The Mennonite Investor

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

This feels like a scene out of a sci-fi movie but it’s just my drive to work this morning

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”

“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...

WITH NO RAIL.”

[Mr. Anderson @Truecrypto]

The formula for wealth:

Buy from pessimists.

Sell to optimists.

Repeat until everyone thinks you’re lucky.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Egypt forgot how to build the pyramids.

Rome forgot how to build the aqueducts. Some still carry water today. What they built still stands. Neither civilization remembers how they did it.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

Musk: “And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.”

No army invaded them. The knowledge just stopped getting used, and the moment it did, it was gone.

Same collapse. Compressed into fifty years instead of a thousand.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon… Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

Capability doesn’t sit in a vault. It only exists inside the people doing the work right now.

The second they stop, it doesn’t pause.

It disappears.

That should not scare you. It should focus you.

Nobody loses a civilization to war. They lose it the moment they stop building.

Nobody is owed the future. It belongs to whoever keeps building it.

[Gold Telegraph ⚡ @GoldTelegraph_]

The dollar was backed by gold, then by oil, then by belief.

Belief is the weakest collateral ever invented.

[Zack D. Films @zackdfilms1]

The Danger Of Staring At An Eclipse 😨

[The Fan Account - Citizens Audit | Operation 3143 @TheFanAccountX]

Who made this

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

You are closer to becoming a billionaire than Elon Musk

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

JPM Call With Axon Reveals Race To Fortify U.S. Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drone Swarms https://t.co/Hsn67brZLc

[Ian Cassel @iancassel]

I may love a company today, but there is only a 10% chance I will love it in 24-months. This is further proof you shouldn’t talk openly about your positions unless you are strong enough to change your mind in front of the crowd. The more defending you do, the more you anchor yourself to yesterday’s conviction. https://t.co/PoFEYFTj4h

[Fotos de Fatos @FotosDeFatos]

Após o fim da segunda guerra, milhares de francesas foram humilhadas publicamente por se relacionarem com soldados alemães.

[Puru Saxena @saxena_puru]

Every investment strategy goes through drawdowns but if the process is sound, long-term compounding works.

The worst thing one can do is to abandon a sound strategy during a drawdown and switch to what is currently hot and working (style drift).

Patience + process > emotions.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs literally gave a masterclass on how "stock options" actually work in 1983:

"If somebody came to work for your company, you could let them buy some stock. The problem is they might have to shell out $100,000. If the company went broke, they'd lose all their life savings"

"So when somebody comes to work, let's say the stock's trading at ten dollars a share, you give them the option to buy ten thousand shares at ten dollars. They have four years to exercise that option"

"If the stock goes down or stays the same, they never exercise it. They don't put up any money, they don't lose anything"

"But if it goes to a hundred dollars a share, they can borrow the money to buy it at ten because it's worth a hundred"

"In exchange, we only dole out their ability to exercise 25% a year, locking in people really for four years if the stock goes up"

"Before we went public, over 80% of Apple was owned by the employees. Right now, I'd say over 50% of Apple is owned by the employees"

"I don't think finance is what drives people at Apple. I don't think it's money. But feeling like you own a piece of the company, and this is your damn company"

"We always tell people, you work for Apple first and your boss second"

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1898, author Morgan Robertson published a novel describing a massive luxury ocean liner that hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks because it carries too few lifeboats. The fictional vessel, named the Titan, closely resembles what would later happen in real life—14 years before the construction of the RMS Titanic.

In 1898, American author and former sailor Morgan Robertson published Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, a novella about a gigantic British passenger liner called the Titan that strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks due to a lack of lifeboats. The striking resemblance to the real-life sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, 14 years later, has intrigued readers for more than a century.

In Robertson’s story, the Titan is described as the largest ship ever built, widely regarded as “unsinkable,” and capable of remarkable speed—details that eerily echo how the Titanic was later promoted and perceived.

Despite these apparent parallels, most historians view the similarities as coincidence rather than prophecy. Robertson drew on his maritime background and on real trends in late 19th-century shipbuilding, when ocean liners were rapidly growing in size, speed, and prestige. There were also key differences between the fictional and real disasters, including ship specifications, passenger numbers, and the exact circumstances of the collisions.

Even so, The Wreck of the Titan remains one of the most famous examples of fiction seeming to anticipate a real-world tragedy.

[A Simple Life @position_trader]

Your God is a projection of your mind.

You created him out of your own fears.

You created him out of your own insecurities.

You created him out of your own greed.

Yes, God exists. But you have manipulated His existence to suit your own needs.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇵🇰 A man from the US flew to Pakistan and paid $4,000 to free a family that had been enslaved for 140 years.

The family's bondage started in the 1880s when an ancestor took out a small loan. Under Pakistan's "peshgi" system, kiln owners issue advances to workers. Then manipulate accounts, add interest and arbitrary fines, and declare the debt a family obligation passed to children and grandchildren.

Kids as young as 4 or 5 work to help "repay" it. The math is designed to never reach zero.

Pakistan banned bonded labour in 1992. Estimates suggest hundreds of thousands remain trapped across the country's 20,000+ brick kilns.

Enforcement is nearly nonexistent. Kiln owners have political connections, police frequently collude, and families who try to leave face armed guards, false arrests, or violence against relatives left behind.

Aaron Hutchings paid $4,000. One family. 140 years. Done.

Source: @visegrad24

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

1975 anti-war poster by Ron Cobb, titled “They’re Having Problems With Their Economy Again.”

In 1975, artist and illustrator Ron Cobb produced an anti-war political cartoon depicting a massive bomber casting a dark shadow over civilians in Southeast Asia. The caption, “They’re having problems with their economy again,” serves as a biting, ironic critique of how military campaigns during the Vietnam War devastated local populations while officials often described the conflict in economic or geopolitical terms. The aircraft’s looming presence visually emphasizes how war overshadows and engulfs everyday civilian life.

Cobb was widely recognized for blending detailed illustration with sharp political commentary throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Before later gaining fame for his concept designs in films such as Alien, Star Wars, and Conan the Barbarian, he frequently contributed anti-war and counterculture artwork to underground newspapers and magazines. His work consistently challenged militarism, environmental harm, and corporate influence, establishing him as one of the era’s most prominent political cartoonists.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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