to be fair pop-tarts also sell out


5 days!

It's amazing how quickly the human body can heal when it has proper nutrients and cuts out toxins


Why should soft tissue indicate that the fossil is recent, unless you trust the "scientific community" on that?


when was this?


Some of that, also probably some pulling Argentina away from BRICS and towards Anglosphere


Imagine that.


Please don't feed the pigeons


P/E ~ 4.5
Current ratio ~ 1.1
Price/Equity ~0.5
Profit margin ~18%

Looks like a reasonable buy to me


Why is that?

Shouldn't companies do whatever their core business is (manufacturing, agriculture, retail, etc) rather than leverage up to speculate in currency markets?


The issue is fuel regulations, 20 years ago Americans were driving much smaller trucks.

The fuel regulations for small trucks are so insane that manufacturers literally can't comply, while for large trucks the regulations are looser. Consequently, they make the trucks larger and larger.


I've long been suspicious of both, but I think they each occasionally say insightful things.

It's a question of signal to noise ratio and whether the listener is equipped to separate the two.


I want to gain mass (muscle, bone, tissue)
I want to lose mass (excess body fat)


the 2nd Amendment is so you can fwoosh-boom the choppers when they start fucking around


looks like terrible keyholing to me


sear outside, raw inside
properly rested


why are his eyes deformed in the first place?


most billionaires don't have a billion dollars
billionaires own companies
the companies mostly don't have dollars
the companies do have real assets (land, equipment, inventory)

if you want to steal the real assets and achieve some immediate benefit from them, you'd have to sell them

which you can't do because (again) most billionaires don't have a billion dollars

so you can kill the golden goose if you'd like
but you can't eat it


"too politically involved"

or... they were censoring people like crazy and there was no more 'public square' in which the issues of the day could be discussed openly


I don't think we'll ever know for sure

There are a number of incongruent things - erased data, can't do it anymore, no actual purpose, oddities in the video & photo evidence (eg a strange thing happened on the way to the moon)

But the difficulty of orchestrating a cover-up and the lack of Soviet accusation suggest it may have been real


start here: https://archive.org/details/one-third-of-the-holocaust-a-revisionist-documentary-by-dean-irebodd_202210


To quote Ron Unz (himself of Jewish origin): Nazism is Judaism for wimps


Clarence Thomas EZ
He's assimilated into anglo culture but Biden is Irish


As will those who do not question history


"after seeing the horrors of WW2, UK Jewish vets refused for it to happen again"

in 1936


"very successful"
Men never cared about this

"late 30s"
Men always cared about this


UTXO per UTXO
aka Bitcoins are not fungible
aka Bitcoins are not money


Just Stop Oil


fossil fuel isn't made from fossils


Is the power of the president real?

Probably he could pardon Ross but I have my doubts as to whether they would let him do even that

Is the election real?

I have some serious doubts about that

Assuming the presidency is real and the election is real, what are the odds that my vote sways my (strongly partisan) state, and that my state sways the election?

If I wanted to take an hour out of my life to make Ross's life better, writing him a kind letter would have 1 million times greater impact than voting for Trump


Brussels


If you rule out any toxin exposure, the germ spread of disease is still a theory

In fact, I should correct myself - it is not even a theory, it is merely a hypothesis

To upgrade to a theory you would need to present (or generate anew) some body of experimental evidence supporting it

I don't claim to know the specific cause of every illness
I just know that many experiments have disproven the germ hypothesis (eg Koch's own cholera experiments)


The idea that A caught something from B is a theory
What is actually observed is clusters of illness

It could also be that you were all exposed to some toxin or shared some deficiency

Imagine some nearby field was spraying pesticides and you were all poisoned - it would look like you all got sick around the same time


Are you familiar with the Spanish Flu experiments?
Healthy volunteers spent time in a Spanish Flu ward and none took sick


I think there's a placebo effect

I think also once you dismiss nonsense ideas about sickness you naturally focus more on your diet & environment


Spot the Trown, college volleyball edition:

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/10/720/405/SJU1.jpg


58K day is my favorite holiday


"to fight viruses, we're going to make a genetic instruction that replicates itself" is such idiocy

it's like... have you literally never watched a modern zombie movie?


viruses weren't real


Mass choreography signals conformity, power and organization

The subtext is "we're all on the same page, we're all in agreement"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLmgyF1ioAQ


I think this is true of SimpleX also


Are you also convinced by the "viruses don't exist" arguments?

I think if you examine germ theory & virology critically you're likely to conclude there is no possible benefit from vaccination
(and thus no reason to take or recommend them, regardless of any safety study)


This?
https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981460


Picanha / coullette is excellent
Ribeye is solid also
70/30 ground beef has around 80% fat calories
Finally you could just eat lean + tallow


At some point they're going to push this nonsense just as people recoil and there will be a chippening


real but prior to Israel's current battles

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2022-04-06/ty-article/yandex-ceo-relocates-to-israel-cannot-work-for-a-country-at-war/00000180-5bb7-d615-a9bf-dff7344d0000


or at least flipping burgers


I followed the steps in this video but now I have NetScape


what are eggs


Sorry, no

My carnivore diet is either
raw (egg yolk),
pre-cooked (smoked salmon)
or very simple to cook (searing a steak or sausage in the oven)

The lack of fuss is one of the selling points for me


"Carry with the safety off"

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/looting-erupts-after-biblical-floods-devastate-southeast-us-sheriffs-urge-residents-carry


I stopped carrying a cell phone
I get calls and texts on my laptop
When I'm out and about I am totally unreachable

I like it; I feel more focused on whatever I'm doing


they muted it to remove the sound of silence?


what's the square thing at the top? butter?


IMO laser guns and railguns have the same basic problem: gunpowder is way more energy-dense than batteries

Maybe if you had some sort of mini nuclear reactor in the gun you could make such weapons work


We might have a contested election, and one side or the other walks away

We might have total disintegration, led by the financial system and the currency

These are the optimistic scenarios


those are not such different ideas


this is why we have lethal self-defense and capital punishment


#1 changed because #3 happened


nostter.app


I'm a skeptic


if I claimed Enron stock shares were worthless, I would have been unable to give you one for free, and I would have been proven right

price != value


careful they'll only give you furry porn in the FEMA camp


"the terrorist groups, who start the wars, or those who are defending themselves?"

one man's 'defending himself' is another man's 'terrorist group'


Just what I drink, sadly


I use distilled water
I don't use dental products


IMO Bitcoin will die when fiat dies

Right now, much of the usability of Bitcoin is built on people being able to easily transfer it into fiat to pay their suppliers

Even if your supplier is Bitcoin friendly, is their supplier?
You need a whole circular economy to keep using Bitcoin in the absence of fiat conversion
(or assuming that in the event of fiat collapse much of the world returns to metal disks, you need a ready conversion mechanism between Bitcoin and metal disks)


Jet Fuel is kerosene which burns around 1000C (1800F)

It is not a good way to "utterly destroy any chemical" or turn it into nanoparticles


walk away


Despite killing his wife and a waiter


woman


Pretty much


Kayfabe
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783


Communism has a shared ideology leading to mass deaths. This ideology (radical egalitarianism in opposition to property rights) seems to be shared among all leftists but not rightists. The ideology is central to many of the mass deaths (eg Holodomor).

Is there some shared ideology (or even mere idea) which is shared among Hitler, the Shinto Japanese, the Russian Tsar and the Pakistani military dictatorship? Is it an idea that leftists do not share?


Don't buy fictional gold


> If you want to argue that “real capitalism has never existed,” and repeat “That’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism!” like a broken record, fine. But you can’t turn around then and use the products of a transnational corporation like Apple as an example of capitalism. If you do, you’re either stupid or a liar. It’s that simple.

I think he's just wrong and if he wasn't a leftist he would find it uncontroversial. There's both an ideal and a historical reality, and the historical reality approximates the ideal to a greater or lesser degree depending on the time and place.

The issue for leftists is that their ideals turn more and more into a nightmare the more closely the historical reality approximates the ideal. To protect the ideal from criticism, they are obliged to insist that the two are totally separate realms and that one does not inform us about the other.

Thus I can say "Hey, look at this modern capitalist system working pretty well, see how prices keep falling for new technology" and when someone complains about all the government intervention I can agree with them. The historical (or present) reality merely approximates the ideal.

It's like using the term "horse" both for the concept of horses and to refer to a specific horse, which might be lame or lazy.


Yes

Blue zones = coastal zones = ocean trade = wealth = access to fish and meat


Be not do


Excellent sliding block puzzle game
https://wizbane.itch.io/the-legend-of-lumina


It looks like Hangul (Korean) to me


you have smartphones?


58 sats for a zap that would have been 21 just a year ago


I think modern doctors are pretty decent for trauma care

But for chronic care or even acute illness I think you're better off without


I bought my mother lunch the other day - $55 that for a long time would have been $30


What if you just ate proper food and didn't need a doctor


Singapore and China have been outperforming Europe, Japan, Argentina, even the US


The point is that the suggestion box pretends to be a method of organizing society, but in fact is not

If you'd like to offer some way in which to make democracy real, please go ahead

otherwise

Qui custodiet custodiens?


I saw the new Matt Walsh movie "Am I a Racist?"

I think there are two target audiences: anti-anti-racists who know all the inside baseball and want to see Robin DiAngelo humiliate herself, and conservative-leaning people who think DEI is just about trying to be a good person.

I think a good portion of the latter will have their minds blown and be quite happy with the film.

I was in the middle - I don't care passionately about what so-called anti-racists do, and I was already pretty cynical about their grift. Consequently I found the film boring.

4 man-buns out of 10


#3

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/explosives-reported-near-trump-rally-long-island-police-hunt-suspect


A common example is the alleged under-provision of "public" goods

Eg you can't defend Cincinnati from nuclear weapons while excluding the home of some random guy, so he would prefer not to pay nuclear defense taxes since he would get defended anyway, therefore you are entitled to create a monopolistic nuclear defense agency that uses violent force to compel this random guy to part with his cash


Market failure is a term in the modern economics profession

Basically you dream up some impossible situation, call it perfect, denounce the market for failure to match your perfect model, and finally call for violent intervention to fix the alleged failure without assessing whether or not the violent intervention might also be subject to failures


It's possible, but it requires them to resolve the fundamental contradiction in their world-view, namely the incompatibility of liberalism with democracy


I like their 8 pillars but disagree strongly with the premise that government is meant to "distribute opportunity as widely as possible"

In any case, it looks like a bunch of normie liberals realizing the government is corrupt as hell


What Republic?


My how the Overton window shifts

https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1835748826310983792


what's the orange box of tic-tacs?


I know who's really behind this

https://nostrcheck.me/media/f5b55f6b44b8997b2b6e8469a6a57f8d3f3b2ef27023543445c40ecec485ee64/5ae597d3ecadee9ad862d12c0c29e05e5a676a1b02a513739a1d786a129aef88.webp


unless you makw a typo then you just use the "edit" button


Stay away from the quacks!


Is Milei Jewish? I thought he was just a Jew-lover


What is her diet like?
Dehydration despite drinking plenty of water could indicate diabetes (and the high glucose certainly supports this)


Why is that a problem?
Why should I love others as much (or more!) than I love myself?


Perhaps part of the reason he abuses her is that he does not love himself.


They don't mean the same thing by the term as the rest of us


That's a good point, also we are in an Ice Age right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation


My personal theory is the sodomites made themselves very sick with "poppers" (recreational drugs) and then AZT


Would you tell a battered spouse to be humble and place her abuse husband above herself?

Or would you tell her to have some self-esteem and move out?


My understanding is the Japs buy Scotch whisky and age it


A couple years ago, the city changed a law which allows the call to prayer to be broadcast (by mosques) as late as 11PM or as early as 330AM (exempting it from the regular noise laws)


"I do not ask you to lay hands on the tyrant to topple him over, but support him no longer and you will behold him - like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away - fall of his own weight and break into pieces"

Etienne de la Boetie, Politics of Obedience


How do you know that is the word of God?


Drums easy

For some reason all the other folks in the thread say flat or both

Why? What is so great about flats?

Drums you can eat with one hand


I don't own plates
I have 2 bamboo cutting boards
I have 3 ceramic bowls


Looks like a political realignment to me

Liberals (ie cares about liberty but economically illiterate) from Dem to GOP

Neocons (ie pro-war, pro-big government) from GOP to Dem

https://nypost.com/2024/09/13/opinion/im-a-democrat-but-i-joined-the-gop-and-back-trump/

Given that US paleo-conservatives are fundamentally liberal (since the US Constitution is relatively liberal) perhaps US liberals will control a major political party for the first time since 1896


I looked it up and it seems like they're trying to make kickoffs function more like normal plays, which seems pretty sensible to me.

It looks like the onside kick rules are a victim of reworking kicks generally, so perhaps some fine tuning over time will help. The idea of only being allowed to do them in the 4th quarter and without the element of surprise is... somehow anticompetitive in my view. Imagine if you couldn't pass the ball unless you declared it to the other team before the play... it's just silly.


Is this real?


Cartridges are cheap, good for barter if it comes to that, and definitely qualify as a "you'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it" item


What is the true essence of democracy if not mob rule?


the terminal


“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
― H.L. Mencken


I mean reality - that which exists. Nature.

I would call it God, but I believe you insist that God created Nature, so that might not make much sense for you.


metal disks and cartridges! very sensible

don't forget water purification and radios


The Pentagon was not wired with nano-thermite and did not undergo a controlled demolition. Any suggestion to the contrary is a baseless conspiracy theory.


That's part of the official 9/11/01 narrative

A plane hit the budget office where they were working out what happened to the trillions (with a T) of dollars announced missing the day before

Or perhaps something else exploded that office


yes


If you'd like to refute it, I think you have to explain why it's OK to lack any theory about how God came to be (or why he's always existed) but it's not OK to (more simply) lack a theory about how reality came to be (or why it's always existed)


If God exists because you (otherwise) don't know how the world came to be, you haven't discovered something about the world or about God. You have just given a name to your ignorance.


"Now everything that becomes or is created must of necessity be created by some cause, for without a cause nothing can be created."

If you are willing to say that God is uncreated (and therefore doesn't need a cause), why are you unwilling to say that reality is uncreated?


https://nostter.app/Kenberrymd@primal.net this link should get people to view your nostr profile without needing to type in anything


What caused God?


Kamala: To accelerate the collapse
Kamala: For communists/progressives/neocons/fascists, etc who think the Empire can still be saved
Trump: For liberals/paleocons/libertarians, etc who think the Republic can still be saved


Against everyone except the Saudis... and the Israelis


What would you have sold at?


Philosophy:
Lao Tzu - Dao de Ching
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (I was first influenced by Rand's fiction which is good to get a sense of her spirit, especially Anthem which is concise, but for a non-fiction treatment I think Peikoff best)
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but ignore his baseless protests to reject the moral implications of his scientific work and his pleas to retain Christian morality)

Language:
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication

Investing:
Ben Graham - The Intelligent Investor
Jim Rogers - Hot Commodities

Money & Banking:
G. Edward Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island (among many others, but this was first)


I don't imagine that I am holier than others, but I do not find myself automatically evil or sinful either. I think it is unhealthy for those of the Abrahamic faiths to find themselves automatically sinful.

I am of the belief that evil is best considered a deprivation of good.

The base of my moral system is my own vitality - ultimately culminating in reproduction. Thus I value my own survival and the survival of my progeny above all else. Then I place a secondary value on the life and success of my kin, and then ethnicity, race, species, and so on.

So, my sense of moral concern is very much the heat map with the bright spot in the center.

I suspect that Christian morality was historically successful in part because it suppressed conflict behaviors (among other purposes). I don't believe that I need to adopt self-sacrificial morality in order to avoid conflict (in fact, I think a morality of sacrifice engenders conflict). Instead, I seek trade (more generally, mutually beneficial engagement) or disengagement (if mutual benefit is not possible) which I believe are more productive (better for me) behaviors.


I won't continue a conversation with personal attacks. Good day.


"you can love others and even your enemies like you love yourself"

twisted

"and even more than you love yourself"

evil


somebody's gotta rape these blue-haired feminists and it ain't gon be me


(Currency(Fiat(Crypto(Bitcoin))))

(Money(Gold)(Silver))


metal disks


If I owe you a thousand dollars that's my problem
If I owe you a million dollars that's your problem


If he's not Catholic personally he's not the Pope

He can sin and remain Catholic
He cannot reject Catholic dogma personally and remain Catholic


"not strictly human"

I see you've been reading your Talmud


Must not be the real Pope then


Yes, of course, and I would not be willing to die for some random stranger.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674

The consequence of Christian, altruistic, self-sacrificial morality is the "liberal" heatmap in which everyone is expected to sacrifice himself for the Greater Spotted Newt.

The consequence of traditional (pagan) morality is that you care more about your grandma than Greater Spotted Newts (or for that matter Africans).

This may be confusing because "liberals" (in fact leftist) are "atheist" (in fact post-theist but still deeply religious and specifically Christian) and conservatives are "Christian", but Thomas Aquinas introduced a rational, worldly, Aristotelian element into Christianity which post-theist radical puritans (aka leftists) stripped out.

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

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

Now one for you: Is it morally wrong to prefer your own grandmother's well-being over that of some random African? Is it morally wrong to prefer your own well-being over that of some random African?


Not now, but I'm hoping to have kids


Ah, so we both have to give our life for each other.
Enjoy your death cult.
I want no part of it.


If I am to be sacrificed for my neighbor, on what grounds can you blame him for speeding along the proceedings and sacrificing me himself?


Was he tasty?


I think people have generally been pretty positive when I say I only eat meat

It helps that I've lost a ton of weight and added muscle, so those who know me can see immediately that I'm healthier


"Modern intellectuals are comparable to a psychopath who murders for kicks. They seek the thrill of the new; and the new, to them, is the negative. The new is obliteraion, obliteration of the essential in every field; they have no interest in anything to take its place. Thus the uniqueness of the century behind us: philosophy gleefully rid of system-building, education based on the theory that cognition is harmful, science boastful of its inability to understand, art which expelled beauty, literature which flaunted antiheroes, language “liberated” from syntax, verse “free” of meter. nonrepresentational painting, atonal music, unconscious psychology, deconstruction in literary criticism, indeterminancy as the new depth in physics, incompleteness as the revelation in mathematics–a void everywhere that was acclaimed by the avante-garde with the metaphysical chuckle. It was the sound of triumph, the triumph of the new anti-ideal: of the unknowable, the unreachable, the unendurable."


above 30


More to the point, a moral code which glorifies the sacrifice of human beings (whether supposedly also divine or not) is twisted and evil


Yes


"A man has no greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends"

I am no sacrificial animal, and I regard as twisted and evil a moral code which glorifies my assuming that role.


I view Jesus as a tragic figure - a man espousing a twisted (in my view, evil) moral code in response to a twisted situation (namely, overbearing religious authority conflicting with overbearing legal authority)


I think you can eat carnivore for under $10 per day on 70/30 ground beef, eggs, cream, plus some cheap lean meats like chicken or mussels


Communism is a hell of a drug

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/father-child-murdered-haitian-migrant-says-he-wishes-his-son-had-been-killed-white-man


drink plenty of water

It's advisable to start with easy-digested food when you come out (eg bone broth)


"The internet is the only platform we have left [other than centralized broadcast media]"

Well, there's also point-to-point radio


Glenn is a civil libertarian as well as a welfare statist (if not outright communist)

These positions are contradictory, hence his confusion as one group of fellow travelers suddenly abandons him

It's understandable, though, because the welfare statists (and communists) in the US have long loudly insisted that they are the true liberals


The Feds are in much more trouble than most subsidiary jurisdictions

According to usdebtclock.org the Federal debt per citizen is over $100k
The State debt per citizen is under $4k
The local debt per citizen is about $7300

You're probably right that some will go bust, but I would guess not many


And how did you determine which "Evangelical Christians" were possessed of the truth?


The ultimate ground of my beliefs is experience - I set my leg on the ground and it proves to be solid. I then interpret these experiences according to reason.

Is there such a rock on which your church is built? I know they like to say there is, but is there really? Or is it just faith (meaning: a decision to believe in the absence of evidence or reason) ?


How did they know these books were legitimate scripture?
(and how do you know that)


A prior version of my prep kit (when I was in the city center) had lockpicks, but more importantly a pry-bar and bolt cutters

Also good is a silcock key


When you go off carbs, your body will likely dump water, leading to the infamous carnivore diarrhea for 1-2 weeks
Supposedly salt (or other electrolytes) can help

Longer term, the main variable to play with is fat vs lean percentage
Assuming you're not trying to lose body fat you'll probably want something like 80% fat calories (which you can get from 70/30 ground beef, Ribeyes, or other fatty meat)

Be careful with dairy, it's addictive
Another thing to watch out for is processed meat (eg sausage, jerky, even some bacon), which often has added sugar, added chemicals and can be "fully cooked" which denatures some of the Vitamin C


How do you determine what is and is not legitimate scripture?


Perhaps soon, unfortunately.
It feels to me like the current environment in the US cannot last, and must break one way or the other.
My suspicion is we will have a hyperinflationary collapse.


I have indoor plumbing, so apparently pretty far


Many such cases... when it was time for smallpox to end it got split into a bunch of different diseases (including chickenpox)


Currently my go-to is bone marrow but I keep butter on hand also.
I've been eating Roqeufort also which is an unpasteurized sheep's cheese. I find that this cheese is satisfying in small amounts and I don't naturally want to eat an enormous block like I might do with a nice Gouda.
I like raw egg yolk, which is my main breakfast now.

I have a weakness for cream but I haven't quite shed all the flab and cream seems to stop that for me.

Plain yogurt has worked well for me but I haven't been eating it lately.
Plain cream cheese is another option which I've enjoyed in the past.

I'm avoiding (or at least limiting) pork due to how it's raised in the USA, so bacon is out, but I've enjoyed beef bacon. Unfortunately I don't like the additives used on the specific brands available in my area.


Only in the sense of a lack of good


How do you know that Christ said that?
How do you know that Christ had the capacity to truthfully make such a claim (ie by virtue of divinity) ?

Presumably scripture, but then how do you know what is and is not scripture?

What is at the bottom of it, if not reason?


The Catholics like to talk about being guided by tradition and the magisterium rather than scripture alone, but ultimately how do you decide which tradition to follow? How do you decide what is legitimate magisterium and what is not?

For that matter, how do you decide what is legitimate scripture and what is not?

If it comes down to reason, then there is nothing bold about my move.


I personally have not regarded Paul as a Christian for a long time (and don't regard his letters as being comparable to scripture)

I also don't believe in ghosts or spirits in general, though, so probably my opinion is of little interest


This would seem to rule out Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox as valid Christian denominations


No perc?


Fiat bottom girls make this rocking world go round


1/6/25 (fingers crossed)


I agree there's a lot of good nutrients in processed meat

However I wouldn't recommend eating hot dogs without reading the ingredients

I think there are 3 concerns

1) Chemical additives
2) Added sugar (which are sadly quite prevalent in meat)
3) Vitamin C (which is potentially denatured in pre-cooked meats and competes with added sugars for utilization in the body)


gay


Most omnivore species specialize heavy in some specific food source, but can handle limited amounts of other

eg deer scavenge carrion, lions have been seen eating grass


BITCHES IN THE FUTURE


Thank you!


Would you please link the cholesterol scam article he describes?

I don't have Twitter and don't think I can view the comments without an account


My main investment thesis is "nothing ever happens"

I don't speculate that uranium is going to take off

I do speculate that US devaluation will continue unabated, so I have a variety of positions based around inflation & global diversification
&
I speculate that certain companies which are priced for catastrophe (ie very low P/E despite a strong balance sheet) will not experience that catastrophe (or will encounter it later than price reflects)


What supplemental fats have you tried and how did it go?
It looks like you have some sort of butter or cheese there


The "Enlightenment" in most of the world (eg France) was a descent into barbarism


I'm partial to the "two conspiracies" theory in which the US planned to blow a hole in the Pentagon and Israelis heard about this and decided to destroy the twin towers also


Trying to find a date via app in the West and it's like... fat, black, fat & black, single mother, polyamorous, pro-choice...

It seems like the only reasonable women are Christian and I don't believe in ghosts


A lot of my favorite fiction is written by men.

The female works I've most enjoyed are probably somewhat unusual in their intensity of focus on ideas, things & obstacles rather than feelings, people and relationships.

eg. Ayn Rand, Andre Norton and JK Rowling

So far as I can tell, Harry Potter undergoes no real character development and his only real virtue is bravery. I stopped reading somewhere in the 5th book so maybe I missed out but that was my impression, anyway.


Yes, see the "meteorites" as well as testimony of firefighters who say that for many days afterwards there was "molten steel, like in a foundry"


Both the ballot box and jury box require one man to defend the rights of another, and thus in a society of indoctrination and propaganda some third alternative must be sought (sooner or later)


The reserves are already gone - Social Security lent the money to the rest of the Feds who spent it

The Social Security "trust fund" is US Treasuries

To raise money, SSA sells Treasuries
If they didn't have those Treasuries and needed to raise money, the Treasury department would sell Treasuries

It's just a paper game


I wouldn't worry


It depends how you feel about people sending you very small amounts of bitcoins


clear safety goggles are even cheaper


Welcome!

I eat a species-appropriate diet


This actually explains why the dollar appreciation of Bitcoins is not a strong argument in their favor - nobody bought the bottom and sold the top.


I recently have become more optimistic that national divorce can be avoided.

Specifically, I think we are seeing a political re-alignment of neocons to the Dems and liberals to the Reps.

The consequence of this (if true and it continues) will be a Republican "new right" which is a coalition of patriots, (constitutional) conservatives and libertarians. This would be extremely liberal (as in liberty).

The Democrats would become an openly big-government if not totalitarian party. I very much doubt that such a party can maintain political power at the federal level, despite the institutional support it now enjoys.

Perhaps a few of the more... adventurous states would prefer to split off from the Union to pursue a communist or fascist (although they wouldn't call it fascist) mode of government. In that sense perhaps even a reunification of liberals and constitutionalists would fail to forestall a national divorce. However, I suspect that even these states rely on the goodwill and ignorance of large numbers of liberals. Without that goodwill, it's not clear to me that the commies can maintain control of California, New York, etc.


Welcome!

I am a carnivore also


Red meat for the drama whores

(backstory is the interviewer and his organization accused this dude of cheating, he sued, they settled, now he plays in their events again)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzx0ic1DPy8


If you're primarily interested in speed then obviously memorize whatever the best method is, looks like CFOP (if you're willing to memorize tons of algorithms, the noob version of CFOP I learned was much slower)

I think Human Thistlethwaite is the coolest algorithm-based method since it makes the cube overall better and better oriented instead of making layers or blocks sequentially

However, most interesting to me is to solve without algorithms/memorization using commutators

https://web.archive.org/web/20231207094142/https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

I can solve most of a cube without any special technique at all, and then the last few pieces can be solved in this way. Usually one of the steps is a single face rotation. So I might rotate a corner completely messing up the cube, then rotate a single layer to place a different corner there, undo the steps that completely messed up the cube, then rotate that single layer again. The result is that only the two corners I rotated are altered but everything else is unaffected.

The value of this method is that it makes it fairly trivial to solve arbitrarily large cubes (the main thing to adjust to is that the even-numbered cubes don't have fixed center squares). I've solved 4x4 and 5x5 without memorization.


After Trumpler and Brexit, democracy was re-defined to "Our Democracy" which means the consensus of institutions rather than consensus of the populace


To be more precise, I think the concern is not with residual plant toxins that have made it through the refinement process, but with the very nature of the oil producing novel toxins when it is used normally


what an ungrateful... young lady


I think the concern is not just toxins, but also being polyunsaturated they are vulnerable to oxidative damage, which produces toxic byproducts

(especially when heated as in cooking, and double especially when heated repeatedly as in deep fryers)


signal or noise?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/professors-rally-academics-around-less-bad-candidate-trump


"I consider myself a liberal person and I always took an active part in civil rights, but not any more. I've seen too much. When the riot broke out in the cafeteria and the bomb went off last Wednesday my girlfriend and I headed for the doors. Five black girls grabbed me and held me while another one punched me in the stomach. My girlfriend Started to run and a black girl grabbed her and tried to rip her blouse off. | kept screaming, “why, why?”, but they were acting like animals, just beating up any white girl they saw. I started tocry. I wanted to run home and never come back to this place again."


I wonder how much of the school shooting fashion is in reaction to failed racial integration? If teachers and students are subject to random violence, it is no surprise that some would wish to strike back


"A matter of two minutes passed between the leaving of my students and the point where I walked into the store-room. He followed me and grabbed me from behind around the throat. I felt that I could not breathe. He pulled me to the floor, he on top of me, pulling tighter and tighter against my throat...

At this point, I had no breath and the pain in my throat was unbearable. I started to black-out. ...I then became hysterical, throwing anything I could put my hands on, kicking, fighting, and yelling, “Please don’t kill me.” During the fight the boy had ripped off my chain belt, torn my stockings to shreds. Blood was pouring out of my mouth and all over my clothes. The extent of the rape, I could not tell, as I was only semi-conscious the entire time. The only thought I had was that of losing my life"


"Frank Siracusa made a point of coming to school early. He lived with his wife and year-old daughter in a modest four-room apartment only a few short blocks from Franklin K. Lane High School, which straddles the border between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. He had become accustomed to rolling out of bed at 7:30 A.M. and taking the two-minute walk to the school he had taught in since 1961. Siracusa was a thirty-yearold chemistry teacher with a jovial personality that made him a favorite among students and colleagues alike. There weren't many people on the 306-member faculty who were more popular than Frank Siracusa, and there was no reason for him to suspect that January 20, 1969, would be different from any other Monday morning.

In addition to his duties as a chemistry instructor, Siracusa doubled as the coordinator for school aides, the corps of thirty-four nonprofessional adults who helped supervise students in the school cafeteria, study rooms, and hallways. The police had been on duty at the school all of the previous week as a result of an agreement between District 19 Superintendent Elizabeth C. O'Daly and the school’s chapter of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the union representing the city’s 60,000 teachers. There had been fifteen separate incidents of assault against white teachers by black students, and an even larger number of vicious and sadistic attacks by blacks against white students. It was all part of the aftermath of the Great School Strike which had ended just two months earlier.

But January 20, 1969, was to be a very different kind of day for Frank Siracusa, one that would see his picture on the front page of newspapers across the country and would raise serious doubts about integration in the nation’s public schools. Siracusa, very much involved with the life of the school, was a member of the school’s UFT executive committee and had been a recent speaker at a meeting of the Woodhaven-Cypress Hills Community Association. The association was a newly formed neighborhood group that came together to protest the growth of racial violence at the local high school. At its January 17 meeting, Siracusa had been one of the first speakers to expose the lawlessness which had become prevalent at Lane.

On the morning of January 20 Siracusa clocked in and went through his usual routine of checking the school aide roster and getting his materials in order for his first period class. It was only minutes before his morning class was scheduled to assemble when a stone came crashing through the window, shattering the glass and scattering fragments to all corners of his first-floor classroom. Cautiously, he approached the window, wary of yet another missile. Looking out at the courtyard he observed two black youths, about eighteen years of age: they were decked out in fashionable dashikis and sported the hairdo which had become the sign of black militancy. Siracusa thought about reporting the incident through the usual administrative channels, or of overlooking the matter entirely. Either way, the result would have been the same... the absence of any official response to student violence.

Many of his colleagues had, in fact, already thrown in the towel. They had been told to avoid confrontations with students. Don’t enforce the rules where black students are concerned, they were continually advised. Let the blacks “do their own thing!’ Don't compel them to produce identification cards! Don't require them to stand for the morning pledge of allegiance exercise even though it is required by state law! Don't make an issue over their refusal to remove their hats in the school building! And above all, remember these are changing times and are you sure you don't harbor racist attitudes? In a variety of ways, sometimes subtle, sometimes more direct, most of Lane's teachers had gotten that message from its own administration and from the central school board. In this turbulent era, the New York City school board wasn't even backing up its own principals. At any given time there were more than twenty of them cooling their heels at board headquarters after having been “promoted” to a desk job at 110 Livingston Street as a result of pressure from black militants. If a principal couldn’t expect the support of the school board on matters related to fundamental school discipline (no less violence and lawlessness), it followed that a principal wouldn't put his own neck on the line by sustaining a teacher who was foolish enough to try to break up a dice game or report a drug transaction on school premises. The name of the game for Lane’s teachers had become, “mind your own business and don't get involved” because, they learned, in New York’s tempestuous school system the axe most often fell not on the incompetent but on the dedicated teacher who tried to do an honest job for his day's pay.

But at Franklin K. Lane High School, and at countless other schools throughout the city, teachers were learning to look the other way. After all, if Mayor John V. Lindsay could tell the police to ignore the looting of stores during the Harlem riots and to do nothing while local residents carted off color TV sets, then it was perfectly clear that teachers couldn't engage in parapolice activities and expect the city’s support. But Frank Siracusa was one of the few who hadn’t been jaded by the strange thinking that permeated the highest levels of officialdom. Totally devoted to his school and its students, how could he ignore this transgression and maintain his self-respect? He put on his overcoat, descended the stairway adjacent to his room, and went on out to the courtyard. Slowly, he approached the two tall youngsters who by now were joined by a third youth, somewhat shorter and younger, but with as menacing a veneer as the older pair.

“T’m Mr. Siracusa,” he said quietly. “I’m a teacher, not a cop, and I would like to know who broke my window.”

There was no reply, no discussion, not even a denial or argument. In a flash, one of the youngsters drew a water pistol from his jacket pocket, spraying the teacher’s outer garments witha liquid which was later discovered to be a highly flammable lighter fluid. Siracusa was befuddled.

“What's this all about?” he thought to himself.

For a brief moment Siracusa figured it to be a juvenile prank, unaware that one of the trio was circling behind him. Suddenly, he felt a thunderous blow crashing into his spine. As he dropped to the ground, anguishing in pain, defenseless, he felt the smashing of fists against his jaw and the pounding of booted heels into his groin. Lying helpless on the cold concrete, barely conscious, he sensed the burning flames from his overcoat which had been set afire by his assailants, who then left him there as a potential immolation fatality. Desperately, he struggled to get out of the overcoat, which was soon fully ablaze. Although suffering excruciating pain from the pounding he had received, Siracusa miraculously crawled out of the burning garment, and screaming for help, was found and carried to safety by colleagues responding to his cries.

A brand new chapter had been written into the annals of racial strife in the public schools, less than fifteen years after the United States Supreme Court spoke out against the doctrine of racial separatism in public educational systems."

https://archive.org/details/harold-saltzman-race-war-in-high-school/page/16/mode/2up


harsh but fair


Inflation moves us up the tax brackets & causes tax on "the rich" to sooner or later hit everyone


I listened to the Fridman/Trump interview. Trump definitely said there was cheating in the 20 election


galaxy brain : just drinking from the cup


The medical system in many western countries has become a supplemental prison system

Best to stay away from the whole thing


I felt he stated the core issues with central banking succinctly and clearly

I also felt that although this was nominally a gold podcast, our bitcoin friends could appreciate much (all?) of it


There was a Tribes Ascend Mumble server that organized PUGs. Towards the end of TA's life there were a few dozen people on there and even bad players (like me) could get in matches. I got to play with a bunch of the game's greats (former pros and top amateurs).


Jimmy Carter carried the South in 1976.
Reagan swept the country.

Only with Bush the Elder in 1988 and 1992 do we start to see the modern electoral map, with the Pacific Northwest & Atlantic Northeast going Democrat while South, Midwest and West go mostly Republican.

In other words, the "big switch" wasn't a bunch of racists in the 60s but instead the middle class in the 80s.


Yes and no
Dark chocolate has a substantial fat content
Really dark chocolate (the listed category maxes out at 85% but darker is widely available) has much more fat than sugar

During my transition from keto to animal based to carnivore, I stopped eating dark chocolate because of the oxolate toxicity (I started getting rashes whenever I ate chocolate) rather than because of the sugar

https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/170273/wt1/1


I agree that some significant portion of modern US wealth is a product of the post-WW2 world empire (and the dollar reserve as a form of tribute).

However, USA (and Argentina) were dramatically rich in the late 1800s due to free market policies that brought about a much higher degree of economic activity than in most of Europe.

The US is now a mix of industries that have been made into fascist cartels as well as those that are relatively free. Some of the present wealth is due to actual economic productivity even in industries laboring under government intervention (eg the US is the world's #1 food exporter)


Welfare -> fatherlessness (as seen dramatically among US Africans) -> lower fertility (since Dad isn't there to give Mom a second, third, etc)

It should also be mentioned that the dominant mode of reproduction in human history is that the mean male and mean female have approximately the same number of children (since it takes one of each and the population is roughly half each sex) but the modal man has far fewer children than the modal woman (ie a few men have lots of children while many have none). With the relaxation of Christian marriage norms (but not the post-Christian welfare ethic) we have lost stable nuclear families but not yet replaced them with polygamous or tribal arrangements.


Is it just me or is this retarded?
If you can build and maintain a rail line why can't you build and maintain an electric line to power the train? Especially over such a short distance... why use batteries?

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tesla-launches-worlds-first-electric-111535136.html


IDK about 5G towers but I'm not convinced that there is any evidence of infectious subcellular replicating parasites


Volunteers sat in a Spanish Flu (1918) ward for hours and didn't get sick


https://mises.org/mises-wire/national-socialists-were-enemies-west

for fedi frens


male patriarchs, like most of the world and all of human history


I am partially in agreement with you

I agree that progressive activism is harmful to social perception of sodomites

I disagree that sodomites would not inevitably foster that same negative perception anyway. Once sex is no longer about reproduction, why wait for the age of reproductive maturity? At what age does a boy's bottom become fertile? Once sex is no longer about reproduction, why not surgically enhance yourself (or your partner) for your desired mode of sodomy?


gently in the breeze


the lack of crowd applause is surprising


Just frozen, but it keeps for a long time on the counter/shelf if it comes to that

I also have ghee which is totally shelf stable


my main food preps are pemmican, butter and canned meat


That's the point


I use night mode on my screen devices and am very sparing with overhead artificial light

I have some red LED night lights in my home so I can see my way around without needing the white/yellow light


I've used multiple clients, for Android/Chromebook I use their app (Cheogram)


I use https://jmp.chat/ and no cell phone
But if you need a portable phone I would look at dumb-phones


If you've already got black jack and hookers why do you need a lightning wallet?


For my fiat spending I use paper notes and coins

I save US nickels which are worth over 5c
I save pre-1982 pennies which are worth almost 3c

The token coins I spend


If the game wasn't for me why are you mad I didn't buy it?


Do you think it's liberal as in liberty but not liberal as in progressive (ie crypto-communist)?
Or do you think it's liberal in neither sense?


He doesn't have a whole lot of future either way


Biden isn't even a boomer, he's older than that (born in 1942)


Chuck steaks have good flavor

I'm typically spending $10-11 / pound for grass-fed ribeye (Aldi) and grass-fed picanha (local butcher)


Interesting short story

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalism-economic-slavery


so... Kamala


I am in beef country and seem to have better prices than most people

I can't really get steaks for under $7/lb (although I can reliably get ground beef or patties)

My main source of beef comes in around $10-11 per pound

I eat beef all the time though, not willing to wait for a clearance item


it symbolizes Providence / God

but yeah, many "Founding Fathers" were freemasons (eg George Washington)


Anthem captures the essential spirit of Rand in a more focused and concise way than her later, longer novels


https://pastebin.com/QvcxREdJ

Or for long form argument:

Philosophy
Lao Tzu - Tao te Ching
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (but IMO ignore his appeals to post-theist Christian ethics)

Liberty Politics
Etienne de la Boetie - Politics of Obedience
Mises - Liberalism, in the Classical Tradition
Rothbard - Anatomy of the State
Gene Sharp - The Politics of Nonviolent Action

Economics
Rothbard - What has Government done to our Money?
Bagehot - Lombard Street (as an enemy strategy)
One of:
Bylund - How to Think about the Economy (easy)
Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson (intermediate)
Mises - Human Action (advanced)

Religion
(reflecting my own pantheistic/pagan, nonchristian views)
Nietzche - Antichrist
Alain de Benoist - On Being a Pagan
Spinoza - Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Language
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Lakoff & Johnson - Metaphors we Live By (as an enemy strategy)

Fiction
Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress


"They've redefined democracy from the consensus of individuals to the consensus of institutions"

https://podverse.fm/episode/3LFlSQgLG


Not just never proven, but many attempts to prove it seem to furnish contrary evidence. For example, volunteers spent time with "Spanish Flu" patients (supposedly one of the most contagious diseases of all time) and did not take sick.


Why would Peter Schiff be in disbelief?

If you know anything about gold mining this should be unsurprising. Gold is not economically recoverable at average crustal abundance. You have to find deposits where some geologic process has concentrated the gold.


War on domestic extremism


The whole thing is retarded

Russian hydrocarbons are haraam so the Arabs sell EU halal hydrocarbons from the Peninsula and burn the haraam hydrocarbons themselves

Basically just a shell game so we can pretend the Russians aren't selling their hydrocarbons


I watched this Concord trailer and I think I see some of the issues

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7jqQJhjf_3o

One is that hero shooters have traditionally been sold based on the characters (see Team Fortress 2 Meet the Mercs as well as the initial Overwatch ads). This allows the players to develop an emotional connection that pulls them deeper into the game. It introduces the game-world from a specific perspective, rather than just dropping lots of content on the player and hoping they piece it all together.

This trailer looks like they're selling it based on the mechanics. While they do introduce various characters I didn't feel like I got to know any of them or see why I should care about them. Instead, we get "here's this character, and here's a couple cool things they do in-game". I think prior character shooters have done a better job of connecting the character visuals to their in-game role. A good example (from a totally different genre) is Plants vs Zombies, where the plants are rooted in the ground because they're plants (and also because that's how Tower Defense games work). The zombies are a horde of slow-moving adversaries because they're zombies (and also that's how Tower Defense games work). In Concord, the big tanky guy is a tank (kind of) but it seems to end there. The other characters (to me) don't really communicate what they're about.

The girl-boss voiceover is also off-putting. There's a bit of tone confusion - are we mercenaries out to survive by any means in an unforgiving galaxy, or are we on some sort of crusade for good?


If OnlyStans manages to turn into a celebrity engagement engine rather than a porn site I will be stunned

I suspect that was part of the original vision before they realized that semi-personalized porn was a gold mine


once again faggotry saves the day


KLR is a very small tractor disguised as a motorcycle


According to this it had a "extensive marketing campaign" pushing it to the front of TikTok.

https://gamerant.com/concord-first-party-budget-playstation-graphics-effects-marketing/

So I guess ad spend probably isn't the issue. Maybe the retarded name (Concord) is part of the problem, but it seems gamer aversion to woke slop is the core issue.


Was it getting ad spend?
I only heard about it as a woke failure.

Maybe this was the tail end of the woke pipeline.
When interest rates were practically zero people were throwing money at their preferred ideological aims, regardless of likely profit.
When the US Fed (along with other central banks) hiked interest rates, there were projects still in the pipeline but new projects (at least in theory) had to have a chance of real return on capital.
So perhaps this was ready to publish and they didn't push the ad spend necessary to capture even the woke slice of the player-base (due to minimizing costs).

Like, "we wouldn't make this now, and we don't want to spend more on it than we already have, but let's sheet it out and see if people bite"


Orbot is an Android app (and thus also Chromebook) that makes a Tor connection into a VPN for your Android device

Basically you can take any app and route it through Tor by using Orbot


I call them to abandon delusion for truth
Is this love?


If someone gains physical access to my passkey they can use it to access my accounts (which are also password protected) regardless of whether they have some fancy way of copying it

I think this is a theoretical vulnerability rather than a real vulnerability

Maybe if I was a spy or diplomat or something I'd have to be concerned about Chinese customs cloning my key, but for a normal person if an attacker gets a hold of my key they're probably going to keep it rather than clone it


Tallow fries are great, crispy outside fluffy inside delicious flavor

One of the few food items I'll "cheat" on my diet for with zero remorse


Easy solution: short drop and sudden stop


I don't believe that modern Jews are followers of the ancient religion (nor generally their descendants)

If you want a demonic religion, Talmudic Judaism is certainly a candidate.

They interpret everything to mean something other than what it plainly means. For example the 10 commandments are meant to be punishable by death, so they conclude "don't steal" means "don't kidnap a Jew" (since theft or kidnapping a gentile would not be punishable by death)

As the above makes obvious, they believe a different moral code holds with regard to the treatment of Jews and the treatment of gentiles, with Jews being favored above the "beasts with human faces"

Prohibitions on rape and adultery get interpreted as prohibitions on vaginal intercourse only, and anal rape of gentiles is considered acceptable (as the recent military incidents make clear)

As a funny meme I saw recently said, all of Jewish history is the Jews technically not violating God's laws and God technically not smiting them


When the security services are weak / incompetent alternative security takes hold

The Mafia has always been a substitute for the State


Your link recommends Threema but also Signal Wire & Session (and is ambivalent about SimpleX)

And I don't see the numerical ratings you gave


It's not mine

Let's repudiate the debt


I personally don't observe daylight savings time.

My personal laptop (which is also my phone) automatically adjusts so if I'm scheduling something with others I have that time for reference.

My work laptop is in a different time zone (where most of my team is) and also automatically adjusts so I have that time for reference.

But my home & car clocks and sleep schedule didn't change. Thankfully I have the freedom to work an hour later or earlier without special permission.


I do not ask you to lay hands on the tyrant to topple him over, but merely withdraw support and watch as he - like a great colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away - falls of his own weight and breaks into pieces.

Etienne de la Boetie


A transnational state in which the public has no real control, and instead the political class selects its own leaders internally


With regard to feelings of fear and confidence courage is the mean; of the people who exceed, he who exceeds in fearlessness has no name . . . while the man who exceeds in confidence is rash, and he who exceeds in fear and falls short in confidence is a coward.

The coward, the rash man, and the brave man, then, are concerned with the same objects but are differently disposed toward them; for the first two exceed and fall short, while the third holds the middle, which is the right, position.


EUSSR


https://www.naturettl.com/how-to-photograph-the-international-space-station/

Does this count?

I have serious doubts about the moon missions, but I think low earth orbit is probably real

(although there are some funny NASA bloopers that make it look quite fake)


Lincoln did break the Constitution


Armed self defense and the will to defend it from the jury box (and the prosecutor's chair) would also go a long way, for much the same reasons


“One day in the neighborhood of Dogo’s Temple of Chang-chou, death occurred in a certain home and Zen Master Dogo took his disciple Zengen to express their condolences to the family.” During the visit Zengen tapped the coffin and asked, “Is he alive or dead?”
Dogo answered, “I won’t say alive, I won’t say dead.” Zengen said, “Why don’t you say?” Dogo repeated, “I won’t say. I won’t say.” On the way back to the temple Zengen again asked, “Please tell me clearly, Master, whether he is dead or alive. If you don’t tell me, I’ll hit you.” The teacher said, “Hit me if you like, but I won’t say.” So Zengen hit him.

At length Dogo died and Zengen, still troubled by the question, went to see Sekiso, a well-known Zen teacher. He told Sekiso how years ago he had struck his old teacher because he would not answer his question on life and death. Then he repeated the same question to Sekiso. Sekiso said, “I won’t say alive, I won’t say dead. I won’t say. I won’t say.” At that Zengen came to realization.


totem?


What is meant by economically left wing? Socialist?


Chess is a surrogate activity for me (but I know it)


with the kneeling chair my legs are lower than 90 degrees, so if your graphic is accurate it should reduce pressure


Flight sim users are 97% male, and most of the rest refuse to give a a straight answer

https://download.navigraph.com/docs/flightsim-community-survey-by-navigraph-2021-final.pdf


Sir Thomas Wettington


Too amusing and horrible not to share:

"There is a serious point, though, which I started to glimpse at PyCon: that the values and assumptions contained in programming languages inform the software that’s written with them and change the world accordingly. By the time I’d learned that Brendan Eich, author of JavaScript, is an anti-vaxxer and was a supporter of a campaign to have same-sex marriage nixed in California, I wasn’t surprised.

I was surprised how much fun I had with the Pythonistas. Coding has a gender and race problem, with only about 5% of professionals identifying as women or either Black, African or Caribbean."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/31/learning-computer-programming-language-coding-devil-stack-andrew-smith


I spent a couple minutes searching just now.

It looks as though Klobukowska was trisomatic X (ie XXX chromosomes vs the typical XX for women) which apparently something like 1 in 1,000 women are.

Among the consequences of this disorder are extra height, which is an advantage in running and "subtle physical and skeletal anomalies" which I haven't seen explained but could also contribute to athletic performance.

Obviously if you just let everyone compete the winners will typically be men at the far end of the bell curve. If you try to create a restricted category for some group the winners will be at the far end of the bell curve inside of that group. For women's sports, this is going to mean cross-dressing men (who should probably be excluded) but also people with masculinizing genetic disorders like Klobukowsky and Semenya, as well as women with disorders of a non-genetic nature which promote testosterone (or other beneficial hormones for the competition in question).

In an unrestricted competition you will obviously have "gifted" men competing alongside performance-enhancing drug use, but at least everyone belongs in the competition and you don't have these edge cases.

All in all, this is another reminder that women's sports should be discontinued.


Maybe they're planning to move and hauling all that toilet paper will be a pain in the neck


"monetisation of every natural process on this earth" would be a great improvement

I see it like this:
Socialism was supposed to be more "scientific" and "rational" than the free market, and therefore to deliver greater prosperity. When that prosperity failed to come, they instead made "eco" poverty into a virtue.

https://www.voanews.com/a/gorbachev-environmental-degradation-threatens-planet/1644471.html

I'm sure some people are just concerned about clean air and get swept up into the rest of it. However I think the root of the movement is anti-human and anti-industrial.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GFU2vl5pbBA

There's also the Rockefeller connection, in which climate change was selected as a cause celebre due to the potential to foster a global state.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5mK-FMY1374


I use a variant of this: https://www.chairoffice.co.uk/blog/i-used-a-kneeling-chair-for-a-week-heres-what-happened/


Russia (and not Ukraine) held the nuclear codes to actually use those weapons

https://www.icanw.org/did_ukraine_give_up_nuclear_weapons


The problem with Jews is Judaism

https://archive.org/details/JewishHistoryJewishReligionTheWeightOf3000Years-I.Shahak/page/n15/mode/2up


I'm just getting into hobby radio


They built themselves a statue to commemorate their own generosity?


The sandbox debacles over the last 30 years certainly hurt

I think political (ie actually religious) division is also a major issue. When half the country denounces the other (eg as deplorable) few people are going to want to defend both halves


Are you getting enough fat? If you fill up on egg yolk, bone marrow or butter you should be pretty satiated

What are you snacking on? If you're hungry maybe you needed a bigger meal (or a second meal) rather than whatever snack item

Be careful with dairy if that's in your version of carnivore - I find that I can be full to the point that I don't want to eat almost any food you'd put in front of me, but I could often still down a pint of cream (which is especially risky as I can rationalize it as animal fat, see point 1)


lul

the bronze medal was ugly so copper will surely crash


Natural language is a great medium for expressing computational concepts, you just have to be hyper-literal and borderline autistic


If you are up for an experiment (and haven't already tried this one) go carnivore for a month


RIP instant fund availability

This is why we can't have nice things


I'm also of the opinion that clips are a very niche product

I ride in zero-drop sandals


Let's do a little arithmetic

4 crematoria times 24 hours per day times 365 days per year times 4 years (already an over-estimate) divided by 2 hours per body = 70,000 people who could have been cremated at Auchwitz

Not 4 million, not 1.1 million


You're not fooling us any longer

https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203454


Girls from the Ukraine


Aren't they already Nazis?


The most retarded step was trying to institute popular democracy in Iraq after the Americans conquered it

All the Muzzies voted along religious lines which effectively turned the country over to Iran


Talmudic supremacy is a hell of a drug


Whoever thinks tanks and jet fighters stop a militia should study Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc


Maybe I'm not a very good racist but I think the tans are mostly white and yellows are basically white

The blacks and reds are definitely different sub-species though

(the tans are part red, hence why they are only mostly white)


KYC is Know Your Customer

Since voters are theoretically (but not actually) in charge of the tax slavery system, this is KYM: Know Your Master


Neat trick, a very nice Catch-22.

We won't let you verify who is voting until you can prove that the wrong people are voting.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/california-bill-banning-voter-id-passes-legislature-awaits-newsoms-signature


How would an anarcho capitalist state look?
About like a married bachelor

How would an anarcho capitalist region look?
It's ultimately unpredictable but there are several good models. The US "wild" West is one, with armed self-defense and an "outlaw" system in which criminals are denied the protection of the law and thus fair game for anyone. Another good model is medieval England, with a common law system in which people who have disputes choose for themselves the court (or arbitrator, etc) who will hear the dispute. Criminals there (and in both England and the US until the mid 1800s) were often apprehended by ordinary citizens (as in old movies where someone would yell "stop! thief!" and somebody else would tackle the thief) Another good model is Somalia during its stateless period, in which people seek justice within the tribe and tribal elders get together to negotiate conflicts between tribes.

In any case, I think the features that people expect are:
1) Armed self-defense
2) For-profit negotiation of disputes
3) Strong cultural norms respecting private property rights


covid - no such thing
illuminati

the last one is hard but I think DJT is the most likely to be real


during famine times you can get an Irish slag for a potato


IMO they were clearly trying to reach the Kursk nuclear plant and use the threat of a nuclear event as a bargaining chip


Modern communism is a wacky religion


there are 2 right answers here


lol this headline

"STEM breakthrough: most new students are women"

as if they've figured out fusion

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-27/caltech-long-male-bastion-to-enroll-majority-women-for-first-time


My impression is there are multiple good solutions already (eg jabber) but normies haven't bothered to figure them out


I think there's some truth to Curtis Yarvin's claim that Puritanism secularized itself so it could be taught in US public schools as "not religion"


"What should be done with disloyal people? Exile. Or as people like to put it today, “Remigration” . In a nation state, 'multiculturalism' is completely absurd. Under no circumstance should a country allow ethnic minorities of any kind to exist long term. What is an ethnic group ? It's a group of people who marry each other exclusively. And why would they do that? To stay distinct. And why the fuck would they want to stay distinct? How is that not a plain, blatant show of contempt towards their host nation? The only reason to do ethnic separatism is to engage in nepotism and use clique effects to benefit the group against a less organized population. It's literally a conspiracy, that's all there is. How the hell is this allowed? It boggles the mind really.

Note that the usual rationale to do ethnic conspiracies in Western countries is the ruse of 'religion'. Oh you see, we're not an ethnic mafia using the advantage of our small scale to organize better against you, oh no. We just have this “supernatural beliefs” which are just too compelling so you must let us do it or we'll burn in hell, you see. Hey look, my wife is crying. Female tears! Now submit, goyim. Note it's not just Jews doing it, it's a trick as old as sin, happened all the time since the ancient world. Understanding that is why Classical Civilization evolved universally enforced State Religions, to close that loophole and get rid of ethnic mafias. You can think of the Catholic Church as the first iteration of anti-cartel legislation. Northern Europeans weren't dumb, the first thing they did after breaking the Catholic Church was to establish State Churches of their own to close the loophole again."

https://spandrell.ch/2024/6/14/the-spandrell-declaration-for-israel-and-the-levant


"There surely is a threshold of ethnic diversity after which a nation stops being real. I would argue that threshold has already been reached, certainly in most of Western Europe. Native births (as in 100% native stock) are below 60% in Britain, France and Germany. There's some encouraging signs in the birthrate of immigrants falling quite rapidly as they adopt the worst traits of modernity. But still; Brazilification of the West is not theoretical anymore. It's already happened.

Now is Brazil hell? No, it's an ok country. Some places are positively nice. But do you want fascism in Brazil? Do you want a Strong Government in a country with Brazil's demographics? Hell no. You want the lightest, most retarded and ineffective government possible so the inevitable Bioleninist regime that raises to power in a country with an (on average) retarded population can do the least damage possible. I'm not blackpilling in that Western Europe is going to literally become Pakistan forever, although the risk does exist. But you have to be very autistic to be a fascist in the coming world where whites are barely a plurality. It's just a bad deal. Much smarter to be a libertarian or accelerationist. Or a trad; find (or build) a strong, closed-off religious group where you can isolate your family from the wider Bomali world.

What if you're not into that (I'm not into that). And you're also not exactly keen in Skynet taking over life on earth and all of us becoming synthetic computing devices. Well then it's a tough one. Very hard to find a political place to be. You can do fine in life, of course. I've been saying for years now to young people approaching me on the internet asking what to do. I always tell them to forget about politics and just focus on making a shitton of money and having babies."

https://spandrell.ch/2024/3/3/a-post-mortem-on-neoreaction


One day everything is fine, the next you're unemployed and on the street and your sister is a prostitute


A better solution is to adopt sane regulations which allow the plant to be built much more quickly which in turn dramatically reduces the total financing cost

Nuclear plants tie up a lot of resources to produce a very long-lived asset, which takes a long time to start producing a return and much longer to pay itself off. Projects of this type (whether for energy or anything else) must provide enough return to compensate for this long time period (as well as simply the material resources and labor)

(sane regulations as in something much closer to common law, in which the party is free to do as they please but held liable for any damage... in the case of nuclear perhaps insurance or some sort of surety bond can be required, but nothing more than this)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY


It's $4 where I am but still shocking
I remember when these were a dollar


I scored highest in liberty but my 2nd-4th were the fashy ones


"Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way"

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/


They claim to have tested quicklime experimentally with a reasonable control, so I'm inclined to believe the ultimate conclusion

I am skeptical that the volcanic ash is not actually helpful (assuming the claims about its ancient use & reputation are accurate)

Perhaps both are relevant

Is there some other error in thinking you've found?


Unfortunately I don't believe you because I get all my news from comedy sketches

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=rcC4i9WQctw


#chess

I've been studying chess for a few years
I try to make chess simple for myself

I think many chess concepts can be collapsed into a fewer number of more general concepts without any injury to the player's capacity to understand

A common scheme is to divide a game into 3 possible phases: an opening, a middle-game, and an endgame
Instead I think it's more sensible to divide the game into only a middle-game (or main phase) and endgame.
The reason for this collapse of the opening into just a subset of the middle-game is that the same principles (in my view) govern both the opening and the middle-game.
In both opening and middle-game, players vie to increase the activity of their pieces and guard their king.
Players fight for the central squares and to preserve or win material as means of ensuring the greater activity of their pieces as compared to the opponent.
Already we see another layer of consolidated thinking: instead of the common three opening goals (activity, central influence, king safety) I see only two, with central control a mere means to the strategic goal of piece activity.

As material is removed from the board, eventually there is not enough for a direct checkmating assault. At this point more material must be brought in via pawn promotion, and in the meantime the king is safe to join the fray and it becomes a strategic necessity for him to do so. This marks the transition from the main phase of the game into the endgame.

The result of all this is that instead of a player learning some five-step checklist for the opening and then a further list of concepts for the middle-game, they instead have two related strategic goals (piece activity so I can checkmate the enemy king and king safety so he can't checkmate me).

Another area in which I have much consolidated my thinking is in tactics to win material.
A typical book on the subject may have dozens of different tactics, but I see only three.
To win material, a piece must be captured either for free or at the cost of a less-valuable piece.
This means that first something must be attacked which is insufficiently defended or more valuable than the attacker.
So why doesn't the opposing side simply move the attacked piece away?

Here I find three answers:
1) There is nowhere safe to move to, and the piece is trapped
2) There are multiple objects of attack, and a single move cannot save them all
3) The pieces are arranged in a line, so that moving away only reveals further targets

I think of each of these concepts as
1) Trapped piece
2) Multi-attack
3) Line attack

In contrast most textbooks would have a whole list of "distinct" concepts under these headings, such as
1) Trapped piece
2) Fork, discovery, removing the defender
3) Pin, skewer, x-ray, discovery, discovered check, double check, battery

In my experience, the textbook distinctions add no value.
There is no useful rule of thumb that says a pin works tactically if situation X occurs and a skewer works tactically if situation Y occurs.
At best, a few pins that can occur shortly after the game starts (eg a bishop pinning a knight to the king or queen) might have some rules of thumb (eg that it is acceptable to kick the bishop away with pawns prior to castling but not after).
However these rules of thumb do not extend to pins in general.
Instead, the player must notice the line attack and calculate what its results will be in that exact position.
This is true regardless of the exact ordering of pieces in a line and regardless of whether it is classified as a pin, skewer, or something else.
Consequently, I think it is better to develop an eye for pieces lined up generally, and to avoid training to notice only a certain ordering of pieces in a line.

Similarly, by training to see forks (where a single piece attacks multiple enemy pieces) we may be neglecting multi-attack situations in which multiple attackers assault different pieces (either at once with a discovery or over the course of multiple turns culminating in a "removing the defender" situation).

I think an overall course of chess study should look something like this:
1) Learn the rules - play dozens or hundreds of games focused on making & seeing legal moves (rather than worrying too much about brilliant strategy)
2) Learn basic checkmates, such as king+queen and king+rook
3) Learn the two strategic principles I've given
4) Train the three tactical concepts I've listed
5) Learn principles of common endgames, such as pawn endings or rook & pawn
6) (ongoing) Play many games to refine strategic/positional understanding
7) Train advanced endings

Step 4 is a big step, which consists of developing a real skill rather than merely memorizing a little bit of useful information, however this is probably the most important skill to refine for 99% of chess players. Only once both players are at something like a master level and are able to play with very few or no tactical blunders will other considerations have a big impact. Hopefully my thoughts will make this a little easier by focusing on the three methods of winning material rather than a bewildering taxonomy of positions.


Everyone uses internet without a special internet tax to build out networks. Why can't other utilities function the same way?


What do you mean by "public"?


I think it's arrogance of putting your own will over reality -> failure -> resentment


emptiness


All taxation is unjust


slavs


People who still believe in the system care about how everyone votes

This does not mean that how everyone votes really matters


Are we not part of Nature also?


adrenochrome is a hell of a drug


Do I? I'm not convinced there is any such thing as a gender-soul


Why would this convert a goldbug?

Gold is real and Bitcoin is not. Who cares about fiat price?


"In order to fulfill the criteria laid down in the remaining two of his postulates, Koch tried to infect animals with pure cultures of the organism with little success. He rightly concluded that the animals were not susceptible to cholera and took recourse to the extreme step of infecting himself by drinking pure cultures. However, he came down with only a mild episode of diarrhoea, an outcome which was later on exploited by his opponents to ridicule him."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089047/

Moreover, I believe the sentence preceding the quotation is incorrect and that v. cholerae is found in the stool of non-choleric individuals.


Koch's own work shows that Cholera was not caused by the bacteria supposedly responsible

He drank a beaker full of vibrio cholerae and didn't develop cholera disease


Has any microorganism ever been shown to cause disease in a scientifically rigorous manner? (eg according to Koch's postulates)

I open to the possibility that Koch's anthrax paper is such an example but I haven't found an English translation


I regard the connective tissue in NYS as a positive, but the lower fat as a negative

So it depends on how much fat you get in the NYS fat cap

IMHO the better option for grass-fed is picanha which has a consistent large fat cap


In the context of the 1780s-90s:

Militia is the whole body of free people who could be called up for military service

Well regulated means something closer to well-armed than "subject to lots of regulations"

And, the First War of Secession (in the 1770s) certainly suggests that militias might oppose the government


I don't think you realize just how fake and gay the US has become


Good


What makes a diet unbalanced or balanced?


I know what a youth is, but what is a transgender individual?


This is really cool

I'm in the process of getting into hobby radio myself and this SDR seems like a reasonable first step


My apartment complex has lockers on-site and I get texted a code to open it when I have a package delivered

For home delivery, people have often had some form of one-way drop (eg English mail slots in the front door, a chute into 1800s American homes for coal delivery for heating, recent efforts by Amazon in which you give their delivery person some sort of electronic access to your home)


entertainers are entertaining


USPS has been monitoring Americans' communications longer than NSA has existed


tobasco and sugar


I think Team Fortress 2 straddles the line between a traditional First-Person Shooter (FPS) and the League-of-Legends-style Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre (which came to prominence later), while Overwatch goes deep into MOBA territory to its own detriment.

Every character in Overwatch is meant to be highly distinct, with their own weapons, special abilities and a strong "ultimate" ability which must be charged before use. This leads to visual clutter, lack of baseline expectations, and poor dramatic tension.

I enjoyed playing Overwatch, but found Overwatch League (the professional broadcast series of Overwatch matches) to be borderline un-watchable. The special abilities on every character evidently need to feel "epic" which requires lots of special effects. Combined with many characters in a single fight, this leads to a lot of visual clutter. In contrast, Team Fortress 2 mostly has bullet attacks that produce little visual clutter. The only strong form of visual clutter is a flamethrower which is used as a disorienting short-range ambush weapon. Watching TF2 Highlander (a 9 versus 9 competitive format) I have a much clearer idea what is happening than Overwatch's 6 versus 6 team format. While the plentiful visual effects work reasonably well in MOBAs (which have an isometric or overhead camera), they combine poorly with the chaotic world of First-Person Shooters.

The special abilities and unique heroes of Overwatch also make it difficult to form a reliable expectation of what any given character can do. Team Fortress 2 has a clear baseline for health, speed, attack and support ability, roughly at the Pyro class. Deficits in one area generally coincide with strengths in another. While Overwatch has a roughly standard health level for small, light classes everything else varies wildly. In particular, tank classes (with high health and defensive abilities) enjoyed reasonable speed, attack and support abilities leading to the infamous "Goats comp" of all tank and support classes. This composition took over competitive play and caused Overwatch developers to update the game to artificially force teams to pick damage-dealing heroes. While Team Fortress 2 competitive leagues limit the number of players who can play the healing or area damage classes, all 9 classes have consistently seen play. The issue here is not merely balance, but rather that TF2 characters conform to a rough baseline. 4 of 9 classes in TF2 have access to the exact same shotgun, and a 5th has a similar weapon. Almost all strong weapons are tuned to output damage roughly in line with this shotgun. Overwatch has no such commonalities or baseline. It feels like TF2 took a generic character and generated 9 interesting permutations, while Overwatch created about 30 interesting characters from scratch. The result is more variety, but also less coherence.

Team Fortress 2 only has an ultimate ability on one class in the base game; the healing class can grant a few seconds of invincibility. While some ultimate-type abilities have been introduced over the years, these generally are less impactful than the Medic ultimate and require much greater tradeoffs. The flow of every match of TF2 is shaped by Medic ultimate abilities while other ultimate-type abilities are rarely so impactful. This creates excellent dramatic tension, as the whole team coordinates around a single moment where the peak of their team's capacity to win is unleashed. In Overwatch every character has their own ultimate ability and many of the "mere" special abilities are also quite impactful. Thus every fight presents a random selection of powerful abilities rather than clearly defined moments of higher and lesser tension.


The State does not exist, it is just another religion. Sadly its worshippers are very real and should be avoided if at all possible.


I think Hayek's Road to Serfdom explains this well


thoughts and prayers


Wasn't there some Bitcoin mixer dev who got convicted?

I'm searching for it but the only one I'm finding is Fog and he seemed to actually run the service, not just contribute code


It looks like he's arguing with them before & after getting stabbed

This is a bad idea

Moreover he should avoid someone with a knife unless he's armed with a greater weapon


Did you notice the 18% gratuity already included?


I agree with that

However, I think in practice it would more closely resemble the ancien regime, with punishments like death and exile much more common. I think the "outlaw" system of the American West worked very well, with criminals denied the protection of the law (and thus subject to death or other injury). I also think in a sytem of private law there would be armed self-defense, and thus another avenue by which the death of criminals would become much more common.

Murphy seems to think that a private law system would become nearly pacifist, but I strongly disagree. The ability to be soft requires very strong security which in turn requires that somewhere along the line there is iron determination. We are seeing exactly that tension unravel in modern Europe and the Anglophone countries.


There is no scenario where nobody innocent ever dies. It's just not on the table.


Good news everyone!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-dismisses-machine-gun-charges-against-kansas-woman-citing-supreme-court-decision


I am strongly in disagreement.

I think lifelong incarceration is inhumane and burdens victims & law-abiding people (eg via taxation).

I'm willing to bite the bullet on some nonzero error rate, and I would encourage you to realize that your alternative (eg life incarceration) will also have a non-zero error rate.

It is sometimes argued that lifelong incarceration is cheaper than the death penalty, on account of the automatic appeals associated with the death penalty. Either these appeals do not tend to bring about justice, and they could be removed without an issue, or they do bring about justice and foregoing them for life incarceration would entail a higher error rate in life incarceration than in execution.


Californians voted almost 60-40 to restrict benefits to illegal imigrants

A Jewish judge decided the citizens of California had no right to do anything that might diminish the flow of illegals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_187
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Pfaelzer


Maybe he was a sharp guy prior to his disease

But check out this interview (eg at 1m45s)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jdanSzYmjFM


Was Stephen Hawking a genius, or a retard in a chair which other physicists used as a convenient mouthpiece?

https://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/311/kausel.html


I do this also (try to relate concepts to each other) and I think it's responsible for my apparent intelligence


I am skeptical that incompetence promoting peasant revolt is the fuel for revolutions

It seems to me that usually revolutions are led by members of the oligarchic class forming a counter-elite

English, French, Russian revolutions all follow this pattern

Even something like the defeat of the Kapp Putsch (by general strike) was effectively led by the pre-existing privileged class


mathematical = imaginary


"gold without the weight"

aka nothing at all


Indeed, and no one has


I'm skeptical of whether contagion exists

One interesting point of comparison is hydrophobia and puppy pregnancy syndrome


Yes, the most likely explanation is a shared environmental exposure, such as a toxin or a shared deficiency (eg Vitamin D deficiency in the winter)

I think part of the story is that the same exact symptoms get diagnosed as a different disease depending on what's in the news and what vaccinations the unwell person got. Virtually all the respiratory illnesses that would normally be attributed to influenza were instead attributed to coronavirus.


we are already in an Ice Age

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


have they not already screwed up tremendously and publicly?


who is snooki ?


This (link) gives me a similar result in 10 minutes to what I would get from 45 minutes of zen (sitting) meditation

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


astronauts training to perpetuate the space hoax


No

You eat the engine lubricant, I'll eat meat and dairy


famine became more common with agriculture (because a whole crop could fail) rather than less


disturbing

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/these-living-computers-are-made-from-human-neurons


No wonder slavers like it - it fits right into their religion of world dictatorship


how do I find interesting people to follow?


I've never heard of these Bridgecoins. Which bridge do they give you ownership of, again?


The lefties are quite Christian, especially the atheists

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


Leftists: I care more about space rocks than my own grandmother

Rightists: I care most about my family and friends

https://nostrcheck.me/media/f5b55f6b44b8997b2b6e8469a6a57f8d3f3b2ef27023543445c40ecec485ee64/e7b5140eae86f66e4149766a5e97363dab613fee4749d24758c619bcfd30184d.webp

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674


Lefties have it bad

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674


I don't doubt that you got sick, and that your symptoms loosely matched the constellation of symptoms described as Covid.

But the question, in your case and every other, is what caused the illness?

Some sort of microbial parasite smaller than a bacteria (and not observable with a light-based microscope) causing the illness is a hypothesis (not a theory, and certainly not an observation). However there is no scientific evidence to support this hypothesis.

Unless some evidence emerges to support the hypothesis, we should consider alternatives. Perhaps your family was poisoned via your food, water or air. Perhaps you were all exposed to some sort of radiation. Perhaps your family was all deficient in some nutrient (eg seasonal deficiency of Vitamin D due to low sun exposure).


How do you know that a subcellular obligate parasite caused your illness?


People get sick, our "germ theory" failed so it must just be a smaller germ

Same issue with particle physics - the collider doesn't find the particles we predict so they must be smaller than we thought


Not nearly as sick as the standard American diet


Our ancestors lost a foot of height and 10% brain mass when they started eating grain.

You implicitly admit the amount of sugar is what matters, and ignore the fact that modern processed food (including bread) has an order of magnitude more refined sugar than the foods of our grandparents.

If the "long" history of human grain consumption (a blink of an eye compared to our millions of years eating meat) shows the relative safety of grain, why does the short history of seed oil consumption (less than 200 years) not indicate a lack of such safety?


the buns are usually the worst part (grain, seed oils, sugar)


Communism is mass public slavery


Sounds great, how much will 10 kilograms cost me?


https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-eye-at-the-end-of-time

I recommend the first half of this (before the subscriber shill) and not the second half

I think there's a more fundamental division to be made here, rather than future vs past or Jesus vs "Progress" (which after all are not so different... being judged at the end of the world vs at the end of time)

Instead, I think the division is between subjective and objective, or more fundamentally between a reality that exists here and now independent of consciousness and a "reality" that is subordinate to consciousness. The "Eye at the End of Time" posits morality as something to be judged by a conscious observer (hence "Eye"). In contrast I view morality as part of reality - this works, that doesn't. This leads to flourishing, that does not.

I think this distinction (between a world of consciousness and a world of existence) is the fundamental philosophic and political distinction. The left supports group consciousness (an impossibility) while the traditional right supports divine consciousness (also an impossibility). Those who support reality for its own sake are rogues and hermits.


"Bitcoin is the most scarce form of money to ever exist"

Too right!
There isn't an ounce of the stuff in the whole world


Well we've reached N of 1, at least

I have a graduate degree in economics & (more importantly) have spent thousands of hours studying (mostly Austrian) economics since then

I am of the opinion that Bitcoin is economically illiterate and it will be to the great shame of Austrian economists to have ever supported it

I regard Bitcoin as a better form of fiat - a "nothing" but with better rules than the dominant "nothing"

Also, do you imagine that Peter Schiff hasn't spent thousands of hours studying money?


The point is that any fluctuation at all means the Bitcoin doesn't represent a specific unit of computing power.

If the dollar is just a name for a certain weight of silver (as it was in 1780) then any fluctuation at all makes the label "dollar" meaningless.

This may seem strange, but let's use a different unit: the gram. If I promise to pay you 10 grams of gold 2 years in a row, and I give you 2 different masses of gold, then either I've cheated you or "gram" is just a measure of whim (or both, especially if it's my whim).

So if "Bitcoin" is a monetary unit that represents 10 petaflops of compute, and then next year it represents 8 petaflops, it's not really a unit at all. Similarly, a "dollar" that represents 10 grams one year and 8 grams the next isn't actually a unit.


There's a huge selection bias there.

If I take 10 hours to study Bitcoin and conclude that it is impressive from a cryptographic point of view but economically illiterate, why would I then spend thousands of further hours studying it?


Bitcoin aren't fungible - each UTXO can be tracked on the blockchain


What can you do with Bitcoins? Are they good to eat? Perhaps you can melt them down and make useful tools?


The computers have value, yes.

But how much of that power does a certain unit of Bitcoin buy me?

If the answer depends on the conversion rate between fiat and Bitcoin, that power cannot be the source of the value of Bitcoin (because it would provide the valuation at an arbitrary and fluctuating rate)


Subjective value doesn't mean it's just made up, it means it relates to the subject.

So if I have one gallon of water, I will put it to the most highly-valued use available to me (probably drinking it so I don't die)

If I get a second gallon, I will put it to the second-most-highly-valued use (which might be different than your second most highly valued use)

So the value of the water is subjective (it depends on who is getting it, how much water they already have, and what uses that person can imagine to which to put the water)

But it's also objective in that if you knew all the uses of water available to me and how I rank them in terms of the satisfaction of my needs, you could predict how I will use the water, and there is an objectively correct usage of a given volume of water (conditional on knowing the unknowable)

Bitcoin has no physical form and therefore no subjective or objective use. The first unit of Bitcoin I get doesn't allow me to do anything whatsoever, nor does the second, nor does any further amount. It's true that I can sign the chain to create new UTXOs for the next person, but that person also has no use for Bitcoin. The whole thing looks reasonable only in comparison to centralized fiat currency, in which the same drawbacks apply plus a privileged group is allowed to monkey with the system.

A thought experiment: Suppose Satoshi had promised to pay 1 Bitcoin for each Bitcoin mined, and the ledger tracks how much Bitcoin he owes you for maintaining his records, rather than being the "money" itself. Then suppose Satoshi disappeared and it became apparent he would never pay. Presumably the value of these promises would go to zero when it becomes obvious they would not be fulfilled. But, how is that any different from the current system?


I'm partial to the double conspiracy theory
(that neocons blew a hole in the Pentagon but Israelis learned about the plan and destroyed the towers)


the ultimate shit-test


The victory of reality over delusion is inevitable


Finally, stable currency


Yeah I've met some Africans who I regard as assimilated into middle-class Anglo-American culture.

I've also met some Africans born abroad and clearly assimilated into global Anglo culture.

However, this doesn't mean all Africans are assimilated, nor that such assimilation washes away all meaningful differences.


Plainly not