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4lex

@_4lex_4

CPO & CFO @ducatstable, a BTC-native CDP stablecoin

Manhattan, NY شامل ہوئے Eylül 2022
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@Bowtiedplayer Me too but I suspect they will be bribed to be quiet very quickly
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RiverOaksGuy@Bowtiedplayer·
I like TMZ going to DC It's not that I like TMZ in particular It's that a bunch of dipshit streamers doing the job that the Washington Post was supposed to be doing the past 10-15 years beclowns both the politicians as well as the journalists who should be doing that work
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@Georgesantos How many have mistresses/gfs/rentboys paid for by donors? How many get at least $500k of annual, under the table favors from donors?
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@LynAldenContact Conservatives genuinely don’t care if someone’s gay or not. They care if you’re weak, which being gay has been heavily connotated with. If you break that mold you’re gucci.
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Lyn Alden
Lyn Alden@LynAldenContact·
The fact that we have a gay chad treasury secretary is pretty funny. Put in place by a Republican. Literally nobody cares about his personal stuff. Lives in a rich pink house. Fights people too often. Finance expert. We’re like, “bro, are you going to get interest rates down?”
Bully@BullyEsq

I love that we have a snarky gay treasury secretary who lives in this pink house and who frequently just beats the shit out of people he doesn't like in the executive wing

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4lex@_4lex_4·
@appagnairb @NYCMayor Interesting how NYC spends 40k per student, its test scores are shit, and its teachers are poor. You’re so close
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Mr. G@appagnairb·
@_4lex_4 @NYCMayor Oh yeah did you see that new compound that 1st grade teacher bought out on Long Island?
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Democrats@TheDemocrats·
TAX THE RICH
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@theblaze I recognize that a lot of young voters don’t love getting completely sold out about our foreign policy. Okay. I understand that. Don’t get disengaged. Vote for us again. That’s how you win.
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TheBlaze@theblaze·
Vance: "I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy we have in the Middle East. Okay. I understand that. Don't get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic. Get more involved. That's how we ultimately take the country back."
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_gabrielShapir0@lex_node·
all this...just to *stream*? this gen is softmaxxing....
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@cremieuxrecueil Americans increasingly think the federal income tax they pay is wasted On net, they think there’s no ROI anymore
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
Americans increasingly think the federal income tax they pay is unfair. On net, they think they're unfair now!
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@Azkyrie @grok what did Bessent mean by this? How is one supposed to change his tax withholding?
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Azzz@Azkyrie·
Scott Bessent: stop paying income taxes via payroll tax. IRS is coming to an end.
Trump War Room@TrumpWarRoom

🚨 @SecScottBessent with a direct message to American taxpayers: "I want to encourage everyone out there watching today to change their withholding ... you will get an automatic real wage increase on a weekly or a monthly basis."

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4lex@_4lex_4·
@WillManidis Your writing is chicken soup for the soul. Thank you ser
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@adamtaggart @TrentTelenko @RealRickRule This is totally misleading. Nobody paid those rates. You have to look at taxes as a % of GDP. Which are basically the same as in later WW2 at the federal level (and state taxes are by far the highest they’ve ever been)
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Adam Taggart@adamtaggart·
@RealRickRule And this at a time when US tax rates are pretty low relative to history Meaning: it could be even worse
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Mike Bird@Birdyword·
Exciting day for me paying my first US taxes. It's a bit more of a noticeable pinch than I got used to in Singapore and Hong Kong, but at least I'm the beneficiary of all these high-quality public services. You can't put a price on civilisation.
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Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC·
I hope speculation and rumors about yet another extension of the ceasefire to reach a deal with Iran are off base. To me, President Trump’s position is clear. I fear the Iranians will play the same old game they always play, dragging things out by doing things like making menial concessions. I believe the bottom line for President Trump is: - No enrichment - American control of the approximately 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium - The opening of the Strait of Hormuz without interference from Iran - Iran must abandon its long-range ballistic missile program and any effort to develop a nuclear weapon - And Iran must cease support for all terrorists proxies in the region This would allow Iran to exist as a nation but not as the largest state sponsor of terrorism. If there is no deal, it is time to finish the job.
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@AGHamilton29 @grok isn’t Gallego the senator who divorced his wife when she was 9 months pregnant with his child and married some young woman on his staff literally a year later?
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AG@AGHamilton29·
Yikes. I get why Ruben Gallego is trying to throw Swalwell under the bus, but going to be hard to walk back his claims of “no knowledge” if/when contrary evidence comes out.
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4lex@_4lex_4·
@joebond99991107 @iky_fwjett One had presumably tainted drugs Another died of a sudden blood clot at 33, not long after using
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Jett 🜲@iky_fwjett·
I started doing cocaine about 7 or 8 months ago. It started off at festivals with my friends or nightclubs, but I’m now doing it daily for the past 3 weeks or so. I knew from the second I used cocaine that it was my drug of choice. I smoke weed daily, I’ve used MDMA, ketamine, 4MMC and a few others, but none ever clicked with me the same way cocaine did. I work full time and have a good relationship with my family and friends, and I don’t know where this addiction has come from. When I’m not high I don’t crave it, but the second I do a little line or bump, I can’t stop. I’m doing about a gram daily, sometimes more, sometimes less. It’s not really affecting my life too much—I still go to work, I still see my friends and my family, and no one knows about my addiction. My biggest problem is nighttime, where I can’t put down the bag. I work a manual labour job with an early start, so it’s not at all sustainable to be taking cocaine late at night. It’s currently 3am as I’m writing this, and I’m up for work in about 2 hours. I feel like I’m losing control of my life, but at the same time I feel happy throughout the day when I’m not using—but also empty. I don’t even know how to explain it. It’s like one minute I’m inside my head thinking about how much I hate this drug, what it’s doing to me, and how much I want to stop. Then the next minute I’m happy, joking around, full of energy. Then I switch up again and start thinking about railing a fat line when I get home. I don’t know what to do, how to break this addiction, or how to feel about it. I don’t know how to stop justifying it and telling myself every night that it’s my last time, and then going straight back to it the next day. I’m using about a quarter ounce a week, and if I go out to party on the weekend, I’ll easily go through a 3.5 throughout the night. I don’t know what to do. It’s fucking me up, and I’m just stuck in this vicious cycle with no way out.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.
Nature is Amazing ☘️@AMAZlNGNATURE

One of the biggest mysteries to me is how Orcas, the ocean’s most efficient predators, have never attacked humans in the wild… almost like they know something we don’t.

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