Bit_Blanka

The engineer is the maker of history. The masses are content to be peasants and the rich are content to be feudal lords. The engineer disturbs their perfect peace with his unwanted machines and they collude to suppress him. But the engineer’s machines are not easily suppressed.

NEW: Pentagon estimates only 23% of young Americans (17-24) are eligible to serve in US military mainly due to poor academic performance on testing, obesity, and criminal records. -ABC

🚨 BREAKING: 🇦🇪 UAE rejects ceasefire with Iran and they will join the ground attack on Iran -Reuters/WSJ

People say that Australia is fucked, and in many ways it is, but Europe and the UK are turbo fucked. Like literally civil war levels of fucked. Non-peaceful outcomes are all but guaranteed there. Australia is at least blessed with natural resources and has ample food production. Yeah the government is retarded - incredibly retarded - but removing a retarded government is a lot easier than trying to unfuck a shit geography with scarcity of energy/food, and remigrating a couple million immigrants is a lot easier than remigrating tens of millions. We are also an island, completely isolated from the rest of the world. It's actually pretty fucking difficult to get here, and the fact the government has managed to facilitate importing so many immigrants that no one wanted is a testament to how utterly retarded they are. Hard times are coming, but Australia is a better country to weather the storm than just about anywhere else right now. Everything is fucked anyway so you have to choose the country that is least fucked. Many went to Dubai, look how that's played out. Many went to Europe to chill - okay have fun when the war kicks off there. Many went to Asia to be a digital nomad - be careful what you wish for, you're now a permanent digital nomad with no way to get home because they are already out of fuel. The point I am trying to make is this: Life is a game of tradeoffs, and optimising for wealth creation is not always the best decision. Most of the time it's not, actually. Many people are still looking through our world with a financial lense, not realising that all that matters now is survival, both literally and figuratively. We are entering a period of peak chaos. The range of possible outcomes is extremely wide. The path is not clear. Many different things, all path dependent, could happen. In times like this you shouldn't optimise solely for wealth creation, you should optimise for survival in all realms: make sure your portfolio lives to see another day sure, but also make sure you're not gonna end up stuck in some shithole country when the missiles start firing just because you wanted to pay 10% less tax. Because honestly a lot of this shit misses the point: If you have internalised where we are in history, as well as where things are going, most of your work, money etc - it's all pointless. Capital controls are coming, as well as heavy taxation, meaning the government is going to steal all your money anyway to save themselves. And if you somehow make it through that, because you're a Bitcoiner, you're still gonna have to navigate a future where AI + robotics takes every feasible job. So yeah, none of it really matters. Not from a doomer perspective, but from the perspective that you should play the hand you are dealt and roll the dice as you see fit. My mental model of this is to act like it's all a video game, because it probably is. Treat things both lightly and seriously. Work hard if you enjoy what you do but not hard enough that people can tell you are working hard. It should all look like play - that is life.

Did your pay rise 30% in the past year? Wall Street's pay sure did... Neo-feudalism: The banker class, and everyone else

NEW: 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇦🇪 Iran is preparing to take over UAE with a ground invasion if the US put troops on the ground IRIB Iranian state TV: “If the United States makes a mistake, Iran’s armed forces are ready to seize the coastlines of the UAE and Bahrain and reshape the region”