🔴🟠🟢 @TerminalIV

You have to be contrarian to be self-made, almost by definition. @naval

If Mombasa was better planned, the stretch between Nyali and Kilifi would look like this. (even with the few cliffs) I don’t know why they chose hotels by the beach over an ocean drive

Wander Aesthetic @NatureRoot88

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Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺

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I never cared about name brands…If I like it and it fits my budget, I’ll shop anywhere 💯

The courage to try, the humility to learn, the will to never give up.

When settlers wanted to steal land in Kenya, they forced Kenyans to move into concentration camps (ithamirio). They made sure the camps weren't very far from their grabbed land when they built plantations so that the people in concentration camps could provide free labor.

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

When Julius Caesar was 25, he was kidnapped by pirates. He acted like they worked for him. They demanded a ransom of 20 talents. Caesar laughed at them for not knowing who they had captured, and told them to ask for 50. He spent 38 days as their prisoner. When he wanted to sleep, he ordered them to stop talking. He wrote poems and speeches and read them out loud. When the pirates didn’t admire them, he called them illiterate barbarians. He often told them, laughing, that he would come back and execute them all. They thought he was joking. As soon as the ransom was paid, he raised a fleet, hunted them down and had every one of them crucified, exactly as he had promised.

You must learn to play dumb in dangerous environments. Ask questions and request clarifications. Never show your intelligence outright. Force the others to overexplain and gather some information before making your move. In the wrong room, being a smartass can end horribly.

"Das Pferd wird es immer geben, aber das Automobil ist nur eine Modeerscheinung – ein Spielzeug für Reiche." Michigan Savings Bank, 1903 "Ich denke, es gibt weltweit einen Markt für vielleicht fünf Computer." Thomas Watson, 1943 "No chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share." Steve Ballmer, 2007 "Das Internet hat für die Wirtschaft kaum wichtigere Auswirkungen als das Faxgerät." Paul Krugman, 1998 "Flugmaschinen, die schwerer sind als Luft, sind physikalisch unmöglich." Lord Kelvin, 1895 "Das Spam-Problem bei E-Mails wird in spätestens zwei Jahren gelöst sein" Bill Gates, 2004 "Der Fernseher wird sich auf dem Markt nicht halten. Die Menschen werden es bald leid sein, jeden Abend auf eine Sperrholzkiste zu starren." Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946 "Es gibt keinen Grund, warum jemand einen Computer in seinem Haus haben wollte." Ken Olson, 1977 "Wenn die Pariser Weltausstellung schließt, wird das elektrische Licht ausgehen und man wird nie wieder davon hören." Erasmus Wilson, 1878 "Die Amerikaner brauchen das Telefon vielleicht, wir aber nicht. Wir haben genug Laufburschen." William Preece, 1876 "Egal wie die Wissenschaft in Zukunft fortschreitet, der Mensch wird den Mond niemals erreichen." Lee De Forest, 1957 "Reisen mit hoher Geschwindigkeit ist nicht möglich, weil die Passagiere keine Luft mehr bekommen und an Erstickung sterben würden." Dionysius Lardner, 1830 "Mit Wechselstrom herumzuspielen ist reine Zeitverschwendung. Niemand wird ihn jemals nutzen." Thomas Edison, 1889 "Mobiltelefone werden die Drahttelefone absolut nicht ersetzen." Marty Cooper, 1981 #TeslaRoadster #Tesla

Kerem Schamberger @KeremSchamberg

5 days ago

Der Tesla Roadster ist das beste Beispiel dafür, dass der Kapitalismus Dinge um ihrer selbst willen produziert, die niemand braucht.

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“Men used to go to war” 9:30 market open is war bro

2030s are going to make the 2020s look like the stone age.

Sometimes a demo is simply to remind the world that your competition has no desire to dream -- and no ability to evolve.

“Why would the Wright brothers spend time and money flying a plane that only goes 100 feet off the ground”

𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂 @TXMCtrades

6 days ago

Why would they spend time and money developing the ability for a car to do a kickflip?

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A lesson in possession that ends with a Hazard ⚠️ #UCL

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

Ruto wants to create a nation of maids and bus drivers. Not scientists, innovators, philosophers, writers, world class entrepreneurs. He will be remembered for destroying a country for MONEY.

𝐓𝐗𝐌𝐂 @TXMCtrades

6 days ago

Why would they spend time and money developing the ability for a car to do a kickflip?

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Affordable Protein should be a key topic at the Agriculture Summit. We are letting Kenyan children down and setting them up for life long being behind on many markets including brain development and height. Many especially urban poor are surviving on carbs like chips mwitu.

I don’t see a point in hyper visibility if there’s no funnel to your businesses or income

Don't sell like you need their money. Sell like they need your help.