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15 years later and 11 ETFs get approved on this exact date 🤯 Life is indeed a simulation

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions. Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals. Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude. Now compare the alternatives. Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure. US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium. Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place. The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute. That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

If you ended a relationship and realized they didn't go looking for another person, didn't go out partying, but instead started running, training, taking care of themselves, and distancing themselves from everyone so they could overcome themselves... I'm sorry to tell you that they truly did love you. And I'm sorry to say you let a very good person slip away, one you won't find again... not even in another lifetime.

I spent years of my life on Looksmaxxing Forums (2014-2017) Eventually, I left & realized the truth: 1) What you see on the internet is not real life. Many ugly men get hot girlfriends and keep them forever. Not every woman is on Tinder. Many girls have 50 followers & a private Instagram. 2) Virginity matters more than anything. The more experience a woman has, the more demanding she will become in looks, money, status. A virgin woman has no such demands - her first boyfriend is the ideal disney prince, one whom she wants to spend the rest of her life with. As long as you make decent money, take care of her & protect her / isolate her from other men - she will be yours forever. She has no reason to ever leave you. Even if you get older/uglier. As many others here have said, women can only create a deep bond maybe 2 or 3 times. After that, it’s over. She loses the ability forever. There’s no empathy or love left for the next boyfriend, just logic. 3) Most men’s goal is never to attract 90% of women. It’s kinda gay if you think about it. You’re not a Sabrina Carpenter-like male popstar trying to get adoration from female teens - you’re a man trying to raise a family with a beautiful, lovely woman who’s there for you every day. Endless banging with random women you create no bond or kids with is a hedonistic, unnatural, modern lifestyle that will leave you completely empty inside. It’s the same lifestyle that LGBT people promote. No wonder many male models turn gay, or become increasingly degenerate in order to still “feel” something. 4) Yes, there are extremes that make it very hard to find a woman to fall in love with you - being extremely short, disfigured, etc Throughout history, the bottom 20% of men are simply not meant to reproduce. No matter the societal structure. But you can still get lucky if you find a girl at the right place & time. 5) Finally, time passes extremely quickly. You think “just 2-3 more years of routine/surgery and I’m finally a chad!” Now you’re 25. And you realize you should have spent all that time making money instead. Blink, now you’re 30. Everyone gets older & uglier. Life is much shorter than you think & the main priority for most at 25-30 becomes to find someone to have kids with or a partner so at least they’re not lonely forever. Few still have the energy to go out & date again anymore. And for most people after 30, MONEY becomes the only and primary factor in life & relationships. So concluding, looksmaxxing isn’t bad - I’m a huge fan of mewing, good diet, being healthy. I am however very skeptical of surgical & chemical interventions adding any long-term benefit to your life. As a man, your time is better spent focusing on money.

If we are in a prolonged bear market, shortfarming ETHUSDC is an interesting option. The major pro is that your exposure is Uniswap and Aave and if you're directionally right, you get a boost. The set up is simple, the risks should be obvious (IL and being directionally wrong are the most lethal). Example: ► Collateralize $100K USDC (+4% Net APR) ► Borrow $40K ETH (-1% Net APR) ► Sell $20K ETH At this point, you're short $20K ETH. LP ETH/USDC for ~40% APR in a reasonable range. The net APR for this strategy (without ETH price movement) is 4% - 1% + 0.4(40%) = 19% Net APR And if ETH goes down, then your ROI increases because you are short on half your loan. HOWEVER, if ETH goes up, your LP sells ETH into USDC, and you're screwed unless you wait for it to come back down and it does indeed do so.

If I had $1M in crypto now, I would: 1. Be full-time crypto 2. Move to a city where cost of living is not too expensive 3. No memecoins, no leverage. Ever. 4. Allocate $500k stablecoins in DeFi at 5-7% to cover my expenses that I NEVER touch 5. Allocate $250k to farm @tradexyz: volume is still low and upside looks big to me as on-chain tradfi is just emerging 6. Allocate $50k into a sybil farm with 200-500 wallets and forcing myself to spend 2h/day doing things + automating + hunting new opportunities 7. Keep 200k USDC/USDT on Aave ready to ape good coins such as $HYPE or $PUMP during bloody days when people are being liquidated The goal: survive long enough to catch asymmetric bets while never worrying about paying bills.

@William07378284 No. If BTC top, MSTR drops HARD. If BTC yet to top, MSTR might not outperform BTC. So why hold it?

Why is ADL such a difficult thing for people to understand?! Your counterparty is liquidated. There's no one to pay you. If you don't want that, trade against a counterparty whose liquidation is way off, a pool. In short, trade against JLP or ALP or other protocols where a large pool is your counterparty and your trades won't be force closed. But then, also be willing to pay large fee for the same. There's no free lunch.

Instead of calling the top every day maybe u should call your mother and tell her u love her

I always start my stocks research by industry: 1. which sectors are likely to outperform and why? 2. which companies of these sectors are undervalued and why? 3. which companies that I deem undervalued are offering good entries and risk/reward looking at the chart?

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@Credib1eGuy Collect Pokemon cards

Being retired at 25 is weird Other than working out, reading and hanging out with employed people on weekends What do you do

$BTC Locked in a weekly bearish SFP. Over the last 5 years it's happened 15 times, 13 of those times we've had a pretty large reaction.

@zachxbt Need more accounts like Grok frfr

So Crypto Rover tagged Grok to select a winner for a giveaway and it began replying about his involvement in pump and dump schemes and sketchy promotions and is refusing to select a winner.

Done. We blocked (in collaboration with law enforcement) the 85,977 USDt stolen.

@udiWertheimer Maybe said ancient whale is following udi 😮‍💨

so let me get this straight udi publishes the most bullish post of all time pronouncing that OGs already sold and hours later some ancient whale decides to start selling 80,000 bitcoins? bullish

@theunipcs same with Udi agree on all points apart from odds of US attack. polymarket.com/event/us-milit…. $16 mil bet is quite good and odds look about right to me. also bullish once this clears, hoping to get more fills around $100k area

Lemme tell you whats happening with launchcoin My guess is obviously the flywheel is a great idea but team and insiders prob didnt hold enough coins to actually profit insanely off it Once they do (and looking at PA looks like its close to be done) flywheel gets announced and coin goes to 600M-1B+ Dont ask me sources there are none, I just like giving life to the PA

the writers of dis episode tho solid 8/10 mebbe?