@BlueBayNetwork @helsiti170246 @MattMorseTV @packingpatriot_ Doesn’t matter. The U.S. is a net exporter of oil. We make more than enough for ourselves and could easily just keep prices low by forcing our supply to be used domestically
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@helsiti170246 @MattMorseTV @packingpatriot_ Again you are missing the point. China uses 10% of the oil the US does per capita.
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For those who can’t read the room:
President Trump’s threat to blow up Iranian energy infrastructure isn’t even explicitly aimed at the Iranian regime.
It’s aimed at China.
Ask yourself: who’s really the ‘biggest loser’ if the Iranian regime can’t continue exporting oil? Bingo.
I’d expect to see some major decisions coming out of Beijing in the next 48 hours.
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@ranman @davidsenra @elonmusk Formerly SpaceX huh?
Ok. What part of SpaceX’s current strategy upset you and made you leave.
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IBM built a cloud of suits to make sure the CEO never talked to anyone actually doing the work. @elonmusk does the opposite.
"Elon's method is extreme focus on substance. Extreme focus on getting to the truth.
In any organization with multiple layers, there's compounding lies. Each layer wants to look good. Each layer puts a little spin on things.
If one layer lies to the next layer above it, maybe that's okay. When that happens two or three times, the lies compound. If that happens six times, the lies really compound. If that happens 12 times, the CEO has no idea what's happening.
That was IBM.
By the time I got there as an intern, I calculated there were 12 layers of management between me and the CEO.
They even had a term for it: the great cloud. A cloud of men in gray business suits who followed the CEO around and prevented him from ever talking to anybody who was actually doing the work.
When he would come to visit, it was like a visit from the king. A completely impervious bubble.
That's the polar opposite of the Elon approach."
— @pmarca
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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There’s a point where the number of girls you have around you makes you go from looking like a player to looking gay
Clavicular@Clavicular0
Girls trip be like
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@EricLDaugh He requested a ceasefire 3 times, Iran refused. At this point, he has no real options so he’s just lying. 🤥
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump tells Iran to screw off with a ceasefire
"We can have dialogue, but I DON'T want to do a ceasefire. You don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side!" 🔥🔥
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@faith_vtch @THChrisB Here in the summer it will be 95-100 at midnight. No good time to do this
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@THChrisB I lived near the border of Canada with -40 f winter days. Yes you still do this in the mornings at least. Turn off heat. Tiny crack in 2 windows for 5-10 minutes. Close windows. Wait 5-10 min for air to heat back up, then turn on the furnace again. You're not heating the outdoors
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@asparagoid @sagewilyam @Rightanglenews Not sure if you are serious or not but the reason they breed so much is because western nations send them trillions of dollars over the past few decades specifically to get them to breed more without having to work or really do anything
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@sagewilyam @Rightanglenews Somewhat, but also genetic, to much controversy. We have a lot of adoption and environmental variance data now where pretty much everything is controlled
My own perspective is that we Koreans need to learn how to breed from Africans
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BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.
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@sagewilyam @asparagoid @Rightanglenews Not true in the slightest. We have decades of twin studies. Take an infant out of an African country, have it raised by intelligent Asians, and it will still have the same IQ of its parents. Maybe several percent higher.
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@asparagoid @Rightanglenews Not only this, these lower scores have more to do with the environment than anything else.
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@PaulFisch1 @tojen1981 @TheMindScourge I think I’d probably agree with you if I was suffering from mental defects
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@tojen1981 @TheMindScourge yes, they have been intentionally not completing their bomb for over 8 years. Now they will.
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Hormuz is a weapon that can only be fired once
No one should expect a quick resolution to the current crisis, but across the next decade, even the next 3-5 years, the choke point of Hormuz will be massively substituted for
The Gulf Arab states are all very rich, with high per capita GDP - the best single measure of relative state capacity - easy access to global markets, especially financial, and have the favorable backing of the US
Everyone has known about the Hormuz vulnerability for decades. The Iranians have continually hinted around closing it, but never did. Now they have, but Hormuz is a gun that cannot be reloaded.
Deterrents work only up to the point of use. Once used, they have failed. The purpose of a deterrent is to *not* be used
Many analysts have made this basic mistake. They think that Iran is now in a position of strength, having exercised its Hormuz option. But the opposite is true. A state is weakest after it has used its deterrent. The cost of that deterrence is now priced in. The worst having been done, the targets of the deterrent are now free to make other arrangements. Before, they were reluctant to do so because of the switching costs. Now, they have no choice; they will not allow themselves to be controlled in this way again
Hormuz may never reopen. But the importance of this is a depreciating asset.
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@PsyshockGame @GuntherEagleman yeah you must get a lot of people determining you are retarded pretty quickly into the conversation and immediately checking out
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🚨 BREAKING: DNI TULSI GABBARD GOES FULL PRO-TRUMP — DROPS A MASSIVE TRUTH BOMB!
“The ONLY person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the PRESIDENT!”
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@PsyshockGame @GuntherEagleman nice well I hope it works out for you sounds interesting
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You’re not getting it. They attacked Fordo and “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities. So if her intelligence tells Trump they had no chance of rebuilding their nuclear program, why would we need to attack them again because of a fear of Iran having nuclear weapons?
Also, if their intelligence shows we’ve “decimated” Iran’s military capabilities (Trump’s words), why would we need to request support from other countries to “secure the Strait of Hormuz”? Better yet, how is Iran still attacking Qatar with bombardments if their military capability is “decimated”?
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@kiran2_k @GarandThumb1 Idk the old dudes in shoot clays with would have a good shot it. Given my track record with clays I would have a 1 in three chance at it
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After having done training against FPV drones I can say this is a hard no.
Paratrooper Brady@paratroopbrady
Definitely needed nowadays. I think a 12 guage shot gun would work fine, too.
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@corgarino @gluesef @fieldatsunset @RealPostFolder I live in a desert and my skin gets dry but can’t stop me from showering after waking up, after gym, and then before bed. Nothing nicer than a hot shower to switch modes
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@gluesef @fieldatsunset @RealPostFolder I live in a swamp, my skin fundamentally cannot dry out while I live here
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@BigDee_1996 @gluesef @fieldatsunset @RealPostFolder Me I shower 2-3 times per day. Certainly not one time
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@delapilap @DrStevenPhD @memesaicouldnt are you retarded? obviously yes sexual orientation is about having sex
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@DrStevenPhD @memesaicouldnt If being gay is about having sex then so is being straight, and therefore everyone is always about having sex unless they are asexual.
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@ItIsHoeMath @1goodtern Homicide, at the very least. Even if he's found innocent of murder, he needs to be put on trial. He killed someone.
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@PsyshockGame @GuntherEagleman Their jobs are to provide him with intelligence / information with which to make decisions. They don’t make decisions for him retard
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@GuntherEagleman So if he’s the ONLY person that can determine that, he should fire Tulsi Gabbard and the rest of our intelligence community, since their jobs are pretty much useless according to him.
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@babelDefi @Ov__De Supply chains don’t really work like this. True that the US is probably fine, but aus/china/japan aren’t and could very easily drag us into a global recession
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Markets seem to be operating under some weird assumptions right now:
1) The US (or even US + coalition) can secure shipping
Even if they secure the strait Iran has an entire coastline. It only takes one drone or rocket hitting a ship before no shipper/insurer will take the risk
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@impostersyndrum @jiddywitdatitty @CLGLZR It’s profitable because groypers are just liberals being paid by some ngo to pretend they’re “right wing” and split up the right
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@jiddywitdatitty @CLGLZR Is being a groyper clipper really that profitable lmao
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The market thinks that your assumptions are likely wrong. If Trump pulls out, that’s that for America. Iran has no say in anything. Can they keep the strait closed? Maybe through fear, but even then America is a producer and we could just keep more of our oil for domestic use and hardly feel the pain (as compared to everyone else)
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