@cruelsardaukar Avatar @cruelsardaukar The Last Great Arrakian Dynasty

The Last Great Arrakian Dynasty posts on X about in the, costco, the world, history the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social category influence countries 21.24% stocks 11.5% finance 11.5% travel destinations 7.96% celebrities 1.77% technology brands 1.77% automotive brands 1.77% cryptocurrencies 0.88% products 0.88% financial services 0.88%

Social topic influence in the 11.5%, costco #942, the world 6.19%, history 6.19%, the first 5.31%, rome #1127, poland 4.42%, war 3.54%, up to 3.54%, entire 3.54%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @supsenassoc @lordinquisitor_ @quaslacrimas @lakeshoredr1ve @lordinquisitor @razvankozma @rationalbot @prof_weinidog @feralinalaska @quirkyllama @ouranometrian2 @mostlymonkey @daveev8 @aestheticist @arcticllama @pugnaciouspolk @georgewill2324 @rakishanis @wsculley @calvinbarr15

Top assets mentioned Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) OORT (OORT)

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Very late Constantinople vibes. When the city had declined to [-----] in an area that used to hold [------] it became a collection of villages inside a massive walled space What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit https://t.co/LPYC5AxP8R What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit https://t.co/LPYC5AxP8R"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:52Z [----] followers, 95.5K engagements

"Cool pair of graphs for Statista: Costco shoppers have just about exactly the same as the population fraction for household income from $50000 - $100000 and $100000 - $150000 But then -6% at the high end ($150000) and +6% at the low end ($50000)"
X Link 2024-06-13T19:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Not a very good explanation when Jeff Bezos's wealth is more concentrated in America than Lorenzo di Medici's wealth was concentrated in Florence. The actual explanation is that the Medicis were earning status from those investments in the arts which was directly convertible into power and/or currency while Bezos's funding of the Washington Post has been close to neutral on his standing in the world. the death of noblesse oblige is partly a result of capital mobility. the rich used to care more about national interests when their wealth was tied up in the nation the death of noblesse oblige"
X Link 2026-02-06T04:46Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements

"The Belisarius campaigns could be the basis for a very interesting science fiction series. The far distant Empire is sending an immaculate gleaming invasion force to liberate territories lost to the barbarians generations ago including the old homeworld. Except while the invasion forces gear has some bleeding edge elements many of their systems are breaking or scavenged from centuries past while still far ahead of the locals. Also its weirdly small and doesnt receive resupply"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:24Z [----] followers, 32.2K engagements

"@feral_in_alaska Terrible parts:"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@feral_in_alaska I also think it's just very VERY funny that they decided that Odysseus can't possibly cheat on his wife but also decided he had to be the one to murder Hector's baby son (when it's Achilles's son Neoptolemus in the original)"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"TIL Meldrim Thomson the governor who put Live Free Or Die on New Hampshire license plates in [----] also favoured arming the New Hampshire National Guard with nuclear weapons"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@SupSenAssoc The logic of interstellar colonization would be inevitable for anything besides a unitary state. If Terra has [--] or more sovereign states the state that invests a small sum in colonization has friendly last strike capability in case it loses a war in its home system"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SupSenAssoc (Terra - Sol System)"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SupSenAssoc The resources for seeding a new system are so small compared to the output of the Sun that a losing state could scrape together a seed mission from the trickle of solar energy out in the Oort Cloud & leave on a multi-millennia revanche mission"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I don't think that's right. The estimated urban population fraction of the Roman Empire was 15% during the Pax Romana while for [----] AD NW Europe it was less than half that. The largest city (Rome) was roughly a million people while the largest city in NW Europe in [----] AD was Paris at [------]. Cattle didn't return to the size they had attained during the Roman Empire until the 1800s (during the Dark Ages they had crashed back to Neolithic animal sizes). The Roman Empire had united the entire Mediterranean basin into a unified trade & commerce zone and was benefiting from nascent economies of"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I'm reading "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Perecent" by Kim Bowes at the moment and the eye popping figure from that book is that the surviving material possessions (metal pottery) of the median Roman family in the Pax Romana is more similar to the average possessions of a median family in NW Europe in the 1600s than it would be for a median family in NW Europe in the 1100s. Rome was really rich. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021633797385601501 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021633797385601501"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Napoleon's two biggest & best known blunders are of course: (1) Invading Spain (2) Invading Russia But after those his third most consequential blunder was probably not recreating the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. He avoided doing this in [----] to try to cosy up to the Russians but after he concluded war with Russia was inevitable he should have dismembered Prussia & the Hapsburg realms further to expand the Duchy of Warsaw into the Republic (or Kingdom) of Poland. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021635140548481091 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021635140548481091"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@razibkhan What race is Keanu Reeves"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Napoleon half-dismembered Prussia in [----] (reduced its territory by about half albeit from its high water mark after it had gobbled up 1/4 of Poland). OTOH this was only Prussia first war with Napoleon (it had pulled out of the First Coalition long before having to fight him) while Austria had fought Napoleon [--] times and would soon do it a 4th time (1st 2nd 3rd 5th coalitions). OTOH Prussia had managed to annoy Napoleon substantially more by feigning friendship then turning on a dime and also wasn't facing the Ottomans. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021639133194596789"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@QuasLacrimas Corporate would like you to find the difference between these two pictures (note positions of Warsaw and Krakow in both)"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Less quipily expanding Poland would have: (1) increased the pool of Poles willing to fight in large numbers and with high effectiveness and morale for Napoleon (they were [------] of the [------] Grande Armee in [----] and Napoleon rated them as equivalent to French soldiers give or take) (2) created a powerful in-place ally who could be trusted to hold the border with Russia enabling the French to focus on other concerns and theater except in the event of a major Russian breakthrough (3) given Napoleon the ability to carve larger chunks off Prussia and Austria and place them under Polish"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"For those who dont know Poland in [----] was really big @QuasLacrimas Corporate would like you to find the difference between these two pictures (note positions of Warsaw and Krakow in both) https://t.co/AhZHhTzTaS @QuasLacrimas Corporate would like you to find the difference between these two pictures (note positions of Warsaw and Krakow in both) https://t.co/AhZHhTzTaS"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Jia8088 @klusek_spaslak"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@QuasLacrimas The richest and most densely populated parts of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were in the west he could have taken them back from the Austrians and Prussians and given them to Poland after defeating Austria in 1809"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The good news is at $453 billion Costco is probably too big to be a target for a private equity takeover. If a smaller public company was trying to run this playbook there would be a strong market signal for a private equity shop to take over the company & jack up margins. It would run the business into the ground over the period of a decade or so but would be an exceptionally profitable decade as the prior goodwill / position got spent down. "Why does Costco suck so much less than other stores in its category" They have a rule that they can't increase margins so efficiency gains actually"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"1) Which high value electronics TVs Dyson Air Driers etc with sticker prices in the mid-$100s are sitting piled out in the open 2) Receipt validation is a very casual eyeballing process they dont go through the cart item by item and Costco purchases are often an entire cart piled high with stuff 3) Costcos value / weight ratio is probably higher than Walmarts given that it has more stuff in the mid-$100s range"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1) Sure but thats not an extraordinary measure. Is there a store in the world that sells iPhones & AirPods that doesnt keep them locked up An Apple Store keeps that entire inventory in the back etc 2) My guess is that since you have those people in the front of the store to check membership anyways asking them to do receipt validation is an easy way to reduce the odds of someone walking out with an entire cart of stuff 3) I think membership checking is pretty loadbearing deterrent for theft rings it means you have ID + a credit card of every customer which gives you a very solid start for"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1) The membership fee is a barrier to non-theft-ring theft and theoretically theft ring theft is legible and scaled enough that a functional state can keep it at a low level (most Western jurisdictions are no longer functional states) 2) Interesting I thought Id been to Costcos where they were shared 3) The lifespan of a stolen credit card is no high these days and you need the name on the card to match photo ID dont you Thats a substantial amount of friction / overhead / risk for a theft ring"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@quirkyllama @ouranometrian2 @MostlyMonkey If 10x lower is even approximately right Costcos shrinkage being vastly lower is hard to explain with those minor measures compared to customer and employee filtering (Costco pays its workers much more than industry standard has lower employee churn) Found the tentative answer to this Costco in theory has shrinkage of 0.15% of sales (per the Acquired podcast episode on it pic 1) while Walmarts shrinkage is estimated to be 1.38% (pic 2) https://t.co/Sh19HQKQk7 Found the tentative answer to this Costco in theory has shrinkage of 0.15% of sales (per the"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@DaveEV8 Costco quantities are so wild that another company could have easily started to shave amounts to try to pocket some term margin dollars"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@aestheticist_ Hahahahaha"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@aestheticist_ Although hold on are Costco ceilings actually any taller than a Walmart ceiling Some of the buildings are but those are the two storey designs. You just notice the Costco ceiling because the lanes are small and the shelves much much higher"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Your original claim was Royalty mostly did NOT start as warlords that muscled their way into power Kings became kings by being mediators between disparate groups. They were master diplomats All five founder kings did in fact muscle their way into power their battlefield victories were necessary pre-conditions for the foundations of their dynasties. You can argue that their vibe wasnt that of a warlord but to argue that their vibe was master diplomat is not reasonable. The archetypal master diplomats of modern imagination are people like Kissinger & Talleyrand who are not at all a good match"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"If you want to go back much further and say to become a Big Man in a tribal society usually more social skill than military skill sure maybe but I will note that these incidents were not recorded in European history (lost in the Dark Ages) and equivalent events in modern tribal societies are also not well recorded. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022414230386012487 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022414230386012487"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The American Founding Fathers were as a group more like social figures than warlords but they also were much less warlike than the five founder kings of European history. Their nation-building project required mediating between a bunch of different colonies not taking one group and conquering other groups"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"equivalent events in modern tribal societies are also not well recorded To expand on this if were talking about the rare No Big Man At All - Now There Is A Big Man event thats the sort of thing that by definition doesnt happen that often so we dont have great anthropology of it AFAIK We do have some studies on How Does A Replacement Big Man Emerge I think and yeah those are more social than military but then thats talking about a succession mechanism not a foundation mechanism and in any case is a much smaller level of social organization than a classical European kingdom. (There are also"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"1. They could balance their budgets just by kicked out welfare migrants in many cases [--]. They are deindustrializing but havent fully deindustrialized yet Germanys collapse in manufacturing output is relatively recent before [----] the manufacturing % of German GDP was substantially higher than Americas [--]. Very overrated especially while America is keeping the sea lanes open [--]. See (2) their manufacturing base skills are still good [--]. Irrelevant and Americas liberal arts elites are similar"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@lakeshoredr1ve Also fun fact Constantinople was still called Constantinople under Ottoman rule from [----] - 1918"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@arcticllama Maximizing throughput is the Costco way they have sales of $1800 per year per sq ft of store vs $600 for Walmart. Details about margin control and revenue per square foot of store from the Acquired Podcast episode if youre interested warning it is [--] hours long"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@lakeshoredr1ve True wasnt Istanbul the Turkish garbling of a Greek phrase that meant to the city"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@pugnacious_polk Extraterritorial US statelet in Amsterdam when"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Such was the scene aboard the largest warship in the world the leviathan of [---] guns and pride of the Spanish navy as her brave crew gamely hung on under the onslaught of a trio of Royal Navy warships and refused to surrender because of the prospect of rescue by approaching allied sail. Sadly for the sacrifice of these valiant men it was futile. The vanguard squadron ceased its approach correctly surmising that the battle has been lost. @SupSenAssoc One of the Spanish officers aboard the Santissima Trinidad: The scene aboard the Santissima Trinidad was simply infernal. She could not move."
X Link 2026-02-13T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I tried to work out the SES composition of Costco members at one point and was surprised that it wasnt particularly Upper-Middle Class skewed it really does seem like their barrier is high enough to keep out the riff raff but low enough that the lower middle class still shops there https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022466514486477309 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022466514486477309"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@travis4nh Costco customer average income is actually slightly lower than US average income in theory: Cool pair of graphs for Statista: Costco shoppers have just about exactly the same as the population fraction for household income from $50000 - $100000 and $100000 - $150000 But then -6% at the high end ($150000) and +6% at the low end ($50000) https://t.co/wrHdy1flzy Cool pair of graphs for Statista: Costco shoppers have just about exactly the same as the population fraction for household income from $50000 - $100000 and $100000 - $150000 But then -6% at the high end ($150000) and +6% at"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@LordInquisitor_ Nothing lasts forever but the Roman Empire had a long sequence of winning after an even longer sequence of winning as the Roman Republic and Commodus was definitively the break"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@pugnacious_polk interesting graph comparing Costco to the bulk store you go to"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@GeorgeWill2324 We had to stop leading from the front once gunnery got too accurate otherwise it would still be the leading meta. Separately you can run a society with someone who isn't the top general in charge as long as the civilian authorities maintain legitimacy"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The B+ tier autism was that he did this with a large degree of personal involvement The A+ tier administrative ability and legitimacy on display was that it not only didn't crash the economy but the economy and state finances dramatically improved. It turned out to be the correct way to fix the coinage debasement spiral of the Crisis of the Third Century @rakishanis @AlaricTsoni The other big "Diocletian isn't on the spectrum but he's not NOT on the spectrum" moment for me was when he went through and price-fixed every major staple in the empire and then custom levied taxes from regions with"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I considered including these but decided to leave them out because (1) Hungary was later than the other examples (2) Poland I dont know enough about to be confident I can pick the kingdom starts here point (3) Kievan Rus is.complicated. (4) Byzantines as inheritors of Rome are way way pre-European royalty https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022446445098307968 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022446445098307968"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@LordInquisitor_ @RazvanKozma Yeah but the Romans were pretty emphatic that they werent a kingdom. There were kingdoms before them and kingdoms after them but they were different"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@LordInquisitor_ IDK there were a lot of emperors who pushed limits before Commodus he was just so bad that he was strangled in his bath and his dynasty ended with him"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"What about Japan Japan was a mass democracy after [----] and was way behind America or Britain or Germany or even the USSR in terms of industrialization at the start of the war. Or France France certainly wasnt industrialized in [----] when Emperor Napoleon III fell and operated under a mass democracy thereafter. Or America America had universal suffrage of White men by [----]. Or Australia Universal male suffrage by [----] I think No country has ever industrialized under the conditions of modern mass democracy No country has ever industrialized under the conditions of modern mass democracy"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"None of these even clear the bar for a democracy as anyone would understand it in [----] let alone today. What are you using as your definition of mass democracy then if universal male suffrage doesnt cover it Japan was industrialized enough to fight a naval and air war across half the planet for four years Well no less than a quarter of the planet and it seized a bunch of ground in a truly astonishing lightning offensive it had spent a decade building for and then spent the next [---] years losing because it couldnt replace losses. Its industrial output was roughly 1/5th that of Germany or the"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Rationalbot Women got the right to vote in Australia in [----] and Japan in [----]. Turkey was certainly not industrialized in [----] when women got the right to vote there"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@wsculley Very interesting case of a marshmallow test IRL being a true win/win/win"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Sure but: (1) it also wasnt guaranteed that a biological son would be a disaster (2) Diocletian passed power to people who werent his sons and could have done that process slightly more conventionally and been at least one generation of a Good Emperor cycle instead of the series of civil wars that gave the empire Constantine https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022767137580831145 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022767137580831145"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Empty_America That link is "current US dollars" meaning not adjusted for inflation According to the CPI calculator there was 89% inflation from 1997-2023 so manufacturing in [----] was $1379B * [----] = $2606B $2497B https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/"
X Link 2023-07-10T18:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Clovis first king of all the Franks eliminated his rivals through a series of successful battles. Alfred the Great the first pre-eminent Anglo-Saxon king secured that position through a series of successful battles. Gorm the Old or his son Harald Bluetooth was the first major king of Denmark (depending on what you want to define as major) and both won major battles to secure their position. The first king of Asturias Pelagius became king by defeating an Umayyad army. Kenneth MacAlpin arguably the first king of Scotland conquered the Picts. So [--] / [--] of the oldest kingdoms in Europe with"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:16Z [----] followers, 65.3K engagements

"Throw the bums out if things are going badly is actually a valuable feedback loop governance mechanism its probably part of why liberal democracies do so well on GDP growth https://t.co/FuDeRqypaO https://t.co/FuDeRqypaO"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:26Z [----] followers, 21K engagements

"In Heaven the soldiers are Cavalier the hydrological engineers are Dutch the brewers are Borderer the industrialists are Puritan and its all run by the Quakers. In Hell the soldiers are Quaker the hydrological engineers are Borderer the brewers are Puritan industrialists are Cavalier and its all run by the Dutch. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1893332495325614254 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1893332495325614254"
X Link 2025-02-22T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"As predicted instituting a MFN clause in drug pricing is resulting in some European countries ceasing to pay for some drugs at least in the short term. The two interesting outstanding questions are: (1) How many short-term decisions be undone by political pressure (2) At equilibrium in N years (we dont know what N is) will drug company profits be higher or lower The conventional economic answer for (2) is that it will be lower because companies were already pricing their drugs at the profit optimal point for each country and a new government intervention can only disturb this calculation in a"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If drugs were a normal good that were purchased directly by individuals using their own money then the US regulatory change would decrease drug company profits by causing them to lose incremental revenue that they were pricing correctly in lower income European countries. But drugs are not a normal good. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019505443312222376 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019505443312222376"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If drug company profits go down then US drug prices will probably stay the same or even go up slightly (I say probably because the price gap between Europe and America is so large that theres a world where the new profit-optimal point still results in slightly lower US prices). If drug company profits go up then US drug prices will almost certainly go down but not necessarily by much. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019506883669725280 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019506883669725280"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Amazing show and I got to experience it at an age where I was old enough to learn a lot of facts about the Revolution but young enough to somehow not have learned about Benedict Arnold from colloquial culture so baby-me got to experience his betrayal with a shadow of the visceral intensity that it hit for contemporaries of his who got to first experience his war hero arc (well documented on the show) Unironically probably the most successful and reasonably historically accurate portrayal of the American Revolution on screen. https://t.co/w4GNnmMhVY Unironically probably the most successful"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:25Z [----] followers, 83.8K engagements

"The voice cast for this was insane btw. They had Ben Stiller as Thomas Jefferson Liam Neeson as Jone Paul Jones Arnold Schwarzenegger as Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Sylvester Stallone as Paul Revere Michael Douglas as Patrick Henry Whoopi Goldberg as Deborah Sampson Billy Crystal as John Adams Andrew Rannells as Alexander Hamilton and of course Walter Cronkite as Benjamin Franklin. The really crazy ones are: Warren Buffet as James Madison Norman Schwarzkopf as George Rogers Clark https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021629591484240294 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021629591484240294"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

""Why does Costco suck so much less than other stores in its category" They have a rule that they can't increase margins so efficiency gains actually convert into increased customer surplus AND executives spend time trying to find efficiency gains not ways to expand margin AKA decrease customer surplus (When you lock your margins you still have an incentive to increase efficiency because increased customer surplus increases revenue via increased velocity of sales and is thus your only way to increase profits) @ouranometrian2 @MostlyMonkey (Well really they keep margins low to maximize"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:51Z [----] followers, 101.7K engagements

"According to the Acquired Podcast episode on Costco Costco has a revenue of $1800 per sq. ft. of store. Walmart is $600 Target is $450 Lululemon is $1600 Tiffanys is $3000 Apple is $5500 Their revenue per sq ft is so high that they look like a premium apparel business not a bulk retailer. @cruelsardaukar A 40% margin on [---] dollars is [--] dollars. A 10% margin on [----] dollars is [---] dollars. @cruelsardaukar A 40% margin on [---] dollars is [--] dollars. A 10% margin on [----] dollars is [---] dollars"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:40Z [----] followers, 24K engagements

"@calvinbarr15 True its not the same not least because Detroit was a major city inside a massive thriving polity not the only city inside a crumbling polity"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"It sounds really stupid but the emperor can only be in one place was a HUGE problem for the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire. If you let someone else command a full field army they might use it to try to overthrow you. @cruelsardaukar @RazvanKozma The fact that they werent a kingdom was a pretty big help in getting so big. A king can only lead one field army at a time but Rome had two consuls and eventually started proroguing them to have even more armies in the field. @cruelsardaukar @RazvanKozma The fact that they werent a kingdom was a pretty big help in getting so big. A king can only"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:28Z [----] followers, 44.6K engagements

"@alt_mauv @eurydicelives I vaguely remember this. Which thread was that again"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Very few empires are murdered in a healthy condition. Most empires which die are experiencing severe sickness and the thing that kills them is like an infection finally ending someone struggling with cancer. Alexander the Greats conquest of the Achaemenids is a very notable exception. @ded_ruckus Rome being able to survive several battlefield defeats of the main field army is basically unique to Rome some of the peak Chinese dynasties and maybe Carthage in the first Punic War. An interesting contrast is the Achaemenid Empire which seemed to have the ability to apply @ded_ruckus Rome being"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:20Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements

"I dont think that really changes the dynamics A Belt-based civ would have to worry a lot about missiles from technologically comparable civs unless you are the only off-Earth civ and you make sure no Earth civ can get to space by keeping missile platforms around Earth that shoot down anything that launches"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"It does make defending yourself easier to the point where you can be safe from a tech comparable civ thats stuck on Earth even if its industrial base is larger but we have an active military presence shooting anything that launches from Earth still qualifies as active foreign policy meddling https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023258346640335272 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023258346640335272"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Elves let Aragorn get away with this because Elrond raised him so this falls into the category of your bosss bosss puppy is over affectionate & you need to pretend to be cool with it https://t.co/AlK4xUSoHo https://t.co/AlK4xUSoHo"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@lymanstoneky The nations that permit and support robots will lap those that dont just like the Industrial Revolution powered world domination. American rednecks might smash robots and keep us in the human age but then $insert_nation will knock on the door with billions of battle bots"
X Link 2023-02-24T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Type of guy who thinks capitalism is rigged in favour of the rich but then refuses to buy stocks the literally open to the public game that the rich are heavily invested in"
X Link 2023-12-27T20:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I use wuss as a pejorative but sometimes being a wuss is the correct decision. For example sending the German High Seas Fleet out in full strength to challenge the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea at the exact same time as the last great lunge for Paris almost certainly would have gotten tens of thousands of sailors killed for no purpose. But they were still wusses to not try it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1979955508246360074 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1979955508246360074"
X Link 2025-10-19T16:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@owenbroadcast The boyfriend isn't a "do a deal and then use that money to enjoy life" person the boyfriend is a "seek status until I drop dead of cocaine use at age [--] on my 4th wife" person"
X Link 2022-11-04T23:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@dontblameklara @gucciswift"
X Link 2022-11-15T01:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Atlanticist33 You'd expect (1) to increase earnings and therefore ability to repay loans all other things being equal. But all other things are not equal and so woman are far more likely to choose grad degrees that don't increase earnings enough to compensate for debt"
X Link 2023-07-13T17:46Z [----] followers, 17.1K engagements

"@_Mark_Atwood The Elamite - Persian example is even more dramatic than the Etruscan - Roman example because the Persians exploded outwards into the biggest empire the world had seen up to that point and seemed to have an entire imperial administration system "out of the box""
X Link 2023-10-13T19:08Z [----] followers, 42.6K engagements

"It is a testament to the martial spirit of the Japanese people that [---] pound Japanese infantrymen who had been on half rations for [--] months didn't surrender on the spot when they saw these behemoths wading ashore at Iwo Jima"
X Link 2023-12-09T16:50Z [----] followers, 1.5M engagements

"@AlexGodofsky Ah so suddenly huge amounts of aluminum were available for civilian use"
X Link 2023-12-26T22:01Z [----] followers, 42.5K engagements

""Mom can we have a high-trust society" "Yes but only on top of mountains." "Wait what" Amazing how you can still walk up to any ski hill and get free skis. https://t.co/CWLkkOK1Gi Amazing how you can still walk up to any ski hill and get free skis. https://t.co/CWLkkOK1Gi"
X Link 2023-12-30T23:22Z [----] followers, 450.6K engagements

"Guys if you are having trouble understanding what women want read the replies to this post LORD. https://t.co/q7whsDRNNM LORD. https://t.co/q7whsDRNNM"
X Link 2024-02-12T14:19Z [----] followers, 61.1K engagements

"They don't make Titans of Industry like they used to :"
X Link 2024-02-12T21:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Our supply of elderly women (in absolute terms & as a fraction of the population) has never been higher but our supply of stern but kindly matrons running a rooming house for Promising Young Types with cooking included in the (low) price of a room has never been lower : Strictly speaking there are probably far more bedrooms in America than there are people. But it doesn't seem that way. One reason is that much of the housing stock is occupied by [--] or [--] people in 3-4br house. Other thing is much capacity is in low demand areas. Strictly speaking there are probably far more bedrooms in America"
X Link 2024-03-13T17:25Z [----] followers, 65.3K engagements

"Interesting reminder that the Inuit culture in Canada is younger than the Norman-aristocratic culture of England"
X Link 2024-04-04T15:25Z [----] followers, 97.3K engagements

"Big W for Canada that this guy was fired. Canada's a high trust culture that is struggling to deal with an influx of low-trust people but moments like this are promising signs. bitch got the poor guy fired. i don't know what kind of visa he has but high chances he gets deported if he's unable to find a job soon. imagine getting your life ruined because you wanted to help other indian immigrants with groceries. https://t.co/Cz5cwu0li6 bitch got the poor guy fired. i don't know what kind of visa he has but high chances he gets deported if he's unable to find a job soon. imagine getting your"
X Link 2024-04-23T16:19Z [----] followers, 65.9K engagements

"History nerds are really sleeping on how WEIRD the Persian expansion was Biggest empire in human history up to that point (by a factor of [--] or 3) Immediately high-functioning Had pony-express style mail (fastest internal messaging possible on earth until the telegraph) @_Mark_Atwood The Elamite - Persian example is even more dramatic than the Etruscan - Roman example because the Persians exploded outwards into the biggest empire the world had seen up to that point and seemed to have an entire imperial administration system "out of the box" @_Mark_Atwood The Elamite - Persian example is even"
X Link 2024-04-24T13:56Z [----] followers, 41.9K engagements

"@3corch3 @norvid_studies @moultano Climate change is a problem the world chose to have because nuclear power was scawy"
X Link 2024-05-02T06:06Z [----] followers, 796.4K engagements

"The weird part is how many ultra-productive people had regular bouts of days or weeks of what we'd call "total nervous breakdown" or "severe depressive episodes" eating a raw egg every day and jogging won't fix you anon. productive people aren't productive because of their zettelkasten note taking system 90-minute work blocks or meditation the best books were written on a diet of cocaine and zero sleep. they're just built different eating a raw egg every day and jogging won't fix you anon. productive people aren't productive because of their zettelkasten note taking system 90-minute work"
X Link 2024-07-03T03:32Z [----] followers, 19.9K engagements

"This is also why we gave up on nuclear energy after it killed [--] people in the US https://t.co/Om3f97L6vC https://t.co/Om3f97L6vC"
X Link 2024-07-10T17:20Z [----] followers, 151.2K engagements

"Hard to express just how wrong this is America was the richest region per capita in the world starting in the late 1600s It only briefly lost this position to the UK in the mid-1800s thanks to UK being ahead on industrialization But regained it in the 1880s This is only half-true. America is a former 19th century Latin American Third World country that started working in the 20thby building the largest most powerful bureaucracies the world has ever seen. It's also why who the next president is just doesn't matter much at all. 🧵 https://t.co/m4oHr48qz8 This is only half-true. America is a"
X Link 2024-07-15T15:52Z [----] followers, 308.9K engagements

"America's large bureaucracies are an expression of underlying wealth/strength/power not a cause of it"
X Link 2024-07-15T15:58Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements

"*first two ironclads used in combat which appeared to have superior designs to the prototypes the French and British had recently built https://x.com/DirectrixGazer/status/1812879338284482732 @cruelsardaukar These were not the first two ironclads. Following experiments with ironclad batteries in Crimea France launched Gloire in [----] and Britain HMS Warrior in [----]. https://x.com/DirectrixGazer/status/1812879338284482732 @cruelsardaukar These were not the first two ironclads. Following experiments with ironclad batteries in Crimea France launched Gloire in [----] and Britain HMS Warrior in 1860"
X Link 2024-07-15T15:59Z [----] followers, 15.7K engagements

"America lagged behind most European powers in building a large centralized state and coincidentally the period of this lag corresponded to America leapfrogging them economically (psst probably not a coincidence) https://x.com/mmjukic/status/1812839836870381724 https://x.com/mmjukic/status/1812839836870381724"
X Link 2024-07-15T16:13Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements

"That being said something that small-government-enjoyers often miss is that America historically had high state capacity for its government size. Lots of examples of this including: https://x.com/cruelsardaukar/status/1737879694710632556 In WWI the US government sent a cheque as a payment for airplane manufacturing to Ettore Buggati so fast that he took it to his local bank to ask if it was valid because he'd never received payment from a government so promptly before. https://x.com/cruelsardaukar/status/1737879694710632556 In WWI the US government sent a cheque as a payment for airplane"
X Link 2024-07-15T16:15Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements

"The first building to pass the Great Pyramid of Giza in height was the Lincoln Cathedral in England built in [----]. The Great Pyramid's record as the tallest building ever built by mankind stood for [----] yeas"
X Link 2024-08-09T16:25Z [----] followers, 16.6K engagements

"It's sort of nuts how many early markers of "the English take-off" there are once you go looking. [----] is more than three centuries before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock more than four and a half centuries before Watt's steam engine The first building to pass the Great Pyramid of Giza in height was the Lincoln Cathedral in England built in [----]. The Great Pyramid's record as the tallest building ever built by mankind stood for [----] yeas. The first building to pass the Great Pyramid of Giza in height was the Lincoln Cathedral in England built in [----]. The Great Pyramid's record as the"
X Link 2024-08-09T16:26Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements

"God is it really only [--] million. It could actually only be [--] million. DC should be handing out visas to all 50M net tax contributors footing the bill for this charade DC should be handing out visas to all 50M net tax contributors footing the bill for this charade"
X Link 2024-08-12T20:05Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements

"Men struggle to understand the levels of brutality present in intrasexual female competition if you're a girl and you block me I'm going to dm your bf and ask him to explain credit card points to me if you're a girl and you block me I'm going to dm your bf and ask him to explain credit card points to me"
X Link 2024-08-23T14:28Z [----] followers, 110.5K engagements

"It's crazy that the Egyptians have been militarily irrelevant for [----] years and counting. After the Persians conquered Egypt in [---] BC ever since then the Egyptian population has not been the source of the military power controlling that region of the world"
X Link 2024-08-24T03:25Z [----] followers, 16.8K engagements

"Killing [------] people would make that cardiologist one of the most prolific killers in history to the point that his only competition would be the leaders of nation-states One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever: cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27% https://t.co/beOl9qaKXE One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever: cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given"
X Link 2024-08-26T16:53Z [----] followers, 225.8K engagements

"To be clear here there are some fields where ignoring the experts and going with common sense is preferred. Heart surgery is not one of those fields. https://x.com/Quickfall/status/1828145598262136967 Trust the experts https://x.com/Quickfall/status/1828145598262136967 Trust the experts"
X Link 2024-08-26T19:04Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements

""You should prioritize the needs of people on the opposite side of the planet who have no connection to you" https://t.co/u0L2ZdQQxw https://t.co/u0L2ZdQQxw"
X Link 2024-10-08T14:11Z [----] followers, 205.8K engagements

"@IterIntellectus Americans are genetically selected to not care what Europeans think of them because every single person who got on a boat to sail to America had a bunch of extended relatives telling them it was stupid to go"
X Link 2024-11-07T15:33Z [----] followers, 57.2K engagements

"If you spend time near a campfire it becomes obvious that "you want to stare at the flame" is pretty hardcoded in the human brain which makes sense since we've had campfires for roughly 10x as long as Homo Sapiens has been around (2 million years vs [------] years) Drove past a refinery today and I started thinking about how long its been since Ive seen an open flame outside of a gas range or candles and how wild that is in the context of the rest of human history Drove past a refinery today and I started thinking about how long its been since Ive seen an open flame outside of a gas range or"
X Link 2024-11-11T20:39Z [----] followers, 43.2K engagements

"Polygamous societies are less functional & have lower IQs than monogamous societies so we actually have strong empirical evidence that polygamy is dysgenic its dysgenic that the best and brightest men of our era dont have 50+ wives https://t.co/1tXhRCdSvp its dysgenic that the best and brightest men of our era dont have 50+ wives https://t.co/1tXhRCdSvp"
X Link 2024-11-14T18:21Z [----] followers, 744.1K engagements

"End of a thread summarizing the theoretical reasons for why polygamy exhibits the dysgenic tendencies we observe empirically: https://x.com/cruelsardaukar/status/1857158723489399158 @Mustapha_Mond2 (5a) Shifting the age of fathers upwards so significantly increases the # of point mutations in children which raises overall genetic load and lowers IQ https://x.com/cruelsardaukar/status/1857158723489399158 @Mustapha_Mond2 (5a) Shifting the age of fathers upwards so significantly increases the # of point mutations in children which raises overall genetic load and lowers IQ"
X Link 2024-11-14T20:40Z [----] followers, 33.5K engagements

"You sometimes see this argument but "polygamy for the elites has always been a thing it was called concubines" is completely missing the point. All societies have some degree of elite male sexual advantage but monogamous societies like the Greeks Romans Christian Europe and East Asia have a lot less of it than other societies. Don't be a social autist degree and intensity matters for how society works"
X Link 2024-11-14T21:29Z [----] followers, 24.1K engagements

"I mean the difference is that the Trump movement is quite hostile to most of the existing power blocs in the US government and thus more willing to step on the toes needed to actually make the "common-sense" solutions that are blocked by incumbents. Not infinitely willing but much more willing than a normal incoming administration"
X Link 2024-12-04T19:22Z [----] followers, 36.9K engagements

"An extremely rare [---] / [---] / [---] midwit meme IRL possibly the only one in human history The second person over there at [---] with Von Neumann was Herman Kahn"
X Link 2024-12-31T01:26Z [----] followers, 61.6K engagements

"For reference there are [-----] Nvidia Employees This is a wealth creation event of a scale and speed that America hasn't seen before it's bigger than Amazon or Microsoft even scaled as a fraction of GDP I think 78% of $NVDA employees are now millionaires [--] in [--] is worth over $25 million 78% of $NVDA employees are now millionaires [--] in [--] is worth over $25 million"
X Link 2024-12-31T02:54Z [----] followers, 26.6K engagements

"Isaac Newton & Leonardo Da Vinci were both abandoned by their moms so you can say that a good relationship with ones mother isnt necessary to be a great inventor"
X Link 2025-01-05T17:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Sometimes you (me) forget the nose (Jesus) in front of your face (Western Civilization) @cruelsardaukar And let's not forget the #1 most historically-important person in history the world's #1 mama's boy: Jesus Christ @cruelsardaukar And let's not forget the #1 most historically-important person in history the world's #1 mama's boy: Jesus Christ"
X Link 2025-01-05T17:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

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