Grim. It's a promo for their supplements/pharma company.

"Enhanced Performance Products, which will launch this summer and will give customers “guaranteed access to performance enhancement science similar to the same protocols trusted by the world’s fastest athletes..."

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Never thought we could go backwards this fast. I'm so incredibly sad, disappointed and angry.

I vaguely remember MKBHD saying that everyone ends up in video because the YouTube split is more generous than elsewhere. So maybe a bit of that too? It's still a tax on people who don't like their faces though.

Yeah, I was just extending your list backwards a bit. Anyone under about 50 has had their entire working life punctuated by a carousel of once-in-a-generation financial disasters.

And the Dot-com crash was just 8 years before all that too 🙄

I have a friend called Sermad. After getting his Starbucks order called for Sir Mad, who is presumably an eccentric British lord, he just gives them Sam.

Did you follow up with "And it's know-it-all, actually"?

Henry was day drinking with the boys in Islington and had to get the 38 home, which is where he had "an absolutely marvellous idea".

I love Get Stuffed! It feels like a relic of a forgotten age.

I was thinking of Germany tooling up before WWII and the New Deal in the US but I don't have a sense of the scale this time around. It seems like it could be pretty dramatic, spinning European countries into a virtuous growth cycle. Or not. 😉

He just flicked past Die Hard with a Vengeance, Bruce Willis' documentary about the theft of the US gold reserves.

🫂

It also happens more generally. Someone, somewhere down the food chain sees a thing they like and want to use. Except there's a requirement for a procurement process. So now they construct a process to ensure their desired product wins.

I LOVE that they're called Mermaid's Purses!

I remember a story from years ago where a group of 4 were stopped by police in Florida after being reported for suspicious activity. That activity was walking. And the story ended with "they were just Canadian".

Sorry, opera. Got my high arts muddled.