“Between the idea and the reality… falls the shadow.”... (T.S. Eliot) “Vision without execution is hallucination..” (Thomas Edison) — This concept applies to investing for me. On X and reading threads: I find the conversations center on technique, valuation, which is like driving using a rearview mirror. But not the source that produces the financials….then business logic.That is qualitatively, often enough, but when measured produces numbers. Does that make sense? No matter, different strokes for different folks. Have a nice weekend!show more

Well Well Well. Angela all but knows Dexter Morgan... is a Serial Killer. And i’m conflicted. She was always going to find out. But i find that the execution was a little TOO convenient for the plot, without enough investigation. Miami didn’t have this problem. It was a different age. Serial Killers were everywhere. Technology wasn’t advanced. The only investigation the Butcher ever really got was from Maria. But when you put the needle marks and the time of death on display, i can’t say this doesn’t make clear sense. In a small town this scenario is a lot more reasonable. Still very 50/50 on how this was done. The confrontation is what i’m really excited for.show more

The Clinton Foundation is the biggest organized crime family... The reason the US has 1,000 military bases is not for military power. They’re lily pads for smuggling. That is how intelligence agencies smuggle gold, guns, drugs, cash, and small children for elites in the United States. War is a profit center - not just for oil. War produces body parts. It produces orphans. It produces all kinds of human goods that can then be trafficked. And the banks rely on war and drugs for their cash flow, for their liquidity. War is business. Children are products. Follow the money. ✨🙌🏾💫show more

Wheat is NOT resistant to glyphosate/roundup and it is... NOT a GMO! This is a huge misconception that I see very frequently due to the marketing gimmicks that have eroded the trust in our food system to make more money. Understanding the different between GMO and selective breeding is so important and applies to more than just wheat!show more

Physics feels stable, predictable, and well-behaved largely because we... learned it in 3D. That comfort hides a trap. In 1907, Paul Ehrenfest pointed out something unsettling. If you take the laws we treat as fundamental and transplant them into a different number of spatial dimensions, they often stop working the way we expect. Not just numerically different but qualitatively different. The issue isn’t the force law by itself but it's geometry. Gauss’s law ties inverse-square forces to the surface area of spheres, and sphere geometry depends on dimension. Change the dimension, and the same-looking force produces a different potential, a different balance of attraction and inertia, and a different fate for motion.show more

In America the media gaslights everyone as a conspiracy... theorists for talking about weather modification In Thailand they have physical examples to educate people on each step that’s taken to create storms with cloud seeding, they use it regularly to create rain for dry areas “This is them actually showing you and explaining how cloud seeding is done. We’ve just spoken to one of the guys here, and he's totally explained that this is exactly what's been going on over the years now is that, obviously, the planes produce the clouds, and then it builds up like that, which then once it builds up like that, then the amount of moisture in there, it then produces the rain, the thunder, the lightning, which then produces the rain and the water, the moisture to the ground. In Thailand, they use this quite a bit for areas that are very very dry and don't have much much rain. But, yep, there you go guys. This is exactly how cloud seeding is done.”show more

Recent obsession - Pallavi and Charanam have completely different... tunes but the switch is seamless. While reading about it, found that it’s a switch between two ragas with different structures. I am not sure about the ragas, so not going into the details. #ilaiyaraajashow more

Draymond Green calls out Adam Silver and the NBA... for the new All Star format calling it a joke to the league: “Best in the East, Best in the West it works when the game is good. We doing all this different gimmicks makes it more of a joke. It looks good for a year it’s a quick fix, but then you are like I don’t want to see that again. Because it wasn’t the game I grew up on. I can’t see this World vs USA and then equated to when KG was on the East, Shaq was on the West. I can’t do that it doesn’t make sense to me it’s not the same thing”show more

Something I worked on for Unreal 5.3 is a... new experimental "Dead Blending" node - it's a drop-in replacement to the Inertialization node which often produces better blends when the animations are not synced or you have frequent transitions.show more

for people that keep telling me "bro the scyrox... v8 is just like the x2h mini but cheaper buy that". no it's not. they are different in shape [x2h mini is both shorter and have more volume in the hump + has more angled chamfered edges along the base which help ring/pinky fingers grip], different in coating, and different in sensor positionshow more

🇹🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 Turkish FM Fidan: "Israel is not a structure... that produces power on its own. There is a mindset here that has managed to hack the American political system through Zionism. What the U.S. does in this region does not serve its own interests, but benefits Israel." Source: Clash Reportshow more

Warren Buffett says using leverage is foolish. Why risk... what you have and need to chase what you do not have and do not need? No matter the odds, if the downside is everything, do not do it. He is right. But real estate is a different game. That rule is built for paper. Pull up Sam Zell or the other people I follow, and you get a completely different answer. Here is the real difference. Paper is paper. Real estate is control. I do not love the paper world. I do not like the volatility, and I do not feel like I can control it. Control is the whole thing. I control the debt I take on. The interest rate. The monthly payment. And I never over-leverage. I control the apartments too. The occupancy. The expenses. The rents, to the extent the market lets me. Paper gives me none of that. I do not understand it well enough to control it, and it does not have the predictability real estate does. Now the harder question. If I paid everything off and sat on 600 million debt-free, would my life really change versus 1.5 billion with 900 million in debt? Honestly, no. I do not personally need more. But that is not what this is about anymore. I am running a legacy play now. My kids are involved. This is succession. He is not wrong about leverage. It just depends on what you can actually control.show more

The variety of technologies developed for the Tejas that... have found their way into other platforms is admirable. But the Tejas itself is not there and unable to contribute to IAF numbers. This adds to the idea that the Tejas is one never ending research project. All very good but I want to see numbers.show more

I thank the World Health Organization (WHO) Member States... for adopting the resolution on access for life-saving aid into #Gaza and respect for laws of war. The resolution is a starting point. It does not resolve the crisis. But it is a platform on which to build. Without a ceasefire, there is no peace. And without peace, there is no health. #EBSpecialshow more

This whistleblower is stating nothing different than what CIA... Director John Ratcliffe testified to on April 18, 2023 to the House Oversight Committee, Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Plandemic: "To this day, the CIA ... has continued to state that it does not have enough information to make any formal assessment. To put it bluntly, I think this is unjustifiable and a reflection, not that the Agency can- not make an assessment with any confidence, but that it won’t. Some 3 & 1/2 years later, the only plausible assessment the Agency could make with any level of confidence is that a virus, which killed over a million Americans, originated in a Chinese lab whose research included work for the Chinese military. And such an assessment would obviously have enormous geopolitical implications that I believe the current Administration does not want to face head on." This Whistleblower is doing exactly what Ratcliffe asked for at the end of his testimony. Listen to the end. It appears that Liz Lyons is going rogue along with Michael Ellis Aaron Lukas and possibly in coordination with Alexa Henning .show more

If you have the patience, the exchange between Badenoch... and Starmer over Epstein and Mandelson at PMQs I'm really not a fan of Badenoch But this is an absolute disaster for Starmer Yes, glad Starmer is responding in the correct way now, but to get to this point is a major error of judgment for any prime minister Without using the view that he's better than the Conservatives, I want more than that for a PM, someone (politely) convince me that Starmer's tenure as PM can carry on...show more

Rep. Roy: "Mr. Perkins, you stated earlier that it... was your belief that the purpose of this hearing, as I share, was to focus on the extent to which not just the SPLC, but generally when the government is then utilizing these organizations effectively as a tool to carry out its objectives... Is that correct?" Tony Perkins of Family Research Council: "As the government elevates that voice and legitimizes that voice, the media takes it and runs with it... The best way to stop the violence is to have the conversations and to allow people of differing views to speak, even when you disagree with them. That's what a healthy nation does. The Southern Poverty Law Center (Southern Poverty Law Center) is about silencing, not facilitating."show more

Rwanda, we don’t have a big land, but we... have a big vision that will earn us a fortune. Initiatives like Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture , which I visited today, are the hopes of this journey to our vision — and the awakening of our young generation is the engine driving it.show more

Crystal admits that producers have talked to the BH... cast in the past and said things like “this is not going well,” so there is a lot of pressure to bring the drama. She thinks the women got a talking to this season, which is why they are more activated. Crystal says #RHOBH is boring right now, but she thinks the second half of the season will be better. She adds that the show is programmed to go after the new girl at first because she is an “easy target,” but admits she also finds Amanda “incredibly annoying.” She says Amanda’s business is not her thing, but acknowledges that a lot of people pay for online help services and that Amanda’s business is no different. Crystal does not think it is a scam. Podcast: My Friend My Soulmate My Podcastshow more