LordFall

Really good to hear.

Iran has 100x more tunnels than Gaza due to a big chunk of their country especially near the coastline near the strait of hormuz. Even if you launched 100 nuclear warheads the next week still some dudes that could pop out and drone your oil tankers. My best guess is they just completely fuck the middle east and kill tens of millions of people in the process, totally plan to put earth in WW3 and hope to create a Pan America oil empire with Canadian, American and venezuelan oil and somehow the Trumps will end up trillionaires from this. But it's confusing to me what Saudi Arabia gets out of this perhaps they overestimated the ability of the US military to neutralize Iran military capabilities but that seems short sighted.

Can you explain how that would help maintain the petrodollar? I don't see it.

Met Mystery in person a couple times. Cool guy, very charming. His methods are outdated though and on his bootcamps he partnered up with other dating coaches to get access to the nightlife in Toronto. You need social circle game to get access to cool parties and tables at clubs.

Don't worry so much about the rules, worry about the implications and the underlying frames. Once you have more social gravity you can break most rules and get away with it. It's all about offering value.

I mean anywhere with high tourist traffic should work. It's only one clever way to monetize and market your craft, I'll be sharing others in the future. I like this one in particular because if you can make it in 2026 being a fucking poet of all things then what are you guys's excuses about? Let's get that bag If you guys would like to follow my own journey to financial independence, I'll be documenting it in the journal section here:

Saw this really cool reel today of this poet charging $55 for custom poems on the NYC sidewalk. It's bittersweet because she ends writing one for a struggling musician but it seems like it gave her hope and inspiration so thought it was worth sharing. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU4o5-9DVJf/ For the right person something like this is a decent business model to start off. If she sells even one every 3 hours you get paid more than minimum wage($55 divided by 3 is $18.30 and minimum wage in NYC is $17/h) and if you get to the point of selling one per hour you sit down 6 hours Saturday/Sunday that's $2,640$ USD a month. Not too bad for a side hustle on top of a job or I mean there would be ways to do it full time if you really wanted to. I was a freelance photographer for a while and thought about doing the same for tourists near the CN tower in Toronto and just having a poster that says $30 for professional pictures type of thing. There are a lot of options to monetize your passions, just gotta throw stuff at the wall until you find a profitable avenue that makes sense for your desired lifestyle.

Some people are thinking it's all a big bluff for market manipulation. I think it's a bit foolish to underestimate the depths of human evil and depravity. Hopefully they're right but probably tomorrow we will be further into WW3 than we were today. Somehow I believe this will lead to human transcendence and world peace but it's gonna be tough bullet to bite until then.

I think it will be used because they are batshit crazy but I don't see a strategic use case for it. Unless the plan is to use nuke for a strategically not key move in Iran -> alienate the EU and most of the world -> leave NATO and ally with Russia and China in a uno reverse card move to become an axis authoritarian block -> crash the global economy -> use AI to dominate the population.

I do worry as well that nuclear weapons will be used soon. They will probably use nuclear warheads as bunker busters first and minimize it then who knows. This timeline is getting crazy. If Taiwan gets invaded, $6 a gallon gas prices will look like a good scenario. Such a stupid religious war, both sides are nuts. Netanyahu seems himself as a messiah and the IRGC as martyrs. Can we just make this reality pleasant to live in or is that too nuts of an idea?

Watch Alex Hormozi videos and buy all 3 of his books. You probably have a problem both with pitching the right offer and also lead acquisition. If you go more in depth about your pricing and costs I can be more specific than this vague advice.

Yeah bro and the war is escalating. Global economy is about to shit the bed soon. Prepare for a $6 dollar per gallon in the states by June 1st

Posted 14 years ago, the foreshadowing is strong with this one.

I found this post to be a great commentary of our civilization. They interviewed a former Taliban Sniper Abdul Nafi and several other former fighters through the Afghanistan Analysts Network and he described being now bored of the 8-4 commute to work life in Kabul now that they actually took over the country. I find it interesting because I think a lot of us can relate to the sentiment although we were not freedom fighters in our teenage years. The good old days this guy yearns for, lack of responsibility, riding his horse with his friends, conquering the enemy, probably being more of a bandit and stealing from people instead of having a job, etc is basically stage red civilization that is a nightmare for everyone not on top. Once that civilization goes towards stage blue and stability, it ruins a lot of the fun for the average man. It's also a commentary on feminism and the patriarchy. We often don't really see it in the west but it is a true way of life for earlier civilization where if you're a strong young man with a good group you're on top of the world and everyone else is a lower class of society. You see it now with the rich elites of the world where equality would bring down their standard of living big time. It's also a commentary on our societies where traffic, paperwork and scrolling twitter is basically the civilization peak we've managed to achieve. We're now pushing the boundaries of that with AI automation which hopefully will lead to a better end state with win-win solutions for all sectors of society. It also shows how evil War really is because it's a zero sum answer to the problem of scarcity. Oh our society is getting bogged down and there is less surplus to go around? Just go invade these people and take their shit and enslave them so our standard of living goes back up. Here is a longer article from the Times covering the phenomenon and a reddit threat discussing it https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1sc5cr0/taliban_fighter_becomes_disillusioned_with_the/

Because it's a priceless testimony of transitioning a society from stage red to stage blue and the difficulty in transitioning civilization up the spiral. Also a good study of incentives and multiperspectivalism i.e. how different sections of society experience change. I mean the war in Afghanistan was a 20 year example of the US trying to ambush them. Study your history or it's bound to repeat itself.

This guy is nuts lol, literally anime villain in real life

Because the middle and lower classes are stuck paying a big proportion of them while a lot of elites have elaborate loopholes to avoid paying anything and are just parasite on the system and keep owning a bigger chunk of the global economy.

Thinking that Trump is stupid is foolish. This is a cabal of highly strategic, motivated and organized people. If you can't understand their extreme objectives, like completely reshaping the world order or even destroying the US dominance for personal gain; doesn't make them less intelligent and organized.

This post is for @Leo Gura and really any other that believe in an AI crash. I will seek to prove that this is basically impossible and AI companies are already in the too big to fail category and ChatGPT moving towards military industrial complex instead of a business to consumer model is a proof of that. The whole reshoring manufacturing of America over the next 10 years is based on their tech supremacy. Remember the whole meme of american workers retuning to work in factories? Obviously that will not happen and the US will aim to be a robotics and automation leader, which it's already well positioned to do. A K shaped crash will absolutely happen and will serve in further squeezing the middle class into nothing as their labor becomes literally obsolete. Leo your idea that AI value is based on AGI is misguided. AI value prop is based on enterprise workforce. The whole overinflated valuation of the market is based on the premise that AI agents can replace human employees en masse. That premise is still up in the air but as someone who works with AI tools and automation daily I'd say it's already a done deal, the macro forces are just too powerful and humans not adaptable enough. It's also heavily based in the military industrial complex really as you print money to make top tier weapons with which you secure global trade and force countries into doing commerce under your umbrella and get rich off of financialization and exporting the USD. The US has just proved in its Maduro operation and its Iran strikes that their military supremacy is as unchallenged as ever and the whole tech-AI industry fits right into that. Having said this I would say that claiming that an AI bubble crash is imminent or even likely has a MASSIVE BURDEN OF PROOF under it and I invite anybody to try and make an argument and case for it. I'm pretty confident that the corporate layoffs we've been seeing will keep accelerating throughout this year and it's highly likely that Trump and his Tech buddies will introduce some sort of UBI promise this year with the primaries to secure their votes and burry their epstein scandal further.

That 'oil donor' logic is a slippery slope. By that standard, a huge percentage of Canadian public figures—regardless of their actual message—would be disqualified from the conversation before they even open their mouths. I’d rather hear the perspective and judge it on its own merits than have a platform act as a moral gatekeeper. It feels like you’re advocating for a 'purity test' for speech, but that usually just leads to echo chambers, not higher consciousness. How do we grow as a society if we only engage with people who have zero ties to the industries that actually run the country?

Poilievre might not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I do believe he means well and he should be encouraged to share his views publicly. I don't know what the solution is to people lacking critical thinking but silencing big portions of the popular opinion is not a good solution. @Cireeric I only watched 2 mins of it but she seems to make some good points. Deploying AI in an ethical and responsible way for humanity is very important.

Very cool, space opens up a lot of awesome possibilities for mankind.

Yeah and it's working. It was ramping up and now nobody's talking about it. Crazy how the propaganda machine works.

Sure if I thought it would make a difference and actually save people and not be a ploy for the deeper enslavement of my people like most wars are today.

@NewKidOnTheBlock This is a good one. I ask myself if I'm stupid all the time. Being mad because you're bad is a tale as old as time. It's not even worth shaming yourself over, just need to pinpoint it so you can actually start fixing your life. Aesop's fables were written in the 6th century BC. If you want some grapes just admit it to yourself and then get some grapes. Don't make it a whole philosophical paradigm that can be easily debunked.