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Imagination: rustic developing countries with subsistence farmers and exotic wilderness export natural bounty to the city slickers. Reality: industrialized urbanized countries generate so much food that they beg developing countries to import it. A 🧵 on global food abundance:

It's really sad what's happening in Britain, but on the plus side, we can start dusting off old Soviet Jokes for the UK now. For example: A judge walks out of his chambers laughing his head off. A colleague asks him why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the

Technological advances have made it viable to make diamond gems out of common graphite and electricity. Mass production in China and India is ending the socially-engineered elevated status of diamonds above other gems. Read the new Bismarck Analysis Brief! (link below)

In 2024, for the first time, a majority of engaged American couples purchased a man-made diamond rather than a mined diamond. At the same time, since 2015, the price of man-made diamonds has dropped a staggering 90%. These are not fakes or imitations, but actual diamonds.

Until recently, most gemstone-quality diamonds were mined in Russia, Africa, Canada, or Australia. But through two different techniques, including with powerful presses that imitate natural diamond formation in the Earth, these jewels can now simply be made in a factory.

When even poor Indians and Africans can show off their bulky diamond rings, they will no longer be a status symbol. Mined diamonds will lose demand. But this will be more a return to the status quo of other gems, which never benefitted from De Beers' marketing campaign.

Read the whole Brief here: brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/diamonds-are…

"Made in China" went from being a punchline to being a threat very fast.

Diamonds are toast. They are not especially rare, and now they can be factory-produced. If you want to buy a truly scarce and stunning 'gemstone' for your loved one, consider moldavite tektite. The total global supply is around ~300 tons. Moldavites are also from space (at

"Made in China" is the new "Made in Japan" or "Made in Germany." It will become a byword for exceptionally good engineering and design and sometimes also a menacing reminder of latent military capability.

As Director of National Intelligence, I promised to root out and expose the politicization of intelligence. I recently declassified two reports that show how the Biden administration labeled Americans who disagreed with their policies as potential “domestic violent extremists,”

I hate soviet gerontocracy comparisons because american gerontocracy is so much more powerful....Brezhnev dead at 75. Andropov at 69, Chernenko at 73. pathetic. little babies all of them

Variations in types of liberalism are extremely slight. None of them support industry or technology as such (seeing them as ‘side effects’), all of them reject any notion of collective goal or accomplishment, and all of them are fine with the gradual extinction of the species.

The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary: an update from Elon Musk on SpaceX's plan to reach Mars

I made a big interactive tech tree of technological history! Here are some screenshots

One year later: bullying works.

Boomers have been completely unprepared for the waves of content that have been released since they first started watching television in black and white as children in the 1950s. We've been ruled by people who take anything shown on a screen as literal factual truth for decades.

This Station can be build with around 1,000 Stationships, a variant of the SpaceX Starship. As a Starship factory will be able to produce 1,000 Stationships per year, it would only take a year to build. Each Stationship segment of the station requires only a single launch and