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Even more important to read this first: "Geocodio Plans and Pricing"

Why?

Because their business is about convincing you to buy into what they're selling. Not exactly the most objective source for advice.

Trump has never had any real friends --- just useful acquaintances like Epstein.

No one really likes him --- not even his own family.

Trump is doing for the USA what he has always done himself --- alienate everyone.

Only a fool would think isolation and alienation is good for the country in the long run.


"Security" is just another Trumpism (aka a lie to most sensible people).

Here is what it is really about:

Tech moguls in the front row of his [Trump's] inauguration, like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, are also investors in a start-up aiming to mine western Greenland for materials crucial to the artificial intelligence boom.

https://portside.org/2026-01-17/tech-billionaires-behind-tru...

And this:

a Reuters investigation reported that a group of wealthy U.S. investors and political actors had explored the idea of building a privately governed “freedom city” in Greenland.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/can-greenland-bec...


Please ping my landlord and convince him to accept payment this way.

The same holds for most other vendors/merchants. They see risk without any real advantage to dealing with crypto.


Tariffs are a tax on consumers --- i.e. you and me.

Foreign governments don't pay tariffs


Now convince Trump's supporters that this is true.

Unfortunately, it's too late. And they obviously like being lied to.

Right, but a bit vacuous: Trump personally decides what (categories of) goods get tariffs, and which importers and exporters. I personally never want to hear conservatives talk about "distorting the market" or similar topics. Either they were lying about faith in markets pre-Trump, or they're lying about how good a mercantilist system is today. And, no, "we've gotten new data" is not an excuse. Conservatives were standing athwart history and yelling "Stop!" They had these sacred, immutable principles that "new data" did not effect.

They had these sacred, immutable principles that "new data" did not effect.

Their only immutable principle was lust for control.


Real gold bullion is now fully "digitized".

You can buy, sell and hold real gold in a free, regulated market without fees, without taking physical delivery and without dealing with market manipulators and con artists.

Real gold was up 65% in 2025. Bitcoin declined about 30%.

Time to wake up and smell the coffee, there is no logical case left for holding bitcoin.


My brain isn't capable of the mental gymnastics performed here.

Short answer --- yes.

AI does not reflect reality. It struggles to tell the difference between fact and fiction. And it will gladly invent info in order to pacify the user.

Likewise, the investment being poured into this flawed technology does not reflect economic reality.

Reality is nothing if not persistent and will eventually intrude on this fantasy.


And the quantum weirdness is just getting started.

A lot of what you think you know and accept about the world and how it works falls apart at a quantum level.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70025741/asteroid-...


Any study from HHS lacks credibility --- because their appointed leader doesn't accept scientific methods.

The only acceptable result is one he preordains. For an example, see Tylenol.

https://gizmodo.com/new-research-debunks-trump-and-rfk-jr-s-...


What I did as a solo SAAS founder over 25 years ago was radical and totally outside the box --- I wrote my own multi-threaded, multi- tenant web server and database.

Why?

Because the security of canned off the shelf all encompassing solutions was horrible at the time.

By doing this, I have nearly full control and can scrutinize, qualify and filter every single request made of my totally unique software. Nothing comes in or goes out without my approval. My main concern is an issue with the networking stack which I did not write.

After 25 years of being attacked on the open internet on a daily basis, my server security has never been breached to my knowledge. The main security issue I have is small scale denial of service type events which I handle by simply blocking the IPs.


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