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


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

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


Or marrow


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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


only 6% more inflation left


"Just say no to Tucker"

"Why?"

"Am I not entertained?"


das raycis


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

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

(see 1m45s for a particularly clear example)


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


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


Are Freemasons Jewish?


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


the actor was just an actor


This is good actually


Yes


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

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


That's his argument but it seems to be wrong

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


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


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

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

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


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

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

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


Rottweilers are a type of mastiff and closely related to bulldogs

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


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


shut up bot


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


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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


CO2 is good actually


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

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

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

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


search for "Parthenon"


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


Money in money out is how you get rich

Thanks for the Very Useful Advice


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


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

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


antifa


invidious

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


On a pike, right?


yeah but the kids were Hwhite


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


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

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

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


"Nothing ever happens"


looks bad


what?


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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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


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


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

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


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


u serious?


won't someone think of the mushrooms


It's all downstream of philosophy

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


What is a trans youth?


or views


worthless != free


Most of these categories I have no such item

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

You can moisturize with tallow


skip to 1m30s

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


I like metal discs


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

I'm here for the FOSS uncensorable flow of information

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

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


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


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


I'm not really into Pokemon


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

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

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

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

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


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

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


-20% on the week....


if they have this, they are pro-DEI


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

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


It depends on the nature of the theory.

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

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

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


you have a government?


US Naval Intelligence is more likely (see: Tor)


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


I got it in a lower number of guesses


Generally sheriffs are much better than police

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


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

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


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


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

whywhycarnivore.com


I am an abolitionist, yes


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

https://nostter.app/


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

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


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


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


shrieking is a reasonable response to being poisoned


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


Do you have an argument?


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


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

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


my FAANG shorts finally printing


I liked that book

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

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

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


I believe that message is from YouTube, not from Inv


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


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


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


Every race is a sprint

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


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

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


For pure theory here are 3 good options:

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

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

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

A couple of honorable mentions:

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

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


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


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


lul welcome


invidious works for me


interesting point:

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


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


Not really

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

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

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


oh


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


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

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


More Bitcoins for you, more metal disks for me


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

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

Occasionally I zip somebody


They're both nonsense

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


"buy in late"

buy what? Bitcoin is a fairy tale


Goodbye


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


Thank you for sharing the parasitic nature of blackness


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

just use common law instead


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


Alternate proposal: only people with object permanence can vote


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

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


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


Is Israel a puppet or is the US?


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

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

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

The main benefactors are sexual perverts and immigrant-invaders.

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

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

So where does America’s leadership class come from?

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


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

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

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


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


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


insane KCM this week

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


Wait


I remember seeing her in the Dem debates and being unimpressed

I don't remember her being borderline retarded

Was she always this vapid?


look into regenerative agriculture if you haven't already


the South is where all the Africans are

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

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


I'm sure it could be faked

But I doubt it was


who?


We killed the King but not the Crown


I think Trump played into it once it started

Perhaps what is coming will come, perhaps something else will


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


chess


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

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


Buffet doesn't understand gold

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

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

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


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

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


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


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


inb4 cope and seethe


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

Andrew Jackson


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

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

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


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


Who?


It it what it is


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


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

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

I asked what it was instead

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


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

So Bush looking stunned could be genuine


Omission vs comission

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


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


unfortunately it is economically illiterate

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


I like Trump.

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

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


Yes exactly


is that a good thing?


Why do you think Hamas wants to destroy Israel?


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


Thomas has been good on this - see his dissents

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


substitute tallow

I guess he's poor


where's the migrants when you need them


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


big if true


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

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

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


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


Kenya believe it


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

role models


what is power?


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


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

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


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


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


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


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

https://natrontheory.com/


resistance yes
money no


Twitter.com but it redirects to a porn site now


What was the situation on 6 October?


When did Hamas start the war?


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

I guess having gay sex in the West or dead


jog, anyway


The head Soviet judge presided over Stalin's show trials

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

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


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


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

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

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


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

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


interesting article, thanks for sharing


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


#Texit


Stay humble, stack yachts


I agree with most of that.

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


How do you know this?


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

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


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

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

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


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

Somehow this propaganda was too optimistic


Do you keep silkworms?


stock vs flow


GODL


He could be in this very room

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


How many citizens did they kill?


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


unnamed teens could be here


avoid the quacks at all costs


There's risks to that too


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

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


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


Yahoo finance reports 268 shares traded at the "bottom"


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

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


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

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

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


I recommend a chain mail scrubber


good luck 🫡


does she have a sister?


we agree on cutting sugar though

diabetes involves an inability to process carbohydrate


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


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


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


how did this woke clown get the nomination?


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


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


why would AGI want to preserve itself?


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


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


No system is perfect, but monarchy is better than democracy

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

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


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


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

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

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

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


3 causes of disease I can conceive:

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


they have electron microscope images

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

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

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


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


seems accurate to me

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

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


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

see footnote 49


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


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


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


I am not sure I believe this

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


what do I need a watch for?


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


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


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


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


celery is rough for me


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


printer is coming


It's coming


nobody


nah I'm not on twitter.com any more


return it


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


why give the Africans endless shrimp?
bad management


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

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


so that's why my container equity has been ripping


good point let's cut the aid


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


Sub-Saharan Africa


what is Ishmael?


from enemy fire or gross incompetence?


"Your dog is your best friend"

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

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


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

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


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


Seriously though we need the sun to synthesize Vitamin D


>Single mom
swipe left


now that's an influencer


100% Trump will win the Selection

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

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


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

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


Negros are our closest relatives


different populations have different levels of adaptation to adult dairy consumption

most of the world is lactose intolerant


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


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


I tried to warn you but you looked away.

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


paper will bear anything that is put upon it
-Lenin


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


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

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


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

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

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


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


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

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


Monkey is
Monkey see
Monkey do


be the change


I doubt it

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

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

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

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


Dave Smith on Tucker

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


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


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

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


"our descendants will hardly know who we are"

The trick is to have descendants


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


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


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

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

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

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

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

This is double the official federal poverty level.


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

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


I did a little more internet searching

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

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


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

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

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

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


progressives re-discover property rights

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


many confusions


Don't forget about metal disks


haha
it's not even their ancestors


yeah silver has been ripping


protip: don't shoot yourself

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


small roundabouts are great

huge roundabouts are bad


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


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


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

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


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


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

We don't see Russia flattening Ukraine.

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

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

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


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


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

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

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


judge, and prepare to be judged


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


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


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


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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


It can't happen, sorry


Self defense is always justified

I don't care what the African communist says


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


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


⚡ -500


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

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


The New Deal

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


What has Israel done for USA?


US Constitution Article 1 Section 8

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


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

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


Madness.

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


Nothing insane needs to happen

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


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

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

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

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

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


They have fiat liabilities, not real liabilities


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


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


Thankfully it's fake

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


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

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

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


"eventually"

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


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


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


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


I don't think the Chinese are really commies anymore

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

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


possible r vs k selection

if you're not familiar

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

What is damaging about this?


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


hot!


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

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

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

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


Is this a 9/11 reference?


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

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

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

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

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


frustrating article

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


weak men
afraid of controlling frame


good day


OK fair enough

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


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


Perhaps

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

which would suggest a lead up to revolution


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


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

Like pound, lira, and others

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


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

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


"Beavers have a right to exist here"

Morons


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

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