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deadass this is what your life becomes if you either don’t start a family or have an (irl) available friend group
I’ve been doing the whole solo thing, ventured doing different activities for myself and GUYS it does not solve everything. We NEED other people to keep us sane.
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This move is a diplomatic all-timer. It's like Messi cutting inside. You know it's coming. It doesn't matter how many times they run it. You're getting those pandas and you'll like it.
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It’s the exact same in housing
The boomers who are morally outraged to pay real estate taxes AND oppose new supply … have no leg to stand on when screeching “SOCIALISM!!!” at young voters vote for rent control
Boomers are the bloated cost of US healthcare. Boomers are taking $2.3 trillion per year in Social Security and Medicare welfare payments. That's the entire annual deficit. We're bringing in $5 trillion per year and spending $7 trillion per year. 65% of primary voters are over the age of 55, so Boomers are the ones voting for this bloated welfare spending. Then they turn around and lecture younger generations about Socialism and small government. It's a joke.
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Screen addiction is a challenge that affluent parents can buy their way out of.
They can throw money at the problem.
If you are raised by a single parent who is working extra hours to make ends meet, that parent may have less time to monitor what you are consuming online. You may also lack a role model or authority figure who can say, “That stuff you’re seeing online is crazy. Don’t take it seriously.”
I have spoken with several upper-middle-class parents who are deeply concerned about screen addiction. They deliberately enroll their children in soccer, piano lessons, math camps, and other extracurricular activities. Some have told me, “I don’t even care whether my child likes every activity. I just know that if he isn’t doing these things, he’ll be alone in his room on his phone.”
In effect, they fill nearly all the empty space on the calendar so their children are not spending hours scrolling or doomscrolling on TikTok. Families with fewer resources, especially single-parent or otherwise fragmented families, are much less able to do this.
nikhildd retweeted
in the mahabharata, duryodhana bets on karna when karna is a nobody.
karna spends the rest of his life treating that belief above everything else. even when krishna offers him legitimacy, family, status, even a kingdom he still refuses.
ultimately that costs him his life but maybe that’s friendship & loyalty to early believers at its finest.
nikhildd retweeted
Bad decision, bad precedent, bad politics too. Just terrible all around.
Breaking News: The Trump administration has proposed trading land just inside Yosemite’s western boundary to a Las Vegas developer. nyti.ms/4gEsRq8
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Um. Holy shit. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations.
We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data.
In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall.
Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months.
We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need.
Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim.
Rainmaker Century.
rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
nikhildd retweeted
Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse.
Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx
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people don’t realize this, but 2026 appears to be the first year in human history where humanity as a whole is below replacement fertility.
this has never happened before. not during wars. not during pandemics.
for the first time in human history, we are not producing enough children to replace ourselves.
this is the only real existential crisis.
nikhildd retweeted
I find it crazy that this chef became the bad guy just because he didn't want an ACTUAL RAT cooking his food
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That's advanced safety research lead, Shotaro Odate. He holds 253 patents related to safe driving technologies, and is literally obsessed with safety and saving lives. That's a real OG you're looking at. He's also got mad gym discipline.
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Sid's cancer story is a glimpse into the future of healthcare.
He was diagnosed with cancer, went through the standard treatments, and initially responded well. Then the cancer came back.
By 2024, his doctors told him they'd run out of options (in other words: we don't know how)
So Sid started digging into his own case. He built a 1,000-page G-doc, garnered specialists from different fields, and then used single-cell sequencing to find out what's driving his tumor.
His findings took him to Germany to receive experimental treatment.
Today, he is in remission.
His story says a lot about where healthcare is going.
i.e. towards autonomy and less dependance on the traditional system.
We can already see the "infrastructure" for that future slowly being built, for example:
- Diagnostics are getting cheaper. Genome sequencing once cost more than $100M, and today you can get it done in your living room for $100.
- AI reasoning is improving fast. Most models are already outperforming doctors.
- People are no longer waiting passively for the healthcare system to help them. Peptide craze and self-experimentation is a clear sign that people want more control over their own health.
Does this mean that hospitals and doctors are going away? Not at all. But they will no longer be the primary source of health intelligence.
Those who can combine AI, better (and cheaper) diagnostics, continuous health data, and 10x doctors will be able to make faster and more informed decisions about their health.
Sid's story, and many others, is proof that this shift is already happening.
My cancer case is n=1. I'm not holding it up as a model, because most of what I did is not specifically replicable or scaleable. But it is a proof of concept that fully personalized medicine, built around one patient's own biology, is viable in ways it simply wasn't a few years ago. I have lived a version of the future of cancer care that I think is worth aspiring to more broadly.
Many of the tools that made this future possible for me are getting better, faster, cheaper, and more accessible every year. I think what we need next is the infrastructure to deploy these tools, and the community willing to build this infrastructure, one patient at a time.
I want to help that future arrive faster. I wrote an article in The Cancer Letter cancerletter.com/guest-edito… for the physicians and researchers closest to the patients who could benefit most from this approach, who also believe in this future. If you are working towards building the systems and practices that will make personalized medicine operationally real, we want to collaborate with you too.
