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M. Saint Germain

@HistorySlim

History, philosophy, musings and ponderings, this and that, brain dump.

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M. Saint Germain
M. Saint Germain@HistorySlim·
@KarlRadl Was. At a certain point history becomes just that. Time to prove it again or accept the new reality.
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shaq
shaq@shaqoftheseus·
you go to her house and this is her bookshelf wyd
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M. Saint Germain
M. Saint Germain@HistorySlim·
@mcgillmd921 The man left a diary with his poppy-sodden stoicicisms so people now think he is the best emperor in history. He is not even in the running.
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Michael McGill 🏛
Michael McGill 🏛@mcgillmd921·
Crazy how Rome went from its best emperor to its worst emperor back to back. And the best emperor hand picked the worst emperor to be his successor.
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MBAeconomics
MBAeconomics@MBAeconomics1·
It’s 2 AM Eastern time and the #CME is smashing #silver away! But as the price keeps declining over the next few weeks, it is just an indication that they are going to cash settle Silver as cheaply as possible. This is more bullish than you can comprehend.
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David Senra
David Senra@davidsenra·
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
David Senra@davidsenra

My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.

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Rupert Lowe MP
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10·
This is important. A majority of the women we spoke to at our rape gang inquiry had at some stage been subject to attempted overseas trafficking by their rapists. Please think about that. Think about what these survivors were subject to on British soil. Now imagine what that would look like in some Pakistani village. The most wicked evil imaginable. Our inquiry holds deep and evidenced concerns that there are countless women currently being held overseas as sex slaves. I have pressed with Government with question after question on this. Here’s a look at some of their answers from the Home Office. This is a long read, so please stay with me… Firstly, how many girls are currently listed as missing, broken down by local authority? “The Home Office does not hold this data centrally.” How? How can the Home Office not even try to understand the number of missing girls? They don’t know, and quite obviously they don’t care. This is SO basic. But they do not hold the data. How can they even begin to plan when they don't understand the scale of the problem? Next. I'm told that.. “The Home Office does not collect data on police investigations following an NRM (National Referral Mechanism) referral” But the minister tells me they are “continually looking to improve the quality and provision of modern slavery statistics.” They at least admit there is an issue, but this is incompetence beyond belief. How many people convicted of human trafficking or sexual exploitation offences in each of the last three calendar years were foreign nationals at the time of conviction? I’m told the Home Office does not collect “disaggregated data on arrests or convictions for human trafficking or sexual exploitation alongside an individual’s nationality or immigration status.” I then asked for the worst offending nationalities. Again, no data collected. WHY NOT?! I tried the Ministry of Justice for the same data. “Criminal Courts data concerning nationality is not collated by the Ministry of Justice. Data on nationality is not operationally required to progress a case and deliver a justice outcome.” Would it not be a wise idea to collect this nationality data to better understand how to tackle it? Another to Jess Phillips. I asked if her Department will publish all information it holds on child sexual exploitation committed by illegal migrants? “The information you have requested is not available from published statistics and there is no immediate intention to publish them.” There’s a shock. One more. How many people were (a) charged and (b) convicted for offences related to human trafficking or sexual exploitation following National Referral Mechanism referrals in each of the last three calendar years. “The Home Office does not collect data on police investigations specifically following an NRM referral” “Given this, we are unable to provide the information you have requested.” The total lack of any desire to investigate this is astonishing. I am using every tool available to me to push this. I tabled a motion in Parliament on rape gang overseas trafficking. It has attracted cross-party support - from Conservatives, Northern Irish, independents and even one Reform MP (Andrew Rosindell) and one Lib Dem MP. We are calling on the Government to initiate, as a matter of urgency, a full and properly resourced national investigation into the alleged overseas trafficking of victims connected to organised sexual exploitation. This is the unspoken scandal of the decade. We must all continue to push for urgent and comprehensive action.
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PennySlayer
PennySlayer@SlayerPenny·
@MurrayHillGuy1 Yo I'm smashing in NYC btw.. I want to build a rotation. What's good for mid-30s to early 40s guys to pickup?
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Murray Hill Guy
Murray Hill Guy@MurrayHillGuy1·
The craziest thing about this is 5 dates in one day… Jk it’s 0/72 got to smash… she’s lying!
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Syrup🥞🇺🇸
Syrup🥞🇺🇸@GuiltySyrup·
@VampiricLegz Calling someone a “jab merchant” in a fight is retarded anyway. It would be like calling a quarterback a “passing merchant”
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M. Saint Germain
M. Saint Germain@HistorySlim·
@BoringBiz_ P/E probably over-simplifies but for easy comparison. Amazon went from very overvalued to slightly over valued: ~75 P/E to ~32 Walmart went from fairly valued to overvalued: ~25 P/E =>50
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Boring_Business
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_·
This is why investing is such a brutal game Go back 5 years to 2021. The world is shut down and everything is happening online You could have been right about e-commerce. You could have been right about the cloud And if you picked the company that is leading both of those categories, you got absolutely smoked by Walmart
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Bob
Bob@manwhowasfriday·
@BWLH_ I’m still waiting for a college football team strapped for NIL money to bring in a bunch of of older white athletes in the transfer portal and exceed expectations.
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Because We Live Here 🇺🇸
Imagine how many great White athletes have lost out in America dude to integration of football and basketball. With White males maturing later than the blacks one of the reason for blacks dominating recruiting for major colleges in football.
Danny@DjokovicFan_

Serbia has a population of just 6.6 million and yet they have the best basketball player in the world and the greatest tennis player of all time in Nikola Jokic and Novak Djokovic. Amazing. 🇷🇸💪🏻

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M. Saint Germain
M. Saint Germain@HistorySlim·
@WorldWideWob Ant is one of the only stars in the NBA who actually seems like he loves the game.
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Rob Perez
Rob Perez@WorldWideWob·
1) Ant chucks airball in clutch in Toronto 2) Ant hears it from crowd 3) Ant says louder please 4) Ant rips RJ 5) Ant dunks 6) Ant says louder please
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Officer Frenly (High IQ)
Officer Frenly (High IQ)@FrenlyOfficer·
A Jewish family is interviewing to join a Gentile country club. “What’s your name?” The father, Jacob Blum, says, “I’m Jack Bloomingdale, and this my wife, Mary, and our kids, Billy and Katie.” Miriam (“Mary”) has straightened Avram’s (“Billy”) frizzy hair with lots of hair gel and bleached Chava’s (“Katie”) hair blond. “What do you do for work?” “Oh, I’m a VP at JP Morgan.” He replies honestly. “And where did you go to school?” “Princeton! I’m not really a fan of that whole Columbia crowd,” he said as he winked, drawing a smile from the interviewer. “You sound like a perfect fit here. Oh, and what religion are you?” concluded the interviewer. “Oh, we’re Goyish,” replied the father.
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American Nostalgia
American Nostalgia@AmericanNstlg·
American Giant. One of the best to have ever done it. Be Andrew Jackson >Born 1767. Carolina backcountry. Edge of civilization. >Father dies before you’re born. >Mother raises you alone. Hard woman. >American Revolution breaks out. You’re a teenager. >Age 13. British soldiers capture you. >Officer orders you to clean his boots. >You refuse. >He slashes your face and hand with a sword. >Scars never fade. >Thrown into prison. >Contract smallpox. >Nearly die. >Released in a prisoner exchange. >Return home broken and fevered. >Shortly after, your mother dies of cholera. >She was nursing American prisoners of war. >You are 14. >Completely orphaned. >Frontier life hardens you. >Study law. No schools. No polish. >Become a lawyer. Then a judge. >Honor culture. >Duel repeatedly. >One duel goes wrong. >Shot in the chest. >Bullet lodges inches from your heart. >Doctors cannot remove it. >You carry it for life. >Rise in Tennessee politics. >Become a general. >New Orleans. >British Empire returns. >Veterans of Europe. Best army in the world. >You have militia. Riflemen. Pirates. Farmers. >They expect a massacre. >You annihilate them. >Victory so decisive it shocks the world. >Become a national hero overnight. >Enter presidential politics. >Win the popular vote. >Lose in Congress. >“Corrupt bargain.” >You do not forget. >Run again. >You win. >First true populist president. >Enemies immediately: elites, editors, bankers. >They call you dangerous. >You agree. >Then comes the real war. >The Second Bank of the United States. >Private. Politically connected. Foreign investors. >Controls credit. Controls elections. Controls survival. >They call it stability. >You call it tyranny. >Bank president Nicholas Biddle believes you can be managed. >Congress renews the Bank’s charter early, to force your hand. >You veto it. >Publicly. >“The rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” >The bankers panic. >They unleash newspapers. >Contract credit. >Trigger economic pressure to break you. >You escalate. >Remove federal deposits. >Shift them to state banks. >The central bank begins to suffocate. >The Bank collapses. >No central bank. >No financial sovereign above the people. >The bankers want you dead. >January 30, 1835. >Capitol steps. >Assassin approaches. >Pulls a pistol. >Click. >Misfire. >Second pistol. >Click. >Another misfire. >You don’t flee. >You attack him with your cane. >Beat him until restrained. >Courts declare the assassin insane. >You are not convinced. >Leave office having paid off the national debt. >Only president ever to do it. >Die 1845. >Age 78. Leaves behind: The destruction of the central bank. The precedent that finance answers to sovereignty. The expansion of executive power. A nation reminded that elites are never permanent. Proof that an orphan from the American frontier can defy empires.
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M. Saint Germain
M. Saint Germain@HistorySlim·
@bryan_johnson Bro really went from weird-immortal-billionaire-vampire, to wholesome longevity advocate of the people. ✊️Respect
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Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson·
AG1 is one of the lowest value health products in the world despite being the most heavily promoted. They flood podcasts by paying influencers up to $60 per new subscription and a $30/mo recurring kickback. Plus AG1 gives them equity in the company. Retail price            $79 Ingredients            ($5) Packaging             ($3) Manufacturing       ($4) Shipping                ($7) Total costs             ($19) Gross margin         $60 Gross margin%      75.9%        Why does this matter? McDonald’s openly taunts you “I’m lovin it." They prey upon your compulsive instincts and don’t try to hide it. AG1 lures you into a false state of confidence by leveraging people you trust and hiding behind a “propriety blend”. The bulk of the 12g scoop is cheap greens and emulsifiers. They include on the label high-value ingredients but only include trace amounts to lower their costs. That way you think you’re getting the good stuff but you’re actually not. AG1 is bad for the world. Overpriced. Underdelivers. Science shows it has no clinical effect. They’ve induced good people into violating their own standards of trust. They pretend to be something they’re not. They create confusion for consumers who are genuinely trying to make good life decisions. They erode trust.
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Zephyr
Zephyr@zephyr_z9·
>be 28 year old Korean office drone >graduated from "Who?" University, missed SKY by 2 Suneung points >chaebol said "no thanks," now at SME making ramen wages >sunbae makes me pour his soju with a 45-degree bow during hweshik >plastic surgeon says my jawline is "failure-coded" >drop 8 months salary on new chin for better "specs" >dating app girl asks which Gangnam complex I own >tell her it's a "villa" (glorified closet with mold) >unmatched faster than my sunbae blocks promotions >mom calls: "just borrow $500k from family for deposit!" >become N-Po: no marriage, no kids, no dignity >but bought a Chanel bag on 12-month credit for flexxing >boss calls mandatory hweshik at 11pm >it's my birthday >sunbae makes me sing solo karaoke until 2am >stumble home, look in mirror >my chin could cut glass >too bad it's the only asset I own >everything else is debt and soju fumes
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
My deepest condolences to the families of the two National Guardsmen who were murdered in cold blood today. How many innocent people dying does it take to reform our broken system? Radical action is needed.
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