Skye: Our teacher is so cringe sometimes. She started this week's history lesson by trying to jump on this "how often do you think about the Roman Empire?" meme. You know what was funny though? A bunch of people were so damn sure of what caused the Fall of Rome, and why that matters to us today, including the teacher. "It was clipping the money and inflation, so we need to get the deficit under control and stop printing." "No no, it was the barbarians increasingly coming in to do the work the Romans refused to do, so we gotta fix immigration here." Brian had a pretty out there take: "Cucked Christianity made the Romans weak, just like woke culture is today." Not sure where he heard that lol. The teacher said she thought it was a loss of the spirit and vitality in the culture. Everyone got too comfortable and complacent. All they cared about was bread and circuses and they didn't have the energy or mindset to deal with their problems anymore; always looking for the easy way out. I don't have the energy or mindset to listen to this shit all day. You talk to 10 people and you'll hear 20 different reasons why the world is falling apart, and if only they had the power they could fix everything. Cope more, they usually can't even get their own life in order. #romanempire #howoftendoyouthinkabouttheromanempire #school #historymemes #fallofrome image generated by hotpot.ai

Frank: I know, I know. Another old guy talking about how things were better "back in the day." But think about it. Would you rather grow up in the 60s/70s/80s? Or today? Better music, relationships weren't all virtual, and even things that weren't enjoyable like work were a lot better. It was just more fun to be alive, and that's not just because it hurts to get out of bed some days now 😂😂😂 Maybe the fashion wasn't always the best, but hey, I'll take it. You know what I thought about in the 70s when I thought of what the future would be like? Star Trek! 🚀🚀🚀What do you think about now when you think of the future? The Matrix? Mad Max? 😢😢😭 Haha what happened? Well, you know where I'll be. Come on out and the first round is on me. #nostalgia #70s #60s #80s #okboomer #millenialsruineverything #oldschoolcool image generated by hotpot.ai

Gustav: A very thought-provoking video. The analogy of Bitcoin as the life raft is certainly fitting. The number of countries entering hyperinflation is growing. The previous safe haven of the US dollar is questionable. I read recently the United States added half of Bitcoin's market cap to its debt in a single day. Often, I am asked what backs Bitcoin. I would like to ask what backs fiat currency? It is one thing, faith that it will continue to be useful for purchasing items. This is made up of two components- a hope that the monetary authority will not devalue it (the so-called store of value). And that it will be readily acceptable for exchange (the so-called medium of exchange). As monetary authorities move steeper along the exponential curve of money printing, credibility in the first erodes. The state will have an increasing incentive to ensure or even coerce its continuing use for exchange since the store of value proposition becomes difficult to defend. Historically this takes the form of various flavors of capital controls. Villifying use of alternatives like Bitcoin is an early incarnation of this. And it is realistic that we will see this kind of narrative form. So what backs Bitcoin? It is the mathematically provable certainty of the schedule of issuance, and the ecosystem where no actor(s) can devalue the currency by issuing more recklessly. Everything else flows from there. #bitcoin #keepstacking #ticktocknextblock #money #debt #fiatcurrency image generated by hotpot.ai