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Ohhh you *just* cancelled your blue check. I actually thought the courts got involved. One never knows when it concerns a country as convoluted as England...or is it GB? The UK? I forget. 😉

Ditch the 🍎 products. Get an Android. Life is better here 😉

Oh shit! Damnit! This isn't good for my DCA. F'ing Blackwater

Replying to Avatar GregZaj

Haha exactly. This is one of my pet peeves...the event that shall not be named 🤫

Oops I was hoping to post a gif. Fail 😩

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Thanks for the history lesson on and warning about Musk. Always appreciate your perspective.

Is this her strange way of saying she's terminally ill 🤔

I'm cautiously optimistic that CBDCs will increase demand for BTC and ⚡ payments as people recognize the limitations of privacy or perhaps experience negative interest rates on bank deposits. Or govs put spending limits on certain items.

Hi Preston,

Next time you talk w/Lyn or another guest fluent in this topic, could you pls do a deep dive on what exactly causes the dollar to rise/fall relative to other currencies. Obviously this is a huge, tangled topic, but there may be some salient factors.

A follow-up question might be how we could expect risk assets to behave in light of the DXY. Furthermore, are there other currencies to watch, such as the yuan?

Thanks!