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[Mark @hramkomark]

🧵5 brutal truths about life no one wants to admit 👇

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So all those latest LLMs are conscious. Cool…

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Anchoring an economy on a residential housing is not sustainable anymore so some time ago the proposition to anchor the economy on the electricity was made. Right now there is a high chance that this transition will happen 💸

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

Does anyone anywhere really believe all these data centers are being built just so people can talk to ChatGPT and generate images of anime girls with giant racks?

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This article is a great representation of the logic behind early state formation ✅

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ancient empires faced a problem: How do you tax agricultural populations effectively?

Can't tax meat. People can hunt or raise animals in small numbers. Hard to track. Easy to hide.

Can tax grain. Grain requires fields. Fields are visible. Harvests are measurable. Storage is centralised.

Roman Empire: Grain tax (annona). Every farmer owes portion of harvest to the state.

Result: Farmers grow more grain. Because that's what's being taxed and demanded.

Side effect: Less land for grazing animals. Less meat production. Populations shift toward grain-based diets not by choice but by tax structure.

Egyptian Empire: Same system. Grain taxes. Massive granaries. Centralised distribution.

Result: Egyptian diet becomes increasingly grain-based. Bread becomes staple. Meat becomes luxury for those who can afford it after taxes.

Chinese Empire: Grain taxes. Rice and millet collection. Strict accounting.

Result: Chinese diet becomes rice-based. Meat consumption drops as land is converted to grain production to meet tax quotas.

The pattern repeats across every ancient empire: Tax grain, get grain-based populations.

This wasn't about optimal nutrition. This was about tax efficiency.

Grain is:
Easy to count
Easy to store
Easy to transport
Easy to distribute

Meat is:
Hard to count (animals move)
Hard to store (spoils quickly)
Hard to transport (living animals are difficult)
Hard to distribute

From an imperial administration perspective, grain-based populations are easier to govern.

Side effect: Populations become weaker, shorter, less healthy.
But they're easier to tax and control.

The health consequences were documented even in ancient times. Roman physicians noted that grain-fed populations were weaker than meat-fed barbarians.

But changing the tax system to encourage meat consumption would have made empire administration harder.

So grain taxes continued. Populations stayed grain-fed. Health consequences were accepted as the cost of efficient taxation.

Modern tax systems still reflect this: Agricultural subsidies favor grain production. Government nutrition programs distribute grain products.

Not because grain is optimal. Because grain-based systems are administratively simpler.

The grain-heavy food pyramid reflects millennia of tax policy, not nutrition science.

Ancient empires discovered: If you tax grain, people grow grain. If people grow grain, they eat grain. If they eat grain, they're weaker but easier to govern.

Modern governments learned: Same system, different justification. Call it nutrition science instead of tax efficiency.

Your diet is shaped by what's easy to tax, not what's healthy to eat.

Empires chose control over vitality. Every time.

[Mark @hramkomark]

Impeccable comedic timing 😂
@bryan_johnson

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3) Napoleon Bonaparte

The French Revolution (1789-1799) and the subsequent chaos in France was boldly used by Napoleon to form his own order out of fractured French minds. His ruthless execution of the grand strategy and messianic intellect consolidated power in future empire

[Mark @hramkomark]

🧵In challenging or unstable environments, people tend to prioritize actions and behaviors that have immediate, practical benefits, rather than those that have a delayed effect.

That’s why such periods are fruitful on big entities created by stress-resilient psychopaths 👇

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2) Vladimir Lenin

Following the fall of the Russian Empire, Russia was in a state of turmoil with multiple factions vying for control, Lenin’s ruthless tactics and simple ideas of stealing from exploitative rich (his words, not mine) gave a tribal direction for divided populous

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5) Rest, recovery, boredom, and the phrase ‘fuck it’ are way more important than grind and achievements

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🧵5 brutal truths about life no one wants to admit 👇

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4) Luck and timing are as important as hard work when it comes to success

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If you are prone to doubting yourself, doubt your doubts and see them disappear.

[Mark @hramkomark]

Also works with livers and probably other organs too

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Some heart transplant patients pick up traits, and even memories, from their donors

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@NoahRyanCo Not very detailed, but ok

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❝
That’s why I like to be isolated

It was isolation

It was visualization

It was motivation

It was dedication

There was nothing else going on in my life

To get to the pinnacle it needs to be like that - it needs to be no outsiders
❞
- Conor McGregor

[BullsEye @Crypto_BullsEye]

If you guys are looking for ways to improve your brain, be sure to follow @hramkomark

He is great at what he does and provides really great tools about this topic

Keep it up brother!