Jack Ma says:
"If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, the monkeys will choose bananas because they don't know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer people a job and a business opportunity, they will choose the job because most people don't know that a business can generate more money than a salary.

One reason the poor remain poor is that they are not trained to recognize opportunities. They spend a lot of time in school, and what they learn there is to work for a salary rather than to work for themselves.

Profits are better than salaries because salaries allow you to make a living, but profits can create wealth for you."

Damn, I missed his birthday

John Moses Browning, the world's most successful gun designer, born 23rd of January 1855.

Typical of John Boses Browning's mature designs

Bottom ejection, no openings for gas from a leaky cartridge to reach the fire's face.

Not visible but equally important are multiple levels of redundancy in mechanical safeties.

Bottom ejection, easy take down, and it's the size of a child's toy

Browning Brothers, Ogden, Utah.

📽 WATCHING TONIGHT:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
American psychological horror thriller film

"Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. "

You can watch it with me here

📝 this is one of the thousand random movie titles I pull out of my #moviesbucket@snekpit23

he he he 🥰

Magical work involves change and creation. And the subject of the magician’s work is the self. The magician is the focus of his or her own alchemical processes. By adapting one’s personal vision to reflect the macrocosm, we can change ourselves to better reflect those divine ideas. We may alter our body, appearance, the chemical composition of our blood, and the configuration of our nervous system. We may tame the feral beasts that dwell within our organic structure. By changing ourselves to resonate with the divine, we may transmute every portion of ourselves and become as purified vessels for the eternal spirit.

Israel Regardie, The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic

Discovered by chance in 1835, the subterranean Shell Grotto’s curving chalk walls are studded with 4.6 million shells. They create a magical mosaic of strange patterns and symbols.