Why is Visa in a position to define limits of speech or affect political development? The must read Bismarck Brief (follow @bismarckanlys) on Visa closely this financial giant.

Militaries hate and dread important or existential wars that necessitate risk and effort and present a real chance of failure and defeat. But the only thing they love more than parading during peacetime is fighting a pointless, unimportant war with low stakes and high emotion.

The biographies of the founders of Japan's top companies and institutions are full of sex, insanity, and crime, including war crimes. Yet today their organizations exemplify staidness, conformity. An extreme example of founders building institutions that would never accept them.

While you're already complaining about the Visa/MC duopoly censoring stuff I'd like to remind you that if you live outside of the US and use these services 1-3% of the transacted money gets drained out of your national economy and sent to America every time you buy something

Your phone listens to you and gives you targeted ads based just on what's said (this is denied in almost all mainstream media, but IIRC there do exist various leaked documents that show it's true. Experience is really more than enough in this case).

Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."

Some say that the Western countries cannot do without the mass immigration. Technically speaking, that is not true. An alternative solution does exist, in theory. I mean an effective expropriation of the elderly, making them fill all the hard, low paid jobs, just to survive

Bertrand Russell wrote a self-help book on how to be happy called “The Conquest of Happiness” (1930). Some of the passages are pretty funny.

It is a plain historical and economic fact that the Boomers stole this from you and instead gave you the underemployed mess of AI job applications and entry-level jobs demanding PhDs we have today. We went from high-growth to low-growth under Boomer protests and then leadership.

I fault them for not pursuing the obvious solutions to overpopulation: nuclear power and expansion into space.