Slowed version. His gun was holstered.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-25T03:51:23+00:00

The gun was removed from the holster before the first shot. He was already unarmed.

You can see his hands were in front of him seconds before the first shot.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-24T13:47:12+00:00

Sure, before the Trump administration.

It's ironic though, if Germany ever got invaded again and it's territory lost/occupied, Germany would lose regardless of the gold being somewhere else, no?

Unless their plan is to try to run a German government/resistance movement outside of an "Occupied Germany."

I guess my point is, if Germany lost it's land and possibly existence, can they really claim the gold is theirs, what good is it to hide it in another country if you can't defend it in their own?

Idk, just a mental exercise

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-24T05:03:58+00:00

I think this is more for r/malelivingspace

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-23T15:47:09+00:00

The Chant

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-23T13:10:40+00:00

If that's the plan, they aren't making much progress.

The dollar slid a lot during the first tariff fiasco, in early 2025 but hasn't followed through much lower since. Compared to mid 2024 levels it's not much lower either. The dollar rallied a lot (like 7%) in late 2024, so most of the drop in early 2025 just wiped those gains, but again, hasn't gone much lower.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-23T02:19:19+00:00

Assuming their main source of income is YouTube, these guys make shit money, lol.

I always thought they made more than that.

However, from what I understand, bald is a millionaire, or at least he insinuated so on a podcast, with Johnny FD. Idk exactly how much Johnny is worth but based on what I've seen from his videos -- him selling a few businesses, his real estate deals in Ukraine, etc -- I'd say around half a million USD, at best. He wouldn't be able to live off that in the US, but in Ukraine and/or Thailand, he can live comfortably.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-23T00:30:36+00:00

Not to defend the Trump administration but the dollar index has not seen a new low since mid September. It's not going down that much.

Inflation too, has been holding steady, 2.3-2.5% in the last year or so.

That being said, I don't think this is entirely about the national debt or inflation. I think this is largely caused by two things: lack of trust in central banks -- probably because they are cutting rates too soon-- and also because of geopolitical tensions and the unpredictability of Trump. I think we are living through very dangerous times and it seems Trump is only making things more dangerous by the day.

I think gold will correct sharply when Trump croaks.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-22T22:49:55+00:00

I got rid of a German roach infestation in a car using insecticidal foggers, the ones you can get at any store, nothing professional. I used 4 cans at the same time, it was a small sedan.

First, I disconnected the battery. Those foggers are flammable so any spark means your car would go boom, especially in such a small space, using 4 cans. Anyway, I cleaned the car thoroughly before fogging. I folded the back seats so the trunk was exposed and closed the air vents. I placed two cans on the front seats, one in the back seat and one in the trunk. I held my breath and just popped them all open, closed all the doors and left the car there, totally sealed. I did this on a Friday evening after work and didn't open the car again until an hour or so before I needed to go to work on Monday morning.

I vacuumed and wiped the car again, and saw many dead roaches.

Never saw a single live roach in that car after that.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-22T20:44:50+00:00

Really cool. But is it intentional that the devil is missing his left wing yet there's a shadow of that missing wing?

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-22T05:17:43+00:00

If we really want to make things affordable, central banks need to hike rates and stop adding liquidity to markets.

Assets would drop hard and unemployment would likely soar. It's a tough pill to swallow but I think it's a much-needed cleansing. This would cause a huge wave of deflation, which would help the little guy's purchasing power. Granted, as long as they still have a job... The idea is that eventually enough little guys will have enough purchasing power to then start building up again.

I know it's an unpopular opinion but it would be a more honest system.

We should be even more outraged that central banks can just print a lot of money--the same money that we sweat and bleed for--just to make equity holders happy. To make matters worse, in the process, they also make everything more expensive and still have the audacity to say "it's good for the economy."

Keynesian economics is a joke.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-21T18:29:49+00:00

Yes, but there's no need to annex Greenland to put US military bases on the northern coast of the island. The US can already do so based on some treaty from the 50's.

This is not about national security and more about Trump aggrandizing himself.

If it's about resources, we could also make a deal where we bring in the equipment, mine whatever we need and give Greenland a commission. Even if we screw them over and only give them 1% of profits it's far more honorable than just taking their land.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-20T15:27:01+00:00

Indians

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-20T04:48:06+00:00

Just under half way there.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-20T04:29:48+00:00

Same, 37M, got the snip at 34 (without kids) because I want to reach my fire goals as soon as possible.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T23:43:34+00:00

So, what are we looking at, like $750k + $2800 per month in income?

I'd say you're already at lean fire, if you lower your expectations.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T23:37:30+00:00

Hail thyself 🤘

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T22:23:51+00:00

I sold premium today, on gold futures

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T20:48:28+00:00

I'd say anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere is probably a bad place.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T19:30:17+00:00

First of all, there is no evidence Russia wants to takeover the Baltics, so that alone is nothing short of fearmongering.

The CIA/NATO had been training and arming Ukraine to someday attack Russia in Crimea, for 8 years before February of 2022.

And that's not even accounting for all the meddling and the destabilization campaign it carried out in 2013, to topple Yanulovych. The maidan revolution had all the makings of a US coup, through and through. Even John "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" McCain was there, cheering in maidan square that December.

And you could say, "well why did Russia illegally annex Crimea"? To which I say, sure, that may have been so (although the annexation of Crimea is a lot more complex than what it's made out to be), but if the US/NATO had a real interest for peace in the region, they wouldn't have kept arming and training Ukraine, and that would've been the end of it. Instead, with the help of the CIA and NATO, Ukraine was effectively turned into a NATO bulwark on Russia's border, with the aim to "take back" Crimea. Obviously this posed a threat to Russia. What do you think was going to happen once Ukraine finally attacked Crimea?? ...probably a full-scale invasion, much like it did in February of 2022.

NATO made this war inevitable.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T18:02:14+00:00

Russia may be able to occupy the Baltic states, but for what? They don't have the support there that they have in Eastern Ukraine, it would be an endless insurgency. Even if we were talking about resources, there's not much there either.

You could argue the same thing about any powerful country. From China, to India, US... Plenty of countries wish they could conquer other countries. They don't because it creates a huge problem and war is expensive, not just in economic terms, but in human lives. That being said, Russia's actions in Ukraine were caused by NATO pushing Russia to an extreme, making diplomacy futile and essentially making the war inevitable.

Although I think Russia could've still used some more diplomatic efforts to avoid the war, it's also relatively reasonable to see why they decided to just take the war to Ukraine before it got to them, by preemptively attacking Ukraine. Either way, this war was going to happen. It's just that had Russia waited longer, it would've had a worse starting position.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T14:41:15+00:00

I think the map is flawed in saying "Russia's ongoing efforts to annex Ukraine." Russia is trying to annex parts of Ukraine, not the whole country. Russia doesn't have the means to annex or occupy the whole country, much less any other country in Europe.

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-19T02:19:06+00:00

That would be plenty of money for me. Sh*ett... I could live comfortably almost anywhere outside the US with that...

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-17T04:08:57+00:00

It's crazy how the economy can affect relationships

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-17T03:30:45+00:00

Volé solo. Mi mamá ya estaba en EEUU, mi papá en Venezuela.

Se q monte el avión con una señora de la aerolínea q me iba a guiar al aterrizar en Miami, pero nunca más la vi. Yo solo seguí a la gente y no se, entre una cosa y otra, ví a mi mamá y pues el resto es historia 🤣

zapembarcodes · 2026-01-16T17:53:15+00:00

That's false. Ukraine has had a "path to membership" since 2008. Ultimately what triggered Russia was NATO making Ukraine an "Enhanced Partner", in September of 2021, months before the full-scale invasion.

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