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This guy is making some valid points here that I didn’t take into consideration. At first, I was taken aback by the meme when I first saw it. The irony is - .Democrats didn’t have a problem when drag queens were mocking the Last Supper yet, Trump healing America and they’re outraged. We can’t allow ourselves to fall in line with the democrats - there’s nothing to gain.

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Ryan Reynolds says Disney CEO Bob Iger forced him to remove a Mickey Mouse joke from Deadpool "Bob Iger saw the first time he saw the film, it was in pretty good shape, and he said, 'You gotta remove the one line, Ryan.'" "And I was like, 'What line?' He's like, 'You know the line.' And I went, 'Mickey Mouse?' He's like, 'Yeah.'" "And I was like, 'But Bob, the whole movie orbits around that line! Like, that line is the film. It's the thrust, the thesis, it's everything.'" "It's because my brain when he says the one line is like, 'Precious! Must keep the line!'" "And so I really had to kind of walk around his office a little bit, do a couple of laps, and then we were good. We switched it up." "He just didn't want the Mickey Mouse joke in."

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Wake Up, Chicago! My, how soon we forget. South and West Side Citizens you were begging to be prioritized. You asked this administration, your elected officials, to put you first. They told you no. They said they didn’t have the resources, which is your money. They told you to wait in line. And then? You saw them hand billions, billions, to fund illegal aliens families free lifestyle while your communities were left behind. You begged. They refused. They prioritized others over you. And you forgot. It’s time to wake up, Chicago. We the people must take our city back. This would NEVER happen when I'm Mayor Danielle Carter-Walters for Mayor – 2027 We had some finishing touches to do on my website, but this week it will finally be finished. #daniellecarterwaltersformayor2027 #ChicagoansFirst #CommonsenseCarter #JusticeCarter

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It was two years ago today that two armed federal agents showed up to my home. We knew they chose that day, June 23, 2023, for a specific reason. It was one of the most important days of my life - my graduation from surgical training. Because of all the sacrifice that comes from surgical training, these are one of those moments you never forget. A few hours before the ceremony (so a few hours before this video was filmed) armed agents were at my door. My wife, Andrea, and I knew they chose that day because of what it represented. They were using the value of my accomplishments as the means to extort my compliance with their corrupt investigation. They were holding my entire future hostage and hoping I would be overwhelmed by fear. But that's not what happened. After the agents left, for those first few moments we were terrified but then something changed. We were angry, righteously indignant, hopelessly defiant. The political insanity over the preceding years had taken away so much from us - our country as we knew it, our hopes for the future, the friends we cared about, and so much else. They came to my home that day to take more. But that was the day we decided we weren't going to let them take away anything else. The line in the sand had been drawn. Instead of hiding in fear, Andrea and I opened a few bottles of champaign, sat on our patio, played Vietnam war music, and chain smoked a whole pack of cigarettes (both of us are nonsmokers but it seemed like the right thing to do in the moment). We went to my graduation that night and celebrated everything we accomplished. Today was the first time I saw my graduation video and the speech one of my attendings gave about me. It's overwhelming to think back to that night and to listen to those words. I remember standing on that stage that night and thinking to myself that all of the reasons he gave for why I was a good surgeon were the same reasons federal agents were at my door a few hours before. I was being targeted not because I had done something wrong but because I upheld the principles of my profession. They thought they would destroy me, have me renounce what I knew to be good and true, and turn me to dust. But as we all know now, a totally different story played out. And for the people who were responsible for this treacherous corruption, the story is only just beginning.

It was two years ago today that two armed federal agents showed up to my home. We knew they chose that day, June 23, 2023, for a specific reason. It was one of the most important days of my life - my graduation from surgical training. Because of all the sacrifice that comes from surgical training, these are one of those moments you never forget. A few hours before the ceremony (so a few hours before this video was filmed) armed agents were at my door. My wife, Andrea, and I knew they chose that day because of what it represented. They were using the value of my accomplishments as the means to extort my compliance with their corrupt investigation. They were holding my entire future hostage and hoping I would be overwhelmed by fear. But that's not what happened. After the agents left, for those first few moments we were terrified but then something changed. We were angry, righteously indignant, hopelessly defiant. The political insanity over the preceding years had taken away so much from us - our country as we knew it, our hopes for the future, the friends we cared about, and so much else. They came to my home that day to take more. But that was the day we decided we weren't going to let them take away anything else. The line in the sand had been drawn. Instead of hiding in fear, Andrea and I opened a few bottles of champaign, sat on our patio, played Vietnam war music, and chain smoked a whole pack of cigarettes (both of us are nonsmokers but it seemed like the right thing to do in the moment). We went to my graduation that night and celebrated everything we accomplished. Today was the first time I saw my graduation video and the speech one of my attendings gave about me. It's overwhelming to think back to that night and to listen to those words. I remember standing on that stage that night and thinking to myself that all of the reasons he gave for why I was a good surgeon were the same reasons federal agents were at my door a few hours before. I was being targeted not because I had done something wrong but because I upheld the principles of my profession. They thought they would destroy me, have me renounce what I knew to be good and true, and turn me to dust. But as we all know now, a totally different story played out. And for the people who were responsible for this treacherous corruption, the story is only just beginning.

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🇺🇸 Of course, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, social media on both sides of the U.S. political spectrum exploded. The United States is walking down a very dangerous path. Our team doesn’t usually pay much attention to the U.S. political “influencer scene”—it isn’t something that particularly interests us. But we cannot ignore the public assassination of a political commentator, nor withhold expressing concern. Whatever one thinks of Kirk’s views, the murder of an activist cannot be justified, no matter how it is spun. It also sets a dangerous precedent: tomorrow, it could be someone you agree with who gets shot. Several of our team members and journalist/analyst colleagues are very public and outspoken with their opinions. Some live in the West, others elsewhere. In our line of work, we saw attacks on people for speaking their minds intensify in 2022. At first, these were online—lives were ruined, jobs were destroyed. Now, as yesterday’s case shows, people are losing their lives for their opinions. Undoubtedly, this event pours more fuel onto the fire of America’s deepening divide. And as Russians With Attitude noted yesterday: when pro-Russian locals were burned alive in Odessa in 2014, the act itself horrified many. But what truly cemented the path to full-scale civil war was the way Ukrainian nationalists openly mocked the tragedy, joking about an “Odessan barbecue.” The way U.S. "left" is mocking Charlie Kirk’s shooting carries an unsettling resemblance.

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Longtime CNN correspondent Nic Robertson becomes emotional describing the blood-stained scene in Re'im, the site of the music festival where Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds, took people hostage, and raped women. "[W]e saw the line of cars and how they were shot up and how they were strewn across the road as people were trying to — trying escape and trying to save their lives and drive away. And — and next to that was one of those rocket shelters. There’s one just here, but there was one just there. And I went to have a look, and there were torn-up shoes outside and I could see bloodstains. And as I — as I went inside and this is why I wanted to speak it now because it — you know, being there, I'm trying to be professional and I’m trying to tell a story and bear witness to the barbarity and the callous, cruel, cold-blooded killing that Hamas was — was ripping on those poor, innocent young people. But that — listening to that conversation you were having there with John Kirby, it puts me at mind to explain physically what we saw. So, let me explain because the smell when you step into a shelter is kind of what hits you first. And you realize that this stuff on the floor is what you fear it is. It — it — it’s — it’s blood and you realize in an instant looking at the strewn shell casings on the floor, looking at the bullet holes in the concrete in front of you and you’re sort of — you can understand what happened that people were used to going to these shelters for safety and security from Hamas rockets and when Hamas was chasing them, they were hoping there was safety and security in these concrete bunkers. And, of course, there wasn't because we — we could see what happened. Hamas had gone in there with guns and — and quite literally shot them — this is a deployment of military hardware going by. I'm going to pause. Had — had quite literally shot them in calculated, cold blood as they were cowering there on the floor and the blood’s on the wall and the blood’s on the ceiling and the bullet holes are in the concrete wall. And you — you know in that instant how horrible and how terrible it was. And your conversation brought that back."

Longtime CNN correspondent Nic Robertson becomes emotional describing the blood-stained scene in Re'im, the site of the music festival where Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds, took people hostage, and raped women. "[W]e saw the line of cars and how they were shot up and how they were strewn across the road as people were trying to — trying escape and trying to save their lives and drive away. And — and next to that was one of those rocket shelters. There’s one just here, but there was one just there. And I went to have a look, and there were torn-up shoes outside and I could see bloodstains. And as I — as I went inside and this is why I wanted to speak it now because it — you know, being there, I'm trying to be professional and I’m trying to tell a story and bear witness to the barbarity and the callous, cruel, cold-blooded killing that Hamas was — was ripping on those poor, innocent young people. But that — listening to that conversation you were having there with John Kirby, it puts me at mind to explain physically what we saw. So, let me explain because the smell when you step into a shelter is kind of what hits you first. And you realize that this stuff on the floor is what you fear it is. It — it — it’s — it’s blood and you realize in an instant looking at the strewn shell casings on the floor, looking at the bullet holes in the concrete in front of you and you’re sort of — you can understand what happened that people were used to going to these shelters for safety and security from Hamas rockets and when Hamas was chasing them, they were hoping there was safety and security in these concrete bunkers. And, of course, there wasn't because we — we could see what happened. Hamas had gone in there with guns and — and quite literally shot them — this is a deployment of military hardware going by. I'm going to pause. Had — had quite literally shot them in calculated, cold blood as they were cowering there on the floor and the blood’s on the wall and the blood’s on the ceiling and the bullet holes are in the concrete wall. And you — you know in that instant how horrible and how terrible it was. And your conversation brought that back."

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's comments to Foreign Ambassadors in Tehran (2/3): - This happened while we were in the middle of negotiating with the US on the nuclear issue & the 6th round of negotiations were supposed to happen in Muscat this Sunday. - The Israeli regime knows no boundaries or limitations in violating international law. You all saw that it wasn't just innocent people that were killed in Gaza but human rights, humanitarian rights, international law were all killed in Gaza. - Now the Zionist regime crossed another red line in international law, attacking a nuclear facility. This is forbidden under any circumstances. And unfortunately it was reacted to with indifference by the UN Security Council. - Many countries, particularly regional countries, condemned this attack, particularly on nuclear facilities. I thank the ambassadors of these countries. - There were also other countries in Europe that claim to be civilized and claim to follow international law but instead of condemning Israel, they in fact made accusations against Iran, about why they were attacked. - In response to this we defended ourselves, which is our right. From two nights ago our armed forces did this & yesterday you saw new dimensions of it. This will continue. - Our reason for missile strikes on the Occupied Palestinian Territories is only to defend ourselves and confront aggression. - On the first night we only attacked military targets. Because yesterday the Israeli regime attacked economic targets, the Tehran refinery & some places in Assaluyeh, from last night we attacked economic targets and refineries in the Zionist regime. - Attacking Assaluyeh is blatant aggression and extremely dangerous. Dragging the area of conflict to the Persian Gulf region is a strategic mistake, which was likely done very intentionally with the aim to spread the war outside Iran's territory. - The Persian Gulf region is extremely sensitive and complicated and any military clashes there and could pull in the entire region and the entire world. This is what the Zionist regime started from yesterday. - We hope the international community acts to stop these crimes and this aggression as soon as possible. - The Islamic Republic of Iran will continue its legitimate defense with power and our armed forces will do their duties. - I asked the head of the IAEA to hold a special session about the attack on the facilities in Natanz. It will take place Monday. I hope there is a definitive condemnation of Israel in the Board of Governors. - From our perspective Israel's aggression could never have happened without the agreement and help of the US. We have evidence of the support of American forces and bases in the region in attacks on Iran. We have significant evidence of how they've helped them that we've observed. - More important than our evidence are the statements of the American President, who in his Tweets yesterday and interviews, explicitly announced his support, explicitly said this was not possible without American equipment, and explicitly said there will be later phases. - Therefore in our view America is a partner in these attacks and should accept responsibility. - Though in our responses to the attacks by the Zionist Regime, we have focused on targets in Israel. - We don't want the war to spread, unless it is forced on us. We do not want this war to spread to other countries or the region, unless it is forced. - We didn't want this war. We were engaged in diplomacy about our nuclear program. But this aggression was imposed on us. - We will defend ourselves, a legitimate defense, with power in response to aggression. Therefore if the aggression stops it is natural that our responses will stop. - We were supposed to have the sixth round of negotiations in Muscat today.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's comments to Foreign Ambassadors in Tehran (2/3): - This happened while we were in the middle of negotiating with the US on the nuclear issue & the 6th round of negotiations were supposed to happen in Muscat this Sunday. - The Israeli regime knows no boundaries or limitations in violating international law. You all saw that it wasn't just innocent people that were killed in Gaza but human rights, humanitarian rights, international law were all killed in Gaza. - Now the Zionist regime crossed another red line in international law, attacking a nuclear facility. This is forbidden under any circumstances. And unfortunately it was reacted to with indifference by the UN Security Council. - Many countries, particularly regional countries, condemned this attack, particularly on nuclear facilities. I thank the ambassadors of these countries. - There were also other countries in Europe that claim to be civilized and claim to follow international law but instead of condemning Israel, they in fact made accusations against Iran, about why they were attacked. - In response to this we defended ourselves, which is our right. From two nights ago our armed forces did this & yesterday you saw new dimensions of it. This will continue. - Our reason for missile strikes on the Occupied Palestinian Territories is only to defend ourselves and confront aggression. - On the first night we only attacked military targets. Because yesterday the Israeli regime attacked economic targets, the Tehran refinery & some places in Assaluyeh, from last night we attacked economic targets and refineries in the Zionist regime. - Attacking Assaluyeh is blatant aggression and extremely dangerous. Dragging the area of conflict to the Persian Gulf region is a strategic mistake, which was likely done very intentionally with the aim to spread the war outside Iran's territory. - The Persian Gulf region is extremely sensitive and complicated and any military clashes there and could pull in the entire region and the entire world. This is what the Zionist regime started from yesterday. - We hope the international community acts to stop these crimes and this aggression as soon as possible. - The Islamic Republic of Iran will continue its legitimate defense with power and our armed forces will do their duties. - I asked the head of the IAEA to hold a special session about the attack on the facilities in Natanz. It will take place Monday. I hope there is a definitive condemnation of Israel in the Board of Governors. - From our perspective Israel's aggression could never have happened without the agreement and help of the US. We have evidence of the support of American forces and bases in the region in attacks on Iran. We have significant evidence of how they've helped them that we've observed. - More important than our evidence are the statements of the American President, who in his Tweets yesterday and interviews, explicitly announced his support, explicitly said this was not possible without American equipment, and explicitly said there will be later phases. - Therefore in our view America is a partner in these attacks and should accept responsibility. - Though in our responses to the attacks by the Zionist Regime, we have focused on targets in Israel. - We don't want the war to spread, unless it is forced on us. We do not want this war to spread to other countries or the region, unless it is forced. - We didn't want this war. We were engaged in diplomacy about our nuclear program. But this aggression was imposed on us. - We will defend ourselves, a legitimate defense, with power in response to aggression. Therefore if the aggression stops it is natural that our responses will stop. - We were supposed to have the sixth round of negotiations in Muscat today.

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E:What are you thinking? N:How did you know I was thinking something? E:You seem worried. We're happy now, but you feel like something bad could happen any moment, don’t you? N:I don’t know, it always felt like we were never going to be together. I still can’t believe it. I’ve never seen our happiness last more than a day or two. E:I can’t promise you happiness from here on out. But I can promise that I’ll love you until the very end. N:After such a beautiful line, may I confess something? E:I’m listening. N:I’ve waited for this moment for so long. E:I know, you made it very obvious just now. N:Come on, Eşref, don’t embarrass me, don’t make fun of me. E:I know from myself, ever since the first moment I saw you, I’ve been imagining this. N:Don’t lie, when you first saw me, you didn’t like me at all. You looked at me in such a weird way. E: I must’ve been struck or something. N:You said, “Let there be a professional distance between us, boss and employee.” E:Yes, but as you can see, I wasn’t very successful. Also, you’re very vengeful. N:No, not toward you. I can’t be. I keep finding myself drawn to you again and again. Are you a curse or a spell, I don’t know. But I love you very much. #EşrefRüya #EşSan

E:What are you thinking? N:How did you know I was thinking something? E:You seem worried. We're happy now, but you feel like something bad could happen any moment, don’t you? N:I don’t know, it always felt like we were never going to be together. I still can’t believe it. I’ve never seen our happiness last more than a day or two. E:I can’t promise you happiness from here on out. But I can promise that I’ll love you until the very end. N:After such a beautiful line, may I confess something? E:I’m listening. N:I’ve waited for this moment for so long. E:I know, you made it very obvious just now. N:Come on, Eşref, don’t embarrass me, don’t make fun of me. E:I know from myself, ever since the first moment I saw you, I’ve been imagining this. N:Don’t lie, when you first saw me, you didn’t like me at all. You looked at me in such a weird way. E: I must’ve been struck or something. N:You said, “Let there be a professional distance between us, boss and employee.” E:Yes, but as you can see, I wasn’t very successful. Also, you’re very vengeful. N:No, not toward you. I can’t be. I keep finding myself drawn to you again and again. Are you a curse or a spell, I don’t know. But I love you very much. #EşrefRüya #EşSan

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A LESSON FOR ME FIRST, AND THEN FOR YOU IN THIS SHORT CLIP; A young Muslim boy was riding his bicycle and mistakenly hit a parked motorcycle. The owner wasn’t there. The impact removed a small part of the bike. The easy thing? Ride away. Nobody saw him. Nobody would probably question him. But this boy did something powerful. He got down. Picked up the detached part. Tried to fix it. When he couldn’t, he waited. And when the owner arrived, he confessed. Not only that, he brought out money from his pocket and offered it for repairs. This video reminded me of something that happened to me years ago in Malaysia during my PhD. A Nigerian colleague of mine, of Igbo origin, I think Dr. Aja, had parked his car at our postgraduate workstation. A Muslim lady accidentally scratched it while reversing. She couldn’t find him. So she left a note with her phone number, apologizing & offering to pay for the damages. The next morning, we called her. She came; deeply apologetic, insisting she must cover the cost. We were shocked. We thanked her for her honesty. She looked surprised and said, “Why are you thanking me? That’s the right thing to do. Everyone should do that.” For her, integrity was normal. For us, it felt exceptional. That is what proper upbringing does. That is what faith, when truly internalized, produces, a conscience that works even when no one is watching. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wa sallam taught us that part of excellence in faith is to worship Allah as though you see Him; and even though you do not see Him, to know that He sees you. That consciousness shapes character. Honesty is not about being caught. It is about being accountable. How many times have we walked away because “nobody saw”? How many times have we excused small wrongs because they were convenient? This young boy on the bicycle delivered a khutbah without words. Character is what you do when you can escape. Integrity is admitting fault before you are accused. Faith is returning what is not yours; even if no one would ever know. May we raise children who choose truth over convenience. May we become adults whose conscience is alive. And may we normalize doing the right thing, not because it is rare, but because it is who we are. Ameen.

A LESSON FOR ME FIRST, AND THEN FOR YOU IN THIS SHORT CLIP; A young Muslim boy was riding his bicycle and mistakenly hit a parked motorcycle. The owner wasn’t there. The impact removed a small part of the bike. The easy thing? Ride away. Nobody saw him. Nobody would probably question him. But this boy did something powerful. He got down. Picked up the detached part. Tried to fix it. When he couldn’t, he waited. And when the owner arrived, he confessed. Not only that, he brought out money from his pocket and offered it for repairs. This video reminded me of something that happened to me years ago in Malaysia during my PhD. A Nigerian colleague of mine, of Igbo origin, I think Dr. Aja, had parked his car at our postgraduate workstation. A Muslim lady accidentally scratched it while reversing. She couldn’t find him. So she left a note with her phone number, apologizing & offering to pay for the damages. The next morning, we called her. She came; deeply apologetic, insisting she must cover the cost. We were shocked. We thanked her for her honesty. She looked surprised and said, “Why are you thanking me? That’s the right thing to do. Everyone should do that.” For her, integrity was normal. For us, it felt exceptional. That is what proper upbringing does. That is what faith, when truly internalized, produces, a conscience that works even when no one is watching. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wa sallam taught us that part of excellence in faith is to worship Allah as though you see Him; and even though you do not see Him, to know that He sees you. That consciousness shapes character. Honesty is not about being caught. It is about being accountable. How many times have we walked away because “nobody saw”? How many times have we excused small wrongs because they were convenient? This young boy on the bicycle delivered a khutbah without words. Character is what you do when you can escape. Integrity is admitting fault before you are accused. Faith is returning what is not yours; even if no one would ever know. May we raise children who choose truth over convenience. May we become adults whose conscience is alive. And may we normalize doing the right thing, not because it is rare, but because it is who we are. Ameen.

𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐚, 𝐏𝐡.𝐃.

11,956 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

📹 park jihoon on salondrip 👩🏻 how are you like to your close friends, jihoon? 🐰 at first, i’m the type who gives my all. i give and give, but the moment someone crosses the line… 👨🏻 ah, so you hate that. 🐰 i’m the type to never look back and just walk away. 👩🏻 oh, that sounds exactly like lee junyoung. 🐰 i saw his episode, too. with junyoung hyung 👩🏻 actor lee junyoung was on our show and we worked together on another program. he mentioned that even if he works with people for a long time, he usually just saves their numbers by their names. he had you saved as “park jihoon,” but you told him you were disappointed. 🐰 yeah, i said “iʼm disappointed”~ 👩🏻 so he immediately changed it to “my kiddo” but listening to you now, you and junyoung really do have the same vibe. 🐰 junyoung hyung loves dancing too, so we’ve actually both competed in dance battles

📹 park jihoon on salondrip 👩🏻 how are you like to your close friends, jihoon? 🐰 at first, i’m the type who gives my all. i give and give, but the moment someone crosses the line… 👨🏻 ah, so you hate that. 🐰 i’m the type to never look back and just walk away. 👩🏻 oh, that sounds exactly like lee junyoung. 🐰 i saw his episode, too. with junyoung hyung 👩🏻 actor lee junyoung was on our show and we worked together on another program. he mentioned that even if he works with people for a long time, he usually just saves their numbers by their names. he had you saved as “park jihoon,” but you told him you were disappointed. 🐰 yeah, i said “iʼm disappointed”~ 👩🏻 so he immediately changed it to “my kiddo” but listening to you now, you and junyoung really do have the same vibe. 🐰 junyoung hyung loves dancing too, so we’ve actually both competed in dance battles

₍ᐢ • ᴗ -ᐢ₎♡༘

25,815 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

The Firearms Control Amendment Bill cannot be steamrolled through Parliament. In the Portfolio Committee on Police, I raised a serious concern with the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service. On slide 9 of their presentation, the Secretariat referred to the review of the Firearms Control Amendment Bill and used the words “to ensure enactment.” That wording matters. It suggests that the outcome has already been decided: push the Bill through, and treat Parliament and public participation as process boxes to tick afterwards. I asked the Secretariat directly whether they intend to advance the Bill in its current form, or whether they are prepared to substantially reconsider it based on actual evidence and stakeholder input. Because right now, the approach does not line up with the serious concerns raised by stakeholders, the slow Nedlac process, and the failures we already see in the current firearm control system. My question was simple: Why is the Department prioritising further legislative restriction before demonstrating measurable improvements in: -the Central Firearms Registry; -SAPS’s own firearm losses; -illegal firearm recovery; -firearm tracing; -ballistic capacity; and -actual enforcement against criminal possession of firearms? I also made it clear: the Portfolio Committee on Police is not a rubber stamp. The Secretariat then made an important concession. They accepted that the word “enactment” may need to be revised. More importantly, they confirmed that they have commissioned research into whether the current firearm legislation is actually being fully implemented, and what the failures in implementation are. The most important line from the response was this: “We can’t rush to the amendment of legislation if, for instance, it’s the failures of the implementation of the current legislation.” That is exactly the point. Marco van Niekerk captured this well in his article. The concern is that government appears to be moving towards new restrictions before properly diagnosing the real problem. He also points out that the failures are not theoretical: CFR dysfunction, state firearm losses, weak tracing capability, and limited enforcement against criminal possession of illegal firearms are all part of the problem. (Here is Marco’s article on The Common Sense: And to add insult to injury, this past week the SANDF confirmed that military weapons were stolen from Tek Base in Lyttelton. Reports state that three R4 assault rifles and a grenade launcher were stolen after a break-in was discovered on 27 April. Access was suspected to have been gained by cutting a hole in the perimeter fence, and a burglar door was forced open. That raises obvious questions. Where were the controls? Was there functioning CCTV? Were there alarm systems? Were there access logs? Were there armed patrols? Were inventories being audited? How can military-grade weapons be stolen from a base while government wants to tell law-abiding citizens that the problem is that they are not regulated enough? This is the contradiction. The State loses firearms. The State fails to secure military weapons. The State struggles with tracing and ballistics. The CFR remains dysfunctional. Criminals continue to possess illegal firearms. But the policy answer is apparently more restriction on lawful firearm owners. That is not good enough. South Africa does not need symbolic legislation. We need enforcement. We need working systems. We need accountability. We need functioning ballistics. We need a competent CFR. We need state-owned firearms secured. We need illegal firearms recovered. We need criminals prosecuted. Any revised Firearms Control Amendment Bill must be evidence-based, transparent and properly consulted on. No steamrolling. No predetermined enactment. No rubber-stamping. Fix the State’s failures first.

The Firearms Control Amendment Bill cannot be steamrolled through Parliament. In the Portfolio Committee on Police, I raised a serious concern with the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service. On slide 9 of their presentation, the Secretariat referred to the review of the Firearms Control Amendment Bill and used the words “to ensure enactment.” That wording matters. It suggests that the outcome has already been decided: push the Bill through, and treat Parliament and public participation as process boxes to tick afterwards. I asked the Secretariat directly whether they intend to advance the Bill in its current form, or whether they are prepared to substantially reconsider it based on actual evidence and stakeholder input. Because right now, the approach does not line up with the serious concerns raised by stakeholders, the slow Nedlac process, and the failures we already see in the current firearm control system. My question was simple: Why is the Department prioritising further legislative restriction before demonstrating measurable improvements in: -the Central Firearms Registry; -SAPS’s own firearm losses; -illegal firearm recovery; -firearm tracing; -ballistic capacity; and -actual enforcement against criminal possession of firearms? I also made it clear: the Portfolio Committee on Police is not a rubber stamp. The Secretariat then made an important concession. They accepted that the word “enactment” may need to be revised. More importantly, they confirmed that they have commissioned research into whether the current firearm legislation is actually being fully implemented, and what the failures in implementation are. The most important line from the response was this: “We can’t rush to the amendment of legislation if, for instance, it’s the failures of the implementation of the current legislation.” That is exactly the point. Marco van Niekerk captured this well in his article. The concern is that government appears to be moving towards new restrictions before properly diagnosing the real problem. He also points out that the failures are not theoretical: CFR dysfunction, state firearm losses, weak tracing capability, and limited enforcement against criminal possession of illegal firearms are all part of the problem. (Here is Marco’s article on The Common Sense: And to add insult to injury, this past week the SANDF confirmed that military weapons were stolen from Tek Base in Lyttelton. Reports state that three R4 assault rifles and a grenade launcher were stolen after a break-in was discovered on 27 April. Access was suspected to have been gained by cutting a hole in the perimeter fence, and a burglar door was forced open. That raises obvious questions. Where were the controls? Was there functioning CCTV? Were there alarm systems? Were there access logs? Were there armed patrols? Were inventories being audited? How can military-grade weapons be stolen from a base while government wants to tell law-abiding citizens that the problem is that they are not regulated enough? This is the contradiction. The State loses firearms. The State fails to secure military weapons. The State struggles with tracing and ballistics. The CFR remains dysfunctional. Criminals continue to possess illegal firearms. But the policy answer is apparently more restriction on lawful firearm owners. That is not good enough. South Africa does not need symbolic legislation. We need enforcement. We need working systems. We need accountability. We need functioning ballistics. We need a competent CFR. We need state-owned firearms secured. We need illegal firearms recovered. We need criminals prosecuted. Any revised Firearms Control Amendment Bill must be evidence-based, transparent and properly consulted on. No steamrolling. No predetermined enactment. No rubber-stamping. Fix the State’s failures first.

Ian Cameron

15,352 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

LINGORM X 3ZAAP #หลิงออมเพียงเธอx3แซ่บ - Sasaeng Orm: There was a case of selling our schedule. When I found out, I was the one who caught it myself. I was shocked. Really shocked. My hands were all shaking. P’Chom: How? Was it like he told someone, “She’s at home now”, “she’s going here or there”, even though it wasn’t part of your official schedule? Orm: It was like “She already left the channel”, “she already entered the channel”, “she’s heading to this place next” with (specific) times. P’Chom: Did you suspect anything before that? Orm: A little. I noticed he had a new smartwatch, smartphone - the latest model, a branded wallet. I was confused because when we first met, he wasn’t like that but I thought he had been working with me for a while, so he had probably just saved up to buy them. So I didn’t suspect at all, until that day, I was changing the destination and he was driving, so I told him to let me do it. I was about to open my own chat, but accidentally saw something else. Orm: But honestly, I was okay, just shocked. Mentally I was totally fine. Once I realized, I immediately told P’Ling. She was the first person I told. I called her right after everything settled down. P’Chom: The moment it crossed the line, what was the most invasive sasaeng experience you’ve had? Orm: Following us home. Ling: Yeah. They followed us to our house or condo. They were able to get inside. P’Chom: You mean like you opened the door and they were right there? Ling: Not that far, (I mean) I saw them when I was entering. P’Chom: Like sitting in the lobby? Ling: Yeah. Not okay. Orm: They knew the name, you know? Let’s say they said they were visiting Mae Koy and the security just let them in. There are more measures now.

LINGORM X 3ZAAP #หลิงออมเพียงเธอx3แซ่บ - Sasaeng Orm: There was a case of selling our schedule. When I found out, I was the one who caught it myself. I was shocked. Really shocked. My hands were all shaking. P’Chom: How? Was it like he told someone, “She’s at home now”, “she’s going here or there”, even though it wasn’t part of your official schedule? Orm: It was like “She already left the channel”, “she already entered the channel”, “she’s heading to this place next” with (specific) times. P’Chom: Did you suspect anything before that? Orm: A little. I noticed he had a new smartwatch, smartphone - the latest model, a branded wallet. I was confused because when we first met, he wasn’t like that but I thought he had been working with me for a while, so he had probably just saved up to buy them. So I didn’t suspect at all, until that day, I was changing the destination and he was driving, so I told him to let me do it. I was about to open my own chat, but accidentally saw something else. Orm: But honestly, I was okay, just shocked. Mentally I was totally fine. Once I realized, I immediately told P’Ling. She was the first person I told. I called her right after everything settled down. P’Chom: The moment it crossed the line, what was the most invasive sasaeng experience you’ve had? Orm: Following us home. Ling: Yeah. They followed us to our house or condo. They were able to get inside. P’Chom: You mean like you opened the door and they were right there? Ling: Not that far, (I mean) I saw them when I was entering. P’Chom: Like sitting in the lobby? Ling: Yeah. Not okay. Orm: They knew the name, you know? Let’s say they said they were visiting Mae Koy and the security just let them in. There are more measures now.

lingdennn.

15,072 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Driving eighty miles per hour past a single building. The horizon refuses to change. This is not a warehouse. It is a thesis statement poured in concrete and steel. For thirty years, the smartest minds on Earth made the same bet. They bet that scale belonged to software. That atoms were slow and bits were fast. That the future would be weightless. We built trillion-dollar empires out of code and convinced ourselves that physical ambition was a relic of the industrial age. Elon Musk made the opposite bet. While the world retreated into the cloud, he anchored his thesis to the ground. He looked at the assembly line and saw the actual product. Not the vehicle. The factory. The machine that builds the machine. Software scales against server capacity. Physical systems scale against thermodynamics, gravity, and human will. This structure is what happens when you apply the compounding logic of silicon directly to atoms. A trillion-dollar supply chain compressed under a single roof. Raw minerals enter one side. Autonomy drives out the other. The critics spent a decade calling this impossible. They were measuring the future with instruments calibrated for the past. Every civilization is defined by what it chose to build at the outer limit of the possible. The pyramids. The cathedrals. The moon landing. Somewhere along the way, we stopped building monuments to human capability and started building apps. This factory is the first physical structure of the 21st century that matches the ambition of anything we built in the 20th. There is a theory that our species has peaked. That we are living through a quiet decline into depleted resources and diminished will. That theory fits comfortably inside a phone screen. It does not survive contact with a building you cannot drive past at eighty miles per hour. We never ran out of future. We just stopped building it.

Driving eighty miles per hour past a single building. The horizon refuses to change. This is not a warehouse. It is a thesis statement poured in concrete and steel. For thirty years, the smartest minds on Earth made the same bet. They bet that scale belonged to software. That atoms were slow and bits were fast. That the future would be weightless. We built trillion-dollar empires out of code and convinced ourselves that physical ambition was a relic of the industrial age. Elon Musk made the opposite bet. While the world retreated into the cloud, he anchored his thesis to the ground. He looked at the assembly line and saw the actual product. Not the vehicle. The factory. The machine that builds the machine. Software scales against server capacity. Physical systems scale against thermodynamics, gravity, and human will. This structure is what happens when you apply the compounding logic of silicon directly to atoms. A trillion-dollar supply chain compressed under a single roof. Raw minerals enter one side. Autonomy drives out the other. The critics spent a decade calling this impossible. They were measuring the future with instruments calibrated for the past. Every civilization is defined by what it chose to build at the outer limit of the possible. The pyramids. The cathedrals. The moon landing. Somewhere along the way, we stopped building monuments to human capability and started building apps. This factory is the first physical structure of the 21st century that matches the ambition of anything we built in the 20th. There is a theory that our species has peaked. That we are living through a quiet decline into depleted resources and diminished will. That theory fits comfortably inside a phone screen. It does not survive contact with a building you cannot drive past at eighty miles per hour. We never ran out of future. We just stopped building it.

Dustin

23,677 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

#FallForYou_EMIBONNIE #FallForYouMV_EMIBONNIE #GMMTVLiveHouse 🎤: What was the story behind this song? How did it come to be? 🦊: The story? 🐰: What was it? 🦊: I'm a bit shy 😆 🎤: They're being shy again! 🐰: Do you want me to tell the story? 🦊: 😆 🎤: What's the story? 🦊: Okay, try telling it. 🐰: Well, at the beginning, we discussed it together. 🦊: We created a LINE group, "RISERxEMIBONNIE". 🎤: That's super cool! 🦊: It's a group that has P'Kangsom, the producers, and so on. 🐰: And we discussed what we wanted the concept of our first song to be. Whether we had anything in mind. So... P'Mi, why don't you tell it too? 🦊: So... 🐰: So... 🦊: They asked us if there were any words we wanted in the song, but I said, "If it's words, I might not be able to think of any. How abt I describe my feelings instead? How I feel abt Bonnie. 🐰: At first we set the topic, like... the two of us are different, but together we're like a full circle, like Yin and Yang meeting. And P'Mi shared how she feels into the LINE group, it was this long (gestures a very long msg). 🎤: Really? 🐰: Yeah, and everyone typed, "Wow, Bonnie looks super beautiful~" 🦊: 😆 (shy laughing) 🎤: Really? 🐰: Really. She said she likes me. 🦊: 😆 (shy laughing) 🎤: Am I still necessary? 😆 🐰: It was a message of love. 🦊: I was just sharing how I feel in case they could use it to write the song. 🐰: In front of like ten ppl in that LINE group. 🎤: And how did you feel when you saw P'Mi write that much? 🐰: I felt super beautiful, super beautiful 😌 🦊: Did you feel like you won? 😆 🎤: And were there any words in what you wrote that went into the song? 🦊: They might go into the other song too. 🦊: Oh! (collapses) 🐰: Nooo, it's nothing. 🦊: No, no! It's just a plan! That if it's not used in this song, then it'll be used for our next song! I used the wrong word just now and my life changed 😫 🐰: 🙈 🗣️: Cut! Cut! 🎤: Yeah, maybe we need to end this show. 🦊: (collapsed on the table) 🎤: She's already excused hersel– 🦊: No, really! My feelings can be in any song, I just told them first. I was afraid that they'd write a song, but it wouldn't be true to my feelings and I wouldn't like it. 🎤: And the song name is, "The closer we are, the closer I am". 🦊🐰: "The closer we are, the more I think" (Thai name of the song)! 🐰: It's a mess now 😆 🎤: This is "The more we speak, the worse it is" 😆 🎤: Is that your second song? "The more we speak, the worse it is". 🦊: Pls allow us to use your idea. Who knows. 🐰: No, it's that they used a part of it. 🦊: A part of the paragraph that I sent. 🐰: The used a part of it to develop this song, and they thought up some song titles and asked us which one we liked. 🦊: After I sent my message, Bonnie also sent one. 🐰: I sent one in return. 🎤: Was your message long, Bonnie? 🦊🐰: It was long 😆 🎤: It was long! So how do you feel? I really want to see that chat! Can you expose them? 🦊: Honestly, I was afraid they'd say that we didn't really participate, that we didn't help brainstorm, so I wanted to share and describe that if it's a song that's like this, that would be nice. 🐰: I felt pretty shy. 🎤: The song is really beautiful, I really have to compliment you.

#FallForYou_EMIBONNIE #FallForYouMV_EMIBONNIE #GMMTVLiveHouse 🎤: What was the story behind this song? How did it come to be? 🦊: The story? 🐰: What was it? 🦊: I'm a bit shy 😆 🎤: They're being shy again! 🐰: Do you want me to tell the story? 🦊: 😆 🎤: What's the story? 🦊: Okay, try telling it. 🐰: Well, at the beginning, we discussed it together. 🦊: We created a LINE group, "RISERxEMIBONNIE". 🎤: That's super cool! 🦊: It's a group that has P'Kangsom, the producers, and so on. 🐰: And we discussed what we wanted the concept of our first song to be. Whether we had anything in mind. So... P'Mi, why don't you tell it too? 🦊: So... 🐰: So... 🦊: They asked us if there were any words we wanted in the song, but I said, "If it's words, I might not be able to think of any. How abt I describe my feelings instead? How I feel abt Bonnie. 🐰: At first we set the topic, like... the two of us are different, but together we're like a full circle, like Yin and Yang meeting. And P'Mi shared how she feels into the LINE group, it was this long (gestures a very long msg). 🎤: Really? 🐰: Yeah, and everyone typed, "Wow, Bonnie looks super beautiful~" 🦊: 😆 (shy laughing) 🎤: Really? 🐰: Really. She said she likes me. 🦊: 😆 (shy laughing) 🎤: Am I still necessary? 😆 🐰: It was a message of love. 🦊: I was just sharing how I feel in case they could use it to write the song. 🐰: In front of like ten ppl in that LINE group. 🎤: And how did you feel when you saw P'Mi write that much? 🐰: I felt super beautiful, super beautiful 😌 🦊: Did you feel like you won? 😆 🎤: And were there any words in what you wrote that went into the song? 🦊: They might go into the other song too. 🦊: Oh! (collapses) 🐰: Nooo, it's nothing. 🦊: No, no! It's just a plan! That if it's not used in this song, then it'll be used for our next song! I used the wrong word just now and my life changed 😫 🐰: 🙈 🗣️: Cut! Cut! 🎤: Yeah, maybe we need to end this show. 🦊: (collapsed on the table) 🎤: She's already excused hersel– 🦊: No, really! My feelings can be in any song, I just told them first. I was afraid that they'd write a song, but it wouldn't be true to my feelings and I wouldn't like it. 🎤: And the song name is, "The closer we are, the closer I am". 🦊🐰: "The closer we are, the more I think" (Thai name of the song)! 🐰: It's a mess now 😆 🎤: This is "The more we speak, the worse it is" 😆 🎤: Is that your second song? "The more we speak, the worse it is". 🦊: Pls allow us to use your idea. Who knows. 🐰: No, it's that they used a part of it. 🦊: A part of the paragraph that I sent. 🐰: The used a part of it to develop this song, and they thought up some song titles and asked us which one we liked. 🦊: After I sent my message, Bonnie also sent one. 🐰: I sent one in return. 🎤: Was your message long, Bonnie? 🦊🐰: It was long 😆 🎤: It was long! So how do you feel? I really want to see that chat! Can you expose them? 🦊: Honestly, I was afraid they'd say that we didn't really participate, that we didn't help brainstorm, so I wanted to share and describe that if it's a song that's like this, that would be nice. 🐰: I felt pretty shy. 🎤: The song is really beautiful, I really have to compliment you.

K-bab

58,182 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Paris Saint-Germain is one of the most valuable football clubs in the world, but it would have never happened without Michael Jordan. Let me explain... After watching PSG languish mid-table and even flirt with relegation in the 2000s, Qatar Sports Investments acquired 70% of the club for $75 million. PSG was losing $30 million a year, but Qatar had the cash to fix that. They quickly spent hundreds of millions on players like Zlatan, Beckham, Neymar, and Mbappé — but it was Michael Jordan who made the biggest difference. In 2018, PSG became the first football club to feature Jordan’s iconic Jumpman logo on their kit. It was a win-win for everyone — MJ expanded his product line into other sports, while PSG tapped into NBA fandom and basketball culture. The first drop sold out in minutes. Justin Timberlake wore the jacket while performing. Beyoncé posted her custom PSG shirt to 250 million followers. Nike and PSG had been partners for 30 years, but this was different. Fans didn’t see a football kit — they saw a fashion statement. PSG was no longer selling traditional merchandise; they were selling lifestyle collections. They opened up stores in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Tokyo. PSG sold over 1 million jerseys in 2021 when Messi arrived, and sponsorship deals with Nike and Qatar Airways have tripled in value. Even crazier, PSG now earns more money each year from merchandise and licensing deals than from media rights and tickets.

Joe Pompliano

96,722 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

This Chinese viral video talking about the new concept “kill line” is really worth to have a look. I posted it below with translation (auto translation tho). For decades, Chinese media and lots of Chinese scholars presented America as a kind of paradise — wealthy, civilized, advanced, human rights, land full of opportunities blah blah blah. Now that image has shattered, we saw what average Americans lives are like, and we watched news about what is actually going without filters. The Americans are actually caught in an endless, backward-moving race. The ground pulls them back, obstacles everywhere: healthcare costs, education debt, retirement insecurity, insurance issues, natural disasters... No matter how hard they push, progress feels minimal. It's exhausting. So capitalism doesn’t look so fancy anymore. It was trendy for Chinese young people to “rebel” against socialism, but now it just don’t do the magic no more. However, this kill like talk does has it positive side, I think it actually paves the way for more straightforward conversations between Chinese and American people. More Chinese people actually started to like American average people instead of seeing them as all spoiled first world era. No more idealization. Years ago, we Chinese heard stories like "even American homeless people play piano" and thought, wow, what an educated and cultured society. Later we realized much of it was exaggerated and dismissed it. But now it makes sense: many of those homeless individuals with talents were once middle-class, simply pushed off the ladder by the system. For lots of Chinese people that are now introduced to the “kill line”, the old saying started to make sense: America isn't really a country — it's a business. Everything is viewed through the lens of profit — maximizing gains, avoiding burdens, taking no responsibility. This is capitalism in its most extreme form.

This Chinese viral video talking about the new concept “kill line” is really worth to have a look. I posted it below with translation (auto translation tho). For decades, Chinese media and lots of Chinese scholars presented America as a kind of paradise — wealthy, civilized, advanced, human rights, land full of opportunities blah blah blah. Now that image has shattered, we saw what average Americans lives are like, and we watched news about what is actually going without filters. The Americans are actually caught in an endless, backward-moving race. The ground pulls them back, obstacles everywhere: healthcare costs, education debt, retirement insecurity, insurance issues, natural disasters... No matter how hard they push, progress feels minimal. It's exhausting. So capitalism doesn’t look so fancy anymore. It was trendy for Chinese young people to “rebel” against socialism, but now it just don’t do the magic no more. However, this kill like talk does has it positive side, I think it actually paves the way for more straightforward conversations between Chinese and American people. More Chinese people actually started to like American average people instead of seeing them as all spoiled first world era. No more idealization. Years ago, we Chinese heard stories like "even American homeless people play piano" and thought, wow, what an educated and cultured society. Later we realized much of it was exaggerated and dismissed it. But now it makes sense: many of those homeless individuals with talents were once middle-class, simply pushed off the ladder by the system. For lots of Chinese people that are now introduced to the “kill line”, the old saying started to make sense: America isn't really a country — it's a business. Everything is viewed through the lens of profit — maximizing gains, avoiding burdens, taking no responsibility. This is capitalism in its most extreme form.

Giokielicious

93,055 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨 JUST IN: Trump is at the Kennedy Center for the board meeting and a tour. He is totally overhauling it. He says they wanted to charge Lee Greenwood $30,000 just to sing there. Trump also says he is going to get with Speaker Johnson to fix its architecture. "We're here to have our first board meeting, Kennedy Center, and it's in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management." "We have a little problem with some people that work here. We had Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today. And because of the cost in the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board, just a board meeting, that was gonna cost $30,000. That doesn't sound too good. They wanted $30,000 to move a piano. So you can't have that. So we're gonna we're gonna fix it up." "It's really emblematic of our country. At the Kennedy Center, you look at the columns outside, you look at, I mean, they're supposed to be covered by something, whether it's marble or granite. They were never covered. They were painted. But, bring it into more modern times, a lot of money has been given to it, and the money has not been properly spent." "They built rooms underground with no windows, no nothing that will not be used ever. You're not gonna have people use them. It's such a waste of money, such a terrible waste, but we'll make it we'll bring it back. We'll make it great again. But it is so much like what I'm witnessing in other places." "We have open borders. We have men playing in women's sports. It's all the same thing. It's all the same mentality and thinking. So I'm very disappointed when I look around." "The bottom line, it has tremendous potential, and we'll work with Congress. As you know, it's a very public, a very public facility, and we'll do what has to be done. We'll be having a meeting with the speaker in the not too distant future. I think it's important to save this structure in this building."

🚨 JUST IN: Trump is at the Kennedy Center for the board meeting and a tour. He is totally overhauling it. He says they wanted to charge Lee Greenwood $30,000 just to sing there. Trump also says he is going to get with Speaker Johnson to fix its architecture. "We're here to have our first board meeting, Kennedy Center, and it's in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management." "We have a little problem with some people that work here. We had Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today. And because of the cost in the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board, just a board meeting, that was gonna cost $30,000. That doesn't sound too good. They wanted $30,000 to move a piano. So you can't have that. So we're gonna we're gonna fix it up." "It's really emblematic of our country. At the Kennedy Center, you look at the columns outside, you look at, I mean, they're supposed to be covered by something, whether it's marble or granite. They were never covered. They were painted. But, bring it into more modern times, a lot of money has been given to it, and the money has not been properly spent." "They built rooms underground with no windows, no nothing that will not be used ever. You're not gonna have people use them. It's such a waste of money, such a terrible waste, but we'll make it we'll bring it back. We'll make it great again. But it is so much like what I'm witnessing in other places." "We have open borders. We have men playing in women's sports. It's all the same thing. It's all the same mentality and thinking. So I'm very disappointed when I look around." "The bottom line, it has tremendous potential, and we'll work with Congress. As you know, it's a very public, a very public facility, and we'll do what has to be done. We'll be having a meeting with the speaker in the not too distant future. I think it's important to save this structure in this building."

Eric Daugherty

423,717 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

In honor of Y Combinator's 20th anniversary, here are my 6 favorite lessons: 1. The 7 minute espresso rule: Our first meeting with Sam Altman lasted just seven minutes. The batch hadn’t even officially started yet and my cofounder Ryan Rowe and I drove down from Mountain View to the tiny SF YC outpost to meet him. Sam was making an espresso when we walked in. He opened with – “have you launched”? We said no, too many bugs. Our product, kimono, made it easy to just point and click to build a web scraper. Our promise was to get you an API in 60 seconds, without writing a single line of code. But, the web is vast, and websites are very different. We needed it to work on a large enough spectrum of sites so that our first users would have a good experience. It worked on just a handful of sites at the time. Sam pushed us to make sure we were launched in less than 2 weeks. We debated, highlighting the complexity of the bugs and the limits of underlying headless browsing technology. The espresso finished brewing, he picked it up, looked at us and said, “well, you better get going then and fix those bugs”. We left, launched within those next two weeks and learned one of the most important lessons that day - speed matters. Ship something you’re embarrassed by. 2. There are no experts. Ryan and I were not prepared for the rapid influx of user on launch day. We did 88 user interviews to validate our product idea, and everyone basically said they wouldn’t use it. We thought they were wrong and built it anyway. It got tons of traffic on day 1. We didn’t sleep in the 48 hours following because our servers and database kept crashing. We hadn’t indexed it properly. We realized we weren’t the experts and needed to hire one. We went over to Michael Seibel's apartment for advice. Michael smiled and told us about the early days at SocialCam, that eventually became Twitch – experts thought the streaming video problem was too hard to be possible. The answer wasn’t hiring an expert, but hiring someone young, capable and naïve enough to give it an earnest try. So we opted to just figure it out ourselves. 3. Messages in Pizza Boxes. Startups win through incredible customer service, then through product, not the other way around. Michael Seibel told us how SocialCam’s streaming infrastructure went down while a key teammate was unreachable off-grid in a Tahoe cabin for the weekend. Normal people would have waited until Monday. Not Michael. He called a local pizza delivery place and asked the delivery person to send a large pizza with an urgent message in the box to the cabin. Their infrastructure was back up in hours. 4. The Twinkle can matter more than the TAM. Ambition matters just as much as practicality. Before demo day, we were struggling with the end note of our pitch. We knew the value of our product, and had a fanatical and fast-growing user base, but the market size we calculated either seemed so ridiculously big that it was not plausible, or so narrow that it was equally silly. Paul Graham and Geoff Ralston sat with us and showed us that if we can really pull it off at scale, it would be bigger than Google. So, we could skip the market size, if we really believed it. PG suggested not talking about market size, but just making sure people could see the twinkle in our eyes when we talked about what you might be able to do with a structured copy of the internet that’s larger than Google’s. 5. You’re always at the Origin. Our demo day was successful beyond our wildest beliefs. Afterwards, Geoff Ralston drew a chart for us on a whiteboard. It was a hockey stick. He asked us where we thought we were. It was a rhetorical question. He said we were at the origin, and that the most important thing is to remember that. Sam Altman doubled down. When he invested in Kimono, he gave us a Zimbabwean Trillion dollar note (the result of extreme hyperinflation in Zimbabwe), as a cautionary reminder that the fundraising and valuation mean nothing. We have channeled this into our culture at @TheArenaAI with our ritual around neon shoelaces and a pair of neon track spikes hanging on the wall to remind us that we’re at the Olympic starting line, but we don’t have any medals yet. 6. High bandwidth discussions with users don’t happen over email. The Collison brothers, who founded Stripe, took user engagement to the next level – so much so that “Collison installation” is part of YC lore. John Collison told us that talking to users was essential because email and chat conversations were not “high bandwidth” enough. He emphasized the importance of what you can learn being with users in person or talking to them over Skype (remember, this was early 2014!). We took this to heart, and spoke to hundreds of users at Kimono regularly over Skype. One power user Alexander Chung, who I met this way, has become a close friend and even attended my wedding in India. At Arena, we now go a step further and regularly fly to our users. We over-invest to a degree that is almost crazy in order to be more than a supplier — a true partner to our early customers. YC taught us it’s the only way to understand their problems on the ground and really make sure our products work for them. YC taught us to outsource very little. Own the problem. Own the outcome. And if you do, you get to be stupidly ambitious. If you’re curious about Kimono Labs (which we later sold to Palantir ), here was our launch demo. No-code web scraping before “no code” was even a term: Here's our demo day pitch, from 2014. Forever grateful to those above + Garry Tan Jessica Livingston Trevor Blackwell

In honor of Y Combinator's 20th anniversary, here are my 6 favorite lessons: 1. The 7 minute espresso rule: Our first meeting with Sam Altman lasted just seven minutes. The batch hadn’t even officially started yet and my cofounder Ryan Rowe and I drove down from Mountain View to the tiny SF YC outpost to meet him. Sam was making an espresso when we walked in. He opened with – “have you launched”? We said no, too many bugs. Our product, kimono, made it easy to just point and click to build a web scraper. Our promise was to get you an API in 60 seconds, without writing a single line of code. But, the web is vast, and websites are very different. We needed it to work on a large enough spectrum of sites so that our first users would have a good experience. It worked on just a handful of sites at the time. Sam pushed us to make sure we were launched in less than 2 weeks. We debated, highlighting the complexity of the bugs and the limits of underlying headless browsing technology. The espresso finished brewing, he picked it up, looked at us and said, “well, you better get going then and fix those bugs”. We left, launched within those next two weeks and learned one of the most important lessons that day - speed matters. Ship something you’re embarrassed by. 2. There are no experts. Ryan and I were not prepared for the rapid influx of user on launch day. We did 88 user interviews to validate our product idea, and everyone basically said they wouldn’t use it. We thought they were wrong and built it anyway. It got tons of traffic on day 1. We didn’t sleep in the 48 hours following because our servers and database kept crashing. We hadn’t indexed it properly. We realized we weren’t the experts and needed to hire one. We went over to Michael Seibel's apartment for advice. Michael smiled and told us about the early days at SocialCam, that eventually became Twitch – experts thought the streaming video problem was too hard to be possible. The answer wasn’t hiring an expert, but hiring someone young, capable and naïve enough to give it an earnest try. So we opted to just figure it out ourselves. 3. Messages in Pizza Boxes. Startups win through incredible customer service, then through product, not the other way around. Michael Seibel told us how SocialCam’s streaming infrastructure went down while a key teammate was unreachable off-grid in a Tahoe cabin for the weekend. Normal people would have waited until Monday. Not Michael. He called a local pizza delivery place and asked the delivery person to send a large pizza with an urgent message in the box to the cabin. Their infrastructure was back up in hours. 4. The Twinkle can matter more than the TAM. Ambition matters just as much as practicality. Before demo day, we were struggling with the end note of our pitch. We knew the value of our product, and had a fanatical and fast-growing user base, but the market size we calculated either seemed so ridiculously big that it was not plausible, or so narrow that it was equally silly. Paul Graham and Geoff Ralston sat with us and showed us that if we can really pull it off at scale, it would be bigger than Google. So, we could skip the market size, if we really believed it. PG suggested not talking about market size, but just making sure people could see the twinkle in our eyes when we talked about what you might be able to do with a structured copy of the internet that’s larger than Google’s. 5. You’re always at the Origin. Our demo day was successful beyond our wildest beliefs. Afterwards, Geoff Ralston drew a chart for us on a whiteboard. It was a hockey stick. He asked us where we thought we were. It was a rhetorical question. He said we were at the origin, and that the most important thing is to remember that. Sam Altman doubled down. When he invested in Kimono, he gave us a Zimbabwean Trillion dollar note (the result of extreme hyperinflation in Zimbabwe), as a cautionary reminder that the fundraising and valuation mean nothing. We have channeled this into our culture at @TheArenaAI with our ritual around neon shoelaces and a pair of neon track spikes hanging on the wall to remind us that we’re at the Olympic starting line, but we don’t have any medals yet. 6. High bandwidth discussions with users don’t happen over email. The Collison brothers, who founded Stripe, took user engagement to the next level – so much so that “Collison installation” is part of YC lore. John Collison told us that talking to users was essential because email and chat conversations were not “high bandwidth” enough. He emphasized the importance of what you can learn being with users in person or talking to them over Skype (remember, this was early 2014!). We took this to heart, and spoke to hundreds of users at Kimono regularly over Skype. One power user Alexander Chung, who I met this way, has become a close friend and even attended my wedding in India. At Arena, we now go a step further and regularly fly to our users. We over-invest to a degree that is almost crazy in order to be more than a supplier — a true partner to our early customers. YC taught us it’s the only way to understand their problems on the ground and really make sure our products work for them. YC taught us to outsource very little. Own the problem. Own the outcome. And if you do, you get to be stupidly ambitious. If you’re curious about Kimono Labs (which we later sold to Palantir ), here was our launch demo. No-code web scraping before “no code” was even a term: Here's our demo day pitch, from 2014. Forever grateful to those above + Garry Tan Jessica Livingston Trevor Blackwell

Pratap Ranade

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