Marko Jukic (@mmjukic) / X

Marko Jukic

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Marko Jukic

@mmjukic

Finding the golden path to interstellar civilization. Senior Analyst @bismarckanlys.

Earth & Luna

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Joined May 2023

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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Aug 17, 2023
There is only one reason to explore space. It is not economic, scientific, or military. Space exploration is rather a mystical proposition to revolutionize what humanity is. My new, long article in @palladiummag. Read here: palladiummag.com/2023/08/16/the… A short 🧵 of highlights:
The Only Reason to Explore Space
From palladiummag.com
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Sep 12, 2024
This isn't just a light show. It's a demonstration of futuristic military power. You are looking at an unarmed drone swarm.
Zhang Meifang
@CGMeifangZhang
Sep 12, 2024
A new world record was set last week in Shenzhen when an 8,100 drone formation lifted off to show a stunning performance
Shenzhen Pages
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Shenzhen Pages
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Aug 20, 2024
It's unbelievable how many dynamic companies broke their streaks of engineer-CEOs for the first time in the 2000s, installing their first MBA/finance CEOs, who then promptly made fundamental strategic errors that nixed the company's future, that are now becoming obvious.
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Apr 15, 2024
Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.
Flo Crivello
@Altimor
Apr 15, 2024
Americans severely underestimate how dirt poor most Europeans are. They go spend their American wages there and are amazed at the “quality of life,” not realizing that they’re taking the equivalent of a trip to Disneyland, and everyone around them is the staff.
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Oct 2, 2024
A fertility rate below 1.6 means 50% less new people after three generations, say 100 years. Below 1.2 means an 80% drop. The U.S. is at 1.64. China, Japan, Poland, Spain all below 1.2. South Korea is at 0.7—96% drop. Mass extinction numbers.
Birth Gauge
@BirthGauge
Sep 8, 2024
The new monthly birth update is out!
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Oct 24, 2024
You met a German?
Lilly
@lillybilly299
Oct 23, 2024
I recently met someone who is very very hard working but not at all ambitious. Crazy combination of traits
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Aug 21, 2024
I don't know how they do it, but you can add inventing the perfect sports drink to the list of Japan's accomplishments. Uncanny. Tastes like how water tastes in a dream.
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Aug 1, 2024
One of my European friends told me TikTok has the best content of any social media platform because it's the only one without 1+ billion Indians affecting the algorithm (India banned TikTok because they hate China) and now I can't stop thinking about that anytime I scroll.
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Nov 22, 2024
Counterpoint: Gen Z is accurately naming the salary needed to be fashionably well-off in 2024 after inflation of both money and expectations, while earlier generations are just naming the same number they remember from their youth, which is now outdated.
The Mind Scourge
@TheMindScourge
Nov 22, 2024
Immersion in social media from an early date has completely skewed Gen Z intuitions about what makes for a competitive salary
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Oct 7, 2025
I hope everyone under the age of 40 realizes that they are never going to see a single cent of the pensions they pay 10-20% of their income for in taxes.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
Oct 6, 2025
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Jun 6, 2025
Still waiting for any investigative journalism outlet to write the piece explaining how and why every single country in Eastern Europe and Japan overnight decided to begin mass-importing low-wage laborers from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia sometime in 2022-23.
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Oct 20, 2025
For whoever is keeping score, @elonmusk has cofounded the 1st, 2nd, and 5th-most valuable private companies in the world right now, as well as the 10th-most valuable public company in the world. I genuinely don't understand why anyone feels courageous enough to bet against him.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
Oct 19, 2025
World's most valuable private companies, per MB: 1. OpenAI: $500 billion 2. SpaceX: $400 billion 3. ByteDance: $330 billion 4. Anthropic: $183 billion 5. xAI: $113 billion 6. Databricks: $100 billion 7. Stripe: $92 billion 8. Revolut: $75 billion 9. Shein: $66 billion
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Mar 6, 2025
Progressive, tolerant Denmark has literally already reversed mass immigration: Denmark's population aged 0-19 is *more* Danish than the total population, and 0-4 even more so. If you include European immigrants, Denmark's babies are currently 85.9% Danish, and 89.7% European!
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Marko Jukic
@mmjukic
Nov 12, 2025
Only in Germany will you find a company run by a conclave of PhD physicists in a tradition dating directly back to Goethe and Riemann, whose sole purpose is to manufacture the most atomically-perfect mirrors and lenses ever, and of course this company is crucial for making GPUs.
Samo Burja
@SamoBurja
Nov 12, 2025
Hopes for further scaling computing power for AI currently all rely on a foundation-owned German firm that manufactures mirrors and lenses with atomic precision: Carl Zeiss. The higher the precision, the more powerful the chips. Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):
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