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2026-07-28 15:44:17 UTC

Say what you want about LA, but amazing you can get a pint of raw cream (for $18!) to put in your ice coffee.
Like drinking a health milkshake.
Despite the traffic, the homelessness, the skyrocketing costs, this place where I lived for 16 years still has elements of a paradise.
Haven’t been back since early ’24 and appreciating it more this time.
Other thing about LA (and the US generally) when you’ve been in Europe for a long time is how good and friendly the service is. Seems like a trivial thing, but you notice it.

2026-07-21 17:49:56 UTC

Few thoughts about the Odyssey which I haven't seen though I might at some point, probably on an airplane:
1. Don't cry about who is cast as whom or "cultural appropriation." It's a work of art, Nolan can do whatever the fuck he wants. Your remedy is not to see it if it doesn't interest you.
2. If you're pointing out the hypocrisy of other people crying about cultural appropriation when the culture being appropriated is non-white, save your breath. Leftists don't give two shits about hypocrisy, and it's not even really hypocrisy to them since they have long ago abandoned rational argument and logical consistency.
3. If you're complaining about the hypocrisy (fruitless) or mad about the cultural appropriation (dumb) online, you're feeding the controversy, and the controversy is good for box office.
That's because once it becomes coded as "good" by one team and "bad" by another, not only does it get tons of free publicity, but the cost/benefit is asymmetric.
The people who would have bought a ticket but didn't due to perceived politics are fewer in number than the people who wouldn't have bought a ticket but did for the simple reason that there are more people who don't buy tickets for any given movie, i.e., the pool you're drawing from (non-buyers) is much larger than the one you're losing (would-be buyers).

2026-07-21 15:03:05 UTC

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Healthcare cannot be a fundamental right like free speech because it requires other people to do something for you. To treat you, pay for you, etc. That's always got to be voluntary.
Whether people *ought* to care about those who couldn't or more commonly didn't care for themselves is IMO a legitimate philosophical discussion to be hate. But a "right"? Doesn't work.
Also, obviously people will get sick and die no matter what the state does. I know rich people who spent millions on care only to die in misery after untold surgeries, treatments, etc. The idea that we should dedicate vast resources to ameliorate something that can only really be prevented by the person themselves seems crazy the way it's playing out.

2026-07-19 10:56:15 UTC

People talk about money printing by the banks (every new mortgage or loan is a print), but I would bet that's rivaled, if not exceeded, by the healthcare industrial complex (HIC).
Think about it, every time a boomer gets a scan, a checkup, a procedure, the government has to issue a transfer to HIC. Not even talking about the Learing Centers which siphon off hundreds of billions collectively via fraud, but the legal, "legitimate" health care system which provides actual services.
I know boomers whose entire lives revolve around seeing yet another specialist, getting another test, talking endlessly about health issues. They are like a marauding army seizing enormous amounts of wealth from wage earners and savers and transferring it to the HIC. The system almost seems set up by design for this purpose. And they are oblivious because it's all "covered."
The problem isn't merely that old people get sick a lot and need medical care, but that old people are incentivized to seek it as a first rather than last resort, and the system is set up to treat this as normal. Your doctor with his pills and potions, scans and procedures is in charge of your health, not you via eating right, exercise, attitude, habits. That's one problem.
Another problem is the system takes advantage of old people, endlessly prescribing HIC solutions to lifestyle problems and stoking their fears to keep them as customers.
Politicians call these "entitlements" and warn of "unsustainability", but it doesn't to the heart of the problem which is HIC-capture that sets the prices, optimizes for extraction and controls the messaging.
People believe *health*care is how you stay healthy rather than something you only use if absolutely necessary IF you get sick, which you do everything in your power (and you have a lot of power in this area) to prevent or at least delay for a long time. Just changing the HIC to SIC (sickness industrial complex) would go a long way. It's not how you preserve your health, it's where you go when your efforts have failed, and it's a weak substitute for success.
I don't know exactly how much money is siphoned legally from the tax payer/saver/wage earner to the HIC, but I do know it's an unfathomable amount. I also suspect that's why the vaccine cult has so much power, part of why the covid response was so all-encompassing, why anyone who spoke out against the mRNA was demonized, fired, excommunicated and destroyed. It's not just a few large companies who spend ad dollars on CNN or whatever, it's a multi-trillion dollar extraction engine, and the entities positioned to receive the spoils have almost limitless unchecked power.
Inflation comes from money printing, but it's not like the treasury just runs sheet after sheet of hundred dollar bills and dumps it into the economy. It's the bank reserves enabling issuance via loans, yes, but also this incredibly escalating healthcare black hole, fed largely by old people who are getting it for "free".
Ironically many younger people, who are not completely covered have their savings wiped out by it and fall by the wayside as inflation gets worse every year, advocate for universal sickcare, not realizing that the reason it's so expensive and inflation so severe is in large part due to the universal sickcare (for old people) in the first place.
The solution to this would be to open sickcare to the free market, not cover it at all, let private insurance and private providers compete for business. This would coincide with lower taxes on everyone, less national debt, lower inflation, cheaper sickcare (no endless demand backstopped by govt dollars.) Young people would be more able to afford sickcare when needed too.
Of course, many old people would suffer and die sooner. More families would go broke paying for their elderly parents during the transition phase before the savings from lower inflation and lower taxes offset the cost of private insurance (that would be cheaper because prices would come down.)
That's always the problem -- going from the obviously broken, catastrophic, unsustainable state of affairs to a much better, saner, fairer, more sustainable ones involves real short-term pain. That's how parasites survive, make the cost of getting rid of them painful enough that no one does anything about it until they consume the entire organism.

2026-07-16 10:11:18 UTC

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bullish
#nevent1q…sf34

2026-07-15 17:13:41 UTC

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So you're saying OJ won't kill you?
#nevent1q…6xhw

2026-06-30 09:26:16 UTC

A lot of you are fake and full of shit.

2026-06-29 20:32:56 UTC

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Whenever economic problems arise, I like to ask the village idiot what he thinks should be done about it.
#nevent1q…ntg7

2026-06-29 20:27:40 UTC

@nprofile…xr40 knows what I'm talking about
https://blossom.primal.net/b9919c4a722cfea98aa48772b4869ebf5b8cac0db4e8d4337a1102febc040d45.png

2026-06-29 09:42:53 UTC

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Ha --we'll see

2026-06-29 07:04:40 UTC

Remember when MSTR mooned, and Saylor was CIA?

2026-06-26 13:49:28 UTC

no one is still taking covid boosters, right?

2026-06-20 19:05:08 UTC

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There are no socialists -- every one of them is stingy af when it comes to their own property. The ideology of socialism is just a framework that justifies their meddling. They are a bunch of meddlers. They are miserable and they want to spread it to everyone else.

2026-06-20 17:10:03 UTC

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That's not capitalism. That's the law of the jungle. Capitalism implies property rights. Without property rights, there is no capitalism.

2026-06-20 11:44:42 UTC

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How can private citizens "own" anything unless there are rules protecting private property? That's what it means to own something, that someone else is not allowed to take if from you with force, i.e., they can only convince you to part with it *voluntarily*. If I can steal your property, then there is no ownership. And it's not capitalism.
That's why capitalism does not mean "state of nature". It's the natural order of things only when certain conditions are in place. Laws are necessary.

2026-06-20 10:27:58 UTC

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I agree, capitalism is not about moralizing, it's just a natural state of affairs when people are left to trade and exchange value. But theft and fraud are NOT part of capitalism because the exchange is not voluntary. Capitalism needs *some* top down intervention, e.g., a legal system that punishes crime, but so what? That doesn't mean we should be redistributing wealth indiscriminately.

2026-06-20 10:00:43 UTC

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Capitalism doesn't need to be tried, it's the default state of affairs when people are free to exchange goods and services voluntarily. Conflating that with what happens when people capture parts of the system and rent-seek is the sleight of hand. There will always be rent seeking and crony capitalism but it's a baby/bathwater situation. The alternative (indiscriminate forced wealth redistribution) is all bathwater.

2026-06-20 09:19:21 UTC

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Common sleight of hand is to conflate capitalism with crony capitalism.

2026-06-18 10:54:31 UTC

What’s up with all the low-quality AI reply bots?

2026-06-17 20:26:21 UTC

The communists will probably try to burn me at the stake eventually but think I’m gonna take up golf this fall. Got a friend who wants to do it, knows a cheap 9-hole course. Almost nothing I’d rather do than play a sport outside in the fresh air. Got into Padel 15 months ago and am playing 3x a week. Reminds me of when I used to play basketball all the time in my late 20s in LA almost 30 years ago.

2026-06-15 12:52:57 UTC

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And that was the point of the OP.

2026-06-15 12:26:54 UTC

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I’m saying you can’t be a freedom fundamentalist. Freedom is the freedom to be wrong.

2026-06-15 12:18:46 UTC

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Right, depends upon what the consequences are for dissent. If you call someone a racist who disagrees with you and by “racist” you mean anyone reading should excommuniucate that person from their lives including their employer, you are advocating for coercion. If by “ought” you mean in your opinion you think it would benefit them, but there should be no added consequence except foregoing those benefits, then yes.
I mean you can say or advocate for whatever you want, consequences or not, but my point is if you are a freedom fundamentalist, you’re really not for freedom.

2026-06-15 11:43:59 UTC

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You can say what others ought NOT to do if it interferes with you, but you can’t say what they ought to believe or do.

2026-06-15 11:07:04 UTC

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It’s not wrong, so long as you are not purporting to say what someone else ought to be doing.

2026-06-15 11:04:33 UTC

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Both are fake, empty tribal signaling.

2026-06-15 10:45:32 UTC

Found out the other day I have a screw loose.
Literally, dental implant started wobbling.

2026-06-15 09:38:48 UTC

People on Nostr calling you a statist is like people on woke Twitter calling you a racist. It’s meant as a way to disparage your character and dismiss you totally but no one cares anymore.

2026-06-15 09:32:24 UTC

Older I get, the more distaste I have for puritans, especially around the subject of freedom tech. How can you be a freedom fundamentalist? Contradiction in terms.

2026-06-13 07:21:29 UTC

One reason a dog makes such a good friend to a person is you can both comfortably walk the same pace. Contrast with having say a pet snail -- would be too frustrating.

2026-06-06 13:42:23 UTC

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Haven't eaten Portobellos since

2026-06-06 13:35:20 UTC

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Saw that, was wondering what it was about too

2026-06-05 08:06:01 UTC

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This is fucking retarded
#nevent1q…tfy6

2026-06-03 09:33:45 UTC

Don't know why but have been shocked especially of late by the brainwashing. Was talking with someone with TDS, asked her what policies specifically are you against, she said putting people "in cages" "treating them like animals". I said you know Obama deported more than Trump. She said, yes but he deported bad people, Trump's deportations "are not vetted." I asked what basis she had for believing that, and she admitted there was none. So Obama deported more people than Trump, and forced deportation of someone who presumably doesn't want to be deported entails holding facilities (cages) and force. I asked why the emotional language (animals, cages) around Trump's admittedly lower deportation rates, she says, "Just because the other guy did it, doesn't make it right!" I said, yes, but you never once mentioned Obama's deportations, and when I asked you about policies, you mentioned Trump's and used emotional lanaguage (cages, animals). She said you can't really think the people around Trump are smart, that Hegseth, he's the worst!
I know it's comical in a way, but I'm feeling a little disturbed how deeply this runs. I don't care about Trump per say, but they have turned people into unthinking zombies.

2026-05-26 10:43:38 UTC

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I think I'm gonna be part of the control group == yet again!

2026-05-24 21:20:40 UTC

Needed a good place to keep @nprofile…ggk7 for the summer when we travel. Heard about a couple that takes care of dogs in an area that's 15 degrees cooler by the coast, but they had to meet him first make sure he was a good fit. It was like a job interview of sorts.
So we show up there today, meet the couple, they give us a tour of the place, very nice overgrown plot with trees, shade and a cool stream. Oscar's doing great, sniffing around, meets their 15-YO dog that lives there full time, they sniff each other uneventfully, everything's fine, they're commenting on how handsome he is. Then he's walk under the patio table, crouches down, takes a shit.
Heather says sorry, reaches for the bags, they're like don't worry about it, kind of goes with the territory. Long story short, Oscar took a shit on the floor during his job interview, still landed the gig.

2026-05-20 16:01:49 UTC

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Ha, no, not of you post, I mean that account that follows and unfollows every few days.

2026-05-20 14:58:19 UTC

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but I'm not MAGA, never said it was justified and never called Iranians or Venezuelans savages, so not only do you (like everyone else) not know what's going on, you're making things up.

2026-05-20 14:42:48 UTC

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How do you know? The legacy media (lead propagandists) are mostly shitting on the war, in stark contrast to wars past. That doesn't mean it'll work out, I have no idea. But neither do you. And neither do they.

2026-05-20 14:33:45 UTC

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It's possible, but you could easily be wrong. You don't know really know the facts on the ground except through biased second and third hand reporting and social and corporate media propaganda. Once the propaganda machine has moved on, and the results are in, you'll know. No point in reacting now.

2026-05-20 13:36:32 UTC

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Seriously, what even is the purpose of that?

2026-05-20 13:29:26 UTC

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Justified is the wrong framing. It's not "justified," it's a choice. That choice might well be the product of prior bad choices we made, but the present circumstances are the present circumstances. We might face better choices had we not made catastrophically bad ones in the past. And still the choice to initiate regime change now might be catastrophic. Or it might be warranted. We won't know until the results are in.

2026-05-20 13:25:16 UTC

Friend of mine who is IMO the best documentary-style podcaster on politics around did a deep dive into the Epstein Files. I found it persuasive, answered a lot of questions, surprised me:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arch-independent/id1111893533?i=1000766824301

2026-05-20 10:06:56 UTC

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Dont know if this is true, but things like this are why it's foolish to get caught up in the outrage du jour over things happening overseas. There is so much propaganda in war (and this too could be) much better to wait for results to inform your position.
#nevent1q…hk0s

2026-05-19 18:04:22 UTC

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"Vote harder" is cope for being ineffective. If NGU happens the way most people think it'll happen, hodlers will have a LOT of say in how things go.

2026-05-19 17:37:36 UTC

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Agree with this -- puritans of every sort are losers attached to their own purity and ideology. Of course, knee-benders are also losers, those who compromise their ideals entirely are lost.
Have to thread the needle, and HODL's offering a framework: Don't be a virtue-signaling, ineffective purist, instead use the influence you actually have to effect more favorable outcomes.
#nevent1q…ldzj

2026-05-19 10:01:34 UTC

If you want to safeguard a system from AI, exploit its midwit tendency to assume and overrfit, endlessly theorize and speculate in circles. Feel like you could design a trap for it that a human wouldn't fall for. Much harder to design something that could fool both.

2026-05-17 13:20:41 UTC

fuckin' Claude crashed my Mac:
https://blossom.primal.net/0f357699954e6b26bd534902ef873ee1d390035bc27b230c8a18b856ff2d5b77.png

2026-05-11 19:10:46 UTC

worst part about vibe-coding with Claude is it'll use an old file, make changes to it, then you upload and replace and don't realize what happened until you're fixing the same bugs you already fixed. Surprised it's that poor at recognizing it.

2026-05-11 09:40:33 UTC

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Motorized wheelchairs for people who used to walk
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2026-05-11 09:36:00 UTC

It's chilly and cloudy out, but I'm going to the fucking track even though I don't feel like it because the GOATs go when they don't feel like it, and I'm the GOAT when it comes to running two 10:30 miles.

2026-05-08 09:17:50 UTC

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Real talk!
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2026-05-05 06:44:33 UTC

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Not wrong, but MSTR has hybrid preferreds too that strip out some of the upside, but yield less, and the common is even more volatile than the underlying.

2026-05-04 18:53:00 UTC

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such a mystery, what could it possibly be?
#nevent1q…2cfd

2026-04-26 11:13:38 UTC

wife: did you hear about Sara's friends whose dog got into their mushroom chocolates?
me: no, what happened?
wife: dog was acting very weird
me: probably realized it was a dog and freaked

2026-04-24 07:24:42 UTC

excerpt from latest podcast: https://v.nostr.build/sScYfsYJHmm5NpXR.mp4
link to full: https://fountain.fm/episode/ZMzKzZfzdIkt72VAtmnX

2026-04-24 07:23:46 UTC

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it's out!

2026-04-18 16:23:48 UTC

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Gotta work with what you have

2026-04-08 20:46:08 UTC

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Like the idea of a decompressible starter kit, but don't think it follows that collaboration is necessary. In fact most giant leaps came from individual minds working alone (Newton, Einstein), though obviously building on prior knowledge of others. You might say the starter kit is the scientific method.

2026-04-06 14:04:36 UTC

Think there's a misconception about traditional finance and debt that's similar to the misconception about capitalism itself. Capitalism presupposes private property, and in so doing, doesn't interfere with wealth creation. Crony capitalism is when people who already have capital use it to rig the rules in favor of the connected few. The existence of crony capitalism isn't a knock on capitalism, private property and wealth creation, it's an abuse by bad actors disguised as wealth creation.
Lending and debt are not bad in and of themselves. They allow people and companies to raise capital at an agreed-upon cost. But money printing via debt is an abuse of this tool wherein banks can fund loans out of thin air. For example, if I want to lend money to earn interest, I can loan it to the government (T-Bills) or a company (corporate bonds), but in order to do so I have to raise the cash, maybe be selling some other asset or earning it.
But when a bank issues a mortgage, it's not selling one of its existing mortgages to free up the funds, or selling any other assets. It gets to keep its existing assets while issuing a new loan. That means it's increasing the money supply, i.e., printing. It's subsidizing the goods and services (boosting their prices) for which it lends.
So we rail against a debt-based economy that needs ever more loans to stay afloat, but it's not the act of lending and issuance of debt that is the problem, but the fact that it's issued from nothing.

2026-04-06 13:33:18 UTC

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Many negative things could accurately be said about Trump, but that he is ineffective or just uncannily lucky is probably not one of them IMO.

2026-04-05 11:54:05 UTC

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They're a little bit mutually exclusive -- if closing the SOH and letting the EU have to fend for themselves rather than free-riding on US security as well as re-positioning the US as the supplier of energy is happening, then the strategy was purposeful and quite possibly being achieved. If the war was a catastrophic error that destroys the economy, then the strategy was haphazard and failed.

2026-04-05 11:40:37 UTC

There are two distinct threads of analysis re the middle east war right now:
1. Trump is in big trouble, whatever his ostensible aims were in starting this war, and the US is losing catastrophically, risking WWIII, the global economy and he's getting wiped out in November for starting an unpopular, pointless war.
2. Trump has reset the chessboard, now all the virtue-signaling "green new deal" Europoors are SOL when it comes to energy and will have to get it for themselves. Meanwhile the US has plenty of energy and will benefit from being the new supplier.
I honestly don't know which is true. If I had to make a guess, I'm partial to 2 since those pushing 1 are the same idiots who pushed all the prior psyops like covid, Russiagate, etc. But believing the opposite of what liars tell you isn't a good enough heuristic.
Liars are better off ignored.

2026-03-30 14:08:06 UTC

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very nice -- the guy in the video showed more or less why it terminates, but didn't do the actual proof.

2026-03-29 11:24:09 UTC

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For starters sources who were willing to use their names, and definitely not CNN and other known propaganda outlets relying on anonymous sources.

2026-03-28 11:50:35 UTC

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"according to CNN citing sources familiar" LOL
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2026-03-26 10:12:08 UTC

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gotta look into this shit now

2026-03-21 11:05:20 UTC

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It's a form of insanity IMO. A level of demoralization wherein holding onto a delusion is existential.

2026-03-20 13:15:01 UTC

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the level of denial required to defend the covid response is unfathomable to me

2026-03-19 14:10:22 UTC

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Based on the people I know, this is precisely the normie take. Not saying it's incorrect -- I don't know -- but it's what everyone is saying.
#nevent1q…889s

2026-03-18 14:28:04 UTC

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Once the demand for organs is sufficient, and all the depressed and sick people are dead, what's next, Squid Game?
#nevent1q…r6lx

2026-03-17 11:21:21 UTC

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real talk!

2026-03-16 19:38:26 UTC

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Web

2026-03-16 17:59:04 UTC

anyone else finding it impossible to access your notifications on Primal?

2026-03-16 12:11:57 UTC

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In 2021? A lot. People I knew too.

2026-03-16 11:57:25 UTC

I also remember in the height of the vaccine mania. I posted that you should take any medicine, given informed consent, if you deemed its benefits to outweigh its harms. And you should not take any medicine whose harms you deemed to outweigh its benefits. It really didn't matter what someone labeled that medicine.
I think it's the same with actions of the state: if you think the actions will benefit you, you ought to support them. If you think its actions will cause more harm than benefit you should oppose. If you don't know, then you should wait and see before taking a position.
I know most decent people don't like war and most wars have caused more harm than good. So people are rightly wary when one country attacks another. But the word "war" is not very precise. Do we mean a trade war, an information/propaganda war, a proxy war, a military operation, a ground invasion and occupation, all of these can be categorized under "war". But all are very different things.
The question shouldn't be, "am I against war?" but whether this action is going to benefit my interests or go against them. There's no anti-war, there is anti-invading Iraq and killing a million people for non-existent WMD, squandering $6T to the MIC and destabilizing a country. That was not in a regular person's interest.
There is no anti-vax, there is anti covid mRNA shots that don't stop the spread and have disastrous side effect profiles. Don't make vaccines (pro or anti) your religion. Don't make supporting or opposing politicians your religion. Be for what works, what helps. what's in your interest. And against the opposite.
The core problem is people have attached "goodness" to some views and "badness" to others, so they are stuck in concepts and slogans rather than seeing things clearly and evaluating them on the merits.

2026-03-16 11:46:04 UTC

People don't like it when you dissent from their religious beliefs. On Twitter, those beliefs were in "The Science" and experts and vaccines and anti-racism, etc. On nostr, it's libertarianism, anti-state, anti-"war", anti-government. Two sides of the same coin really, that coin making politics one's religion and the state its center point.
Ideally, one should allocate only a limited amount of real estate in one's mind to politics and the state. It should not be a religion such that when someone doesn't adhere to its edicts, you call them "statist" or "racist".
Truth is those for whom the state occupies the largest mindshare are the biggest statists. Just as those for whom race occupies the largest mindshare are the biggest racists. A tell is when you disagree with them, they call you names rather than think through the disagreement.
My views are judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. And judge government action by its harms and benefits to you and your broader interests, not whether it fits one label or another.
You would think these were uncontroversial. And they mostly are. Until they come up against someone's religion.
As someone who dissented from the bio-medical compliance, race-communist, trust-the-experts religion on Twitter and took some heat for it, the dynamic could not be more obvious. The main difference being the neolibs actually had power and they would use it to try and destroy your livelihood. The libertarian nostr people have much less and they'll just try to embarrass and insult you without consequence.

2026-03-16 08:42:46 UTC

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They are taking your money anyway. They have taken your money since before you were born. They are not going to demonstrate to your satisfaction the plausible value, and any reason they do give is probably bullshit. Those are the table stakes. You may wish it were otherwise, but wishing will not make it so.
When we criticize or support a *particular* policy, we are saying, given that they are spending this money they got either via taxation (largely theft) or printing (inflationary theft), is this a good use of it compared to something else they'd spend it on, say welfare for Somalis, infrastructure, conventional medical care for seniors, etc. Whether you think the federal government should be abolished is a different discussion.
My point is maybe this will redound to our benefit. Maybe it won't. I don't know. If Trump's primary motivation is to go down in history as George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, maybe some of these ideas will align with what's good for America. If he's compromised and narrowly craven (rather they broadly ambitious), then it won't.
I know for sure I did not want the Harris-Biden-Walz race-communism, so I voted to give Trump a shot and plan to hold him accountable for the results. But he's the one with access to the information, the man in the arena right now. I am a regular person watching from the sidelines with very incomplete information. So rather than gnashing my teeth based on second-hand reporting about every blow by blow decision, I'm agnostic, withholding judgment until the results are in.
And doing so is a big relief. I don't give a shit about what it makes me look like. I'm not sufficiently libertarian or anti-war or I'm "statist" or whatever. Just don't care. Or maybe I'm not patriotic enough since I'm not sufficiently cheering for this, the defeat of our enemy for the last half-century. I'm only for a successful resolution that aligns with my broad interests and against a failed policy that does not.

2026-03-15 20:56:41 UTC

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Everything the government does costs money. If it builds a bridge, that costs money. But maybe that bridge is a good investment. Same with the Venezuela operation. Everyone who is so sure this will be a disaster was saying the exact same thing about that. So of course you can oppose or support it if you like. My point was personally I will only support it if it turns out to be successful and only oppose it if it goes bad. And I don't know yet, so I'm agnostic, and I don't think it's good or bad to support or oppose or be agnostic to things, and when you remove the good and the bad, usually you just judge by the results, since you're not motivated for anything except wanting things to work out in a way that aligns with your broader interests.

2026-03-15 18:32:04 UTC

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That's fair, but I think there's a big difference between the jabs which involve me directly, literally injecting something into my bloodstream, and a foreign policy operation going on overseas I might oppose based on what I read in the news. And I was opposed to the mandates before the information was known, but I wasn't opposed to people electing to take the shot if they felt like it, nor did I try to argue them out of it. I really didn't know. My opposition was initially only to that it was mandated. Now I think it's poison that should be taken off the market.

2026-03-15 17:41:59 UTC

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My position is I don't know. The burden of proof is on both sides -- someone saying this is a mistake and someone saying this is good. The point I was making in the podcast was not that "yes, this is worth it," but that most people are operating from a stance of whatever makes them feel good about themselves. If you're a rah rah patriot that thinks someone finally had the balls to do something about these theocratic local bullies, you feel good that Trump is taking them out. You believe it's for the greater good. If you're an anti-war libertarian that thinks the state is always up to no good, no matter the bullshit justification, you feel good opposing the operation. I'm just saying I don't know, and in such cases, I'm fine to just let things play out before having an opinion on them. It doesn't make you a good person to speak out against the war, or a bad person to cheer it on, hoping for success. It doesn't mean shit. We'll find out eventually one way or the other.

2026-03-15 17:15:06 UTC

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If the price tag is high, or the war goes on a long time, it'll probably turn out to be against our interests. But you're begging the question. Assuming it goes on a long time, and assuming it's not in our interest, then it's not in our interest. But if it goes on a short time, and the benefit is worth the cost then it is in our interest.

2026-03-15 15:18:21 UTC

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I don’t know if it’s prudent — I just don’t have good enough information. But Trump has been successful with foreign policy thus far and doesn’t seem to want an Iraq style occupation with its attendant costs. So I give the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes. If it goes well I’m for it. If it goes badly I’m against it. And by well I mean advances American people’s interests. And by badly I mean the opposite.

2026-03-15 12:32:30 UTC

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that's my MO, just ask stupid questions until I understand something

2026-03-15 11:46:58 UTC

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ha -- I'm sure that dude knows 10x the math that I do.

2026-03-11 09:28:03 UTC

Went for a run Monday, was windy and chilly. Was stiff and sore from two Padel tournaments on Saturday. Two miles slow, maybe 11 minute pace. Seems like a small thing with all the other things going on in my life, but it's not. Showing up to the track IS what's going on in my life. That slow uncomfortable run is reality itself. The encounter with it is the point. It's not a matter of discipline or self-improvement or getting in shape. Just a basic connection that pervades everything. There is no other life but the slow progression into the wind on the track surrounded by sparse trees and ugly buildings. Going again today. Will stretch for five minutes against a tree afterwards as I always do.

2026-03-09 11:40:37 UTC

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Seen that one! Guy really goes into detail here on the transfinite ordinals. Locates different functions on the FGH using them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X9DYRLmTNY

2026-03-09 11:38:16 UTC

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I was the opposite, was hoping for a boy, got a girl, and it's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Plus, she plays basketball and is balling out. Best of both worlds.

2026-03-09 11:35:25 UTC

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sounds like he has a lot of spirit!

2026-03-08 09:41:26 UTC

14-YO overslept her alarm this morning (has a basketball game), luckily I realized and woke her up, and now she’s pissed at me for waking her up!

2026-03-07 12:42:44 UTC

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cool, will check it out, thanks

2026-03-07 08:02:27 UTC

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Would like to hear it

2026-03-06 11:55:52 UTC

Idea to bookmark for later: real numbers are incompressible like reality itself. Pi and e are compressible reals, ambassadors from reality to the land of reason.

2026-03-04 15:27:51 UTC

Try telling someone last summer it's hitting 72, and you're gonna be happy about it.

2026-03-04 15:25:18 UTC

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Jack Kruse is another version.

2026-03-04 14:30:01 UTC

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Never understand what that dude is getting at either or what he's even talking about. Ray Dailio I can understand what he's talking about, but never what his point is.

2026-03-04 14:27:53 UTC

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love a good Caesar, wife makes one with a lot of garlic

2026-03-04 08:54:36 UTC

Much of the news is not created for your consumption but for geopolitical agendas. You can still react to it if you like, but your reaction is collateral damage of sorts. You were in many cases not the target.

2026-03-03 22:00:14 UTC

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I was aware of different levels of infinity, say the higher level of the reals and the higher level still of the sets that can be made with reals. But in my Claude chat I got some insight as to WHY real numbers can’t map with the naturals the way rationals do, and it got pretty deep.
The real numbers we use like pi and e are the exceptions in that you can generate them with relatively compressed information, kind of like rationals. But reals are uncompressible like reality itself. In fact the rationals are literally rational — figments of the reasoning mind, only a map, so to speak, whereas reals are the territory itself.
When you think about it, there is no circle in nature, no 3, no cutting something in half. They are all abstractions. But reals are reality in its actual detail. Rationals are finitely describable, reals are not except for the few exceptions like pi and e. Otherwise you cannot describe a real with a finite amount of information. Just like you can’t describe or map reality faithfully with a finite map. Which leads to Godel and Wittgenstein.

2026-03-03 19:24:37 UTC

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had a very interesting convo with Claude about this and the diagonalization proof. You’re right.