Alastair Ojeda
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Alastair Ojeda
@aojedi
Thoughts and opinions are my own Fintech.Banking.
Katılım Kasım 2011
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Lol what kind of crime do you have to commit in a past life to be condemned to white knight for a member of the most corrupt family in the history of American politics? You're a fucking goober.
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger
Stoicism is one of the West’s most influential philosophical traditions, and author Ryan Holiday is its greatest advocate. And so, when he says that Ivanka Trump’s praise of Marcus Aurelius is “as cringe as it possibly gets, because it’s not real and it’s totally missing the point,” anyone who cares about Stoicism should pay attention. While Ivanka’s quotation of Marcus, on how “the soul becomes dyed the color of its thoughts,” reproduces the sentence accurately, explains Holiday, she fails to live up to the philosophy because she has not, in his terms, staged “an intervention with your dad whose life would be dyed with his horrible, negative, mean bullying thoughts all the time.” But what Holiday demands of Ivanka contradicts the stoic philosophy he claims to teach. “A man must know many things first,” wrote Marcus Aurelius in Book 11, “before he be able truly and judiciously to judge of another man’s action.” And yet Holiday does not entertain the possibility that Ivanka has thought carefully about her relationship to her father, that she has considered and rejected the path of public denunciation, or that her loyalty might itself reflect a moral commitment. Instead, he assumes that her silence about her father proves her unethical. Donald Trump’s tweets, his rallies, his rhetorical style, and his political career are not Ivanka’s to control. The very first sentence of Stoic Epictetus’s Handbook says, “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions...” x.com/shellenberger/… Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video! x.com/shellenberger/…
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The Batman effect.
A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
[Francesco Pagnini et al.,"Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect", Nature, 2025]
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@WHITEB17ON Stats don’t care about your feelings
He’ll be back soon
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The Yankees really just sent our BEST player in franchise history down to the minors. I can’t fucking believe it. So done.
New York Yankees@Yankees
Following today’s game, the Yankees returned INF Anthony Volpe from his rehab assignment, reinstated him from the 10-day injured list and optioned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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🔥 Tesla is currently producing the last Model X!
Employees have signed the body before it receives the Garnet Red paint (Signature Edition).
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Mexican Modes🇲🇽
Beginner: Tacos al Pastor
Medium: Birria
Hard: Barbacoa
Extreme: Tacos de Tripas/Menudo
Super Extreme: ???
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@GMIgorSmirnov Bishop can take queen at the end and still pin other queen
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Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm.
Insane that I can’t do this already.
My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana.
@Spotify please fix this.
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AngelList CEO @avlok says layered SPVs are banned by default from @ankurnagpal's new fund USVC, which allows anyone with at least $500 to invest in private companies such as SpaceX, Sierra, and Vercel:
Ankur Nagpal@ankurnagpal
Announcing my new thing: I'm launching a new public venture fund USVC is built by AngelList with @naval shaping our investment strategy in the technology companies building our future And unlike traditional venture funds, everyone can invest along with just $500:
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Big news is coming.
What starts here changes the world.🤘
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Principal Kirk Moore, who tackled the school shooter, walked into prom a few days later to a huge celebration from the students and was named prom king.
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