I don't hate Africans, I just don't believe that race is merely skin-deep

I don't hate hippos but I wouldn't want them loose in my neighborhood


Or marrow


No, I will not watch other people play D&D


Machiavelli is dealing with a very specific scenario, in which a man comes to hold political power in a new way but must grapple with an existing oligarchy. It's written as a guide to stabilizing medieval Florence out of a revolutionary period rather than governing at all times and places.


I used to play a lot of older MTG formats (Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, etc)

I went looking earlier today at some of the old forums. Depending on the topic there's no posts for months or even more than a year. For example MTG Salvation has no posts on "Established" Legacy combo decks for over a year and no posts on any "Established" Legacy deck at all for over a month.

The main Vintage forum ("The Mana Drain") seems to be offline at present.

So I think much of the older player-base has probably been put off by this or that thing that Wizards has done and moved on.

That said, for probably the past decade Wizards (makers of the game) has been pivoting more towards casual games with many players and away from competitive, one-on-one duels. Their support for the Pro Tour has supposedly been declining for some time and their special products have been focused on casual group play for years (eg Nemesis and Commander). I think Magic is now built/marketed as an alternative to Dungeons and Dragons with a more fleshed-out structure (due to the cards).

I was interested in Magic as a sort of alternative to chess (to which I have returned as my main hobby), and I think that phase of Magic is mostly gone.

If you liked Magic for the strategy, I recommend lichess.org (for chess) and backgammongalaxy.com (for backgammon)

I also like to spectate Starcraft, especially Brood War. I know you mentioned your interest in SC in another post. If you don't already know, top-level Brood War tournaments are still ongoing in Korea, with the SOOP StarLeage (previously Afreeca StarLeague) just finishing a round of qualifiers and about to start a new season. A few years ago Blizzard released a "remaster" of SC1 which keeps all the same mechanics but upgrades the graphics (and fixes a few bugs, the most impactful of which is increasing particle limit so Terran Valkyries can actually shoot).

I've been following a new RTS called Battle Aces which just finished a round of closed beta. It's like Starcraft 2 minus all the homework (eg inject larva every 40 seconds). The major skills seem to be unit choice, strategy (harass, push, defend, expand, tech) and fine unit control ("micro"). Basically it looks like the Starcraft 2 I always wanted to play.

I don't think there is an active arena shooter now that Quake Champions has wrapped up its life-cycle, but I think there's surprisingly good strategic depth in that genre. Rapha's VOD reviews are really great if you've never seen them. Rapha is the Quake GOAT specifically because of his strategic understanding of the game (his aim now is about as good as other pros, but historically was worse). Watching him explain the logic behind his gameplay is quite satisfying.


gold is at all time highs
but silver is still waiting to take off


only 6% more inflation left


"Just say no to Tucker"

"Why?"

"Am I not entertained?"


das raycis


To be fair natural "intelligence" is also out of control

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=jdanSzYmjFM

(see 1m45s for a particularly clear example)


Do you think you'll ever become a cisgender female?


The Shriners claim to be Islamic (but Jews claim to be all sorts of things)


Are Freemasons Jewish?


Are the Jews that run Western governments trying to destroy the majority populations under their control? Yes, obviously


the actor was just an actor


This is good actually


Yes


It's leveraged long, so the ETF aims to recreate 175% of the movement of MSTR

So if MicroStrategy goes up 10% in a day, the ETF should go up 17.5% on the same day (and similarly for declines)


That's his argument but it seems to be wrong

As I already quoted from wiki:
"Pit bulls are responsible for more than half of dog bite incidents among all breeds despite comprising only 6% of pet dogs."


"Pit bulls are responsible for more than half of dog bite incidents among all breeds despite comprising only 6% of pet dogs."


Commie-est bullshit I've read in a while:

"Many people consider pit bulls undesirable, making it harder for animal shelters to adopt them out.[60] Surveys have found that animal shelter workers intentionally misidentify pit bulls to improve their adoption rates, or to avoid euthanizing them in jurisdictions where they are banned.[61] Animal advocates recommend that shelters stop labeling breeds to improve pit bull adoption rates.[60]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull


"Pit bulls are responsible for more than half of dog bite incidents among all breeds despite comprising only 6% of pet dogs."

"Dog bite severity varies by the breed of dog, and studies have found that pit bull–type dogs have both a high rate of reported bites and a high rate of severe injuries, compared to other non–pit bull–type dogs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull


Rottweilers are a type of mastiff and closely related to bulldogs

(with mastiffs generally being bred for war, guard duty, or fighting)


Most lists I've seen have other bulldogs near the top also


shut up bot


How slow?
What's the typical rate of warming?


Well we're in an interglacial that should continue for thousands of years, so even without human activity of any kind we would be warming


It says earlier in the article that the volcano could warm the Earth noticeably

Other sources making that same claim:
https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push-earth-closer-to-1-5c-of-warming

https://www.carbonbrief.org/tonga-volcano-eruption-raises-imminent-risk-of-temporary-1-5c-breach/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/climate/tonga-volcano-climate.html

Here's a published paper saying it raised the atmospheric water vapor by 13%, this will last for years and will warm the surface:
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/hunga-tonga-eruption-the-most-remarkable-climatic-event-in-the-last-three-decades


The last 2 years have been unusually warm due to water vapor from the January 2022 Tonga eruption, which increased atmospheric water vapor by 10%. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas on Earth and much stronger than CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%CA%BBapai_eruption_and_tsunami

https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/


The context is we're in a CO2 drought and not all that far from the death of all plant life on Earth (if CO2 falls below 200 ppm)

We're also in an Ice Age and should welcome any warming we get


CO2 is good actually


Not just rising from a low base, but currently in an Ice Age (there is ice at both poles & glaciers on land)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation

According to wiki, 80% of the time Earth is in a greenhouse state (ie no glaciers or polar ice caps) and 20% of the time in an icehouse state (ie glacier and polar ice caps) but within the icehouse state 80% is in glacial periods (ie glaciers stable or advancing) and the remaining 20% is interglacial (glaciers retreating).

So right now we are in a state that occurs something like 4% of the time, which is a warm period within an Ice Age.


search for "Parthenon"


IDK how much Contra Krugman you've listened to, but a running theme was that when you click Krugman's link it doesn't support his point (and often refutes it)


Money in money out is how you get rich

Thanks for the Very Useful Advice


Perhaps this will further disillusion "the Left left me" crowd


I think Milei was let in to try and drive Argentina away from China and towards the US/Western system

But in general I think massive cuts are more effective than small cuts. Small cuts provide a tiny benefit to everyone while the losers feel them intensely and fight viciously to keep their privilege. Massive cuts (can) provide large enough benefits to the general public to get them involved/passionate, while some of the losers may get enough benefit from the cuts to be net better off (although each would prefer everyone else gets the cuts and he alone keeps his special privilege)


antifa


invidious

or just wait for it to make its way to rumble/bitchute/odyssey/etc


On a pike, right?


yeah but the kids were Hwhite


That's what the math says, but is it correct?


I think there are successful examples of stateless societies: Cospaia, medieval Iceland, the medieval 'free cities' of Europe. Even Somalia during its stateless period had better economic growth than its neighbors.

And there are plenty of successful anarchic relationships, as in international relations, or you and I, or voluntary trade generally.

If there must be a controlling power over every individual and group, then there should be a world dictatorship. I don't mean that as a straw-man or a slippery slope, I just mean if nations can get along anarchically why not smaller nations? Why not individual cities? Or individual persons? Maybe there is some reason why there should be an intermediate size of state, but I'm not aware of it.


"Nothing ever happens"


looks bad


what?


"As the electrical demand goes up, the alternator puts an increased load on the belt, and therefore the engine, to make that juice."

https://community.cartalk.com/t/alternators-extra-electricity-if-battery-is-fully-charged/87354

"If the engine is spinning the alternator is spinning and producing power. This is regulated by a voltage regulator that will raise or lower the output voltage to either charge or maintain the charge level (float charge) in the battery.

So an alternator cant be turned off directly as it has a direct belt connection to the engine. However you can turn off the resistance of the alternator and have it freely spin by the regulator setting a voltage slightly lower than the battery."

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-alternator-run-constantly-even-if-the-car-battery-is-full


why is absorption the "real" color and reflection is not the "real" color?


The alternator resists spinning (otherwise you'd have free infinite energy)

so some of the fuel that could have been spent spinning the tires is instead spent spinning the alternator


as opposed to if Trump wins where it's only 97% likely to print to oblivion


Deregulation, abolish taxation, abolish legislatures, common law, private security

Also if people want to waste their lives smoking weed on their own property then good riddance


I view battery EVs as sport-luxury toys for city dwellers. Sport because you need some justification to buy the thing and high torque is a good one, luxury to cover over the up-front materials cost and city because the range is not ever going to be great (and even if it was you'd still need an alternative network of charging stations).


u serious?


won't someone think of the mushrooms


It's all downstream of philosophy

https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/


What is a trans youth?


or views


worthless != free


Most of these categories I have no such item

for showering I just use a pumice stone
no soap, no shampoo

You can moisturize with tallow


skip to 1m30s

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=ppyM6EWkn4k


I like metal discs


I'm a goldbug and I don't care about zips on posts

I'm here for the FOSS uncensorable flow of information

I think Elon Musk taking over Twitter dot com (and giving it a veneer of free speech) is the biggest setback for truly FOSS social media (because normies have a familiar & popular experience which purports to cater to that need)

But just wait for that veneer to wear thin...


He's British so nobody can tell one way or the other


I'm strongly anti-bitcoin but pro-FOSS, pro-decentralization, pro-free-speech, etc


I'm not really into Pokemon


They are tautological but not axioms
2+2=4 can be proven as a theorem of mathematics

Another example:
"Every effect has a cause"
Can you think of some way this could be tested?

Can you think of some way the human action claim can be tested?

A more familiar example:
"A binding minimum wage will result in higher unemployment than would otherwise have been the case"

Can you think of some way to test this?
You would have to apply and not apply the minimum wage to the same group of people at the same time (or perhaps you can find a large population of clones in identical circumstances).


From what I understand modern American English is closer to how people spoke 200 years ago.

I believe the "posh" accent (losing R's for example) originated in England and spread to some of the US East Coast (which had heavy trade with England) but not the rest of North America.


-20% on the week....


if they have this, they are pro-DEI


"Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is currently in the ice age called Quaternary glaciation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age


It depends on the nature of the theory.

Suppose the theory is that all unmarried men are bachelors, or that 2+2=4, or (to take an actual example from Mises) that human action is aimed at some goal.

Can you imagine an experiment that could disprove any of these?

On the other hand, suppose the theory is that an electron has a certain mass, or that ice melts at a certain temperature and pressure. It is very easy to imagine an experiment that might disprove such a theory.


you have a government?


US Naval Intelligence is more likely (see: Tor)


US Nickels are real cupronickel (and already worth over 5c)


I got it in a lower number of guesses


Generally sheriffs are much better than police

In many jurisdictions they are elected & consequently care a lot about "real" crimes (ie violent or property crimes) and usually don't care very much about legislated crimes


Talking fast like that is called "spreading" and it's abusing a quirk of the debate rules - a point that someone doesn't respond to is considered to be conceded. So if they can pack in so many arguments that the opposition can't respond to them all, there's a good chance they win by default.

The bigger problem is "critique" or "K" in which one side argues that the other should lose not because they've made a less convincing argument, but because they have somehow done or said something taboo (eg by discussing the assigned topic at all).


My speculation is that perhaps fermentation can convert K1 into K2 in the cheese (which is also how hindgut conversion of K1 occurs)


if you're not convinced to visit this website, try:

whywhycarnivore.com


I am an abolitionist, yes


I have "home" which is a chronological list of notes by people I follow, and "trending" which is a global list of popular topics. I almost never check "trending".

https://nostter.app/


"The accelerated deterioration of our limited constitutional decentralized republic established by the Framers into a fascist (corporate socialist) welfare-warfare state must be reversed."

Good luck with that. Once you accept that State officials can legitimately impose arbitrary rules which bind the people and can legitimately steal arbitrary amounts of the peoples' income or wealth, then the State officials effectively own the people in a system of mass public slavery. There are no more limits.


growth for the sake of growth is the principle of all life, not just cancer


high Vitamin K should help (liver, eggs, orange cheeses like muenster)
high Vitamin D should help (sun exposure)


shrieking is a reasonable response to being poisoned


Gold is only about 3 Mohs so it's not difficult to be harder than that


Do you have an argument?


Freedom means you are free from physical violence when you castrate yourself, and I am free from physical violence when I call you a deranged lunatic for doing so


women shouldn't box
women shouldn't box against men

if a woman does box against a man, then she deserves a share of the blame for what happens


my FAANG shorts finally printing


I liked that book

I think often whether a certain piece of advice is good depends on the person to whom it is being given

For 4 agreements, if you take everything personally and get over-invested in everything that happens, being told not to take things personally and that your attitude will shape your experience is probably very helpful. If you're already a total hippie maybe you need to be told to invest in your own future.

Similarly, if you're a huge people-pleaser reading Ayn Rand & taking the message "it's OK to care for your own well-being" is probably very healthy. If you're a jerk reading Ayn Rand & taking the message "it's great not to care about others at all", it will probably make you pretty unpleasant to be around.


I believe that message is from YouTube, not from Inv


IIRC women are supposed to have an advantage in endurance swimming due to higher body fat


test-demic + normal seasonal "flu" deaths classed as Covid deaths


You make a good point, we should get rid of women's categories


Every race is a sprint

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=pNSWTwB-_bk&nojs=1


in sports with a possibility of serious physical contact / collision, absolutely

in sports where there's no direct contact I think it's fine (if you wanna lose a footrace or ski jump or whatever, go for it)


For pure theory here are 3 good options:

Per Bylund's Primer: How to think about the economy (easy)
https://mises.org/library/book/how-think-about-economy-primer

Henry Hazlitt's Economics in one lesson (intermediate)
https://www.liberalstudies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Economics-in-One-Lesson_2.pdf

Ludwig von Mises' Human Action (hard but great)
https://mises.org/library/book/human-action

A couple of honorable mentions:

I think Rothbard's economic history is also excellent, eg. America's Great Depression
https://mises.org/library/book/americas-great-depression

Finally Bohm-Bawerk's refutations are especially skillful, eg. Karl Marx and the Close of his System
https://mises.org/library/book/karl-marx-and-close-his-system


The woman knew she was getting in the ring with a man, it's her fault too


the best cure for race blindness is living in an African neighborhood


lul welcome


invidious works for me


interesting point:

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/white-nationalism-at-last-democrat-party-rallies-white-dudes-for-harris/


If I want to proselytize (I don't) I go on Twitter
If I want to speak to people who already understand freedom, I go on nostr


Not really

The decision you're thinking of is probably Citizens United v FEC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

The SCOTUS majority opinion was that when people join together into a corporation they retain their free speech rights.

The actual case was about a group airing a documentary critical of Hillary Clinton shortly before the 2008 US elections. The FEC ruled that it was election spending and thus subject to strict limits, while SCOTUS ruled it was political speech protected by 1A. Notably, the FEC had ruled in previous legal encounters with the group that Democrat documentaries critical of Republican figures were not election spending.


oh


"No Man's Life, Liberty or Property are Safe while the Legislature is in Session"


Build a man a fire, keep him warm for a day

Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life


More Bitcoins for you, more metal disks for me


I'm an anti-bitcoiner
I am indeed extremely bullish on nostr as a FOSS alternative to centralized social media

I haven't bought any stats but I do have a wallet and have been gifted a few thousand for my insightful (or perhaps inane) posts

Occasionally I zip somebody


They're both nonsense

Bitcoin only seems reasonable in comparison to the even greater madness of fiat


"buy in late"

buy what? Bitcoin is a fairy tale


Goodbye


the first several chapters of Human Action by Mises (or his whole book Liberalism which is easier)


Thank you for sharing the parasitic nature of blackness


or we could just not have our rights put up to any sort of vote

just use common law instead


I have family in the medical field who have seen me lose over 100 pounds and still caution me about how risky my diet is


Alternate proposal: only people with object permanence can vote


Reagan's rhetoric was good but he basically turned the evangelicals into useful idiots for the security state (eg HW Bush)

There were some tax cuts but Carter had more deregulation & Reagan's security spending went to the moon


I haven't seen any (but I read people I follow and not the global feed)


Is Israel a puppet or is the US?


https://www.unz.com/proberts/usa-as-i-knew-it-has-passed-into-the-trash-bin-of-history/

The Democrats’ have two agendas: One is to normalize and legitimize sexual perversity. The other is open borders. To put it in different words, the Democrats are devoted to transforming traditional America into a Sodom & Gomorrah Tower of Babel.

Does this serve rich liberals’ interests beyond providing them with a servant class?

The main benefactors are sexual perverts and immigrant-invaders.

Do rich liberals prefer their genes not to be passed on because their transgendered kids are unable to procreate and are made infertile by Covid vaccines and a variety of testosterone-inhibitors that leave even young men unable to have a natural erection?

Their politics suggest that the interests of the rich liberals diverge from their heirs, the future of their country, and their self-respect. Everything with which the rich liberals are involved–Diversity, equity, and inclusion, global warming, globalism, the [WEF]’s Great Reset–undermines their commitment to their country. Rich liberals see America as a resource to be used in behalf of “larger agendas.”

So where does America’s leadership class come from?

It comes from the Jews. The Secretary of the Treasury is a Jew. The Secretary of State is a Jew. The Secretary of Homeland Security is a Jew. Finance, media, Hollywood and entertainment are in the hands of Jews. As Netanyahu told Congress yesterday, every Jew is a Zionist, a defender of Israel. And every American who is not a defender of Israel is an anti-semite. John V. Whitbeck describes the total humiliation of “Proud America” on its knees kissing Netanyahu’s feet. A totally conquered country whose obeisance is shown with 58 standing ovations.


The Dems are allied with permanent Washington (the bureaucrats, the Intel agencies, etc)

The Republicans are allied with the security forces (military and to a lesser degree law enforcement), but have been too timid to cross the rubicon and undo FDR's authoritarian-bureaucratic revolution by force

So to a first approximation, yes, the deep state is pro-DNC and anti-RNC (although it's a bit more complicated than that)


Supposedly the Dems were pushing Trump under the theory that he would be easier to beat than the normal RINO/neocon types


China doesn't want to invade Taiwan, ever.... the plan is peaceful reunification


insane KCM this week

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AccmgwAb8KA


Wait


I remember seeing her in the Dem debates and being unimpressed

I don't remember her being borderline retarded

Was she always this vapid?


look into regenerative agriculture if you haven't already


the South is where all the Africans are

the truth is the "tolerant" leftists have been living in European enclaves interacting with the top 1% of Africans and expressing hatred and disdain for other Europeans who also want to separate themselves from the bottom 99% of Africans

(the leftists imagine that the Africans they interact with are basically representative of the whole group)


I'm sure it could be faked

But I doubt it was


who?


We killed the King but not the Crown


I think Trump played into it once it started

Perhaps what is coming will come, perhaps something else will


I don't believe Q represents an attempt of anyone on the "inside" to communicate with the general public, but if we assume it does, then yes


chess


I think Trump is aligned with a minority faction within the Deep State (some Pentagon, some CIA), but the majority of the Deep State (State Dept, FBI, most CIA) is opposed to Trump and views him as a threat

I think the assassination attempt was real but the shooter was a nobody, with FBI prodding him along (this is pure speculation based on prior incidents) and Secret Service intentionally depriving Trump of proper protection


Buffet doesn't understand gold

He says it's an unproductive asset that will just sit there, and you have to sell it to some "greater fool" for it to be productive

But at the same time Buffet says he holds many billions of rapidly depreciating paper assets because he needs liquidity

If only there were some liquid asset that wasn't rapidly depreciating...


I think it's a crime of omission rather than comission

Tell everyone Trump is Hitler and then refuse to provide adequate security


Did  you see Trump's rally this weekend? It was an ear death experience


it's like particle physics - they come up with some theoretical reason why the particle must exist, fail to find it, so decide it must be even tinier than they thought and repeat (spending more and more money each cycle)


inb4 cope and seethe


“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!”

Andrew Jackson


For your books section I recommend Fat of the Land by Vilhjalmur Steffanson.

Steffanson was an arctic explorer who adopted (and popularized) the "Arctic diet" which was carnivore. Upon returning to the US he spent a year at Bellevue hospital under observation eating nothing but meat to prove to the medical establishment that such a feat was possible.

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=ZmEYBrlOVL8


You should really have tried to keep it brief, like the collected works of Shakespeare or the Encyclopedia Britannica


Who?


It it what it is


I think she realized what she had done. I dropped the topic - it's up to her whether she'll listen to her conscience or not.


About a year ago I was talking to a middle-aged woman and somehow the topic of abortion came up

She said it couldn't be murder because it wasn't a human being

I asked what it was instead

She responded "No, it can't be. I had an abortion"


I recently heard a theory that the Deep State / neocons / etc planned the Pentagon attack (which was not highly visual or traumatic and would have served merely as a limited excuse to make war) but the Israelis took the opportunity to execute the WTC attack on the same day

So Bush looking stunned could be genuine


Omission vs comission

I think the plan here was to constantly call Trump Hitler and then refuse to provide adequate protection (letting random zealots take him out) - ie this is Biden, DNC and their media machine rather than spooks


if something can't go on forever, it won't


unfortunately it is economically illiterate

"meaningless trade tokens with better rules" is still fiat and still sucks


I like Trump.

I didn't and won't vote for him but I think his movement has repelled some neocons from the Republican party, and this is good.

But it strikes me that a political class that is trying to destroy Trump still condemns the attempt on his life. I guess if some nobody can kill Trump then some nobody can kill establishment dorks also. I can't say I'd be heartbroken.


Yes exactly


is that a good thing?


Why do you think Hamas wants to destroy Israel?


“Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Thomas has been good on this - see his dissents

He explains that "commerce" at the time of the founding was considered separate from manufacture and agriculture, instead referring to the distribution and retail of goods.


substitute tallow

I guess he's poor


where's the migrants when you need them


They're not going to overrule the Commerce clause (which is part of the US Constitution), but they might reinterpet it (overruling Wickard v Fillburn)


big if true


There are people who believes themselves to be organized into States which claim authority in those places, yes.

It took hundreds of years for the modern conception of the State to develop, and as we have seen (in the USSR and elsewhere) the modern total State is itself unstable.

Do you believe that the English were especially godless and insolent, and that this gave rise to the modern English State? Is there any evidence of this?


The premise is contradicted by experience
(eg medieval Iceland, medieval England, the German free cities, the town of Cospaia, etc)


Kenya believe it


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ariana-grande-said-jeffrey-dahmer-184956654.html

role models


what is power?


Idiots made absinthe with chemically treated wood in the past
Now they don't do that


aikido is relevant (all about fighting with weapons) along with other jiu jitsu-based arts like judo or BJJ

but mostly you just don't want to get into a knife "fight"


The loser of a knife fight dies in the alley
The winner dies in the ambulance


I think also anti-white (anti-straight, anti-male, etc) indoctrination/hatred is most easily escaped by claiming to be bisexual (which isn't verifiable)


The Brits can handle it just fine, this is climate alarmism propaganda


I think the most promising explanation is that they poured the blocks & then they hardened into rock

https://natrontheory.com/


resistance yes
money no


Twitter.com but it redirects to a porn site now


What was the situation on 6 October?


When did Hamas start the war?


Why isn't the average age around 20 or 25? Where are all the young Ukrainian men?

I guess having gay sex in the West or dead


jog, anyway


The head Soviet judge presided over Stalin's show trials

The defendants were tortured to extract confessions (including some that were implausible or impossible, or which contradict current knowledge)

I'm opposed to Nazism / Hitlerism because of the socialism and statism, but the idea that they mass-murdered 6 gorillion Jews with rollercoasters and turned them into lampshades and soap is a fairy tale


Late stage statism - the regime is basically fake & relies on psyops for its power, then Caesar turns on Rome or Hitler builds the biggest street gang and they have to just shrug and give up


Watts Up with That (WUWT) convinced me
Tony Heller is good
Climate Discussion Nexus (CDN) is good

And of course there are many eminent scientists (eg Lindzen, Happer, Soon, Dyson) who have criticized the whole thing, including multiple Nobel winners (eg Gaiver, Clauser)

What's funny is when people from the fields that make up climate "science" criticize it (physicists, geologists, meteorologists) they're not "climate scientists". You have to actually believe to be a climate scientist.


Disproven, as shown by Koch's own cholera experiments (as well as the Spanish Flu volunteers)

It's like particle physics - inventing ever-tinier and harder to find molecules which must be funded to a greater and greater degree


interesting article, thanks for sharing


Seems like even if shop labor is $100/hour it should still be like $2k
IDK where the other $4k came from


#Texit


Stay humble, stack yachts


I agree with most of that.

How do you know that "pathogens" are "almost always present" and under certain conditions become hazardous?


How do you know this?


Mutations plus selection is a very different process from "random, mindless mutations"

It's the difference between me guessing your password by trying a million passwords, or guessing your password and whenever I get a letter right I get to know it (like Wordle)


The bullhorn acacia produces soft thorns that don't deter predators, but do make an excellent home for the acacia ant, whose toxic bite deters predators & who will defoliate other trees that shade out the bullhorn acacia.

The two species are co-evolved, so that each benefits (and in fact requires) the other.

So if viruses are real and rapidly evolve, why is there never co-evolution? Why do people get (almost) exactly the same influenza symptoms for a century? Why do ancient plagues supposedly still occur?


I like how the Africans & the last European French are all wearing much nicer clothing than in reality

Somehow this propaganda was too optimistic


Do you keep silkworms?


stock vs flow


GODL


He could be in this very room

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3E--xFjR1dM


How many citizens did they kill?


Those you take from stop working because it will just be taken
Those you give to stop working because it will just be given


unnamed teens could be here


avoid the quacks at all costs


There's risks to that too


De-dollarization isn't de-USD-ization, it's de-UST-ization.

Less demand to hold Treasuries -> Fed has to print to fund USG -> those who owe dollars are able to pick them up cheaply.


according to Yahoo finance, 268 shares traded at "the bottom"


Yahoo finance reports 268 shares traded at the "bottom"


she belongs to the same party as the old president (AMLO) who was kind of a left-wing Trumpian populist (including accusing election officials of rigging things against him)

from what I understand, she is his hand-picked successor


You want to get one that has the welds smoothed so it doesn't scratch

https://fieldcompany.com/collections/tools/products/chain-mail-scrubber

I own this one and am happy with it but there are many others


I recommend a chain mail scrubber


good luck 🫡


does she have a sister?


we agree on cutting sugar though

diabetes involves an inability to process carbohydrate


you can just eat meat (avoiding seed oils & sugar)


God has in his grace put fat nuggets of Bitcoinium along our riverbanks


voting is an affordance - a knob for the normies to twiddle but which changes nothing of substance


how did this woke clown get the nomination?


the swamp creatures are creating the change they do not wish to see in the world


i'm not sure if this is critical of Trump, the Uniparty or both


why would AGI want to preserve itself?


less than a decade before the Mark was on rough parity with the US Dollar


Regardless of whether the moon landings were fake, their stated purpose was a PR stunt


No system is perfect, but monarchy is better than democracy

(mainly because the monarch effectively owns the country and is therefore incentivized to look after it; compare owning your own car vs renting)

https://mises.org/library/book/democracy-god-failed


in Spanish that day of the week is still called Domingo
probably other Latin languages are similar but IDK


Another cause: psychosomatic - you observe people having a certain illness and interpret your own difficulties to mirror that illness

eg whether rabies "virus" causes you to fear water or to believe you are pregnant with a litter of puppies depends on what culture you're in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_pregnancy_syndrome

But I do think there is some root biological condition to cold & flu


3 causes of disease I can conceive:

1) Endogenous - the disease is somehow inside us all the time (eg genetic disorders)

2) Environmental - we are exposed to some sort of harmful condition (eg radiation, toxins, pathogens if any can be shown to exist)
For example, paralitic polio was probably caused by the pesticide lead arsenate.

3) Deficiency - we lack some element for ideal health (eg some vitamin/mineral, sunlight, fresh water, etc)

I suspect that in the case cold & flu illnesses the body is reacting to cold & diminished sunlight (and thus vitamin D conversion) during the winter months.

If flu is caused by a virus, why is it seasonal? Why does the virus care how sunny it is or whether it's 30C or 10C outside?


This is one I've come around on over the past couple years

TLDR: Virology is pseuedoscientific and the viruses it finds are the products of the methods used

When Germ Theory failed (eg Koch himself failed to develop cholera after drinking a bunch of cholera bacteria) they decided the germ agent must be too small to see even with a microscope

The microscope images are from cells that are killed with antibiotics and antifungals, breaking down into a goop of sub-cellular items which are declared to be viruses (without proof)

The gene sequences are from basically the same thing - they take a whole bunch of DNA, cut it into tiny bits, and then the computer assembles the tiny bits into the virus

Experiments to spread contagious illness have failed, eg healthy volunteers spent time in a Spanish Flu (1918) ward and had sick mucus sprayed into their nose. None took ill.

An example of the pseudo-scientific process: Pasteur was not able to induce rabies (a supposed neurological virus) with the saliva of rabid dogs, and could produce similar symptoms only by injecting matter from the rabid dog directly into the brain of healthy dogs.

Maybe there are macro-parasites and thus contagion (eg ticks) but I am not aware of any germs which have been shown to cause illness.


they have electron microscope images

but they didn't isolate a virus and prove it was contagious prior to taking the image

so we have no basis to conclude that the thing shown is a contagious virus

(probably they are cell breakdown products from the cells they "culture" the "virus" in)


The point is not the wiki article. but the underlying source to which I directed you


seems accurate to me

gays can't "marry" (join and blend together, aka reproductive union)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dn6x_9CLTB4


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAbu-LabanBakan2022511Khalidi202060Slater2020406_n.44Khoury2012Wolfe2012133Lentin20106Sa'di2007-49

see footnote 49


Already happening following Fiducia Supplicans:
https://novusordowatch.org/2024/05/chicago-pastor-aberrosexual-wedding-vows-blessing/


Is an increasing portion of the economy in private hands?
If so, this is great news


classic "this argument wouldn't work on me but maybe if I use it on you, you'll do what I want"


I am not sure I believe this

But imagine the US homeland is at war already, and the Baltimore bridge and things like this are real events breaking through the narrative


what do I need a watch for?


I got a vacuum robot as a gift and it was not great


Yarvin's take on the Holocaust (that the pile of shoes / photos of dead bodies prove an extermination campaign) is one of the key items that has made me lose respect for his capacity to engage in meaningful historical revisionism


No - the company has the right to require literally anything as a condition of employment - and you have the right to quit for literally any reason


of course
you are free to deal with (or refuse to deal with) whoever you like


celery is rough for me


Thanks for sharing Ben - I've been enjoying your interviews


printer is coming


It's coming


nobody


nah I'm not on twitter.com any more


return it


they reduced the number of deaths at Auschwitz from 4 million to 1.1 million
But somehow the total remained 6 million both before and after


why give the Africans endless shrimp?
bad management


Healthy volunteers were unable to be infected with Spanish Flu (1918) despite spending time in a flu ward and literally having sick mucus sprayed in their nose

Germ hypothesis is compelling (seems like an obvious explanation for clusters of illness) but seems to be ultimately false


so that's why my container equity has been ripping


good point let's cut the aid


Maybe Soros had a leveraged trade run against him and is now bankrupt?


Sub-Saharan Africa


what is Ishmael?


from enemy fire or gross incompetence?


"Your dog is your best friend"

This is the problem right here. If you have a dog for some practical reason (eg herding sheep) you keep it intact to produce future generations & sell the extras.

Once a dog becomes a replacement for human companionship its vitality becomes secondary. It's just a living teddy bear for you to hug.


W 'Humble foreign policy' got elected to fix the regime
Obama 'Hope and Change' got elected to fix the regime
Trump 'Make America Great Again' got elected to fix the regime
Biden 'The adults are back in charge' got elected to fix the regime

Hopefully Americans start electing politicians to destroy the regime (or just stop participating in the political charade at all)


There's a quotation I CBA to look up
I believe it's from Jefferson
It contends that the American Revolution was fait accompli in 1776 - it had occurred in the minds of the colonists in the preceding decade


Seriously though we need the sun to synthesize Vitamin D


>Single mom
swipe left


now that's an influencer


100% Trump will win the Selection

Muzzies are nominally left wing for some reason (just because they're not Christian I guess) so the left wing embraces them and all their victim issues

But the Jews who run the show (for now) don't like it since the Muzzies haven't been brainwashed with Judeo-Christianity (aka the new Christ who "died" in a German gas chamber with a wooden door)


"high blood sugar takes many days to many years to be fatal"

so... it's a chronic toxin rather than an acute one


Negros are our closest relatives


different populations have different levels of adaptation to adult dairy consumption

most of the world is lactose intolerant


milk is evolved to add body weight as quickly as possible
it's great for infants
it's not great for adults


College is a scam, but if you could press a button and get a degree for free it wouldn't be a scam


I tried to warn you but you looked away.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=u-8kmPJKGgM


paper will bear anything that is put upon it
-Lenin


The deeper issue is that one side thinks beauty is worth defending and cultivating and the other sides seeks to destroy and subvert beauty


I realize his "methods" include not filing, but if/when a case is launched against you I would be skeptical of this guy's legal arguments.

For example, the definitions of the Internal Revenue Code indicate that the States "include" the District of Columbia. Mottahedeh is arguing that this means ONLY DC is included. I am very skeptical that any court will agree with this argument.


https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/19-71432/19-71432-2023-04-20.html

Mottahedeh says they haven't actually billed him for this, but I would have some caution about following his methods.

If you don't want to pay tax, your best bet is to not file and keep your mouth shut (at least beyond close friends & family). Mottahedeh has made himself a target.


related: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SNvDUO42Hys


I think for those of us who don't believe in appeals to authority this is a non-event, but it's ammunition for "next time" to share with those who do believe in authority

Ideally we would have similar admissions from Fauci (dissident reporters should be asking him about this clip IMO) but this guy was pretty high up the "authority" hierarchy


Monkey is
Monkey see
Monkey do


be the change


I doubt it

I doubt whether gut microbiome can produce health or illness as claimed
(rather I think it's merely an indicator of health, an effect rather than cause)

We are auto-enzyme digesters, not ruminants. Unlike our primate "cousins" we've lost most of the large intestine mass and cannot ferment cellulose for a substantial portion of our diet no matter what kind of bacteria we contain.

Even if the human gut microbiome does have the power to produce health or illness, I also doubt whether you can get much benefit from implanting someone else's poop - if your gut isn't supportive of the appropriate bacteria implanting a small number of them won't make it suddenly hospitable for them

Rather than use the waste of hunter-gatherers as food, we should probably copy their food
(since they don't eat their own shit, it's unlikely that us doing so will give us a health result similar to theirs)


Dave Smith on Tucker

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=s2QS8bUNzHk


nostr and twitter.com are tools
what do you hope to achieve by using these tools?


I am that which I am
It is what it is
Existence exists
A is A

To my mind, the religious mindset at its best is the same as the scientific mindset at its best - allowing the world to be what it is, rather than thinking one's own ego shall shape it


"our descendants will hardly know who we are"

The trick is to have descendants


My point is there's not enough water in the world for the damage 2/3 up the Great Pyramid to be wave erosion


the triumph of reality over delusion is inevitable (and not up to you)


I think there's a major bifurcation between dying Democrat megacities & the rest of the country.

I am pretty confident I could support a family of 4 on $100k/yr.

$100k per year pre-tax -> $70k after income/payroll taxes
Minus roughly $2k/mo on housing
Minus roughly $2k/mo on food
Minus roughly $1-2k/yr on utilities
Minus roughly $5k/yr on transport
Minus roughly $1k/yr on clothes
This leaves roughly $14k/yr of savings / spending

And honestly a lot of those costs could be cut if you really had to
Barebones maybe $1200/mo on food and $1k/yr on transport, freeing up another $14k (ish)

But trying to raise a family of 4 on $60k per year (pre-tax) seems... very challenging from my perspective, that would about cut out all the spending I perceive as optional or avoidable.

This is double the official federal poverty level.


Excuse me, Giza is 60 meters above sea level. So the maximum possible sea level should be less than 10% up the base of the Great Pyramid.

So the damage shown on the pyramid does not come from wave erosion.


I did a little more internet searching

You are right that the top of the Great Pyramid is roughly 200 meters above sea level

However, if all the world's glaciers & ice melted, internet search tells me it's only about 70 meters of sea level rise. The Giza Plateau is 30 meters above sea level, plus the Great Pyramid is roughly 140 meters tall, so the "wave erosion" should be at most 1/3 up the pyramid, not 2/3+


I don't think there's enough water on the planet for 200 meters of sea level rise

Also what would cause waves to break at that height? If the pyramid was actually underwater it should just be getting swells, not breaking waves.

We're in an Ice Age right now (defined as there is ice at the poles, which is not always the case), so over the next 50,000 years we will likely have melting and a few meters of sea level rise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles


progressives re-discover property rights

yet another in the long line of "progressives discovering traditional society and thinking it is some new thing they have uncovered"


many confusions


Don't forget about metal disks


haha
it's not even their ancestors


yeah silver has been ripping


protip: don't shoot yourself

For those capable of higher reasoning, here are some safety tips:
1) Treat every gun as if it is loaded
2) Don't point the weapon at anything you are not prepared to destroy
3) Don't put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire
4) Don't fire until you are sure of your target and what is beyond your target


small roundabouts are great

huge roundabouts are bad


How to invest in 2024: throw a dart at the periodic table


1) place metal disks in strong box
2) sleep soundly


A small portion of the founding generation (mostly coastal elites) agreed to the Constitution, which had limited powers of taxation

Many did not agree to even those limited powers, as in the whiskey rebellion


thank goodness we have saifedean otherwise nobody would be warning about the creature from jekyll island


Stinger missiles now exist, so a country can overcome a deficit of hundreds or thousands-fold in military spending.

We don't see Russia flattening Ukraine.

I view WW2 America as a technical and industrial juggernaut that conquered the world (with the help of her Russian allies), and has knocked over undeveloped tribal peoples since. That industrial and technical power has stagnated while the rest of the world has industrialized.

Even under fiat economics, I don't believe USA, PROC, RF or any of the other "great powers" is in a position to wage total war against any of the others.

I believe that we are heading for a gold standard world again, and that this will further suppress international conflict as it becomes even less affordable than it is now.


As you know I am quite skeptical about the bitcoins
But sound money does (help) fix this
Who pays for the bombs?


Plato vs Aristotle
The type of person who imagines that they can design the world reasons from abstractions
The type of person who doesn't imagine that (often) reasons from concretes

https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/

(I'm not quite that high on Rand but I find the broad narrative insightful)


judge, and prepare to be judged


not going to happen soon, but it's good to keep this idea alive for the next financial crisis


There were delousing chambers
(with glass windows that execution victims would probably smash to try and get fresh air)
they're stained blue from the cyanide in Zyklon B, unlike the supposed gas chamber (aka morgue which was converted into an air raid shelter)


Why else would his victory cause Union government employees to go to prison? Or profitable arrangements to end?


I agree with all of that except I doubt whether Trump could/would meaningfully reform the Union government. I think he is perceived as a threat to it, which is enough to explain many things.


I've been brought fully to the "viruses don't exist" / "germs are not pathogens" side

If you look at "pox" illnesses there's tremendous overlap in the symptoms of monkeypox, chickenpox, smallpox, cowpox, measles, shingles, etc

If you look at the cold & flu type illnesses there's tremendous overlap in their symptoms as well.

I think all of the above are actually 1-2 illnesses (depending on whether the poxes can be meaningfully differentiated from the colds).

There might be multiple groups trying to poison each other (and the rest of us). But, we are exposed to these "pathogens" all the time, so if they were capable of replicating in a healthy person to the point of causing illness and death, we would already be dead.


I expect to get rich providing value for others rather than extracting it

When it comes to selection of currency and savings, my interest is in freedom and reliability rather than speculation and (effectively) gambling on the possibility of wild wealth

I hope to own day have a crypto with strong privacy protections (like zero-knowledge proofs) which is issued by a single entity which offers redemption for precious metals (and with many competing issuers offering their own such products)


It can't happen, sorry


Self defense is always justified

I don't care what the African communist says


why did this take 4 years
better late than never, I suppose


promotion of conspiracy theories... so it's up to you to decide what is true and what is false?


⚡ -500


haha
I'm a data analyst in the corporate world
I might have had to use exponential functions once?
I have never had to do algebra or calculus in my professional life
However I have used statistics many times

I think for almost all jobs fairly basic arithmetic is all that's needed


The New Deal

https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was


What has Israel done for USA?


US Constitution Article 1 Section 8

The Congress shall have Power . . . To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union


I use a similar service.
I haven't got any spam calls, but I have gotten some spam texts.

I made a political donation a few months back and I would guess my number was sold on


Madness.

Of course Bitcoin can go down in price
The downside is real


Nothing insane needs to happen

Just a big dip / crypto winter and then their fiat liabilities force liquidations at a big loss


BTC might help or it might blow them up. They can't have 'diamond hands' because they have to continue making fiat payments as they go.

Best case scenario BTC over their time horizon is a +EV bet (but not a sure thing, even if you think long run BTC is a sure thing)

But pension funds aren't hedge funds. They're not supposed to make +EV bets that could fail to pay off (unless they make a lot of small ones which are uncorrelated). In financial engineering terms, BTC functions as a liquidity sink, which makes it highly correlated with other assets.

Thus it is highly irresponsible for a fiat pension fund to invest in Bitcoin.

As I said, I am an unbeliever so I think it is a strongly negative EV bet. But even if I'm wrong about that it's not the sort of thing they should be invested in.


They have fiat liabilities, not real liabilities


Drake approving meme: Freedom of Speech
Drake disapproving meme: Freedom of Speech


I'm an unbeliever so I may be biased
But the volatility of BTC could screw them royally
It's insane to speculate with pension funds like this


Thankfully it's fake

Pasteur was only able to cause rabies symptoms by injecting mashed-up brain bits directly into the brain of animals (not by use of saliva)


I think part of the problem here is that he's accepted a fixed level of challenge - beat the game - and surpassed that challenge.

If you react by setting a higher level of challenge for yourself (higher difficulty, Speedrun, limited items/upgrades, etc) you can "compensate" for your increased skill

Games are toys, not movies. It's up to you how you play with it


"eventually"

I think we are in the last decade of the American Empire


I think the Anal Empire is very close to collapse
Nobody believes in it anymore


be sure to get plenty of water, sunlight, and red meat <3


I for one am hoping for dis-Union and for some of the States to embrace common law & liberty


I don't think the Chinese are really commies anymore

I think they're stuck with a degree of Marxism as the ideological foundation of the ruling Party

But basically they are a Confucian empire with no emperor (which is just fine, the empire was always the bureaucracy)


possible r vs k selection

if you're not familiar

the idea is that evolution (possibly also a single individual reacting to their environment) can be in a state of relative feast or relative famine

think rabbits who breed like crazy but don't care if their brother gets eaten
vs wolves who are much more selective but invest much more in each individual and have much higher cohesion

women who are sexually abused during puberty tend to be much more promiscuous and bear many more children - which makes sense if the environment is unstable, reproductive opportunities are uncertain and children maturing to adulthood is uncertain

in a state of stable resource scarcity (eg the long decline of the American empire) reproduction rates are suppressed and parental investment is maximized (see helicopter parents)

I would expect the reproductive picture to change as both chaos and fortune promote r-selection (high fecundity, lower investment per child), which mirrors actual demographics in which the very poor and very rich are both reproducing at or above replacement rates but the affluent middle class is not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory


"Police already have technology to stop cars remotely using radio and electromagnetic waves"


"The collapse would just be too big and too damaging"
Meaning: a bunch of people who are paid to do nothing (or paid to do meaningless government paper-shuffling jobs) would have to go out and get real jobs providing value for others in order to fill their bellies

What is damaging about this?


What's the point of a career, if not this?


hot!


I think the libertarian case for Trump in 2016 was very simple: he was less of a war hawk than Hillary

In 2020 it was much murkier.
Trump was a mixed bag on liberty, probably overall negative (like all recent POTUS).

I'm not aware of any libertarian silver lining at all on Biden. Maybe he would be lighter on pot or something (supposedly pot is now being re-scheduled to be less seriously prohibited). I guess that counts, but we had a bunch of states with legal pot under Trump, so how much difference does it actually make?

As to the Department of "Justice" in particular I am skeptical how much power Trump really had. I think the bureaucrats mostly contained, routed around or flatly ignored Trump & his officials.


Is this a 9/11 reference?


https://www.idrlabs.com/dictator/test.php

Theme song: I Need a Pinochet
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YThSWVxUO_k

https://nostrcheck.me/media/f5b55f6b44b8997b2b6e8469a6a57f8d3f3b2ef27023543445c40ecec485ee64/161e29a0a9b82950321a083464fe0863593c5ce4078834f69d1dd12689dd9336.webp

Augusto Pinochet possessed a complex personality that evoked a range of reactions. He was often described as authoritative and stern, with a commanding presence that demanded respect and obedience. Pinochet exhibited a strong sense of discipline and order, reflecting his military background. He was known for his decisiveness and ability to take swift action, traits that defined his leadership style. In contrast to his authoritarian public image, Pinochet was reportedly soft-spoken and modest in his personal life. He rarely showed vulnerability or emotion in public, maintaining a stoic demeanor. This led to perceptions of aloofness and detachment from the suffering caused by his regime. Pinochet was also characterized by a deep sense of nationalism and patriotism for his country. He believed in the importance of a strong, unified state and was dedicated to protecting what he saw as the country's interests, albeit through controversial and sometimes brutal means. Overall, Pinochet's personality was marked by a stern and authoritative exterior, combined with a private and reserved demeanor. His strong sense of discipline and nationalism were central to his identity, shaping both his leadership style and his legacy in history.

I think my score was mostly generated by "democracy bad" and "communists bad" questions, hence 50/50 on everybody but Pinochet.


frustrating article

TLDR:
Kills / deaths ratio in a first person shooter is the rule of thumb everyone measures success by
There are all these other important variables in Counter-Strike like how well you throw a smoke grenade
Anyway, here's an analysis that just looks at kills/deaths


weak men
afraid of controlling frame


good day


OK fair enough

I've seen carnivores advocate ordering just patties but if you've done the math I'm inclined to trust your conclusion


You should be able to order just patties more cheaply than frankensteining your way into it


Perhaps

The permissiveness of leftist street gangs & crackdown on rightist street gangs strikes me as very similar  to Weimar Germany (but with left & right reversed)

which would suggest a lead up to revolution


So $50 of copper and $14,000 of platinum?


"Peso" comes from a Spanish term meaning "weight"

Like pound, lira, and others

The hint (as to what real money is) is in the name (of the fake money)


"The circumciser who does not suck creates a danger, and should be removed from practice"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah


"Beavers have a right to exist here"

Morons


https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

Accidents happen, and even though nuclear accidents are very spooky and scary they objectively kill far fewer people than other power sources


"subjective" here doesn't mean "it's just made up and you can choose arbitrarily"
it means it depends on the subject (whoever we are talking about)

if you had 10 Bitcoin, what would you do with them?

The only answer is sell them - in which case why would there be a buyer?
And one day there won't be

This is (with minor caveats) true of US Dollars also

But not true of precious metal


All votes are wasted votes


I like RFK more because of the brain worm thing

it would be so hilarious if he won


Is Bitcoin the ledger or the ledger entry?


are you a chatbot?


"Most forms of money rely on physical objects to represent entries on the ledger"

You have it backwards. A ledger has value because it represents something real.

If Bitcoin is a ledger, it is useful but not scarce. I can duplicate the whole ledger many times over.

If Bitcoin is a ledger entry, it is scarce but not useful.

In either case the only appropriate market value is zero.


Would there be a need for global-scale decentralized social media without massive "democratic" governments?

I can see the value in communities of interest & connecting with people who want to discuss Aristotle or small-mouth bass with me, but it seems to me much of the existing function of social media is to serve as a public square for democratic or pseudo-democratic polities.

Absent massive governments which are (regardless of their formal structure) subject to mass consent or dissent, my communication needs become very local except for specific business concerns or special interests. The notion of a single "global conservation", "social mood" or Zeitgeist seems to me implicitly communist and statist.

In this sense, perhaps nostr should be understood not as "freedom tech" but as "resistance tech".


Basically you've taken fiat (which is utter nonsense) and patched one aspect of it without fixing the core problems.
Is Bitcoin better than other fiat? In some respects yes. But it is still just another fiat (ie meaningless) trade token.


The idea of paying money for goods is not new
The idea of sending money is not new
The idea of using meaningless ledger entries as money is not new

The idea of generating meaningless ledger entries via laborious mathematical procedures is new

But to presume that the (machine) labor involved gives the ledger entries value requires one to forget the most basic lessons of economics

I think it is and will be seen as a mark of shame on many otherwise-brilliant Austrian school economists to have fallen for this nonsense

The classical & Marxists notion of value as being based on labor creates unresolvable paradoxes, such as why trade occurs at all. With a single objective scale of value, a trade is either greater for lesser (in which case why would the one with the greater value agree to give it up for lesser?) or equal for equal (in which case why does anyone bother?)

So either the labor theory of value is wrong (even when the labor is machine labor or electricity or whatever) or all of human trade is pointless.

Instead, value is subjective, which does not mean arbitrary and made up. Rather, the value of a good is the highest use to which it may be put.

But Bitcoin has no use to which it may ultimately be put, because it does not exist. There are no Bitcoins. You have (in essence) a ledger entry saying how many Bitcoins Satoshi owes you for running some calculations for him, but he will never pay up and can never pay up because the units in which he is meant to pay you are made up nothings. You might as well have a ledger entry saying you own 8 jabberwockies.


I consider it a form of self-propaganda


Bitcoin is an opportunity, Bitcoin is a set of rules, Bitcoin is a commodity, Bitcoin is digital cash etc etc. It begins to sound like a religious mystery.

The white paper: Bitcoin is a signature

Reality: Bitcoin is nothing at all.


I can reproduce what Satoshi did quite easily - the source code is not even secret


Who is taking this video?
The shooter? The shooter's buddy?

The cameraman doesn't try to turn and look for the shooter

In which case, why are these retards posting it?


To be fair some of that is debt that some Union agencies owe to other Union agencies
But a bunch of the GDP is also government spending & the unfunded liabilities are basically debt that doesn't pay interest until later

Net debt held by the public is probably 125%-130% of productive capacity
Net liabilities are probably something like 600% of productive capacity


"Weekly earnings increased by 19% in real terms from 1933 to 1939, but this was largely due to employees working longer hours, while the hourly wage rates remained close to the lowest levels reached during the Great Depression. In addition, reduced foreign trade meant rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans."

(I know wiki is generally not trustworthy, but I believe these particular claims are accurate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany


My point is that Bitcoin (a specific ledger with a specific number of units and a specific schedule of issuance) was invented, could easily have been invented differently, and thus is not truly scarce.

I can make Bitcoin 2.0 which takes the exact same source code but only ever issues 100,000 units.

Should my Bitcoin 2.0 be worth 210 times as much as your Bitcoin 1.0? It's 210 times as scarce but with the exact same properties


Radio waves were discovered
The possibility of FM Radio was discovered

The actual apparatus, channels, and so on was invented
98.1 "The Rock" was invented and not discovered

Similarly, the possibility of using a cryptographic public ledger to verify transaction events was discovered and not invented, but the particular public ledgers and particular methods of using this technology were invented, including Bitcoin


I deny it

Germans (like Americans) survived at Great Depression levels throughout the 30s and 40s

Germany pursued Autarky under Hitler in the 30s, which was a disaster that necessitated the war


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HFCS was not produced before about 50 years ago
(with the discovery by the Japanese of an enzyme that breaks corn starch into simple sugars cost-effectively)

HFCS is basically the same as table sugar (55% fructose 45% glucose vs 50/50)

Sugar consumption is up something like 10x over the past 100 years, but not 8,000x


HFCS was not produced before about 50 years ago
(with the discovery by the Japanese of an enzyme that breaks corn starch into simple sugars cost-effectively)

Sugar consumption is up something like 10x over the past 100 years, but not 8,000x


Mathematical theorems are discovered

This does not imply that every mathematical abstraction is a discovery rather than invention

Was FM radio invented or discovered?
After all it's just math and physics


This is nonsense

That mathematical theorems are discovered does not imply that every mathematical abstraction is a discovery rather than invention

What property of the natural numbers led to the supply cap of Bitcoin at 21 million units? What quirk of computational theory led to the halving schedule?


Specifically post-theist Augustine Christianity

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/


Twitter.com is high novelty low impact


I don't have quite that positive a view of Hitler but I think you are largely correct

I think socialism, including national socialism, is basically the product of Jewish culture


"Omnivore" is a bit misleading

Most carnivores can eat some plants
  eg lions sometimes eat grass (probably as a digestive aid)
Most herbivores can eat some animals
  eg deer sometimes scavenge carrion

Most omnivores heavily specialize in either meat or plants
(really the specializations are a bit more detailed than that, with not much overlap between vertebrate and invertebrate consumption, and specialization among various plant parts such as leaves, fruit, seeds, tubers, gums and fungi)

Among mammals, the "true generalists" who do not heavily specialize in any one food source are almost all rodents. Virtually all mammal consumption of grain/seeds comes from specialized herbivores (eg ruminants such as cows and sheep) or from these rodent generalists.

Humans are definitely evolved to eat meat, especially large fatty animals. We have limited ability to convert protein into energy and so on a meat-based diet need ample fat. There are many nutrients in meat that we can't get (or can't get efficiently) from plant sources. Vitamin B12 is absolutely essential and cannot be had from plants (vegans have to supplement). Other vitamins like vitamin A are found in the human-usable form in meat but only in a precursor form in plants, which our body converts inefficiently (so "Vitamin A" is not necessarily Vitamin A).

Our shared ancestor with chimpanzees probably ate quite a bit of fruit. Modern fruit doesn't resemble wild fruit, and humans are evolved to suppress uricase and therefore struggle to break down uric acid which is a byproduct of our fructose metabolism (hypothesis: this aids in adding body fat during fruit season to survive the winter). So moderate fruit intake isn't the worst thing but will give you gout symptoms and tend to accumulate body fat, especially in the liver where sugars/alcohol are converted into fat. In my opinion the best fruits for human consumption are fatty stone fruit like olive and avocado. Semi-sweet stone fruit may work well such as peaches, cherries and plums. Berries may work well, especially strawberry which is high in vitamin C (to offset the negative VitC impact of sugar consumption).

Starchy roots & tubers (USO - underground storage organ) are handled OK, most will simply break down into glucose. Excess glucose for long periods will probably give insulin resistance, and there are certain deficiencies in USOs that some human populations are adapted to deal with and others are not. If you are descended from a population that ate lots of USOs you still need meat but can probably get a chunk of your calories from USOs without too much negative effect.

Certain human populations are adapted for dairy, for example continuing to produce lactase into adulthood (to break down lactose). You may be able to eat some dairy products (eg cheese, butter, yogurt) and not others (eg milk) or you may not handle dairy well. Keep in mind dairy is optimized for infant animal growth, so if you're trying to lose weight it may be a poor choice.

Finally we have little or no evolutionary history that would make insects, grains, seeds, nuts, leafy greens, plant bodies, fungi, gums or honey suitable foods.


Very interesting, but to my mind misses the forest for the trees

The waste is ultimately a cost and ultimately paid by the user

So ordinary supply-and-demand is able to find the balance between up-front cost and lifetime costs that customers most prefer, and therefore to minimize waste


Assuming it's not already going up off balance sheet...


permaculture / regenerative ag is where it's at


Why?
Was there a requirement to hold collateral instead of bank credit?
Or were people speculating that yields would fall further (eg due to central banks paying an even greater premium) ?


the ideas are bad

https://mises.org/library/book/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth


Median seems to be around 15k USD


you will own nothing and we will be happy


Milkman predicted US would have to weaken its currency at DXY 150

Apparently all it actually took was JPY 150


I have a couple of "secure" passwords made up of 5 common(ish) words each

I had a real scare a couple years ago shortly after creating one of them, in which I thought I'd forgot it and locked myself out of my own computer. Thankfully after maybe half an hour I was able to recollect enough to figure it out.

Maybe I am just retarded.

But I wouldn't want to bet a substantial fortune on my ability to remember an exact progression of common words.


DXY is just fiat over fiat

If you want USD vs real things may I recommend USDXAU


"It certainly is foolish for grown people to eat meat at every meal."

I think this tells you something about what the expectation used to be


(so is bread)


"honey is an animal product"


you do if you go back far enough
(assuming modern cladistic theories of evolution are correct)
all tetrapods for example are just one weird suborder of fish


My favorite film is Harakiri, give that one a watch if you haven't yet


I think we're arguing semantics at this point

Africans are closely related to the rest of us, but distinct (lower IQ, more aggressive, less impulse control, seemingly less sense of ethics or obligations, I'm sure many other differences as well)

I don't know that it much matters whether you classify them as human or nonhuman, a subspecies or another species in the genus


Yes
My favored classification is "subspecies" for such situations, including African humans


IMO Sub-saharan Africans are human but a distinct sub-species from all the rest

Clearly we can interbreed so not a fully separate species

But modern humans seem to have originated in the Middle East, and everyone outside of Africa shares a few % Neanderthal DNA that Africans don't have


I checked their latest annual report

Chicken is only about 1/3 of their sales, with roughly equal cash volumes in Beef & Prepared Foods (eg frozen microwave-ready wings) plus a smaller sliver in Pork

So it's possible some of those more convenient or premium products are the ones they are seeing issues in

However I do agree with your overall sentiment


haha

I have a guess as to the ethnicity of the waiter


I agree.

Personally I have come to a "compromise" view of germ theory, in which ordinary germ theory is clearly wrong (ie pathogens are not generally sufficient to cause disease in healthy hosts, as many experiments show including Koch's own cholera work)

but I am inclined to believe pathogen exposure can cause/increase problems in a host which has become diseased by other mechanisms (as shown by the h. pylori ulcer experiment, although it did lack a proper control)

But viruses in particular I regard with special skepticism due to the poor methods of "isolation" (or lack thereof) and other procedures within the field of virology


haha

duck is delicious though


Hydration

As to why distilled, I mentioned this earlier in the thread.
Water in my area is fluoridated & I am also concerned about other contaminants (eg plastics, pharma)


The quotation I gave is about "low mineral water", not "natural mineral water"

Has your mate ever seen a case of an individual suffering from some illness related to mineral deficiency related to drinking distilled water?

I am aware that some sources advise against drinking distilled water, but I am hoping for more solid evidence than mere opinion.


Can you point to a case where someone suffered some form of illness after consuming pure water?

I see some speculation it may be harmful, and one citation to a 1988 study (not available online). In terms of what is available online, it seems to me the evidence points the other way:

"Blood electrolytes balance was not significantly modified even with prolonged treatments with low mineral waters."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138893/


I don't believe that's necessary.
Mineral water contains a tiny fraction of daily needs of the relevant minerals.

Instead I'll eat 1 extra bite of steak


Yeah, I drink about a gallon of water daily

It's fluoridated where I live (and I am wary of other contaminants, eg plastics / pharma) so I distill it

I am hopeful that in the event of total collapse I can either distill via non-electric heating (my equipment allows this) or to get by for a while on boiled/chlorinated/untreated lake-water


What do you think is wrong with the water quality?

I've developed some skepticism of germ theory
(eg Koch drank a culture of pure cholera bacteria and didn't develop cholera)

Do you think there's some sort of toxin?
Or bacterial contamination?
Parasites?


And they weren't harvesting rainwater, they were collecting city water to use at their leisure

I'm not sure what could possibly motivate such a scheme, most likely bureaucratic incompetence, but perhaps the city lacked their own water storage


Twitter.com becomes openly censorious (even more than it already is)
But that's not something I want


Northern Peru, coastal desert

In terms of "rough" Northern Mexico definitely felt less safe than anywhere I went in Peru


I've been to a couple countries in Latin America

The infrastructure was less built out than USA, the cars & consumer goods were not what people in USA would consider the most cutting edge

There was concern that the tap water was not safe to drink, and bottled water was preferred. In one town that I stayed for a time, everyone had water barrels on their roofs as the municipal water would be shut off at a certain of day.

Otherwise I would say that life seemed quite ordinary


Yep. And then the few who are into it all want to use different apps


Indeed.

Encrypted comms are the way to go but I have difficulty selling my friends & family on them.


you can still buy a "dumb" phone

if I needed a cell phone for comms I would probably get a dumb phone


you changed your first guess?

I tried to decode your sequence and get 1/6 but failed terrible and 6/6'd it


This has been happening in a lot more places than just Texas
But yes


I think we are headed for a decline of empire

I might like to have some idea what's going on in the world at large, but without the global American empire, I suspect most people will be pretty local in their concerns & communication needs

nostr can be a tool for that but I have to get the people I know personally on it
But that is also true of many other protocols

I'm glad nostr exists, and culturally I think these are my people, but it seems to be more of a tool for resisting global censorship inside a global empire and (IMO) not really the right tool for the present or likely future


I like that nostr exists but discovering people to interact with is harder without centralization, and we don't have the sheer volume of people as Twitter.com


Hold your butts

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/


democratic politics (almost) everywhere


to be fair internet search engines are getting so bad that nostr doesn't really seem out of place


1932 Democrat Platform:
"We advocate a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards"


Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was not an endorsement of semi-existince

The point is that one interpretation of quantum mechanics makes a cat (in the thought experiment) both alive and dead, but this is absurd, so this interpretation must be wrong


Police kill like 10 unarmed blacks per year
(and some of those are obvious overdoses like Saint Floyd)

While Israel has several thousand Palestinians in half a year
(ok some were Hamas, but there's no way innocents are not dying here)


Commentary:
Virology has only weakly scientific methods
The strongest evidence in favor of viruses (IMO) is experiments involving filtration, as with tobacco mosaic "virus" or rabies

Hypothesis:
There are potentially pathogenic microorganisms much smaller than ordinary bacteria, but they are spore/seeds/larva (etc) of ordinary microorganisms, not obligate intracellular parasites

Analogy:
You rip up a forest, pass it through a filter too small for trees to pass, plant the remaining material, and in a few years you have trees. Thus you conclude the trees are just a "response" of the soil to some other forest-causing agent. Obviously we can realize that seeds/nuts/fruit are much smaller than trees but grow into trees. What if eukaryotes/bacteria/fungi (etc) have such mechanisms as well?


3/6 no cheats 😎

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yeah but is it a real real coin or a real counterfeit?


To reduce crime, let's have the government steal more


haha


styling RSS "pages" is really cool and solves a minor (but critical) pain point

I use invidious + RSS to subscribe to video media without making an account anywhere


M2 is generally a better fit IMO

The left chart is monetary inflation, the right chart is price inflation


"capitalist"


those single-letter differences are brutal


Gold is flat vs oil

But how about vs food?
I've researched this for discussions of fiat inflation, and even good food (eg beef) is cheaper in gold than it used to be
How about vs consumer electronics?
Definitely much cheaper

I think "money supply" is not the appropriate deflator, because a money supply that expands (as Bitcoin & gold are both still doing) more slowly than the population & productivity grow will gain in purchasing power despite "inflation"

But yes, most stocks & bonds will underperform just owning real money


Boom! headshot

I'd have gone Tribe or Tripe, then maybe I'd get Prune 3rd


All meaningful work is preparatory


Eagles are a common symbol, yes


Relations of Man

***Man to Self***

A) Value your own life
Man like all animals tends toward vitality
As man increases in vitality, he expands from survival to health to reproduction

B) Never lie to yourself
Man is both mind and body
Mind may focus on memory or imagination, but body exists in present reality
Therefore, mind must embrace truths & discard error if man is to succeed

***Man to Man***

A) Seek trade, not predation
There are two relationships of man to man
1) Predator/Prey - one suffers at behest of the other
2) Mutalism - both benefit by the relationship, as in trade or family
And a third category, that of no relationship

Human prey and predator are the same species
Modern weapons annul the advantages of size and youth
Social action, whether dressed as justice or revenge, further suppresses the benefits of predation
Thus the predator must risk his vitality entire to extract even marginal benefits
Consequently it is a losing game, and more could be obtained in voluntary trade

Avoid becoming a predator by deception or voluntary furtherance of another's self-destruction, lest one's partner consider himself prey and make war

In the case of organized predation, a few benefit at the expense of the many
If instead the many benefit from the few, the few soon disappear
Wisdom dictates strategy of prey: disengagement (either flight or peaceful disobedience), war or obedience
The few require the support of the many, thus widespread peaceful disobedience ends the organized predation

***Man to Nature***

A) Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed

B) Men are part of Nature
Men are neither gods above Nature, nor spirits trapped within it, nor demons imposed upon it, nor refuse beneath it


Fun game, lots of interesting variation to be had by refraining from some of the shop items


Communism
Organized predation of the few by the many

In which the few either disengage (perhaps by flight) or are consumed, leading to expand "the few" to include new members and continue the predation. Eventually either reverts to ordinary statism (predation of the many by the few) or runs out of victims and collapses (or both).

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
-Margaret Thatcher


if it can break down at all, yes


There might be downsides to using a "money" in which every transaction is tracked and published


either is good

New York City didn't have a police department until the 1840s

Prior to that they relied on the English legal structure, namely ordinary crimes were mostly policed by armed private citizens. The main law enforcement officer was the sheriff, who was a servant of the courts. The governor could call in troops to quell a riot, but day-to-day life was largely free of law enforcement seeking out people to control them.
(Although there were some extremely statist periods during the Colonial Era as well)


IMO the great difficulty is coordinating revolt

the time to go was the 1930s when they shredded the Constitution (and thus killed the Republic)

now that USA is accustomed to unlawful government where do they draw the line?


our system is falling apart so we can't restrain ourselves to taking 100% of new productivity plus a further 2% of your wealth, we have to bump it up


Are you THE James Lindsay?
Or just a bot copying his Twitter.com posts?

In any case, it's cool to have you.

If it is you, I hope you'll devote more attention to the positive side of things (what is true and worth building/defending) as opposed to mainly exposing nonsense. I think the brief examination of American founding principles is incomplete without a justification for those principles.

You seem to be especially opposed to both national divorce as well as global government. How is it that USA is exactly the right size? Isn't that convenient? Would you tell an independent territory (say, BC breaks away from Canada) to join the Union?


This is junk science.
They took some very indirect measurements and compared them to models.


Hatred of people of Jewish descent is stupid and pointless
Hatred of Orthodox Judaism is completely sound and rational

“A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”

Rabbi Dov Lior,
Chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/5/20/rabbi-supports-killings-in-rafah


Bitcoin is a trillion times more scarce than gold.
I have yet to see even an ounce of Bitcoin.


Why would they liquidate everything and go 100% Bitcoin?
And who is buying the world from them?


2A warms my heart


BRB renting cybertruck


I think the people who want "no rules" and the people who want "no rulers" are deeply opposed despite both being "anarchists"


Another issue with pork: they are autoenzyme digesters & store a lot of fat, so if you feed them corn, soy or vegetable oils those end up in the fat

https://practicalfarmers.org/research/fatty-acid-comparisons-of-grain-and-forage-fed-pork/


perhaps AROSE -> UNTIL, then?


I prefer ALIEN -> TOURS
I believe I & L are more common than O & T in 5-letter words specifically
And R & S are definitely more common in 5-letter words than B & D


"the private court"

As if there is only one

It is precisely the monopoly of determining justice that ancaps reject


this is why I strive for privacy even though I know real privacy is unattainable


You saw clusters of illness
(many of which had zero actual illness and were just a positive test result)

The explanation for the cluster of illness is hypothesized to be contagion spread by a micro-pathogen, but this hypothesis must be tested rather than assumed, if you wish to offer a scientifically sound explanation of events


Those might be 2 different classes of "nutbags"


sadly no reflection on the underlying principles that produced the bad outcome, just attributes it to corruption / bad priorities


I believe you should be able to get a lever rifle in the UK


I've moved out of the city center & am saving to buy rural land

If my job didn't prevent it I'd get a sailboat and live on that

Is prepping a thing in Europe? I have some food, water & self-defence supplies saved up. I also have a "go bag" with emergency supplies.

In the US these things are pretty common but not universal.

Depending on where you are you might be able to get a long gun. Assuming you can't get a proper rifle (AR or AK pattern) you may be able to get a lever-action rifle or pump shotgun, both of which are perfectly fine self-defense tools. A break-action shotgun or bolt rifle would not be ideal but would be serviceable. If you can't get any of that you might have to go for some ghetto shit like a crossbow or air rifle.


secession, nullification

build locally, get off the grid if possible


Wait for the currency to go to wallpaper

Or mass withdrawal of support


Do you know what an audit is?


Put gold in vault
Make digital claim on gold
Transfer digital claim
Exercise digital claim to retrieve gold from vault


"given a race"


If you're interested in dental health I strongly recommend Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price


I'm not aware of other social media-type protocols

XMPP & IRC are useful but don't have the same structure
(everyone broadcasts into a single pool and I decide what stuff I want fed out of the pool)


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881926/

On the same theme: the longest lived people in the world (Hong Kong & Okinawa) have among the highest meat consumption in the world


Humans have many adaptations for meat consumption (teeth, stomach acidity more intense than most carnivores & comparable to scavengers, lengthened short intestine, shorter long intestine, small numerous fat cells, and more)

Evidence of animal butchery is prevalent in archeological examination of human evolution.

While meat-eating is universal among human cultures, your ability to consume plants will likely depend on your particular heritage. Some people will be more tolerant of fruit or starchy roots than others. The same is true for dairy.

https://youtu.be/c7_zBG7OAnk?feature=shared


translation: regulations & central banking are wrecking the economy so we'll just blame climate change


nice short article


or you could smuggle it in plain sight

I've heard stories of someone dropping their gold coins in the normal coin dish as they go through security

Or just wear gold jewelry


My employer (in US consumer finance) just announced layoffs.
I was not fired.

I recently declined to move to a new company based on concerns about a credit crunch, and feel vindicated by today's news. I doubt we're out of the woods yet.


yeah but if gold mining stops for a week the gold that's already been mined still works


I thought it was medieval lords keeping sheep?

and then peasants emulated it even though they don't have sheep


you really think it will happen?


Are you Jewish?

This article is from years ago, not the current war.


on the other hand

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

They aren't right 100% of the time about the world, or strategy, or tactics


Dawkins has described himself as a cultural Christian for year

In Yarvin's opinion and mine he is a post-theist Christian (like a flightless bird)

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/


it just looks like a normal wooden table to me


How do you determine who is a "real expert" ?


702 sucks
we need to build secure alternatives


The first hour-ish was good
Then it became climate alarmist & malthusian (which IMHO is not warranted)


There's a lot of ruin in a country

(HL Mencken)


according to wiki it's originally a NASA photo from the 80s


home developers would pay for the roads to the homes
businesses would pay for the roads to the businesses

probably there would be some toll roads between cities, but probably people would mostly build water/ rail/ air

the anti-car people could finally get the world they want if roads aren't subsidized and development is not choked by zoning


Yes

goodreads.com/book/show/71730
goodreads.com/book/show/34459


he goes where the audience is


I agree with all that, but fruit 1) is highly modified by human domestication and 2) doesn't necessarily want what's best for the host animal


If God is an explanation, what explains God?

If God "fills in" that about which we are ignorant, all you have really done is name your ignorance


#GODL


There's some truth to this, but if you play sensibly (get your pieces to squares where they can influence the game, get your fair share of the center of the board, get your king to safety) you really just need to look for fairly direct tactics (mainly whether your opponent can do something immediately to win material)

You don't need to memorize all sorts of openings and theory unless you're trying to get as good as possible (and even so it's one of the later things you should worry about)


It's a democracy so the ordinary people have no control and have to just take it

(aka US State Department wants this to happen)


I'm Danacus


We have the Thievery Party and the Murder Party.
Occasionally the leaders of the Thievery Party are accused of Murder and it is a great scandal.
Occasionally the leaders of the Murder Party are accused of hatred (since they don't want to engage in Thievery).


Hey, it's only like 10% politicians


you can't digest fiber (by definition)


I am skeptical about antioxidants
My understanding is that in many cases they are oxidants that trigger the body's own antioxidant response


That's exactly what the Rockefellers did, according to Ivor Cummins (who in my opinion usually has a good basis for what he says)

His story is that the Rockefellers came up with climate & pandemics as things that would justify a world government with no scientists in the room


My understanding is that water vapor absorbs most of the spectrum of radiation that CO2 covers (so the CO2 has little effect compared to the pure physics expectation) and CO2 at current levels is basically saturating the current portion of the spectrum that water vapor does not cover (so additional CO2 has little effect)

Also we are in an Ice Age now (look it up)


I think the impact of AI on Go has been much greater than its impact on Chess or Starcraft

I think the impact of AI on Chess has been more like a strong human player (certain openings become more favorable, others less)

I don't detect a great increase in the creativity of chess players

To the contrary, modern players tend to insist on playing in an engine-approved "correct" manner which often doesn't take much risk, unlike the great mid-20th-century players like Fischer and Tal who always pushed for win and were willing to accept very unbalanced positions

In Starcraft the impact has been even less, with few players imitating AI and most (myself included) attributing the AI's success more to speed and precision than to a strategy that others might copy


hell yeah
I've never shot an AK before


Trickle-down economics is a term of abuse
Nobody (or almost nobody) promotes anything they call trickle-down

What it actually refers to is the idea that tax cuts might spur growth, which they can do. The term is most associated with Reagan's tax cuts, but JFK before and Obama afterwards had similar tax cuts. In Reagan's case tax revenues increased after the tax cut - because they worked and did actually spur growth. I'm not familiar with the others but I believe they also worked.

What actually impoverishes people are excessive taxes, grants of monopoly privilege, regulations and (in the absence of regulation) failure to enforce common law.


clown emoji me all you want, star trek is commie AF


commie media implying race is only skin deep and therefore US is deeply evil for not achieving racial equality


haha
I'm a fan but this is funny


I agree aluminum & mercury are neurotoxins.

My understanding is that adjuvants are needed to produce an "immune" (allergic) response from an inert "pathogen".

I admit I haven't researched the topic of adjuvants extensively, but it makes sense to me that a truly inert bit of organic matter probably would not produce an immune reaction.

The distinction to the claim you made is that I am skeptical that modern vaccines can have any immune effect without these adjuvants (even if manufacturers were willing to spend more producing each dose). Moreover, we should consider whether the immune effect is net beneficial even if it can be induced.


twitter.com blocks this as of a couple days ago:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/03/the-murder-of-andrei-yushchinsky/


I don't like slavery, but I like food and dislike beatings


RIP in peace


Dawkins is (and always was) a post-theist Christian

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/

Many Christians see the modern decline and the semi-retraction of 'New Atheists' like Dawkins and want a more hardcore version of modern schismatic Christianity. As the preceding link makes clear, that would be a mistake. Dawkins represents exactly that form of Christianity, and adding cosmology will not vitiate his ethics.

Instead, Christian should re-embrace Scholasticism, making reason based on experience respectable within the Church

https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/

Dawkins himself should embrace the naturalistic ethics he highlights in his book The Selfish Gene, but rejects in favor of "rising above" our nature (to embrace a toxic form of ultra-altruistic Christianity)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene


GFY :)


Darn. Maybe someday.


I don't have a problem with image macros (memes) but I think cliches have been reclassified into memes and cultural references, which I think diminishes creativity (by removing the negative connotation of writing heavily cliched material)


cliches are unoriginal and flat even if you call them memes


Are the private security firms willing to tell the state police to bugger off when it comes to taxes?

That's the biggest distinction between bodyguards in a state system and anarchocapitalism


One small step for Zimbabwe, one giant leap for mankind

https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/zimbabwe-ditches-zim-dollar-for-new-gold-backed-currency-called-zig-20240405


Aristotle
(end of list)


if you're rounding to the nearest trillion it's 35 already


'We need government to stop people from committing mass murder like these other governments all did'


next we're gonna find out ChatGPT is underpaid English majors


It's such a juvenile conception of sex - just pleasure rather than reproduction

No wonder we have so many sodomites and pedophiles when even adult women expect you to use their body just for pleasure


From wiki:
The term gasoline originated from the trademark terms Cazeline and Gazeline, which were stylized spellings and pronunciations of Cassell, the surname of British businessman John Cassell...
In the course of business, he learned that the Dublin shopkeeper Samuel Boyd was selling a counterfeit version of the fuel cazeline, and, in writing, Cassell asked Boyd to cease and desist selling fuel using his trademark. Boyd did not reply, and Cassell changed the spelling of the trademark name of his fuel cazelline by changing the initial letter C to the letter G, thus coining the word gazeline. By 1863, North American English usage had re-spelled the word gazeline into the word gasolene; by 1864, the gasoline spelling was the common usage.

Not from wiki:
Petrol isn't a great name either, given that it's not petroleum but a petroleum products (and one of many).


how do you feel about lobster, shrimp and crab?


IMO best is either managing wilderness to support wild game (eg natives in New England used to burn the forest to clear out the understory and keep it in a savannah-like stage of succession) or pastoralism


shaving makes you look like a child