We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
📝 Lomez on X:
"Zoomers are the first cohort to be fully immersed in the reality of generational downward mobility. While millenials will also earn less than their parents, they were formed under the expectations of America ascending to a kind of Post-History stasis where at worst their status and wealth was permanently locked in.
Zoomers have none of these illusions and rightfully reject the obsolete and facile narratives they’re expected to swallow and obey to make sense of their lives and ambitions. Those are dead narratives. They do not reflect reality at all. They do not reflect the deranged cultural and political circumstances they’re expected to navigate from a position of negative expected value for pretty much any career path outside of genius tech outlier.
Scolding them is a stupid and pointless exercise that will only drive them further into despair and resentment.
Yes. Don’t be resentful. Don’t give in to despair. Be resourceful and lay a claim on your own life. But it’s also going to require offering Zoomers much better and updated narratives and opportunities for how to accrue status and wealth and the basic conditions for living a dignified life for the average guy who is not an outlier tech genius.
There are short, medium, and long term fixes for this. Some straightforwardly political. Some more complex cultural questions. But the implicit promise of boomer America, even Gen X America, is no longer viable, and that broken promise has absolutely nothing to do with Zoomers themselves."
📎 Lomez
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 i24 News correspondent, Amichai Stein:
‘Why is this agreement a strategic disaster?
The Americans give the Iranians plenty—and get nothing in return.
The most absurd thing is that this war ends with sanctions relief for oil sales. Something that didn't exist before the war.
What do the Americans get? Nothing. No nuclear, no ballistic, no proxy.’
🇮🇱❌🇱🇧❗️ — Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have called upon Netanyahu's government to respond with military force to the Hezbollah drone attack that struck an IDF military installation in northern Israel.
▶️ Smotrich called for direct attacks against the Dahiyeh suburbs in Beirut, which could derail U.S.-Iran negotiations at the last moment.
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The Israeli Air Force struck Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs a short while ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz say.
"The IDF has just struck Hezbollah terror targets in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut, in response to Hezbollah's firing toward Israeli territory," they say in a joint statement.
"Israel will not tolerate fire directed at its territory," they add.
This morning, three Hezbollah drones exploded in Israeli territory.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️ — Israeli strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh kills at least 3, wounds 15, Lebanese Civil Defense ...
IN 2006, RESEARCHER CLEVE BACKSTER — THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CIA'S LIE DETECTOR PROTOCOLS — PUBLISHED 36 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT PLANTS, BACTERIA, AND HUMAN CELLS IN PETRI DISHES RESPOND INSTANTANEOUSLY TO HUMAN THOUGHT AND EMOTION — EVEN AT DISTANCES OF HUNDREDS OF MILES. THE SIGNAL IS FASTER THAN LIGHT. IT DOES NOT DIMINISH WITH DISTANCE. IT IS NOT ELECTROMAGNETIC.
In 1966, Cleve Backster was the world's foremost expert on polygraph technology. He had developed the interrogation techniques used by the CIA, FBI, and U.S. military. He understood galvanic skin response — the electrical conductance of biological tissue — better than anyone alive.
One morning, on a whim, he attached polygraph electrodes to a Dracaena plant in his office. He watered it and watched the tracing. Then he thought: "I wonder what would happen if I threatened this plant." He decided to burn a leaf with a match.
The instant he formed the intention — before he moved, before he lit the match, before any ...
