Smack on. Luke, Is there any way to help the populace grasp this?

Well this is pretty amazing. Hope it goes to #1 in the UK.

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2020: The Science™ is settled 2021: Trust the Science™ 2022: Sorry you lost your job for not trusting The Science™ 2023: We have recalled The Science™ from the market 2026: The Science™ pleads the 5th

Sad Little Man was a song well ahead of its time. Now that the world is catching on to what kind of person Anthony Fauci actually is, it should spread like wildfire. Let’s make that happen.

My simple question for Anthony Fauci this morning: who the fuck do you think you are? Fauci’s message to the countless Americans he locked in their homes, who were fired from their jobs over vax mandates, the children he forced to wear masks? “I plead the 5th.” Criminal.

Dear @keir_starmer, you seemed very heartbroken when George Floyd, the American convicted felon died in the United States. BUT you are not in the least bit moved that your own citizen Henry Nowak was murdered and the police were complicit in his demise. Any kneeling for Mr. Nowak or only for American felons of color?

The Shawshank Redemption flopped in theaters, $16 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, opening weekend just $727,000 in 1994, it disappeared almost immediately. It lost all seven Oscar nominations to Forrest Gump, no awards, no box office, the studio labeled it a failure and the director walked away devastated. Then something quiet started happening, VHS rentals, cable reruns, someone watching it alone on a Tuesday night and calling a friend the next morning. People who watched it told their friends, their friends told more people, it spread slowly, one recommendation at a time, no marketing push just genuine word of mouth. By 2008 it reached number one on IMDb, the audience voted it the greatest film ever made and it has stayed there ever since. It took 14 years to get there, a box office bomb turned into the highest rated film in history, built entirely by viewers long after the studio had already moved on.

Male attractiveness is math. Here are the actual numbers: Shoulder to waist ratio: 1.6 (shoulders 1.6x your waist) Body fat: Sub 12% (ideally 8-10%) Waist to hip ratio: 0.8 or lower Neck circumference: 15-17 inches on lean frame Waist: No more than 45% of your height in inches What that looks like in practice: - 6’0 guy at 10% body fat - 32 inch waist - 51 inch shoulders - 16 inch neck That’s the target Most guys are 1.3 ratio or lower… That frame is invisible. The gap between invisible and turns heads isn’t genetics; It’s 6-12 months of deliberate training and eating. Your waist comes down fast (4 to 8 weeks with a real catabolic system); Your shoulders take 6 to 12 months to build out. Start with the waist; The ratio fixes itself.

Alexander the Great conquered the known world by age 32. He did it by asking one question that no general before him had ever thought to ask. Not "how do I match their strength?" But "where is the gap?" Aristotle taught him the difference. It is called first principles thinking, and it is the reason Alexander never lost a single battle in his entire life. At Gaugamela, Alexander faced a Persian force that outnumbered his by a ratio of five to one. Some historians put it higher. Every military commander on the field was running the same template: more soldiers means more force, more force means you spread your line wide, defend against encirclement, engage across the full front. This was not a tactical opinion. It was the accumulated logic of every battle anyone had ever studied. Alexander looked at the same situation and asked a different question. Not how do I survive this, but what is actually true here at the most fundamental level. He studied Darius's formation until he found it. A gap. Small, temporary, the kind that only exists for a moment in the chaos of a shifting line. He reorganized his entire cavalry around that single point. Then he rode directly at it himself, at full speed, with everything he had. Darius fled the field. The Persian Empire ended that afternoon. Here is what Aristotle actually taught him. There are two ways to think about any problem. The first is reasoning by analogy. You look at what is in front of you, search for the closest thing you have already seen, and apply that template forward. This is not a failure. It is extraordinarily efficient. It is how you learned your profession, how you function at speed, how civilization scales without having to rediscover fire every generation. Without analogical reasoning you would spend your entire life solving problems that were solved a thousand years ago. The second is reasoning from first principles. You ignore the template entirely. You ask what is actually true at the most fundamental level, strip away every assumption that is only true because someone decided it was, and rebuild your understanding from that ground up. You arrive at conclusions the template would never have generated. The insight is not that one mode is better. It is that they fail in opposite situations. Analogical reasoning works perfectly inside a stable system where the template still matches reality. It fails catastrophically at the frontier, because the frontier is exactly where the existing templates are wrong. When you apply a map to a territory it was not designed to describe, the map does not warn you. It just leads you somewhere incorrect with complete confidence. This is why every major disruption follows the same pattern. The people who get disrupted are not stupid. They are the most sophisticated analogical reasoners in the field, applying the best available templates with perfect internal logic. And those templates, built entirely from the history of the existing system, are structurally blind to what a genuinely new thing actually is. Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 and shelved it. Every framework they had said it would destroy their film business. They were correct about the analogy and completely wrong about the conclusion, because the analogy assumed photography was a film business rather than a memory business. The template was so embedded they could not see past it while holding the invention that would replace them. Elon Musk wanted to buy a rocket in 2002. The cheapest price he found was $65 million. So he asked a different question. Not what do rockets cost, but what are rockets made of. Aluminum. Titanium. Carbon fiber. Copper. He priced the raw materials. They came to roughly 2% of the market price. The gap between 2% and 100% was not engineering. It was assumption. Decades of convention and unchallenged procurement logic, passed forward so many times it had started to feel like physics. SpaceX was born in that gap. The reason almost nobody actually uses first principles thinking is not that it is hard to understand. Aristotle wrote it down clearly in the fourth century BC. It has been available to anyone who wanted it ever since. The reason is what it costs. It is slow. It requires you to put down the confidence that comes from convention and sit with genuine uncertainty long enough to reach something real. The brain resists this completely, because the analogical template is faster, cheaper, and almost always good enough. The pull toward the familiar pattern is not laziness. It is the most efficient cognitive system ever built doing exactly what it was designed to do. First principles thinking only becomes worth the cost at the moments where the template has quietly stopped matching reality. Where everyone in the room is agreeing on something that feels like an established fact but is actually just an unchallenged assumption that has been passed forward long enough to seem permanent. Alexander did not beat armies that were five times his size by being braver than every general who came before him. He beat them by asking the question nobody else had thought to ask. The most dangerous thing in any room is not the problem everyone is arguing about. It is the assumption nobody noticed they were all making.

On this day in 1995, the last clan chief in history known to have led his men into battle died at the age of 83. Simon Fraser, the 15th Lord Lovat, was the Chief of Clan Fraser. He was the man Winston Churchill described, in a letter to Joseph Stalin, as “the mildest-mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.” The Scottish Commando chief whom Hitler placed a 100,000 Reichsmark bounty on, dead or alive. He was a well respected man that already had a serious war record before D-Day. The night before D-Day, Lovat addressed his men. He closed with this: “A hundred years from now, your children’s children will say - they must have been giants in those days.” Then came June 6th, 1944. Sword Beach, Normandy. As Brigadier of the 1st Special Service Brigade, Lord Lovat waded ashore leading 3,000 commandos into hell. And behind him came the sound that made the whole scene unforgettable. The English War Office had strictly banned bagpipes in battle. They said it was too conspicuous. Too dangerous. Lovat brought his personal piper, Bill Millin, and gave the order: “Play us ashore.” When Millin hesitated, citing the regulations, Lovat smiled and replied: “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.” So Millin played Highland Laddie, The Road to the Isles, and All The Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border. Men fell around them. Bullets tore through the surf. The noise of artillery was deafening. And through it all, the unmistakable scream of the bagpipes. Captured German snipers later admitted they had Millin in their sights, but didn’t shoot him because they assumed he had gone completely mad. Lovat’s mission was to reach Pegasus Bridge, where British glider troops were desperately holding on. The schedule said 1pm. Lovat and his men fought their way off the beach and arrived at exactly 1:02 PM. He calmly walked up to the commanding officer under enemy fire and apologised for being two and a half minutes late. His commandos then marched across the bridge in the open. Lovat had ordered his men to wear their green berets instead of steel helmets, so the Germans would know exactly who was coming for them. Twelve men were shot through their berets that day. After that, they finally put their helmets on. But they held the bridge. For Clan Fraser, there was something almost mythic about it. Their ancestors had come from Normandy centuries earlier. Now their chief had led Highland soldiers back onto those same shores in one of the most decisive battles in modern history. Six days later, Lovat was given his last rites after being hit by friendly fire from a stray artillery shell. Against all odds, he survived. He returned home a hero. He went on to serve in Parliament, judge cattle internationally, and manage his massive 250,000-acre Highland estate. But his final years were marked by grief. Two of his sons died within weeks of each other in 1994. Beaufort Castle, his ancestral home, had to be sold that same year. When Lord Lovat died on 16 March 1995, an era died with him. Bill Millin later played at his funeral, bringing the story full circle. The last clan chief who went to war. The brigadier who brought bagpipes onto D-Day. The Highlander with a price on his head. Scotland does not produce many men like that ⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dear followers Not sure how many of you are real humans - BUT I really want to get @Harry_pitt to read my new Philosophy book. Please retweet!!!

The large institutional shorts have a smaller Byzantine Generals problem to solve and some existential motivation. But this may well prove irrelevant if enough nihilistic 20 somethings turn up to the trade as the marginal buyer with a similar winner takes all attitude.

The relative low value of Silver to gold matches their accustomed $0.001 alt coin culture. But, unlike Crypto, there is no equivalent of Pepecoin to distract them. They also hate banks.

And for them, their core worldview is what Rene Girard would have described as Mimetic Desire & Scapegoat mechanism.

I am well aware the following is NOT how a bid stack is meant to work. But the sheer number of bored alt coin bros looking for the “next thing” is in the millions.

Brent, John Exter's pyramid is a helpful way of understanding global liquidity. Whilst old, it still seems relevant today. share.google/ohhQOBkSDZvrOvx…

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