Having dipped my toe back into some regulated sportsbook/poker sites I cannot believe any person with a gambling problem would jump through all these KYC/AML hoops and not just immediately leave for grey market operators, short them all
you’re 22. you scroll 3 hours a day. it feels harmless
at 28 you can’t read an article without checking your phone twice per paragraph
at 32 you don’t understand why nothing you start ever finishes, you’re still dreaming of this project you wanted to start. still no time
at 40 you’ve never finished a book in a decade.
it all passed
you need to be delusionally optimistic
negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline
whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too.
you must be a silly goose
'Nobody wants to work anymore.'
Real wages haven't risen since 2008. The 40% tax band kicks in at £50,270 and hasn't moved since 2021. Earn between £100K and £125K and you keep 38p of every extra pound. Every promotion drags more of your salary into a higher tax band, where the government takes more than the rise was worth. Final salary pensions got replaced with auto-enrol pots you fund yourself. Pension age keeps moving. Annual leave entitlements haven't budged in over a decade. Sick pay is £123 a week. Council tax went up 5% this year while the bin men come once a fortnight. Childcare costs more than most second salaries. House prices are ten times average earnings. Loyalty got downsized the second the share price wobbled. Working from home got rescinded the second managers wanted their car parks full again.
And the people who did all that are confused about the attitude problem.
Call it a millennial crisis if you want.
But in my 30's, I realized l don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace. I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be. I still want to make money.. just not at the cost of my life.
This couple faked their own deaths for $393,000 in life insurance and moved to Panama. Google Maps exposed them.
John and Anne Darwin of England faked John’s death in a canoe accident in 2002
Anne collected £250,000 in life insurance and pension payouts
John lived in a secret room in their house for years while police searched the sea for his body
Eventually they moved to Panama together
In 2007 John walked into a police station in London and claimed he had amnesia
Police almost believed him
Then a journalist found a photo on Google Images
It was John and Anne together in Panama smiling, taken in 2006
It was on a Panamanian real estate agency website
She got 6.5 years. He got 6 years and 3 months
They were undone by a stock photo on a property website
4 years ago Bill Gates told the world that people had no chance avoiding the clot shot, claiming the vaccinated wouldn’t transmit and the unvaccinated would "endanger their grandparents."
Every single claim turned out to be false and he walked away without a single consequence.
This is honestly one the best verbal shellackings I've ever seen in my life. Nose-ring was absolutely flummoxed and had her head spinning after this brutal beat down.
Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore.
95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing.
And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning:
On the market, Buffett didn't hold back.
He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally."
He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile.
"We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules."
That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined.
When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected:
"I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it."
Think about what he's actually saying...
This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why.
He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots."
In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them.
Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting:
Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime.
Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear.
"Cash is trash" was the mentality.
Nebraska farmers collapsed
because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again.
Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming?
"If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue."
He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight.
"That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky."
A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming.
$380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.
Polymarket’s CMO almost leaked insider info to Clavicular before noticing he was wearing a mic
"You have to understand bro...Oh hold on"
"You almost got me caught."