One Soccer Mom Vs. Billion-Dollar Marketing Agency

Europe is like the personification of the school teacher in one of those videos where like they're at an inner city like high school, and there's this kid who's like, you know, like he might be 18 but has the body of like a 24 year old. And there's like this five foot two woman who's like, no, you need to listen. You need to do your homework right now. And there's like exactly like pulls like an AK 47. This pants and just like, you like pulling out of seven or like just RKO like choke slams this like poor like dainty woman onto the ground like ruining her life and like obviously disavow and not a good thing, et cetera. But it's just like it's this feeling of like you have completely misunderstood the dynamics of like who has authority and control. It's just like pulling their highest level of threat, which is like a NATO declaration of like, please don't take Greenland, please don't take it. Welcome to another episode of plausibly deniable brought to you by Polymarket Zcash citizen X and network press. So apparently everyone using Starlink now. I was like in a very rural area. He has no matter where those he has no internet. Like I don't understand it. It's like you can be in the third world. It can be in the first world. There's never any internet, dude. Yeah, we need to need a Starlink sponsorship, but hit me up. You need like a backpack. It has like a mask like like I need to I need to attach like a solar panel like a ray. Like you need to become like a turtle that has like a Starlink shell. For the good of our podcast. For the good of the people for the listeners. I do it for the listeners. But yeah, everyone's on Starlink now. You should be the Patreon tier that just cost exactly as much as a Starlink subscription. And if any one of our viewers and subscribes to this, then we will put him in the turtle shell Starlink. You can walk around like a little backpack with like a like one of those nerd backpacks with like solar panels on the top. It just like a Starlink. The solar panel are charging port microphone like strapped around. Yeah, I think there's two things that people. I mean, I travel a lot. You know that. I think there's two things that people in the US don't realize is that I have a lot of penetration, which is Starlink and these Chinese cars. These Chinese cars are everywhere. The Chinese cars. I think they're just banned in the US. But they are actually like, you know, yeah, like the fully self driving stuff with Tesla is very cool and all that jazz. But like these Chinese EVs literally cost like 12k. It's like you get like a full car for like 12k like it literally costs nothing. And so in every other non US country, these are kind of killing the market. Yeah, it's it's kind of insane. I mean, they literally cost like 10k. It looks nice. I have no, I've never driven one of these. So I don't know how it drives, but he's look nice. It also doesn't matter because we're going to be honest here. The average person does not give a shit about how their electric vehicle drives like they're already driving electric vehicle. We're like, oh my god, it can go really fast in the straight line. That's like all they care about and all they will ever care about. It's also super funny. I mean, we were talking about this. I think a while ago, but like all these Chinese companies, man, they're all like, it's like one of those anime scenes where like they have the weights on their legs. Because they all have just the shittiest names, like the crappiest names all like beyond your dreams. Like, or sorry, build your dreams. Like what do you mean? It's something that can only be generated by like, whatever the Chinese equivalent of like GPT, like 2.5 was deep sleep or whatever, but it's also it's kind of like a when like a white guy like walks around like Japan with like a t-shirt that just has like some Japanese characters on him. They don't actually know what it means. Like in China, you just see like American letters and you're like, wow, he's so a Medicon, you know, and then they're like, wow, that's amazing. Like, yeah, build your dreams. That's a great name for a car brand. It's just like the worst name. They get saved by the acronym BYD sounds good. But it's just so bad. It's the same thing with all of their email products to them and like, you go in like any time you're like, yeah, I need like a new screen protector or something. And it's like you get three for like $4 of the company that's like, it's like E and then like apostrophe C or something. And you're just like, like, this is like actually just a keymash. It's actually the names are so bad. It's like hard to come up with them. I was just like, I was just like trying to spitball name. I was like, ostrich cases. And it's like ostrich cases are actually not a bad name. Yeah, like that's good branding compared to like here. I'm going to I'm going to go search. I'm going to search screen protectors. We're going to see what comes up literally, literally the first, the first fucking result. Do you know what this is? It is all caps and EW apostrophe C. Nuke, the Nuke three pack like Nuke, Nuke phone, get through new phone cases. That's so funny. Yeah, I mean, these guys are just so bad. The other thing is I will say Americans don't realize how uniquely good Americans are at marketing. Like Americans are just God to your marketers. Every single thing that's a status good and not a legacy industry like it's not like clothing and there's like some guy and, you know, it'll leave it's been doing it and you want that's been doing it for like a thousand years. All of those businesses are American like 100% of them. And even like the American advantage in capital markets is like arguably a lot of like marketing stuff. But yeah, once, once these Chinese car manufacturer, they should hire us, man, they should hire some like pool girls, you know, from like a cold healing tweet. They literally don't need to hire us. They could actually hire like random moms who are bored at work to do better work than what they're doing, right? Like you could go find the most completely average person in America and be able to like totally revolutionize their brand image. Yeah, it would actually like 10x improve their brand image. It's kind of crazy. Like you could go to like a 2000s era Linux sis admin and ask him how to brand this and he would do better. Well, you just can't do worse than like China specifically. Because it's actually not only does it not like not only does it not evoke like an image of a brand or like have any aesthetic. It also isn't words like it's not even things that you can pronounce, right? So you're like, oh well, like I've noticed that our word of mouth transmission of like marketing materials really low and it's like that's because nobody can pronounce it like the nuke. Like if I say go buy nuke phone screen protect they're going to think that this is a sponsor. We should we should find someone else who sponsors us instead of chilling this like shitty Chinese. It's actually difficult to be this bad. It's like it's a feat at that point. That's what I'm saying. Like I'm not even being like facetious when I say that literally the completely mediocre American citizen would be like a marketing genius in China. When you're dealing with Western markets, maybe not when dealing with Chinese markets, but like. Yeah, I don't know what they do in Chinese markets, but yeah, I agree. It's just I mean, I've been kind of traveling seeing all these Chinese cars and starlink and it's starting to feel you remember that phrase like the future is already here is just not evenly distributed. I think I'm starting to feel like. This is going to sound really gay, but it's all an agency thing now because none of the futuristic stuff is actually that expensive like none of the stuff that we've like gotten unlocked in the past year or two years. Like LLM's are free effectively, right? You can like a cyber these and get free credits. Peptides, you just got to find a way to get them through customs, wherever you are, but they're also not actually that expensive. Even if you make like 10,000 bucks a year or something like very third world coded, you can experiment with peptide, you can like play around with the LLM's you, you know, I don't think that stuff's off limits to anyone at this point. It's pretty much entirely a question of will. This has been one of my like long standing talking points is that I the world, whenever it wants to like shut people out of doing a thing whenever it wants to make something impossible for people. Like if you're decently resourceful and motivated, it will never actually work on you because the bar at which someone stops in order to try and like prevent people from doing a behavior in a population. They block out like 98% of people always they never go for 100% because in order to block out that last 2% you have to change systems so ridiculously that it becomes like it becomes cartoonish in order to keep these last 2% of people because they're just like they're always going to find a way around your shit right because they're like. They're going for the gold here and I so you can basically just count on the fact that if you have the balls to go for something nobody will ever be able to stop you from actually taking it. Do you remember like back in like 2012 we all used to like be jail breaking iPhones and like we were doing all that work risking like what was legitimately like an expensive like very beautiful piece of hardware at the time. To like effectively get like a different background or so like a slightly different what I like logins like you could swipe up to log in or like something really stupid. And now that you could actually build like very very very cool things on your phone no one is jailbreak in their phone anymore actually it's kind of weird do you think all those people are just using like Android phones like we're customizable nerd phones or whatever. I think it's just that there's a. Basically all of the operating systems looked at this and they said like okay what is causing people to jailbreak or software because like I you know obviously if they're willing to go through the pain in the ass of like looking up whatever the newest like jailbreak hack is and then like figuring out how to install it. Like this is a big friction point for our user base right and then they just said like okay let's just implement it right. This is how this is how all like major software distributions like gradually iterate and get better this is how AI is going to get better to actually like all of these AI companies have these massive valuations and what's going to happen is. All of the code that everybody designs with it is uploaded to the AI so like let's say I vibe code an app right let's say my app eventually is making like 100 million a year or something. Eventually open AI or whoever I used to make this app is going to look at this and say like okay like I found all of their prompts in my code base i i'm just going to make their thing but better and then with more distribution and then i'm fucked right so like yeah. Big one is just always going to win everyone who's making like if you're if you're moat right now is like yeah dude like I copied this app and like I you know there was this app that was like 10 years old on the app store and I copied it and I made a better version of it it's like okay you have like eight months max of revenue before. I either open AI officially releases a competitor or one of their employees just makes a better version of it right like you you are not like on solid foundation here. Yeah this is like the app software goes to zero these just I agree with parts of it but I disagree with parts of it because. Like on the one hand it's true on the other hand like dude the literal like. The alarm on iPhone sucks like the alarm it's you know i'm not talking like oh I have problems with the email app or like wow I really have an issue with like you know. The fitness tracker because I want to use like specific data or it's like you know it's normalizing your data and about no it's just like the alarm app is bad. So I think I agree in some ways but I think in other ways it's like. I don't know I think there is an opportunity you can't actually make like good software that is interesting and will continue to be valuable for like a moderate period of time I think. The biggest problem for me is that Apple alarm app has like when it is when it is hitting you with an alarm. The most obvious and largest button on the screen is the snooze button like the button like the battery. It's so bad now and you're just like dude like snooze is actually a useless alarm feature by the way like I fucking hate everybody who uses snooze on alarms. The snooze is a real thing but it's obviously a bad thing it's like obviously one of those features is like just functional design if you ever use the snooze it's like admitting that you are a loser. I'm a snooze power user here so watch what they say the most the most painful the most painful living arrangements of my life were when I was. When I was the other guy like has five alarms of snooze all of our power snoozeers dude they are the worst people in the planet like they wake you up like an hour and a half ahead of this was always in college guy like the fucking guy wakes you up at like you. And then you're using this goddamn alarm until seven in the morning every seven minutes he snoozes it again and again so it's like he's not going to bed you're not going to bed what is the point of any of this like it's literally just burning an hour and a half. An hour and a half every single day. The giga chat power snooze alarm user versus the virgin roommate who gets who gets the one thing where they're killing it is privacy man apples like the only company that cares about privacy. And they actually care about privacy. But they're partnering with Google sir so it's like. Yeah, Google is like that is the one thing like the thing is Google isn't evil like meta is evil about privacy like meta will listen and on your conversations. Google is more meta also will not meta is evil in like the worst way right there's like a quadrant of like I. It's like how much of your data do we store and then like how much benefit do you get from your store data and meta is like we keep all of your data and it doesn't benefit you in any way. But once the one time a blue moon I open up like Instagram to just like you know like oh hey I'm back in my hometown you know what's up guys and like whatever I get some ads that are not bad but. But yeah I don't know it's just a little it's a little sad I guess we'll see what happens man we'll see do you think I was I was I was born hunting this weekend we were talking about. Yeah I don't know what the debate going on with like it looks like DeSantis is leading the push to not have data centers in his jurisdiction I actually don't understand what the debate about this stuff looks like it all. It's just what is your reason to not have a data center in your. Is it like the same because this is also an issue with like nuclear plants this is an issue with like wind turbines even like do you know why wind turbines look the way that they do like why do they all look like they're designed by Apple. I don't know is there ugly and someone was like oh hey let's make a less it's because people will literally never vote to have wind turbines in their eye like when it comes down to the locality that is actually voting to allow wind turbines to be built they will never vote for them unless they look like this. If they look even slightly shittier then it's just an instant veto by every resident of every single city in the universe. When turbines like a stupid large though aren't they yeah they're pretty either I'm not a huge fan so I was going to go into renewable energy in college and I did like a year working on a research project with a team that was looking at wind turbines actually and after that year I was so blackpilled on the concept of wind energy that I just completely changed my career path. It's just like this will never work like everything about this is subsidized by the state and it's like one of those things where I'm. So in a given column of air moving through a wind turbine blade path there's actually like an equation that we know for like the maximum extractable amount of energy from like an ideal airfoil like an idealized airfoil can get sites around like 40% of the energy out of that wind. Already like within a percent or two of that so we're not going to be getting much more efficient in terms of extracting the energy out and so in order to actually make wind turbines. financially viable we're going to have to make generators a lot cheaper and figure out how to build them a lot more inexpensively and we can't really do either of these things because a lot of the construction cost like that most is just like steel is expensive copper is expensive right so there's like a lot of hard limits in terms of like what the absolute ideal minimum is even if the technology itself gets a lot better just because of material prices. So. I was just like I don't think we're ever actually going to be a non subsidized environment. Yeah it's it would turn around just mid don't do wind turbines just solar solar or if we were based in a better world we could do nuclear but we can't do nuclear because someone saw like a scary movie or the Simpsons or whatever the fuck my mom something like three. Like I told my dad back in like 2014 to buy Bitcoin or something and he didn't do it and so I just you know I don't have the millions and trillions of dollars or whatever but I get to hold it over my dad forever which is like arguably a decent trade. Something's money can't buy but my mom keeps sending these posts that are like buying copper now it's like buying Bitcoin in 2008 it's like I don't know mom like it might be a good deal I don't know if it's Bitcoin in 2008 it's like no usually when moms find these things they're actually good trades like I don't know what I'm saying this I remember you talking about that like your mom had like I would trade it you like if you just traded on your mom sentiment you would have like destroyed you. Well it's because she like she completely ignored everything that I was talking about with regards to crypto for like five years and then randomly came to me one time dead as in the pico bottom of a bear market and said like well I decided last last like Bitcoin run that it looked like it was going to stay around I'm like interested in buying some what would what would be good now and I like give her the options and one of the options was Solana at like fucking like $14. And she's like yeah well I'm doing crypto because like I want it to be risky and this seems like the highest risk to reward one and then she just like bottom tick Solana and then sells it like 20x higher and I'm like that's just fucking awesome man. Yeah I think I assume it's going to be the same thing with your mom because like moms don't usually want to invest in things they're very risk averse but like when they do actually want to like move money it's usually for something that like has a pretty good risk reward I don't know man all my friends moms the one time every decade they make a trade it's pretty fucking good. Well they're also like they're like peak like once the trade is like hit like saturation level it's like left curve plus like a certain amount of said because the whole thing with like left curving something is you have to hit the timing correct right it's like anyone can left curve something it's all about the timing. Right curving is way harder right curving is like my mutual campbell who was calling the x bridge water guy who's calling gold for like the past sorry silver for the past year. And then yeah I don't know the thing with left curving is like you have to hit it at the right timing which is a little bit harder. So dude I'm like pissed off Twitter is just working very poorly it's been dropping off all the time it's not working that's also part of the excuse why are the episode before this one is. It's really funny because they're doing this thing where they're simultaneously trying to push live broadcasts and also the site doesn't work right so it's like imagine that you're promoting people do live broadcasts but then every 20 minutes of their live broadcast you turn the website off and they lose all their viewers. It's like one of those things that you would really assume someone would think through before they try to coordinate like this. Yeah it just doesn't work I don't know man they're doing the articles post did you see the like a million dollars for the best performing article which is like so funny because they keep being like we don't want people who just hack the system to get metrics and then they keep like rewarding. Oh my god I remember that one guy like zoomy zoom or whatever he completely disappeared off the face of the earth that one guy who got paid like 10k for posting an image of like Steve jobs his daughter. And then like never had a good post ever again like just literally immediately never had a good post ever again that's my mutual. That one I think I think he actually lost it like that guy is not having a good time straight up there's a lot of these things. The average person who isn't super online can't actually conceptualize the degree to which the focused cannon of attention that the internet is capable of producing can give you brain damage like the example that I always use is sbf like imagine what it would be like going from being some random unknown kid to being like the hottest billionaire in the entire world. Within the span of six months this is like a level of social ascension that like was literally not possible in any other society right like Alexander the great scaled up less exponentially than this guy did right and so you go from being like nobody to being the most important person in the entire universe. And I don't know how your ego adjust to this in a sane way right there's no way to express this in the same way actually when they go viral they have a mental breakdown is because like you know you're not used to anyone like if you have 300 followers on something you're just not used to anyone reading or interacting with your stuff. And then the idea now that every one of these people calling you like an evil retard is actually another person like all of these are real people like you're basically getting lynched publicly in your mind yeah. I mean I think the first time you go viral on Twitter it's also like you still have notifications on and so your phone is just like buzzing every two seconds it's just a dopamine it's like one of the most addictive experiences ever it actually might be like more addictive than crack the first time one of your like tweets goes viral or something. It's it's it's unironically like near infinite amounts of dopamine just like a total dopamine spam. I don't know it's this period situation but yeah X has been breaking they're doing the articles articles are all. Right now the current meta on Twitter is just everybody is talking about like how they're building clawed code workflows and they're like dude like I have like five clawed code agents that are all like using the verse hell like skills like tree that they've laid out and it's like I'm so efficient bro but like there's very little actual building being done it's a lot of talking about like this would be so optimal for building if I ever had an idea. Yeah yeah there's like two categories of people and they don't interact with each other at all it's it's the people that go like yeah so this is my like verse sell data bricks you know data dog post hog setup for building with multiple concurrent agents at once and then it's like Joe wise and Thal building like an actually interesting product and he's just like digging his way through doesn't know how to use anything at all. Yeah it's a it's a pretty interesting like you're either on one side of that divider you're on the other right I haven't seen anyone who has like one of these complex agent setups and is actually like doing doing any meaningful vibe coding with it but I don't know maybe they're doing it well or they're hiding. I'm sure they exist and they're out there and whatnot but this dichotomy always is just like if you've ever had to hire software engineers you know that like if you make the higher and he comes in and he starts like rising out his like fucking Linux like laptop you're just like okay well it's over like higher the wrong guy right like just use a fucking ID dude like this is awful. Okay 99% of the time is that 1% of the time it's like the most cracked engineer in the entire universe and like but the problem is that the 99% all think that they are that 1% and they all like talk like you are that person and like it isn't until you've been like fairly immersed within software engineering that you can parse out the difference between these two types of people but I yeah that's that's what they're doing with the with the rising out of their cloud code MD like whatever situations and I think the other thing is. That there's actually no incentive that anyone who's building something good has to tell people how they're doing it now and like nobody understands this like at a fundamental level humans believe that it is possible that somebody who has like a million dollar idea will go on to the internet and tell you how to do it right like they actually believe that somebody is going to do this out of the good of their heart. And they never analyze that like if this idea actually worked and was scalable the person would just grind all day to do it themselves right but that is the case. Well the only people who really have an interest are like the replettes of the world or whatever like ID stuff there's like a couple very niche software players that have like some reasons to share it but by and large you're entirely correct like none of these people you know if you ever if someone never's like oh I found this hack to do this thing it's like okay how are you screwing me this is how I made a million dollars trading from $12 it's like dude like yeah that's never. So the guys were like marty galing it on ironically yeah the the one situation where it is different is like the artists who do it for the love of the game like the guy who's like yeah I'm like cycling 42 credit cards right now or like I'm buying Costco gold right now or like yeah so I use my airplane miles to you know like as on my credit card to buy 50,000 packs of this specific like seasonal yogurt discount and swap those. But you never actually find these people in the wild unless you're like you're a curated artist herter because for the most part the the artists who do this stuff are very bad at marketing and they will never go viral enough that you see them unless either you just have like an eye for it and you like you already follow a lot of these people. Or they accidentally say something that's like so anti social that it gets them put on your feed for being like a heinous like anti social disorder I just like villain yeah. Yeah I don't know I think it's pretty interesting but but we'll see I'm sure I'm sure some of these guys are building like something that's like moderately useful I hope. There's a lot of people are building things right now but like most of the time like most of these articles like I read a lot of them and I eventually realize that it's like the entire point of this article which is itself AI generated right like most of these articles are just AI slop themselves and it's like you have AI writing slop about AI that is being retweeted and commented by AI and it's just this infinite loop going around like I it's like a human centipede of AI content. And the point of it is just to promote the people's accounts as like AI influencers like you go and they have like a newsletter where they like write about like AI updates but like they don't have any side of any sort of insider knowledge there's just like there's this feeling that if you're not always doing the newest thing the newest update or playing with the toys like you should be learning what's going on in the industry that you're like falling behind somehow right. So people are like I must build these skills and you're like well why like they're like well because in the future i'm going to need them it's like you should build skills that you need to do what you're actually trying to do now because you don't actually like I don't believe that it's possible to build skills that you don't need right like do you remember reading books about shit that you just didn't care about during school. Yeah you will forget that stuff like immediately like right. The only good article that I saw about any of this stuff was like if you are trying to apply like a bunch of these weird AI workflows and like change your life with all of this stuff in some like a peaving way but you don't actually have a reason to do it like it's just not going to work and you're an insane retard. That was the best article that I read was an article that said like stop reading all these articles. Yeah yeah it's it's pretty useful it's pretty useless a lot of this stuff I don't know and it's also like even if you take it at face value it's like every two weeks it's changing so like why even learn the like newest like weird niche setup where you use this agent or what. I had a tweet about this that was like oh you got to use chat GPT you know unless you're generating images and then use Gemini unless it's anime then mid-journey but actually for anything like it's mid-journey it's just like this weird convoluted thing and it's like man just like use whatever. Ask your friends what they're doing and it'll it'll be fine and if everything if it's true that everything is getting like 50 times better on a month or a month basis then eventually your tool will be good enough that it won't matter. And if it's not true like you're not going to need this yes or yes. Well all sort of thing is it just doesn't matter like this is something that people have a really hard time understanding I guess I myself like I'm a notorious not understander of this thing but like the bar of perfectionism and quality that you believe is necessary to achieve the task is so much higher than what you actually need like if you're designing a landing page and you're trying to maximize conversions like all of these extra little artistic tweaks that you're adding. Are so unnecessary and there are so few marginal buyers that are going to be converted by like the extra three hours you put into like really diving into this and it's the same thing with like image generation right you're like oh like I have to do two hours of research to find out which like how to best prompt this. Image model god like I have to do another like 20 minutes of research to figure out which image model is the best one and then like finally by the end of this I'll have like an image that's like 6% better than like the one that I generated with my forward prompt in like a groc or whatever and then it doesn't matter anyway is the person who's viewing this image is completely oblivious to any of these differences. 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I mean my understanding of the Greenland situation is Trump like made some sort of text based allegation that like yeah we should like buy the thing or take it or something and like there was a lot of European indignation over this like you can't just take Greenland like I'm pretty sure we can just take Greenland it's an it's an issue of whether it makes any sense to do this or not right. And I think it feels like Europe is like Europe is like the personification of the school teacher in one of those videos where like they're at an inner city like high school and there's this kid who's like. You know like he might be a teen but has the body of like a 24 year old and there's like this five foot two woman who's like no you need to listen you need to do your homework right now and there's like like. It like pulls like an AK 47 this pants and just like you like pull an eight out of seven or like just RKO like choke slams is like poor like dainty woman onto the ground like ruining her life and like obviously disavow not a good thing etc but it's just like. It's this feeling of like you have completely misunderstood the dynamics of like who has authority and control and this it. It's basically like you don't understand how the world works at all like Europe exists in this like perpetual whining state and they were they were fine doing this win the rest of the world was only doing perpetual whining also but like now that Trump has shown he's willing to like use military force Europe is just confused because they were like wait I thought we just don't need. Militaries I thought we were going to settle everything by who's whining more and like so they're deploying their highest level of threat which is like a NATO declaration of like please don't take Greenland please don't take. Yeah yeah it is it is just like it's like this teacher like y'alling at this kid like please don't RKO choke slam me please do your homework I'm begging you and but like it's it's never begging right like the way it manifests is always like. Getting like more excreasingly more more literally the fucking Cartman gift like the respect my authority thing in the person telling you this is like it's like a two and a half foot tall like obese midget right you're just like I just don't have to like I just don't have to respect anything. The more the more angry they get and the more they talk about like how very angry and very serious and like all the consequences you're going to face for this the more that happens the more becomes like imminently clear like wait a second like you you actually have like no authority you have no will to like affect upon the world in any way that you want to. You're in my discretion like when somebody when somebody has to like repeat their eye okay it's like a very feminine thing right but you like walk into a room and if there's like someone who's trying to get everyone to do something like for the night right like they want everyone to like okay like let's leave and go like the ubers outside like if the guy telling you to go get in his Uber has to tell everyone six times to get in his Uber everyone just instantly knows this person doesn't matter. Right and that's like that's like the EU right now they're the guy who's been begging everyone like please don't like take Greenland from us and like we're watching all of the serious countries like they're not saying like oh well the UN said not to take their saying like oh well is Trump going to take it like that's what they're waiting on for the response and so it makes it clear who actually matters. It's just this very weird situation yeah we'll see what happens but it's pretty interesting because apparently this is all basically because of global warming and so a bunch of these Arctic shipping routes are going to be like permanently open year round and just much more stable. And so China basically wants to ship things directly over Canada past Greenland into like Amsterdam and all these great ports that exist in Europe for to sell like you know the ID cars and phone cases and what have you. It's just this weird yeah it's this weird thing we're like no like the lib tarts keep coping to like oh Trump just saw Greenland on a map and he thinks it's really big it's like no actually what you don't realize is like this is right next to one of the most important shipping routes in the entire world. I was wondering there was a reason for this right like it's like the Venezuela thing where there was a reason after I talked to people I learned there were several reasons why it was important to do the thing in Venezuela for like Trump schools right but like if you talk to the average liberal they're just like Trump is just like he hates the Mexicans he doesn't like Mexico. And he's so stupid he's so so so stupid and Trump is just like I can't really invading Mexico to like he's so dumb and so it's just impossible to get an actual understanding of like what is going on from them and it's also impossible to get it from Trump because like he's become insane and I can't read any of his long posts anymore so I have to rely on like other people who are like summarizing downstream Trump. And it's the same thing with 40 character limit was doing a lot for Trump retrospectively he he is falling off ever since they remove the 240 character woman he's gotten really bad he's not good at long posting he should really like this is something that Twitter did very well I think is like not everyone is good at like linear long form content generation and like being not able to even have the opportunity to demonstrate that to the world was really good. Twitter saved a lot of people from looking much dumber than they otherwise would have there's a lot of times where I look at my like long like any of my tweet a long thing I look at it and I'm like the best version of this is under 240 characters like undoubtedly. The most accessible version of this and like when I start writing longer like it's a little bit about what we were talking about before where like there's that intermediary in terms of like the length of a piece of written content where like I. If you're making something really short and punchy that's like a clear thing to iterate towards but then like if you're making it long like how fucking long are you supposed to make it on Twitter like once you go past the read more you feel like you have to keep going for a while. Otherwise you made someone for like one sentence you're just right just very annoying. You have to go past it for like another 240 characters at a minimum but then you get into this it's this weird gray zone territory where I becomes very hard to understand. And then at a certain point it's like this should just be an article but you're not going to write an article on Twitter because they suck you're going to write an article on sub stack so now I don't know. Yeah it's a weird situation but yeah basically these shipping routes matter a lot. And Trump has this uncanny ability to like Trump cared about immigration law in 2016 and like immigration was interesting in 2016 but after 2020 it's like immediately a trillion times more clear how important how like incredibly important immigration was to. The US and like all these systems that were being created to like loophole people in these goofy ways into United States but you know whether you intrinsically agree with it happening or not like it remains like it's it's very obvious that like there was all these weird like asylum loopholes and like people lying about where they were coming from. It's also clear that like democracy hasn't been enacted in any serious capacity because like the average moderate American. They support like yeah like we should have like really skilled immigrants from these countries but there's basically no normal person that supports like yeah we should just like invite like literally everyone into the capacity that we've been doing but it became impossible for. You know like if a politician comes and says yeah like I think we should only have like the best the most skilled the brightest from the rest of the world to help build us. Let's say that and then in practice the import the entirety of Somalia so and then steal like an entire Somalian GDP every like double the GDP. Trump's very good at getting these issues early like if you remember also like China is obviously a very big issue now when Trump was talking about China in 2015 2016 people actually thought he was like crazy for bringing up China. It's actually quite crazy how ahead of his time he was on on like a lot of these issues and remember like they called him like an evil guy like they were like he's so dumb like they keep calling him dumb because he's he's optimized for like saying the word China like yeah. To be fair to them he does say China like a pretty funny way he says it very bizarrely right yeah well he has this whole thing he's optimized himself for like 30 years for like his version of the algorithm which was TV right like what you know when we're like 56 years old and we're like saying truth nominee or like truth nuke and like our kids are like wow grandpa so weird or whatever it's like yeah man we optimize ourselves for the algorithm for like 30 40 years you know that affects you. He did that before TV and so it's pretty reasonable for him to have this like weird way of communicating. But yeah they keep giving him shit the other thing that did actually really well is they you should pull the map while I talk about this but they also created this brand new like fake country and if you remember like 10 years ago the US would create like fake countries because of like some woke story or whatever. Like oh Malala happened in Afghanistan and so we have to create like a Malala land or whatever now it's like Trump is like a Marco Rubio is just actually kind of a genius like they created Somali land which is just entirely fake country whole cloth entirely because it's going to be like a US puppet and it's going to control like the entry into the Swiss canal from from Asia. So Trump is just like single handedly control both of like the two most important shipping lanes the only other shipping lane that like exists that is like somewhat important is the Panama Canal which he's also trying to get back from Panama or like you remove and reduce like Chinese. Influence in in Panama and then the only shipping lane that like the US would not have absolute control over and like the able to nuke anyone moving through would be like literally going under the horn of Africa which is just like a comically annoying and like out of your way shipping lane like it's just by far we should make a tier list of shipping lanes but it's just by far the worst shipping lane and so Trump is actually just like created a stroke of brilliance like a controlled all of like. Like the earth like overseas trade and lib cards are like oh he's like oh you stupid cheeto president you think Greenland is really big don't you. It's it's just like he's playing like 6d chess and and they're just like yeah it's this very funny situation he's like literally like death noting them where he's like. It's like he's death noting them but speaking like purely in two and one syllable words and then they're like blundering all of their chess pieces but like having the death note monologue in their head it's this very interesting situation. Yeah yeah that was a bit of serious post stuff so as we talk about Greenland and who it's rightful owner may be in the coming times you might be thinking to yourself I have an extremely strong opinion on this I know for a fact that Donald Trump is going to capture Greenland by the end of 2026. And if you have such a feeling I want to remind you you can go to our sponsor polymarket dot com's website and put your beliefs to the test and the other big thing we had was. J power is getting sued he's getting sued for not pumping. It's really it is really funny like it does look really bad to see like the way that they've framed the J power suing looks really really bad for Trump like it looks like I've threatened this man to like lower rates to pump my bag. For like two years and he hasn't done it so now I'm going to jail. Yeah it's it's pretty funny so apparently. I don't know the optics are like mega bad it probably should not be have I'm also a big believer that like a pan bond is like easily the stupidest member of the cabinet right now probably. I can't tell if she's like if she's like anti Trump or so dumb that it's effectively anti Trump like I have been I have been trying to figure out if she's doing her own like 5d chess of incompetence whereas it's like she's actually not an incompetent idiot she's a very competent idiot but she's just on the other side. Yeah it's a very weird situation and it's hard to tell what she's trying to get done at all but it is I will say like apparently this is literally going to be like the most expensive like building and square foot like like the like Jamie diamond just built like a new heavy quarters for JP Morgan and New York City. And I think that's like 5 or 4 times cheaper on a per per split basis than like the fed and that's literally in New York like the most expensive city with like permitting hell they literally just like you know installed like a so low key communist socialist as their mayor and this is like somehow 5 to 6 times more expensive on a per square foot basis so I don't know what's going on. But it does seem like someone dropped the ball maybe we're just going to have like the greatest federal reserve building of all time and it'll be epic but yeah it does it does seem like something weird is going on. But I don't know maybe it's just one of those cases where there's just so much waste that it's also like a pretty sweet gig to be like yeah I'm the guy like who has the contract for the renovations for the only person on earth. Like the only institution on earth that can print money literally it's like so how much money do you want to spend on this building and it's like I don't know man like you know so I guess. It's like Jerome Powell is getting a suit is it suit or is it like whatever their in late stages and investigation I don't think he's officially built a building for the fed that was way too expensive basically and Trump is saying. After he's been trying to get this guy to raise rates for two years he's now like pursuing this guy legally for his expensive building. Which is like technically yeah I guess it's like yeah it's obviously being read as like Trump is like going after this he also posted like a two minute like sincere post video on YouTube where he's like he's like crying on camera. He's it's just the funniest video Trump is he's like no Jay about it you know it's so good. It is okay imagine that you are Jerome Powell right and like because Trump has been yelling at you for two years to raise rates. You're just like well I guess I can do anything because if I break any law now the liberals are going to say like he's only enforcing this law because because I won't lower the rates so you like this is actually like a way in which I would use my get out of jail free. I'm going to use my get out of jail free pass to just like build myself the most baller office of all time because it's like this plausibly seems right like this would be a really defensive like I bet he actually thought this. It's like oh this guy's been on me to raise the rates for like three years I just won't raise the rates and yeah whole whole you know I can get away with anything because these these liberals will back me up that actually that would actually be genius if he did that honestly he deserves like the amazing office. I don't I don't know if I buy it that he didn't on purpose but that would be pretty amazing. I don't know how this works because I've never misallocated like hundreds of million dollars of like federal funds but like try to put yourself in the position where you are imagining yourself misallocating that many federal funds right. You're probably thinking about like what if I get caught right like you have to be at some point wondering like what what happens I it would be the first thing that you think of is like well actually I think I'm pretty good if I get caught because it just looks like Trump is doing some sort of like I like he's coming after me for not raising the rates. Yeah yeah it would be it would be pretty good brand actually like I just think there's a zero percent chance that the guy didn't consider this. That would be super epic actually if he's like yeah that would be so funny man oh my god regardless of whether or not Jerome Powell was or wasn't embezzling US government funds it's still deeply disturbing that he was able to have his financial transactions tracked in such a way. If you'd like to avoid this problem in the future feel free to rely on our newest sponsor Z cash Z dot cash completely private and untraceable transactions check them out. Did you see the whole thinking machines drama where these like three people left Mirama Rode's company and joined opening I again after they raised like $2 billion. They did like a like this is worse than like a crypto rock like they raised $2 billion for like a PDF with eight people and like a year in or something they just left and went back to their original company. It's it's actually kind of yeah it's kind of crazy and then this guy apparently was also like a dating someone I don't know if it's a girl or a guy but this guy. Yeah they was like a fire or whatever I don't know it's this very weird situation I also feel like I then you know who knows because maybe he's got like he gets fired for cause or something but I also feel like people are very attached to the idea of like getting fired or like no I'm resigning I'm not getting but you can't fire me like I resign and like no you can't resign I fired you it's like dude like if you get fired you get severed. If you resign you often don't and it's like but people are like very attached to this idea. The same sentimentality with break ups to like you remember the age when like everyone was like no like I dumped her him or whatever it was me and then at some point everyone realizes that actually you want to be the dumped one because it lets you have much more freedom after the facts. Like if you are the one that dumps them you have to go like six months of like publicly like morning and like not dating anyone else and like but then I don't think people do it anymore man people break up and they like immediately it's kind of a heads well girls have always done the thing I don't want to go to gender discourse here but girls have always done the thing where like you know they break up and then they immediately like like wow there's this new guy I met like 0.03 seconds after I broke up. I broke up with you isn't that crazy isn't that curious but I don't know you know it's like a weird I don't think people I don't think that's a thing man I think people are just evil nowadays. People have like real qualms about like oh I know that are going through like break up or whatever like maybe this is just like you're younger enough than me that you're dealing with but like the old old heads I know are still kind of like you're not supposed to like break up you have to take time. Yeah like you're not supposed to making like only pins content with like your new girlfriend or whatever for the next like two months or something. Yeah I think in my yeah I think I think in I mean I'm not that much younger than you but I do think we're like writing the tire at this point like you guys still have some some like presumption of like civility but we're just like total free for all evil know like it's it's just priced in we're being evil you know like that's just the way it's going to be. Versus like you guys are still pretending to be nice people like there's still this veil of like oh you gotta you can't do that you can't like break up with them right away that's not very nice. And it's just like there's all these relationships I see with my peers where it's like they're both just hurting each other like they're both. And they're reducing very high instability right it's like you're making the compromise towards stability and it's somehow making you even less stable and you're like you're doing like the maximum evil thing you can get away with to each other all the time 24/7 and it's like are either of you happy. Like are either of you enjoying this at all why is this thing older people truly cannot understand the extent to which like so many relationships that zoomer guys and girls have are just like I hate my fucking bitch of a girlfriend slash I hate my boyfriend like yeah yeah it's like I mean like boomer said it and it was like kind of like a joke ish but like you're getting to the levels where like zoomer guys and girls are like actively orchestrating a substantial amount of like. Like a their mental energy towards like how do I ruin this person's life. How do I get back at her for this how do you think that you did. Yeah it's like how do I how do I make a. How do I make my my boyfriend's day like worse. How do I ruin they like wake up like how do I make my girlfriends. Like what would be the most embarrassing thing that I could plausibly deniably get away with. Is that it's like who is the worst person that I can like do the thing to them like not quite DM them but like maybe I will go and like seven stories from like your best friend at 3 AM. The morning. It's just like how close to like doing something straight up evil can I get without like it's really funny because both parties now are willing to like make themselves look like a huge loser towards the end of like humiliating their partner like guys will go and leave these like egregiously simple comments on like some random girls like Instagram post if they know that it's going to make their girlfriend. Like suicidal and girls will make these like egregiously slutty comments towards like random like a famous guys knowing that it's going to do the same to their boyfriend right like both of these people are lowering their own status to basically zero in order to stab their. They're gathering myself out to just like fuck you over even more. Yeah, it's such a weird. The celebrity thing like what a fucking weird time when there was like that meme that like like people would have you believe that like you had to tolerate your boyfriend or girlfriend because like both sides would do that. You're like publicly having a celebrity crush and being like wow, I really want to have sex with this person like I like I would ruin my whole life to have second like the public would have had you believe for like a significant period of time that like you were a really bad person. It not even like not even like no, I hypothetically wouldn't let you have sex with a person like just straight up like. Yeah, I'm hypothetically like not okay with you publicly telling everyone that you really want to have sex with this person. It's like like I'm not even like denying like maybe giving the circumstances you can do it. It's just like yeah, please don't tell my mom that you really want to have sex with like Jason memo or whatever. It was always that guy that guy was like the God of creating these like epic cook pictures where it's like the wife. There's like a line of like 15 wives that want to come up and have pictures where they're like hugging this guy while the guy is like well, Jason is like. They want their boyfriend in the photo as well, like it's so bad it's like you can't even they're not even doing it for themselves. They're like clearly doing it to harm the other person. Yeah, like it's like I hate my boyfriend so much that I want to permanently I want to permanently document his like epic cuckold re humiliation at the hands of this like meme. Cuckled creator celebrity guy who's like like I don't even know what Jason Momoa does as like a person I literally only know him from memes on the internet of him in these like weird reverse cook pictures. Yeah, I don't I've seen like a couple of these lately I saw one like a week ago or something I actually was not aware that like this is a big and he's like the guy for this. I don't know that was a really a thing, but yeah, apparently I guess man, I don't know it's such a cursed and like humiliation ritual world. There's all these things that people themselves through or that like you're even expected to put yourself through there just like obviously like negative expected value. Obviously you know saying person whatever do this like and if you describe it like if you very coldly dissect like or like even from the girl side like yeah you need to be okay with your boyfriend like on his public social media where your mom follows him. Right, and he follows like half of his Instagram. Yeah, and it's always like really trashy ones too. It's like like it's not even like oh he's following like like like Joe Scotty it's always like it's midgie and she just has like. It's like it's like some like 40 year old who has like four times oversized implants you're just like do yeah, it's just so absurd like just it doesn't even look good you know. And then the girl will literally be like some random like Midwestern Brunette like his girlfriend and you're just like dude like I'm not like I'm not like a feminist you know but like. You shouldn't be doing it right I am so rarely on the women's side and anything but like you should be able to restrain yourself. Well it's also this thing where like. Like women are actually pretty adaptable at like their boyfriend being kind of evil about this stuff finally enough so it makes it like so much more evil when. When the boyfriend does this stuff because it's like dude you like just follow girls that look like a slightly hotter version of her and she'll like cope herself into like. Like no like like she'll be talking to friends like no Sarah like he follows this girl because she looks like me it's like like women will like are like coping contortionist they're amazing at it she will cope herself into like. This being boy for your relationship you just have to like give her. And only all those porn stars who look somewhat similar to me like they only have the same color as I do. Oh my god i'm so blessed i'm so blessed of firm my relationship is. Dude but it is true this stuff happens man like i'm telling you your women are like the maximal copers of all time they're so good at it. But yeah less people should be in relationships I think more more people should break up paradoxically like it needs to get way worse before it's going to get better we need to like properly enter a relationship recession. And on that note I think we're going to be calling it quits thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of plausibly deniable and thank you to our sponsors for making this all possible Godspeed later guys.