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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. -Charles Mackay

@officer_secret They were afraid of dying from dehydration!

Fun fact: Humans are supersensitive to the smell of rain (the substance geosmin) - the nose needs only 5 molecules per trillion. For comparison, we detect this smell 200,000 times better than a great white shark senses blood in water. Why does a human need such a powerful rain detector? What were our cave-dwelling ancestors so afraid of? What kind of creature came with the rain? Is it still here?!

@ShainHauk @LtTimMcMillan Its real that video has been around for years.

@LtTimMcMillan if it was real... there are 2 ppl behind the box and van that got lit up

Year after year, this continues to be the best 4th of July fireworks video out there…

@uncertain_duck @PauloMacro Each one of those VLCC's is worth about 100 million if its a used ship. You put 2 million barrels of oil on it and its total value ends up close to 300 million dollars. What company wants to risk 1/3 billion in assests!

@PauloMacro He pretty much told the entire world that tank bottoms were 4-6 weeks away... sure, freeing all the floating barrels stuck in the gulf might add another 2 weeks of supply... but how empty tankers are going to be willing to go back in?

While most traders were busy watching Warsh, the Common Knowledge moment that we all just witnessed in France today with Trump’s own words at G7 today will have more repercussions on US assets than anything that could have come out of Warsh’s mouth.

@PeterSchiff You have been talking bad about bitcoin and how it is a bad investment since before it was ABOVE $1000 bucks and it has gone all the way to over $100,000. So at what price would you concede you were wrong all along I think is a fair question?

How low does Bitcoin’s price have to fall before you Bitcoiners concede that I’ve been right all along?

@Tril1boswagginz @viemccoy @Ancestorism This type of thinking is why the birth rate across the world is falling. You litteraly have a more comfortable life then 99% of human history and yet your worried about bring kids into the world. If your ancestors thought this way you would not exist.

@viemccoy @Ancestorism I love the general direction, but if I'm being honest I'm terrified to have children when S risks will soon be possible. How do you bring a sentient life into the world knowing it could possibly be tortured eternally by superintelligence in VR?

The Society of Ancestors will serve as an institution dedicated to the propagation of flourishing life throughout the cosmos. Become an Ancestor, and stay up to date about upcoming events for the whole family, ranging from LLM prompting to Starship Building @Ancestorism

@MaltHb This explains so much right now.

That donkey will walk across continents for that carrot. Invest accordingly.

@moneyfetishist You don't have kids obviously. Add a few little munchkins to the mix and watch your routine collapse.

HOW TO AVOID DECISION FATIGUE AND ACTUALLY BE HEALTHY WITHOUT MAKING IT YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY I need to address something before we start because I can already see the replies forming no I do not track the vaginal microbiome reports of my partners no I am not Bryan Johnson no I do not have a team of 30 doctors measuring the elasticity of my corneas every morning while I drink a smoothie that costs more than your rent and contains the ground-up hopes of a Peruvian shaman I am a guy who eats well and has a system. that's it. the system is about to sound insane because I'm going to describe it in detail and anything described in detail sounds insane. if I described how you brush your teeth with the same specificity you would sound like a psychopath. "I apply 1.5cm of paste to the bristles at a 45-degree angle and work in small circular motions starting from the upper left molar." you do this every day. it takes 2 minutes. it is completely normal. it only sounds unhinged when you write it down. keep that in mind for everything that follows my last post about this was topic extremely autistic. I am aware. I do in fact go outside. I have friends. I drink soft drinks sometimes. I have conversations that do not involve psyllium husk. I am a normal person who happens to have structured the boring parts of his life so that the interesting parts get his full attention. that is the entire thesis. the system runs in the background. the life happens in the foreground. if you finish this post and conclude I am a joyless machine you have confused the backstage for the show also I've been doing some version of this since I was 14 or 15. this is not something a podcast taught me last year. the principle, remove decisions, keep it simple, make it sustainable, has been the same for over a long time . I just didn't have the vocabulary to explain why eating the same things every day made me feel better than standing in front of a fridge 3 times a day experiencing a philosophical crisis about yoghurt. the vocabulary is new. the habit is old now the average person makes roughly 35,000 decisions per day. 226 of those are about food. not strategy. not capital allocation. whether to eat the yoghurt or the toast every one costs cognitive energy. your prefrontal cortex depletes across the day as decisions stack up. there's a famous observation about judges granting parole at 65% after a meal break and near 0% right before. same judges. same crimes. the only variable was how many decisions they'd made since they last ate. your brain physically degrades its decision quality as the day goes on and every meaningless choice you make before 9 AM accelerates the decline the goal is not to build a routine the goal is to remove decisions here is how I do it MORNING: ZERO DECISIONS I don't eat breakfast. this is a decision I made once and never make again. thousands of decisions eliminated by deciding one time. done instead I drink an iso clear protein drink. 25g protein. tastes good. this matters, everything in your system has to taste good or you'll abandon it. the gym bro drinking chalk mixed with regret quits in 2 months. the person who actually enjoys their shake does it for years. adherence runs on enjoyment not discipline. discipline depletes. enjoyment doesn't the iso clear is made the night before. same time I make my gym shake. both in 3 minutes. morning: open fridge, take it. no blender. no measuring. no thinking. 4-5 minutes saved daily. 24 hours per year. a full day back because you made a drink 12 hours earlier supplements at the same time every day. 20 grams of creatine. yes 20. most people take 5 and wonder why they don't feel anything. creatine is the most researched supplement in existence with the most consistent positive data on strength, cognitive function, and recovery. 20g is the loading protocol that most people do for a week and then drop to 5. I never dropped. my body tolerates it. talk to your doctor if you want but 20g is what I take and I'm telling you the difference between 5 and 20 is the difference between "I think it might be working" and actually feeling it. plus vitamins, whatever else. same spot. taken with the iso clear. one action. decisions were made on Sunday. done SUNLIGHT FIRST 30 MINUTES dead serious your eyes have cells that talk directly to the clock in your brain that controls your entire hormonal day. cortisol, melatonin, energy, sleep, all of it gets set by when your eyes first see real light. morning sunlight produces a cortisol spike that makes you alert and focused. this is the good cortisol. you want it high in the morning and low at night if the first light you see is your phone screen at 7 AM in a dark room you've set the clock wrong and no amount of coffee fixes it. the coffee masks the problem. it does not solve it step outside. 10-15 minutes. costs nothing. does more than any supplement on this list FOOD: SAME THINGS EVERY DAY sounds miserable. it's freedom. no thinking about food 21 times a week. all decisions made once on Sunday. the rest is assembly 6 EGGS DAILY boiled. cooked Sunday. 12 per batch, lasts 2 days. complete protein. all 9 essential amino acids. choline for brain function, your brain needs choline to make the neurotransmitter responsible for memory and focus and most people are deficient. the cholesterol thing was debunked years ago. your liver makes 1-2g daily regardless of what you eat. eggs don't move the needle. why 6? because of the six-pack obviously. the science is secondary. the joke is the reason PROTEIN PORRIDGE buckwheat or spelt flakes (Buchweizen/Dinkelflocken) or oat flakes (Haferflocken). mixed with protein shake, psyllium husk (Flohsamenschalen), chia seeds (Chiasamen) buckwheat isn't wheat. it's a seed. lower glycemic than oats. slower energy release. no 11 AM crash. spelt has more protein than regular wheat and a broader mineral profile psyllium husk is the fibre engine. one tablespoon = 5g soluble fibre. it forms a gel in your digestive tract that does three things simultaneously first it slows glucose absorption which stabilises your blood sugar so you don't get the energy spike and crash that makes you useless at 11 AM and sends you looking for sugar to fix the problem that sugar caused second it feeds your good gut bacteria. your microbiome runs on fibre the way your car runs on fuel. most people eat 10-15g of fibre daily. you need 30-40g. the bacteria that protect your immune system, produce serotonin, and regulate inflammation are starving in most people's guts because the modern diet is fibre-deficient at a level that would horrify any gastroenterologist who looked at it honestly third and this is the one most people don't understand: it lowers LDL cholesterol for all of you who get your health information from TikTok and need this in small words: LDL is the bad cholesterol. it's the stuff that builds up in your arteries and eventually blocks them. when your arteries block, blood can't reach your heart or brain. that's a heart attack or a stroke. you die or you wish you did. lowering LDL means less buildup. less buildup means your arteries stay open. open arteries mean you continue living. that is the entire thing in 4 sentences here's how psyllium does it. your liver produces bile to digest fat. bile is made from cholesterol. normally bile gets reabsorbed in your intestine and recycled back to the liver so the liver doesn't need to make more. psyllium binds to that bile in your gut and carries it out of your body. gone. your liver now needs to pull cholesterol from your blood to make new bile. your blood LDL drops. not because you're blocking cholesterol production. because you're forcing your liver to use more of it. the mechanism is elegant. your body already knows how to lower its own cholesterol. the psyllium just forces the process by removing the bile your liver was going to recycle. average reduction is around 7% which doesn't sound dramatic until you understand that every 1% drop in LDL corresponds to a 1-2% reduction in cardiovascular event risk over time. 7% compounded over decades is the difference between a heart attack at 65 and not having one it also keeps you full longer with fewer calories because the gel expands in your stomach and triggers satiety signals before you've overeaten. non-negotiable in the system chia seeds, omega-3, fibre, protein. they absorb 12x their weight in water. they go in the porridge. you don't taste them. they do their job quietly. the ideal employee base is prepackaged. add-ins portioned Sunday in 7 containers. during the week: grab one, mix fresh, done. 2 minutes. I tried cooking this in bulk. texture after 3 days is somewhere between wallpaper paste and regret. dry prep, mix fresh. solved BERRIES blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. rotate by season. the anthocyanins in berries cross the blood-brain barrier and accumulate in the regions responsible for memory and learning. people who eat berries regularly show measurably slower cognitive decline. they also just taste good which is why they're actually on the list. into the porridge or the shake BROCCOLI most nutrient-dense vegetable per calorie. contains sulforaphane which activates your body's master antioxidant defence system. anti-inflammatory. being studied for anti-cancer properties. plus vitamin C, K, folate, fibre. steamed or roasted with dinner. if you eat one vegetable make it broccoli. if you eat two make the second one also broccoli GREEN TEA OVER COFFEE good gunpowder green tea (Grüntee). green tea has L-theanine which is an amino acid that produces calm focus. caffeine alone gives you alertness plus anxiety plus crash. caffeine plus L-theanine gives you alertness plus calm plus sustained attention. it's measurably better on cognitive tasks than either compound alone coffee spikes cortisol. first thing in the morning you're adding a cortisol spike on top of your natural awakening cortisol. that's the jittery anxious energy people mistake for productivity. green tea doesn't do this also nettle tea (Brennnesseltee) and herbal tea (Kräutertee) throughout the day. hydration with benefits rather than plain water for 14 hours and before someone asks: yes I do drink espresso. I'm not a monster. but my first espresso is around 10 AM. not 7. not the moment I open my eyes. your cortisol is naturally highest in the first 60-90 minutes after waking. drinking coffee during peak cortisol doesn't make the caffeine work better. it makes your body produce less natural cortisol over time because you're supplementing what it was already doing. you build tolerance faster and the coffee stops working. by 10 AM your natural cortisol has dipped and that's when the caffeine actually adds something instead of doubling what's already there. I delayed my first coffee by 3 hours and the same espresso that was doing nothing at 7 AM now actually works at 10. same coffee. different timing. completely different effect SLEEP while we're here: stop trying to sleep more. start trying to sleep better everyone obsesses over 8 hours. 8 hours of bad sleep is worse than 6 hours of good sleep. the quality is the variable not the duration. if you're lying in bed for 8 hours but you're waking up 4 times, never hitting deep sleep properly, and staring at your phone until the second your eyes close, you're getting 8 hours of garbage and wondering why you're still tired the single biggest improvement I made to my sleep was the pillow. I use a Blackroll recovery pillow. I am not affiliated with them. nobody is paying me to say this. I don't care about the brand. I care that it's the first pillow I've used where I wake up without neck tension and actually feel like I slept instead of like I spent 7 hours in a wrestling match with my own spine. the pillow supports your cervical spine in whatever position you sleep in and maintains the alignment that keeps your airways open and your muscles relaxed. most pillows are either too flat or too thick and your neck compensates all night which means your muscles are working while you're supposed to be recovering. bad pillow = 7 hours of low-grade muscle activation that you experience as "I slept 8 hours and I'm still tired" the other basics: room completely dark. I mean completely. tape over the standby lights on electronics. blackout curtains. your skin has photoreceptors. even light hitting your arm can disrupt melatonin production. room cold. 16-18°C. your core temperature needs to drop for deep sleep to initiate. a warm room prevents the drop. no screen 30-60 minutes before bed. the blue light suppresses melatonin. everyone knows this. almost nobody does it. I am also guilty of this sometimes. I'm being honest not perfect improve the quality of the 6-7 hours you're already getting before you try to add an 8th hour of the same bad sleep. the 8th hour of bad sleep is not helping. the first 6 hours done properly would be enough THE JUICE STACK beetroot juice (Rote Beete Saft), minimum 250ml daily. the nitrates convert to nitric oxide which dilates blood vessels, drops blood pressure, and increases oxygen delivery. professional cyclists use this as a legal performance enhancer. the improvement is measurable within hours of drinking it. 3% better endurance in trained athletes, up to 16% in untrained people. 3% sounds small until you realise Olympic medals are decided by less than 1% sour cherry juice (Sauerkirschsaft), mixed with the beetroot so it doesn't taste like a garden accident. tart cherries have the highest natural melatonin of any food plus serious anti-inflammatory compounds. reduces muscle soreness after training. improves sleep quality. the combination of beetroot + cherry gives you vasodilation plus anti-inflammation plus recovery plus better sleep in one drink pineapple juice (Ananassaft), small amount with protein-heavy meals. contains bromelain which breaks down protein in the stomach. helps digestion noticeably within a week. not a lot. just enough coconut water (Kokoswasser), natural electrolytes in ratios closer to human blood plasma than any sports drink. post-training or when dehydrated. the rehydration solution that existed for thousands of years before Gatorade added blue food colouring to sugar water and called it science THE STUFF THAT TASTES TERRIBLE black seed oil, unfiltered, cold-pressed (Schwarzkümmelöl), one tablespoon daily. the anti-inflammatory and immune effects have been documented across dozens of clinical trials. there's a reason every traditional medicine system from the Middle East to South Asia has used this for centuries. it tastes like concentrated displeasure. I chase it with the cherry juice. the combination tastes like something a medieval apothecary would prescribe for a curse. it works unpasteurised sauerkraut (nicht pasteurisiertes Sauerkraut), best probiotic source that exists. billions of live bacteria per serving. the key word is unpasteurised. pasteurised sauerkraut is dead bacteria. tastes the same. does nothing. your gut microbiome communicates with your brain through the vagus nerve. 90% of your serotonin is produced in your gut not your brain. the bacteria in fermented food directly affect your mood, immunity, and inflammation levels. I prepare it as coleslaw, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, seasoning, shredded carrot. side dish instead of punishment. gut thanks you within 2 weeks. my taste buds are the same ever since im 4 or so. my microbiome has better priorities COOKING coconut oil (Kokosöl). high smoke point. doesn't break down into toxic compounds at high heat the way seed oils do. seed oils heated past their smoke point produce aldehydes at concentrations that are genuinely alarming. coconut oil stays stable. eggs. vegetables. everything. I do not put it in coffee because I am not insane. cooking fat. use it as a cooking fat WATER drink more. you are dehydrated right now. your performance is degraded 10-15% and you think this is your baseline because you've been dehydrated so consistently you forgot what hydrated feels like. bottle at desk. bottle in car. bottle by bed. if you have to think about where water is you won't drink enough SUGAR AND SWEETENERS I use artificial sweeteners for most things. I don't move enough daily to justify pure sugar everywhere. construction worker burning 4,000 calories? go ahead. I sit in meetings and stare at spreadsheets. the cherry juice has real beet sugar (Rübenzucker) and that's fine. one drink. small dose. the dose makes the poison. Paracelsus said this 500 years ago CALORIES I don't track them daily. track during cut or bulk phases when precision matters because you're pushing your body in a direction it doesn't want to go. outside those phases: the system does the work. I eat the same things. I know the ballpark. scale plus pattern recognition. not MyFitnessPal and 15 minutes of data entry that makes you want to throw your phone into the ocean. the person who tracks religiously for 90 days then eats pizza for 2 weeks has a worse annual average than the person eating the same things daily and adjusting by trend. consistency over precision. always GET A TRAINER if you have the means. in person. a real human who watches your form and adjusts your programme based on YOUR body. the trainer is the equivalent of hiring an accountant instead of doing your own taxes. technically you can do it yourself. practically you'll make mistakes that cost more than the accountant. a good trainer fixed more in 3 months than I fixed in 3 years alone. if your trainer can't explain why you're doing what you're doing find a different trainer THE SYSTEM everything bought weekly. portioned Sunday. same spots. during the week I assemble. I don't decide. the decisions happened once. execution is automatic same clothes. same order. same spots for keys, wallet, phone. the 4 minutes looking for keys is not 4 minutes lost. it's 4 minutes of cognitive disruption that takes 10 more to recover from because your brain switched modes never follow this like a nazi. wake up late? skip the extra sunlight just go for a walk later in the day. the world doesn't end. the routine serves you. you don't serve the routine. the moment it's a source of stress you've defeated the purpose the goal is not an optimised morning the goal is an empty mind when the real work starts and then when you go out just have fun tbh because the system ran in the background and the foreground is where you actually live that's the point Your welcome

@Darcy81195440 @BrighamSK @MercuriusFilius The last sentence, "What is your bid to max your profit?" That is the intention of the question. The answer is 100.

@BrighamSK @MercuriusFilius That's clearly not the intention of the question. Its not looking for low hanging questionable business think but a mathematical solution

How would you answer this common Jane Street interview question?

@trialbylife1 @GravinKnight @CrystalHope1979 @RightWingJewess If they were big enough they would gobble us up in a heartbeat.

@GravinKnight @CrystalHope1979 @RightWingJewess Chickens would cock their heads and eat us in an absolute instant. Wicked little dinosaurs, they are.

Meet the woman turning just 3 rabbits into 250+ lbs of delicious meat for her freezer every single year. 🐰🍖 🤯 Starting with 2 does and 1 buck, she breeds them for litters of 8–13 kits that reach processing size in just 12 weeks—each yielding about 3 lbs of mild, chicken-like meat. Low space, high reward, and surprisingly easy on a homestead. Rabbits: cute to look at… or incredibly efficient protein? Would you raise and harvest your own meat rabbits? 🤔 🐇

@ZeeContrarian1 How about buying oil as a hedge?

@VKMacro @kellyenz @stevehou Seriously curious, why is it wrong?

@kellyenz @stevehou This is wrong, sorry.

JPM oil note is very good. The most surprising to me was their ME demand destruction number Genuinely can’t believe it’s so big

@1Powerslave @AlaliQasem This type of thinking is why oil isn't $150 right now and is going to make the problem way worse when it hits.

@AlaliQasem It seems like the inventories will hold up until a deal is made and SoH is open again. The iranians will never hold out for long enough to make this a real crisis.

The oil market just passed its breaking point. And it doesn’t matter if the Strait of Hormuz opens tomorrow. Here’s why the damage is already done 🧵

@HMFOIHF @Vk_Preacher Occam's razor and all would say this is most likely secenario.

@Vk_Preacher It's a shit tank and you found the old high level alarm installation that people usually disable and dont ever use after the code inspector is gone because who wants a siren and flashing red light in your back yard saying to everyone that you poop too much

A couple of months ago I noticed an electrical box - it was hidden in some bushes in my yard Had two power cables plugged into it Today, curiosity got the better of me- So I started digging I pulled at the wires and started digging down, untangling them as I went. Ever so careful not to accidentally cut them. After a few hours I hit something solid, something that the wires were feeding into Concrete. I frantically started widening the hole I had made in the tough soil- trying to find the edges of this mysterious structure And then I saw it: a metal D-ring. Attached to a hatch. The previous owners told me not to go digging around in the yard I think I found their secret

@DavidFWeiss @MilkRoadMacro holy what

@MilkRoadMacro If this is true, and the fee is roughly $2M, then Donald Trump earns $40k for each USD1 transaction.

AROUND 20 SHIPS HAVE CROSSED HORMUZ IN THE LAST 48 HOURS Here's the current process to cross Hormuz: 1. Every oil tanker passing through must now email cargo details to Iranian authorities before transit. 2. They get a quote back of about $1 per barrel. 3. Payments are only allowed in Bitcoin, USDT or USD1. Tankers with no cargo can pass Hormuz for free. Here is Iran's main reason to use crypto: They want to break out of the dollar system. Although, it's quite ironic that they're accepting USD1 which is a Trump-backed USD stablecoin.

@PARABOLIT @georgecursor Yes if somehow "everyone agreed" then a new chain could be moved to that does that. However if anyone "didn't agree" they would be allowed to still use the old fork and transact with the original bitcoin. Forks have already happened. Just look at Bitcoin Cash if your curious.

@georgecursor so if everyone agreed to inflate $BTC 500% for an airdrop, then it would happen?

Wait a second If they wanted to They can already freeze $BTC coins? So I have to trust the devs they won't do that? I thought bitcoin was trustless immutable code?

@0x_Kun @BigPeckerBets @MattMorseTV Lol people will notice when gas hits 6 bucks.

@BigPeckerBets @MattMorseTV Not the war The US public sentiment in few months will be like yesterday news Russia Ukraine war still going and it’s already forgotten

Have you noticed that Trump seems totally unconcerned about midterms? There is a reason why.

@DPGSpurs @RonaIdGrump @whalecalls @Cryptopathic You don't know what cold storage actually means. Cold storage has pretty much nothing to do with any one "device".

@RonaIdGrump @whalecalls @Cryptopathic What does that have to do with the hardware device itself? They go bad all the time and you use your seed on a new one. No one said self custody was set and forget for ever on that basis alone (amongst other factors too)

BIP-361 is inevitable. The vaunted censorship-resistance of Bitcoin will be sold out in the blink of an eye to protect the liquidity of institutional funds. It is a big, simple button that immediately solves the problem AND has the added bonus of removing supply. There is a lot of anger from the community today that it could even be considered, which makes me think there will be another hardfork where these guys become the new Bcashers holding onto trampled values. What do you think friends?

@SteveLovesAmmo So true.

Back in the day I used to have this mental illness where I thought logical arguments would change someone’s mind.

@Jimmy_The_Law @AnselLindner He literally doesn't even understand it at a basic level. You should reward ignorance?

@AnselLindner Why do bitcoin maximalists always have to hate on non believers the way bro does?

🚨 "People recognize [bitcoin] is the CIA. I want to know where the databases are, where the servers are, physically.” - Prof Jiang This is the opinion of so many midwits. It's also the reason even some gold bugs cannot comprehend bitcoin to this day, and why midwits believe in centralized scam sh*tcoins. They don't understand decentralization.

@Profeconoman @AnselLindner Uploading your ID has nothing to do with bitcoin and everything to do with laws and regulation. There are ways to get it without using an ID but they are getting fewer and fewer.