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Just in case you’re wondering why I’m bullish on $CRCL and Stablecoins. 8605 subscribers at $1.00: -> $1595. Not even including int. like Canada paying 46% more (2 CAD vs $1 USD subscription) and the FX/rounding disappearing into the void. I’m not here for subscription revenue so I don’t plan on changing anything. But just found this pretty amusing even if you factored in pro rata or holds/delays. You would reduce 30% App Store fees, Stripe card TX fees, and other black box fee mechanisms like foreign currency rounding. Stablecoins are definitely the future, and you can already see banks trying to control it with Clarity Act lobbying.

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BREAKING 🚨: Japan Japan's 10-Year Yield jumps above 2.39%, the highest level since 1999 🤯👀

BREAKING: Italy denied the United States permission to land its military aircraft at an airbase in Sicily before flying to the Middle East, according to Reuters report.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: The United States and the Hellenic Republic have stood side by side as two proud and thriving nations upholding the Western traditions born in Greece more than 2,000 years ago.

Reader, I saw him again this morning. But today he was wearing sky blue trousers and a turquoise blazer with a pink tartan pattern and it just worked perfectly. Unbelievable. Easily the best dressed man I have ever seen. Must be around 90.

The torture of hotels touring you around gets exponentially worse the more you pay They will literally tour you around the whole hotel with their specific opening times of every little area as if you'd ever be able to memorize that It's completely guest hostile especially since most guests come from long flights in sweaty clothes and would love to just get to their room and lie on the bed and chill with AC on max Every $$$ hotel check in script: "Welcome, Mr. _____. Everything's all set for you. Here's your complimentary champagne (?????). My name's Sofia, and I'd love to show you around before I take you up to your room. It'll only take a few minutes, follow me! So this is our lobby, if you ever need anything at all, but only in the day, just come find us here at reception. We're staffed from 8 to 5. Over there is our concierge desk, we can help you with restaurant reservations, taxi bookings, day trips, anything you need. This is our lounge bar. It opens at eleven forty-five and runs until eleven fifty-two at night, later on weekends, we go until midnight on Saturdays but close at eleven thirty-seven on Sundays, just so you know. Happy hour is five twenty to six oh-five, two-for-one on cocktails. Really popular with guests. We also do a complimentary welcome drink, I'll sort that for you once we're done. Our restaurant is just through here. Breakfast is served from six fifty-three to ten twenty-two, buffet style, included in your stay. For lunch and dinner, it's à la carte. I'd recommend booking ahead for dinner, especially on weekends, it fills up fast. Out those doors is the pool, heated, open eight thirteen in the morning until nine forty-nine at night. Towels are provided, just show your key card. The spa is right next door, massages, facials, steam room. You can book at reception or just pop in. It's quietest before nine oh-one if you want the place to yourself. The gym is on the second floor, open twenty-four hours except between three sixteen and three forty-four in the morning when we do a deep clean, all included. And the business center is just past the gym if you need to print anything or use a workstation. Your room is on the fifth floor, great view from up there. The WiFi password is on the card in your welcome folder, same network throughout the whole hotel. And here we are! So, air con controls are here, blackout curtains on this panel, minibar is stocked and refreshed daily at two oh-eight in the afternoon. Safe is in the wardrobe, instructions are inside. If you need extra pillows, towels, anything at all, just dial zero. Is there anything I can help you with right now, or any questions?"

Whenever a big project goes up in Tokyo, say a million square meters of office and residential and a dozen acres of parks, shops and restaurants, the commercial tenants are as carefully curated as the private home tenants (by the banks). Entire planning departments are filled with people whose jobs it is so navigate a web of commercial connections and ownerships and patronage while trying to include the minimum amount of "whimsy" as necessary to keep tenants happy, tourists coming and ensure there is a good mix of old and new, known and unknown. Some tenants beg to be included, others are must-includes due to contractual obligations (all parties want their own business included on favorable terms) and some tenants are even offered rent discounts or no-rent contracts. You can think of the process as urban curators. I often joke that I should be made czar of an Urban Sommelier department or consulting firm, but really, why doesn't entire cities curate urban life? The floorspace that most people interact with is amazingly limited compared to the cast hinterlands of urban sprawl, 12th floor back offices and underground service decks. Why do we trust the market so much? Isn't that how we end up with the same dreary chain stores, semi-abandoned high streets and vape shops in listed buildings? Why not make our cities better with a bit of bias, prejudice towards the beneficial and charming, and a code of neighborliness?