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PSA: if your family doesnt talk to each other much, (like mine) make the effort...
Mum just dropped a 'oh and by the way' at the end of a call that was my 91 yr old Granddad is in hospital and they are looking after Nan while he's in.
Lead with that news Mum, the fruit platter for Xmas morning is probably secondary.... #family #support
I still canβt quite believe it, but number one son has come with me to the Clouds. How awesome is that?
And heβs not the only 20 year old here which is amazing.
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When you dig into it, almost every rich person has just been lucky. Their 'big break' came just at the right time, the market was just ready, and they rode the wave to success.
Most of the 'geniuses' then fail on their next projects ( the Tesla truck? hyper loop?) - often just spending or wasting vast amounts of their wealth on vanity projects.
What you don't see is the hundreds of other attempts at the same thing by others that were early, or late, and those people are not household names.
For an example, Sir Clive Sinclair in the UK invented the Spectrum computer, and made a reasonable amount of money : he then put lots of it into the C5, an electric battery-powered personal vehicle. The battery tech wasn't quite ready yet, so it failed and he was a laughing stock. A few years later, a better battery was developed and someone put it in an electric car and this time it was successful.
I know I've been very lucky : my special interests align with my work, most of my issues are maskable, and I can function well enough and have a decent job I enjoy.
It is *possible* for us to be high achievers, but it is mainly luck, and the odds are stacked against us.
No-one should ever think badly of themselves for not winning a lottery ticket.
Do what you love. Find and follow your preferences. Make yourself happy, don't judge yourself by other's standards. :).
maybe it's not journalists' job to do it, but somebody should be saying that it's not really about billionaires, or social media, or doxxing, or free speech, or republicans, or assassination coordinates
none of those things explain what's happening, or accurately predict what will happen next
the one thing that both explains and predicts is the one thing that journalists will never say out loud
that thing is #fascism
anyone who recognized that the acquisition of twitter was about fascism and not #freespeech could have confidently predicted the #twitterpurge
and anyone watching lefty accounts get banned for bogus reasons and recognized that as fascism could have confidently predicted that journalists would be next
so now that the first shot has been fired at journalists, we should be able to recognize it as fascism, and apply the lessons of history to predict what's next
It looks like #China is going to be in trouble.
#Covid19 BF7 is the major variant there, and the reported R0 is between 10 and 18.6 β for comparison, in Australia Omicron had an R0 of around 2, averaging worldwide at 5.
That's downright scary. For every person infected, they can be expected to infect between 10 and 18 others.
With hospitals already struggling just days after restrictions were lowered, the future doesn't look very good.
https://www.livescience.com/covid-what-we-know-about-new-omicron-variant-bf-7
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