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[doster.zach]

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

This is the most disturbing/fascinating thing I've ever seen...

These videos are literally the whole channel, and it has almost 200k subscribers.

Every time I see something like this I think... "If that boy were a bit bigger, he'd do the same thing to us." LOL

Anyway, they're making serious $$$ with very minimal effort. Very cool.

But the value skew is access to the animals I suppose?

 

[Mathuin]

 

[Mathuin]

Good excerpt on hard work. I think its from "How Rich People Think" but I haven't read the book so can't say for sure

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

Good excerpt on hard work. I think its from "How Rich People Think" but I haven't read the book so can't say for sure

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YES. I want to read the rest. Life without limits - that's pretty damn exciting... even more exciting than a life of retirement, being drunk in the Caribbean. The ability to keep on making your ideas into reality in more businesses, more products...That's awesome.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

I've always thought patience was a virtue. I still think it is, when you're starting from a sidewalker mentality. But I think going from slowlaner to fastlaner, getting from "good to great" requires you to give up patience for something of an "enlightened impatience."

 

[Parks]

Interesting. Mark Cuban value skews on Medicine costs.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

Just checked the Wikipedia as well, co-founder cold emailed him pitching the idea.

Cost Plus Drugs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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[Chapas]

And yet it was Trump who got banned for disinformation....

 

[Antifragile]

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And yet it was Trump who got banned for disinformation....

Sad part is how many people will buy this crock of shit.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Sad part is how many people will buy this crock of shit.

It's just confirmation bias.

 

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[Kak]

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And yet it was Trump who got banned for disinformation....

LOL I so dealt with this nonsense already.

HOT! - CHAT - Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

Australia’s election is over. We just elected the Joe Biden of Australia. What the F*ck is going on.

www.thefastlaneforum.com

My younger self discussing this article: US Growth Seen Outpacing China’s for First Time Since 1976

Just an FYI for everyone. The “growth rate” is talking about the GDP. GDP is measured in dollars.

Of course if you pump a ton of new money into circulation, and even produce the same amount, you’re going to “produce more” in terms of dollars, but not necessarily in real terms.

This entire headline can be rewritten to say “The US inflation rate is higher than China’s by enough to throw the growth figures and create a meaningless superiority.”

You can manufacture nominal growth rates with a stroke of a keyboard.

This is why I spent a while talking about Real vs Nominal on my show. There’s a lot of misleading economic data out there right now.

If your nominal growth rate is 6% (just for the sake of argument) and your inflation rate is 9%… You can tout your 6% growth rate all you want, but the real GDP is shrinking by 3%.

This is notwithstanding dishonest inflation rates that certainly higher than published. The true figures are, at this point, impossible to calculate and every media source that acts like they can is just propagandizing. There are too many improperly measured variables.

 

[Kak]

They always roll in the "experts" to shut you up.

Beware of convenient "experts."

 

[Antifragile]

They always roll in the "experts" to shut you up.

Beware of convenient "experts."

Perhaps the most famous study of expert predictions was conducted by a Canadian, Philip Tetlock. At a conference 35 years ago, he listened intently as renowned authorities in their various fields of expertise delivered their reasoned predictions of what would happen going forward. He was struck by how many contradicted each other or were impervious to counter-arguments. His subsequent research involved a twenty-year study of 82,361 prophecies offered up by 284 highly educated and experienced experts about what would unfold in the future.

The result: These highly-credentialed oracles were horrific predictors of what would occur in their specialized domains. Their years of experience and expertise (including, for some, access to government classified information) made no difference in the accuracy of their prognostications. They were bad at short-term predicting and even worse at long-term forecasting. And, as these bona fide authorities amassed even more information supporting their views, they became more dogmatic about them. Like most of us, once a pundit jumps to a conclusion, she’ll either ignore or explain away conflicting evidence – a hard-wired tendency we all possess called confirmation bias.

from: Predicting vs. Forecasting the Future – smartleaders

 

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[doster.zach]

Beware of convenient "experts."

Words that have lost any sway with me over the past two years:

experts

disinformation / misinformation

fascist

 

[Antifragile]

Any fans of the old Defender? This one I just saw is crazy!

 

[Kak]

View attachment 43854Any fans of the old Defender? This one I just saw is crazy!

Yes. Make him an offer.

I want to restore one and swap an electric drivetrain.

 

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[Antifragile]

Yes. Make him an offer.

I want to restore one and swap an electric drivetrain.

That modified version is so long, it probably stretches all the way down to Texas! You make him an offer lol.

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So... being totally serious here... I saw that Defender 130 just came out and I really want one. I would call it my minivan, just because it sits 8

2023 Land Rover Defender 130: The Longer Big Defender Is Back, Seats 8

Same wheelbase, longer body, and now with even more seats.

www.motortrend.com

My wife is not on board.

Lucky I am in no hurry to add more cars, we barely drove the ones we have over the past 2 years.

 

[Kak]

That modified version is so long, it probably stretches all the way down to Texas! You make him an offer lol.

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So... being totally serious here... I saw that Defender 130 just came out and I really want one. I would call it my minivan, just because it sits 8

2023 Land Rover Defender 130: The Longer Big Defender Is Back, Seats 8

Same wheelbase, longer body, and now with even more seats.

www.motortrend.com

My wife is not on board.

Lucky I am in no hurry to add more cars, we barely drove the ones we have over the past 2 years.

Do it. Trade the RR Sport.

No one who ever buys a Suburban ever goes back to a Tahoe.

The same can be said of the 130. Larger vehicles are just more luxurious.

 

[mikecarlooch]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5dRzliYhJM


Wow - this video confirms "commandment of control" . I used to want to rely on youtube and be a youtuber but now I see why that's such bad idea.

Fix Bill C-11 – Digital First Canada

digitalfirstcanada.ca

 

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[Matt Sun]

Where is the place where "strong men create good times" in the next 5/10/20 years?

 

[Antifragile]

Where is the place where "strong men create good times" in the next 5/10/20 years?

First you have to let weak men do their thing. Ruin our lives etc. Then back to strong men!

 

[MattR82]

This guy sums up how I feel pretty well. I can't stand the idea of making pronouns legally enforceable and enjoy laughing at those clowns getting destroyed by Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro as much as anyone actually could, but I've also had gay friends that aren't these kind of terrorists that just get on with their life.

The company I work for changed their logo to the Pride colours this month, and yeah, I get the hypocrisy argument, that's another thing altogether, but I'm genuinely shocked and surprised at the anti gay comments and negativity being thrown around, and this is from public profiles, not anon reddit users. The sentiment is a LOT worse than I thought.

Jeff Molina on backlash for wearing UFC’s Pride Month shorts: ‘I just thought people would be a little more open-minded’

 

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[Matt Sun]

First you have to let weak men do their thing. Ruin our lives etc. Then back to strong men!

Kyle said in his radio show that different places are at different moments of the cycle, so it got me thinking, where is happening what. Ej El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender is pretty bold strong man like action, and the latest record GDP growth and tourism numbers shows some real results.

So where else?

 

[Aditya Gunjal]

First you have to let weak men do their thing. Ruin our lives etc. Then back to strong men!

How much more ruining do you need, sir?

 

[Mammoth]

Kyle said in his radio show that different places are at different moments of the cycle, so it got me thinking, where is happening what. Ej El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender is pretty bold strong man like action, and the latest record GDP growth and tourism numbers shows some real results.

So where else?

They’re also cracking down hard on criminals, locking up a bunch of people. Their president is very outspoken. I enjoy reading his tweets.

 

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[EVMaso]

Crazy "US legal system is f***ed" story of the week:

AZ man spent 17 days in jail for crime he didn’t commit.​

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article262126407.html

After Lowe had been in jail for eight days, he was taken to a local judge. He still received no information about why he was there, he said. The judge told him his only options were to waive extradition — in which New Mexico would deliver him to Texas authorities — or wait for Texas authorities to pick him up. Lowe, unsure what the legal implications were of either option, waived extradition based on the court’s suggestion that he do so.

He was sent back to the jail.

 

[Kak]

Where is the place where "strong men create good times" in the next 5/10/20 years?

I have a feeling Venezuela is a “buy low” deal.

They are “hard times create strong men right now.”

It seems like every Venezuelan I meet can easily articulate market economics and why it’s so important. That is vastly more than can be said for American economic illiterates. That sentiment protects a few generations.

I think a lot of South and Central America has lived a more difficult existence relative to the rest of the world for the entirety of human history. I think it’s a sleeper continent ready to pull a bunch of Singapores. They also have higher GDP and better infrastructure than most African nations.

Singapore’s history is pretty recent BTW. They were in a hard times create strong men cycle not too long ago. They only became self ruled in 1959. The wealth of Singapore is an extremely new thing. Like anything, the people who saw promise early were rewarded.

 

[Itizn]

One of the most infuriating qualities of mine I can admit:

Taking too long to realize the simplest of solutions that have been staring me in the face for the longest time.

Real example:
Someone asks me for a product.
I know someone who builds said products.

Yet it took me over a month to make that connection and introduce them to each other.

"Be willing to make others rich" - Grant Cardone

 

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[Andy Black]

One of the most infuriating qualities of mine I can admit:

Taking too long to realize the simplest of solutions that have been staring me in the face for the longest time.

Real example:
Someone asks me for a product.
I know someone who builds said products.

Yet it took me over a month to make that connection and introduce them to each other.

"Be willing to make others rich" - Grant Cardone

Exactly.

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” (Zig Ziglar)​

 

[Mathuin]

Exactly.

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” (Zig Ziglar)​

When I was first read this quote a number of years ago, I thought it sounded like hippie bullshit.

MJs books made me realise how true it is.