I didn't go to college until I was 30. This gave me a chance to see it with the perspective of an adult.
One lecture in Industrial Psychology, in particular, I will never forget.
The professor spoke about how an effective job description focused on concretely measurable tasks, not vague instructions, or characteristics.
For example, "maintain an 85% or greater average on customer feedback surveys", instead of "be cheerful and upbeat", or even "interact positively with customers".
This means that goals are clear, and performance is measurable. A job is to do something, not be something.
Once some of the students had wrapped their minds around this concept, the professor decided to do a class exercise.
He asked the female students to come up with a job description for "husband". At first, this went fine. The girls noodled around a bit with things they wanted their husbands to be (tall, etc), but he was able to gradually steer them towards describing what they wanted in terms of actions.
But then he asked the male students to define a wife in the same way.
And all the girls became upset. Some of them had full-on meltdowns.
Every single thing that a male student wanted, or expected, from his hypothetical future wife was sexist, oppressive, old-fashioned, misogynistic, patriarchal, etc.
They were literally screaming. Some of them in tears.
And I realized something pretty quickly. It wasn't the actual, concrete responsibilities of the female role that they objected to.
It was the idea of there being a female role at all, with any attached responsibilities.
These women didn't want to be wives. They wanted to be pets.
What's a pet? Well a pet is not a wife, or a friend. A pet is a creature of instinct, which you bring into your home because you like how it naturally behaves.
You get a cat because you want to behave like a cat, and do things a cat naturally does, like play with string, and purr when you pet him. If he's smart, he'll adapt to you somewhat, but he doesn't have responsibilities other than "be a cat".
If you get a wife, you get a wife so she will do things for you, specific things that are the responsibilities of wife, like care for your home, bear and raise your children, cook nutritious meals so you don't have to eat processed slop, look after your emotional well-being, and so on.
These girls didn't want to be held responsible for those things. As married women, they might have anticipated doing some of them, but only some of the time. Only when they felt like it.
The cat chases the string if and when it wants to, not because chasing the string is its job.
These young millenial women didn't realize it, but they wanted to be pets. And that's what they were in their college relationships. They hung out with guys when they wanted to, had sex with them when they wanted to, broke up with them for someone new when they wanted to.
Their relationships had no element of reciprocal responsibilities. They were perfectly at home with the idea of men having responsibilities to them, but they would repay those men if they chose, and how they chose, not how the men actually wanted.
And as I've said twice already, someone you have responsibilities to, but who has none to you, is a pet, or a child.
Since our ancestors, in a moment of foolishness and weakness, allowed women to vote, it is no longer legal to dole out the corrective spankings a great many of them both need and read pornographic novels about.
Therefore, the corrective measure, for any man who finds himself with a pet instead of a wife, is to withdraw from any husbandly duties and start actively searching for alternatives.
This can either result in a correction of the behavior, or the end of a relationship that offers no value. Either is acceptable.
This may strike some of you as dishonorable, but there is no honor in keeping a broken pact, or in serving those who despise you.
Men must have the pride and self-worth to say "I will be honored and respected, or I will depart to a place where I can be, even if I must be alone there."
Men must honor and respect themselves.
I don’t post about my service much.
Not because it was small. Because most of it doesn’t travel. Where you were, when you were there, and who stood next to you decide what the story means. Outside that circle, the humor sounds wrong and the details sound like damage. Veterans don’t need the translation.
I was not a hero.
I served with pride in the 82nd Airborne, in SCOP and Assault CP, the signal and tactical satellite units that kept a fight from going silent. I did the work. I came home mostly whole. That was never a solo act. The men and women beside me made me sharper, steadier, and able to walk back through the door. They are the real highlight reel. They already know who they are.
Then one of them said my name.
Not a stranger. My platoon sergeant. My friend. My mentor.
Moon Mullins.
That one I won’t keep quiet.
Thank you, Moon.
All the way. Radio.
what Elon Musk has done to make my life better:
- electric cars
- satellite internet
- saved free speech
what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better:
- nationwide next-day delivery
- architecture that powers the internet
what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make my life better:
- made the internet searchable
- online email and documents platform
what Mark Zuckerberg has done to make my life better:
- social media to keep me connected to friends
- online ads platform
what Larry Ellison has done to make my life better:
- database software for my businesses
- data centers for AI and cloud computing
what Jensen Huang has done to make my life better
- hardware that powers the AI revolution
what Bernie Sanders has done to make my life better:
@RaoulGMI I pre-ordered this on Audible. Can't wait! I think it will complement "The Coming Wave", by Mustafa Suleyman, which I just finished. Good luck!
This continues to be the single best answer to any question ever asked about American history.
This are the real facts about the founding, all of which have been buried by people who want you to believe the American founding was evil and oppressive.
Never apologize for America. It is the beacon of light to the world.
Why the Decoupling Is Happening — Three Competing Theories
1. Mean Reversion / Lag Effect (Bullish Interpretation)
Analysts like Fidelity Digital Assets argue the historical correlation remains intact but Bitcoin is simply lagging by ~60–90 days, as it has done in prior cycles. Under this thesis, Bitcoin is a coiled spring — the liquidity has been printed, and Bitcoin will eventually "catch up," potentially violently to the upside.
2. Structural Bear Signal (Bearish Interpretation)
Historically, periods where Bitcoin diverges negatively from M2 have preceded major cycle tops and bear markets lasting 2–4 years. Under this view, the decoupling signals that the speculative premium embedded in Bitcoin is unwinding — the market is repricing Bitcoin's risk-reward, not setting up a rally.
3. Quantum Computing Risk Premium (Novel / Structural)
Analyst Charles Edwards proposed a more unsettling thesis: that newly credible quantum computing threats to Bitcoin's SHA-256 encryption security emerged in 2025, and sophisticated investors are pricing in existential technological risk. This would be a permanent structural repricing, not a cyclical divergence — and it would explain why Bitcoin specifically underperformed while gold did not.