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A soldier of fortune is a mercenary - someone who fights in conflicts for money, profit, or personal adventure rather than loyalty to a specific country or political cause.
The term comes from the idea that such a person relies on luck, chance, and changing opportunities to make a living through war or risky travel.
One interesting shift I’ve been noticing:
Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, are increasingly moving away from the Wahhabi ideology they spent decades exporting and funding across the Islamic world. They’re reducing the influence of religious hardliners while promoting more socially liberal values and economic modernisation.
Meanwhile, parts of the far right in Europe and the US appear to be moving in the opposite direction, increasingly adopting ideas and rhetoric that resemble those promoted by hardline Islamist movements throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
(traditional gender hierarchies, religious authority, rejection of liberalism, moral absolutism and nostalgia for a supposedly purer past.)
There’s a certain irony in watching the original exporters of religious fundamentalism gradually abandon it, while movements in the secular West begin embracing similar ideas.
On a longer timeframe there is potentially for an ideological flippening, which would fall in line with my macro thesis on a chaotic west and growing east over the next few decades.
I may change my opinion if new data comes to light, but I think overall btc should bottom within the next 2-3 weeks
If 90% of traders are using TA to identify and enter trades, then your job is to get into the trade before the TA confirmation. Being earlier than everyone else is valuable.
TLDR, you need to find information beyond TA otherwise you’re stuck with the 90% (which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a wrong trade).
SF’s dating pool was once, as an Egyptian founder put it to us, “drier than the desert in my homeland.”
Now, gorgeous women are flocking to the city.
Why? As AI gets cheaper to build, companies flush with venture cash are hiring beautiful women to charm investors and clients.
Enjoy it while it lasts, gentlemen. As @nicolewizman1 writes: paying hotties 6 figures to get drunk with your business prospects feels like a pretty good sign we’re in a bubble. 👇
The French riots are a natural reaction to a deeper issue which I don’t think many people understand.
Europe is largely in the gutter, well on its way into a depression. This was always its destiny (post colonialism and native birth rate declines).
The Europe of the 1950 - 2010 was a mirage. Largely riding off the coattails of US growth.
This is due to Europe’s inability to capture natural resources and high skilled labour in order compete against the likes of China and the US in a bifurcated world (every country for themselves).
In order to backstop their economies from going into forever stagnation, the governments have taken the lazy approach of opening their borders to the 3rd world (as high skilled labour has little interest in settling in Europe). What you get as a result is a smaller piece of the pie for each citizen (leading to rapid growth in poverty and resentment).
Meanwhile the governments gets an increase in taxes and multinationals who fund their campaigns get more potential customers.
