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River retweeted
There was a day your mother picked you up for the last time.
Neither of you knew it.
When you were small, she carried you thousands of times. Then it was hundreds, then a handful, and then one ordinary afternoon she set you down and never picked you up again.
It happened to both of you, and neither of you can remember the day.
If she had known, she would have held on a little longer.
Every ordinary thing you share with someone you love has a final count. It is true of the phone calls, the Sunday dinners, and the hugs at the front door.
The number is already set, and nobody ever gets to see it.
A last time feels exactly like every other time. Nothing about the moment changes. Everything after it does.
So right now, you are living through moments whose meaning has not been decided yet.
Your phone holds years of photos. The cloud keeps every message you have ever sent, and the machines being built now are learning to recall every conversation you have had.
They are getting better at predicting what you will buy, what you will watch, and what you will say next. They still cannot show you the count.
A machine can already learn someone’s voice and have it say things they never said. It still cannot give you back the last thing they actually said to you.
A machine can store a moment, but only you can be there for it.
Somewhere ahead of you is the last time your dad calls just to talk, the last time your kid asks you to stay until they fall asleep, and the last time everyone you love fits in one room.
You are on someone else’s count too. There will be a last time your kid runs to meet you when you get home, and neither of you will know it.
Something ordinary in your life is happening for the last time right now, and it looks like nothing.
Grief always arrives late. It waits until something is gone before it lets you feel what it was worth.
Paying attention is the only way to feel it on time.
River retweeted
Dans 120 ans, ta maison appartiendra à un inconnu. Quelqu’un qui ne connaîtra pas ton nom dormira là où tu as rêvé et vivra entre les murs que tu crois être les tiens.
Tes arrière-petits-enfants sauront à peine qui tu étais. Qui se souvient de ce qui faisait rire le père de son grand-père ?
Les stoïciens le savaient : rien de ce qui est extérieur à nous ne nous appartient vraiment. Tout nous est simplement prêté pour un temps.
C’est peut-être pour cela que la vie se trouve dans cette promenade que tu n’as pas faite, dans cette étreinte que tu as retenue, dans ce « Je t’aime » que tu n’as pas osé prononcer par pudeur.
Au bout du compte, ce n’est pas l’héritage que tu laisses qui compte le plus, mais ce que tu t’es permis de ressentir pendant que tu étais encore là.
Memento mori : souviens-toi que tu vas mourir, afin de ne pas oublier de vivre.
River retweeted
I like quiet people. Smart as fuck. Zero show-off. No performance. No drama. Just a calm vibe. Who aren't loud just to be noticed. Who read deep books. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche. Who can sit through a 2-hour documentary about bees and aliens and octopuses and genuinely enjoy it. They find beauty in the ordinary things. Think deeply. Talk less, understand more. The ones who stay low-key and private in a world obsessed with being "seen". These are my people.
River retweeted
The year is 2035. AI has taken over the internet. Nothing online is real anymore. Every video, every influencer, every girlfriend, every news story is fake. So everyone logged off.
Digital work was obliterated and automated. The most valualbe skills are now cooking, fixing a truck, farming and fixing things with your hands.
You moved to the land with your wife and 5 close couples.
Farmers and mechanics are the new millionaires. Dinner parties are the new social media. People write letters again. Your kids grow up barefoot, climbing trees and eating steak and eggs instead of scrolling.
News? the only news is your 6th kid on the way.
Turns out AI didn’t destroy humanity. It just made the internet so fake that we finally went back outside.
River retweeted
Cowards who choose to leave this country during its time of greatest crisis should have their citizenships revoked.
The Philippines is our home. Our only home. If you're satisfied with being a filthy alien in some foreign land, then go and never claim this is home for you again.
River retweeted
One of the ugliest truths about life is, every choice we make kills another version of ourselves. Get married, and you'll eventually miss the freedom you had alone. Stay single, and there will be nights when you wonder what it would've been like to build a life with someone. Have children, and you'll miss parts of the life you never had before them. Don't have children, and you may spend years wondering about the family you never created.
There is no perfect path and there is no decision that leaves you with everything.
The life you didn't choose will always look better from a distance because you never had to pay its price.
Stop searching for a choice you won't regret, it doesn't exist. choose your life, accept what it costs, and live with the consequences.
River retweeted
People who are highly aware become unsociable. Crowds drain them. Noise overwhelms them. Small talk feels like work. They chill different. A cozy room. Two people they trust. Good food. Music. Conversations that actually mean something. That’s where they feel alive. Depth over noise. Because for them... peace feels like home.
River retweeted
イーロン・マスク「人類全員がベーシックインカム＆最高の医療を手に入れるユートピアな世界になる。ロボットと超知能AIが、俺以上の最高医療と莫大な富を地球上の全員に配る」
「ギリギリ生きられるお小遣い（ベーシックインカム）」じゃなくて「全員が大金持ち（ハイ・インカム）」になる。
マスクがぶち上げた、ロボットとAIが人類を全員セレブにする未来をわかりやすく↓
・「最低限の生活費」じゃなく「全員セレブ待遇」へ
国から生きるためだけのハシタ金を貰うのではなく、AIとロボットが無制限にモノやサービスをタダ同然で生み出すため、全員が最初から「超高収入」をもらっているのと同じ豊かな暮らしになる。
・世界一の大富豪（マスク本人）より良い医療を全員が受けられる
人間の医者より何億倍も頭のいいAIと精密なロボットが治療にあたるため、今の大富豪が何千万円も払って受ける医療よりも、はるかにハイレベルな治療を地球上の誰もが受けられるようになる。
・「仕事を奪われる」のではなく「役割が変わるだけ」
昔、馬車から自動車に変わったときに御者が別の仕事に移ったのと同じ。人間が生きるためにイヤイヤ汗を流す必要がなくなり、もっと別の「やりたい役割」へシフトしていくだけ。
「怖がる必要ゼロ。誰もが望むべき最高の世界が来る」
「AIに支配される」「ロボットに仕事を奪われる」とビビる人が多いが、圧倒的に人類にとって最高の結果になる確率のほうが高い。「みんなが本当に生きたいと願う未来だ」とマスクは断言。
ひとことで言うと：
「AIとロボットを馬車馬のように働かせて、人間は世界一の大富豪以上の医療を受けながら、全員セレブとして優雅に暮らせばいい」という、マスク流の究極のユートピア宣言です。
River retweeted
I'm convinced all these recent shootings are a coordinated false flag operation by intel agencies from the USA and the Philippines.
2+ decades of my life and I have never heard of students shooting up a school 'til now when there's discontent around the presidency.
River retweeted
Women will never understand the simple joy men get from just existing.
A man can arrive in a new city, walk around for hours, explore random streets, observe people, and be completely fucking content.
Then a woman joins.
Now there needs to be an agenda.
Cafe. Restaurant. Shopping. Tourist spot. Photos.
Next location.
Something always has to be happening.
Meanwhile, a man can grab a good drink, sit in the town square for three hours, watch the world move around him, and think:
"Yeah. This is f*cking nice."
No itinerary. No entertainment. No destination.
Just existing without needing existence to entertain you.
Being a man is peaceful.
River retweeted
Diesel shortages lead to famine. Famine leads to food riots. Food riots lead to martial law. Martial law leads to capital controls. Capital controls lead to bank runs. Bank runs lead to bail-ins. Bail-ins lead to currency collapse. Currency collapse leads to sovereign default. Sovereign default leads to a global margin call. And a global margin call leads to the end of everything you thought was "money."
It all starts with one empty fuel tank.
River retweeted
朋友跟我说，人的一生一定要生个孩子
我问为什么？
他说，人这一辈子，能体验到的快乐是极其有限的。
5岁，你玩的是游戏机，画面糙得没法看，但你抱着它能玩一整个暑假。
10岁，你泡街机厅，一个币盯一下午，老板赶都赶不走。
15岁，你钻进网吧通宵，第二天顶着黑眼圈上学，心里美得很。
18岁，你去滑冰场，摔得屁股生疼，就为了拉旁边那个人的手。
22岁，你拿到第一份工作，工资不多，但你觉得这个世界开始为你发门票了。
28岁，你买了房，贷款买的。签字那天手是抖的，晚上站在毛坯房里，觉得天下都是你的。
从那一年起，日子一年比一年难。三十多岁，责任一年比一年重。收入越来越多，但快乐越来越少。
你买了当年梦寐以求的最顶配的电脑，把以前喜欢玩的游戏全玩了一遍。
却体会不到曾经的乐趣。
你换了曾经想买的车
却开心不到三天。
你有了很多曾经梦寐以求的东西，却再也感受不到曾经的快乐。
直到你有了一个孩子。
你不用做什么，只是看着他的成长。
他快乐，你会感同身受，
你儿时的那些快乐跟着他全部都回来了，
孩子会带着你重新的活一次
这份快乐，远远超过你自己余下人生快乐的总和。
我不知道他说的对不对，陷入了沉思。