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@Chris_556_ @alan1181416 @Alex_Oloyede2 Sorry but I don't understand your comment. Who might get someone worse, Iran or the US?

@MikeDeLite @alan1181416 @Alex_Oloyede2 You might just get someone way worse. Be careful what you wish for.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 France, Spain, Italy, the Philippines are all signing agreements with Iran over oil tanker transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile China, India and Russia get a free pass. The Strait of Hormuz is in fact OPEN to the world, except the US, Israel and some EU states.

@Quantumplation Thanks Pi, please keep building for us all. You are right though, X & most of the Internet is toxic now.

I hope my life's work will be to make or contribute to a meaningful rise in the global floor and median quality of life. I believe the best way to do this is for the world to build social institutions on top of transparent, efficient, tamper proof ledgers that reduce bureaucracy, exploitation, and waste. I believe the second best way to do this is to build up access to finance, passive income, and financial literacy for as many people as possible. That's why I'm in software. That's why I'm in crypto. That's why I'm on Cardano. And that's why I've built up Sundae Labs as the software company it is. Every day, and nearly everything I do, is geared towards this. It's why my salary is substantially lower than I could make literally anywhere else, lower than the job I left, and exactly the median salary of what my team makes. It's why my net worth (excluding the completely illiquid value of my equity in Sundae Labs) has been flat or slightly declining since I started this journey. It's why I've largely soldiered through death threats and some of the most toxic hateful bile you can imagine. But spending time on Twitter, where I've often enjoyed connecting with an audience, has become a threat to that mission. It's clear that I'm not going to solve the problems I see in the world through Twitter discourse. For a long time I thought it might help: engage in good faith to share my perspectives, break down what I know so others can understand in the hopes that it contributes to their ability to navigate the technological changes that are coming, and serve as the best example I can for effective and thoughtful discourse. But instead, especially lately, it has simply become a drain on my energy and motivation. Even if I engage less, just *reading* the way we treat each other is demoralizing. Even people who I believe have good intentions can't help but contribute to a storm of negativity that is fighting to sweep us out to sea. There is a mob that is so frustrated by the state of the world and the very problems me and other builders are trying to solve that they can't help but funnel that discontent into a... miasma, directed at anything and everything around them. Somehow posts that are "just asking questions" and would, in any other environment be totally welcome, end up as weapons picked up off the bloody ground to be hurled in anger at an unintended target. Somehow close friends grow so embittered with each other they'd rather tear the thing they both believed in in half to spite the other. Somehow legitimate mistakes immediately get brandished as fraud because scorched earth total-war tactics to destroy someone we dislike become the only thing that can hold our attention, the only thing we can think to do in our ineffectiveness against a cruel and difficult world. Somehow some of the kindest and most like-minded builders have their patience ground to dust until they reach their breaking point and they lash out in ways that don't reflect who they are. We're all so fucking tense, or sick to our stomach, or caught up in the sound of our own voice, that it's impossible for us to take a beat and sort out a misunderstanding in DMs before making some public fucking tabloid accusation or insult on the timeline. And again, I don't think (would like to believe, as a fundamentally optimistic person) that most of this is in bad faith. But the medium leaves no other outcome for us. So, for me, Twitter is no longer just a waste of time, it's an active threat to my goals. It's a long drag on a cigarette taken between work calls that no longer even brings me comfort, it's just the thing I do, and it's slowly giving us all cancer. It saps my energy, ruins my mood, and makes me, on darker days, doubt whether any of this is even worth it, let alone possible. I don't want my life's work to amount to being unhappy and resentful of the people I'm trying to help (yes, even if you and I have disagreements, even if we hate each other, I want better for you too). So, I will be trying the nicotine patches yet again. Since there's no "Non Smoking" section of Twitter, I will be dramatically reducing the time I spend on here, and funneling that energy into other, more productive channels. I hope to write more for my blog, 314pool.com. Perhaps I'll get back into live-streaming some of my work on Twitch. If you want to stay in touch and we're not connected elsewhere, the best way is by email. It's just my first name at sundae.fi. (Yes, I know this isn't an airport, and I don't have to announce my departure. I considered just disappearing, as this feels a little bit melodramatic. But in the end, I wanted people to know why I've gone quiet, and how to reach me.) I hope I'm not alone in noticing this trend, especially within our community. If any of this resonates with you, it might be worth looking at what the timeline is accomplishing (or not) for you. And don't worry. Recent weeks have been harder than most, as I'm sure you've all seen on the timeline, but I'm made of tougher stuff. I'll still be here and building, and you'll still see the impact of the work that my team and I do (and boy do they have some exciting things for you soon). I just really really don't think Twitter is the right place for me to fix the problems I want to fix.

@emma_saintly @ImBreckWorsham Because Trump loves people that disagree with him doesn't he? Have you ever thought that maybe he did speak up first & that's why he is gone?

@ImBreckWorsham Calling the President a “madman” who will ruin the military right after resigning is not professional. If he had real concerns, he should have spoken up while still in uniform instead of throwing insults on the way out.

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

@Alex_Oloyede2 I guess me and everyone else must be in the 4% thinking he is doing a crap job starting wars.

Is this a real post? There's no way he's that delusional.

@alan1181416 @Alex_Oloyede2 You don't even make any sense. Typical US citizen. Murica!

@MikeDeLite @Alex_Oloyede2 So who Are the despicable losers trying to get into the US. Steller citizens of third world shitholes?

@alan1181416 @Alex_Oloyede2 Everyone is trying to get in to the US for the fraud & free money that all the regular US workers are paying for. That's not something to be proud of. Save American lives & dollars, leave the middle east alone. You have your own oil, why do you guys even care?

@MikeDeLite @Alex_Oloyede2 Typical disgruntled 2nd world loser. Get a job and a slice of reality. The entire world is trying to get into the US. Time to put to on.

@alan1181416 @Alex_Oloyede2 Yeah and that's the reason everyone hates the US right now. Because they are always messing up every other part of the world then leaving it worse than it was in the first place. Once the US economy dies, karma is going to eat you all very slowly.

@Alex_Oloyede2 The US does not need the oil. BTW you must realize the US can easily embargo a choke point like that.

@technowizard369 If you start a war then you are the problem. The US messed up in Iran & they know they did. Now the US economy gets to die for nothing because Trump fucked you all.

I understand that the war was started by Israel and the United States as an act of aggression, but who can truly back and support the Iranian regime? Even if WE started it, no one is going to get behind Iran and say that they didn't have it coming after decades of supporting terrorism. @RealScottRitter

@BrandonStraka Lets do a deal with Iran. Fuck the US, they tariff one day then demand we help them in a war they started the next day.

Victor Davis Hanson: "Europeans made a terrible mistake by denying us airspace ... All we wanted was NATO privileges, given we're the greatest provider of NATO services."

@MinswapIntern I don't like it. As a holder of ADA, I should not be forced to invest in projects that are unable to make it on their own. IMO if you need the treasury to keep your token in the green you are a failed project.

Is the Cardano Index Fund idea that Charles has proposed worth pursuing?

@bigpey @MicheleHarmonic The Dapps don't do anything useful yet. Let me know what useful thing I can do right now with ADA that isn't gambling or swapping 1 token for another.

@MicheleHarmonic "We need more users to use our dapps, let's pay marketers 300 a month and devs 250k!

"We want more users and DApps, but we don't want to fund developers"

@duonine Leave for 1 week & just don't go back.

Germany has fallen. If you live there you just lost your freedom. I don’t want to think what comes next.

@shadowreply1 @BRICSinfo The free world is being bullied by the US.

@BRICSinfo Russia can say whatever they want about their oil but the free world led by the United States won’t be bullied. Strong sanctions and clear alliances with Israel prove that real power stands for stability not endless threats and aggression.

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia says it "does not intend to seek permission from other countries to supply its oil."

@TheOtherSideRu A full C17 carries less than 150 troops, or 1 tank, or 2 Bradleys. You would need thousands of flights to make a difference on the ground at a time when fuel is going through the roof. Stupid Americans don't think beyond the first sentence. I thought the US had already won?

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Massive line of US Air Force C-17s crossing Atlantic toward Middle East, alongside KC-135 tankers C-17s carry troops, armored vehicles, and heavy equipment This is the largest visible airlift movement since the war began

@NASA NASA, the really expensive distraction. When you all can't afford to eat, just remember we sent a bunch of muppets around the moon.

Even in darkness, we glow. In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

@iamnaga123 @AlecLace Oh, so the US haven't tried to wipe out the regime yet?

@AlecLace Iran just invited a whole lot of trouble. Wait for the reply

🚨 Reports claim a U.S. F-15 has been downed over Iran. 2 things you can count on: - Our pilots will NEVER be left behind - Those responsible will be killed Pete Hegseth: If you kill Americans, we will hunt you down without apology, without hesitation, and we will kill you.

@AlecLace Yeah that works when the killers are close to the US border. When they are thousands of miles away the US starts to lose. You can't win a war when it takes you 2 months to move 10K soldiers to the war zone where the enemy lives. The US will lose.

@MinswapIntern @IOHK_Charles @ItsDave_ADA Charles is starting to become a burden to both projects. He really should just STFU when he wants to rant. I am tired of him whining then claiming the world is unfair when people soundbite his whining. @Cardano would be way more ahead if he just kept quiet.

BREAKING NEWS: HOSKINSON DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM CARDANO MEMBER OVER CRITICISM OF MIDNIGHT PROMOTION🙀🙀🙀 @IOHK_Charles publicly demanded an apology from @ItsDave_ADA after he criticized the promotion of the Midnight Network and its benefits to #Cardano holders.

@sirihumor_2 @BigBrotherWatch @silkiecarlo it is actually

@MikeDeLite @BigBrotherWatch @silkiecarlo No, they’re forced to do it. It’s not that simple.

👁️No ID, no full & free internet access Apple's adult users in the UK are being forced to either submit to intrusive ID checks or have child-locked phones This is part of a wider issue. Our director @silkiecarlo explains what this means for our rights & freedoms online⤵️

It is always darkest before the Resurrection. @panyiszabolcs has admitted that he worked not with one, not two, but three European intelligence services to discredit the Hungarian government, along with the leader of the Tisza party. It is clear that unprecedented foreign pressure is being exerted on Hungary because we refuse to accept the oil blockade, we will not allow Ukraine into the Union, and we will not let Hungarian families be forced to pay for war loans. That is what they have a problem with. We must not allow pro-Ukraine agents to form a government here. On April 12th, Hungarians must decide. Fidesz is the safe choice.