📝 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
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Ukrainian forces have begun training and testing exoskeletons for battlefield use. Soldiers from the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade are using them in the Pokrovsk sector for both logistics and frontline operations. The goal is to reduce physical strain, especially when loading heavy artillery shells into howitzers without automatic loaders. Artillery crews can handle up to 1200 kg of ammunition per day, and early tests show that exoskeletons help them work faster and with less fatigue Above all, by improving the conditions for those soldiers on the front lines who handle such heavy loads, plus the stress of work. Seeking to reduce overall fatigue in the troops
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran
New reporting from NYT reveals how Trump decided to go to war with Iran — after a closed-door Israeli pitch and despite deep internal divisions inside his own team. | DropSite News
At a secret Feb. 11 Situation Room meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a four-part pitch for regime change, including a video montage of potential replacement leaders such as Reza Pahlavi. JD Vance was absent, stuck in Azerbaijan.
Appearing alongside Mossad chief David Barnea and military officials, Netanyahu argued: Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in weeks. The regime would be too weak to close the Strait of Hormuz. Street protests — fomented with Mossad help — could trigger an uprising. Kurdish fighters from Iraq could open a ground front in the northwest.
Trump’s response: “Sounds good to me.”
The next day, U.S. intelligence pushed back sharply. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the ...
Digital Energy Relief Credits: You'll Have No Energy and Be Happy [VIDEO]
The same people who said “you’ll own nothing and be happy” are now running the response to the 2026 energy crisis. The IEA (whose boss chairs the WEF Energy Advisory Board) now has a public scoreboard tracking how governments are reacting: subsidies, tax cuts, flash loans in Australia, France, Spain and beyond.
It’s classic helicopter money…but that can’t last. You can print money. You can’t print food or kilowatt-hours.
Mark my words: next comes Digital Energy Relief Credits — programmable CBDC tokens in your digital ID wallet, good only for approved fuel, temporary, and tracked. Once those credits are scoped or geofenced? You’re living in a 15-minute city whether you like it or not.
The cure they’re offering is worse than the disease.
Start growing your own food. Build real resilience. Stay off the permission layer where you can.
And spread the word — this is happening in plain sight!...
Digital Energy Relief Credits: You'll Have No Energy and Be Happy [VIDEO]
The same people who said “you’ll own nothing and be happy” are now running the response to the 2026 energy crisis. The IEA (whose boss chairs the WEF Energy Advisory Board) now has a public scoreboard tracking how governments are reacting: subsidies, tax cuts, flash loans in Australia, France, Spain and beyond.
It’s classic helicopter money…but that can’t last. You can print money. You can’t print food or kilowatt-hours.
Mark my words: next comes Digital Energy Relief Credits — programmable CBDC tokens in your digital ID wallet, good only for approved fuel, temporary, and tracked. Once those credits are scoped or geofenced? You’re living in a 15-minute city whether you like it or not.
The cure they’re offering is worse than the disease.
Start growing your own food. Build real resilience. Stay off the permission layer where you can.
And spread the word — this is happening in plain sight!...