Now I get what
@Laser was saying -- lot of LLM-reponses. Wonder if we can flag these as spam in certain clients, e.g.,
@Nostur, ban them en masse.
Don't view that as censorship like that gross tagging bot Rabble built for using the word “retard,” because you are not censoring for content, but for spam.
Hit me the other day what would/will happen with CBDCs. Broke governments meting out resources under the guise of climate change or socialism or whatever, but they will be desperate for hard money and make all kinds of exceptions to lure people to spend it in their locality so they can tax it or even have it as part of their economy.
Highly skilled people will demand payment in it, regular people will be on the CBDC UBI.
Places that don’t accommodate hard money holders will see capital flight, and will quickly be seen as examples of what not to do.
You are wearing a helmet, but it's been on your head so long you no longer notice it.
The helmet interfaces with your mind via thought-emotion. It influences what you think about and how you feel.
You could remove the helmet at any time. But the thought-emotions keep you distracted, fearful and attached.
Occasionally you remember you are wearing it. Moments of clarity and detachment. You see the way your experience is colored by it. You know it is biased, untrue to reality. You seriously contemplate removing it.
But the moment passes.
Later, you remember contemplating your helmet’s removal, but you wonder what you will gain from it, whether it’s worth doing.
You are no longer having a moment of clarity, just a memory of the question that arose from it, but colored now by the thought-emotions.
You decide that even if you wanted to remove it, you would put it back on before long. After all, you have never kept it off before, why would you suddenly live without this interface now? The interface is what you know.
Maybe one day, when you are in a more secure place, when your ducks are more in a row, you will remove it. Not now, not in the midst of all this chaos, so many things to do, so much on your plate. You will leave it on for now. You will deal with this later.
But one day too late it dawns on you it is always ever now, and later means never. You have lived your entire life at the behest of the interface when all you had to do was remove it.
Covid was a mask-off moment for the globalist order. They tried to glue it back on afterwards, but it doesn’t quite fit anymore.
I criticize Trump often — deporting people for free speech is retarded and dangerous, and why is he violating the 1A at Israel’s behest? Like who gives shit if people are saying mean things about Israel as opposed to Russia or China? Free speech is free speech. How can JD Vance lecture Europe about its totalitarian speech policies when we have our own version at home.
Also I get it might take a while to dot the is and cross the ts for proper indictments of Epstein traffickers and Covid malefactors, so I don’t have a problem giving the admin some time. But why the catastrophically bad fake release of those binders to influencers? Why the preposterous charade?
Why did he release a scam coin? It’s bad enough for some “crypto influencer” to do it, but have some respect for the office of the presidency. It’s the same argument I made when Bill Clinton got a blowjob in the Oval Office, and people said, “Lighten up it’s just a blowjob.” He’s the fucking president — conduct yourself with some dignity, restraint and self-respect. Have some standards even many ordinary people uphold.
There are many other criticisms one can make, and they should be made. I’m in favor of accurate criticisms.
But the shit I am hearing is driving me crazy because it’s so ridiculous and false.
"He’s got dementia, he’s crazy, he’s an idiot, he’s a convicted rapist, he’s a 36-time felon, he’s a dictator, etc.”
Or just the general tenor about the tariffs and economic policy. Bitch, we’re $36T in debt, the status quo was catastrophically bad for vast swaths of the US population. It’s like being down 21-0 in the first half and trying some trick plays.
“Trick plays are too risky, you have to try and establish the run.”
Take a lot at the scoreboard. Or as Clarence Bodicker told Dick Jones in Robocop “Take a look at my face, Dick.”
I don’t know if the tariffs will work. They might in fact make things worse, and no I’m not taking about boomer’s paper wealth fluctuating for a few weeks on their computer screens.
I don’t know if there’s any baby with the DOGE bathwater, maybe there was. I’m not interested enough to fine-tooth comb it even if most of the things they unearthed sound not only wasteful and fraudulent, but actually evil and purposely against our interest.
But the severe mental retardation with which I hear these issues discussed is getting intolerable. It’s making me want to defend Trump, and that’s not something I have any interest in.
He *might* in fact be fucking up! I don’t want to take a side on this. The only *teams* I root for are the Giants, Yankees and Knicks. But people are so brainwashed, so egregiously misrepresenting everything that’s happening and happened, everything he’s said and done, reflexively I feel pushed into it, just to defend reality from their insane assaults on it.
But in defending reality you are, bizarrely, defending Trump in this case. What a strange moment we’re in.
I really like Portuguese people. They don’t meddle in your affairs, but they’re for the most part kind and decent, especially the regular working-class person.
The problem with them — and most Europeans I’ve met — is they are so severely brainwashed it’s hard to take. They believe the news to an extent almost unfathomable to all but the most sheltered neoliberal boomer Americans.
It’s really frustrating — you are having a conversation, getting to know someone, but you start to see they are part of a weird religious cult, and it dawns on you they are not persuadable or open-minded.
It’s not important that you are able to persuade a particular person of your particular views — sometimes my persuasion attempts are poor, and in any event, some of my views are probably wrong.
But it is essential someone be *persuadable,* that there is a possibility of getting somewhere, of recognizing truth if it presents itself. Otherwise you are talking to a wall.
Cigar was damn good. Sometimes you smoke one and don’t enjoy it, but sat on the balcony, made progress on a hard Sudoku, got the right mind-state flowing.
I’m torn on nicotine because it’s the only drug I’ve ever come close to being addicted to. And even then I used to go out drinking (when I did that), smoke a pack of cigs, wake up the next day and not buy a pack.
But lately I’d be experimenting with Velo, Zyn and Nic-Nacs, and was popping them in all day, every day. So I paused when I got back from the States (you have to order them online here), bought a box of cigars instead which I don’t even smoke every day.
Thinking maybe I’ll order six packs of Velos, and make a rule to use them only before noon. If I abide by the rule, I’ll order more. If I break it, then cold turkey. I don’t know, have this image of myself more like a monk, like I should be indifferent to sugar, nicotine, caffeine, etc., that truth is only possible with a clear mind.
I never have more than two drinks now, haven’t been hungover in almost two years, almost never smoke weed. But nicotine (and morning coffee which I don’t see as a problem) are the only drugs, aside from sugar (mostly fruit) I’m loathe to give up,
I can stay shit-posting longer than the market can remain insolvent.
Speaking of which, I do not enjoy running, but I go 3x per week to the track to maintain contact with the physical reality, i.e., war with the complacent and comfort-addicted mind.
Trump derangement syndrome is a kind of epistemic obesity. You gorged yourself on confirmation bias, and now you can’t do a single lap around reality’s track.
Curate your feed for earnestness above all else.
I might write something soon, but too lazy at the moment. Thinking of smoking a cigar instead.
Algos are the seed oils of social media.
Hypothesis: Saylor keeps only a small percentage of the coins on Coinbase, mostly has a self-custody setup.
Reason he doesn’t do proof of keys is he prefers people think it’s on CB, takes the target off his back.
Wife and I have this inside joke whenever one of us travels by plane. It started when she texted to ask if the flight went okay. Told her it crashed, but I was the sole survivor.
Now every time either of us flies, the other texts upon landing “sole survivor.”
Last time I followed up with, “but a bit traumatized after stepping over so many headless corpses.”
“Too far” she said.
Just got the power back on in Portugal. Little disappointed we didn’t got full Mad Max. Was ready af.
Thinking of writing a longer form post on this, but thoughts aren’t well organized enough yet:
Basically, if you’ve followed Ashton Forbes on Twitter, his work on the disappearance of flight MH-370 in 2014, there are some interesting takeaways:
Very little of the plane (and none of the 277 people on board) have been found despite advanced technology and extensive searching.
The plane (based on a video that surfaced) may have been teleported via three orbs that opened up a wormhole of sorts. They condition the space around the craft in some way.
Forbes suggested recently after an interview with a navy engineer that maybe the worm hole is actually a black hole, but that the reason it didn’t swallow the entire earth is very small black holes last a very short time, perhaps a fraction of a second. They fall victim to entropy as the universe constantly seeks equilibrium.
*My half-baked theory if any of this is even true:*
If the worm hole were a black hole, it might explain why we haven’t found the plane — near a black hole, time is massively dilated. What might take seconds for someone there could take decades for an observer on earth.
It’s not so much “Where is MH-370, but *when*?”
Other thought:
Thinking about how black holes, even supermassive ones, eventually decay reminded me of the Goodstein Sequence, summarized here:
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It’s a simple math sequence that blows up quickly and beyond comprehension. And yet eventually it always, no matter how big it gets, goes to zero, thanks to its element of decay (a minus one) after each step.
