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ALTINA’s Top & Predictions & Questions for 2025
@alt1na1
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it's really tragic to see babies fed with formulaView quoted post on X
you notice them immediately. void stare, dumb face, already obese
i don't even need to read the ingredients to know that garbage is poison
Status symbols today:View quoted post on X
- Taking private lessons in chess, jazz piano, or French in your late 30s
- Knowing your VO2 max, DEXA stats, and ApoB
- Having zero clue what the internet is mad about today
- Wired Apple earbuds on video calls
- More than 2 kids
- 100% natural fiber clothing (linen, merino, cashmere, zero polyester)
- Empty calendars
- Caring about microplastics
- No TV in the main living room
- Having lots of followers or being off social completely
- Being sober
- Eating "clean"
- Type of water you drink
- Private school for kids
- Traveling to Japan
- Premium skincare
- 2nd house
- Backyard pizza oven
- 2+ fridges
- Ordering off menu because you've gone to the same spot since 2014
- Charcuterie boards
- Single estate olive oil and tinned fish
- Hosting Sunday dinners where phones go in a wooden bowl by the front door
- Private chef
- 2000s manual Porsche 911 over any brand new supercar
- 90s Toyota Land Cruiser or old Volvo wagon as the daily driver
- Talking about seed oils a lot
- Dyson vacuums
- Limewash walls and unlacquered brass hardware that patinas over time
- $95 heavyweight blank white tees (Lady White Co., Merz b. Schwanen, Buck Mason etc)
- Beautiful workstation
- Raw A2 milk from a local farm drop
- Le Labo products
- Talking about cold plunges
- Custom cedar sauna + outdoor shower in the backyard
- Secondhand goods with stories
- Cast iron and stainless steel pans only
- Eating organic
- Buying half a cow from a regenerative ranch (and owning a garage chest freezer just for it)
- Japanese selvedge denim and unbranded cashmere
- Taking afternoon calls on a walk (refusing to turn on Zoom camera)
- Hi-Fi audio
- Framed art from artists you met in person
- Mortgage rate below 3%
- La Marzocco coffee maker
- Owning your last name .com (and it's your email too)
- Charizards
- Wearing a faded crewneck from a tiny bakery in Copenhagen or Kyoto
- Reading books
- Phone permanently on Do Not Disturb
- Work/life balance
- Analog hobbies (Leica film cameras, fountain pens, woodworking)
- Kids with zero iPad time (wooden toys + outdoor school)
- Bone broth
- Digital detoxing
- Taking the entire month of August off like an old-world European
- iPhone Air or iPhone Duo
Okay, I'll stop.
So, what did I miss?
This is gonna sound terrible but what happens if one partner really starts deteriorating and the other is still chock full of life. Like she seems like she's ready for the retirement home. Its sad but I can't judge someone who is in the final decade (s?) of life and making rash decisions.View quoted post on X
Last night I was reading a scientific paper detailing the surgical correction of a 34yo womans various jaw abnormalities (because you know Im interested in craniofacial anatomy), & the end result was a woman so attractive that I was just staring at these photos in disbeliefView quoted post on X