Gjöf

Explorer / Linguist
"All I know is that I don't know.
All I know is that I don't know nothin'. "

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

Is Truth Dead? Did Postmodernism kill it?

I can understand why people might think so. But postmodernism simply pointed out that our modern conception of truth wasn't comprehensive enough to explain reality. (1)

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

@isaacrrr7 European citizens need their guns back.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

CEOs walking into work after realizing that the AI tokens are going to cost more than the employees they fired

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

@Houseofyogi You're going to start seeing this happen more and more in Blue Sates because of the wealth tax nonsense.

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

@xwanyex People are connected more remotely now.

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

@WesternLensman The tail end of that he essentially says that because of the "danger" presented by Trump, he'd vote for a Nazi. Wild.

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

@joeroganhq And that's why the 2A is so important.

[wanye @xwanyex]

Compared to some people on here, I’m not all that informed about this or that thing, but in the real world, if we’re talking about these kinds of social issues, I almost certainly know more than whoever I’m talking to, and my experience with ordinary liberals is that like 85% of them talk down to me and just simply cannot *believe* that I hold the views I do, views that they very clearly couldn’t even successfully repeat back to me if asked to. In other words, they literally don’t know *anything* about the other side, but they are nevertheless *extremely* confident that its views are ridiculous and can be dismissed out of hand.

It’s a wild state of affairs out there.

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Office vacancy rates hit 14%, the highest since the Global Financial Crisis

[Abdul @0x_Abdul]

i may have severely underestimated saylor's game

dude literally started the dot-com crash

[Nostra, House of Gold @Nostre_damus]

185k of the jobs number are just temporary jobs just for FIFA world cup

thanks for playing

[David Burrows @barometerca]

Now getting close.

In each of the two great bull markets in #preciousmetals, the first major correction was down approximately 35%, lasted about 140 trading days and retested the original low. (one slight undercut).

This should ultimately serve to clear the table for the next leg higher.
$GDX $GDXJ $SGDM $SGDJ $GLD

[EndGame Macro @onechancefreedm]

You chart the two headline bars and ignore everything that tells you job quality is deteriorating. If this report was so solid, why did full time employment fall by 79,000 while part time employment rose by 266,000? Why is U-6 at 8.1% when the headline unemployment rate is 4.3%? Why are 6.2 million people outside the labor force saying they want a job but not being counted as unemployed? Why is long term unemployment up 524,000 over the year?

Financial activities lost 22,000 jobs, transportation and warehousing is still down 92,000 from its prior peak, and household employment is down year over year even while payroll jobs are up.

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

Yeah, but they could come from the same Indo-European root.

Since I posted that comment I've looked up more words and I feel like wif could be a form of the word "womb".

It's doable because there are known sound changes (with multi-stages) between the f and b consonants; and a vowel change before the b can lead to the vowel being nasalizes into the vowel plus the m sound (as it slides by the m sound in the mouth to get to the b; this happens in a lot of words and I think is understated in the understanding of sound changes).

But they all could ultimately be from the same Indo-European root meaning "to connect / pull together / contain".

And the word for man "wer" most likely comes from the dual pair to that root meaning "to separate out / have energy / be in fighting shape".

In Old Norse we see vígr (said to mean "in fighting condition".

And there's an archaic form of werewolf that's "wehrwolf".

The word modern word "wire" also has forms in Middle English with a consonant before the r, before it disappeared later. And a wire connects, so speculatively, it would be related to the version of the root used for wif. But it's a masculine word, so it gets the r suffix.

Whereas wif gets the female suffix.

Polish has an -ą suffix which is an instrumental singular ending.

And the Proto-Germanic form of wif is reconstructed with a similar ending.

And then I'll also state that there are two words wefan (to weave) and wæfan (to clothe) which also have the same structure, and have the same abstract meaning as the Indo-European root as weave), but use different vowels to specialize different specific meanings.

Anyway, this is all a lot of novel speculation, and nowhere near rigorous. But it's interesting to think about the possibilities.

Especially as we get more and more information about all the different forms of roots and ancestor words throughout Indo-European languages.

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

@BA_SF_CA @JeremiahDJohns That's quite the non-sequetor.

[Gjöf @GjofFreyr]

The area next to Portland has been locked for awhile now.

Most areas around it get relief from the slow slip quakes that happen periodically (the slow slips happen like once every 14 months or something like that).

But there's an area near Portland which doesn't move.

One day, it's going to come unstuck and cause massive damage.

[Paul Oosterhuis 🐭 @dragonfishy]

The big picture.

The long arc of equities measured in gold going back to 1883.

4 peaks: August 1929, Sept 1967, July 1999 and December 2021.

We are on our way to the 4th trough.
( just saying )

Buy gold and silver.

@chrismartenson @thoughtfulmoney @ITMTrading @GoldSwitzerland @mike_maloney @DavidBCollum @LukeGromen

[Mises Media @mises_media]

Keynes said saving causes the economy to crash. Hayek showed that saving restructures production and becomes the gateway to growth. Same act. Opposite conclusions. The difference: Keynes hid the production structure inside his aggregates. Roger Garrison at #MisesU 2017.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Gold Dethrones The King: ECB Confirms Barbarous Relic Has Overtaken Treasuries As Top Global Reserve Asset https://t.co/yJ5hYVH6rz

[Gary Bohm @GaryBohm5]

FIAT CURRENCIES ARE IN AN ETERNAL BEAR MARKET: The USD Is Down 99.24% Against Gold Since 1971 and the Rate of Decline Is Accelerating! https://t.co/rCroulVFzg

[Gary Bohm @GaryBohm5]

MONEY SUPPLY IS THE SIGNAL: Rising Money Supply, The Bank Lending Surge, Falling Real Interest Rates, and the Historical Pattern That Has Never Failed to Lift Gold! https://t.co/GKGozxPcjW