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Average rents have gone from $1530 to $1300 in DFW. Probably lower through the year and maybe next year, but should rebound thereafter. There’s opportunity in the window.

Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got a plan to ban it.

There’s no point in trying to trade this market You’re one headline away from getting liquidated Only winners are the insiders Don’t get me wrong, I see the reasoning behind the doomposting But generally I hold the position of “we go up forever” and timing the dips feels borderline impossible So instead I just DCA and hold forever I won’t get rich quick but I stack up good positions over time and get to keep my sanity

You should be put in a stockade and pelted with rotted tomatoes for a full summer afternoon if you ever try to talk about the intelligent or efficient market thesis again

the peptide debate is as follows: against: "i would be worried about unknown unknowns" pro: "while there isn't much human data, the anecdotal evidence is pretty strong" against: "anecdotes are not enough for me" pro: "fair, it is for me" against: "okay fair"

Tanner Greer with a good and ominous article on the Chinese technological Death Star. "The Chinese system has a telos[:] China will be the greatest scientific power the world has ever seen—or bust." "ASPI publishes a neat research tracker that surveys new publications in 74 distinct high-end technologies. ... For 66 of the 74 categories tracked, a majority of the institutions that are now publishing the highest-impact science are Chinese. In many areas of science the dominance is total: For example, [all] ten of the most productive research institutions in the fields of nanoscale material manufacturing, photonic sensors, chemical coating, drone operations, automated swarms, and undersea communications are Chinese." "Returning Chinese scientists go on to become the lead author on 2.5 times more papers than their colleagues who stay in the United States. ... Ask any scientist who has gone to China in the past three years to visit academic colleagues and they will tell you how astounded they are at the quality of the laboratory equipment and machinery that their Chinese colleagues have access to." "China now has the world’s most sensitive ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray detector, the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope, the world’s strongest steady-state magnetic field, the world’s fastest quantum computer by computational advantage, the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector, [and] the world’s largest primate medical research center." Americans make a grave mistake if they think America's global position comes from it simply being "free" or a democracy. American power emerged because it was so rich, so innovative, and so industrious, so that every nation on earth wanted to copy us. We've lost the innovative and industrious parts to China. We could soon lose the rich part too. What then?

You can tell everyone is slowly realizing their only options are being robbed by one group of people, being robbed by an alternative group of people, or joining one of the robber groups

The best version of the Democratic Party is a party that taxes the public to fund an efficient, simple, robust safety net, and that can build public infrastructure fast. The worst version of the Democratic Party is economic slop about 'nobody should pay taxes but millionaires', and also grinds economic activity to a halt with a million regulations on everything. The first actually believes in the power of the state to do good. It thinks the system is worth funding and defending. It believes in the fairness of a safety net but also in the power of economic growth and dynamism. The second is cynical crap that just wants to identify heroes and villains and hysterically strike out at whoever is 'bad'. Rich people bad, only they should pay taxes. Big Companies bad, they shouldn't be allowed to do anything. It has no actual vision of the good.