One wrong move, and there’s no second chance. Take a look at this road carved into the side of a mountain in Nepal. No guardrails, barely enough room for a vehicle, and a terrifying drop to the river below. Imagine coming around that curve and finding another vehicle heading straight toward you. Who backs up? I’ve driven on some questionable roads, but nothing that comes close to this. You couldn’t pay me enough to drive this road, especially at night.

Time to load up on silver, particularly silver coins and even "junk 90." During the coming fiat USD collapse, there will be an attempt to substitute some new form of digital fiat. This may or may not work in the long term, but there is sure to be a period where the USD is dead and legally ordered "stablecoins" have not restarted the economy. During this period, you will want to have some hard currency, that is, gold and silver coinage. Barter is too clumsy, and requires multi-player trades. ("I want food. I have a solar panel to sell, I don't need shirts, that guy has a jug of diesel, this other guy has a live goat to sell, but he doesn't need a solar panel, how can we make this work?") Silver coins allow for direct transactions. They are an immediately accepted medium of exchange. Why not gold? The smallest useable gold coin is 1/10 of a troy ounce, smaller than a dime, and it's currently worth $400 USD. You can't "make change" with it at a pop-up swap market, and showing any gold coins will make you a target for violent thieves who may attempt to rob you or shadow you and plan a home invasion. Gold coins will be for major private purchases: vehicles, land, homes. Today, silver is an industrial metal that is consumed in making solar panels and electronics, and you can't just "open up a new silver mine." It's a byproduct of other industrial mining, and as the world goes into a depression, industrial mining will slow. So silver can only go up, long term. This week presents a historic buying opportunity. Any price under $60 is a major bargain. It could dip below $50, but we will see it over $100 again soon enough, and this time it's going to stay there. This may happen in the next year or in a few years, but it will happen. I'm not saying sell everything to buy silver. But have enough coins to get your family through the chaos and confusion of the transition period from the fiat USD to whatever is going to come after and replace it. And one possibility is that "what comes after" fiat is a return to hard money, that is, gold and silver coinage.

SOME OF THESE SOUND LIKE SUPERSTITIONS FROM THE OUTBACK OF APPALACHIA “Islamic Daily Rules Many Westerners Never Hear About” From the Sunnah of Muhammad, observant Muslims are taught a detailed code of everyday habits: dust the bed three times before sleep, put the right shoe on first, cover the mouth while yawning, cover food left out at night, drink only while sitting, enter the bathroom with the left foot, avoid pictures of living beings, and never wear a ring on the index finger (men). Add more: eat and drink only with the right hand (left is for Shaytan,ie Satan or the Devil), say “Bismillah ie, ‘In the name of Allah’” before meals, use water instead of just paper in the bathroom, avoid facing Mecca while relieving yourself, knock and wait for permission before entering a home, limit or avoid opposite-sex handshakes, sleep on the right side, and recite phrases for protection from jinn or the evil eye. These are not fringe customs. They are documented in major Hadith collections and taught as proper Muslim living. Cultural differences are real—and growing more visible as Muslim populations expand in the West. #IslamicEtiquette #SunnahPractices #CulturalDifferences #WesternValues #KnowTheFacts

🇫🇷 The French police are rolling in like Stormtroopers Tear up the city and this is what comes marching down your block. Move out or get flattened. Writer: Bri

A downed Ukrainian attack UAV carrying two FPV drones fitted with civilian Starlink terminals. While SpaceX signed a defensive-only contract with Kiev, Ukrainian technicians tweaked the terminals to be used in attacks, putting SpaceX and Elon in danger of retaliation.

A new Fuhrer has been chosen!

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Jack Dorsey announced a new full-duplex speech model, called Dessa. Dessa was trained solely on voice conversations, with no text data or pretrained models. Currently, only demo samples are available, but they far surpass anything else in emotional expression and natural feel. Voice models will be everywhere 👀

We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech! Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs. This is a GPT3 moment for speech.

I wouldn't be pulling this prank at 6 Flags Writer: Ian

Target practice.

Starting a Mega thread 🧵 of Indian Looney Tunes Type Behavior please post any Clips you have and take any you want, I will make a long Video Highlight Reel of them.

Is anyone else considering this could become a problem? It seems like pretty soon

Billie Eilish debuts new haircut.

Horrifying! Young woman dies after falling from a pendulum ride in Mexico Footage shows the safety restraint suddenly opening, causing the woman to slip right out of her seat. The ride continued operating for several more seconds. New fear unlocked.