Mehdi Yacoubi

Current status: Retardmaxxing.

There is no substitute for the person who Knows What To Do.

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

this is what happens when people remain unmarried in cities for too long and the same pattern reveals itself in men through looksmaxxing. as a species, our biological drive is to pair-bond and reproduce. when that drive is blocked or indefinitely delayed, it doesn’t disappear; it gets redirected. we start seeing strange substitute behaviors: excessive grooming, hyper-fixation on self-improvement, and constant optimization. the brain has mating energy and anxiety that need somewhere to go, so instead of being expressed through bonding and reproduction, it gets funneled into endless “improvement” and the belief that this will be the final thing that fills the void and secures the love you're looking for but it ends up magnifying the core feelings of rejection and now it's also within yourself, the ultimate self betrayal.

This is insane.. Bernstein predicts that copper shortage will start in 2027 and progressively deepen by 2050. Demand will explode but supply will be limited as the operating mines are being depleted and getting permits for new ones is very hard. Copper supercycle is coming.