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The Risk Management Playbook

20 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Time Money Code

Practical Strategies to Protect Your Capital When Markets Get Messy In late 2022, I watched a friend lose nearly half his trading account in a single month. He wasn’t reckless or uninformed. He had studied markets, obsessed over charts, and listened...

We look different as time goes by

20 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments planck's variable

This morning, for some reason, as I was roaming around my room (it is a bright Sunday morning) I just glanced at the mirror without intending to do so, in fact I was thinking about chores I had to carry out through the day, listening to songs, and so...

Exploring Espionage: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

20 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Height was might thanks to the U-2, but the SR-71 had true speed. Sometimes, things become cultural icons without that ever being the intent. And while in today’s world, spy satellites have made the concept of a reconnaissance platform somewhat outda...

Voice From Somewhere: Short Story

19 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments AserC

Please listen to me. You are a man in position of power, and it is only natural that so many things will be scrambling to get hold of your attention. You have just begun your state visit in this country I have lived in, since I was thirteen, so I can...

A Disturbing lesson for Modern Times

19 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments rah

Please note the eye witness account that inspired this post was (obviously - I wasn't there) not originally mine, but in this increasingly polarising and dangerous world it is a timely reminder of where hate and intolerance can take us.  Images are r...

Genius Act Becomes Law in the US Following President Trump’s Signature

19 Jul 2025 1 minute read 5 comments Yugocean

Trump Enacts the Genius Act      US President Donald Trump has signed the Genius Act into law, aiming to establish clearer regulations for stablecoins. The presence of Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire at the signing suggests tha...

Psychopathy (Chat with AI)

18 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Lochard

Related to another post, Pathocracy (Chat with AI) This one is more about psychopathic traits. LLM: Claude Sonnet 4 chat link: https://claude.ai/share/fe846abf-3dd3-44d5-b96c-0ce0ed94e46d The other LLM I mentioned was Nomi AI. The conversation is los...

Fines for searching for extremist materials

18 Jul 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aHqheSdF-V1K0UVz From September 1, 2025, everything will become simpler. The fine is no longer for saying something, but for GOOGLE something. Yes, yes, Article 13.53 of the Code of Administrati...

Bottoms Upside Down

17 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

7/16/25 Christopher Candles didn't have a phone.  I am dying in the woods.  God led us here, and is with us.  Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  I wrote "All I Want" in 1999.  Candles left a sign over his body.  I won't lie like...

Humor Against Dictatorship: The Otpor! Method

14 Jul 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR   In the late 1990s, the Serbian youth-led movement Otpor! used humor and satire to destabilize Slobodan Milosevic’s authoritarian regime. By creating absurd, symbolic actions such as placing a barrel with Milosevic’s face in public and in...