US military intervention should be a last resort used to neutralize direct threats to America only.

This isn’t that.

I wish it weren’t true, but it is.

Biden —> Ukraine War

Obama —> Syria, Libya, Yemen

Clinton —> Bosnia, Kosova

back on track reading a book a week this year

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I have about 8 close friends from high school. All now in their mid 30’s

Of the 8…

6 are unmarried and have never been married.

2 are married

4 have children. 4 do not.

Of the four that have kids they each have only 1 child.

Only 2 have what could meaningfully be considered a career. The rest work paycheck to paycheck.

Only 2 are home owners.

Is this common for millennials in america? Or is this just my friend group.

Ukraine's military now has 970,000 active personnel (+1.2m in reserve), making it the largest army in Europe.

This is about 5x larger than France's military (270,000 + 63,700 in reserve).

So 'our' politicians never lie and never spread BS? Interesting....

Every 20th century leader that advocated and pushed for war has been, in my estimation, caused immense human suffering for not much gain, despite what the propagandists will tell you.

They were bloodthirsty warmongers and should be looked at with contempt.

It’s not so common that I go to bat for Elon Musk, so listen up.

People are too tribal. They can’t separate individual things from broader things. Specifics matter for credibility.

For example, I am often critical of Musk on Tesla or Twitter, but way less so against SpaceX. Details matter.

I think Musk is greatly dishonest, lacks integrity, is more of a hypeman than an engineer himself, his Tesla promises are literally all like a decade late and thus directly harm their buyers, etc. Kind of a cult, but it keeps the market cap up and enables financing. I’ve called him a cuck for dictators and I stand by it.

But I rarely say anything against SpaceX, other than to remind people that it’s largely government funded, so you know who he reports to as he builds that amazing company out. But it’s a good thing.

Musk cucks for dictators on Twitter to happily take down their opposed comments at a higher rate than pre-Musk Twitter did, as long as they have big markets for Teslas and SpaceX rockets, and as long as he can market himself as the “free speech guy” in the US while we don’t pay attention to where he helps dictators clamp down harder.

And yet, the Tesla pay package that was agreed on is what it is. Sure, he hyped up the equity, but he did it at such a successful scale that the fundamentals were impacted positively as well. He successfully memed Tesla into solvency. To backtrack on that pay package would make no sense. I would support the pay package while disagreeing elsewhere. Rule of law matters.

The Tesla permabears, like Jim Chanos (Diogenes) in the recent tweet below sort through any news item for a bearish comment. I see others do it for bitcoin or Nvidia all the time.

Am I bearish on Tesla? Kind of. Relative to bitcoin in the long run, absolutely.

But imo, fade the permabears. Find people who can’t separate various specifics, and disregard them.

Be someone who can be bullish on one thing and bearish on another, even from the same person. Dislike someone, and rule in their favor out of objectivity when it is right. Like someone, and yet rule against them when it is wrong.

Anyway, good evening.