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Dr. M
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Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.
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A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

Thank you for sharing this story. Cane at the perfect moment

This is what public opinion polling looks like in Germany in the area of ​​the former GDR (German Democratic Republic). If only the east is asked, the AfD is the strongest and gets about 30 percent. And the third party would be BSW - that is the populist left, Russophile Marxists with 16 percent.

Green policies are succeeding😠

Black - German CO2 emissions, yellow - French.

It's sad to look at this graph, despite the billions of euros invested in wind and solar, due to the destruction of NS2 and the shutdown of nuclear power plants we have what the graph shows. Despite everything, we have morons in Europe who think that wind and solar are the salvation.

It's also cool to see how China this year exceeded the CO2 emissions of all other developed countries combined, so even the blind become clear that the only purpose of the green agenda is the systematic destruction of the Western economy.

So, the effect of the green agenda is something like vegans who destroy their health while eating grass, while we enjoy meat in the meantime👌

Argentina introduces mandatory VAT invoice 😂

That should say enough about the state the country was in before Milei. The things he's doing are actually modernization and literally bringing order, and leftists are freaking out like he's committed mass murder.

Life is beautiful

You have to love this

Another year is behind us and it was full of great and significant events that will mark not only the beginning of 2025, but also probably many others that will come after. In this sense, 2025 will be, by all accounts, crucial, especially its beginning. Can the war in Europe be stopped? What can we hope for? Assuming that both armies are so exhausted and beaten that they simply no longer have the will to attack or defend themselves? The fact that war reports mention perhaps the fiercest clashes since the beginning of the war on a front of about a thousand kilometers does not exactly support optimism.

A new year of war begins in Ukraine, and judging by the previous one, the situation in Ukraine is getting worse. According to an AFP analysis, the Russian army advanced 7 times more last year than the year before. During 2024, they conquered almost 4,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory.

According to UN resolutions, Jews are the only problem in the world 🤣

It's a good thing that we live in a free part of the world, and not in Putin's totalitarianism, where people are not allowed to get information where they want and based on that make their own views.

#EU

Lovely oranges 😉

EU money is not being spent any more wisely on various "green" projects throughout the EU. Let's face it, the idea of ​​helping African countries to prevent illegal immigration into Europe makes sense, but the philosophy that prevails in the European Commission is wrong and harmful in many ways, and could become fatal. This philosophy says that every problem is solved by spending public money. Do we have a problem? Let's vote for XY billion euros and that's how we will solve the problem.

No. That won't solve any problems, it will only make them worse and create new ones because

1) the money is not free and EU citizens will pay for it through higher taxes and inflation, and

2) the state is not efficient in spending money wisely.

It would be much more efficient to invest diplomatic efforts and educational assistance in developing countries to create their own institutions and become healthy places to attract private investment, which would lead to an increase in the standard of living of citizens and reduce the need for emigration.

European politicians are happier with standardization and a ban on chargers than with innovation and the sale of European mobile phones

If you can't produce by state and plan, then at least squeeze the damn private companies

European politicians are happier with standardization and a ban on chargers than with innovation and the sale of European mobile phones

If you can't produce by state and plan, then at least squeeze the damn private companies

The problem with Europe is that they are proud of shit like this

On this day, the IMF was created as the second act of colonialism, an extended arm of imperialism and a key institution for the realization of global economic apartheid.

On December 27, 1945, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the most powerful institutions in the world, was established, along with its sister institution, the World Bank. And although so many years have passed since the establishment of the IMF, its purpose and method of operation are still unknown to many - why? Maybe because the institution itself prefers so...