James Brown

Mikko Rantanen has just gone down the tunnel after this play.

the honeymoon phase of ai seems to be wearing off for so many developers and the fatigue is kicking in. “the joy of learning is wearing off, washing the dishes seems more fun, job market is cooked, side project aren’t that exciting anymore because ai did it for you.”

A prolonged war with Iran does appear to be the goal here for many reasons. 1) We're breaking apart the global supply chains into multiple isolated trade blocks. Asia, Europe and the Americas. By destroying Europe through energy shortages it gives rise to Israel as the regional power. 2) We're seeing vast youth unemployment due to many factors like automation and AI. What do you do with so many unemployed? Send them to war. 3) We're at the top of the largest housing, stock market and private credit bubbles of all time. 2008 was just housing, 2001 was stocks. Today it's everything, just like 1929. 4) They need to fundamentally change the economic system so it is designed to function with AI. That's what Technocracy is all about. It will also involve merging the Treasury and Federal Reserve. 5) The interest payments on government debt is now unsustainable. They need to get the Treasuries out of circulation through some kind-of engineered global sovereign debt crisis. 6) The era of cheap debt is over. Now rates move upward in waves in this new 40 year cycle. 7) The global economy is at the end of a 100 year cycle. That's typically when large economic resets occur. 8) Institutional collapse is part of the plan to concentrate power among the Tech titans instead of the bankers. That's Technocracy. 9) Global energy and food shortages are the perfect way to introduce a CBDC, through lockdowns and rationing. 10) This is the last war that can be fought with humans. All future wars will be robots and AI, making them pointless. If we are entering a 100 year mini ice age, war is the perfect way to eliminate some of the global population and get people used to centrally controlled supply chains.

Dallas Stars have got to be the biggest power play merchants in the league by far. Someone should do a scientific study on this

My coworker has a 1.99% mortgage. That is something you should NEVER pay off early. Inflation is at least 3%/yr. Why would anyone pay that off aggressively? It makes absolutely 0 sense.