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Question: To those that had/have cancer, what were the signs that made you think “something is not right here” to make you go see a doctor? Answer: So, 5/25/2018, I woke up, got ready for work, and as I walked to my car, I started gagging. Like something was stuck in my throat and I needed to clear it. And then it went away. But 10 minutes after that, I was T-boned at 40mph on the driver side door. But what made me see a doctor was while my muscles felt better and bruises were going away, the gagging still continued, I started having fevers, my neck felt swollen, I was having such a hard time breathing, and I'd have random sharp pains in my chest, but not from where the seat belt saved me. 2 weeks after the accident, I finally see an urgent care doctor, who looks me over, tells me I'm fine, but luckily requests a neck X-ray. And I ask for a chest X-ray, which he rolls his eyes but let me have (most of my pain was in the neck, so I understand). The very next day, he calls and says “So, that chest X-ray shows there's a 4 inch mass on your heart and lungs, and your lungs have been filling up with fluid, as well as in your pericardial (heart) wall. We need you to come in tomorrow.” Turns out the big mass, due to the accident, caused my heart and lungs to tear and fill with fluid, the swollen neck and gagging was caused by 2 metastasized tumors, and the fevers and weight loss were symptoms. Stage 4b Hodgkin's Lymphoma. But thankfully, we went very aggressive with chemo (and had a lot of bad side effects that don't normally happen to patients), and now I'm about 16 months cancer-free. Yay lucky X-rays! Rachel Jurina, Quora Source: https://www.quora.com/To-those-that-had-have-cancer-what-were-the-signs-that-made-you-think-something-is-not-right-here-to-make-you-go-see-a-doctor Profits from free accurate cryptos signals: https://www.predictmag.com/
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As a man, the reality of life is the harshest part. I don’t mind looking older or becoming weaker over time; it’s nature. Have you ever heard that the only people who will be loved unconditionally are women and children? Men will only be loved as long as they can provide until they are no longer needed. It doesn’t matter if you already did your best to get your kids to the best school or get the best things for them, if you stop before they’re done with it, there will be no thank you. The only thing they will remember is that they have to quit school at 15, ignoring all the previous 15 years of life you provided for them. The only people who will accept you, no matter what, are your parents. But in this situation, you might be that ungrateful child. EDIT: Wow, I didn’t think this would get so much attention. For those who disagree, I can only say that everyone has their problem. If you don’t get the chance to face such a thing, be grateful. Remember, sometimes what you throw in the garbage is something that someone wishes ever to have.” – ElZee, Quora Profits from free accurate cryptos signals: https://www.predictmag.com/
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USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development) doles out billions in foreign aid every year. On the surface, this sounds noble—"spreading democracy," "fighting poverty," etc. But zoom in and you’ll find something weird: why is Land O’Lakes, a butter company, getting $100 million in foreign aid? It gets weirder. Yale got money to set up police departments in Mexico. Disney was paid to distribute films to the military. Walmart received foreign aid dollars. And nobody really knows why. This isn’t an accident. It’s architecture. At the center of it all is a group I’d never heard of before this podcast: USGLC, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. Sounds boring. Bureaucratic. But USGLC is a private lobbying group loaded with ex-congresspeople, executives from companies like Pepsi, Walmart, and Pfizer. Here's the magic trick: They lobby Congress for more foreign aid. Their members sit on the advisory boards of USAID. Then, they “advise” where the money goes. The money ends up going… back to them. They write the laws, steer the cash, and collect the checks. It's like a Monopoly game where the same five players keep passing Go and collecting $200 while the rest of us are stuck in jail. DR calls it the “infinite money hack.” It’s the reason, she says, Congress refuses to stop any of this spending. But here’s maybe the scariest part: This isn’t corruption in the Hollywood sense. There’s no smoking gun or sinister villain stroking a cat. It’s not Lex Luthor. It’s worse. It’s normal. The people involved? They generally don’t think they’re doing anything wrong. They believe they’re saving democracy from collapse. That if we don’t export “influence,” China wins. That butter in Botswana somehow keeps Beijing at bay. But there are no brakes. No accountability. Just mission creep and endless spending in the name of virtue and security. And when you follow the money, it doesn’t lead to starving children being fed. It leads to nonprofits growing rich off government grants, lobbying for more grants, and giving themselves raises. Author: James Altucher (AltucherConfidential) Profits from free accurate cryptos signals: https://www.predictmag.com/
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The part most don’t know: Trump is deadly serious about China and fentanyl. “In Beijing, if you sell fentanyl on the streets, they’ll execute you,” Ross told me. “But they’ve been subsidizing exports of the stuff that’s killing Americans.” China executes domestic dealers but allows exports of precursor chemicals to Mexico. Most of it ends up in the US.China knows how dangerous they are but turns a blind eye because it’s not their citizens dying. Ross says this is personal for Trump. He wants it stopped. And he’s tying it into trade negotiations. Not with threats. With leverage. Rare Earths, Pharma, and the Apple Problem Problem is, we’re addicted to Chinese supply chains. iPhones. Generic drugs. Semiconductors. Vitamins. Ross didn’t deny it. But he says reshoring is starting—and Trump’s policies are finally giving it teeth. The rare earth thing? A mess. We have the resources. We just don’t process them because it’s dirty, and nobody wants a refinery in their backyard. So we ship it all to China, let them pollute, and then buy it back. Ross: “It doesn’t make the planet better off to have it processed in China instead of here.” Makes sense. But the EPA probably won’t love that logic. Inflation? Recession? Or... Neither? Do tariffs cause inflation? No. Tariffs did not cause inflation in 2018–2020, despite media panic. Ross argues current inflation claims are more political than economic. I mentioned Powell saying tariffs will spark inflation again. Ross smiled and said: “I think he's hiding behind that as an excuse not to cut rates.” Meanwhile, Trump wants to cut energy costs, healthcare costs, and grow the “External Revenue Service.” The goal? Shift from taxing your income to taxing imports. Ross confirmed a few sleeper details about the tax plan: Makes Trump’s 2017 cuts permanent Tax-free tips and overtime Incentives for manufacturing here Incentives for foreign investment here And yeah—he also said the reason Trump wanted Greenland? Rare earths. The Mind Behind the Moves That was just a small part of our conversation. Whether you love Trump or loathe him, you should understand the game he’s playing. Ross just gave us the playbook. And if even half of what he said is accurate, we’re entering a new kind of economy. One where tariffs are not just a trade tool—but a tax system. A foreign policy lever. A domestic stimulus. A weaponized spreadsheet. You don’t have to agree with it. But you do have to know what’s coming. Author: James Altucher Profits from free accurate cryptos signals: https://www.predictmag.com/
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Question: Hey Joe! Has anyone that you know put together a compendium of what to look for when you first start out trading? Answer: Not that I know of. But consider the following: As a trader you are in a contest. Your strongest opponent has plenty of capital. He follows a program and he does it without emotion. He is totally aware of the fact that no one knows where the next tick will fall. Whereas he usually has good insights regarding the major forces that drive the market, he does not fool himself into thinking he can explain the vagrancies of price movement intraday or even from day to day. He knows that no one truly can. The successful trader has learned his lessons by actually trading. This is a competitive business and very few worthwhile pointer are given out by the industry, your competition, or the myriad of so-called trading gurus who plague the pages of trading magazines and pages of their websites. The most valuable information is closely guarded and not often put in books or on web pages. Learning about trading is a 'forever' experience. As the markets change and as we adjust to them, we learn. The learning is ongoing. It stops only when you no longer trade. During the time we trade we can always improve. From Joe Ross Source: https://tradingeducators.com/blog-page/first-start Profits from free accurate cryptos signals: https://www.predictmag.com/
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I knew of bitcoin back in 2012 i just started trading forex and wonder what it i did not see it as a joke, it was 11-13 usd back then, till now it bugs me and i just smile it off. but what if?
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It depends. If you have lots of money that you can buy a house without a loan and if you don't have any parents to sponsor then it is a good idea. Otherwise it might be a bad idea depending where in Canada you are heading to. I earned a good middle income in my home country and I migrated to Vancouver 5 years ago at the age of 35. I had to start right from the bottom, lowest of the low.. Now i am finally earning a middle income in Canada but I still cannot afford to buy a one bedroom apartment. Having left behind friends, family and home, most of the times I think it is not worth it. In short, do not migrate if you already have a good life in your home country and you are happy. Only migrate to Canada if you really have to leave your home country say there is a war or something really bad. Discrimination still exists here and its really tough for newcomers unless you are super rich. Good luck. David Chong, Quora
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This is bigger than the internet. Bigger than mobile. Bigger than social media. While everyone was distracted by stock market fluctuations and political theater… Most people have NO IDEA what just happened last week with ChatGPT. Their new memory feature allows ChatGPT to remember EVERYTHING about you across all your conversations. Think about that for a minute... While most tech companies have been collecting mere breadcrumbs about you - your likes, your clicks, your browsing history - OpenAI is now collecting the most valuable dataset in human history: your complete psychological profile. This is Zuckerberg x 5,000. The more you use ChatGPT, the more it understands you, becoming a supercharged reflection of yourself that improves at an exponential rate. Are you a regular ChatGPT user? Consider whether it’s time to turn off the “you can train on my information” feature. To prevent your data from being used for training while still using the memory feature: Disable Model Training: Navigate to Settings > Data Controls. Toggle off "Improve the model for everyone". Manage Memory Settings: Go to Settings > Personalization > Memory. Here, you can: Turn off memory entirely. Delete specific memories. Use Temporary Chat for sessions that won't be saved or used for training. Now the investment implications… Why This is Bigger Than You Think Consider this: the relationship between humans and ChatGPT is evolving beyond a mere tool. People are now treating these AI assistants as friends, confidants, and even romantic partners. I'm not making this up - there are already documented cases of people ending real human relationships to pursue “connections” with their AI companions. A viral Instagram meme shows a person going through life with a glowing, featureless humanoid figure - representing ChatGPT - as their companion. The post has over 1.1 million likes and comments like "Bro ChatGPT is like my best friend. Ain't even ashamed to say it" with 25,000 likes. But here's where things get really interesting for investors and entrepreneurs... Three Things to Watch For starters, hardware is the next big thing for the big players. The iPhone form factor is dead. It hasn't meaningfully changed in nearly a decade. The next evolution in hardware will be designed specifically to interface with these AI companions. OpenAI is already working on hardware with Johnny Ive, the legendary designer behind the iPhone and iPod. But you can’t ignore Elon Musk’s edge here. So what does all of this mean for you? The companies that control the personal AI relationships will be worth trillions. OpenAI and Elon Musk will have the coziest moats. We're witnessing the birth of a new internet - one built on agents that can communicate with each other across platforms. Google's new agent-to-agent protocol allows AI agents to work together without sharing internal memories or tools. The hardware companies that create the perfect interface for these AI companions will dominate the next decade of technology. And almost nobody is talking about what this means. My prediction? Within five years, most people will have a personal AI that knows them better than anyone else. And they will interact with it in ways that seem foreign today. (And, yes, it will almost certainly have dystopian elements.) In the meantime, the biggest gains won’t come from household names. And, right now, James is seeing a prime opportunity to invest in the most under-the-radar plays in AI… For dirt cheap. By Chris C. Source: https://altucherconfidential.com/posts/use-chatgpt-protect-yourself-now
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My wife Robin just wanted some groceries. Simple enough. She parked the car for fifteen minutes, and returned to find a huge scratch on the side. Someone keyed her car. To be clear, this isn’t just any car. It’s a Cybertruck—Elon Musk's stainless-steel spaceship on wheels. She bought it back in 2021, before Musk became everyone's favorite villain or savior. Someone saw it parked in a grocery lot and felt compelled to carve their hatred directly into the metal. That's what happens when you stand out. Nobody keys a beige minivan. When you're polarizing, you're impossible to ignore. But the irony is: the more attention something has, the harder it is to find the truth about it. What’s Elon Musk really thinking? What are his plans? What will happen with DOGE? Is he deserving of all of this adoration and hate? Hard to say. Ideas work the same way. Take tariffs, for example. Tariffs have become the Cybertrucks of economic policy. People either love them or hate them. Even if they don’t understand what they are and how they work. (Most don’t.) That’s why, in my latest podcast (link below), I wanted to explore the “in-between” truth about tariffs. And like Cybertrucks, I guess my thoughts on tariffs are polarizing. Greg Gutfield mentioned me on Fox News. Harvard professors hate me now. (I wonder if they also key Cybertrucks?) But before I show you what I think about tariffs… I have to mention something. We’re Headed to Austin, Texas This weekend, my team and I are headed to Austin. By now, you should probably know why. Yes, SXSW is happening. But my team and I are doing something I think is even better. We’re putting on a FREE event on “Tech’s Turning Point.” AI, quantum, biotech, crypto, and more—it’s all on the table. Just now, we posted a special webpage with the agenda. Click here to check it out and add it to your calendar. The Truth About Tariffs People love to panic about tariffs causing inflation. They wave around the ghost of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff from the Great Depression like it’s Exhibit A proving tariffs equal economic collapse. But let me pop this myth: Tariffs don’t cause inflation. And no, I'm not crazy (despite what angry professors from Harvard or Stanford might tweet at me). Here's the deal. Inflation isn’t when just a couple of things become pricier. It’s when your entire shopping basket—eggs, shirts, Netflix subscriptions, bananas, everything—starts costing more because your money’s worth less. Inflation means your dollars aren’t stretching as far as they used to. Take the 1800s. For nearly a century, 97% of America’s revenue came from tariffs. Income tax? Didn’t exist. And guess what inflation was? Basically zero. Maybe 1% a year. The economy was booming, and tariffs funded nearly everything. So, why do people suddenly think tariffs cause inflation today? Tariffs are taxes on imports, yes, but prices are set by supply and demand—not tariffs. Let me give you a simple example. Imagine fancy potato chips from Canada cost $10, and a 20% tariff pushes that to $12. Everyone panics—prices rose! Inflation! Nope. If I only have $100 to spend and the price of my favorite chips goes up, I either stop buying chips or I buy, say, fewer newspapers. If everyone stops buying newspapers because they’re overspending on chips, newspapers lower their prices or go out of business. Overall spending stays the same, and inflation doesn’t budge. Three quick scenarios: We buy pricier chips, but fewer other things: Inflation unchanged. Manufacturers shift to the U.S. to avoid tariffs: Inflation unchanged (and more jobs here). We stop buying fancy chips: Prices drop again. Inflation? Still unchanged. The only thing that actually causes inflation is printing money. Between 2020 and 2022 alone, 40% of all money ever created in history appeared overnight. That’s why inflation shot up afterward—not because of tariffs. Back to tariffs today. Still No Inflation Unlike the infamous Smoot-Hawley blanket tariff (imagine Oprah handing out tariffs: "You get a tariff, and you get a tariff!"), today's tariffs are strategic. Trump slapped tariffs on chips from Taiwan because we shouldn’t rely on a single foreign supplier for vital tech components—especially if that supplier might get invaded. Now Taiwan Semiconductor is investing $100 billion in American manufacturing. Strategic win, no inflation. Then there’s Canada and Mexico—our friendly neighbors with weirdly huge tariffs on things like milk and butter (299% tariff on butter—really, Canada?). Trump’s not blanketing everything with tariffs; he’s pressuring trade partners to lower theirs. If they do, everybody wins. If they don’t, well, then we have a strategic trade chess game—but still no inflation. In short, tariffs are about strategy, security, and fairness—not inflation. Yes, blanket tariffs from the Great Depression era were dumb. Obviously. Today's targeted tariffs? Smart. Listen to the whole podcast to hear why I think this. And by the way, if you see a Cybertruck, don’t key it. Robin doesn’t care about your politics; she just likes her weird truck. Maybe read a good book, relax, and leave cars alone. (And yes, nobody keys Volkswagens, even though they were basically created by Hitler. Strange world we live in.) Source: https://altucherconfidential.com/posts/the-truth-about-tariffs-busting-the-inflation-myth Profits from free accurate cryptos signals: https://www.predictmag.com/
