John L.

Trinitarian. Mises, mended by Moses. The common failure mode: substitute the content, leave the form. End the FED. Return to spec. The Great Default looms.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

Bad Collateral Cases Tracker (Sep 2025 - Mar 2026)

Total to Date: Over $4 billion.

💰Sky Auto Mall (dealership): Mar 2026; $12.3M fraud scheme.

💰Broadband Telecom / Bridgevoice (telecom): Oct 2025; $430M+ lender exposure.

💰Western Alliance / Cantor (distressed mortgages): Oct 2025; ~$100M exposure.

💰Zions Bancorp Borrowers (distressed mortgages): Oct 2025; ~$60M loans impacted.

💰First Brands Group (auto parts): Sept 2025; ~$2.5B in fabricated invoices.

💰Tricolor Holdings (subprime auto lender): Sept 2025; ~$683M-$800M overstated collateral.

These aren't isolated scams—they're the consequences of the FED's fractional reserve fever dream: multiply money from nothing, watch collateral evaporate like ethics in a boardroom, and boom, the whole economy's one big Ponzi punchline.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

“Unpopular opinion: you should do with your property what I want.”

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Unpopular opinion: Landlords should not be able to increase rent unless they're upgrading the apartment.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@hoeberian @DavidBCollum Hire a couple of programmers for six weeks vs. doing it yourself.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@JG_Nuke Wrong—Nobody Special saw this coming.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@wokal_distance This argument presupposes the government taxing property is legitimate.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@cmuratori I’m most surprised by the fact that they used the term “man-machine interface”. That’s so sexist.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@DavidBCollum Dave, let’s give it 50 years. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

[Grummz @Grummz]

Yep, this explain a lot.

The Lego study showed that girls want to change characters to be more like them, while boys wanted to BE the character.

This leads to a big mess when you are making, say, the next Batman game, or next shooter.

Women can be in game dev, they just have to respect what made the franchise, you know, successful and not try to change every game or movie to be fem coded.

Keep existing franchises male oriented and it's fine. Asian game teams have had lots of women way before the West became obsessed with it and they did fine...because they had that focus.

Women team leading women focused games, also great. But that tends to work best on mobile puzzle games , and we all know those aren't real games. 😂

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@cmuratori I’m glad someone finally said it.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@DavidBCollum Peer-reviewed, government-funded science has long been captured to push anything but science. Severing all federal funding would do wonders to the scientific enterprise.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@DavidBCollum Many humans were also shipped overseas and destroyed. WWII destroyed labor.

[Jason Goepfert @jasongoepfert]

Look, I know none of this stuff matters anymore. But my G*d.

This will be the 4th time the S&P 500 $SPY has hit a record high while 5% of its members fall to 52-week lows.

1. July 1929
2. January 1973
3. December 1999
4. Today

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

The tree threatens the carbon credit market, the capture technology IP portfolio, and the climate funding apparatus.

A tree is free, decentralized, requires no funding gate, no regulatory approval, no proprietary system.The solution that works but can't be owned is the one that gets dismissed.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

.@TomANelson I was in a seminar on new technology for capturing CO2 to prevent climate change. I calculated how many tons of CO2 was occluded by planting a single white pine sapling and asked, "Will any technology beat that?" They retorted, "The tree will die eventually", at which point I said, "Plant another."

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

"AI is coming for jobs" fails Econ101: when the price falls, more is demanded. One engineer + LLM agents works faster & cheaper. The market demands more work--more features, more capability, new domains. Faster.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

Unfortunately, this list is too recent. The first date should be July 4, 1776.

The second date should be 1787 (constitutional convention).

It goes downhill from there.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

1913: federal reserve bank and what followed
1947: invention of the CIA and what followed
1963: the loss of JFK and what followed.

Let me add 1919: women voting and what followed.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@DavidBCollum Remember, Dave. He can lower the rate paid on reserve balances while also shrinking the monetary base. No one pays attention to the monetary base.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Stop what you are doing and read this.
And then share it.

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

Who else remembers Windows 95 and 98 shouting “What is your major malfunction, numb nuts!” on an error message? Surely I wasn’t the only one who replaced the standard .wav file with this obvious improvement.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

why the actual fuck is a Fox News guest wearing a sophisticated full head mask

[John L. @nuclear_ee]

@DavidBCollum @CoffeeandaMike The rate of change of the monetary base matters. If the rate of increase slows or reverses, it triggers the bust cycle, whatever the time delay. That’s the Austrian theory.