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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,725 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88365.The_White_Cascade

    Plowed (lulz) through this unironically during the Great Heat Wave. It has same the common foibles of the genre, presuming a lot of the mindset of people long since dead. However, the subject is complete wheelhouse for me. Skrong recommend.
    Just bought and downloaded. Thank you sir
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    I thought this thread had been closed on account of malarkey.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    Just finished Bomber Mafia. Highly recommend.

    Precision bombing was a joke. The Brits were right. Cool stories on the Napalm, Norden Bombsite and discovery of the Jet Stream.





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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning

    Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.

    @UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes.




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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,725 Founders Club
    edited January 2023
    YellowSnow said:

    Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning

    Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.

    @UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes.




    Thanks for the recommend. Out of curiosity, did he discuss Bitcoin? He is known for being anti-Bitcoin I believe.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    High recommend all 3 of Zeihan’s books, and his daily YouTube spots. I don’t know how right or wrong he is, but I greatly appreciate the way he analyses things. He’s got a well-thought reason for all his positions and predictions.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    For the non Tugms, cross poast, Zeihan on Rogan this morning, great pod.
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/406fOiiKMU0ot5AS1AIwve
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    High recommend all 3 of Zeihan’s books, and his daily YouTube spots. I don’t know how right or wrong he is, but I greatly appreciate the way he analyses things. He’s got a well-thought reason for all his positions and predictions.

    DerekJohnson said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning

    Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.

    @UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes.




    Thanks for the recommend. Out of curiosity, did he discuss Bitcoin? He is known for being anti-Bitcoin I believe.
    Zeihan mocks Bitcoin pretty hard and thinks there not much use case for it. I don't think he goes into too much with the book if I recall but I will send you a Podcast excerpt if I can find.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    High recommend all 3 of Zeihan’s books, and his daily YouTube spots. I don’t know how right or wrong he is, but I greatly appreciate the way he analyses things. He’s got a well-thought reason for all his positions and predictions.

    I've only read the last one but watch almost all of his U Toob stuff.

    Again, I think he stretches a bit on time- e.g., how much the US Navy will pull back on ensuring freedom of the seas as part of what he calls "The Order". But his takes on China's vulnerabilities- i.e., demographic and basically being totally dependent on the post way global system the US created - are spot the fuck on.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    YellowSnow said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    High recommend all 3 of Zeihan’s books, and his daily YouTube spots. I don’t know how right or wrong he is, but I greatly appreciate the way he analyses things. He’s got a well-thought reason for all his positions and predictions.

    DerekJohnson said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Recently finished Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning

    Definitely recommend. I think he presses at times with some of his predictions, but even if he's only half right, the next 10- 20 are going to be interesting either way.

    @UW_Doog_Bot would like for the Long China is bull shit hot takes.




    Thanks for the recommend. Out of curiosity, did he discuss Bitcoin? He is known for being anti-Bitcoin I believe.
    Zeihan mocks Bitcoin pretty hard and thinks there not much use case for it. I don't think he goes into too much with the book if I recall but I will send you a Podcast excerpt if I can find.
    He spends a few minutes on crypto at the end of Rogan pod. Part of his critique is similar to one I’ve seen elsewhere: Crypto is an electricity arbitrage and that’s its only “value.” Further, the built in scarcity of Bitcoin limits its utility as an exchange.
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