Trump went from “a whole civilization will die tonight” to comparing himself to Jesus in less than a week

Hundreds of millions of normal people in the region went to sleep that night without knowing whether they will wake up again or whether their home will be in ruins.

Just to make the US (and Trump) look stronger when it’s having its Suez canal moment.

Not worth it

Probably because insect-food will be heavily processed (with all the downsides that brings) whereas things like grass-fed cow is more organic.

So the parasites (food and pharma industrial complex) want plebs too eat ze bugs while only the wealthy can afford ze real superfoods.

Threatening to wipe out civilian infrastructure shouldn’t be a part of any world leader’s lexicon even as a negotiating tactic. It sets a very bad precedent.

Thanks for sharing.

Listening to Nic, I again learned new English words, such as “quandary” and “intransigent”.

The gentleman’s lexicon is profoundly voluminous and remarkably erudite.

More reason to stay/live in small towns/villages

Yeah I agree.

AI can easily replace mediocrity in music and artistry, and that's a good thing.

The bar for creating something that can be considered "art" with lived human experience will be higher.

I wonder to what extent artists can retain the creative process involving human experience or will high time preference sloppification prevail?

Probably “pop music” will become more and more 90% AI-created, and then the organic grass-fed music will only be assisted by AI tools.

Bots and AI slop. Also spam and if the post doesn’t add any value.

Using USDC for payments is being some kind of a beta tester for CBDCs

Swap Lightning into USDT and hold USD-stable value without surrendering control to anyone.

This sounds disingenuous marketing to me. Tether can and will freeze funds.

Yeah nothing to do with the original Omni Layer. This leverages the interoperability protocols the crypto devs have been building:

USDT0 is the omnichain version of Tether, built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard. It allows USDT to move natively across connected networks using LayerZero’s messaging protocol: one token, one liquidity layer, all chains.

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You're right.

But faucet-mounted systems are more "quick-and-dirty" (literally!) to install.

Faucet-mounted filters > raw doggin tap

Yet Americans drink tap water..

losing control of Hormuz would be for the United States what the Suez Canal Crisis was for Great Britain (in 1956) and analogous defeats were for the Dutch Empire in the 18th century and the Spanish empire in the 17th century.

Simulation?!

Also if there's a credible quantum threat, banks can upgrade their centralized systems in a day to be quantum-proof.

Whereas Bitcoiners need to find consensus among decentralized players.

health recommendations

Bill Gates still has an advisory role in Microsoft

Instead of going to college, a smart kid would sacrifice a few weekends to attend courses and get certified as personal trainer, bartender and childcare worker.

Or invest a year or two more and become plumber, electrician, mechanic and then set up his own business.

At least smaller teams consisting of a handful of Seniors instead of adult daycare.

Maybe Sales has a longer staying power since it's about persuasion and social psychology, and the human element still has a strong role in it.