The moment you get fed up with the infinite chop and stop giving a shit is the moment it will run.

What do you really own when you own a stock other than the ability to sell it to someone else? You don’t own a percentage of its treasury or earnings commensurate with your shares. You own assets in the event of bankruptcy but are junior to debt holders and creditors, i.e., probably SOL in that case. Was thinking about MSTR, but really applies to all stocks.

Seriously though there has to be a better way to get people and bags onto and off of planes in the 21st century. The amount of human life minutes squandered on this is probably measurable in millennia. It’s like they went out and executed a bunch of people. View quoted note →

Flying Easy Jet: Evil Assholes Sabotaging Your Journey Every Time About equal to Ryanair: Route Yourself Alternatively Notwithstanding Apparently Inexpensive Rates

Many on the left believe some groups are victims and therefore entitled to lower standards and special treatment. Many on the right believe some groups are incorrigible and deserve discrimination en masse. Both are advocating for tyranny, despite their myriad mental gymnastics. Whenever you lose sight of the individual, you have capitulated.

This is why the reactive racism of the right in response to the victimhood Olympics of the left are but two sides of the same coin. View quoted note →

Tyranny is not “left” or “right” but the treatment of individuals as fungible parts of a group.

Gonna be hard to get to a Nakamoto at that pace. View quoted note →

Racism isn’t wrong because leftist scolds will cancel you over it, it’s wrong because it’s a false understanding of the world, a form of collectivism and group-think. Also racism isn’t saying the wrong word or making an off-color (pun intended) joke. It’s ceasing to see humans as individuals who possess consciousness (God) and the capacity to choose, no matter their ancestry or country of origin. Separate this basic fact from the scourge of unchecked, unvetted mass illegal immigration which is so obviously a problem, and you can advocate for sane policies without reverting to long-repudiated race collectivism. We don’t want people who can’t follow the rules of an open western society not because they are from County X or are of Race Y, but because they won’t follow the rules. If someone of X and Y is willing to follow the rules, and go through the process of demonstrating that, I am happy to have them wherever I live. But property vetting them is not a trivial matter, and there should be no excuses made or pity admissions granted, barring that. You don’t have to turn into a racist ideologue to want sane policy. Correct for the excesses of the last five years, but don’t overcorrect into your own collectivist dystopia.

I’m not a Christian, but I believe Jesus was a manifestation of God. I also think the Buddha was too. I think everyone is potentially, but our true natures are obscured by ignorance. I might be wrong about this, as I’m only a person, and humans are fallible. The only thing I know for sure is other people are also humans and don’t know anything for sure, either, no matter how much certainty they profess. In fact, there’s probably a correlation between certainty and ignorance.

The race-communism of the left is being replaced by the race-statism of the right. It’s just a matter of which races get favored status. It never occurs to them that the problem isn’t what race you favor, but to have a merit-based society with high standards that protects the civil liberties of the individual, rather than trying to squeeze him into a convenient collective. Collectivism is the road to hell. Doesn’t matter who’s pushing it.

There is no political opposition because it’s not possible in the digital age. If you can be spied on remotely, not kicking in your door, not searching you on the street, the normie is not going to object. And even if the laws in place forbade it, the government would still spy on you remotely which is what @Edward Snowden revealed. The good news is because *political* opposition is not feasible, *technical* opposition is happening via this very protocol. Every restriction they impose provides the impetus for the technologies that will circumvent them. View quoted note →

Posted this after the election, remember feeling so relieved at the time. Think Trump has made some missteps but overall he’s done a decent job dismantling some of the worst parts of the system (long way to go still, hard task.) Biggest surprise for me is that after enduring so much insufferable scolding, collectivism and identity politics from the left for the last 10-20 years, I’d have to start hearing it from the right. Nowhere near as bad as the Biden years (yet), and hopefully we never get there, but human nature is human nature. Anyway, I post my reaction below because my sense of relief at being liberated from this prison of ideology was so profound, and I would hate to find ourselves on the opposite side of the same coin four years from now. View quoted note →

For the “greater good!” View quoted note →