🧔🏻 Vinnie Lauria

@ramit Omg who's the interviewer!!!

The video is about buying the best cellphone and driving it into the ground. Here's the actual cellphone I used to use youtube.com/watch?v=9yStbh…

LOL someone found a 15-year-old video of me and left this comment lmao

@BillAckman @Harvard "who find themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on the scale." That sounds ignorant to the fact that privileged white men have had their fat foot on the scale for centuries!

I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria. The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an even more limited universe of DEI-eligible presidential candidates. Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities. And it is also not good for those awarded the office of president who find themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on the scale. I have been called brave for my tweets over the last few weeks. The same could be said for those called out Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. I don’t think it will be long before we look back on the last few years of free speech suppression and the repeated career-ending accusations of racist for those who questioned the DEI movement. We are all shortly going to realize that the DEI era is the McCarthy era Part II. History rhymes, but it does not repeat.

So fire ants, those f*%ckers that always bite you in the leg. They often have their nest in the sun because it helps them regulate the nest temperature. Good for birth rates etc. But eventually a tree or plants grows and then the nest in shadow and their numbers decline. Ants follow scent trails. So if they smell that a previous ant walked there, they are inclined to take that route. The stronger the scent, the better. Whenever there is food for example, one ant follows the next ant and that's why there's some in your soda that you left outside There is a certain, rare ant, only like <1% of the population, that doesn't do that and just moves without scent trails. We call this the "crazy ant". And at some point, he walks somewhere near a sunny spot for a new nest and thinks "omg nice!". The next thing the crazy ant does is to walk back to the nest and find his closest ally, the "hipster ant" (<5%or smth). He tries to get those "hipster ants" to join and check out the new spot, but other ants think "no wtf this is a weak scent trail, I'm not going there mate." So that crazy ant (seriously) picks up the hipster ants, carries them all the way and drops them down on new spot. Initially the hipster ants freak out and run back, but in the process, they make that scent trail stronger. Now, other hipster ants start to follow the trail. And because all the hipster ants are chilling in the new spot, and start digging and moving stuff to mark the new nest spot, there are the next category, the "fit ants" that also start arriving to the new nest spot. They start building. And once things start to be established, the rest of the nest population moves over. We call those the "normie ants". And before you know it, the entire nest has been moved to a better spot and the entire colony is doing good again. CONCLUSION is that the entire colony survived because there was ONE crazy ant. Nobody believed him. But through sheer willpower, he rescued the entire colony. So here's the thing: Whenever you meet the human version of a crazy ant, watch closely and follow them. You never know, it might be the best decision ever. We need these crazy and hipster ants in our society, too. Most often, we think they're weird and stupid at first. And then, after their genius move, we realize they weren't so stupid after all.

Pretty much sums up the problems of today @nytimes 🤣

@joezeffdesign my kids absolutely love your office store front and seeing you work from there

I've seen this before... nytimes.com/2023/07/07/wor…

Interesting idea But, for a new amendment, it would require extreme bi-partisan support (unlikely) - two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states

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Heard from VC LPs this week. Some sound bites from LPs in a 🧵👇 “90% of the people doing VC have no real chance of achieving real alpha. Historical DPI shows this” “And most forget how much price matters. The whole strategy is built around cheap option bets w/ massive upside”

@asanwal last time i did that was 20 years ago and i got a ticket! so embarrassing 🤦‍♂️

Jumped my first nyc subway turnstile today in 20 years AMA

Adidas's sole female executive board member quits, adding to the exodus of top women at the helm, which has previously come under fire for its handling of diversity issues. ft.com/content/04c89e…

Two thumbs up 👍👍 Saves gas, reuses clothing, taps on unsold inventory asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trave…

One of the great entrepreneurs of our time. The Establishment lives to critique him, but he’s not going away. 💪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

wonder if @elonmusk will prevent linking to 3rd party socials again, and if @paulg will leave again 🤦‍♂️ #Threads

@newley if you click that hashtag, it suggust elon as ppl of interest 🤣

@newley 🤣

Baller! Gov. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425. 🤣 pbs.org/newshour/polit….

@meatballtimes @ruth_hook_ ☝️

@ruth_hook_ it's culturally mediated? E.g. I'm left handed but in early elementary my teacher insisted I use my right. Some cultures push on conformity more than others and handedness is somewhat plastic, so

so what are everyone's theories

Ohh, hell no! Riders stuck for 3 hours upside down in Wisconsin!! foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-r…