoliver
How young is too young to start my son on creatine and alp pouches?
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@Alexfeinberg First week of going heavy on ai in my workflow I dreamt about it like it was an extension of my body. I also awoke in the middle of the night and in a half asleep fugue and was trying to think of how to deploy my agents to get myself back to sleep. Totally new experience to me.
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The benefit of not being on the cutting edge of AI is you’re letting the most aggressive 1% go through an experimental neurological trial before you do
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
Everyone is going insane. Employees are going insane. Executives are going insane. Investors are going insane. Politicians are going insane. Citizens are going insane Collective AI psychosis If you sit back and think about it for a even minute it’s completely surreal
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@Alexfeinberg At least the mafia, while extorting cash from me and inviting criminal elements into my community, won’t punish me for defending myself against said criminals.
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Imagine getting shot by an illegal immigrant because your Mayor's running a sanctuary city and your DA won't prosecute crime
The mafia will make a comeback
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@RizomaSchool DM me if you want a contact for more info. one dude in particular knows literally everything about it and will enjoy explaining everything to you in detail - it's hard to get him to stop when you get him started 😂
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@Valsivus oh very cool!!! should definitely do a podcast episode about this at some point
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met a guy yesterday at the forefront of stratospheric aerosol injection to cool the planet and I asked him about soil carbon sequestration and he said he knows nothing about it
seems like as a scientist advocating for world altering technology, you might want to know what the other options are out there for mitigating the thing you care about (cooling the planet, controlling extremes of weather)
IDK just me maybe!!
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allpowerlabs.com/how-biomass-ga…
Short explanation. When you gasify biomass, dead trees for example - California has a lot of that, you spit out a bunch of gases that can be put to work in various ways, mostly carbon neutral, and then you have a big chunk of the carbon locked into biochar. Which can be composted. It's basically taking the carbon out of the active cycle for hundreds of years.
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@Valsivus i dont even really know what this is?? and i pay somewhat close attention to these things
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@AJA_Cortes No family 🚩
Poor physical health 🚩
Use of industry jargon to impress you 🚩
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Asking VCs if they incline bench to assess if they are a good fit for Athanor
VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏@VCBrags
if you aren't mogging you're not raising
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