the Fed doesn't have gold, they have gold certificates which the US government has already defaulted on


Black America was doing well a few decades ago (eg in the 1940s they had lower out-of-wedlock birth rates than whites)


Iron/steel are great for thermal mass and durability (eg searing steaks).

Aluminum/copper/silver are great for conductivity / temperature responsiveness (eg reducing sauce).

Stainless steel is uniquely good with acidic foods (which will absorb copper or aluminum as well as the "seasoning" on cast iron & carbon steel).

Teflon and ceramic are disposable trash that will probably also poison you.

I have a cast iron skillet and a stainless steel saucier (with aluminum core) and I struggle to imagine picking another setup.


Cruz is OK
He's an Israeli shill
But he has some understanding of what the American legal structure is supposed to be


what's special about the up-down direction?

why doesn't a pound of wood get pushed East in water?


notice how Piers doesn't deny any of the accusations, he just gets mad about them


My how times change

nostr:nevent1qqsrv7qsx6xncv548zu9fl6rtngtp4vq6ys898p052l2p0cy0v77zrqmlwuj8


It's hard to imagine it could be worse than what we have now (although I wouldn't bet on it)


a) official inflation is deliberately understated in order to underpay benefits that are indexed to cost-of-living

b) people save in real estate instead of evaporating currency, creating a semi-permanent property bubble


tough but fair


Interesting discussion - are the would-be lords of this world distinctly Jewish, or are they something else?

https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/mees-baaijen-vs-laurent-guyenot-is-the-world-domination-project-jewish/


I think you're right historically (even very recently in history)

but I also think the events of the past several years have radicalized not only the "conservative" base but also many activists and officials

There's also the fact that the RNC is currently co-chaired by Lara Trump (Eric's wife)


I very much doubt the US still has 8 tonnes

(or if US does, it's legally earmarked for somebody else and that somebody else doesn't have as much gold as they imagine)


The communists don't care that it doesn't actually help, their belief is a religion not an economic or social theory


YOU ARE STILL WRONG


Imagine just admitting to being a terrorist


DO IT


What democratic governance?

How is elected officials actually exercising real power less democratic than unelected bureaucrats exercising real power?


The Democrats look far more like Orban than Trump. Who talks about packing the Courts? Who created a "Disinformation Governance Board" to censor the opposition?

The only Orban-like idea in the Trump camp is that elected officials should actually be in charge, which is the meaning of (representative) democracy.


"the political projects of Orban and Trump have lots of parallels"

Yes, they both want to act within the system to gain power and then use that power to do what they think (perhaps mistakenly) is best for the people of their nation.

You know WHO ELSE wanted to do what he thought was best for his nation?


Do you think the US was basically a functioning democracy in 2008? Do you think the general government was basically structured as described by the Constitution?

I think "No" to both. I think the elected officials have very little control and the real power lies in the institutions, and consequently US democracy is window dressing on an authoritarian system. I think the Constitution is not remotely followed. The Constitution forbids a standing army, vests all executive power in the President, requires only gold and silver as money, and forbids Congress from doing anything at all other than a handful of specifically listed powers.

I view project 2025 as (partially) remaking America in the image of the Constitution, with the likely consequence that judges eventually bring it even closer in line.


Very interesting series - lots of behind-the-scenes of Trump & team as well as from the Butler PA assassination attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPPSu2RHuc


Left 2 characters look very spec ops, Asian chick looks business or diplomacy or something, old man looks like a modern generic businessman villain (not that that's automatically bad)

they seem like fine characters but usually a movie poster also conveys something about the setting or action, eg A New Hope poster has ships shooting lasers and explosions, plus the characters are in action poses

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-Poster-Regular/dp/B00LREHN0S

just seeing your 4 characters doesn't convey who is good or bad or what sorts of things they're going to do in the film / book

another good point of comparison are the frazetta covers, where you usually have 1-2 characters shown in good detail, and some suggestion of action but you don't get the full core of the cast like the Star Wars poster

The most important prop for warriors is a weapon, usually held ready or actively in use. The male warrior seems to have a plate carrier so perhaps he should have a rifle, while the scar on the female warrior suggests close combat - perhaps she should have a blade.

If one or more of those characters is primarily characterized by wealth they should have some indicators of that wealth - such as gold jewelry, cigars, finely tailored clothing, etc.

TLDR: Not enough information to respond to your question


are you funny?


she wasn't even black


Warmonger Raus!

https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/us-news/trump-announces-former-wh-officials-nikki-haley-mike-pompeo-will-not-be-in-his-next-administration/


18USC334 + 12USC411 mean that if the Fed doesn't redeem Federal Reserve Notes (as they have failed to do for 60 years) the 'Governors' can be imprisoned for 5 years


Reich is a communist and a loser

"Fascism" doesn't mean specifically that big business influences government, but rather that all corporations become de facto government agencies.

And "corporations" here refers primarily to trade unions (fascio) but also religious organizations and large businesses.


I believe in an alternate model, in which interstellar travel is really hard and low-payoff so even advanced civilizations don't do much of it (or any)


I think he's on Mastodon and getting federated in (rather than being on nostr directly)

Like half the people I follow on nostr aren't on nostr


getting ready for the great shitlib vs streetshitter war 🍿


am I the only one that thinks that doesn't look like Pelosi?


maybe


roughly $3k in current prices


good pick if there are other offices / appointees who can help enforce his will

if he has to wrangle the department by himself I doubt his skills are relevant


Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power

But corporate in the 30s didn't mean big business in particular, it meant any organized body (eg unions & religious organizations as well as big business)


I did.

I was a nerd and loved reading and learning all sorts of stuff. I found a book on geology and was amazed at all the little details about different minerals. My parents thought I was into rocks when I was into dense information. So they bought me a rock collection and a rock tumbler and I'm sure other rock stuff I've forgotten about.


it's the same disease as diabetes, cancer, etc - metabolic poisoning


bring a food taster


don't be a faggot
if he hurt your feelings just mute him and move on


SCOTUS has had some good voices pushing this way in a long time, notably Scalia (for laying out the legal interpretive framework) and most especially Thomas (who advocates to overrule Wickard v. Fillburn and basically overturn the whole modern regime)

Gorsuch is pretty good, and ACB seems OK, while the other Republicans are basically normies who don't want to rock the boat and just let the regime run on autopilot


That gives me a great product idea


San Francisco storeowners could also end the shoplifting epidemic overnight by simply marking all items down to zero


18USC-334

"Whoever, being a Federal Reserve Agent, or an agent or employee of such Federal Reserve Agent, or of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, issues or puts in circulation any Federal Reserve notes, without complying with or in violation of the provisions of law regulating the issuance and circulation of such Federal Reserve notes; or

Whoever, being an officer acting under the provisions of chapter 2 of Title 12, countersigns or delivers to any national banking association, or to any other company or person, any circulating notes contemplated by that chapter except in strict accordance with its provisions—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."

12USC-411

"Federal reserve notes, to be issued at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the purpose of making advances to Federal reserve banks through the Federal reserve agents as hereinafter set forth and for no other purpose, are authorized. The said notes shall be obligations of the United States and shall be receivable by all national and member banks and Federal reserve banks and for all taxes, customs, and other public dues. They shall be redeemed in lawful money on demand at the Treasury Department of the United States, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, or at any Federal Reserve bank."

So if Powell refuses to redeem (as the Fed currently does) he can simply be arrested.


Article 2 Section 1: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America."


I am of the opinion that POTUS can shutter agencies without Congress acting, especially when those agencies are unconstitutional in the first place


IMO we need Congress to create mechanisms to unwind social security, the US Army (Constitution permits a permanent Navy but not a permanent Army), the Federal Reserve and the Federal pension program

Pretty much everything else can go in a day - Dep of Ag, Dep of Edu, Dep of Energy (turn the nuke stuff over to the military), Dep of HUD, EPA, and many others can just be shut down immediately


she might be sober here


it's only for people convicted of crimes

I think California is seeing some backlash from letting all the criminals do whatever they want, so for a while they will probably get "tough on crime"


Yeah they think "the English" (ie white Americans) are basically crazy and want to keep them at arm's length


well if you wanted more child trannies there was already a candidate for that

so Oliver was basically pitching to culturally left libertarians

who exist but not as a major voting block


Abandon overseas military bases
Withdraw diplomatic staff from most or all embassies
Use 10A to crush administrative state


welp, now the Nazis are gonna take over and print everything in a gothic font


Yeah Trump has been very pro-Israel, but it looks like he's got a much better crew this time around, hopefully enough of them talk sense into him on the neocon question


if I bought in around 50% I'd sell out my initial stake, maybe a bit more

I think the odds of a cheating attempt are more than 8%


soon! we're just sweeping up the states that can actually run an election that looks trustworthy


this thought has occurred to me

Trump's 2016 victory united the corporate/bureaucrat wing of the Dems (exemplified by the Clintons but including Biden) with the commie wing (exemplified by Obama but including Harris)

I think their recent infighting has resulted in the establishment Dems sitting this one out


poor guy


He had a bit I just watched - claimed that if Trump wins it's just the beginning, need to block out neocons from Trump admin. He says there's no foreign country that's a serious threat, and the neocons work for Israel to get America into wars.


"If Trump wins, I'm moving to Europe" has already started

https://people.com/pretty-woman-actor-richard-gere-sells-connecticut-house-for-11-million-8739429


Get a gun, some canned food, a battery-powered radio and a pair of balls


I don't think I'm this pessimistic but he has a point:

"These people are trying to do a beat-for-beat remake of the 2016 election. We have the same slogans, the same “outsider” arguments, the same promises. Our villain is just a dumber, colored version of Hillary Clinton. We have a cast of characters billed as a “super team” assembled (most of them new because many of the 2016 people don’t want anything to do with this election and others were exposed as frauds). Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Jared Kushner is running the show."

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/a-failed-soft-reboot-of-the-2016-election/


The real health food aisle is the one where they dress up like doctors


eye of the storm


Nothing to see here, just top US military and political leaders wargaming how to prevent Trump from taking power in the event of a "clear Trump victory" in the election

https://youtu.be/evpxa5XJ5bg


Trump is portrayed as a threat

I think the real threat is that he exposes that elected officials have virtually no power and thus democracy was fake all along

(which Biden and Harris also expose in a different way)


tune in to the finale of America - tonight only!


Most leftfugees are conservatives though

I think the real issue with Texas is the same one that turned California commie: mass illegal immigration


She's just that impressive 🤣


"Somehow, we’ve come to associate “democracy” with “freedom,” when the opposite is actually the case. Peasants in feudal Europe had much more freedom than modern Americans. The feudal lord was not coming and checking the length of your swords, he wasn’t requiring you to have a license to go fishing on public land, and he sure as hell wasn’t trying to convince your son to cut his dick off. The lord was not flooding you with foreigners, he was not legalizing violent crime, he was not devaluing your currency, he was not destroying family formation with women’s rights."

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/stupid-nigger-faggots-poll-claims-80-of-americans-believe-words-can-be-violence/


a pound of what?


wait for the twist ending


Commie-flavored Israeli worship is indeed worse than liberty-flavored Israeli worship


which banana?


or better yet a steak


Looks like 97% are purely elective

Social reasons? Psychological health?


don't dead open inside


A metaphor for all American single women: screwed by Democrats but still supports them


If we can't infanticide we're basically sex slaves, because self-control contraception and adoption don't exist


The Indians are onto something


I got Tim Kaine but it did take me a minute

But yeah, good bit, poking fun at liberal obsession with The Current Thing


I really don't buy the Fourth Turning thing.

World War 1 doesn't count and a financial crisis every 10-15 years going back 200+ years only counts when it lines up with their 80-year cycle.

The most turbulent period of recent American history was the 1960s, not the 1940s.

I think instead philosophical ideas trickles down through other fields and shape human behavior. The Dark Ages and Renaissance weren't 80-year cycles. Ultimately many particular factors combine to create specific events.


Suicide Pods Dangerous, more at 11


Yeah - enclosed spaces are not breathable until proven otherwise


Dennis Prager recently wrote a letter to Candace Owens, defending Jews in general and Israel in particular

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/375800/my-letter-to-candace-owens/

In it, Prager maintains that Israel is an ally of the United States, but admits that the Israeli attack on the US Naval Intelligence Ship "Liberty" was "probably deliberate" and "criminal".

Instead, Prager says that because Israel invents military technology which the US manufactures for them at US taxpayer expense, they are "one of [the US's] greatest allies in the world". This is akin to claiming that the United States is China's greatest ally, because the United States designed the iPhone for its own benefit.

In the "Zionist media" section, Prager argues that the term "Zionist" means only that "Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish country", glossing over the fact that this is necessarily an apartheid state which favors the Jewish minority over the Arabic majority who follow the other Abrahamic faiths.

In Prager's rhetorical quest to exonerate Jews of every serious crime of which any has ever been accused, he ignores the conviction of Leo Frank while highlighting the acquittal of the accused murders of Eszter Solymosi. In one case the outcome of the legal proceeding is proof of what really happened, in other other it bears no weight at all.

And this is the problem with Prager's letter - it is replete with double standards and motivated reasoning.


More emotional voters -> more control by regime media


Are you skeptical of the germ theory of disease?

I find https://viroliegy.com/ convincing on the virus question, and I'm pretty skeptical of the pathogenic qualities of bacteria now also. I suspect that if bacteria (or for that matter mold or fungus) contaminate a food for a long period they might produce toxic substances, but a spore of one of these microorganisms seems unlikely to me to culture harmfully inside a healthy human.

I'm also skeptical of the mutation theory of cancer, and partial to the metabolic theory promoted by Dr. Thomas Seyfried. https://youtu.be/Oijv5ZGqo-I


Kant is a cunt


The victory of reality over delusion is inevitable (and not up to you)


This Is Your Body on Sugar
By Alice Callahan Animations by Rosa Sawyers Oct. 30, 2024
For all of human history, the natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and other plants have served us well. They have provided essential fuel for our body’s most important processes.

But now that sugars have been processed into more potent forms and added to so many foods and drinks — sodas, candies, breakfast cereals, salad dressings, breads — most of us are getting more sugar than our bodies were meant to handle.

Over time, excess consumption of these added sugars can increase the risk of health problems. Here’s how that may play out in various parts of your body.

The Mouth
The potential issues from added sugars start in your mouth. Here, certain bacteria break sugars down and produce acids, which can eventually erode your tooth enamel.

Your saliva is able to neutralize these acids, but if you keep consuming sugary foods and drinks throughout the day, it won’t be able to keep up. Acid levels will remain high, increasing your risk for cavities.

A diet high in sugary drinks like soda and juice can also change your mouth’s microbiome — increasing the number of acid-producing bacteria and decreasing the beneficial ones. That may make you even more susceptible to cavities.

The Gut
Most sweet foods contain several types of sugars. In the small intestine, they are broken down into simple sugars — mainly glucose and fructose.

Your body can easily absorb glucose from your intestine, but some people have trouble absorbing fructose, which is found in high amounts in many fruit juices, sweeteners like agave syrup, and drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, like sodas. If fructose lingers in your gut, bacteria can ferment it, which may cause gas, bloating and abdominal pain.

Young children tend to have more difficulty absorbing fructose than adults, but it can contribute to irritable bowel syndrome symptoms in people of all ages.

The Pancreas
When your blood sugar rises, your pancreas releases insulin, a hormone that helps glucose enter your cells to be used for energy. As your cells pull in the glucose, your blood sugar returns to normal.

Eating foods high in added sugars can cause large blood sugar spikes. When this happens repeatedly, over years, your cells can become less responsive to insulin. This is called insulin resistance. Your pancreas compensates by making more insulin, but eventually, it may not be able to make enough to keep your blood sugar levels in check. This is how Type 2 diabetes develops.

The Brain
Glucose provides essential fuel for your brain. When your blood sugar rises, glucose molecules cross into your brain, where brain cells use them for energy.

But if you have a big blood sugar spike and a surge of insulin, your glucose levels may plummet an hour or two later. That can leave you feeling irritable, tired and hungry — and perhaps craving something sweet again.

Sugar — its taste in your mouth, its absorption in your gut and even the sight or smell of a sweet food that you love — causes dopamine to surge in your brain. That’s an evolutionary signal that propels you to keep eating easy sources of calories.

Some research suggests that frequent doses of sugar can alter the brain’s reward system, increasing our cravings for sweetness and sometimes making it hard to cut back.

The Liver
Consuming too much added sugar can cause the liver to convert extra sugars, especially fructose, into fat. That fat may then accumulate in the organ.

Over time, this can contribute to what used to be called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, now known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD. An estimated four in 10 people worldwide have the condition — many of whom don’t know it, since it typically doesn’t cause symptoms until it’s advanced. It’s the fastest growing reason people need liver transplants in the United States.

Fat Storage
Consuming too much sugar can also increase your risk for obesity. This is especially true if you drink a lot of “liquid calories,” like from sodas or sugary coffee drinks, which tend to leave you feeling less sated than solid food. That makes it easy to consume more calories than your body needs, leading to weight gain.

Some studies suggest that the extra fat manufactured from fructose by your liver is especially prone to accumulating around the organs in your belly. This type of fat, called visceral fat, causes inflammation and insulin resistance and is strongly linked with cardiovascular disease.

The Heart
Excessive sugar consumption has also been linked to high blood pressure. And some of the extra fat made from sugars in the liver can be released into the blood, increasing levels of triglycerides and LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol. Over time, this can clog your blood vessels. High blood pressure and high cholesterol — along with excess weight that may come from consuming sugary foods and drinks — can increase your risk of heart disease.

The Joints
Consuming a lot of sugar can also increase your risk of gout — a complex form of arthritis that causes painful inflammation of the joints, especially in the fingers, toes and ankles. When fructose is broken down in the liver, it creates uric acid, which can accumulate in the joints and cause this kind of inflammation.

How much sugar is too much?
If you’re concerned about the occasional sugary treat, don’t be. Gorging on Halloween candy once a year won’t cause a chronic condition (though it may cause a stomach ache). But years of consuming more added sugars than recommended — along with other aspects of your diet, genetics, sleep and stress levels — may contribute to your risk.

Federal health officials recommend that no more than 10 percent of your daily calories come from added sugars. If you consume 2,000 calories per day, this works out to no more than 50 grams of added sugars per day.

That leaves plenty of room for sweetness, like a teaspoon of honey in your tea (about five grams) or Ghirardelli dark chocolate (three grams per serving of their Intense Dark 86 percent cacao version). But some products, like sugary drinks, can quickly put you over the limit. A 20-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola contains 65 grams of added sugars, for example, and a 16-ounce Caramel Swirl Latte from Dunkin’ has 35 grams.

The American Heart Association sets a stricter limit of 6 percent of calories consumed — or no more than about 25 grams per day for women and 36 grams per day for men.

On average, people in the United States consume about 67 grams of added sugars per day.

Nearly two-thirds of that amount comes from sugary drinks, sweet snacks, desserts and candy. But added sugars are also found in many packaged products like condiments, pasta sauces, sliced breads, granola and sweetened yogurts. You can check the “added sugars” line on nutrition labels to see if any are present. You may be surprised by what you find.

Sources

We consulted Dr. Miriam Vos, a hepatologist at Emory University School of Medicine; Dr. Frank B. Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Kimber L. Stanhope, a research nutritional biologist at the University of California, Davis; Ashley Gearhardt, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan; Michael Goran, a professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC; Paula Moynihan, an adjunct professor at Adelaide Dental School in Australia; Vasanti Malik, an assistant professor of nutrition and chronic disease prevention at the University of Toronto; and Alexandra G. DiFeliceantonio, an assistant professor of human nutrition, foods and exercise at Virginia Tech.

Edited by Julia Calderone. Produced by Deanna Donegan, Hang Do Thi Duc, Claire Merchlinsky and Meredith Rizzo.


How would it look different if there actually was cheating?


Have you read "The State in the Third Millenium" by HSH Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein?


the house three doors down has 10/22s


Rory Sutherland is so often interesting


"Tetanus vaccine may be laced with anti-fertility drug"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12346214/

"Birth control vaccines: the progress continues"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12286012/


Don't vote! It only encourages them


all the evil heterosexual Asian countries

China, Russia, Iran, best Korea etc


https://youtu.be/1dZqb7WXoY8?t=68

It looks to me like a number of the women do put at least one arm around Trump and exchange kisses & handshakes


this is a game?


I believe the reason given for statutory "rape" laws was to reduce teen pregnancy.

Quinciniera and Bat Mitzvah are supposed to be ceremonies that mark a girl becoming a woman (at 15 or 13).

By any sort of historical standard, 18 is very late.


I enjoyed this episode, thanks.

I think the surest bet is that G7 government debt continues to run out of control, leading to abandonment of some foreign holdings.

I think it's an open question whether we'll see US States fragmenting off to escape the sinking ship or whether meaningful reform can happen in modern Washington. I suspect the former and not the latter.


looks like inverse population density


Maybe you should live in the Americas then


Ridiculous - they're not even American


it's called October because it's the 8th month of the year
It's followed by November and December because those are the 9th and 10th months of the year


I like the airplane analogy - you have every right to evict someone from your airplane, but not at 30,000 feet


I don't think camps are likely

Prosecutions are likely where there is clear evidence that comes to public attention


I think the root issue is that "we" bombed their pipeline so they don't have cheap energy to power their industrial sectors


Hell yeah brother


I believe DDG is just a proxy layer on google

I get it as the 1st search result in Brave


I think in many places you don't get to keep anything and you don't see a running vote total - so you just have to trust/hope that the machine is adding everything up faithfully


I saw that story

Perhaps a more discreet method would be to soak some ballots in linseed oil

https://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infpai/inflinspontaneouscombust.html


One aspect of carnivore is getting plenty of quality nutrients, which I'm sure this achieves

Another aspect is getting rid of things that give you problems. Meat, cheese and vinegar are probably all fine. If you don't have any problems with tumeric or cucumber then this is probably fine.


Markets are efficient in the sense that markets clear (or nearly clear) - everyone who is willing to sell at or below the market price and everyone who is willing to buy at or above the market price will do so.

Markets are not efficient in the sense that everyone who "should" buy or sell will actually do so. The stocks (or other marketable products) which are the best value don't necessarily get advertised to the purchasers who are best suited for them.

Consequently, no special conspiracy or market failure is needed to explain why stock-pickers (or goldbugs, or bond investors, etc) might make money (if they have good principles and the fortitude to follow them).


how fashionable


The market value of Bitcoin depends on adoption and sentiment to a greater degree than that of gold

If investment demand for gold went to zero, you could still sell it to dentists to fill teeth or computer manufacturers to plate electrical contacts

Bitcoin has no such safety net


Bitcoin is riskier
If you want to gamble on maybe becoming rich, that's the one to go for

Gold is more stable
If you want to preserve wealth, that's the one to go for


"God" in quotes because he can't hide his contempt

https://images.app.goo.gl/7RRMfL7Juz4bRJ2U9


I've been thinking a lot about the bleakness of GRRM / Game of Thrones in a similar light.

I think in the leftist worldview there are no heroes, nobody with a real moral compass or conscience (except maybe briefly as a sucker).

Perhaps this is why they attribute malicious intention to so many things that non-cultists do. Perhaps they just don't understand why people would do things except for cult status or personal gain.


No nails needed - they brought their own superglue


That's one approach

I think a more reasonable approach is to just leave them for a couple days


Buy physical


>lads
>left-hand drive
>red bus

Albion detected

But fair point, likely we will have some of these same issues


They have a unified culture, though

Even the modern "secular" Jew is clearly influenced by the Talmud


"same chances to get well when sick"

Your desire for health equality must come at the expense of political equality

Some are allowed to tax others, but not the other way around

Moreover, how do you think this all worked prior to state intervention in healthcare? I happen to know that in the early 1900s Americans worked 5 days per year on average to pay for healthcare, and now it is over 50.

Perhaps you are ignorant of the history of mutual aid societies, doctors providing free or discounted care to the indigent, and religious/charitable provision of care (notice how many hospitals are named "Saint so-and-so").


I think I can cure most mental problems, but my methods don't look particularly psychiatric (and certainly not pharmaceutical)

I would advise anyone struggling mentally that they ought to eat whole foods (especially red meat), get sunlight, get sleep, quit drugs/alcohol and get some moderate exercise (eg walks)


What do you think of palladium?


I think there is some truth to this - falling in love with the appearance they have given things rather than looking at the things in themselves

I think also there is a certain religiosity - certain ideas get encoded into a utopian system and the State as their God on Earth carries them out


One of the mysteries of the progressive mind is that private charity (not to mention private business) is never an acceptable solution to poverty or other social ills

I assume this is because it hasn't been formulated into a "system" to which everyone is forced to comply, and therefore lacks the character of universal religion

But I will never really understand


I think this is from years ago, but it's certainly an aspirational message


You want "equal access" to my wallet to pay for things you regard as important

Pay for your own healthcare and education, you lazy bum!


"I do not feel robbed when paying my taxes"

so what? if you get mugged and you don't "feel robbed" you still got robbed

And your subjective feelings don't entitle you to rob others


You sound like a liberal rather than a progressive


how do you determine which social change is progress and which is decay?


why does gold get a C for divisibility?


that's federal government debt

here's total and GDP:

https://nostrcheck.me/media/f5b55f6b44b8997b2b6e8469a6a57f8d3f3b2ef27023543445c40ecec485ee64/2eab14c11c79b096cd4571979822a3cc123a8547d4db470032c09528ee43d7b3.webp


*what gives you


libertarians aren't necessarily opposed to private charity, volunteering, etc

as OP indicates he is specifically non-libertarian this means he A) doesn't understand libertarianism or B) wishes to resolve disputes in a way that favors some groups above others on an arbitrary basis or C) both

if you assume political equality / non-favoritism you can't have
-taxation
(which presumes some people have a right to take the property of others but not the other way around)
-legislative decrees
(which presume that some people have the right to enforce arbitrary rules on others but not the other way around)

and therefore cannot have a centralized authority to enforce your desired social reforms and therefore cannot be a progressive

If you nevertheless remain a progressive, what gives (or anyone else) the right to determine which social reforms shall be enforced? Why do you get to be the boot and not the face? And how confident are you that your team will remain the boot forever?


how can you support welfare statism and individual monetary sovereignty at the same time?

the welfare state presupposes that you can rob from some to support others

Bitcoin makes that much harder to do


per usdebtclock.org total US debt is 102T USD, or roughly 350% of GDP (which is 29T USD)

so almost perfectly in line with China


What is this growth maximizing point? Cutting taxes beyond that impairs growth? How?


Either it is so, or it isn't. My desire one way or the other won't change it.


imagine there was an internet that normies couldn't figure out how to access


Is there such a thing as "the Jewish people" outside of occupied Palestine?


I can't wait until the adult hall monitors get mad about nostr 🍿


indeed, to restore and preserve common law we must abolish the legislature


I don't think you can trust any mass-produced western-market consumer electronics


we should have elections all the time, then there'd be no political ads at all!


me too Ben, me too


I have a Chromebook that cost 1/4 as much, has a bigger screen and a real keyboard


I seem to recall it all went wrong with fruit


Not unless the lottery was so massively +EV as to justify my time and effort, in which case I would write in none of the above


I don't think the curve describes the real trade-offs facing coercive authorities.

Obviously the point is that very high income taxes encourage productive people to do something else (eg leisure) and this diminishes tax revenue.

I agree with this.

However, lower taxes are pro-growth, and thus pro-higher-tax-base later on and eventually pro-higher-tax-revenue. So the question is not simply "what rate of taxation will maximize revenue?" because many different rates will apply depending on time preference of the coercive authorities.


give me 3 weeks


*Diver steals a camera!


What did the socialists use before candles?
Electricity


Voting is illegitimate - a secret ballot that confers on you the right to rob your neighbor (as long as enough other neighbors agree) is nothing but conspiracy

Failing to eliminate voting entirely, property owners (ie the people who own the country) ought to vote and no one else


"clean" "water"


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


It seems that requires already possessing a state driving license


Best comedy I've seen in a while (plus random political rambling)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChaJbSvMAS0


when the grocery store is empty the long irons come out


I've got a pot like this
Clears out the fluoride, arsenic, microplastics, etc

I still get a tiny exposure from bathing, washing, etc but that should be much less

https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Branches-VKP1208-Little-Distiller/dp/B07WSJ2H8C/ref=sr_1_16


that's a hell of a signal


My intention was to raise awareness so that people can avoid eating the bugs. I didn't have any commentary one way or the other, I literally only quoted the abstract.

I think you're reading between lines that aren't there.


If I'm already muted I guess my reply doesn't matter

But for the record I'm quoting the abstract, not endorsing the study


I'm quoting the abstract....


What makes you think I'm promoting this?


This study examines prospects of edible whole insect and processed insect-based food in Germany and investigates determining factors for acceptance...

The main results show a low willingness to try insects among Germans and the prevalence of psychological and personality barriers to consumption, such as disgust and food neophobia. Focusing on processed insect products is shown to be the most promising strategy to implement entomophagy, as an essential barrier to consumption is the visibility of the insects.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334618984_Eating_edible_insects_as_sustainable_food_Exploring_the_determinants_of_consumer_acceptance_in_Germany


This study examines the acceptance of insect-based foods by consumers in Germany. The nationwide online survey (N = 516) focused on which factors have the greatest influence on the willingness to consume an insect burger and buffalo worms....

Hierarchical multiple regressions showed that food disgust was the most important predictor for the acceptance of edible insects.... The high influence of food disgust shows that not only the explicit disgust for insects is decisive for the consumer readiness of insect-based products, but also the domain specific disgust for food.

Despite the strong sustainability awareness of our participants, and contrary to our expectations, sustainability consciousness did not prove to be a significant predictor for the willingness to consume insects.

Implications for marketing strategies and educational interventions will be discussed.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950329319301740


Avoid the quacks!
all of em

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive


Ron Paul would be enjoying his 5th term


Time is made up - it's just now


I think New Englanders have shown themselves to be more eager than Arabians to kill a goose laying golden eggs.


to be fair pop-tarts also sell out


5 days!

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


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


when was this?


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


Imagine that.


Please don't feed the pigeons


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

Looks like a reasonable buy to me


Why is that?

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


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

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


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

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


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


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


looks like terrible keyholing to me


sear outside, raw inside
properly rested


why are his eyes deformed in the first place?


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

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

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

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


"too politically involved"

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


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

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

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


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


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


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


As will those who do not question history


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

in 1936


"very successful"
Men never cared about this

"late 30s"
Men always cared about this


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


Just Stop Oil


fossil fuel isn't made from fossils


Is the power of the president real?

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

Is the election real?

I have some serious doubts about that

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

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


Brussels


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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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


I think there's a placebo effect

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


Spot the Trown, college volleyball edition:

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


58K day is my favorite holiday


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

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


viruses weren't real


Mass choreography signals conformity, power and organization

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

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


I think this is true of SimpleX also


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

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


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


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


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


real but prior to Israel's current battles

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


or at least flipping burgers


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


what are eggs


Sorry, no

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

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


"Carry with the safety off"

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


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

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


they muted it to remove the sound of silence?


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


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

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


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

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

These are the optimistic scenarios


those are not such different ideas


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


#1 changed because #3 happened


nostter.app


I'm a skeptic


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

price != value


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


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

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


Just what I drink, sadly


I use distilled water
I don't use dental products


IMO Bitcoin will die when fiat dies

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

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


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

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


walk away


Despite killing his wife and a waiter


woman


Pretty much


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


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

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


Don't buy fictional gold


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

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

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

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

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


Yes

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


Be not do


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


It looks like Hangul (Korean) to me


you have smartphones?


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


I think modern doctors are pretty decent for trauma care

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


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


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


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


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

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

otherwise

Qui custodiet custodiens?


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

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

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

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

4 man-buns out of 10


#3

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


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

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


Market failure is a term in the modern economics profession

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


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


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

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


What Republic?


My how the Overton window shifts

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


what's the orange box of tic-tacs?


I know who's really behind this

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


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


Stay away from the quacks!


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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


My understanding is the Japs buy Scotch whisky and age it


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


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

Etienne de la Boetie, Politics of Obedience


How do you know that is the word of God?


Drums easy

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

Why? What is so great about flats?

Drums you can eat with one hand


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


Looks like a political realignment to me

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

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

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

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


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

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


Is this real?


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


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


the terminal


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


I mean reality - that which exists. Nature.

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


metal disks and cartridges! very sensible

don't forget water purification and radios


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


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

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

Or perhaps something else exploded that office


yes


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


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


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

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


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


What caused God?


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


Against everyone except the Saudis... and the Israelis


What would you have sold at?


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

Language:
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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


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

twisted

"and even more than you love yourself"

evil


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


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

(Money(Gold)(Silver))


metal disks


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


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

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


"not strictly human"

I see you've been reading your Talmud


Must not be the real Pope then


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Not now, but I'm hoping to have kids


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


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


Was he tasty?


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

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


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


above 30


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


Yes


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

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


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


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


Communism is a hell of a drug

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


drink plenty of water

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


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

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


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

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

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


The Feds are in much more trouble than most subsidiary jurisdictions

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

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


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


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

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


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


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

Also good is a silcock key


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

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

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


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


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


I have indoor plumbing, so apparently pretty far


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


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

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

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

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


Only in the sense of a lack of good


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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


No perc?


Fiat bottom girls make this rocking world go round


1/6/25 (fingers crossed)


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

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

I think there are 3 concerns

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


gay


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

eg deer scavenge carrion, lions have been seen eating grass


BITCHES IN THE FUTURE


Thank you!


Would you please link the cholesterol scam article he describes?

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


My main investment thesis is "nothing ever happens"

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

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


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


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


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


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

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


A lot of my favorite fiction is written by men.

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

eg. Ayn Rand, Andre Norton and JK Rowling

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


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


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


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

The Social Security "trust fund" is US Treasuries

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

It's just a paper game


I wouldn't worry


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


clear safety goggles are even cheaper


Welcome!

I eat a species-appropriate diet


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


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

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

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

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

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


Welcome!

I am a carnivore also


Red meat for the drama whores

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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


what an ungrateful... young lady


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

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


signal or noise?

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


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


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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


harsh but fair


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


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


galaxy brain : just drinking from the cup


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

Best to stay away from the whole thing


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

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


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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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

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


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


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


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

for fedi frens


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


I am partially in agreement with you

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

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


gently in the breeze


the lack of crowd applause is surprising


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

I also have ghee which is totally shelf stable


my main food preps are pemmican, butter and canned meat


That's the point


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

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


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


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


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


For my fiat spending I use paper notes and coins

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

The token coins I spend


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


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


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


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


Chuck steaks have good flavor

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


Interesting short story

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


so... Kamala


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

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

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

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


it symbolizes Providence / God

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


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


https://pastebin.com/QvcxREdJ

Or for long form argument:

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

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

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

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

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

Fiction
Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress


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

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


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


Why would Peter Schiff be in disbelief?

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


War on domestic extremism


The whole thing is retarded

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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


once again faggotry saves the day


KLR is a very small tractor disguised as a motorcycle


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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


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

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

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


Tallow fries are great, crispy outside fluffy inside delicious flavor

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


Easy solution: short drop and sudden stop


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

The Mafia has always been a substitute for the State


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

And I don't see the numerical ratings you gave


It's not mine

Let's repudiate the debt


I personally don't observe daylight savings time.

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

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

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


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

Etienne de la Boetie


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


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

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


EUSSR


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

Does this count?

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

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


Lincoln did break the Constitution


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


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

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


totem?


What is meant by economically left wing? Socialist?


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


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