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A Bitter Daily Routine

20 Aug 2026 2 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr

  At the supermarket, the prices had climbed again. A yogurt costs 210,000 Tomans — about a dollar and a half. I told myself, skip the yogurt, today. buy Doogh instead. Only 40,000 Tomans (24 cents). That will do. When I get home, I should clean the...

Did that young man make it out alive?

16 Aug 2026 1 minute read 9 comments Melina Mehr

Remembering the days of January 7 and 8… Have you ever forgotten a memory, only for it to rush back into your mind all at once, clear as day, at a moment you never saw coming? And you ask yourself, “Why did I ever forget it?” I was walking with frien...

You must be curious to know what that graffiti meant.

9 Aug 2026 2 minute read 30 comments Melina Mehr

You must be curious to know what that graffiti meant.  If you want, let me tell you the story...   These days I see so many videos of people in the United States calling their government fascist and dictatorship, shouting all kinds of slogans. To be...

Stocks That Can Withstand a Selling Wave

30 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

As risk appetite weakens in US markets and sharp sell-offs occur in technology stocks, the question for investors is changing: Should they take positions early when prices fall, or wait for the market to calm down? It all started with renewed escalat...

Stab Him with a Knife and No Blood Comes Out

27 Jun 2026 2 minute read 16 comments Melina Mehr

  After three months of complete isolation — no internet, cut off from the entire outside world — the country that had sunk into total digital darkness is finally back online.   It’s been about a month now since the connection has returned. Slowly, u...

No wonder the US lost the war against Iran: Grok AI was doing the bombing

17 Jun 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Kovichni

Remember when Grok AI was caught tripping over its own dumb lies, which quite frankly were so easy to expose it was like trying to catch an 8 year old lying? Well, that AI was just this year helping the Pentagon bomb locations and most likely commit...

The Gains Trump Gifted to Iran

17 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The world started the week with the announcement from US President Donald Trump that "the details of the agreement with Iran have been finalized." The war between the US and Iran, which began on February 28, 2026, will officially end with the signing...

The US-Iran Peace Deal Just Reopened the Strait of Hormuz. Bitcoin Reclaimed $66,000. But the Real Fireworks Start Tomorrow.

16 Jun 2026 4 minute read 0 comments RafiOnChain

Hey RafiOnChain here. And we need to talk about how fast the macro landscape just inverted, because the velocity of this shift is catching a lot of over-leveraged traders completely flat-footed. Exactly two weeks ago, the tape looked absolutely disas...

The 2026 World Cup aren't Hitler's 1936 Olympics, They're worse

4 Jun 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Kovichni

Remember the People's Olympiad? Yeah, I'm seriously all for that now. This world will not heal, we will not unite in harmony and make fair rules and logical regulations like keeping politics out of sports or religion out of government. What's left is...

Compromise Scenarios in War

4 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

The global economy has been pricing in wars, sanctions, and geopolitical tensions for the past few years. The energy shock, which began with the Russia-Ukraine war, deepened further with the Iran-Israel-US tension. Therefore, the negotiations current...