Chris Liss

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2025-11-07 09:37:24

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Given the similiary of your profile pics, thought he was congratulating himself in the third person.

2025-11-04 10:04:04

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Because for colleges to grow, they had to admit more people even though there are not enough good jobs available for the college educated and mostly indebted. This is the fault of the colleges for charging so much, and promising a better future when no such future was possible for the majority of their students. The students are justifiably pissed for getting rugged. So in order to avoid getting blamed, the colleges indoctrinate them to believe it's the man keeping them down, that capitalism is unfair, etc. When really they fucked their own students with a bad deal.

2025-10-30 22:12:10

excerpt from latest podcast:
https://rumble.com/v7100ee-accountability.html
https://v.nostr.build/qVNvjwRP8mgdciAM.mp4

2025-10-29 09:37:07

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In your scenario, I thought you meant the CBDC was bitcoin. In the real-life scenario, stablecoins will probably just be a parallel rail that exists for those who don’t have access to the other. You’ll have sovereign people and dependent people, and many will not mind having a large stack of permissioned stablecoins.

2025-10-29 08:46:34

The real psyop is the idea that anything COULD be a psyop, but we don’t which is which.
And that psyop has succeeded.
#nevent1q…fu6g

2025-10-29 08:44:13

I used to think this, but now I might have erred on the side of too many.
#nevent1q…wz4f

2025-10-28 12:47:12

Reminds me of a friend of mine who was on LSD, and every time his cat said, “Meow” he thought it was a person trapped inside it saying, “Let me out!”
#nevent1q…0jgp

2025-10-25 08:28:18

had a paranoid friend who ditched the old Twitter because he didn’t like that people were “following” him
#nevent1q…u9dp

2025-10-24 09:17:30

Starting to despise the tone and phraseology of AI. It's like music composed as commercial jingles, maybe worse. Just sounds fake. And sometimes I can’t tell whether an account is actually AI or just a person who used it so much he’s started to adopt its style.

2025-10-23 21:40:52

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Real talk!

2025-10-23 21:16:30

excerpt from new podcast:
https://rumble.com/v70odro-new-york.html
https://v.nostr.build/924YEXGQVO3T04yh.mp4

2025-10-23 07:54:59

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Don’t worry about it, I was just calling to say what’s up.

2025-10-20 14:51:16

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Trying to wrap my head around this: Are you saying reality mines blocks in Planck-time, but it’s too fast for us to observe, so physicists invent “superposition” whereas with bitcoin we can see how it actually works?

2025-10-18 00:54:30

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thanks for the heads up. Have to fix when I get home.

2025-10-18 00:15:17

if you reject the story you’ve been told, not just about central banking, not just about covid, not just about modern medicine, but really reject the entire thing, you start to realize anything is possible.
If you wonder why we haven’t seemed to progress in 50 years, why we don’t have 2001 Space Odyssey-level tech, why we don’t have flying cars, it might be because even though you’re questioned many particular false narratives, we still fundamentally haven’t questioned everything.
And having not questioned everything, we are stuck in only the possibilities we’ve been offered.

2025-10-18 00:09:49

I can shitpost longer than you can stay scrolling.

2025-10-18 00:09:17

At the airport stupid early again. Think it’s more relaxing to be at the shitty terminal than waiting at home not knowing how much traffic there will be or how long the line is at security. At the gate, you just have to walk onto the plane.

2025-10-17 23:49:30

I think the results were so-so. Woke too many people up. Overplayed their hand.
Problem was Trump was president. Had it been Hillary, they could have succeeded a lot more, but he delayed the plan, they got impatient, had to fix 2020, do the J6 psyop, jumped the gun.
They fucked up IMO.
#note1dcl…qak8

2025-10-17 22:53:32

Sometimes I imagine I’m watching a movie and things unfold cinematically, frame by frame. Like a word-class cinematographer is doing every shot. The East River at dusk, the highway traffic signs, the slow-speed airport traffic, the skinny untrimmed highway-side trees. It all portends something profound but you don’t yet know what, so you notice things.

2025-10-17 21:29:40

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Speech is itself a protocol the censor wants to treat like a platform

2025-10-17 14:08:14

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If I don’t get it on the first guess, I give up

2025-10-16 20:20:11

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Wait for DECA-CEMBER

2025-10-16 20:18:23

you assholes need to capitulate, sell everything, then we can have Uptober.

2025-10-16 20:16:41

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Everyone has to give up on it first.

2025-10-16 20:14:35

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pretty sure it's NOvember

2025-10-16 20:00:42

The fuck happened to Uptober?

2025-10-16 13:32:08

Still use a beaten up IPhone 8, zero desire to get a new phone, but it doesn’t take the latest updates, and apps are starting not to work.

2025-10-15 20:36:46

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sorry last line should be 102 ^ 2

2025-10-15 20:31:17

I remember seeing (x+1) ^ 2 in math class and thinking it would just be x^2 + 1. But it’s actually x ^2 + 2x +1.
Okay fine, you have to multiply out each term by each term. The x * x, the x * 1, the other x * the other 1 and 1 *1.
I just took this for granted, like it was just how you’re supposed to do it via the formula.
But if you look at it on a piece of graph paper, say draw a 2 x 2 square, and say, if x = 2, what is (x +1) ^ 2?
Well you keep the x ^ 2 (the box with area 4), and you add 2x (2) to the top of the box and 2x to the side of the box, but then there’s one small square missing, so you add that, and now you have a 3 x 3 box.
And you do it again to get a 4 x 4 square, just add another 3 on top, 3 on the side, and fill in the one that’s missing.
And you can keep going, and the formula makes perfect sense.
And you realize to go from x ^ 2 to (x + 1) ^ 2, you can always just add x + (x+1) to x ^2. Or 2x +1 to x ^2.
That’s why a 4 x 4 square = 16. And a 5 x 5 square = 16 + (2 * 4) +1. And a 6 x 6 square = 25 plus (2 * 5) + 1. Etc.
So if you want to calculate 101 squared in your head, you can just do 100^2 = 10K, plus 100, plus 101 - 10,201. And 101 ^ 2 = 10,201 plus 101 plus 102 - 10,404. Etc.
Maybe this is obvious to some people, but it blew my mind how you can do this easily in your head.

2025-10-15 19:52:03

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A ruling class with balls would kick in your door and disappear you.

2025-10-15 15:24:05

I spent the entire seven hour flight battling a tough Sudoku. I even spilled water on it at one point and had to let it dry. I defeated it 40 minutes before we landed. I felt as though the fate of me and my fellow passengers depended on my completing it.

2025-10-15 15:04:58

They would never allow this in a million years for obvious reasons. People would just stop paying for 95 percent of things. Might as well just end income tax entirely at that point.
#note193d…c60v

2025-10-15 14:36:50

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putting it to the test!

2025-10-15 14:01:55

Ate some yogurt at my brother’s house, upscale fancy brand. Tasted a little off, but figured that’s because it’s the fancy stuff. Then I noticed the expiration date was 8/14, had been open in the fridge for two months!
No mold though. Deciding whether to worry about this or not.

2025-10-15 13:11:14

Waiting at the gate some millennial libs were talking animatedly about politics. The theme was their magnanimity in not de-friending people who had abhorrent views, you know like being against “gender affirming care.”
It was this nervous attempt to find uncomfortable consensus amongst themselves for how to deal with dissenting views.
It actually took some restraint for me not to say something along the lines of: “You people don’t know ANYTHING about anything.” Just lost souls grasping at phantoms.

2025-10-15 12:59:02

Really enjoyed the night time cab ride from JFK to the city. Sikh cabbie driving the minivan like a maniac, making great time, like Virgil leading me through the various underworlds on the outskirts of town.
Decrepit motels with only one letter of the neon sign half blinking, places no doubt where overdoses and rapes are commonplace. Then the run down houses with full views of the highway, various stretches of housing projects, apartments blue-lit by TV screens.
Through the midtown tunnel and I’m in a futuristic glass and steel world, superimposed on the old beautiful city with upscale bistros, bars and galleries. Time travel from old Europe.
Driver drops me off at my destination, tip him well, thank him for the excellent, speedy driving. Could tell he took pride in risking our lives so skillfully and appreciated the sincere compliment.

2025-10-14 15:43:19

People at airports are increasingly unhealthy looking, and many of them seem insane.

2025-10-14 14:22:08

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she's also a gringa, but she speaks way better than I do

2025-10-14 13:40:21

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too cheap to spring for it, maybe one day though

2025-10-14 13:26:51

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if what you meant is my wife is a local, no she’s from California, and the reason she waits until the last minute is she is borderline mentally ill with respect to time management. But that she was right in this instance is probably gonna cost me next flight when we’re forced to break Usain Bolt’s 100m record on the way to the gate with bags.

2025-10-14 13:20:46

Feel like something’s cracking which is why there’s a sell-off. People need to raise dollars desperately.

2025-10-14 13:19:23

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How would I know in advance though? I’ve been here when the line takes two hours, and if they really were “upgrading” the system, that could be a disaster, given how things run here.

2025-10-14 13:11:51

Had an international flight to catch today at 5. Get a text from the airline saying due to the new immigration system being put in, get to the outgoing immigration line 3 hours early. WTF?
So I tell my wife to drive me early, she thinks I’m crazy. She always does it last minute, I don’t care about being stuck at the airport, just don’t want to miss my flight.
Anyway, we leave an hour and a half earlier than even I had planned, she drops me off. I was literally the ONLY one in the immigration line. I walked right to the front, got to the “gate” three hours early. I put “gate” on quotes because I won’t have a gate for another hour.
Expect some shitposts, I got nothing better to do.

2025-10-09 19:35:37

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Hope not, but I could certainly see it

2025-10-09 18:03:16

Excerpt 2 from latest podcast:
https://rumble.com/v702tnc-the-future-of-media.html
https://v.nostr.build/QDRo3LwsYHKjurfr.mp4

2025-10-09 17:33:13

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The people I know do not correlate their issues with the jab, either.

2025-10-09 17:30:10

New Podcast:
https://rumble.com/v702tnc-the-future-of-media.html
https://v.nostr.build/J4nxmm3fx5KNcWHT.mp4

2025-10-09 17:29:44

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I know a lot of people with catastrophic and unexplained health issues of late. Younger people too.

2025-10-09 17:19:18

Seems like SSRIs, birth control and the mRNA have done a lot of damage to a lot of people.

2025-10-09 15:12:31

You thought it was Uptober, but it was really Choptober

2025-10-08 10:34:53

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Not if you pay the ad-free rate.

2025-10-08 10:34:21

Think I discovered at age 54 I have a learning disability. I’m *differently abled* LOL.
Was talking with my mom who told me she had a learning disability (she’s 80 next week), I never knew. She said she has trouble reading. I said you can read! She said yeah, but slowly and often she has to read sentences three times to understand them.
I thought about it, and I’m similar though WAY better adapted than she is. I can read novels quickly, but new subjects, especially tech ones make my mind glaze over. I just can’t get it, until I ask a lot of really basic dumb questions and it finally clicks.
I was good at math as a kid, but had trouble with multi-variable calculus in college. I always chalked it up to excessive partying, but I did study in the end, killed myself to get an 80 on the final exam and a C- in the course overall.
I get this same feeling with tech, coding, nostr features, etc. It takes me a long time to get it, but oddly, once I get it, I really get it.
I have to understand from first principles and build the entire edifice on top, otherwise I am lost. I don’t do mimetic learning well, I have a hard time picking up languages, for example. I can’t “fake it till I make it.” I can’t fake it at all. I either know it or I don’t.
Paradoxically this has given me a super-power of sorts — I can explain things I understand very clearly because I am explaining them to my retarded self. I assume you are not taking leaps, and literally spell it out from first principles step by step. There are few to none elisions in the explanation and even people who don’t have this issue can get something out of them.
It also informs my belief that anyone no matter how retarded (within limits) can understand ANYTHING that anyone no matter how intelligent can understand, provided the building blocks are presented clearly enough and broken down into digestible enough pieces.
Anyway, just a bizarre thing to discover at this age, but it explains a lot.

2025-10-08 10:26:22

The future of media has to be you type in what you want to see, pay for it and the creators sort out the payment on the backend. No more myraid subscriptions to streaming services. Just pick the content, pay the cost and let them figure it out.
At first it will be credit cards, but eventually just sats. Load up your TV-browser-wallet with sats, spend and refill as needed.
Trusted curators will emerge, people who take half a percent for you to use their lists, deal with the problem of discovery.
Pirating will happen, but they could release free ad-full and paid ad-free versions, so anyone who doesn’t want to pay can watch the ads, and that would limit it because why bother with the pirated version if you can get it anyway.
Also every purchase could be an NFT (finally a use case!) so you’d know you got a non-pirated paid one.
Would be a privacy issue, but no problem, if you spin up an anon nostr account, load it with sats and buy your content with that one.

2025-10-06 12:40:11

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ah, okay, so when you jump to Omega number of stops, the train has emptied out, and it doesn’t matter how many were on it prior?

2025-10-06 12:10:44

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I get that first part (that everyone only rides finitely many stops), but more board at each stop though. In fact, at stop omega minus one, wouldn’t there be infinitely many people boarding?

2025-10-06 11:43:08

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so you're saying the number of stops is greater than the number of people getting on the train even though >1 people get on the train at each stop?

2025-10-06 11:31:38

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Maybe it's like if you cut something in half an infinite number of times, it’s gone, even though at every finite cut there is something left.
But even though every seat will empty by omega, there will be subsequent seats that are full.

2025-10-06 11:24:13

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Let's start with the first train, why would there be zero passengers at station omega?
At station 3, 3 would have left but 6 would have boarded, so there would be 3. At station 4, there would be 6 still on board. Why zero at station omega?

2025-10-04 17:15:07

it's bullshit we crashed below 122

2025-10-03 16:29:43

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Please do! I love that kind of shit

2025-10-03 16:25:06

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no, but it’s a good one!
If you want to get a sense of how insane even the E0 level is, the Goodstein meta function discussed here is on that level of the hierarchy. Grows VERY fast, just not as fast as TREE(3).
https://www.numberphile.com/videos/the-goodstein-sequence

2025-10-02 08:56:13

The Digital ID platform is an overcorrection to a real problem. The problem is not knowing who is who. That IS a real problem. There are scams and illegals and bots, but requiring law-abiding citizens to submit to total control only creates a worse problem.
But overcorrection to real problems is not limited to government apparatchiks and control freaks. I see people overcorrecting all the time, with a regression to old school racism in the face of catastrophic unchecked immigration, for example. Yes, uncivilized third-worlders unsuited to open western cultures do commit more crimes, shouldn’t be allowed in without proper vetting. But I see way too many people wanted to ban “Muslims” generally or people generally from particular countries of origin, making the argument along *racial* lines.
What happened to judging people by the content of their character? What happened to the focus on the individual rather than the collective?
The midwit always wants a simple heuristic to solve complex problems and hence overcorrects when problems arise, creating a new set of problems. Collectivism, of which racism is but one subset, is never the solution.

2025-10-02 08:47:15

I find myself agreeing with a lot of the Christian traditionalist views I read here but I have to make sure I don’t get caught up in it too much. ANY belief system is a crutch. Devotion to God is the absence of beliefs, IMO, it’s getting in tune with the experience of life which is God. Beliefs are Satan’s work, the tree of knowledge, so to speak. You form a belief to comfort yourself from the terrifying prospect of total doubt which is God. You cower before the might of the raw experience and run to the safety of a mantra, a book or a set of mental propositions and images that makes you feel better. But as Robert Frost said, “The only way out is through.”

2025-10-02 07:01:22

The more Twitter turns into AI slop, the better and more calming my nostr feed of people posting whatever random thoughts they have.
It’s like oh, right, I don’t have to go to war with the psyop right now to see what’s going on.
And while Twitter obviously is much better for current events/news, is it really more important I know what Congress is fighting about than seeing a photo of a classic car or someone’s grilled steak?

2025-09-30 11:00:44

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My dentist is actually very good — the one business in Portugal that runs like a US one that cares about its customers, tries to make money, but will comp you if they screw up anything. Also holistic and know about health.
But I hear you — private equity has hollowed out the soul of so many businesses. Think there will be a backlash, this will correct somewhat. Private equity services are kind of like AI compositions, you can tell they’re fake.

2025-09-30 09:59:38

Charming, enthusiastic young dental hygienist makes me promise to do a whole bunch of things to improve my gums. She tells me to rub this special oxygenated gel on every night. I agree to all of it — she is so earnest, cares so much!
Get to the receptionist, tells me the cost of the cleaning, says the gel is extra. How much? 40 euros! Asks if I still want it. Tell her no, but just don’t tell the hygienist!

2025-09-28 11:46:22

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This is profound.

2025-09-26 11:47:05

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The mafia that’s getting taken down was the same one that forced the gender derangements and the jab mandates. Nothing needs to replace it, it wasn’t legitimate power, i.e., it should revert back to the people the same way society’s surplus production reverts to the people when money printing is removed. But we’ll see if they set up their own illegitimate scheme in its place.

2025-09-26 09:23:18

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Strong disagree. Trump is far from perfect, but he’s a person with an agenda, and that agenda differs from that of the blob that ran things under Biden’s fake presidency. Thank God he won and not Harris. I shudder to think how bad things would have gotten had she won.

2025-09-26 09:06:36

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Maybe, but you really believe “they” are omnipotent, and I don’t. I think “they” are just people and as such are highly fallible and delusional. And they fucked up.
I also don’t think Trump is my friend. He has HIS agenda, it’s not my agenda. But there is SOME overlap. Certainly more than with the previous regime.

2025-09-24 09:19:49

There is no surge in autism, just better diagnostics. There is a surge, but we don't know the cause. We know the cause, but it's a good thing!
#nevent1q…96e9

2025-09-22 20:15:54

Propagandist posing as comedian Jimmy Kimmel is getting his show back, turns out no one forced ABC to shitcan him. All the ululations over Hitler’s fascist regime were fake as usual, already memory-holed. Onto the next outrage!

2025-09-20 09:03:25

Let me translate: we are bankrupt, we know the crisis is coming, we know the money isn’t real, we need to keep the delusion going. For your own good.
#nevent1q…9jkr

2025-09-20 08:54:16

If you’re into doom, this is one of the best cases I’ve seen made for it. Maybe the scientific basis for the Book of Revelation. Do not watch if you are on the edge. (Actually maybe it’ll give you a sense of peace as there’s not much you can do about it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8asS7yLpHk

2025-09-19 15:53:01

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I don't think it’s authoritarian to pull him off the air for doing propaganda. I do think the optics are less than ideal but justice > optics.

2025-09-19 11:46:47

The most retarded thing I've seen is people pretending Jimmy Kimmel was some kind of free thinking dissident, speaking truth to power who was silenced.
He was paid millions to lie, demonize and ridicule innocent people who didn't want to be injected with pharma conglomerate poison! He was the lowest form of "comedian", one who punched down and mocked actual dissenters on behalf of the regime.
His firing was not only long overdue, but the mildest of rebukes. Alex Jones was sued into oblivion, Donald Trump deplatformed and shot, Charlie Kirk murdered.
Kimmel is free to podcast, post on social media, advocate for withholding life-saving medical treatment from the unvaccinated from the street corner. The millions he received for doing regime-approved propaganda on publicly-owned airwaves is not being clawed back.
Sorry, I know it’s a lot of posts on Kimmel. But he is one of the public figures I MOST despised, and that’s saying a lot in my case. I need to just post through the schadenfreuede.

2025-09-19 09:06:53

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Proves it’s possible to be too bullish

2025-09-18 20:44:42

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2025-09-18 20:44:21

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The letter they sent? I haven't seen it, but I saw the terms of the broadcasting license somewhere. Bondi’s comments were atrocious, but she was forced by her own base to walk them back a few hours later.

2025-09-18 20:41:27

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The pretext *was* flimsy, but he was not a “comedian” exercising free speech, but an operative, a paid propagandist whose ratings did not justify his salary. Good argument ABC violated the terms of the FCC over the public airwaves, but ideally FCC shouldn’t have been involved, just the affiliates whose audiences he had alienated.
Either way, big win for humanity, wouldn’t sweat this one at all, even if the admin has definitely overreached in other areas.

2025-09-18 20:26:51

The left has zero ground to stand on re free speech or “cancel culture”. It’s basically just a discussion among everyone else where you draw the line between what’s government infringement and what’s legitimate private action taken for profit motive. Anyone on the left should just hope they are more 100x principled and just than they were.

2025-09-18 20:21:01

Kimmel was a "comedian" in the way Fauci was a "doctor." Yes, at one point that might have been what they were doing, but now they work for the machine.

2025-09-18 16:39:44

EU admits mRNA injections were released without "complete" safety data.
https://v.nostr.build/c3czjwrI8WnM9rlG.mp4

2025-09-18 11:49:31

Excerpt from latest podcast: Where Is Your Ribbon?
https://rumble.com/v6z4gps-where-is-your-ribbon.html
https://blossom.primal.net/0759afe1d8cc022e9437a4adf9fdcd0d475e504afd36610b3016a920310857f7.mp4

2025-09-18 07:42:45

Wrote this three and a half years ago — think it’s relevant today:
BELIEF
I used to wonder why people went to war over religion. So what if you bow to the elephant with 17 heads, and I worship a burning bush? Why does anyone care? But that was before I read Charles Peirce’s “Fixation Of Belief.”
In it he argues being uncertain, i.e., having a doubt, is a kind of discomfort or dissatisfaction. It’s unpleasant and irritating not to know, and just like an itch calls out for a scratch, a doubt calls out for its own kind of relief. That relief comes in the form of a belief.
A belief fills the uncomfortable void of doubt and puts one at ease — at least with respect to that particular decision or uncertainty. In my prior job, this dynamic could not have been clearer to me. The phone lines would light up during our “Chances To Win” radio segment wherein I would speculate on each caller’s likelihood of getting enough points (or his opponent failing to get enough) on Monday Night Football. Never mind the callers knew I was just making it up, and never mind that the game would go as it was always going to go, and nothing I said could change that. They lined up to hear their odds so they could quantify and therefore affix a belief to their chances, replacing the void of nebulous doubt and anxiety. Virtually no segment on the entire channel received so many calls.
If uncertainty for a few hours about one week of fantasy football could motivate so many to queue up on the off chance we’d get to their call, imagine the stakes when we’re talking about religion! Religion spans the gamut from how the universe came to be to where you might spend eternity. From the meaning of life to the proper way to raise your children. The doubt religion placates runs deeper than the Marianas Trench. Man has historically gone to great lengths and suffered immensely to affix durable religious beliefs over the cavernous uncertainties in his soul.
So if you, seemingly prosperous, intelligent and healthy person differ from me in certain core beliefs, you are a threat. Not only to turn others against me, but worse, to erode the beliefs I took such pains to affix over the dreaded void in my soul. If what you believe might be true, then what I believe might be false. And *might be* is a massive problem because it takes from me the hard-earned certainty that undergirds my entire life’s purpose.
Unless I upend my entire worldview (something of which few are capable/willing), I have no other choice but to destroy you. But because my self-identification as a good person forbids violence except in self-defense, first I must conjure up some grave offense you have committed against me. I am not thinking this consciously — in my mind, I am merely responding to an acute threat I feel in my bones and revulsion I experience when confronted with your unbelievably selfish and evil beliefs. The stakes are so high my brain manufactures the offense effortlessly. Your views are a violation, your existence a problem, and if I can’t kill you, at least I can shut you up or see to it you are excommunicated and viewed as a terrible person to whom no one would listen.
In 2022, at least in the west, many people do not subscribe to what we think of as religions per se. They might be nominally Catholic or Jewish, but those traditions only peripherally inform the most important pillars of their reality. Instead, many take their worldviews from their social, economic and political tribes, where things like for whom you voted, your views on masking or whether you took Pfizer’s latest have bizarrely become meaningful. (The particulars of what has significance are often dictated by mass media, and they could be, and increasingly are, arbitrary.) It sounds insane, but merely hearing that someone does not believe the new Pfizer shots are necessary, or that one prefers a different politician in office will often be perceived as a grave offense. “You are killing people with this tweet,” seems correct not because there is good (or any) evidence of a tweet killing people, but because “killing people” is the only language strong enough to match the emotion felt by the person reading it.
When we realize what’s at stake in this battle of worldviews — the fixation of beliefs to stem the dreadful uncertainty in a time of rapid and unsettling change, during which there has been a collapse of trust in institutions and an information ecosystem so polarized people often cannot even agree on the most basic premises — seemingly insane and inexplicable behavior makes more sense.
The person seeking to destroy you is revealing his own desperation. He needs to reaffirm his increasingly fragile sense of the world, and he feels he’s being righteous not only for himself but by protecting the epistemic foundations of his likeminded peers. He is on a crusade of sorts. The tell for religious fanatics on a crusade is that the end always justifies the means, for the end is the glory of God, so to speak, the triumph of what’s right and true and necessary, lest the whole world be plunged into the darkness, and by the darkness, I mean unfathomable, awesome, soul-destroying doubt from which we desperately seek r(b)elief.
If someone makes false claims about others, advocates for censorship, or argues others must be coerced to take medicine for the greater good, it is a tell. The reason citizens in western democracies have rights is precisely that this religious mindset, to which people are prone, has historically caused so much damage. Rights act as a failsafe, firm lines which, no matter the urgency of the cause, must not be crossed. In the end, we all want to assuage our doubts. We all want to be correct about our worldviews and the moral frameworks that allow us to view ourselves sympathetically. We want to feel good about ourselves, while navigating our lives in uncertain times.
But the difference between an earnest, openminded person and a dangerous fanatic is the willingness to suffer doubt, to face the anxiety that arises when others have different, even what we deem counterproductive or abhorrent, views. That doesn’t mean anyone likes it — tolerant people are invested in their beliefs too — but the threat to his worldview by competing ones is a discomfort to be borne by him, not a scourge by which to be offended and marked for eradication.
Tolerance, then, is literally a kind of emotional pain tolerance — the capacity to suffer through the prospect of doubt rather than stamping it out at all costs. And discomfort notwithstanding, an encounter with a dissident view is also an opportunity to ask oneself an important question, perhaps the most important if one wants to adapt and survive in the real world rather than simply optimize for emotional comfort: What if I’m wrong?

2025-09-18 07:27:10

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Legitimate debate between not meddling to “make it better” and not meddling to freeze it in place. Freezing it is itself a kind of meddling.

2025-09-17 13:07:11

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But our knowledge is partial and facts omitted by design, not by accident

2025-09-17 13:03:58

Relatedly my friend posted this on other social media I’m not on (wife sent it to me):
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/8d116da8d147f1cefa432646a97c6f79ccea643d56f38559a204a77404a536f4.webp

2025-09-17 12:48:41

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LOL, you didn’t help berth the United States, you’re just a vitriolic douchebag online who doesn’t dare do that with his real name attached! You are exactly the pussy I described in the post!
And you freely admit your critique of me is bullshit because you are a self-described hypocrite! You said so yourself. You said I shouldn’t be criticizing others while being a hypocrite, and yet here you are, a self-admitted hypocrite, criticizing me for criticizing others. Your critique by your own terms has no value. By your own terms you should just STFU.
By my terms, you can say whatever you want, but as I said, the most vitriolic online anons are usually the biggest pussies, and you proved my point!

2025-09-17 12:24:26

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I can see now why my OP triggered you! So much vitriol over nothing, behind your anon handle.

2025-09-17 11:46:35

I'm getting a bit of conspiracy theory fatigue. Every major event like this JFK/9/11/Vegas shooting/Trump assassination attempt/Kirk assassination just has endless loose ends, unanswered questions, unexplained facts.
It’s almost like a huge part of the psyop is to make everyone waste their time becoming online detectives. It’s like fucking Wordle for critical thinkers. New puzzle every few months.

2025-09-17 11:26:15

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ha it's true — can expend endless effort chasing a ball, but just running for 20 minutes is hell. Spirtual warfare.

2025-09-17 11:19:07

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It's harsh on the body too, bad for the joints. I think about quitting all the time, but next thing I know I’m back on the track, grinding out those miles in purgatory.

2025-09-17 11:15:51

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2025-09-16 15:14:19

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There were zero cops killed on January 6. The only person killed was a protester, shot by Capitol police.

2025-09-16 14:46:46

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who was killed on January 6?

2025-09-16 11:26:34

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probably

2025-09-16 10:52:49

Most of the political violence in recent years has come from the left, but I think that’s more due to ideological capture than anything inherent about left vs right.
Because the left captured all the institutions — tech, media, academia — people on the left were able to live in a bubble. They were able to avoid the unpleasant cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering opposing viewpoints. It was like being in a very large cult.
When this persists for long enough, it’s easy to become a fundamentalist of sorts, someone who views contrary viewpoints not just as incorrect but evil. It’s easy to see how this would happen — as your worldview gets ever more affirmed, it becomes ever-more painful to have it exposed to contradictions and internal incoherence.
People on the right the last few decades were constantly told they were bad and wrong by the media. It was almost impossible for them to live in a bubble. When you don’t live in a bubble, you are exposed to cognitive dissonance all the time, and you have less absolutism and fundamentalism. Less existential dread when someone disagrees with you, more rigor in formulating your worldview.
What the right should not want is to swap places with the left where their views become fundamentalism, dissent from them is verboten and their side gets radicalized when challenged.
Free speech you disagree with has to be protected no matter what. Unfortunately, I think it’s just the nature of power that it corrupts, and when the right re-takes it (they have in the US, but not entirely as the institutions are still very much leftist), they’ll probably do stupid shit like outlaw mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination as “hate speech” or outlaw flag burning.

2025-09-14 15:58:21

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I miss those hits, but I get why they outlawed them. Think QBs should still be able to get hit, and they need to throw flags only in the most extreme circumstances. They overcorrected, should go 75 percent of the way back to how it was.

2025-09-14 11:32:22

I suspect a lot of the most vitriolic anons online are compliant pussies IRL.