Confessions of a Venezuelan Citizen After the Fall of Maduro
I was awake when it started.
Two in the morning is a strange hour to have your country ripped open.
The first thing I heard wasn’t an explosion. It was the sound of air being torn apart—jets screaming so low and so close that for a half-second my brain couldn’t even classify the noise. It didn’t sound like war yet. It sounded like the sky malfunctioning.
Then the bombs landed.
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Poll of the Day
What Do You Think About the U.S. Action in Venezuela and the Capture of Nicolás Maduro?
What’s Wrong Venezuela’s Oil Production
Venezuela possesses the largest proven oil reserves on the planet—over 300 billion barrels, significantly more than Saudi Arabia. Yet, its oil production has collapsed from a peak of over 3 million barrels per day (bpd) in the late 1990s to roughly 1 million bpd today.
This was not an overnight accident. It was a slow-motion dismantling of a world-class industry. Here is the detailed breakdown of how it happened.
There’s No Such Thing as Being “Late” to Your Own Life
Every January, a quiet form of panic settles in. It rarely announces itself as fear, and it almost never looks dramatic. Instead, it arrives as a low-grade, persistent unease—the sense that something fundamental is off, that you have somehow misjudged your timing, that the life you are living does not quite match the life you were supposed to be living by now. It feels as if a train left the station and you were standing on the platform checking your phone while it disappeared down the tracks.
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Happy New Year!
As the year wraps up, I just want to pause for a moment and say thank you.
Thank you for coming here.
Thank you for spending a piece of your day with this site. The internet is a loud, chaotic place, and the fact that you choose to show up here, day after day, honestly means more than you probably realize.
This site exists because of you.
So as we step into a brand-new year, I want to wish every one of you good health, success and happiness in the new year.
Here’s to a better year ahead.
Linkage
23 Historical Photos and the Stories Behind Them – Ned Hardy
A circuit breaker finder is great because it lets you instantly identify the exact breaker feeding an outlet or fixture without guessing, trial-and-error flipping, or accidentally killing half your house. – Amazon
C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela – NYTimes
The Worst Hacks of 2025 – Wired
This is now the most valuable piece of Star Wars memorabilia – Popular Science
A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport—and Leave Their Kids Behind – Archive.ph
Frugal people share their best money-saving tips that worked for them in 2025 – Upworthy
Top 10 Things Crypto Was Supposed to Change & What Actually Did – Listverse
25 Memes That Hit The Nail On The Head – Ned Hardy
These are superior to wire nuts because they create a consistent, spring-clamped connection that doesn’t loosen over time, doesn’t depend on installer torque, and maintains full contact pressure even as copper expands, contracts, and ages. – Amazon
South Korea will end breeding of bears and extraction of their bile – AP News
15 Unbelievably Moronic Inventions That Push The Limits of Brain Fail – Linkiest
Ranked: The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 – Visual Capitalist
George and Amal Clooney Become French Citizens – NBC News
From an Olympic Snowboarder to an Accused Drug Kingpin and Killer – Archive.ph
My 25 favorite Magic: The Gathering cards of 2025 – Polygon
The Dumping Grounds
Poll of the Day
How would you describe your 2025?
What Would Really Happen If America Evenly Redistributed All Private Wealth
The concept of an even wealth redistribution in the United States—often called a “Great Leveling”—is a thought experiment that challenges the very mechanics of modern civilization. If we were to take the nation’s total household net worth of roughly $150 trillion and divide it equally among all 335 million residents, the math produces a staggering figure:
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