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2024-11-15 17:36:12

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2024-11-15 10:13:10

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maybe she believes it, I don’t know

2024-11-15 10:07:58

The track record of “public health” in America is abominable. What passes for “science” is manufactured industry capture. If you can’t see this, you are not seriously looking at the question.
RFK should gut it to the foundations and build it back up with actual science.
#note17jx…nrq9

2024-11-13 09:28:21

Sunday walk
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2024-11-08 17:13:24

I don’t think it’s a settled question whether regulation and “legalization” is a Trojan Horse for censorship, or bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for the entire legacy financial system.
With greater adoption this was always coming, in fact it was best case scenario because the alternatives were either it were killed before it got this big, or it never got this big because it didn’t catch on.
We’ll see what happens. The legacy system is fucking around, and all of us will find out, one way or the other.
I don’t think the state is all powerful. It has to work around the rights for which people stand up and the technology that enables those rights.
#note1gfr…2pm0

2024-11-04 21:48:33

I think defeatism and "the deep state wins no matter what” is part of the psyop. I am only modestly hopeful Trump will be addition by subtraction, but I won’t be deterred from having a preference or making an effort toward it due to black-pilling.
If I turn out to be wrong, and the black pillers were right, so be it. I’ll accept my error when the time comes.
But for now, I’m looking forward to Trump and his people at least slowing down the destruction.
#note18aq…xdhw

2024-11-03 12:58:46

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LOL, what is he even trying to say?

2024-11-01 17:28:36

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I think they want to cheat, but there will be whistleblowers and defections — can only cheat if the outcome is assured. Otherwise, you’re taking serious risk.

2024-10-31 16:37:05

One time when I lived on a ranch in the central coast of California in 1997 a cat that lived outside but belonged to my landlords bit me hard in the thick pad of my right hand. It was a large orange and yellow ish cat (I’m a bit colorblind so don’t hold me to it), and it drew blood.
I was enraged at that fuck, so I chased it, and it hid under my landlord’s pickup truck. So I picked up some pebbles from the driveway and started skimming them sidearm toward him, bouncing them off the ground in his direction.
After a few pebbles it dawned on me what I was doing — taking revenge on a cat, so I stopped, even though my palm was still in pain, and I was worried about what diseases he (Quincy) might have given me. (None it turned out, as far as I know.)
When people I knew — former colleagues in the fantasy sports industry — tried to call me out and publicly embarrass me when I spoke my mind about mandating the covid shots, I took a lot of screen shots. I was pretty sure how gross it would look a few years hence.
Now I have them dead to rights, so to speak, as they’re hiding under the truck, the entire mania likely memory-holed.
But I don’t throw the sharp edged pebbles. They showed themselves to be frightened animals, desperate to belong, incapable of critical thought or agency.
There’s nothing to gain by taking revenge on losers like that. It’s almost laughable in retrospect that it ever bothered me.

2024-10-30 14:27:07

All the money in the world 20 quintillion times over.
#note16lw…fdy6

2024-10-30 12:05:46

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Been off for six, missed finding out which of my childhood friends would have wanted to put me in a camp.

2024-10-29 09:44:23

Uptober is fine, but wait until Deca-cember.
#note1y6q…2kec

2024-10-29 09:18:00

Spending a few days at a resort with my daughter during her fall school break (Gave the wife a break to get things done at home.) Vowed to stay offline mostly, especially Twitter which I’ve been more hooked on lately due to the election.
I don’t agree with the libertarians who think it doesn’t matter. It matters a lot. Not just for bitcoin, but for authoritarianism generally of which bitcoin policy is just a small component. The wrong way to look at it is that Trump will “fix” things. He will not. But he is likely to meddle far less and let us fix things.
The problem with The Regime isn’t that they don’t fix anything, but that they are an active impediment to the fix. Trump will do less. And less is much much more when it comes to government.
But in any event, I’m off Twitter for the week, even though I believe there are consequential events happening now. So I’m trusting you to keep me informed.
If anything happens, post about it!

2024-10-24 17:02:33

Was thinking about this re high-end restaurants. The wine is marked up like 4x, the food is closer to break even. So all the profit is in the wine.
But only some people drink wine, and of those, a smaller subset drink a lot of it, and an even small subset drink a lot of expensive wine.
So if the profit is in the wine, and most of that profit is from the whales who buy multiple expensive bottles, then basically the entire restaurant with its full menu and wine list just exists to reel in the whales.
But you need the regular customers to provide the break-even demand for a full menu of food and also the atmosphere.
I don’t know if this is true, but it just occurred to me.

2024-10-23 19:52:24

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That’s tough. Impossible to reason with them. I know people giving their kids every latest booster too.

2024-10-23 11:51:07

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that IS crazy

2024-10-23 10:14:09

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I don’t even think about what *they* think of me anymore. I just think something broke in them during covid wherein they *still* believe what they’re told.

2024-10-23 09:26:24

If bitcoin were God, Saylor and the ETFs are like the Church, the intermediary between you and HIM/IT.
They say you don’t need to know God directly, you can just do as we say, and you’ll have *exposure* to God without the risks of actually giving yourself over to HIM. We take that risk for you, and you can still do all the things you normally do, all your sins can be confessed away to us.
It’s just an analogy. There’s no way Bitcoin is the second coming of God.
https://highlighter.com/chrisliss/1707498801353

2024-10-22 08:08:43

12 YO’s basketball coach messages my wife, asks if she’s having trouble at school because she argues, talks back to the coach often (just not done in Portugal.) Wife responds saying, “oh no, she’s just like that, always has been. She doesn’t care if you yell at her (which the coach does) so much as you’re dismissing her POV. Won’t work with her.
I get it, I used to coach ball, you want the kids to do what you say. But my kid wants her POV respected, you can’t just tell her to do it your way or the highway. It’s a pain in the ass sometimes, but she will always question, stand up for her POV about things, how they should be done.
Wife worries she’ll get booted off the team eventually. But thing is she’s good at it, plays at 12 in under 16, loves it, shows up to every practice, every game, tries hard. It’s a good lesson, however it shakes out, dealing with people who just want it their way, don’t want to listen to you.
I learned (probably too late, because I was the same way) you have to decide whether a person in your friend and have the heart to heart, express yourself even if it causes friction, or just someone you’re stuck with. If it’s the latter, you stop arguing, stop explaining, just yes them minimally and STILL do your own thing without regard to them. When they confront you, you yes them, let them think what they need to think and STILL do it your way, and usually they give up and forget. But you stop trying to win them over to your POV because they are not important, just an obstacle to manage.
Happened to me in my radio gig. Used to fight with the program director all the time. Thought we were friends because we went out drinking late night at all the industry events. Realized he DGAF about what I was saying, didn’t get our show at all, just had his own agenda. Not a terrible guy, but just an obstacle. So I stopped fighting him verbally, didn’t object to his ridiculous suggestions, did them minimally in my own style and then ignored. He and I got along great the last couple years, and I 95 percent had my way on everything.
Key point is to realize if the person is a friend or not, even give them one chance to hear you out. But once they declare themselves as an obstacle, you manage them to your full advantage without conscience. Life gets much easier if you’re clear about who’s who.

2024-10-21 15:28:14

Thing about the post office - especially in Portugal - is they don’t really care how long they make you wait. You got all the time in the world as far as they’re concerned. No need to open another window. Everyone dies of old age eventually — why not do it while waiting to send proof to the IRS that your refund check was stolen and cashed?

2024-10-21 15:17:12

I don’t like seeing people walking/biking/scootering around with headphones on. You want to be out in public? Keep your senses about you — literally. Not saying it should be illegal (to walk, at least) but feel like they’re zombies.

2024-10-21 13:08:59

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I dismiss out of hand anyone who wants to put people to a purity test. But the more legitimate concern is whether Saylor’s MO is going to screw it up for everyone else. But if you’re worried about that then the protocol isn’t as robust as you thought.

2024-10-21 12:29:22

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yeah, he has skin in the game to be sure, but the explanation — that he’s holding back, not saying what he really thinks, just playing the game — is exactly the same.

2024-10-21 12:12:12

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Right, but that explanation is the same one they give for politicians. Why is Bernie supporting Hillary Clinton? Oh well, he’s only doing that because he doesn’t want a target on his back, so he retains the power to do x, y and z.
Bernie capitulated abjectly and totally to everything.
So it’s not a very satisfying explanation, even if in his case it were true.

2024-10-21 11:58:17

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that’s the “voice of reason” POV. Not saying it’s wrong, but just not sure.

2024-10-21 11:41:03

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yeah, reminded me a bit of people who said no one was *forced* to take the clot shot.

2024-10-21 11:40:21

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I wouldn’t say he’s a coward — he made a pretty bold bet. My question is whether he’s up to no good, or just a moderating voice against paranoia.

2024-10-21 10:20:22

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I like him, but I don’t trust him.

2024-10-21 09:28:31

Is Saylor a villain or a voice of reason?

2024-10-20 12:08:08

If one were the victim of “misinformation” how would you know?

2024-10-19 07:42:29

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If you like science fiction, the 3-Body Problem series is worthwhile.

2024-10-18 08:56:16

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I respect that. I look at it as voting for the administrator who will most honor his oath of office which is to uphold the constitution which via the Bill of Rights codifies into law much of what you just said.
It’s all about what others cannot force you to do. This present regime does not respect it.

2024-10-18 07:42:23

Swing state vs non swing state is a fallacy. Unless your vote were literally the tie-breaker (unlikely) in a swing state, it’s no different than in a non-swing state.
The truth is every vote is just a regular person like you casting a ballot, no matter the result. You have neither control over nor certainty about what anyone else will do. So vote if you think everyone in your shoes should vote, stay home if you think everyone in your shoes should stay home.
Full disclosure: I voted for Trump even though I’m registered in CA. I wanted to repudiate the Regime to the greatest extent possible, and voting for the Orange Man Bad was one small way of doing that.
Like many Trump voters (first time for me) I am under no delusions that he’s the second coming of Thomas Jefferson. He’s a flawed person, but I can live with that because he is an actual person, not an empty vessel for The Regime. And he was MUCH better on foreign policy and social policy than The war-mongering Regime.
Trump’s covid response was abominable, and he’s never apologized for fast-tracking the clot shot. Hopefully RFK changes that, but I’m not banking on it.
Anyway, just my thoughts — I don’t agree with the people here that think voting is futile. Yes, both parties are the same, have the same clients, but a vote for Trump isn’t a vote for the uniparty IMO, it’s a vote against it.
And if I turn out to be wrong (and I might be because honestly I have no way of knowing for sure), I am at peace knowing that there was nothing to lose because The Regime is the nut low.

2024-10-17 14:40:48

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haha

2024-10-17 14:40:18

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the shitcoining is retarded, but not mandated

2024-10-17 14:36:42

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You’d think they’d give it at least a century before reverting to that shit

2024-10-17 14:29:47

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the shit-coining is retarded, but I still voted for him

2024-10-17 11:24:33

https://fountain.fm/episode/97TT7Swwcsu0f2u3O6Bn

2024-10-16 12:19:14

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Funny, just removed the Pi from my daughter’s room after she was busted using it for social media. Was gonna give it back as promised, but the week when it was gone was so much better, I just bribed her to let us keep it until the end of the year.

2024-10-15 08:23:05

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Think many are starting to realize/do this. Censorship in the Information Age might backfire spectacularly.

2024-10-14 19:39:34

If someone can build in a match-making service for bettors with a small automatic rake, this will happen. Instead of playing -110 to Draft Kings, you pay -103 to the match-maker (maybe even less), the developer gets rich, and you don’t just build out the nostr ecosystem but probably the lightning payments one as well.
#note1anv…u9uh

2024-10-14 15:59:23

lunch spot -- seriously, food was good
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2024-10-14 15:52:15

Saturday's walk
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2024-10-14 14:05:30

sorry we never told you
#note1u0t…s2vu

2024-10-12 17:31:47

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many such cases

2024-10-12 08:38:34

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People really love to seem “savvy,” “in the know” — whole personas are cultivated around it.
Being humble and stacking is not savvy, though.

2024-10-11 10:03:32

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Thanks John -- have posted a lot of long form pieces from this npub.

2024-10-10 14:43:42

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Thanks!

2024-10-10 07:33:06

My life is unreasonably good right now, way beyond what I could have hoped for.
Of course all the particulars are precarious. Freedom, health, life itself can end in a heartbeat literally.
But until that happens, I have to look in amazement that I can just type into a keyboard and publish my thoughts, speak into the microphone attached to my desk and broadcast my ideas.
I can hear about a book about black holes and time warps, press a few keys and it’s delivered to my door in a couple days, read it and have my mind blown.
I know how to cook, to buy ingredients at the farmer’s markets. I know how to take care of my body, I have a daughter that is a good kid and dog that’s a bad dog, but perfect in his way.
My wife is based. There is zero conflict with my work, neither of us took the clot shot, neither of us would ever trust anything from The Regime again. She has my back, and I have hers.
I wake up, walk the dog, drink my black coffee with ghee, settle down to shitpost and work. I can write about anything or nothing. I can drive 25 minutes to the beach if I want. Or go to the track for a run. Or do Sudoku puzzles all day which I have done.
I had a whole roast chicken for dinner last night. I bought it at the French butcher who has the best, freshest, most flavorful chickens. I got parsnips, carrots, mushrooms, onions and garlic at the market for my wife who made it. We had salad with tomatoes, peppers, onions and lettuce. We washed it down with the bottles of the best sparkling water that we have delivered from the Spanish market.
I make kombucha, I make sauerkraut. I grow herbs and chilis on my balcony. I have a sports podcast, high-stakes fantasy football teams. I watch the NFL every Sunday. I watch my daughter’s basketball games. We hike alongside the ocean cliffs or in the forest.
My apartment is nearly 100 years old. It has high ceilings, wood floors, light coming in from both sides. I have a lot of house plants that recycle the stale air and emit oxygen. There is a tree outside my balcony, it’s like a giant house plant in the background.
The sounds of cars going by, the people in the street. There is a church nearby and you can hear the people singing every Sunday.
They are singing about God. Which is maybe what I’m writing about too.

2024-10-09 17:22:02

I can imagine AI services putting bogus info next to your photo to combat this. Fake addresses, fake profiles, etc.
#note1tce…cwp3

2024-10-09 13:51:39

Every day I asked myself, who are the retards selling right now?

2024-10-08 18:49:08

Nobody appreciates @npub138y…aszc's predicament? Think his complaint is valid.
#note18cz…t6gr

2024-10-08 11:29:18

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I went to law school, and it helped to navigate some issues with the business, but it wasn’t necessary.

2024-10-07 17:37:31

I truly despise the Democratic Party and its wholly owned corporate press, but @npub1qny…95gx is right. It’s not about who you like or don’t like (and I like Elon), but centralization of power.
There was a reason Gandalf refused the ring:
*“You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?”*
*“No!” cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. “With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.” His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. “Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.”*
#note1p2r…gzx6

2024-10-07 12:09:55

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I once put the plug in coffee maker at an Air BNB on the electric stove, realized something was wrong when I smelled burning plastic from the other room.

2024-10-07 12:08:15

Bought a bunch of cinnamon sticks to chew on — good for your breath, good for your blood sugar. But they really do burn the shit out of your tongue.

2024-10-07 08:17:16

yesterday's walk
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2024-10-04 20:15:52

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it is very bizarre — I can’t believe they’re that inept or negligent, has to be something going on.
But the problem with cheating is some states like Florida will play it straight, so how do you explain the discrepancy? And once people see how obvious it is, “you’re a conspiracy theorist, our elections are secure” won’t cut it in 2020.
So yeah, it would be real battle to frame it.
But also literally anything is on the table.
This was one nightmare scenario:
https://www.chrisliss.com/p/conspiracy-part-5

2024-10-04 13:44:30

I know about the Cantillon Effect within borders, but was thinking there must also be one between them.
Let’s say the US prints $4T through some bill, and a bunch of already super rich Cantillonaires see their net worth go up by many billions. Can’t they take that newly created wealth and buy foreign assets with it?
Now of course eventually the printing will cause a currency devaluation commensurate with it, so they’ll get less for their money. But if there’s any lag between the printing and the full commensurate devaluation, I would think the Cantillonaires can pounce in foreign markets too.

2024-10-04 10:07:13

Note to self: post on artists, actors, naysaying what can and can't be achieved, what it requires, why most people shouldn't try unless they are either already free or simply have no choice

2024-10-04 09:19:23

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We don't know anything for sure, but any government with a money printer is like a drug addict with access to more drugs. He might just stop on his own, but he hasn’t yet, and barring rehab and cutting off access, it’s a pretty safe bet he won’t.

2024-10-04 09:13:36

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These are good questions, but an important variable is missing: what are governments going to do in response to these conditions?
And if the answer is print a ton of money, then the price will rise.

2024-10-04 08:39:17

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Obviously. Anyone under 45 drops dead suddenly, not a drug OD? The jab. Friend has random, unexplained neurological problem? Jab. Maybe some things are caused by something else, but base case if you had no prior health issues before injecting yourself is always the jab.

2024-10-03 19:44:42

next time someone asks me who I am, will say:
“I’m part of the control group, you know, for the matrix. Just in case it doesn’t work out.”

2024-10-03 18:09:05

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not so -- most people voting for Trump are doing it eyes open, routinely criticize his horrendous handling of covid and his doing zero against the deep state the first time.
There are *some* zealots, of course, but it is not nearly as symmetrical as you present.

2024-10-03 17:30:16

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Sometimes I think something along those lines -- it's all kayfabe, just one giant uniparty, and I wouldn’t be entirely shocked if that turned out to be the case.
But 2017-2020 happened, and we weren’t at war, there was no Regime-sponsored censorship and no one was requiring pharmaceutical blood compliance to attend a restaurant.
Just don’t see how there’s anything to lose by voting against that, even if it turns out it’s in fact bullshit.

2024-10-03 17:15:48

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I don't think you vote for Trump the person, but the set of policies and people around him, and those who would apply a different set of pressures.
I think it’s FAR more likely he’ll support free speech for those reasons (not due to any deep understanding or ethical principle necessarily) than the Regime.
IMO, Trump vote is a no-brainer — there’s just nothing really to lose compared to the Regime.

2024-10-03 16:02:22

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That's a very strange reason. Maybe they mean they didn’t see enough people posting, so those who posted frequently were filling up their feeds?
Seems like an easy fix — follow more people, unfollow the people whose frequent posts you don’t like.
But it doesn’t really matter. People will get nostr at the price they deserve.

2024-10-03 06:50:44

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that's my base case — matter of “national security”

2024-10-02 21:39:36

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agree on all of this except I think that if they succeed in cheating, there will subsequently be a war for the framing of what happened, and whoever wins that war will win the election. I don’t mean violence either, though some false flags might happen, but a war of frames, whether “you’re a conspiracy theorist, don’t question elections wins — which it did in 2020” or “enough is enough, you’re lying, we know you’re lying, and you know we know, and the people, which includes the police and military, are not going along with it.”

2024-10-02 17:45:20

I don't think the betting markets are reliable election indicators anymore. For starters, they could be manipulated by campaigns looking to influence plausibility and keep donations coming in.
But even if that weren't happening, there's another big problem which is that a large portion of Trump supporters believe the election process is likely to be rigged.
Such a person might believe Trump will garner more real votes, but would not want to bet on the outcome. If say 40 or 50 percent of Trump supporters (obviously I'm making up that number, but seems plausible to me) feel this way and don't bet, that means there are 3:1 Harris supporters in the pool of bettors, and that's going to skew the odds massively.
As such, I think the betting markets are terrible indicators this time around.
(The reason this occurred to me was that Polymarket (I read somewhere) had Tim Walz as a big favorite to win the debate. Seemed like that would only be possible if Trump voters were disinclined to bet due to perceived rigging.)
That means much of the analysis around election odds (which if fueled by manipulable polls and poor-indicator betting markets) is garbage-in, garbage out.
Personally, I have two takes on the real election odds:
1. To the extent cheating is possible (and some of that will depend on the vigilance of the citizenry) the chance it happens approaches 100 percent.
And
2. When the usual indicators (polling, betting markets) have been gamed, look to the fundamentals. In this case, it's bad economy, high inflation, immigration crisis paired with a candidate that lacks political skill, i.e., the ability to persuade people and inspire confidence.
I don't know how much cheating will ultimately be allowed, so I can't predict the official result, but to me the fundamentals say landslide.

2024-10-02 09:50:56

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Really shouldn't do cocaine after receiving an mRNA shot.

2024-10-01 12:41:32

Friend of mine told me she had had only one bad trip in her life, the time they took mushrooms and decided to watch The Wall.
Someone else changed the subject before I could share my bad trip due to someone putting on Caligula. Very dark, violent and pornographic.
While I was kind of traumatized by it, my friend never tripped again. And another guy we were with dropped out of college and was last seen chanting at the airport with Hare Krishnas (back in the 1990s).
Not saying the trip caused that, but it could not have helped.

2024-10-01 09:15:47

Woke up annoyed today.
Last night we busted our 12.5 YO for having an Instagram account. (Apparently she opened it last week, convinced her best friend to open one, friend got busted by her mom, mom texts my wife, busted.)
I’m not really angry at her for doing something we told her never to do — when you raise a kid who questions authority, inevitably she questions YOUR authority too.
But I’m pissed because the cunts at Instagram and Tic Tock et al have essentially taken away my daughter’s freedom to discover the world for herself.
We’ve recently let her roam the city, surf the web on her Raspberry Pi, etc. We want her to experience the benign neglect of Gen X. Back then, maybe a few kids got hooked on drugs, but it was by far the exception. Mostly, we just did normal stupid shit and learned from it.
Now though you can’t leave them to their own devices because drug addition (smart phones, which she doesn’t yet have, but many of her friends do and social media) is the norm.
It would be like growing up in a drug-infested city where you couldn’t let your kids out of the house by themselves at all.
I don’t want to spy on her, have to constantly police what she’s being exposed to, but the world has ever more potent ways of hooking them now. (The other scourge is this retarded “skin care” trend wherein they buy toxic af products and use them, another battle to fight.)
When the society is your enemy, being a parent is tough. Makes me want to move to the country and home school, though my wife has no appetite for that. (Truth is, I don’t really either, but I would do it if we got to the point where I felt it were necessary.)
Just fucking annoyed at the evil of our society and the dim-witted, fit-in-at-all-costs ethos of other parents.

2024-09-30 19:05:05

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thanks -- appreciate that

2024-09-30 18:01:01

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enjoyed that — thanks for linking!

2024-09-30 17:51:41

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I don't know, probably low. But the idea occurred to me, and it seemed plausible, so I felt I had to write it.

2024-09-30 17:50:29

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thanks Duncan — appreciate it. Will check it out!

2024-09-30 16:17:36

Warning: This one, like the rest of the series, is dark.
#naddr1qv…nuq8
https://highlighter.com/chrisliss/Conspiracy-Part-5-b0c1q3

2024-09-29 09:00:05

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Guy I follow on Twitter (Zuby) calls it the West’s “immune system.” Hard to argue with it.

2024-09-29 08:30:13

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indeed

2024-09-29 08:01:29

Working on a post about Christians of which I am not one. Growing up in NYC, I always thought of the “Christian Right” as a bunch of scoldy, joyless losers (kind of how I feel about the woke left now).
But during the last few years, it’s been obvious that a large portion of those who had the courage to speak out against tyranny rather than abjectly comply were those who believed in something higher than the State. They couldn’t be easily bullied by fear and incentives because their belief in God inoculated them against the utilitarian nihilism of trading principles for social and professional expedience.
It’s not that they don’t have fear or feel the pressure everyone else feels. It’s that they were able to manage those emotions without caving in.
As I said I am not one, but am awfully glad they exist.

2024-09-27 17:38:12

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that’s fine in theory, but think you’ll have an easier time of that on your property under your fruit trees

2024-09-27 15:29:12

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I used to think that, but IMO the biggest part of the psyop is that resistance is futile, and whether wittingly or not, she’s contributing to it.

2024-09-27 11:29:44

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Trump is flawed, to be sure, and it’s possible if Harris wins, the second-order effects would be more corrective, but there’s also a LOT of downside if she were to win. (She won’t, barring insane, over the top, cheating BTW.)

2024-09-27 09:18:26

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Bribe is implicit though

2024-09-27 09:08:08

I'm done with black pillers like Whitney Webb who try to persuade you everything is futile. It's like someone telling you everything is a lie. How can you believe them?

2024-09-27 08:13:57

Virtually everyone who has not been bribed via social and professional incentives despises The Regime.
It is nothing but phony, gaslighting sociopaths actively and purposefully making things worse for all of us, undermining core American principles at the behest of special interests to which it is totally beholden.
Those interests at a minimum include pharmaceutical and military industrial conglomerates, but beyond enriching parasitic cronies, I believe there's a larger agenda, and that's to deal with the inevitable fallout from global debt burdens they know can never come close to being paid back.
They have looted the West's wealth and they need to cover up the crime. That's IMO what's at the heart of all the top-down control measures from the fake WHO treaty to the climate hoax, to AML laws, to CBDCs, to the censorship industrial complex wherein they're arresting people in the UK for Facebook posts!
When the pensions don't cover the cost of living and health care because that money was spent on Iraq and Ukraine (the killing was just a necessary and unfortunate side effect of buying arms from the MIC), there would be a French Revolution-style reckoning for those responsible.
Even "healthcare" costs are a misnomer because it's largely treatment for the damage done by big ag, processed food, toxic pharmaceuticals, 70 jabs, the mRNA, pesticides, fluoride in the water supply, etc.
The Regime (which is bi-partisan) is fucking despised and deservedly so. In Trump you have a bit of an outsider, a kind of crank, and so there is *some* small modicum of hope as he is not beholden to the degree these low-character scumbags of The Regime are.
That's all this is. If you are not bribed -- and so many sadly, tragically, willingly, cowardly are -- you fucking despise The Regime.

2024-09-26 17:24:39

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ha thanks.
It’s true, but x is a good search engine for that kind of thing. The web is basically unnavigable now.

2024-09-26 15:35:33

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Thanks!

2024-09-26 13:44:42

New Podcast: One Funeral At A Time
https://fountain.fm/episode/4DX7R8fb2LNpTBIwGg8b

2024-09-26 12:25:38

This is low-key one of the biggest psyops of the last 50 years -- *the idea that your own observations, intuitions and insights are worthless against the body of accepted knowledge.*
The theory of relativity was discovered by a tinkering patent clerk! The dull, obedient tenured career academics do more to stifle innovation than propel it forward. Max Planck famously said: "Science advances one funeral at a time."
Do you know who read the patent clerk's Theory of Special Relativity and asked for clarification on it after the paper had been ignored by the entirety of mainstream science at the time?
Max Planck
So I see this cartoon as a great litmus test -- if you view it as a hilarious dunk on the cranks who are challenging the orthodoxy, you have fallen for the psyop and assumed your place as a midwit, dutiful to the status quo. If you take it unironically and are curious as to what he might have found, you are free.
Full disclosure: I fell for this psyop for a long time, and am both pissed at myself for squandering so much time but also overjoyed to be free of it and thirsting for knowledge about the world as a result.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/009408323ef4d8fb5bad4aab4f86822e140f3392000cb95d42ed1627d9275ed1.webp

2024-09-26 08:58:59

Yeah it does.
But good luck getting that point across until you first help people understand the problem.
#note1tw8…e9kc

2024-09-25 17:18:36

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https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/9f25230756859a347144eb899fef6ec2ea22a3f6ad02a22eee820e79d85b6381.webp

2024-09-25 12:39:45

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2024-09-25 09:45:05

Stuck at home waiting for the wife to return so I can ditch @npub138y…aszc and go running. Third cup of coffee, should have done some “real” work (none of my work is real), but opted for shitposting.
Someone has to populate nostr with posts.

2024-09-25 09:35:39

One of the hardest things about writing a long-form post is picking out the photo for it. Almost worth hiring someone to do it once I get rich off from my non-paywalled substack and nostr zaps.

2024-09-25 09:31:54

Every time you speak the truth, it raises the cost for them to keep up the lie.
Bankrupt those motherfuckers.

2024-09-25 09:28:54

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*muting*

2024-09-25 09:27:12

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that's actually a good point -- "following” is imprecise, and why should you have to send a message to someone to that effect?
You get this situation I have on Twitter where you just end up meeting half your follows because you don’t want them to know you think what they’re saying is idiotic and no longer want to hear it, old colleagues and such.
Maybe you’re onto something.