Peter Djerf

#StayHungryStayHumble
Evidence Based Practice
4 Pillars of Reason: Fact, Data, Logic, Context = Intelligent Thought Process. Problem solver

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

As individuals age most move along the spectrum from love of learning to love of legacy. This helps explain why many go from seeking truth to controlling it. From objective love of life itself to subjective love of oneself. Age has a price, fear mounts with every passing breath.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

@joeroganhq For all the people claiming I’m lying….

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@TOzgokmen Oops, here's the clip.

PS, not a commentary on the current energy crisis, but the future looks interesting with lots of bold strategies costing trillions being worked on. There are going to be some major winners and losers.

https://t.co/5HsDWC9PsQ

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@TOzgokmen Different topic, but I learned a lot from this 8 min clip. The thing that caught my attention is near the end. Space solar is 10x cheaper energy than China's $0.35 per watt cost, doesn't have weather events, 24/7, no batteries, etc. As with Elon, timelines are usually much longer

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@calvinfroedge Israel/Massad is a quasi branch of US intelligence without us laws as oversight. In a few decades this will be a big revelation.

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

This is so sad, it further establishes that we are not a serious country.

[Rosanna Prestia, MBA @RosannaInvests]

🚨 The “blowout” jobs report that just killed your rate cut? Misleading.

It was bartenders. 🍺

70K hospitality hires for the World Cup -> 5x normal. Wall Street saw a hot economy. It was a soccer tournament.

Back out the one-off and there’s NO blowout -> just trend. Yes, there’s a soccer tournament sitting on top of a trend-line economy. 🤯

Look under the hood. 🧵

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@TalkinTwins The Pohlads have officially reduced the team to the Angels in the Outfield level.

Someone should create the HOS (Hall of Shame). The entire family will be unanimous 1st ballot inductees.

[Fuzzy @fuzzyfromyt]

HOLD UP HOLD UP…

Byron Buxton’s last 162 games:
50-HR !!! 25-SB/0-CS

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@Nroblew9 @TorreySmithWR Intelligence is negatively correlated to increased football fandom.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

When governments in the West find a new tool they like, first they test it abroad, and soon it lands in Washington.

The UK is now rolling out a digital ID that will start as a “modernization” on your phone and become mandatory for the right to work by the end of this Parliament. No digital ID? No job. Period.

King Charles calls it "progress". Supporters promise less fraud and easier services. But critics see the real danger. Once this “secure credential” exists, it'll be into the ultimate gatekeeper, logging every check, every service, every move into a lifelong government dossier. And the price tag? Up to £20 billion, while public services are already stretched thin and no one has proven it will actually save money or deliver results.

Facial recognition, centralized databases, digital wallets that “dial home” every time you use it. Connect the dots and you get exactly what digital rights advocates are warning about: tools of convenience that become tools of control. A former MP put it bluntly: “Say yes to digital ID and you’ll never be able to say no to your government again.”

Hundreds of thousands of Brits are protesting and petitioning, but the machine keeps moving. That tells you everything you need to know about who this system is really built to serve. The question isn’t what digital ID is today. It’s what it will inevitably become tomorrow.

Wake up, Britain.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@TOzgokmen

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

A BOMBSHELL buried in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act: Section 224 would effectively merge the US & Israeli militaries.

On paper it’s “cooperation” to counter Iran, China, and Russia. But @RepThomasMassie calls it a direct threat to American sovereignty. Rep. @RoKhanna is filing an amendment to kill it in committee. And @mtgreenee went even further, warning this is exactly what foreign influence looks like in legislation.

It’s hidden inside a $1+ TRILLION annual defense bill that most members never read.

The real question: Who actually decides US foreign policy: you, your elected reps, or the same national security blob that keeps dragging us deeper into foreign entanglements? And why is this being decided in the shadows, instead of open debate with the consent of the people?

[Minnesota Twins @Twins]

Look What You Made Austin Do

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

Great idea, but close the departments, don't replace the personnel.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Trump orders acting DNI Bill Pulte to carry out “mass firings” at U.S. intelligence agencies.

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

@TOzgokmen Agreed, and if it does they'll kill it.

They could have 100% replaced oil with hemp over 3-5 decades starting during the Great Depression, but it's too cheap and decentralized. They need a huge moat for control reasons.

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

Not fast enough @TOzgokmen

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Japan’s major oil company ENEOS has started producing synthetic fuel using CO₂ and hydrogen derived from water at its Yokohama facility.

It currently produces about 1 barrel a day, but aims to scale to around 10,000 barrels per day by 2040.

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

Wiping out the fake value adders of society is a silver lining, otherwise we're about 10 years from a top influencer and his of gf winning the white house.

[AdinUpdate @AdinUpdate]

Streamer Adin Ross is currently filing for bankruptcy after losing over $40 million due to today's crypto crash.

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

A critical thinker might come to a logical conclusion that this further indicates our country is run by liars and thieves.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says negotiations have now fallen apart completely, seizing all messaging channels with the US following new US strikes on commercial vessels in southern Iran and the ongoing Israeli military's invasion of southern Lebanon, per Fars.

Iran also says talks were already fully deadlocked over the US refusing to release $24 billion in frozen funds without nuclear concessions in return. Iran is also rejecting Al Arabiya's claim today that Iran agreed to transfer part of its enriched uranium to a third country, calling it "incorrect" with nuclear discussions being "fundamentally not on the current negotiation agenda."

[Peter Djerf @PeterDjerf]

This is why you bring in a pit bull. Gut then replace with a Washingtonite.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP ORDERS ACTING DNI BILL PULTE TO BEGIN MASS FIRINGS AT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

TRUMP DEEMS OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE “UNNECESSARY” AND TOO LARGE