I always set my base case at Argentina 2001, it helps me focus on the highest probability things to prep for

Caroll Quigley, in his book Tragedy and Hope:

"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."

They already have it

I don't think that's what they want to do, they want much more debt and an ever weakening dollar

Yeah, I think it's just about right. It concurs with what I suspect... dinosaurs are old as fuck

I was reading an article focusing on the cyclical nature of empires and centralization, and the theory was that human civilization will trend toward centralization as offense gains the upper hand and territory can be quickly won (think Napoleon and gun powder) and on the flip side we become more decentralized as defense gains an advantage and wars becomes long, grinding, and expensive. I was thinking about the parallels in the financial world and taxation. The easier it is for the government to tax the bigger the gov will get and naturally centralize things; fiat money allows the gov to be very offensive in it's tax ability. Technology like strong encryption and bitcoin will flip the advantages to defense and will cause huge centralized systems to crack and power to decentralize. The downside is that large scale war machines cannot be funded.

TLDR: Bitcion adopt means huge gains in freedom and peace, and the downside is the F22 Raptor will probably go out of production

Translation: Now is a good time to steal some of our neighbors stuff!

That's a bold move, let's see how it works out for them 🍿

The Greeks were very smart; they invented sex. But, it was the Italians that introduced it to women.

I believe an even more powerful social phenomenon is at play. My thesis: The conclusion of the research will coincide with the outcome that leads to the most funding for the researcher.

I think the sample of people overstates the social affect (these are people who willing choose to be experimented on = 🐑) Aso the use of people who you would consider to be close peers (same age, race, education) probably skews the results, and I would bet they let them socialize in a waiting room before the test.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc

The damage that the utter fraud that is MQA did to the high end audio industry can not be understanded. The perpetrators of this fraud deserve your contempt and ridicule

Bullshit... MQA is a lossy codec that delivers worse quality than 320 kbps mp3 . It was straight cancer and I hope everyone involved goes bankrupt, most especially Bob Stuart

We all did; we collectively imagined him into existence. And, because he's a nice guy, he returned the favor and imagined all of us into existence

Superconductors make shit transistors... the point of a transistor is to be a switch from a low resistance state to a higher resistance state.

I'd feel like AL Capone rolling in that! Love the radiator cap

Atleast Ford small blocks sound excellent... Put up some more pics if you got time

Damn, that's clean! Straight 8?

The enemy of your enemy, often turns out to be another enemy