Christopher Zaleski

Life is good. I enjoy humor, hiking / backpacking, cooking / eating & travel. #eclectic

[Augustus Doricko @ADoricko]

Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations.

We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data.

In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall.

Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months.

We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need.

Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim.

Rainmaker Century.

https://t.co/QZikxP1KyH

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

A simple visual for kids (and adults) to understand delayed gratification.

[aka @akafaceUS]

The Chinese secret method:

[Untold Secrets @RealGemsfinder]

Art

[Barndominium Life @BarndoLife]

Would you choose this barndominium floor plan?

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

The European mind cannot comprehend this.

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🚨HOLY SH********T!!! 🤯

President just sent a warning to Iran:

"We are leaving certain things we could take out within an hour. They literally would never be able to build that country back!"

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

INCREDIBLE: American Nathan Martin comes out of NOWHERE to beat Kenyan by 00.01 seconds in the LA Marathon — closest finish ever.

“I could see the leader and with 800 meters to go, I was thinking, ‘I’m catching him.’”

He finished 2h 11m 16.50s

PATRIOT🇺🇸

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Many rich guys (even billionaires) have nasty wives. That's why they donate to Democrats. Forced to. If you're healthy and having marital relations, you're doing better than A LOT of ultra-rich guys. More money is nice but never lose what matters chasing more of it.

[FollowYourOwnPath @FollowYrOwnPath]

In God We Trust

We must return to what made our country great.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

This one image can make you more creative than 99% of people.

[Overton @overton_news]

In 2015, Scott Adams made a prediction that STUNNED the political world.

He said Donald Trump had a 98% chance of winning the presidency, and almost no one believed him.

In this 2016 interview with @vladtv, Adams calmly explained exactly why he predicted that Trump was going to win…long before it happened.

Adams was proven right about everything.

VLAD: “A year ago, you came out and said that Trump is going to win by a landslide, is going to win by such a margin that we haven’t seen it in recent history.”

ADAMS: “Yes I did. Would you like me to take you through that?”

“So the prediction was based on his persuasion skills, not on politics.”

“My politics don’t align with him or with anybody else.”

“But I am a trained hypnotist. I learned hypnosis when I was in my 20s, when I actually went to school for it.”

“And I’ve been learning the tools of persuasion in general beyond hypnosis all my life, both for general usefulness, but because it’s especially important as a writer.”

“And so I observed in Trump, the highest level of persuasive talent I’ve ever seen.”

“And what a lot of people thought was random behavior and childish talking and bad vocabulary and whatever else you heard about him, I recognized this technique.”

“So in the beginning people said, my God, he talks like a sixth grader who doesn’t know words.”

“But months later, as he was rising in the polls, you saw the experts start to consolidate around what I said in the beginning, which was, wait a minute, this talk is really effective.”

“He keeps it simple because that’s who he is talking to.”

“And he repeats things because repeating makes a difference.”

“So if I were to ask you, you know what are Trump’s main things he believes? Everybody could list it.”

“And then you ask, you know, what are any of his opponents, you know, during the primaries or now, what do any of the opponents think of?”

“You’re like…stuff…make things better?”

“You know, it’s just a less clear message.”

“So in many ways, he had this level of talent that I’d never seen.”

“And so I predicted he would just slice through the field and cut them apart.”

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

This video by Scott Adams will rewire your brain to never feel lazy again.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨BREAKING: Silver prices are exploding due to a severe global supply shortage.

The physical market can no longer meet soaring demand.

Here is what is actually going on 👇

1. China is changing the rules.

Starting January 1, 2026, China will restrict silver exports.

To export silver, companies will now need government licenses.

Only large, state approved firms qualify:

- At least 80 tonnes of annual production
- Around $30 million in credit lines

This effectively blocks small and mid size exporters.

China controls roughly 60–70% of global silver supply. When China tightens exports, global supply drops immediately.

This is the same tactics China used with rare earth metals.

2. The silver market was already short supply.

Silver has been in a structural deficit for 5 straight years. That means demand is higher than supply every single year.

For 2025:

- Global demand: 1.24 billion ounces
- Global supply: 1.01 billion ounces

That is a gap of 100–250 million ounces. And this gap is expected to get worse after China’s export limits.

Mining supply is not growing:

Silver mining is mostly a by product of copper and zinc mining.

New mines take 10+ years to build, Ore quality is falling, Recycling is not enough to fill the gap.

There is no quick fix here.

3. Physical silver inventories are collapsing.

This is where it gets serious.

- COMEX inventories are down 70% since 2020
- London vaults are down 40%
- Shanghai inventories are at 10-year lows

At current demand, some regions hold only 30-45 days of usable silver.

This is why physical premiums are exploding.

In Shanghai:

- Physical silver trades at $80+/oz
- COMEX prices are much lower

This price gap means buyers are paying extra just to get real silver.

4. Paper silver is completely disconnected from reality.

There is an extreme imbalance between paper silver and real silver.

The paper to physical ratio is around 356:1.

That means:

- For every 1 ounce of real silver
- There are hundreds of paper claims

If even a small percentage of buyers ask for real delivery, the system breaks.

Markets understand this. That is why price moves are becoming vertical.

5. Industrial demand keeps rising.

Silver is not just a safe haven metal.

It is critical for:

- Solar panels
- Electric vehicles
- Electronics
- Medical devices

Industrial use now makes up 50-60% of total silver demand.

There is no substitute for silver in many of these uses.

Banks and institutions are reacting to:

- Supply limits
- Physical shortages
- Paper market risk

Silver is not rallying because of fear.

It is rallying because a real supply squeeze is playing out in real time.

[Christopher Zaleski @Arbitrage69]

@Fidelity And while your commissions are more than many other places for option trading your fills are worse to boot. CSP IREN JAN022026 at Fidelity $1.41 vs $1.55 at Schwab - got ~10% from Schwab

[Christopher Zaleski @Arbitrage69]

@Fidelity I have a large account at your firm and I do option trading; back on November 5. I asked you to match the 35¢ trades that @CharlesSchwab provides me, and was turned down just today, so my IRA, Roth, and the individual accounts etc., will be reduced to $1000 ea. #Disappointed

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in our solar system.

Even if you somehow burned Jupiter and everything that is not the Sun in a fusion reactor, the Sun would still round up to 100% of all energy.

The Sun is all that matters long-term.

[Options With Ryan @OptionsWithRyan]

One of my biggest conviction trades right now is $HIMS.

I’ve been collecting anywhere from $5,000 to $7,000 a month in premium running the Wheel on this stock selling cash-secured puts and covered calls.

They just launched their new menopause treatment plan, tapping into a multi-billion-dollar market with massive growth potential.

The fundamentals are strong, growth is accelerating, and I’m paid every week to wait.

Do I think $HIMS has another 50%+ upside over the next 12–18 months? Yes.

But more importantly… I get paid while I wait.

$SPX $QQQ $VIX

[𝒎𝒐𝒆. @moe4demm]

simple back pain relief 👌

[@jason @Jason]

Italians are built differently