@DonDurrett Your Bitcoin and Metals gains and relevant commentary aside, I appreciate that you care just as much about liberty and its transgressions. A true patriot DD.
Insurance is the oldest of the four ways. It is a nine-trillion-dollar global industry. The equation underneath it was invented in 1560 by a broke Italian gambler.
His name was Girolamo Cardano. He wrote a book called Liber de Ludo Aleae. A short manual on how to win at dice. Nobody in finance read it for four hundred years.
Then in 1996 a ninety-year-old man in New York wrote a book that traced every modern risk model back to that manual. He called it Against the Gods. One thesis. Every dollar of premium ever collected on Earth is a footnote to a gambler scribbling in Milan.
His name was Peter Bernstein. He founded the Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974 and ran money at Bernstein-Macaulay before that. Wall Street called him the historian of risk.
In 2008 a small production company filmed him for thirteen minutes. He walked through the entire five-hundred-year arc. Cardano to Pascal to Fermat to Black-Scholes. Then he stopped and said the industry had built glass towers on the back of an idea a broke Italian scribbled to settle a card debt.
He died the following summer. Age ninety.
Reinsurance premiums crossed six hundred billion dollars last year. Every actuary on Earth prices catastrophe risk with the same expected-value framework Cardano invented to shave the house edge in Milan.
The video is thirteen minutes and twenty-two seconds long. Free. Eleven years on YouTube. Twenty-nine thousand people have watched it.
Almost none of them work in insurance.
Governments have NO INTENTION of ever paying off their debt. They think the game never ends. It always ends the same way, not through self-discipline, but through default disguised as some new "solution" for the people.
@ValerieAnne1970 Not sure if your message makes sense. Not 1 vaccine is appropriate, safe or healthy. You’re not alluding to that, but rather the qty and timing of shots.
Sunburn rates before 1900: minimal, despite people working outdoors 12 hours a day in fields, on boats, on roofs.
Sunburn rates after 1900: epidemic, despite air conditioning and office cubicles and SPF 50.
What changed? The fat in the food.
Your skin is built from the fats you eat. Saturated fat is stable under UV light. Polyunsaturated fat oxidises rapidly the moment the sun hits it.
Eat seed oils → PUFA gets built into skin cell membranes → UV light strikes unstable fat → oxidation → sunburn.
Eat saturated fat → stable membranes → UV tolerance climbs → natural sun protection from the inside out.
Your great-grandfather worked in fields all day on butter, lard, and dripping. He didn't burn. He didn't reapply anything. He didn't own a hat with a UPF rating.
You eat sunflower oil for 50 weeks of the year, then go to Spain for one and come back looking like a boiled lobster.
The sun hasn't changed. The sun is the same sun.
What changed is your cell membranes. They're now made from industrial fat that combusts under UV exposure like cooking oil left in a hot pan.
Carnivores consistently report dramatically improved sun tolerance. Not because meat contains SPF. Because saturated fat builds UV-resistant skin.
You've been blaming the sun for damage caused by what you ate 18 months ago.
My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.
Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.
Great guy, I'm happy for him.
But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.
What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.
Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.
Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.
Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.
Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.
Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.
Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.
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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.
Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.
A HARVARD psychologist says: “if you’ve achieved nothing by 25, you’ve avoided the most destructive illusion of youth”
> In 2021, a Harvard psychologist surprised a lecture hall with an unexpected statement:
“If you haven’t accomplished much by 25, you may have escaped one of youth’s biggest illusions.”
At first, the room laughed.
She wasn’t kidding.
> The illusion of early success.
In your early 20s, the brain seeks quick proof of worth ~status, attention, rapid achievements.
But psychologists warn that chasing recognition too soon can lock people into roles or paths they never consciously chose.
They decide too early… and spend years trying to undo it.
> The exploration phase.
Research on career development suggests that people who explore more before 30 often build stronger long-term directions.
Testing ideas.
Making mistakes in public.
Changing course.
At 25 it looks like confusion ….but by 35 it often turns into clarity.
People who feel “behind” in their mid-20s frequently gain something others miss:
Perspective.
Patience.
And a clearer sense of what truly matters to them.
That foundation often leads to better decisions later on.
At the end of the lecture, the psychologist left the students with one final thought:
“You’re not meant to have life fully figured out at 25.”
“You’re meant to discover who you’re not.”
RFK JR:
Parents, whatever you do, “DO NOT allow your children to go to sleep with a cell-phone next to their head!”
I haven’t even put a phone to my head to talk for many years… I always talk on speaker now.
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-Uber no tiene coches.
-Booking no tiene hoteles.
-Fiverr no tiene empleados.
-Airbnb no tiene casas.
-BlaBlaCar no tiene coches.
-Amazon no tiene tiendas.
-Spotify no tiene música.
-Netflix no tiene cines.
-Udemy no tiene universidades.
-Coursera no tiene aulas.
-DoorDash no tiene restaurantes.
-LinkedIn no tiene trabajos.
-Indeed no contrata a nadie.
-Glovo no cocina la comida.
-Instacart no tiene supermercados.
-Etsy no tiene artesanías.
-YouTube no tiene vídeos.
-TikTok no tiene contenido.
-Expedia no tiene hoteles ni vuelos.
-Robinhood no tiene acciones.
-eBay no tiene productos.
-Just Eat no tiene cocinas.
-Rappi no tiene tiendas.
-Tinder no tiene parejas.
-Idealista no construye casas.
-Wallapop no fabrica productos.
-Vinted no cose ropa.
-Patreon no crea artistas.
-Twitch no juega videojuegos.
-Substack no escribe newsletters.
-App Store no desarrolla apps.
-Google Play no programa software.
-Steam no hace videojuegos.
-Tripadvisor no tiene restaurantes.
-OpenTable no tiene mesas.
-Deliveroo no tiene chefs.
-Stripe no tiene dinero.
-PayPal no imprime billetes.
-Reddit no escribe los posts.
-X no crea los tweets.
-Facebook no crea publicaciones.
Los que más ganan no siempre crean el producto.
Construyen la plataforma.
O controlas la distribución, o trabajas para quien la controla.
El dinero no siempre está en crear. Muchas veces está en conectar.
No hace falta poseer el activo. Hace falta poseer la atención, el tráfico o la transacción.
En Internet, el que organiza el mercado muchas veces gana más que el que produce.
Los intermediarios siempre son los que más ganan.
Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
The invisible Glass experiment
Scientists once placed a transparent glass barrier inside an aquarium.
On one side was a fierce pike, and on the other side were several smaller fish swimming freely.
When the hungry pike saw the smaller fish, it immediately rushed forward to attack.
Bang. It slammed straight into the glass and bounced back.
Confused, the pike kept trying again and again, but every attempt ended the same way.
The repeated collisions injured its head and knocked off some of its scales. Eventually, the pike became frightened and retreated to a corner of the tank.
After some time, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier. The smaller fish now swam freely throughout the aquarium, even brushing against the pike’s mouth.
But the pike never tried to eat them again.
Even though it was hungry, it refused to attack. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there.
A few days later, the pike reportedly died of starvation, surrounded by food. This phenomenon is often referred to as the Pike Effect or Pike Syndrome.
It’s often used as a metaphor for how repeated failure can create invisible limits in the mind.
Our ancestors had 8 wisdom teeth. Modern men have 0.
Dentists remove 10 million yearly in the US alone - and never tell you what you actually lose.
Told they need to come out? Being pressured before they’ve even fully erupted? No pain but dentist says “remove them anyway”?
Removing wisdom teeth isn’t harmless.
The research shows it reduces neurogenesis, accelerates cognitive decline, stalls jaw development in both directions, and measurably decreases bone density - including in your legs.
Your posterior molars aren’t evolutionary leftovers. They’re load-bearing anchors for your entire skeletal and neurological development.
What actually happens after extraction:
→ Neurogenesis: reduced
→ Jaw development: stalls in both directions
→ Cognitive function: measurably declines
→ Bone density: decreases systemically including legs
The real problem isn’t your wisdom teeth. Modern humans have underdeveloped jaws from mouth breathing, soft food diets, and fluoride suppressing mineralization since childhood. The teeth don’t fit because the jaw never grew - not because they don’t belong.
Support eruption instead:
→ 2L milk daily + tamarind + boron 6-8mg + magnesium + K2 + mastic gum chewing
The mechanism: proper mineralization → PTH suppressed → K2 activates osteocalcin → jaw bone density builds → mastic gum chewing creates remodeling signal → space develops → wisdom teeth erupt properly
Most dentists remove them in 20 minutes for $1,500. Telling you to mineralize costs them nothing.
Your wisdom teeth aren’t the problem.
Modern dentistry profits from removing what your ancestors had 8 of.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED, and the room erupted.
All. Not just COVID. ALL.
JOSEPH LADAPO: "Every last one is wrong and DRIPS with disdain and slavery! Who am I, or anyone else, to tell YOU what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your CHILD should put in their body? I don't have that right. Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your Body and God."
"Pretty much every state has them. It's WRONG."
Do you firmly support this decision?
A. Huge Yes
B. No
IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏
@ElMapaInversor@PeterSchiff@saylor El Mapa, Why don’t you come at it from a morality standpoint? Support more pumping of digital fake #s-ponzi, or finally realize hard assets are superior and more valuable in every way? I’m convinced, there’s big people behind the scene for Saylor. He can’t be this naive..