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@refinedjournal @dieworkwear Wealth inequality also explains some of this--the top 10% of earners are responsible for almost 50% of consumer spending. And if you look at the top 10 fashion companies by market cap, they're all high-end luxury brands or fast fashion/discounters.

@dieworkwear The middle got squeezed. Now it’s either trash that falls apart or luxury that signals wealth. Real quality between the extremes is vanishing because the middle doesn’t post on Instagram.

Many people feel like they're at a loss for mid-tier clothing, trapped between expensive designer luxury and disposable fast fashion. But it's not because mid-tier clothing has disappeared; it's just harder to find. I wrote something for Bloomberg about this transformation. 🧵

@Frances_Coppola @jdvizzle Did you knuckleheads happen to notice that 70% of the 65+ group do support the initiative, and that the difference lies in the semantics of “support” versus “strongly support?”

@jdvizzle I don't know.

65+ year olds who get free bus passes. Riight.

@noelladart @jason_kint I’m not sure it was veiled at all. I kept expecting him to bust out the PowerPoint with Google’s revenue forecasts.

@jason_kint This really wasn't a commencement speech; it was a thinly veiled advertisement for AI.

Wow. This from commencement address of Google’s longtime CEO is worth watching just to get vibe on AI and Google. Yes, he’s a terrible messenger having led 6 illegal monopolies and largest harvester of personal data fueled surveillance advertising. Boos.

@strsscptl @TXMCtrades Greenspan called it “irrational exuberance” in 1996.

@TXMCtrades Yeah man. We watched commercials for websites that didn’t do anything. Questions were raised from the start.

The entire freaking universe was talking about the dotcom bubble during the dotcom bubble

@ReubenR80027912 And don’t forget that anti-corporate sentiment was having quite a moment with young people—WTO protests and so on.

@ReubenR80027912 I think there is some truth to it—many GenXers walked into weird Boomer corporate culture and felt out of place and outnumbered—but weren’t necessarily unhappy to be there.

This whole meme is wrong!! Gen X absolutely loved the 90s. Office Space & Fight Club *were not that popular upon release* b/c they reflected a very small minority’s ennui American Beauty, a movie about BOOMER ennui, was *much* more popular b/c Boomers were 45-55 feeling morose

@Jamyies @ZssBecker “Boycott that island,” how about learn to handle your guns responsibly. No one should “forget” a gun in a backpack.

@ZssBecker Another lesson, boycott that island.

Okay. I'm ready to talk about this. It was the worst month of my life. Also ironically the greatest blessing god has ever given me. Last month I was held in the Cayman Islands facing 15 years in prison. The charge: illegal firearm importation. Here's what happened. More importantly what I learned. Short answer: no. I haven't been smuggling guns. In the States I legally carry a gun on me at almost all times for self defense. Part of this is ensuring I am trained. Hence why I routinely go to the range to shoot. When I do I pack the firearm I intend to use in in a backpack. Last month I was in a giant rush to make a private flight and didn't fully check my backpack before leaving. In it was a small firearm I missed. It was discovered when I went through immigration. At first I assumed I'd just be sent home. Then my wife did some quick research. She pointed out the minimum sentence for importing a gun is 15 years. The police who showed up confirmed it. To say I nearly pissed my pants is an understatement. This was completely my fault. I'm an idiot. The point of this post isn't to blame or complain about anything. The laws there are fair. I'm a grown man capable of checking his bag before flying. The point is: for three weeks on the island (on bail), I got to take a long hard look at my life. I've built a high net worth and a company I love, with people I love working with. I have a beautiful wife who is my best friend. I do whatever I want all day every day. My parents are alive and I get to see them almost every week. Still, despite all this, I often wake up annoyed I haven't done enough with my life. Asking myself "is this it?" In fact I'm pissed half the time, feeling I can do better. Which is ironic. I made $20,000 a year in the military. If you'd told me then I'd achieve a 9 figure net worth and all the above, I would've assumed I'd consider my life a dream. The twist truly hit me on the island as I watched everything I worked hard for in my life held at "gunpoint". Pun intended. Everything I worked so hard to get — poof. Didn't matter for shit. The way the law works there are simple : if you can't prove it was an accident, the minimum is 15 years. It became glaringly obvious. Not only was I an absolute idiot who couldn't pack his own bag. I'd also become a fool who couldn't enjoy the blessings I already had. I'd taken all the people in my life and the success totally for granted. Blind. Blind. Blind. Nothing like a 20-year potential sentence to make you realize: waking up with fun stuff to work on, then chilling on the couch reading with your wife at the end of the day — that's about as good as it gets. I should be euphoric 24/7. To go from having it all, to potentially not even having the option to piss and shit when you want — that's a wake up call if there ever was one. Luckily, the Caymans is a fair place. I was found under exceptional circumstances during my trial. AKA the judge and the courts reviewed the case and agreed it was an accident. I still love the island. It's probably my favorite place to vacation. Just check your luggage before you go. Ha. My point is this: be present. Enjoy your life. One day something could happen — even by complete accident — and yoink it all away. I have so many friends who'll read this and by all definition live a "dream life" — and yet are dissatisfied just like I was. If anything this is the default for most successful men. Not the exception. I'm writing this to help you stop. It took god slapping me across the face with my own ignorance to see it. It was painful and scary. Dark. But honestly, it was the greatest blessing I've ever received. I'm writing this from my office at home, giddy as absolute fuck about my life and everything I have the option to do today. If anything, I'm sad about how much time I wasted feeling otherwise. Don't be ignorant and stupid like me. You might not get the blessing of a 15-year prison threat in a foreign country to wake you up. Wake up. Appreciate what you have now.

@Philip_DT @isthatujawnbray You sound like you’ve just never been to any good bars

@isthatujawnbray Which bar is it? Can you link to the google page?

The Robot bar tender is dumb but so are all the replies being like, this thing won’t comp you a beer after lending a sympathetic ear as you drown your sorrows and lament your wife leaving you. are bars something you people learned about from movies?

@alphaenu @TomMoore9 @WolfofX Third, there are two goals with these things. One is to find a match, one is to show support. You do not seem to understand #2.

@alphaenu @TomMoore9 @WolfofX Second, he might be accompanying someone who is a better match. You don’t know anything from the photo except that he’s there.

Almost 5,000 people waited for hours in the rain at a swabbing event in Worcester, to get tested to see if they were a match to help save the life of a five-year-old boy fighting a rare cancer, after his parents asked for help

@juniorminingpro Lick’s was objectively not very good compared to current options. Grated unmelted cheddar on cheeseburgers? C’mon.

Being replaced by bubble tea and brown katsu

@deankissick @nickcammarata You don’t think he would be mostly dicking around with his bookmarks?

@nickcammarata This is not what Leonardo da Vinci would be doing if he were around today.

spent a few years reading through leonardo's notebooks and have often wondered what he'd be doing if he were around today whatever kat is doing is my best guess

@USGInvestigate @pmddomingos Because Washington has repeatedly proposed soda taxes at the state level. Seattle has a local one. Coke and Pepsi do not want to see it statewide.

@pmddomingos People should be asking themselves why 2 soft drink companies are the 2nd largest political movers in the state of Washington. I get why Boeing needs to own politicians. But why does Big Coke/Pepsi need to own politicians? They just sell sodas, right?

One union spends more on political contributions in Washington than the entire tech industry.

@RiverNj @TheFIREorg Yeah, I don’t understand how this could be read as a threat? It’s just plainly not a threat…

@TheFIREorg That's not a threat, even as a joke. She didn't say "cancel the meeting or I'll have the IDF bomb the building!" They chose the wrong pretext. If it's not an obvious joke, she should be charged with attempted bombing.

“Netanyahu if you can hear me drop some bonbons for us capstone students in Ocean Bank Convention Center.” That’s the speech that got 23-year-old Florida International University student Gabriela Saldana charged with a felony, and sparked this reaction from a judge:

@P_Kallioniemi @BonillaJL They should have gone with “Kash Patel is a Barely Functional Drunk.”

@BonillaJL This is called A/B testing and it is being done with almost every headline.

Nothing says "we stand by our reporting" like ye olde ghost-edit title swap on The Atlantic's "Operation Get Kash" hitpiece

@jobwatchcanada So the city with the greatest “need” for foreign workers is the city with the greatest concentration of foreign-born employers. Interesting.

British Columbia TFW Program: 28,758 employers with 91,201 LMIAs covering 231,195 positions. Top city: Surrey. jobwatchcanada.com/provinces/brit…

@MerriamWebster V-a-r-s-i-t-y

Both 'doctor's appointment' and 'doctor appointment' are acceptable for describing a medical visit. 'Doctor's appointment' is more common. But both are considered correct.

@MarthaFaus39412 @The_Agent_Neo One thing that has always struck me about Germans is that they do not prioritize happiness in the way some other cultures do. This can be a good thing--they can endure and accept hard times--but also a bad thing--they can get stuck in the mindset that "to live is to suffer."

@The_Agent_Neo Κι εγω 11 χρονια πια στη γερμανια. Έχει τα καλα της (ταξιδεύουμε όλον τον κοσμο, δε σκεφτόμαστε τα χρήματα τοσο πολυ, καλη δωρεαν υγεια) αλλα εχει και τα κακα της που ειναι οι γερμανοι, οι οποίοι ειναι η απόλυτη μιζερια.

Μετά από σχεδόν 10 χρόνια στην Γερμανία, μπορώ να πω ότι το τίμημα του να ζεις εδώ, στο "κέντρο της Ευρώπης και της οικονομικής ευμάρειας", είναι η ψυχική υγεία και οτιδήποτε δίνει χαρά στην ζωή ενός ανθρώπου. 1/2

@dieworkwear @PoppyPancho Yes, but X used to link out to more blogs, magazines, and news media where serious ideas do reside. It now discourages and limits linking; you are much more likely to see Elon’s AI slop than a link to a great article. Shallowness and stupidity are part of the design.

@PoppyPancho If you think a 280 character tweet properly represents a "serious idea," then sure.

Twitter is good for quips, puns, and one-liner jokes. It's not a good medium for transmitting serious, nuanced ideas, which is why the project to turn Twitter into a "global town square" was flawed from the start.