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Lowell has up a new Bootstrappy: BOOTSTRAPPY WORKSHOP – EP14 – My Next Attempt.
In Virginia, Democrat County Supervisor indicted on 82 felonies in election fraud scheme.
We probably sound nutty around here talking about some big global conspiracy, probably occult, which tons of regular people belong to, which will come out of the woodwork to screw with the heads of anybody getting involved in their machinery of government. But Jae Kwon, creator of Proof of Stake, can tell you it is real:
Questions arise over DARPA allegedly investigating origin of 2016 DNC hack.
Big Tech Elitist Jeff Bezos is giving away his money and no one knows where it is going.
Whistleblowers reveal the FBI has labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. It would mean Garland committed perjury.
Lindsey Graham is heard praising Joe Biden as the ‘best person’ to lead the country in leaked audio.
Hunter Biden tries to settle Justice Department probe into tax fraud, money laundering.
Joe Biden says offhandedly, “We control all THREE branches of government:
Jen Psaki agrees, they control all branches of government. Comms to the troops, assuring them they control the Supreme Court?
Wikipedia has deleted the page of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette, who would be the first black senator for Pennsylvania if elected, after the company said she is not a notable person. How is it media has to offer equal time to candidates, but big tech does not?
US overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year.
Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April from a year ago, remaining near 40-year highs.
A top Biden cybersecurity aide donated over $500,000 to AIPAC as an NSA official.
Former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio forced four White NYPD top officials out of their jobs in order to push his diversity agenda, say the officers. Notice what a great cover that diversity angle is for an intelligence-conspiracy looking to replace a command hierarchy with its own agents. Nobody looks at the possibility that was something really scary. It was just a crazy leftie being crazy.
Autonomous Chinese drone swarm flies through forest while hunting for humans.
Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice is a memory-elevating elixir for old animals.
It looks like Jeffrey Epstein was given a secret identity as a woman and hired on to the Biden administration:
Lawmakers eye $5 billion for global food insecurity amid Ukraine war.
Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine to stop Wednesday.
Gateway Pundit included a map of Ukrainian war targets in this article, and the map features oil and gas rig symbols just called, “Hunter Biden Rig.” No idea the source of the map:
The UN confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine is brutally torturing Russian prisoners.
Foreign volunteers in Ukraine are used on suicide missions without adequate weapons or intelligence.
Is it coincidence that some CIA torture techniques are so popular with Ukrainian neo-Nazis?
Russian-captured Ukrainian territories will soon ask to ‘join Russia.’
Dmitry Polyansky, the deputy head of Russia’s mission to the UN, has claimed that the UK’s Sky News abruptly ended an interview with him as soon as he showed a photo with a Nazi symbol that had been posted by the Ukrainian president. I wonder what would have happened if he showed the pic of Zelensky with the big pile of coke on his desk.
Shock poll reveals Americans “are OK with Ukraine losing” the war with Putin’s Russia. The spell is broken.
GOP panics over ‘ultra-MAGA’ Pennsylvania Senate wild card.
The bill that would nullify pro-life laws and make killing an unborn baby legal at any moment for any reason has failed 51-49 in the Senate. Every Democrat except Manchin voted for it.
Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton up by 27 points in Texas Attorney General Republican Primary.
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Endorsement of Congressman Brett Guthrie
05/10/22
Congressman Brett Guthrie is doing an outstanding job representing the people of Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District! A West Point and Yale graduate, Brett worked closely with me and my Administration to stop the illegal flow of fentanyl into our communities. Brett is a Conservative Warrior who Strongly Supports our Military and Vets, Defends the Second Amendment, and Fiercely Advocates for Border Security. Brett Guthrie has my Complete and Total Endorsement!
Endorsement of Congressman Scott Perry
05/10/22
Congressman Scott Perry is an America First Warrior for the people of Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District! As Chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Scott is a tremendous advocate for our MAGA agenda. He Strongly Supports Border Security, Defends the Second Amendment, Protects our Military and Vets, Eliminates Burdensome Regulations, and Upholds American Values. Scott is a fearless Conservative, and he has my Complete and Total Endorsement!
Endorsement of Congressman Lloyd Smucker
05/10/22
Congressman Lloyd Smucker is a terrific representative of the people of Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District! Lloyd is tirelessly working to Grow our Economy, Lower Your Taxes, Eliminate Burdensome Regulations, Support our Military and Vets, and Protect and Defend the Second Amendment. Lloyd Smucker puts Americans First and he has my Complete and Total Endorsement!
Endorsement of Congressman Guy Reschenthaler
05/10/22
Congressman Guy Reschenthaler is a tremendous warrior for the people of Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District. During my Administration, Guy was a Warrior for us against the Radical Left’s endless Witch Hunts while serving on the Judiciary and Rules Committees, and he has never stopped fighting to Hold the Radical Left Accountable. He is working hard to Create Jobs, Promote American Energy, Preserve American Values, and Protect and Defend the Second Amendment. Guy Reschenthaler is a MAGA Conservative and he has my Complete and Total Endorsement!
Endorsement of Congressman Mike Kelly
05/10/22
Congressman Mike Kelly is a phenomenal representative of the people of Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District. He is a fierce advocate for American Energy Independence and Natural Gas, and he is working to Grow our Economy, Lower your Taxes, Secure our Border, Support our Military and Vets, and Protect and Defend the Second Amendment. Mike Kelly always puts America First, and he has my Complete and Total Endorsement!
Lowell,
That is very cool that you are doing styrofoam sand casting. I’ve looked through your video briefly and I think you need a larger bucket with the piece more deeply embedded to get better results.
You may have seen this video already, but I bring it up just in case you haven’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-PaNugz9w
Really neat. Surprised he can do that with dry sand. Back when, you used either oil sand or green (clay+water added) sand.
I chose lost-foam specifically because it uses out of the bag playsand because I DO NOT want to deal with green sand. Or K-bond or Petrobond, or really any of the trappings of traditional casting. I am doing lost-foam because it has the lowest learning curve to get me usable machine parts. I was thinking about this the other day and I already have too many melting metal/casting vids. I always intended for the channel to be DiY CNC first and foremost, but instead I’ve had to build two casting setups.
Don’t get me wrong, metal casting is a great tool to have in your toolbox, but it’s threatening to overtake everything else.
As far as the bucket, that may be. I built the sand-casting box around one bag of sand. I’ve since had to add a bunch. The pink foam leaves a MUCH improved surface finish over the white foam that I’m using because it was free. The white foam works best for things like sprues &risers. You notice the sand in the surface of the castings in the vid? That’s why the hot-mud coatings before burying in the sand.
I’m going to be using a bucket for something that’s too tall for the box. This one will have the opposite problem from the gantry arm – instead of being very big it’s very thin. I’m not sure that the thin sections will be able to cast correctly with this method.
Lowell,
Here is some more stuff:
Mini-metal foundry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHD10DjxM1g
Hot-wire styrofoam cutting tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2n_EbRzZ0g
Arduini CNC cutting machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIKEYM-lMWQ
The first vid was the inspiration for my first furnace. I needed something bigger than what Grant built. I discovered almost immediately that plaster of paris is a horrible refractory. I built one out of red brick once and it didn’t last long either. They do not survive heat well at all. Basically I am of the opinion now that there is no good way to build a furnace without just ponying up the cash for actual refractory cement of some kind. I salvaged my cat liter furnace with Satanite and castable refractory cement for the lid. All of that is holding up and instead of fixing the furnace after each use I just use it, let it cool down, and wheel it back to it’s parking spot.
If you absolutely have to go cheap on a furnace, you should probably just go with a real earthen oven, ie regular mud. River clay if you can get some from a local stream, but otherwise just dirt and water from around your place packed into shape.
I DID consider making Grant’s hot wire cutter, and in fact I am wondering how much trouble it would be to turn my CAD files into 2D pdf’s so that people could make the patterns using glue on prints. I designed the all of the castings around being made out of flat sheets of foam board, so all the foam patterns could be cut with one of these.
Hi AC, ive always loved your site and one of my favourite things was the bifurcated faces, now whenever I meet some one I check them out for an imbalanced mind. Do you know any other body language hacks like that?
Affect Psychology, which postulates brains get caught in one fo seven emotional states, and which state and the degree often presents on the face.
And actually Chinese Medicine has a whole load of ways of analyzing everything from walks, and how people move, to the rate of respiration compared to the likely pules-rate, to how skin is red in some areas, purple in others, and how that is probative, like an embarrassed person blushing. But that is a huge, huge science, and very much requires some formal study, and experience practivcing it on people to master.
To add a little to AC’s mention of Affect Psychology, or Affect Theory. I hope this helps anyone who’s interested:
It was started by a true genius by the name of Silvan S. Tomkins, who made ends meet handicapping horse-races during the Great Depression. He was famous for his accuracy, which he later attributed to being able to distinguish the facial expressions of the horses which enabled him to determine the animals’ degree of confidence. He could, for example, pick up that a male would lose to a female due to being flustered by her. As you can see, Tomkins had a natural affinity toward meaningfully parsing and contextualizing facial expressions. Despite being the primary influence and mentor of Paul Eckman (extremely famous facial expression, lie detection, body language psychologist), he gains little recognition. From what I can determine, Tomkins made all the major breakthroughs that Eckman et al. became famous for.
Despite what Wikipedia and other mainstream texts might say, those in the know attribute Tomkins as the first person to discover microexpressions and the significance thereof. When he had his first child, he was fascinated by the infant’s facial expressions and how closely they resembled that of grown adults. This led him to create a high-speed camera contraption to capture his child’s facial expression in more detail to study and parse them, as infants would represent the base human emotions far more purely than adults due to lack of nurture. This high speed camera was so loud that they had to keep it in a soundproof enclosure to keep the baby in peace.
The premise of Affect Theory is that human being posses a finite number (nine, I believe) of basic “affects”, which are proto-emotional neurological states that are hard-wired into human physiology. These affects, which you can simplistically concieve of as external stimuli and the internal affective response to these stimuli, are where feelings and emotions are derived from. These affects are what are so purely seen in the faces of infants. The more complex adult facial expressions can be explained by our more complex combining of various affects as we consciously and subconsciously process external and internal stimuli as we live out life. Tomkins strongly believed that the face was the direct window into the soul, so to speak, as a direct interface to the body’s affective processes.
Later, psychologists such as Eckman and his colleagues confirmed Tomkins’ position, by finding that the neurons on the face are almost directly mapped from the emotive/affective elements of the brain. This is the key to Affect Theory. In essence, everything emotive/affective going on inside someone’s head is directly reflected in the face through the concept of the split-second microexpressions that Tomkins discovered by studying his infant child.
And the surprising thing is they also say the linkage between the face and affect is so strong, if you consciously force on an affect, like smiling, the signals travel back to the brain and make you happier.
It would be interesting to see how wearing masks affects facial expressions, if facial expressions affect the brain.
Excellent point. Yeah, especially since I read a lot of baby development is an ingrained drive to mimic what they see, which then eventually becomes the real thing. Baby brain development is kind of a fake what you see until it becomes real, and they were not allowed to see it.
One Frank Rudolph Young wrote on what he called Soma Psychic Power. He issued a raft of exercises that seemed strange, but many of them worked amazingly well. One was a method of turning yourself into a “pseudo werewolf” in situations needing such a response. This included facial expressions and inner feelings, etc, that would trigger just such an “invincible” state. Young’s work is excellent, but filled with such “hype-o-delic” language, which is probably one reason that he didn’t become real popular. Most of his books can now be found in e-versions, floating around the Internet.
I would judge him legit just off all the pages online about him and his books, and the fact Wikipedia has absolutely no page on him at all.
Soma Psychic Power/FR Young: a friend was discarding the first paperback (1975 Signet) edition around 1978. I had owned and seen plenty of weird books by that time, but nothing like this one. The little black and yellow volume seemed to “reach out and compel me to rescue it from the dumpster and stash it among my most valuable possessions over the decades to follow,” if you get my drift. The yellowed, crumbling pages still abide in my special drawer.
Young claimed to come from a family of generational chiropractors who’d met up with some mystic Indians while crossing the Isthmus of Panama on the way to the Northern gold fields.
This book and several of Young’s other books have now been scanned and are found here and there if one looks. At least a couple of his offerings contain instructions for practices that might be harmful or negative. Think turning on something that you can’t turn off or control very well.
“Soma Psychic Power” gets a clean bill of health, though.
I was able to find a bunch of his books on Library Genesis in pdf form. Downloaded them for my archives for future reference.
“Rudolph Young wrote on what he called Soma Psychic Power”
That book is put out by Parker pub. They have some seriously weird books published.
“Bill Clinton’s special advisor who let Jeffrey Epstein into the White House seven times and flew on the Lolita Express dies at 59 – the latest associate of the former President to suffer an early demise.”
Testifying about the Clintons made him so suicidal he shot himself in the back of the head not once, but twice.
As time goes by, I’m forming a different (from my previous) understanding of reality. For years I’ve wondered how every single jusitiction where an Arkancide happens rules the incident a suicide.I came to the idea that the local LE is acting to preserve their own; they believe that if you were dumb enough to mess with the wrong people, then you -did- commit suicide. Now though, I’m thinking society is divided between the ‘knows’ and the ‘not knows’. The knows are aware of and/or involved in surveillance, mafia, and Satanic government. The lives of the not knows are working 9-5, TV, and trying to get their -person- in office, etc. If you’re a ‘know’ then you never mention what you’re aware of to the ‘not knows’.
Every single one of them is almost as guilty as cabal.
They should get fair trials followed by executions.
Oh look, technicians creating toys for hobbyists just like all those biologists creating new disease prevention technologies in all those biolabs around the borders of the Empire of Lies. Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXGpEmFbOw&ab_channel=TED The reality: Slaughterbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw&ab_channel=FutureofLifeInstituteThese videos were just six years ago; but, y’all gots yer super-duper semi-automatic AR15 all oiled up and cases of ammo in the hidden compartment in y’all’s basements. Good luck with that.
You could spend all the time despairing instead on researching something as simple as a fucking net to counter drones, but instead you come here, one of the few positive and thoughtful places left online, and spew your brain rot all over the place about how it’s all pointless and futile. Black pilled hopeless goons get the rope day 0 in an ideal world.
Be useful instead.
Even a net is overkill. Just use piano wire or fishing line strung between the trees. Bonus points for rigging it to a shotgun shell to warn you that they are out there.
Well said!
And couldn’t one also look into some sort of spray device? Gotta be a liquid that’ll interfere with them.
Not black pilled. Not in despair. Did you even watch the videos or did you just reflexively spew your own brain rot?
The first video demonstrated swarming by AI drones able to avoid obstacles. It also demonstrated the futility of guns against the swarms, same with metal shields over the windows.
The second video was a TED talk regarding the various AI drones. The TED talk verified the first video’s dramatic rendering of he threat.
Did you even pay attention to the year date on both videos (2006)? Six years is a considerable amount of time, enough for several generations of AI drone technology. Thousands of nerd technicians, having little or no consciences, have had ample time over the past six years to develop the capability of the AIs to avoid and overcome more and more obstacles.
Insect size drones: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=insect+sized+drones&atb=v293-1&iax=images&ia=images
I’m not going to be hiding in the forest. I’m going walk right up to them and shoot them from nose-picking range with a concealed pistol.
Your concern is noted
Frank Herbert already had this concept in his 1965 novel, “Dune”. it even flew slow to get past a type of velocity reactive shield employed by the nobles even while sleeping.
“It would mean Garland committed perjury.”
Didn’t you get the memo? Democrats can’t tell lies. Even to Congress.
“It looks like Jeffrey Epstein was given a secret identity as a woman and hired on to the Biden administration:”
I’m always amazed people like that even exist.
“Shock poll reveals Americans “are OK with Ukraine losing” the war with Putin’s Russia. The spell is broken.”
American’s don’t care. We are also pissed about $40, 50, 60 billion or whatever going to the Ukrainians. And between Hunter Biden and the Vindmans the Ukos kind of deserve whatever they get. Trump was their best friend, and they actively worked against him, and now they are reaping the deserved whirlwinds of their actions.
That lesion on the old man’s tricep looks exactly like what in clinical photos of skin infections is produced by anthrax.
I put nothing past the monsters working for the insects with their human bio
The Russian MOD released a preliminary briefing on what they can accurately determine they are finding from the Ukraine bio warfare labs they have found shortly after the special operation attack began.
Seems all roads lead directly to the names Clinton Obama Buden and Soros as the recipients in profits obtained in colusion with the same bio-war weapons producers who in a strange koinkydink created the death vaxx’s. Same NGO’s and NATO actors, simularly shared research and interest between the actor states also in alliance with the empire of lies efforts to asist Ukraine.
Accounts of course of using children, ala test lab rats in the wild thru sturating counterfit money with a virulant highly anti biotic resistant strain of TB. A number of unwitting test subjects for a range if bio-engineered nasty’s.
Appears Mariupol and Kharkov where central nodes in the bio lab system spread across Ukraine, at least 30 labs plus various auxillary and administrative sights.
If you aren’t checking out the news from the White Russian alternate media network your not hetting critical info. Lot of linkage to the Eurasian media, like actual who what why when news and journalism. Its really something else, such a joy to read clean unadulterated by false narrative and lies, here’s what we know so far, here’s the facts as we know them, make up your own mind, and draw your own conclusions. Refreshing is an understatement. Took me a week abouts to become accustomed to truth by people who live in the free world. Very different mind sets and perceptions. They see the insects, laugh at the clown show, are fully aware of the lies and know who they are and what their countries are
The Saker here is one treasure trove, particularly as Saker has a raft if critical thinkers and writers pieces posted on his daily news blog. But here’s the kink to the Russian MOD’s Ukrainian biowar lab report:
https://thesaker.is/briefing-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-united-states-on-the-territory-of-ukraine-may-11-2022/
This is important. I saw this last night on Sputnik, I might have been sent there by a link posted by a commentator on this site.
But the Russian government is starting to release what their soldiers are finding in the labs, and yes there do seem to be sinister biolabs, and the whole thing seems to be some sort of Democratic Party/ Soros operations. Its actually very strange.
I haven’t been sure if the whole Ukrainian campaign is a psyop, or Russia really did send forces there to take out black ops sites. There was evidence for both takes, but there is now more evidence for the second take.
>Coinbase earnings were bad. Worse still, the crypto exchange is now warning that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds.
I bought 100 dollars of bitcoin however many years ago on coinbase. Mainly for shits and giggles. Can’t recall the exact times. Then I got locked out of my account for probably close to 2 or 3 years because I used a google voice number with the account and for whatever reason the confirmation code they sent would never show up. It always worked for every other company I ever did this with. I tried every now and again to get back into the account to see if the texting issue had gotten fixed. Not once was I ever able to contact customer support about the issue. I always got a message about CS not being available in my country or region. Even though this is a US company and I was in the US. I am guessing they just didn’t have CS at all.
Then 6 months ago? Timing is a bit hazy but its been a little while, the texting issue was finally fixed or something and I was finally able to get into the account. The 100 had turned into 900. I think this is just when bitcoin was starting to dump. It had a bit already, but has done more since. I immediately sold it and transferred all my funds out of coinbase never to look back. Never, ever again will I use that company. Its true that alls well which ends well, but I would never use them again.
I made a few grand from various cryptos. I sold last year and bought gold and silver. Crypto is probably done for a few years. The key with any stock/etf or crypto is to get out while it’s quiet. Because of c bank money printing everything in the world is a bubble, and everything, even real estate and stock in well performing companies is a ponzi scheme to some degree. Even gold and silver are ponzi’s- you can’t eat gold and silver and in a country full of starving people you probably can’t sell them for anything either.
>Safety data on 35,706 patients who participated in Pfizer’s Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” trials has gone missing, more than likely intentionally as part of a massive cover-up.
You have the wrong link
Safety data on 35,706 patients who participated in Pfizer’s Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” trials has gone missing, more than likely intentionally as part of a massive cover-up.
A replacement link found on Brave Search: https://miamistandard.news/2022/05/11/more-than-25000-patients-missing-from-pfizer-data-were-they-deleted-on-purpose/
Thank you!
Ever the victim of pop culture, I saw the swarm of China-drones and thought of the hunter-killers from The Terminator.
Speaking of, sample dialogue:
Dig that permanent sneer:
And the half smile / half scowl face thing. Isn’t that a representation of fake smile hiding true malice?
I don’t trust Allen West.
A guy like West definitely knows about Cabal, but they may not be aware of how satanic it is, and may think it’s only criminal. Cabal would absolutely threaten family (especially children) of innocents, “non-players”, uncontrolled politicians/lawyers etc., not just people in the game. There is Kompromat, there is blackmail and then there is “hostage taking”. West was a congressman, he is no longer. West was in a motorcycle accident, with all the tell tale fingerprints of a Cabal op.
Personally, I think West wasn’t controlled by Cabal, and he probably gained his seat because he is 1)Conservative 2)A Vet and 3)is black. Somewhere in the great 2013-2015 shift that Cabal ran, they threatened him/his family and got him to back down on some things. It’s one reason why he no longer was a Congressman. Maybe Cabal thought compromising info on him could be found because he is black. They were probably wrong. When West started getting “uppity” again in 2020, they crashed into him- reminding him of their control. Perhaps it worked.
Your instincts are probably correct. You shouldn’t trust West. But he is likely a Cabal “hostage”, it’s unlikely he is “in” the game. Many guys who go “weak” all of a sudden often do it because they and their families are cabal hostages, seeing as we have become a lawless society. It certainly explains the weakness of the Georgia GOP. Many people would do anything for their families, and even for the very religious it is their only weakness. So criticize West, yes, but ask yourself- if your family was taken “hostage” by Cabal- what would you do? Everyone has to ask that question of themselves.
I figured that Ken Paxton was OK because both GOPe and Dems have been trying to railroad him with bullshit “you didn’t have the RIGHT license” charges since before he was elected, and they still won’t let the case go despite being slapped down multiple times.
If (((they))) want him out that bad, he’s probably worth leaving in place.
Millennial here. Was thinking of something interesting re: economy and finance. Grew up in my younger years attempting to do some honest straightforward work and learning etc. While watching numerous narcissists around me soar above me with ease without doing really any work. They not only get the promotion, they get the girl, they ruin your reputation while still keeping you doing the bitch work. Employers won’t exactly fire you, but they will constantly keep you stressed and in fear of such.
So over time, had finally been looking for ways to “cheat” the system, i.e. stonks crypto whathaveyou, anything to get ahead without just grinding harder the normal wagie job that probably won’t be able to give you a raise anyway. Because as a millennial, looks like a huge stigma against merely doing honest work, you have to have some sort of “edge” that gets you money and status for nothing.
That actual thing has varied, from simply being a business bro in college … having “connections” to get you that easy executive position where [you are perceived as] not having to do any real work, pyramid sales schemes, music/club promoter, stonks, crypto, youtube star, fitness influencer. The fact that many fail at actually making serious money from that is meaningless, as fake it until you make it is always a thing.
The prevalence of “reality” game shows, everything from Survivor, Big Brother, all the way up to the big hits today such as Hunger Games and Squid Game, this is our life.
I may also be biased, without saying really where, I am from an area where honest jobs not only get bad pay, and are short in existence, but bosses treat their employees like dogshit. It’s also an area lacking willing single women. This has led to so many around me as being like what I just described. My area has also sent an outsized number people to Hollywood, Broadway, Silly Valley etc. for its size, as doing stuff like that is literally the only way out unless you want to be an underpaid sexless scrub your entire life.
My current job… while not typically expected to do a ton of work, and the overall working conditions are fine, I am on a team that does some important actual work, and as such many others (often some combo of boomer, incompetent, possible suspected surveillance/gangstalker/gatekeeper/glowie role, seniority there) around in this large-ish org come to us trying to get us to to do their work, half my job that day becomes explaining why we wouldn’t be able to and trying to find the one who actually is responsible. We’re kind of the suckers in that sense, though we’ve gotten much better at saying ‘no’ and standing up for ourselves.
But now, finding that… for one, many of the products we relied on for convenience or survival are actually complete trash. This is something I’ve had to figure out over time and with getting mature. All sorts of stuff that I used without a second thought, I am examining closely and over the years noticing all sorts of things break.
Also finding that a lot of cool ideas… the product simply does not exist, except maybe for some niche vendor who would naturally charge a ton of money for it. Other products, welp finding out that Bugland or some other combo of shithole countries is literally the only place that makes a given thing and their shipping or production is slow and product quality poor.
The point I’m making is, it almost looks like doing honest work business ideas of actually making things may actually start making more sense, and now could make more money than all the dumb hustles we would attempt to avoid being perceived as a sucker and taken advantage of by literally everyone around us.
I’m a Millennial too. We got the short end of the stick, but not as short as Gen Z are about to get. The push to engage in dumb hustles was a very clever way to trap many of us, because most people are incapable of learning from the school of hard knocks. And MBA’s are only minimally useful. Not everyone is capable of thinking by themselves, doing their own research, drawing their own conclusions, learning from mistakes, etc. Only if you’re supremely blessed can you expect to find good mentors or business partners. A good edge is only useful if you have the capital to execute/invest/etc. without breaking the bank. But more importantly, a good edge (or “moat”, if you will) is ALWAYS temporary. Basically, that whole mentality was a lie.
So how to generate capital? Hustle smart, which takes WAY more hard work than smarts. Ideally in this order: (1) GENERATE VALUE, (2) SELL, and (3) SCALE. (A variation for idea guys is: Find an Arbitrage, Close Deals, Scramble/Scale as Quickly as You Can Before the Arb Opportunity Expires) Another thing for those hustling: Don’t stretch yourself! Unless you’re rich, it’s critical to always have cashflow BEFORE and WHILE you work on any idea that won’t be immediately profitable. This is what I sometimes call Plan Zero. This is your fallback, may it be from handyman work, teaching, consulting, freelancing, or even a regular 9-5. Minimize the energy drain from Plan Zero. Then work on your Plan A, because most worthwhile scalable ideas will not be immediately profitable.
Honestly, this isn’t for everyone. Most people shouldn’t be dreaming of hustling because they simply don’t have the appetite for pain that’s necessary to keep failing. Many people take over 10 years of building businesses before they hit their first success. But if you are drawn to the front lines of the financial warzone and don’t mind busting your ass, forget the narcissists, the reality shows, that dumb hustle mentality etc. They’re all distractions designed to keep YOU from the real keys: VALUE GENERATION, SALES, and SCALE. (Or Find an Arb, Sell/Close Deals, Sprint/Scale) As always, I recommend Felix Dennis’ “How to Get Rich” and reading as many ebizfacts.com newsletters as you can handle. WallStreetPlayboys had great articles before they became crypto degens, but their books are probably still available.
Just to reinforce all of this, I have a part time job plus I do handyman work and currently BOOTSTRAPPY WORKSHOP is a semi-expensive hobby that I can manage strictly because I have ridiculously small rent and other bills with NO DEBT. I don’t expect to be able to do BOOTSTRAPPY full time this calendar year and maybe not in 2023, and that is assuming that MK2 pans out and can deliver products worth paying for, and I plan to sell MK2 castings for anyone that doesn’t want to go the trouble that they’ve seen me go to, but still wants to build a machine. That will be when BOOTSTRAPPY goes from hobby to BUSINESS.
Believe me, I am looking forward to the day when my entire weekly schedule is my own, but for the foreseeable future I expect to be punching a clock for at least half of it.
>Believe me, I am looking forward to the day when my entire weekly schedule is my own, but for the foreseeable future I expect to be punching a clock for at least half of it.
AMEN, brother. Let’s keep at it!
Illegal migrants first to get ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/illegal-migrants-first-to-get-pallets-of-hard-to-find-baby-formula
Lesson #1 in how to change the Relief societies’ views on illegal immigration.
Decertification Now On The Table In New York, NYCA Drops A Truth Bomb On Albany Officials
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/05/decertification-now-on-the-table-in-new-york-nyca-drops-a-truth-bomb-on-albany-officials/
Worth reading. This group obviously did a lot of hard work.
I think what they found, multiple and not trivial violations of election laws, happens every election. Things got pushed too far in 2020, and I think we will find out that a lot of down ballot races were affected, which will be what will get people (well people in the political world) interested.
The article is about New York, and gives Biden’s margin in the state as just under two million votes, which happens to be about the number of questionable ballots. The focus has been on the states Trump needed to add to get an electoral college victory. But I don’t think people realize the scale of this stuff, and that it happens everywhere.
BREAKING: Cities in Arizona and Arkansas have launched lawsuits challenging the authenticity of election security, due to the new substantial evidence from ‘2000 Mules’ and True the Vote.
https://twitter.com/DJTTracker/status/1524819788656173068
Rumors swirl that China’s Xi Jinping will step down amid harsh COVID lockdowns
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/11/xi-jinping-step-down-rumors-suggest-amid-harsh-chi/