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While I agree, content and content producer discovery still needs a lot of work though.
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Feel that. Walk and yoga are great recovery.
Good to know! Will look into the cod liver oil, thanks 🤙🏻
What would you add/update/remove?
King of Collectibles on Netflix is peak fiat.
I’ll probably end up watching it.
You got this ✊🏼
Binging Wim Hof’s 8 episode podcast is a good way to get going in the right direction with right attitude towards it. Make the cold your friend, it’s not easy.
Right, missed that first time. I’m now curious these failures as % of total banking industry yr over yr. Basically is it more or less serious what’s happening now vs then?
Like if 3 2023 banks failed = 25 2008 banks failed… what is that as a % of total bank market share. Then perhaps it’s relative.
Perhaps not better, but just another way to see it. To your point it’s hard to factor in the distortion of how much bigger banks have become.
Would be good to have inflation between 2008 and 2023 factored in to make it more apples to apples. But still wow.
45 days until my first visit to El Zonte 🤙🏻
Excited to meet some locals, hike, surf, and spread some sats around! 💜
💯 Def agree on more cold weather resilience.
45 days of cold showers:
- It’s still cold
- Unclear of any benefits
- Fuck it, let’s keep going
Learning guitar update (~30d)
- I suck a lot less than 3 weeks ago, but still kinda suck
- Fingers hurt less and have callouses. Can now play close to an hour with low pain
- Basic major and minor chords can be played clean, often
- Transition time between chords improving, but ok at best
- Couple of strumming patterns learned
- Going to keep at it, #proofofwork
New book dropped today
Last year I started digging into the IMF and World Bank a little bit and was surprised that there were so few approachable books on the topic
This led me to keep digging, which led to a massive rabbit hole of archived essays and reports, interviews, and discontinued books going back 70 years all the way to the creation of the institutions at the end of WWII
What I started to realize as I learned — which became the thesis of the book — is that the IMF and World Bank actually exploit poor countries, they do not help them
This has mostly been achieved by working with dictators and corrupt officials to plunge emerging market countries into debt they can never pay back
Western lenders get paid back plus interest, and benefit from a massive economic engineering where entire societies are re-architected to suit the needs of rich nations instead of achieving industry and sovereignty
The Bank and Fund are known as charitable or maybe as flawed but necessary
In reality their operations are straightforwardly neocolonial, and they help subsidize the way of life in the West by depressing wages and looting resources in the global south
The book was a huge wake up call for me, I hope you can find it useful too
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https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Repression-Exploitation-Development-Gladstein/dp/B0C1JK6MG7
The perfect bedtime read