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[Higgenbotham]

If you're above the 96th to 98th percentile, the best way to make money is to dumb yourself down.

I did a forced dumb down in my 20's to make money, yet still be independent. I was working in a corporation with the 97th percentile and wanted to get away from them.

The way I did it was to buy foreclosed houses from banks, the VA, HUD, etc., and renovate them. It was just cookie cutter, 97th percentile style. Same thing over and over. What I mean by forced dumb down was to pick a business where I was boxed into operating at the 97th percentile and no higher. That's the key to monetary success in this dumbed down civilization.

[Higgenbotham]

Anybody who has been reading this thread for the past couple years witnessed my most recent forced dumb down. It was my bot smashing. Smashed the bots over and over, day after day. Nothing fancy, just the same thing over and over and over, 97th percentile style. It doesn't take huge intellectual capacity to figure out what the bots are doing and take a piece out of them over and over. It especially helped that everyone thinks the bots are invincible, so I had no competition.

[aeden]

It doesn't matter anymore. It was stated day one in review on the forums to see what it takes to make them leave us alone
as it was written.
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif issued a press release Tuesday that stated: “No one is above the law.
I rest my case since any thinking taxpayers knows the gang of eight tossed the doj and fbi under the bus.
Operation flypaper was for the political twelve year olds to witness the flies stuck on the paper as to what Hosea
seen as the political filth overtaking the land.
What will happen now has already been written. If they bring up color you are dealing with village idiots.
If they bring up class you are dealing with useful idiots.
Democrats are basic idiots thinking they understand what they have done.

The ancient subject to תּתּך, which is wanting, or appears to be wanting, is sought to be supplied from the context.
The pretext is already known.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chuck-schume ... 43990.html

32.6% Stocks 5.8% Bonds 61.6% Short-term reserves
Not including today

[aeden]

https://www.amazon.com/Muller-Journals- ... 679&sr=1-4

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02- ... t-week-cnn

The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. psalm 121:7

[aeden]

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... eap#p42790 Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:34 pm

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02- ... story-2018

https://us.spindices.com/documents/comm ... nload=true

The underperformance of the S&P 500 High Beta Index (the year’s worst-performing factor) had already
begun by the half-way point of 2018 – presenting,with all the benefit of hindsight, a potential canary in
the coal mine.

This time H early was not wrong when we went short. The Beast was not amused.

"It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again."

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ary#p41921 as you noted for me, ty

anyways, https://www.nap.edu/read/9595/chapter/13#224

[aeden]

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/new ... ge-dimick/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72G8TLtTCk
dust and the rate of melt
soil destabilization
we covered the forrest study on relative humidy as pressure of water vapor to the equilibrium vapor pressure
on moisture collectors surveys from grid structured annihilation.
checker board rainforest study

the list https://www.deathcanary.com/websites-th ... nary-likes

https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792 ... k=Zav3ceqA

[aeden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BsZlRKKgX4 icke ice nined
Cognitive infiltration is a term coined by Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule to the use of "cognitive" provocateurs and front groups.
Limited hangout is intelligence formed propaganda.

[Higgenbotham]

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ary#p41921 as you noted for me, ty

https://www.deathcanary.com/websites-th ... nary-likes

Yes, I think the potential deflationary forces are much stronger than in 2008. Also, I had talked in previous years about the deflationary jolt that would come due to the gap between natural levels and artificial pumping. I think in December the first push toward that chasm was made but there's a long way to go.

This is more for my own review than anything. It helps me to filter out the noise:

Back around 2009, I talked about a "deflationary jolt". Probably the market was long term overvalued at that time with the S&P at 1100. Surely there is potential for a massive deflationary jolt, or as the guys from Goldman stated to Michael Lewis a "flash crash times ten.

It is worth noting however that on page 234 of Flash Boys, Michael Lewis cites Ron Morgan and Brian Levine, Goldman Partners and co-heads of Goldman's global stock markets, who said that "Unless there are some changes, there's going to be a massive crash, a flash crash times ten."

What I mean by that (a "deflationary jolt") relative to stocks is you wake up one morning and the stock indexes are down 10 or 20 percent, or maybe even more.

What I see on the graph of 20 year olds minus 63 year olds (or my smoothed graph) is Bernanke having fought against a 10 year tidal wave, the result of which will cause a very short term acute impact (which I have referred to as a "deflationary jolt") rather than spreading the impact out over 1-2 decades, which would have been much better.

[aeden]

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https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/08/netf ... ocasio-cor

If you missed the trend the progs have already infested netflix.... Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:20 am

[John]

> Then there's the other problem -- what's the point? I ask myself
> that question every day. Only 30-40 people thought my book was
> valuable enough to spend a few dollars to buy it. I've posted over
> 3,000 articles on Breitbart since 2010, but they've made it clear
> that they don't consider it worth paying for. It's nice that you
> admire me, and I appreciate it, but the bottom line is that if
> what I'm doing were worth anything, then somebody somewhere would
> be willing to fund it on a regular basis, either by direct
> funding, or by paying me a salary as a journalist, analyst or
> Senior Software Engineer. But nobody is. So everything I do is
> worthless. This is the Cassandra curse. And if everything I do is
> worthless, then I'm worthless. That's the way I feel. So what's
> the point?

> How much was Cassandra worth as a human being? She was ridiculed
> when she predicted the fall of Troy. After her predictions came
> true, she was assaulted and raped. Then she became the slave and
> mistress of the Greek king Agamemnon. She warned Agamemnon that
> if they return to Greece then his wife, Clytemnestra, will kill
> them both. Agamemnon did not believe her and they returned to
> Greece, where Clytemnestra killed them both.

> So Cassandra was ALSO a completely worthless human being, who
> accomplished nothing that anyone valued.

> I have a particularly harsh view of life (or at least my life)
> that if something has no monetary value then it's worthless, and
> therefore the stuff that I've done -- the book, the articles, the
> software engineering -- is all completely worthless, and therefore
> I'm a completely worthless human being. It's nice being told that
> I'm benefiting mankind, or other kumbaya nonsense, but if it
> doesn't translate into money, then it's worthless.

> OK, let me start at some generic beginning and then work toward
> the specifics. A generic beginning could/would start with what
> industries "translate into money" by having sufficient payback
> from advertising to advertise all evening on cable TV to the
> masses. And what I see are a few categories popping up
> repeatedly: junk food (most notably), pharmaceuticals (presumably
> profitable due to all the junk food Americans consume), insurance,
> and ambulance chasing law firms. Maybe I missed a couple
> categories (Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers now comes to mind) but
> you get the idea.

> So by your logic above, since these types of "industries"
> currently translate into money, they are not worthless. In the
> strict accounting sense, this would be true.

> It would also be true that people don't value being warned about
> any of this stuff. Warning people about junk food does nothing to
> curb behavior. In fact, most people I know who have somehow
> convinced themselves they eat a good diet in fact eat a lot of
> processed food.

> If someone were to advertise something that is very valuable, such
> as vegetables that are grown in a way to increase their
> phytochemical content, even though that would in fact be worth a
> lot, it would not sell to the masses. Nobody could afford to
> advertise such a thing and get any payback from it.

> What I really hear you saying in so many words (my unique
> interpretation) is that if you are not operating at the 97th
> percentile, you are worthless. Instead of trying to appeal to
> their intellect, it might be more profitable to take advantage of
> their stupidity.

Well, thanks for that interesting analysis.

I've never been able to take advantage of anyone. There have been
people whom I trusted a great deal, but for whom I was nothing more
than a lamb to be led to slaughter. It's just not in my character to
do the same to someone else. I don't know what percentile that puts
me at, but I am what I am.

A recruiter called me last week and asked whether I would be
interested in a Java developer job in Burlington. She said she had
read my resume and I was a perfect fit. I said, "Sure, but in the
last few months, nobody seems willing to hire anyone over 60." There
was a long pause, and she said, "Ohhhhhhhh. Do you have any younger
friends who might be interested?" I hung up without answering.

Some variation of that happens several times a week. I am no longer
able to get a salary as a software engineer, or as a journalist, or an
analyst, or anything else. If I could perform some useful work that
someone was willing to pay a regular salary for, then I would be worth
something. As things stand, I am a completely worthless human being.
Since I'm worthless, I'm going to run out of money in a few months,
and that will be the end of me and Generational Dynamics. At the same
time, life is increasingly depressing and awful just from the repeated
humiliation. So there are some things I want to get done in the
limited time I have left, and I'm focusing on those. One of those is
the book on China-Japan that I'm currently working on, so that even if
it's the end of me, it won't entirely be the end of Generational
Dynamics.

Since you're into chemistry, here's something amusing that you might
enjoy. The Peaceful Pill Handbook lists many ways to end life. There
is one exotic Korean method, where you squeeze the blood vessels in
your neck. I haven't figured it out, but the online book contains a
video that shows you how. They claim it can be done anywhere,
anytime, without drugs or gadgets or anything. It's good for people
in prisons or nursing homes. There are also substances that one can
use to bring about a peaceful end of life, like nembutal, sodium
cyanide, sodium aznide, sodium nitrite, and dozens others. There are
specific instructions for using each one, including taking something
30 minutes earlier to help prevent vomiting. Some of these are almost
impossible to get, while others are readily available. So Amazon
sells many of them, and one of them is sodium azide, which was used in
automobile airbags, or as a chemical preservative. If you look at
that page, it contains a section on "Customers who bought this item
also bought"? And what product is that? Tagamet, something that can
prevent vomiting. I think that's hilarious.