I used to know every car brand I saw on the road, but in recent years I’ve been unable to keep up with the auto industry. From time to time, I discover a new brand, almost all of them Chinese. Overall, they make great cars with a hard-to-beat price-to-quality ratio (BYD, Omoda, Jaecoo, Lynk & Co, Ebro, MG...).

As always, triple j bringing highly talented musicians. This one is a great live performanece from Wet Leg.

Oil prices increasing is a very bad thing for the overall economy. This whole Iran war is quite dangerous. Inflation is a real risk, prepare accordingly.

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What's happening with gold is a generational phenomenon, we are going through the fourth gold rush of the last 200 years. The last 3 were: 1. California gold rush 2. First World War 3. Second World War 4. Now (whatever we are going through)

We don't live in the absolute something, we live in the relative everything.

I have enjoyed many Steven Bartlett episodes, but boy I hate the way he titles them. First, the titles are pure clickbait, and second, they are not informative at all. https://fountain.fm/episode/WuZ4jjIZKeS9iW80VBOd

A piece of paper can hold anything, from socialist to libertarian wonderlands, but reality doesn't care about people's ideas, hopes, or dreams. You have whatever resources you can obtain or are given; you observe and pay attention as objectively and honestly as possible. You set your goal, work by intervening and manipulating to move toward it, and then you get an outcome. Rinse and repeat until your engineering skills improve.