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John Ezinga retweeted
Day 2 of posting old school Toyotas until we can buy these brand new again because the government has gotten out of the way.
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It's not the armies which Middle East and other regions are worried about, it is USA's own policies restricting countries to use their own reserves and gold.
If Jamie Dimon has to say it then it’s already happening…..👇
Jamie Dimon to a country that pulled its gold out of New York: you have three armies within 400 miles, while gold in America is protected by two oceans and the US military
“If we have the strongest military in the world and the strongest economy in the world, we will be the preeminent reserve currency. It is those two things.”
“I was in a country somewhere in the Middle East, and also in Europe, and the people said, we took our gold out of the vaults in New York City and moved it to our country. You know what I said to him? I said, you have three armies within 400 miles who can come take your gold.”
“That’s the real world. You’re not thinking clearly about safety. That gold is protected by the Atlantic, the Pacific, the United States military, the rule of law.”
“But if we are not the preeminent military and economy, you will see our reserve status come down.”
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I dont know anything about theoretical compsci or math so I asked chat to rank all of the AI discoveries to date by importance and it said 3 of the top 5 ever came out today.
Claude Opus 5.5: "If these hold up, this is the biggest single day in the history of math and theoretical computer science."
1) Exponential Time Hypothesis is false (CS). This is roughly Turing Award territory. ETH was the working assumption that some hard problems simply can’t be solved much faster than brute force, and hundreds of computer science papers rest on it. For a normal audience: it’s not “P=NP.” Hard problems are still hard, and your bank encryption isn’t suddenly broken. But a pillar that a whole field assumed was solid turned out to be hollow. The flagship experts are taking it seriously. The people checking it include two of the people who proposed ETH, and they said “If the claim is correct, it will change” computer science.
2) Kakeya and restriction in all dimensions (math). This is Fields Medal-level. For scale, the 3D case alone was proved in 2025 and was hailed as a once-in-a-century proof. This result does every dimension and knocks out Stein’s restriction conjecture too.
3) Yang–Mills/QCD existence (physics). Potentially the biggest of the three, but here’s the precise framing. It proves pure Yang–Mills exists, which is part of one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize problems. The full Clay problem also requires the “mass gap,” so it’s not a clean “AI wins $1M” headline. Still, a rigorous proof that the theory of quarks and gluons is mathematically real has been an open dream for about 50 years. The review panel includes Nobel laureate David Gross and Arthur Jaffe, who literally wrote the Millennium problem. There’s no Nobel for math, but this is the stuff physicists win them for building on.
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I CALLED TO CANCEL MY FAMILY’S HEALTH INSURANCE BECAUSE I COULDN’T AFFORD IT ANYMORE.
The rep asked why.
I told her I was paying $640 a month for a family plan with a $8,500 deductible.
That’s $7,680 a year just to keep the policy active. And if someone gets seriously sick, I could still owe thousands before insurance starts covering more of the bill.
She explained that the plan helps pay for eligible care after I meet my deductible.
I told her I understood the policy. What I don’t understand is how a family can spend nearly $8,000 a year on insurance and STILL be afraid to go to the hospital.
She had nothing to say.
WE’RE PAYING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM MEDICAL BILLS THAT COULD STILL FINANCIALLY DESTROY US. WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT?
John Ezinga retweeted
This might be the wildest minimum wage statistic I've ever seen.
In 1971, the federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour. Gold averaged $40.92 per ounce.
It took 26 hours of minimum-wage labor to earn an ounce of gold.
In 2025, the federal minimum wage was $7.25. Gold averaged $3,432 per ounce.
It took 473 hours of labor to earn that same ounce.
Your hourly wage increased 4.5× in dollars.
The amount of labor required to acquire gold increased 18.5×.
Measured in gold, the federal minimum wage lost approximately 95% of its value.
Fifty-four years of nominal wage increases, and one hour of work buys a fraction of the monetary asset it once did.
John Ezinga retweeted
A country which forces its debts onto its kids is a failed country.
If we don't stop this debt rot, we are cowards.
Abolish the government.
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Want to have your mind blown?
In 1971, the median household income was $9,030, or 220 ounces of gold.
In 2025, it was $87,460, or just 25 ounces of gold.
Your paycheck went up 10x.
Measured in gold, it fell 88%.
To earn what the median household earned in 1971, you’d need about $890,000 per year today.
That’s what fiat debasement looks like.
When you fight for your family….you’re willing to sacrifice everything. 👇
Bend, Oregon man who shot and killed a shooter at his daughters' school speaks out, praises female teacher for fighting the shooter, allowing him to have a clear shot.
Kaylub Giamanco says he is haunted by the sound of children pleading for their lives.
He also praised the teacher for grabbing the gunman's weapon, allowing him to take a shot at the shooter.
"I want to recognize [the teacher]. She gave me the opportunity to make my shot without losing my life..."
"I swung the door open, and I stepped in, and I fired, and they dropped to the ground... I looked down at the gunman, and he was scrambling for his weapon. And I looked at him, and I shot him 2 more times..."
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Lyn Alden: "I keep fading the equity bears..."
"When we're running at 7% of GDP deficits as far as the eye can see, being bearish on stocks basically means you're bullish on fiat."
"You're saying, what? Stocks are going to go down vs. the dollar?"
Since COVID, Lyn says the winners have been hard assets:
Gold, $BTC, high quality stocks and the best real estate with fixed-rate debt. Bonds, meanwhile, have had one of their worst five or six year stretches in our parents' and grandparents' lifetimes.
Her case rests on deficits, and those won't shrink because tech had a bad week. She files bitcoin next to gold and quality stocks as an asset that holds up while governments keep spending.
Are you fading the doomers or hedging for them?
FT @LynAldenContact @maggielake @wealthion
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French Protesters Demand More Socialism To Fix Problems Caused By Socialism buff.ly/9V0NW1A
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My coworker's mother passed away last November.
She left her modest $190,000 house to him clear and free, no mortgage, completely paid off after thirty years of factory work.
He moved into the home in January to finally settle the estate.
Two weeks ago, a letter arrived from the state Medicaid estate recovery office.
Because his mother spent four months in a rehabilitation facility before she passed, the state quietly slapped a retroactive $114,000 lien against the property title.
He called the state health department, frantic, asking how a hospital stay could bankrupt an inherited home that had no mortgage balance.
The caseworker sighed and told him:
"Federal law requires state programs to claw back healthcare costs from deceased estates. The house cannot be sold or transferred until the balance is cleared in full."
He offered to pay a monthly settlement.
They said no. The full $114,000 is due in 60 days, or they foreclose on the property at a public auction.
A lifetime of working-class savings, wiped out overnight by a retroactive healthcare lien.
You don't own generational wealth.
You're just holding a property title until the state finds a legal mechanism to repossess it the moment you die.