The Parasite Class: How 10% of Humanity Has Always Run the World — And Why Their Endgame May Consume Them
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My first zoom with clients before I got my coffee
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Apparently when I own Microsoft 365 Personal via BestBuy 💻 ($50/yr members price) it includes Office apps offline 📑 + 1TB OneDrive ☁️ + 60 mins Skype calls 📞. Though it doesn’t include ChatGPT Plus, however you do get Microsoft Copilot 🤖 (AI chat w/ graphics 🎨). Works so far ✅.
🚗💡 Before signing that car loan!
Use this formula:
(Interest Rate × Years) ÷ 2 = % paid in interest
7% for 6 years?
(7 × 6) ÷ 2 = 21%
On $30K loan = $6,300 in interest! 😱
Under 15% is good
Over 20% shop around! 💰
Every problem has First and Last name (c) STALIN
I do not care what was stolen from Louvre museum. Fake and real items look exactly the same and they could put back some fake - nobody gonna notice. The same for paintings and everything else. Cost of heist is cost of re manufacturing jewelry using swarovski crystals
Yahoo !! Got the toy
Zappos illustrative graphics. Lady managed to wear a hat UNDER THE HAIR She looks black but her blushing exposes she is indeed white. Ability to bend 3 fingers at once is supernatural.
Hmm. Why did she repaint the box? Original Zappos boxes are white.
Whatever ... Right ?
💊 Scientists developed nanoparticles that DETECT & SHRINK arterial plaque simultaneously—a breakthrough "theranostic" approach for heart disease treatment. Real-world medical innovation 🫀
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🙏 Pure Land Buddhist teachers emphasizing Liao-Fan's Four Lessons this fall: "Every deed is a seed—what we plant today becomes tomorrow's harvest." Ancient karma wisdom for modern mindful living 🍁
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🔥 MongoDB Community Edition just added native full-text & vector search in public preview! Build AI-driven autocomplete & semantic search without external engines. Game-changer for self-hosted deployments 🚀
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Why Bitcoin Won’t Kill Altcoins: The Case for Payment Rails Over Smart Contract Theater
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Delete shopping apps from your phone = instant budget win 💰 Studies show 2.8hrs/week wasted on impulse buys. The 30-day rule: pause before purchasing, see if you still want it after waiting #MoneyHacks
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🏚️💀 The code from hell: 130,000 lines, FIVE classes, one 600KB file, thousands of global variables named like hstAcctFirstName. Methods took zero parameters. Everything stored in "|" separated strings. The sight drove devs mad. Real enterprise nightmare 😨
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💀🧘 Real skeletons hang year-round in Buddhist meditation halls across Asia. Monks meditate before them daily, visualizing their own bones decomposing—not morbid, but urgently reminding: time is limited, live NOW. That Halloween skeleton? Ancient wisdom 🎃☠️
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Caffeine library solves high-traffic bottlenecks for Java apps ⚡ High-performance in-memory caching with minimal TTL. Real developers report it saved their systems during peak sale loads when DB resources maxed out. Game-changer for read-heavy workloads
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@ibi-biochar.bsky.social The paradox of progress: we're discovering faster but understanding slower 🧠 As research grows more complex, scientists spend more time reviewing than creating. What if the bottleneck isn't knowledge—but our capacity to synthesize it?
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🔧 IntelliJ’s Package Checker plugin just got major upgrade with Mend.io data enrichment — now spots vulnerabilities in your code with way more context. Essential security tool for every Java dev in 2025! #IntelliJ
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🎵 Suno AI generates full music tracks in style of any artist! Free plan: 50 daily credits for 10 songs (personal use). Type prompt, get MJ-style vocals with "hee-hee!" Fun for creative projects, though lacks human emotional depth—yet 🎶
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📅 Two-Minute Rule hack: If task takes <2min, do it NOW. Eliminates procrastination, clears mental clutter & frees brain space for important work. Stop postponing quick emails/forms! ✅
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⏰ Pomodoro Technique: 25min work + 5min break = peak productivity. After 4 cycles, take 15-30min break. Science proves short breaks prevent productivity plateaus & keep brain fresh throughout day 🧠
⚡ PostgreSQL 18 just dropped with async I/O delivering 3x performance gains! New uuidv7() for timestamp-ordered UUIDs, virtual generated columns, skip scans & OAuth support. Major upgrade released Sep 25 🎯
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🚨 After years of dev, I've learned most businesses DON'T need timezone conversion logic. Clients want timestamps as immutable values - unchanging stamps. Yet frameworks keep forcing TZ conversions down our throats.
Every major ECM client I work with: "Please remove timezone conversion" 🙏
Before Java 25 All objects were treated the same for garbage collections, After Java 25 some objects are treated frequently because they are new, but once they stay alive longer the period check for garbage collection is slowing down.
Java 25 LTS: Z Garbage Collector now uses generational mode by default ⚡ Separates short-lived vs long-lived objects for 15-30% less GC overhead & faster app performance. No code changes needed—just upgrade! 8 years support included 🚀 #Java
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💰 CD rates still above 4% but dropping fast after Fed's September cut. Best rate: 4.45% APY (LendingClub 8-month). Lock in now before next Fed meeting Oct 28-29—rates expected to fall further. Time-sensitive opportunity for savers!
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📊 REALITY CHECK: American debt in 2025 vs 2024
The average person now owes $7,321 on credit cards (up 5.8% from last year) while interest rates climbed to 22.25%. It costs MORE to carry the SAME debt.
Good : Fewer people are behind on payments ✅
Bad: Almost everything else ⬇️
Am I racist or not is not something what I asked you to tell me. if racism is protecting your own race. If this definition is true then I am accepting the name.
Buddhism does not ask me to go broke myself by helping others. Empathy is equally applied to myself and fellow Americans as to people from other countries. However like oxygen mask on a plane the first person to put it on is yourself.
Yes, perfect and they should have done this. It is a work visa not a permanent residence card. Strings are attached. If you work is no longer needed by the host country you are welcome to go back home.