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It is genuinely mind-boggling how some people can move through life with zero situational awareness or basic consideration for retail workers. ​There are two kinds of people in this world: those who feel an intense wave of guilt stepping into a store 20 minutes before closing, and those who...

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I was 14/15 years old, living in Karachi, at the time 9/11 happened. The head principal of our school led victory cheers at the morning parade. Many people were jubilant. There was a sense in many that now was the time for all muslim armies to join together - a common dream that springs up every time there is even a little attack on any Western country. A wet dream of many Muslims across the spectrum, one day the Ummah will come together and fight the West. Even Mushraf took a few days to react one way or another, finally coming out to condemn the attacks to the disappointment of many Pakistanis. Make no mistake, Muslims are not your friends. Especially those from the subcontinent. They are the biggest majority of the minority in Britain. They are all bidding their time till they can act for their Ummah. Many people need to wake up. No, I am not being mean, or harsh, or unfair. It is not bigotry to see an ideology and a people who follow it dogmatically for what they are. They see themselves as other. They do not integrate, they do not assimilate. They declare themselves as your enemies by rejecting everything you stand for, while you remain timid to at least take their word for it. This isn't going to end well if you keep hiding from the facts. These are acts of dominance, plain and simple. This is the Muslims shifting from the Makkah phase to the Medina phase. When in Makkah at the start with only a handful of follower, Mohammad along with his band use to pray in private. All the verses were about peace and tolerance and all that jazz. And when he moved to Yathrib, and changed it to Medina, well the tone changed. Everything now could be done openly. Violence, death, glory, and conquest. The verses superseded the ones of before. Abrogation of the before. It is a learned behaviour from their prophet. Wake up before its too late.
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I was 14/15 years old, living in Karachi, at the time 9/11 happened. The head principal of our school led victory cheers at the morning parade. Many people were jubilant. There was a sense in many that now was the time for all muslim armies to join together - a common dream that springs up every time there is even a little attack on any Western country. A wet dream of many Muslims across the spectrum, one day the Ummah will come together and fight the West. Even Mushraf took a few days to react one way or another, finally coming out to condemn the attacks to the disappointment of many Pakistanis. Make no mistake, Muslims are not your friends. Especially those from the subcontinent. They are the biggest majority of the minority in Britain. They are all bidding their time till they can act for their Ummah. Many people need to wake up. No, I am not being mean, or harsh, or unfair. It is not bigotry to see an ideology and a people who follow it dogmatically for what they are. They see themselves as other. They do not integrate, they do not assimilate. They declare themselves as your enemies by rejecting everything you stand for, while you remain timid to at least take their word for it. This isn't going to end well if you keep hiding from the facts. These are acts of dominance, plain and simple. This is the Muslims shifting from the Makkah phase to the Medina phase. When in Makkah at the start with only a handful of follower, Mohammad along with his band use to pray in private. All the verses were about peace and tolerance and all that jazz. And when he moved to Yathrib, and changed it to Medina, well the tone changed. Everything now could be done openly. Violence, death, glory, and conquest. The verses superseded the ones of before. Abrogation of the before. It is a learned behaviour from their prophet. Wake up before its too late.

Momus Najmi

89,613 views • 5 months ago

Across the country, smart shopping carts are now a thing, you push it like a normal cart, however it scans every item you put in it, even weighs produce. There is a nice touchpad up top that keeps track of what you are purchasing and even allows you to search items and shows their location in the store. Do you feel they are doing this for the benefit of the customer or are they trying to curb theft?
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Across the country, smart shopping carts are now a thing, you push it like a normal cart, however it scans every item you put in it, even weighs produce. There is a nice touchpad up top that keeps track of what you are purchasing and even allows you to search items and shows their location in the store. Do you feel they are doing this for the benefit of the customer or are they trying to curb theft?

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44,539 views • 2 months ago

Crime is so out of control at the Walmart in Alameda County California, that the DA is touring the Walmart and working with them to stop organized retail theft This is the result of Democrats soft on crime policies The store shows they are having to lock up basically everything “We talk about organized retail theft is not some young person who walks in and takes something. I'm not concerned about that. I'm concerned about people who are making a living doing this. The concern is over professional shoplifters who steal merchandise, just sell for a profit. Walmart executives showed what they're doing to prevent theft and explain crime trends.”
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Crime is so out of control at the Walmart in Alameda County California, that the DA is touring the Walmart and working with them to stop organized retail theft This is the result of Democrats soft on crime policies The store shows they are having to lock up basically everything “We talk about organized retail theft is not some young person who walks in and takes something. I'm not concerned about that. I'm concerned about people who are making a living doing this. The concern is over professional shoplifters who steal merchandise, just sell for a profit. Walmart executives showed what they're doing to prevent theft and explain crime trends.”

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54,890 views • 4 months ago

Pedro Franceschi explains why Brex doesn’t hire “people managers” anymore One day Brex founder Pedro Franceschi made a list of all of the leaders at the company who worked and didn’t work. “I was trying to find what was predictive of leadership success,” he explains. “A lot of things are important, but they’re not predictive. For example, being customer obsessed is important, but there are people who were customer obsessed who were on both sides of the list.” The only trait that Pedro found to be predictive of leadership success at Brex was what he calls “the ability to operate at all levels” — someone who even at the highest levels of leadership has a deep understanding of the details of execution at the individual contributor level. What this means in practice is a CTO who is actually a great engineer. A Head of Design who can actually design amazing products. And a great Head of Sales who can actually go and close deals themselves if they need to. “It doesn’t mean that they’re going to do that all the time,” Pedro explains, “But it means that they know the nuances of what makes someone great at the craft… If you don’t know how to identify greatness because you don’t know what the bar is yourself, there’s no way to build a team that’s great.” He continues: “A lot of companies develop this role over time that people call a ‘people manager.’ They’re Director of Engineering but they can’t really code because they manage people now… And that concept is just something we eliminated. At the end of the day, there’s no way to manage people divorced from the work — you’re managing the work itself.” Pedro uses Jony Ive as an example: “Jony Ive wasn’t managing the team that designed the iPhone. He was designing the iPhone with a group of people. It’s simple, but it is a very profound change in how you orient your relationship with the work and what you put out there in the world. And I think you have to select for people who appreciate the actual output of the work and the work itself, not the process of doing the work… What matters is: Do you know what great looks like? Can you do it yourself? And can you bring people along with a really high bar for doing it at all level.” Video source: Kleiner Perkins (2025)
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Pedro Franceschi explains why Brex doesn’t hire “people managers” anymore One day Brex founder Pedro Franceschi made a list of all of the leaders at the company who worked and didn’t work. “I was trying to find what was predictive of leadership success,” he explains. “A lot of things are important, but they’re not predictive. For example, being customer obsessed is important, but there are people who were customer obsessed who were on both sides of the list.” The only trait that Pedro found to be predictive of leadership success at Brex was what he calls “the ability to operate at all levels” — someone who even at the highest levels of leadership has a deep understanding of the details of execution at the individual contributor level. What this means in practice is a CTO who is actually a great engineer. A Head of Design who can actually design amazing products. And a great Head of Sales who can actually go and close deals themselves if they need to. “It doesn’t mean that they’re going to do that all the time,” Pedro explains, “But it means that they know the nuances of what makes someone great at the craft… If you don’t know how to identify greatness because you don’t know what the bar is yourself, there’s no way to build a team that’s great.” He continues: “A lot of companies develop this role over time that people call a ‘people manager.’ They’re Director of Engineering but they can’t really code because they manage people now… And that concept is just something we eliminated. At the end of the day, there’s no way to manage people divorced from the work — you’re managing the work itself.” Pedro uses Jony Ive as an example: “Jony Ive wasn’t managing the team that designed the iPhone. He was designing the iPhone with a group of people. It’s simple, but it is a very profound change in how you orient your relationship with the work and what you put out there in the world. And I think you have to select for people who appreciate the actual output of the work and the work itself, not the process of doing the work… What matters is: Do you know what great looks like? Can you do it yourself? And can you bring people along with a really high bar for doing it at all level.” Video source: Kleiner Perkins (2025)

Startup Archive

45,584 views • 1 year ago

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Rogin: It looks very likely that we're about to restart bombing of Iran. And there are a lot of reports out there that this is about to happen. And what that means is that all of the problems, not just with the US economy, with the economy of every country in the world, are about to get worse. And it means that the Iran war is going to go much longer than otherwise anticipated. And that is a disaster not just for Americans, but for all people. And then if you think about the effects on energy and then manufacturing, and then rates will continue to go up, and then inflation, it's a it's a calamity for the world economy with no strategy whatsoever.

Acyn

74,258 views • 3 months ago

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There is no way that ethnic tensions could be as pronounced as they currently are without a lot of deep sin going into the generation of those tensions. But ethnic tensions are not the result of a white person waking up one day and thinking he needs to start despising people who are darker than he is. Neither is it the result of black people suddenly lurching into a policy of violence and mayhem. There are two errors to avoid when it comes to the kind of repentance that is needed in an hour like ours. One is to approach the whole thing in a simplistic spirit, calling for people to repent of all their behavior, but only starting at the precise moment the rioting started. But repentance is also needed for all the decisions and policies that led to the conditions that made the rioting seem like a reasonable way out. It isn’t, but why do people come to believe that? The second mistake is that of starting at the wrong end—this happens when we start by confessing the sins of the other guy. That gets us nowhere, and just perpetuates the conflict. You can confess other people’s sins all day long and your joy will not come back.

Douglas Wilson

73,863 views • 11 months ago

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Hospice nurses say there is a quiet moment that happens in the minutes before someone dies, and most families sitting right there in the room do not recognize it until it has already passed. It is not dramatic, it is not loud, and it looks almost like nothing at all if you do not know what you are seeing or what to look for. Nurses who have sat with hundreds of patients at the end of life describe it as one of the most profound and tender things they witness in their entire careers. The hardest part is that most families only find out what that moment was after the fact, during grief, when it is too late to go back and be fully present for it. You deserve to know what to look for before you are sitting in that room, not after you have already left it. Share this with anyone who has a loved one in hospice care or who is walking alongside someone in their final days.

Neal K. Shah

346,791 views • 2 months ago

JD Vance at the March for Life: "I’d get frustrated that people could look at a picture of a baby on an ultrasound and see not a human being, but just a clump of cells… it is a blessing to know the truth, and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection."
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JD Vance at the March for Life: "I’d get frustrated that people could look at a picture of a baby on an ultrasound and see not a human being, but just a clump of cells… it is a blessing to know the truth, and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection."

Anna Lulis

270,450 views • 1 year ago

My mormons, "You are not a member of an organization. You are a member of a people, and you forget the difference at your peril. An organization has employees and customers and a mission statement. A people has martyrs. A people has graves it can point to, ground soaked with its own blood, stories that begin with "your fathers" and mean it. The world will tell you that Mormonism is a religion you happen to hold, a set of beliefs you could set down tomorrow and remain exactly who you are. The world is lying. You cannot separate the faith from the people who bled for it, because they were never two things. The pioneer past is not the backstory of Mormonism. It is the body of it. Carthage is not history you learn. It is inheritance you carry. The handcart companies are not an episode in a manual. They are your dead, your line, your tribe, and the covenant that binds you to God binds you just as surely to them. This is the thing the modern Saint has forgotten, and the forgetting is a kind of orphaning. We speak of "the pioneers" as though they were someone else's ancestors, figures in a diorama, a heritage month. They are not someone else's. Whether your blood crossed the plains or your baptism grafted you into the vine last spring, they are yours now, fully yours, because that is what it means to be sealed into a covenant people: their story becomes your story, their martyrs become your martyrs, their dead become your dead. The convert from Manila and the seventh-generation rancher from Cache Valley stand in the same line, heirs of the same graves. Joseph and Hyrum did not die for an institution. They died for a people that did not fully exist yet, a people they could see only by faith, and you are that people. Their blood is in your spiritual veins. When you take the sacrament, you take it as one of them. When you enter the temple, you enter on ground their sacrifice purchased. You cannot claim the gospel and disown the tribe that carried it, because the gospel came to you inside that tribe, wrapped in its stories, paid for with its suffering, handed down grave by grave until it reached your hands. And a people who know they are a people cannot be broken the way scattered individuals can. This is why the world works so hard to convince you that your faith is private, personal, just one option in the marketplace of beliefs. A lone believer can be picked off, worn down, embarrassed out of his convictions one awkward conversation at a time. A member of a tribe with martyrs cannot, because he does not stand alone, and he knows it. He stands in a line that runs back through the valley and the plains and the frozen rivers to a jail in Illinois, and the line stands in him. So claim your people. Say "my martyrs" and mean it. Say "my dead" and feel the weight of it. Take your children to the graves of the pioneers and teach them that these are not strangers, these are ours, this is who we are and what we came from and what it cost. Because the day you understand that you belong to a people, the mockery of the world loses its power over you entirely. They are laughing at your tribe. And your tribe buried its children in the snow and kept walking, and outlasted every mob and every extermination order and every laughing generation since. You come from the unbreakable."
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My mormons, "You are not a member of an organization. You are a member of a people, and you forget the difference at your peril. An organization has employees and customers and a mission statement. A people has martyrs. A people has graves it can point to, ground soaked with its own blood, stories that begin with "your fathers" and mean it. The world will tell you that Mormonism is a religion you happen to hold, a set of beliefs you could set down tomorrow and remain exactly who you are. The world is lying. You cannot separate the faith from the people who bled for it, because they were never two things. The pioneer past is not the backstory of Mormonism. It is the body of it. Carthage is not history you learn. It is inheritance you carry. The handcart companies are not an episode in a manual. They are your dead, your line, your tribe, and the covenant that binds you to God binds you just as surely to them. This is the thing the modern Saint has forgotten, and the forgetting is a kind of orphaning. We speak of "the pioneers" as though they were someone else's ancestors, figures in a diorama, a heritage month. They are not someone else's. Whether your blood crossed the plains or your baptism grafted you into the vine last spring, they are yours now, fully yours, because that is what it means to be sealed into a covenant people: their story becomes your story, their martyrs become your martyrs, their dead become your dead. The convert from Manila and the seventh-generation rancher from Cache Valley stand in the same line, heirs of the same graves. Joseph and Hyrum did not die for an institution. They died for a people that did not fully exist yet, a people they could see only by faith, and you are that people. Their blood is in your spiritual veins. When you take the sacrament, you take it as one of them. When you enter the temple, you enter on ground their sacrifice purchased. You cannot claim the gospel and disown the tribe that carried it, because the gospel came to you inside that tribe, wrapped in its stories, paid for with its suffering, handed down grave by grave until it reached your hands. And a people who know they are a people cannot be broken the way scattered individuals can. This is why the world works so hard to convince you that your faith is private, personal, just one option in the marketplace of beliefs. A lone believer can be picked off, worn down, embarrassed out of his convictions one awkward conversation at a time. A member of a tribe with martyrs cannot, because he does not stand alone, and he knows it. He stands in a line that runs back through the valley and the plains and the frozen rivers to a jail in Illinois, and the line stands in him. So claim your people. Say "my martyrs" and mean it. Say "my dead" and feel the weight of it. Take your children to the graves of the pioneers and teach them that these are not strangers, these are ours, this is who we are and what we came from and what it cost. Because the day you understand that you belong to a people, the mockery of the world loses its power over you entirely. They are laughing at your tribe. And your tribe buried its children in the snow and kept walking, and outlasted every mob and every extermination order and every laughing generation since. You come from the unbreakable."

Kirk Rollins

52,733 views • 1 month ago

This Remote Viewer Just Dropped a BOMBSHELL Warning of an UNEXPECTED Future U.S. President Change?! Edward Riordan was tasked to look at the future president of 2030 and the data that came back was surprising: "...the idea here is of a new leader stepping in. The person is ripe for the time and timing, feeding off of the angst of the people. This feels like a major shift. But why? I had to wonder. This person will come to power and signify a new phase has begun. This feels future based. Like this plan is being arranged and the person is being groomed now." "...Not not too far out. There seems to be more prep for the individual and the situation that is needed, but I had to wonder what kind of situation are we talking about here? And it seemed crisis based, like someone is brought down in this person is brought in...." "...it feels like a large shift in the structure of things in order out of chaos scenario like Venezuela, a chaotic environment that is being orchestrated into order." "...This person, this person is being presented for this time to the people and the world to see.... But here was this person. They were on a stage, but they didn't have a face. It was very, very strange. They didn't even have a they didn't have a face for some reason." "...It's like the death of a king or a ruler. The country stops. The world stops for a moment. An example would be if something happened to President Trump, the world would stop for a moment. This level of magnitude, the people don't know what to do next." "...Taking advantage of a heightened emotional state to push propaganda and a narrative, this person steps in at a high emotion period with a strong sense of filling someone's shoes or replacing them, possibly due to a death...."
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This Remote Viewer Just Dropped a BOMBSHELL Warning of an UNEXPECTED Future U.S. President Change?! Edward Riordan was tasked to look at the future president of 2030 and the data that came back was surprising: "...the idea here is of a new leader stepping in. The person is ripe for the time and timing, feeding off of the angst of the people. This feels like a major shift. But why? I had to wonder. This person will come to power and signify a new phase has begun. This feels future based. Like this plan is being arranged and the person is being groomed now." "...Not not too far out. There seems to be more prep for the individual and the situation that is needed, but I had to wonder what kind of situation are we talking about here? And it seemed crisis based, like someone is brought down in this person is brought in...." "...it feels like a large shift in the structure of things in order out of chaos scenario like Venezuela, a chaotic environment that is being orchestrated into order." "...This person, this person is being presented for this time to the people and the world to see.... But here was this person. They were on a stage, but they didn't have a face. It was very, very strange. They didn't even have a they didn't have a face for some reason." "...It's like the death of a king or a ruler. The country stops. The world stops for a moment. An example would be if something happened to President Trump, the world would stop for a moment. This level of magnitude, the people don't know what to do next." "...Taking advantage of a heightened emotional state to push propaganda and a narrative, this person steps in at a high emotion period with a strong sense of filling someone's shoes or replacing them, possibly due to a death...."

Future Forecasting Group

64,699 views • 5 months ago

Yes, indeed, this is lawlessness by any standard. Even by banana republic standards, this is still lawlessness. Your country has a constitution, it has a government, it has a police service, and it has a ruling party. I am sure you can see that some of the people there are actually wearing ruling party T-shirts. It is lawless regardless of whoever does it. It is an embarrassment to South Africa as a country, what you are doing and what you are encouraging people to do. Your country has an immigration service. If people are in your country illegally, they should be arrested and deported through lawful processes. You do not go around destroying property, tearing down markets, and attacking people. It is illegal regardless of whoever does it. It is not illegal because I have said so. It is illegal because the laws of your country make it so. This is vigilantism, pure and simple, and it is tainting the reputation of South Africa, not only across Africa but across the world. If you have got satellite television in your home, you can see that these actions are being reported everywhere. It is not good for your country. This kind of barbarism undermines the rule of law, fuels division, and damages South Africa’s standing as a constitutional democracy. It is the actions of a few that are tainting the reputation of many. The average South African is not mindless like this. They respect the law, and they respect the fact that among them, in their communities, there are people from other countries. If those people are in the country illegally, you report them and the law takes its course through proper processes of arrest and deportation. You do not descend into mob justice, lawlessness, and destruction. That is not who South Africans are, and it must not be normalised.
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Yes, indeed, this is lawlessness by any standard. Even by banana republic standards, this is still lawlessness. Your country has a constitution, it has a government, it has a police service, and it has a ruling party. I am sure you can see that some of the people there are actually wearing ruling party T-shirts. It is lawless regardless of whoever does it. It is an embarrassment to South Africa as a country, what you are doing and what you are encouraging people to do. Your country has an immigration service. If people are in your country illegally, they should be arrested and deported through lawful processes. You do not go around destroying property, tearing down markets, and attacking people. It is illegal regardless of whoever does it. It is not illegal because I have said so. It is illegal because the laws of your country make it so. This is vigilantism, pure and simple, and it is tainting the reputation of South Africa, not only across Africa but across the world. If you have got satellite television in your home, you can see that these actions are being reported everywhere. It is not good for your country. This kind of barbarism undermines the rule of law, fuels division, and damages South Africa’s standing as a constitutional democracy. It is the actions of a few that are tainting the reputation of many. The average South African is not mindless like this. They respect the law, and they respect the fact that among them, in their communities, there are people from other countries. If those people are in the country illegally, you report them and the law takes its course through proper processes of arrest and deportation. You do not descend into mob justice, lawlessness, and destruction. That is not who South Africans are, and it must not be normalised.

Hopewell Chin’ono

80,812 views • 4 months ago

Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in “Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?” The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world. Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of: “This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.” He continues: “It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.” If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.
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Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in “Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?” The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world. Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of: “This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.” He continues: “It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.” If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.

Startup Archive

316,188 views • 11 months ago

AOC: We get to these extremes through these small erosions and steps. When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves or do not feel like as though they answer to the American people at all. That is dangerous. It does not go without saying that the people that they went after first are some of the most vulnerable activists in the United States, which is to say, pro-palestinian organizers and young people, especially those who who are on green cards or visas… And the idea that we would allow our freedom of speech to be violated and create exceptions to that for people who are advocating for the lives of Palestinians, it erodes at the very core of American identity, too, because this is a land of the free, but only as long as we defend it and make it so
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AOC: We get to these extremes through these small erosions and steps. When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves or do not feel like as though they answer to the American people at all. That is dangerous. It does not go without saying that the people that they went after first are some of the most vulnerable activists in the United States, which is to say, pro-palestinian organizers and young people, especially those who who are on green cards or visas… And the idea that we would allow our freedom of speech to be violated and create exceptions to that for people who are advocating for the lives of Palestinians, it erodes at the very core of American identity, too, because this is a land of the free, but only as long as we defend it and make it so

Acyn

37,566 views • 11 months ago

To my brothers and sisters, a call to action.. Please stand with the families of the Samourai Wallet developers. These men built privacy tools in a world that grows more hostile to privacy by the day. Now their families are carrying the weight of a fight they never asked for, while the machine tries to turn builders into criminals and make an example out of those who dared to defend financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime. Code is not a confession. Building tools for free men is not an act of evil. Support their families. Help them endure the fire. Because when the state comes for the builders of privacy, it is not only their door being kicked in. It is a warning shot aimed at every sovereign soul who still believes human beings have the right to transact, speak, build, and exist without being watched like cattle. Stand with them. Proof of work is not just mining. Sometimes it is standing beside the men who built the tools when the world turns cold. Sign the pardon petition, and donate.
1:46

To my brothers and sisters, a call to action.. Please stand with the families of the Samourai Wallet developers. These men built privacy tools in a world that grows more hostile to privacy by the day. Now their families are carrying the weight of a fight they never asked for, while the machine tries to turn builders into criminals and make an example out of those who dared to defend financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime. Code is not a confession. Building tools for free men is not an act of evil. Support their families. Help them endure the fire. Because when the state comes for the builders of privacy, it is not only their door being kicked in. It is a warning shot aimed at every sovereign soul who still believes human beings have the right to transact, speak, build, and exist without being watched like cattle. Stand with them. Proof of work is not just mining. Sometimes it is standing beside the men who built the tools when the world turns cold. Sign the pardon petition, and donate.

HODLTarantula(HT)🏴‍☠️Sovereign Maximalist

10,126 views • 3 months ago

Craig Melvin looked bewildered when the jury foreman told him Karen Read didn't hit John O'Keefe with her car. Like many, he is predisposed to believe defendants are guilty and didn't watch much of the case. Today he asked Karen if she knows that when she walks down the street people look at her and think "there's the woman who got away with killing her ex-boyfriend who was a cop. How do you go through life knowing there are lots of people who think you did it and got away with it?" The correct answer to that is: "You clearly haven't walked the same streets I have. Out in the real world almost no one thinks Karen Read is guilty. When people see her walking down the street they think "that woman is stronger than I am, I don't know how the hell she survived that." They look at her as both a victim and fighter. Criticism of her is entirely contained to the Internet. These people do not exist in real life. They did not attend a single day of the trial. They are weirdos in remote places across the world who don't feel passionate enough about her guilt to show up in person. They Food Stamp 5 showed up once, but they were mostly driven by Turtleboy Derangement Syndrome, not a firm belief in my guilt, which is why many of them held signs supporting me prior to getting mad at an award winning journalist who was my most vocal advocate throughout this process. Other than that it's just a bunch of people who are personal friends with the people who were inside 34 Fairview Road, who are the only people who truly know how John ended up with dog bites on his arm and a 2 inch laceration to the back of his head which could only have come from hitting his head on a ridged surface like a stair or fireplace. You have been mislead to believe that the public is split on my guilt or innocence. They are not, and I'd urge you to come to Boston and walk around Newbury Street with me for an hour so you can see it for yourself."
1:18

Craig Melvin looked bewildered when the jury foreman told him Karen Read didn't hit John O'Keefe with her car. Like many, he is predisposed to believe defendants are guilty and didn't watch much of the case. Today he asked Karen if she knows that when she walks down the street people look at her and think "there's the woman who got away with killing her ex-boyfriend who was a cop. How do you go through life knowing there are lots of people who think you did it and got away with it?" The correct answer to that is: "You clearly haven't walked the same streets I have. Out in the real world almost no one thinks Karen Read is guilty. When people see her walking down the street they think "that woman is stronger than I am, I don't know how the hell she survived that." They look at her as both a victim and fighter. Criticism of her is entirely contained to the Internet. These people do not exist in real life. They did not attend a single day of the trial. They are weirdos in remote places across the world who don't feel passionate enough about her guilt to show up in person. They Food Stamp 5 showed up once, but they were mostly driven by Turtleboy Derangement Syndrome, not a firm belief in my guilt, which is why many of them held signs supporting me prior to getting mad at an award winning journalist who was my most vocal advocate throughout this process. Other than that it's just a bunch of people who are personal friends with the people who were inside 34 Fairview Road, who are the only people who truly know how John ended up with dog bites on his arm and a 2 inch laceration to the back of his head which could only have come from hitting his head on a ridged surface like a stair or fireplace. You have been mislead to believe that the public is split on my guilt or innocence. They are not, and I'd urge you to come to Boston and walk around Newbury Street with me for an hour so you can see it for yourself."

Aidan Kearney

160,069 views • 2 months ago

What absolute nonsense. Don't most people want to work hard to do better by their own families? To have a better house, better holidays, better furniture? Isn't that a worthwhile thing? Wouldn't life be very much better if more people took responsibility for their families and for building their own future? And when they do that, and have a little bit left over to help people less fortunate than themselves—isn't that a good thing? And aren't we trying to get the Third World out of the poverty it's in by building up its industries and having some investment to go and help them with? John Wesley answered the question you just put: 'Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.' It's not the money, it's not the wealth you create; it's what you do with it. Many people use their money to do more for the arts, to see more, to enjoy more of the great artistic works. Look at the fantastic voluntary effort in this country. It's enormous. Greed? Isn't it absurd! Trade unions mostly argue for higher wages. They argue for bigger differentials. Some people are greedy. But people who want a better standard of living and better way of life for their children are not. They're highly moral. They're highly valued citizens and they're usually those people who look after their houses, their families and they look after their neighbourhoods—community spirit. This is the real 'Thatcherism'.
2:31

What absolute nonsense. Don't most people want to work hard to do better by their own families? To have a better house, better holidays, better furniture? Isn't that a worthwhile thing? Wouldn't life be very much better if more people took responsibility for their families and for building their own future? And when they do that, and have a little bit left over to help people less fortunate than themselves—isn't that a good thing? And aren't we trying to get the Third World out of the poverty it's in by building up its industries and having some investment to go and help them with? John Wesley answered the question you just put: 'Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.' It's not the money, it's not the wealth you create; it's what you do with it. Many people use their money to do more for the arts, to see more, to enjoy more of the great artistic works. Look at the fantastic voluntary effort in this country. It's enormous. Greed? Isn't it absurd! Trade unions mostly argue for higher wages. They argue for bigger differentials. Some people are greedy. But people who want a better standard of living and better way of life for their children are not. They're highly moral. They're highly valued citizens and they're usually those people who look after their houses, their families and they look after their neighbourhoods—community spirit. This is the real 'Thatcherism'.

Margaret Thatcher

147,269 views • 1 year ago

I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.
8:26

I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.

Kirk Rollins

78,104 views • 2 months ago