Is there anything more annoying than finance podcasts?

I just got notification that my student loans are now 100℅ paid off. That makes me 100% debt free now. I've had this thing on automatic payments for over a decade and tbh I totally forgot about it and in all that time I only logged in to look at it one time, when the gov paused it during covid. So.... Just in time for more classes 😂

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Vought F4U Corsair - Wikipedia

This will be the first plane I print when I get my dream printer setup.

🤔 blackmail is hard money... I'd bet the amount of blackmail being held rises with the devaluation of fiat. Now... That has ramifications... If blackmail becomes more valuable relative to numerical currencies, then the vices that can be blackmailed must also gain value. If you can't save the value of your work as a number that will retain its value, then that becomes an incentive to work for a different currency. Obviously - anyone here knows this. Just as you might switch careers to facilitate more of the kind savings you want, you (or someone) could start working to put people into vulnerable positions and save that vulnerability for future use. That's a kind of saving that doesn't lose value from inflation. Hard money. But there is still inflation in blackmail... Because this is incented, more of it happens over time. Not only more of the accumulation of blackmail, but also there is work that goes into its accrual over time. So, the devaluation of fiat effectively pushes or invites more vice. Pedophilia seems to be the main blackmailable vice, but we're also finding evidence of satanic rituals, cannibalism, and we can conjecture that things that were viewed as taboo a mere decade ago - such as transgenderism - may have actually started as the work towards blackmailable vice. Maybe homosexuality was the hard currency of several decades ago, pushed for its utility as a blackmailable vice, but it lost its value due to inflation - too many people tried saving value as other people being gay, and then being gay became acceptable, which erased the value of that set of blackmail, which then also increased the value of the remaining blackmail. So there's a domino effect here - first corrupt entities saved value as blackmailable homosexuality, then as pedophilia, and if pedophilia passes the current social test is gets normalized, then the next domino might be satanism or cannibalism. The most extreme blackmail is the most valuable. There's historical ramifications, as well. The end of the Roman Empire mirrored all of this. The mechanism of their inflation was different - Emperors literally melted old coins and recast them with less silver - but the effects were the same. Christianity rose **_with_** the fall of the empire. It did not cause the fall, and the fall did not cause Christianity. It was simultaneous because every step of devaluation accompanied an increase in vice, which Christians denounced. The end of the Roman Empire involved widespread gay orgies, mass murders (often of the people denouncing the immorality, the Christians), a perversion of their old beliefs in their gods and the order of the gods, and innumerable abuses by the powerful against the powerless, which certainly involved the raping of children. All because the state devalued the money. This is not only relevant to Christianity - Islam also rose as the empire fell. There is a verse in the Qur'an that says that God declares war on riba/usurers. It seems obvious to me that usury is one of the vises that proceeds from monetary inflation. And it also seems obvious that the destruction of a society via the increase in vice, corruption, immorality, blackmail, and increasingly desperate powerless people, IS the form of the war God wages against them. This has been an unplanned stream of consciousness. I learned as I went. THIS is the story we must tell. Stop starting with #Bitcoin and #Satoshi - people tune that out. Put that at the end, delicately. And... I don't think we're even close to the end of this blackmail and corruption stuff. We're at the beginning. This will become more and more relevant. #Epstein #history #Christian #Islam #Rome

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