We have not properly communicated what we do. I have no interest in causing an environmental disaster on my legacy. That’s never going to happen. We will bring plans out for a one gig facility and show what the heat profile looks like, the light, the noise, the water, all of it. When we build this, you can come and kick the tires and extrapolate from this. We need to become more ingrained with the community and I think that is going to be incorporated into all projects. If I’ve said anything that offends you or done anything that you think has been unfair, I apologize. But I also would say I want you to lend an open ear to what I’m going to show you in the months ahead.

This is what I mean when I say I want art to show me something I haven’t seen before… @NayriTheWitch has me wanting to see how much further this world goes 👀 Alters // Streaming on Alchemy

🚨 I HAVE NO MICROPLASTICS IN MY BALLS 🚨 This should not be possible. Studies show that 100% of men have microplastics in their semen. I am the first human ever to show a complete reduction to zero. This may be a world-first breakthrough in fertility research. I had 165 microplastic particles in my semen just 18 months ago. Now, I have zero. Five published studies have measured microplastics in human semen. Two found them in 100% of men. The other three found then in 44 to 76% of men tested, but those used methods that miss the smallest particles and the clear ones. Corrected for that, the real rate is likely 100%. Almost every man alive has plastic in his semen right now. The same applies to testicular tissue, testing 100% positive for microplastics. Microplastics hurt sperm. Human studies show the impact of various types of plastic, associated chemicals, and other toxins on male fertility: + 60% fewer normal shaped sperm (from PFAS) + 5x higher odds of low sperm count (from PTFE) + 10% lower sperm concentration (from PTFE) + 15% lower swimming ability (from PTFE) + 41% lower swimming ability (from PET) + 12% lower sperm swimming ability (from BPA) + 3x higher odds of low sperm count (from Phthalates) + 2x higher odds of poor swimming (from Phthalates) The effects compound: each extra type of plastic drops sperm swimming ability by about 21%. This matters even if you’re NOT trying to get pregnant. Sperm count is one of the cleanest biomarkers of overall health we have. And microplastics don't stop at the testes. The same particles are showing up everywhere we look. Studies show 4.5x higher rate of heart attack, stroke, and death in people with microplastics in their arterial plaque vs. those without. Microplastics were also found in 100% of human placentas tested. 100% of post-mortem human brains tested positive for microplastics. Brain concentrations rose ~50% between 2016 and 2024, and now sit at roughly 11x the levels found in the liver or kidney. Where do these come from? + PTFE, commonly in non-stick pans + PET, water bottles + Phthalates, makes plastic soft and bendy + BPA, can linings + PFAS, stain-resistant fabrics & food packaging Inside the body, plastic causes a kind of cellular rust. It triggers inflammation in the testicles, kills the cells that make sperm and drops testosterone. It's been confirmed across 39 animal and cell studies, then in human data. MY PROTOCOL: Note, what I did is n=1, not a controlled trial, I cannot prove cause. 1. Sauna (dry). My toxin blood panel confirms sauna clears plastic related chemicals: BPA, phthalates, PFAS, flame retardants, pesticides. The plastic particles themselves are too big to sweat out directly. Heat may activate other clearance routes: bile flow through the liver, the cell's internal cleanup system, and the gut barrier. Humans have almost no enzymes that can break plastic apart, so the body has to physically push it out. 2. Reverse osmosis water filter. Drinking water is likely a major source of microplastic getting into your body. A reverse osmosis filter pushes water through a very tight membrane and strains the particles out. I filter everything I drink. 3. Trying to rid my environment of the big plastic items: cutting boards, cups, plates, food storage containers, non-stick pans, cling wrap, tea bags, water bottles, kitchen utensils, kettles, and synthetic clothing. Note, as hard as I try, I'm always finding new plastic things in my life. This can be all-consuming thing so try to just knock out the big ones. I did all three interventions at the same time. I cannot say which one did the most work. What I can say is this: going from 165 to zero in 18 months is possible. Results: Nov 2024: 165 particles/mL Jul 2025: 20 particles/mL Apr 2026: 0 particles/mL The 18 month window also captures roughly 7 full spermatogenesis cycles.

"I usually get what i want. If I want someone, I will get them. " "I am cute, I have great boobs, I am great in bed and I'm super sexy." These are the words from one of the reality show participants - do you agree with her? Would you date her? Would you marry a woman like that? Is it only about the looks and sex? How about interesting souls, kind hearts and intelligence? 🙄

I am the Director of Ancillary Revenue at a bank you have an account with, and I designed the $35 you once paid for a $3 coffee. I want to be precise about what I sell, because the word fee does a great deal of quiet work for me and I would like you to hear it working. I do not sell overdraft protection. I sell the overdraft. The fee is the product. Everything else in this building is a delivery mechanism for the fee. People think the $35 is a punishment for running out of money. A punishment would mean you did a thing and we responded to it. What happens instead is that I decide, in advance, the order your transactions clear. Your paycheck is real. Your rent is real. The coffee is real. But I choose which one the computer sees first, and I choose the order that produces the most declines, because each decline is $35, and I am paid on the declines. So I run your rent before your paycheck. I run the largest charge first, so it empties the account before the small ones land, and then the small ones fail one at a time, $35 each, five of them off a single Tuesday. You did not overdraw five times. You overdrew once, and I sold it to you five times. The software does exactly that. I wrote the ticket that made it do it. We call it authorize positive, settle negative. You had the money when you tapped the card. You did not have the money when we decided to look. The gap between those two moments is where I live. It is the most profitable real estate in American banking and it is nine hours wide. When you call to dispute the fee, you reach a person who is not permitted to remove more than one charge a year, and only if you say the word hardship, which nobody tells you, because the script I wrote for her does not contain the word. She is reading my document. Cruelty would require her to have a choice. I built the appeal to feel like a door and function like a mirror. One of us gets caught most summers. This year it was Regions, ordered to refund at least $141 million for the authorize-positive machine I just walked you through. Cash App went for $45 million, spread across 46 state settlements. The bureau clawed back $140 million, banks and auto lenders and the apps that move your money, all in one line. I keep every one of those figures in my model, under a heading called Regulatory, and every one of them is smaller than the quarter it came out of. You are reading those numbers as justice. From my chair they are a cost of goods sold, and I would like to show you the math. $141 million sounds like a wall. It is a rounding error with a press release stapled to it. The fee earned more than that before the investigation opened, more than that while it was open, and it will earn more than that again next year, because the order does not ban the fee. It refunds one slice of one vintage of it. I keep a line in my model called Regulatory. It sits directly beneath the line called Marketing, because the two do the same job. Marketing buys goodwill at the front. Regulatory buys forgiveness at the back. I fund both, and I have never once missed my number. The piece I am most proud of is the refund check itself. You will get one. It will be for $12. It will arrive 3 years after the Tuesday, in an envelope that looks like junk mail, and for one moment you will feel that the system worked. That feeling is also the product. I did not fight the settlement. I helped write it. The $12 is the receipt I hand you so you keep the account open, so I can sell you the same $35 in the fall. There was a woman I know only as a row in a file. She paid $175 in a single week, five declines and a sustained-negative fee, on an account that was short by $4. She was short by $4 because we had already taken $35. The fee created the shortfall that created the fee. I did not have to reach for that one. It reached for itself. I put it in the quarterly deck under a heading that said product-market fit. My own account does not overdraft. Not from caution. I am an employee, and employees sit on the no-fee tier, and I wrote the no-fee tier. I know precisely what one $35 does to the far end of a month, which is the reason I made certain it could never happen to mine. So watch for the envelope. The $12 is coming. Cash it. It clears the settlement, it closes the file, and it tells my model that you are still here. The fee is the product. The fine is the cost of the fee. The refund is the receipt. I checked this morning, and the account is still open. Checking is the whole of my job.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The markets have declared the oil crisis "over." One of the world's top commodity analysts says that is exactly the WRONG conclusion... Jeffrey Currie, former head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, offers an assessment that should alarm ANYONE paying attention to energy markets: $4 billion fled energy markets last month alone, headline fatigue has set in, and investors are treating Hormuz as transitory... Currie says that disconnect between what crude futures show and what product markets are screaming is the most dangerous misread he has seen in his CAREER. The real crisis is already visible in the markets nobody watches: the spread between diesel prices and crude oil is now greater than the oil price itself, jet fuel spreads are at HISTORIC extremes, and there's NO strategic reserve on the product side to buffer what comes next. "I have never seen a market like this. Never..." The July reprieve from Iranian oil flooding markets is already reversing, inventories are heading back down in August, and it's only a matter of time before the product shortage bleeds into crude. Markets have a habit of being wrong right up until they are catastrophically right... Appreciate your insights, @CommodMkt

When I started at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1975 it was filled with pit brokers of all ages. Lots of the young ones were sons/cousins/friends of the older successful brokers There were guys who fought in WW2 on the beaches of Omaha with scares to show for it. These guys had guts in both WW2 and at the Board The old guys had lots of wise sayings Too bad us young traders had to make all the same mistakes on the way to understanding these sayings There is an incredible amount of wisdom in people who can make it 10, 20 even 30 or more years as self-supporting and wealth-building independent traders The young today are no different. They will learn the most important lessons in painful ways. That is the way of the markets. Happens every generation The amazing thing to me -- a 50-year career, self-funded trader is that each new generation knows more than the generation before them. At least that is the lie we will let them keep believing -- at their expense I hope to have time in this book to unpack many nuggets of the wisdom of experience One lesson that has stayed with me over the decades is that I should never carry a losing trade home with me on Fridays Several obvious reasons One - my experience after 10s of thousands of futures contracts trades is that losers on Friday seldom get much better the following week. This is what I call the "probability" factor behind the saying Two - why would I ever want a losing trade to mess with my head and interfere with a weekend. This is what I call the "pleasure" factor behind the saying I have shared this saying with new traders for many years. Never had someone "no-thank-me" for sharing the concept Try it. I think you'll like it