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Forward from: Pavel Durov
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There are people with tremendous intelligence but limited knowledge. Not because they lack the ability to learn, but because life gave them different circumstances.

Imagine someone born in a small village. They work in the fields, never attended a university, never had access to specialized courses, mentors, or a strong professional environment. Yet that doesn't mean their intellectual potential is any lower than that of a professor, engineer, or entrepreneur. Perhaps, had they been born elsewhere or under different circumstances, they would have created technologies used by millions.

For a long time, the place where you were born largely determined the ceiling of your opportunities. Today, that is changing. A smartphone and an internet connection can provide access to knowledge that was once available only to a privileged few. Anyone can study programming, mathematics, economics, build products, and launch businesses from almost anywhere in the world.

One person with a computer can create an application used by thousands. But true growth requires more than intelligence alone. It also requires organizational skills, the ability to build a team, work with partners, attract investors, and turn ideas into real projects.

Many people dream of winning the lottery. But the most reliable way to win the lottery is to organize it yourself. To create something valuable that attracts people, resources, and capital.

In today's world, social mobility increasingly depends not on diplomas or family background, but on a combination of intelligence, persistence, organizational ability, and the skill of building relationships with people who are willing to support promising ideas.


Here's how many stars need to be spent to advance the level.

1 – 1 (0,015$)
2 – 5 000 (75$)
3 – 12 000 (180$)
4 – 19 000 (285$)
5 – 27 000 (405$)
6 – 36 000 (540$)
7 – 46 000 (690$)
8 – 57 000 (855$)
9 – 68 000 (1 020$)
10 – 81 000 (1 215$)
11 – 94 000 (1 410$)
12 – 107 000 (1 605$)
13 – 120 000 (1 800$)
14 – 133 000 (1 995$)
15 – 146 000 (2 190$)
16 – 160 000 (2 400$)
17 – 173 000 (2 595$)
18 – 186 000 (2 790$)
19 – 199 000 (2 985$)
20 – 212 000 (3 180$)
21 – 225 000 (3 375$)
25 – 278 000 (4 170$)
30 – 343 000 (5 145$)
40 – 475 000 (7 125$)
50 – 606 000 (9 090$)
60 – 737 000 (11 055$)
70 – 868 000 (13 020$)
80 – 1 000 000 (15 000$)
90 – 28 930 000 (433 950$)
100 – 836 885 652 (12 553 284,78$)


Note that the rating is counted after 21 days only for the following actions:
— gifting presents (without exchanging them afterwards)
— purchasing rare gifts at the moment they are released
— upgrading gifts
— 15% of the amount spent on stars when sending messages.
In other words, these are the real funds that actually go to Telegram in the form of spent stars.


In October 2024, Pavel Durov published a long post about how he built VKontakte (the largest Russian social network at the time, often called "Russian Facebook") and later transitioned to developing Telegram. In that post, he came to an important realization: there are no complex tasks, any big, overwhelming goal is simply a collection of many small tasks that need to be properly broken down and arranged in the right order.

Later, in July 2025, Pavel posted on 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) about mathematics, once again emphasizing this skill — the ability to break complex problems into small steps and solve them in the correct sequence. Elon Musk even replied to that post.

Here’s what I realized:
Elon Musk owns multiple companies operating in completely different fields:Tesla — electric vehicles, energy, autonomous driving, Optimus (humanoid robots)
SpaceX — rockets, space exploration, Starship
Starlink (a SpaceX division) — satellite internet
𝕏 (formerly Twitter) — social media platform
Neuralink — brain-computer interfaces (neural implants)
The Boring Company — tunnel construction and underground transportation systems
xAI (now part of SpaceX) — artificial intelligence (Grok)

Even though these companies are involved in vastly different industries, they are all ultimately working toward Elon Musk’s main long-term goal — to colonize Mars and make humanity a multi-planetary species.

Each company solves a critical piece of the puzzle: transportation, energy, communication, radiation protection, AI, and human health. That’s why Musk isn’t just building separate businesses — he’s creating an entire interconnected technological ecosystem.


Someday washing machines will stop collecting their tax in the form of socks.


Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.


What country or region do you live in?
Poll
  •   USA and Canada
  •   Europe and UK
  •   Latin and South America
  •   Asian countries, Turkey, Israel
  •   Russia and the countries of the former USSR
  •   African countries
  •   Australia, New Zealand
3 votes


On the night of April 29, a new Banksy statue appeared in London.
A man in a suit strides confidently forward, one foot already stepping off the edge of the pedestal into the void. His face is completely covered by a waving British flag.

Banksy has made a statue that feels almost too on-the-nose. A man, caught in a surge of patriotism and blinded by political slogans, flags, and grand rhetoric, walks straight into the abyss — without even realizing it.

Banksy isn’t saying “all patriots are idiots.” He is highlighting the danger of blind patriotism — when emotion and identity completely replace critical thinking. When “for our side” becomes more important than “what happens tomorrow.”

• In 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq under the banner of “fighting terrorism” and “spreading democracy.” Millions of people in the US and Britain sincerely believed it was a noble mission. The result: hundreds of thousands dead, a region plunged into chaos, ISIS as a direct consequence, trillions of dollars spent, and a deeply damaged trust in the West. Many later admitted — we marched with a flag covering our eyes.

• Or: the events surrounding Russia and Ukraine. On both sides, the rhetoric of “holy war,” “protecting our own,” and “historical justice” works exactly like that flag. People stop seeing the real price — destroyed cities, lost lives, a shattered future for an entire generation — because the flag matters more. Patriotism turns into armor through which facts cannot pass.


I spent a long time trying to find the right words to express my opinion about this movie, but the subject is so complex—one could talk about it endlessly—that I could have written a huge post, but I don’t think that’s necessary.
The movie is definitely worth watching.


Btw, new useless bears have been released.


I finally found the time to watch this movie.


Sometimes I honestly don’t understand why so many Telegram channels are so actively begging for boosts — running giveaways, constantly reminding people in their posts. The channels are full of these requests, yet it’s often unclear what’s actually so important about it.

To be frank, this whole boost story feels a bit overrated. Sure, they give you additional features and some improvements, but in reality, most of them aren’t truly necessary. They’re more like pleasant bonuses than essential tools.

At the moment, my channel is at level 8, and it’s more than enough for me. I have everything I need for comfortable channel management: custom reactions, auto-translation, and the basic features. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything critical beyond this level.
Sure, level 10 unlocks better customization, but even that doesn’t seem essential or must-have.

And every time I stumble upon yet another post asking for boosts, I involuntarily ask myself: why? Is it really that important, or have people just gotten caught up in the hype?

Am I missing something here?

🙂Now that I’ve brought up the boost, I’ll take this opportunity to ask for your help in reaching level 10 — https://t.me/boost/rustmann


Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”— Mussolini
These words encapsulate one of the most seductive and dangerous ideas of the 20th century: the idea of a totalitarian state that does not merely govern people, but becomes their destiny, their conscience, their very air and horizon.

Imagine a world in which the state ceases to be an instrument. It is no longer a “night watchman” guarding borders and order while citizens live their private lives. No. It transforms into a living, all-encompassing entity—an organism within which alone a human being can exist. Everything that has meaning, value, and a right to exist is born within it. Everything that tries to remain outside is declared empty, barren, hostile.

The individual? It gains dignity only when it dissolves into the greater whole. Its freedom is not freedom from the state, but freedom within it. Its happiness is service. Its creativity is only that part which contributes to the common symphony. Private life, love, doubt, the search for truth—all of this ceases to be the sacred space of the individual. It becomes accountable to the higher whole.


The space for dissent is gradually disappearing. What was considered a normal diversity of opinions yesterday may already be labeled “opposition” today. What was a private matter yesterday becomes a matter of national importance tomorrow. The boundaries between the public and the private are blurring. A thought that does not serve a purpose begins to be perceived as a disease. A feeling that does not fit into the general mood is seen as betrayal.


In the midst of the Cold War, in 1960, the CIA decided to put one of the strangest ideas in the history of intelligence into action.
🥸The idea was simple—and at the same time insane: to turn an ordinary cat into a device for eavesdropping on Soviet diplomats.
The project was named “Acoustic Kitty.”
🎤The cat was implanted with a listening device and then trained by the best trainers.
💸The entire training process took several years and cost $10 million—which is roughly $95 million today.
☠️The result: during its very first mission, the cat was hit by a taxi.


Inexpensive gifts are becoming more and more expensive.


HULK BREAKS RECORDS.

📍April 2026. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Complexo da Maré favela.
🚓Police officers were conducting a routine operation against local criminal gangs.
🐕‍🦺They were accompanied by a police dog named Hulk from the Military Police K-9 Unit.

👮‍♂️While searching the area, Hulk suddenly began acting strangely near an old water tank on the roof of an abandoned factory. He barked insistently and pointed at it.
🔍The police decided to investigate. It turned out that beneath the seemingly ordinary tank was a bricked-up entrance to a secret bunker.
When they broke it open, they discovered:

•🥬48 tons of marijuana (the largest amount of drugs seized in Brazilian history)
•🔫5 rifles and 4 handguns
•🚗26 stolen cars

The loss to the drug traffickers amounted to nearly $10 million, and it took 4 trucks to transport the marijuana




Let's see how this turns out👀
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🧠Once you find a place where life is truly good—you never want to go back.✨

⚖️Not because you’ve become spoiled, but because now you know the difference.

Before, a lot of things passed for “normal.” Now, that’s just a watered-down version of life.📉

The problem isn’t that the good stuff spoils you. The problem is that the bad stuff becomes unbearable. And suddenly you find the strength not to put up with it, but to change it. To defend your new standard. To invest in it—with time, money, and attention.💸

⚠️But there’s a downside:
The good quickly becomes routine. Then it seems like it’s not the same anymore. It’s a trap—endlessly chasing something even better, having forgotten how to be grateful for what you already have.


How much can @d_u_b_a_l be sold for?

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