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• Linen blazer → smart, dinners, weddings, office, “I’m serious (but it’s 90°F)” • Linen chore jacket → casual, travel, street, camera-day uniform • Linen blend → fewer wrinkles, more structure (great if you hate crumple-core) Quick picks (so you don’t overthink it) If you want one jacket that does everything • Quince Men’s European […]

In TRON (1982), yes—Yori (Cindy Morgan) kisses both Kevin Flynn and Tron, and it’s not some random continuity accident. It’s a mechanism—a little emotional “data packet” that gets copied across the Grid. First: the film treats the kiss like an imported human ritual. In the screenplay, Yori kisses Tron and immediately explains it as a […]

Weather Sports Fashion Politics Sources: Reputable climate and sports research and media sources are cited above , documenting these “beyond extreme” cases. Each example comes from historical records or recent studies as indicated.

honestly in today’s lame meek and boring world, I think life is all about audacity. The audacity to attempt certain things, the more ran your ambition, the more admirable. you only got one life to live… Should be told there doesn’t seem to be a huge downside to attempting or doing what other people consider […]

1. Environmental Impact Life-cycle emissions: Bicycles (especially traditional pedal bikes) have negligible tailpipe emissions and extremely low life-cycle CO₂.  One analysis estimates the full manufacturing+use footprint of a conventional bicycle at only 5–21 g CO₂/km, whereas a typical gasoline car emits on the order of 200–350 g/km .  E-bikes likewise have very low footprints (≈15 g/km ), which […]

Bitcoin is often described as “digital land” because its scarce, immovable, exclusive nature resembles owning a plot of real estate in cyberspace.  For example, Bitcoin’s supply is strictly capped at 21 million, giving it a finite, land-like scarcity.  As one analyst notes, “each [bitcoin] is like a plot of digital land: no more can be made, […]

The North Star Money should work like the internet: Bitcoin is the hard, neutral base layer. Crypto rails are the high-speed layers on top. The 22nd-Century Financial Stack (Layered Like the Internet) Layer 1: The Immutable Base Settlement Layer = Bitcoin Bitcoin becomes the global settlement asset: the thing you use to close the books. […]

Fans of Netflix’s Physical:100 noted that many contestants have exceptionally muscular physiques.  Soon after Season 1 premiered, social media lit up with speculation that participants were using performance-enhancing drugs.  For example, a Twitter user dubbed the show “Roids:100,” commenting that “if the show’s producers had actually done a proper steroid test…they could have sorted out most […]

Bold vision to re-make it into Bitcoin, crypto rails  … Traditional payment “rails” include interbank networks and central-bank systems (e.g. SWIFT, ACH, Fedwire, TARGET2, CHIPS) as well as card networks (Visa, Mastercard). For example, SWIFT is a global messaging network connecting 11,000+ banks in over 200 countries .  It securely carries payment instructions but does […]

a man *MUST* have land

I Have 110 Bitcoins I have 110 bitcoins. Let me say it again slowly, not to flex, not to brag, but to feel the weight of it in my bones: I have 110 bitcoins. This is not about money. This is about gravity. Bitcoin is not cash. Bitcoin is not “crypto.” Bitcoin is not a […]