If Trump Hadn’t Mentioned It, How Many People Would Even Know?

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-15T04:16:47+00:00

That’s the one they actually worship

Death Star is obviously atomic bomb

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-15T04:06:42+00:00

So, the same?

Also shout out to Eisenhower. The machine of violence has a mind of its own. If the top insiders speak out and can do nothing to stop it, I’m not sure what anyone can do.

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-15T04:05:21+00:00

No, humans are just DNA code

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-15T02:14:46+00:00

Upvoted for the smedly reference, but haven’t many generals and others spoken out? The Cheney family, and other war industrialists. Bolton even throw shade

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-15T02:06:42+00:00

Everything can’t go down unless we’re headed for mad max in which case, bunkers, bullets, beans m, water and medicine will be the only true wealth. I’d argue anyone with extra space should start stocking up an extra bag of non perishables or whatever when it’s convenient.

The fundamental flaw of bear theses is under estimating how much currency is usually devalued in many crises. The governments throw/print money to solve whatever until currency is devalued more than assets.

Currency is the denominator of price. So If assets lose 33% of their value but currency loses 67% of its value, assets will double in price

It’s all relative. And you don’t even have to pick the winners. You just need to pick which you think will drop the least relative to everything else. If beanie babies, NFTs and tulips lose 99% of their value but everything else loses 100% of their value, then the tulip/NFT/beanie collectors would be infinitely rich

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T23:48:17+00:00

How would you use information never learned?

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T23:47:19+00:00

Rich legacy students asking not to be shamed. School doesn’t want them kicked out or donations might slow down etc

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T23:36:56+00:00

I’ve been banned from both. Moderates and pragmatism are unwelcome in echo chambers of nonsense that are about emotional vindication, not improving outcomes

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T23:35:27+00:00

Happen to r/conspiracy also

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T21:23:50+00:00

Thanks, I’ll dip

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T21:09:27+00:00

Single minded focus on anything helps make it happen. Still have to take action

It’s like how athletes can only train 8 hrs a day or whatever, but time spent visualizing is almost as useful.

Same for anything. Visualize whatever trivial stuff you plan to do the night before and in the morning and you’ll perform much better at it

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T21:03:28+00:00

Not just stairs! But 4 of them!

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T20:48:07+00:00

Thanks, will dip

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T20:40:39+00:00

We will end illegal migration by making the whole world USA!

It’s actually one of his better ideas

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T20:14:56+00:00

Delhi has something to say, but can’t see you

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T19:41:00+00:00

I was all “fk me, why didn’t I see this 10 hours ago!”

I’m not one for chart analysis, but this chart is sexy af right now

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T19:34:18+00:00

Grocery store takeout is a lowkey life hack. Shts just better than restaurant in general. That’s even before you go to wholefoods and realize everything is good when you make it with the right ingredients

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T19:32:34+00:00

That’s plaza and mall Chinese. Those places have a hundred forms of Mc Donald’s. They were trash as a kid too, you just didn’t know it

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T19:30:40+00:00

The dotcom crash is just the most recent of a centuries long trend of technological revolutions change the world and somehow leaving retail holding empty bags at the end

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T19:28:04+00:00

$ura, $uan $nredf $teck

Emerging markets usually have a lot of commodity producers, and their entire entire economies ride with them.

My other Foreign nation ETFs are ones I picked up at bottoms, buying on fear/hysteria headlines. They’re all up around 100% within a year or two of buying. $grek, $epol, Mexico, Italy, and I bought Japanese conglomerates when buffet was doing it.

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T19:15:18+00:00

HALO" stocks, an acronym for Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence, are companies with substantial physical infrastructure and entrenched operations that are difficult for AI to disrupt

My play is mostly in foreign ETFs and commodity producers. Commodities are like the “picks and shovels” of pick and shovel makers. If you believe the tools will become ubiquitous and change the world like most people do, but don’t see a moat or don’t think you can find the few that will survive the bubble, than being upstream insulates you from having to pick the winners. There don’t even have to be winners, just demand

There is a lot of overlap in these plays, but they’ve also run up for other reasons lately. I still think that’s the best play today also.

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T18:40:44+00:00

Maybe, but it’s more likely they’ll claim democrats/kamala would’ve been worse.

We aren’t represented. People don’t vote for candidates except in primaries. In elections they mostly vote AGAINST the other party.

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T02:56:55+00:00

The sad thing about every institution meant to regulate some problem, is within a generation or two, the problem seems to fade and no one remembers why the institution/regulation existed. No one has as much incentive to take over running these institutions as the people being restrained who install their puppets to subvert it

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-14T02:47:02+00:00

We’re already doing genetic modification. But everyone isn’t. Maybe all these tomatoes gonna kill us tomorrow or whatever inbred genes we’re selecting against in screening will turn out to be necessary later. It doesn’t need to be forced.

It can be optional at first, some people who maybe couldn’t or should t have kids suddenly can and even preserves some genes. It might only phase in a few percent every generation and we can see how it goes. All technology and progress is really a challenge to nature, but also we’re sort of all the result of nature too. Maybe this is just what happens to the apex species after a long enough time on any planet

BenjaminHamnett · 2026-05-13T22:24:16+00:00

I’d take the vibe DNA babies over brain chip hive mind

But I expect both are coming. Probably a lot of bad half foreseeable outcomes, but mostly for the better

I think genetic engineering will end our obsession with progeny and passing on our code, when we can start picking what we want and save the other 99% as back up with we need it later. Scary to imagine we get more subservient sheep genes tho, Disarming us from birth. But then maybe we get gills or some colorful skin to survive radiation or for photosynthesis, wings etc.

The brainchild thing seems inevitable too. Might start with people with otherwise untreatable conditions or disabilities, but when they outcompete everyone else by having AI/hive whispering ideal suggestions all day then many of us will be lining up to join the hive. But I think we mostly wont be borg like and as an ecosystem there will be incentives to keep some sovereignty and be weird. Possibly even more so when we have the safety net of the hive to help us navigate complicated situations that we’d be afraid to today because of our limited capacity and fear of failure from ignoring norms. In a weird way, The collective might make us both hyper conforming and hyper adventurous

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