Watched the women’s US Open final last night, bad match. Anisimova plays like I do in Padel — hit everything as hard as you can, occasionally make winners. Malpractice in a Grand Slam final.

Amazing to see people still trying to defend the CDC. The "experts" ran things for 50 years, and they SUCKED at their jobs. They presided over mass disease, disability and premature death, while squandering trillions and being grotesquely conflicted. Firing them is positively benign — they should be thanking God if that’s all that’s in store for them after the catastrophic harms they caused. That’s like a 99th percentile scenario in human history for people in their position who got the results they did.

Perfectly understandable to post anonymously if you live in a police state like Canada, the UK, Australia or Germany, but if you live in the US, you should really dox yourself via vlog when you have a moment.

I don’t know what subset I’m in. I doubt I fit into a subset. I see no problem investing in real estate and stocks, not so much to “diversify” but because there are advantages to those investments too. Real estate you can use, store your things in. Stocks you can sell without conscience if they go up. Fiat is good for selling and taking fiat profits to spend on things you want. I would buy shitcoins if I thought there were a use-case for them that made sense to me. I just don’t get it, so I don’t do it. I’m not on anyone’s team. I’m not in it for “improving humanity” or any other kind of busy bodying or moral preening. I want a good life for myself, my family and my friends. I hope other people have good lives too, but that’s not my main responsibility. As far as defending the freedom to transact over a protocol, you never know how a person will behave until push comes to shove, but I post under my own name, so I can’t just blend in and pretend to know nothing about any of this should the authorities crack down as MANY anon handles will surely do. What? Not me. Never heard of it, don’t know what you’re talking about. View quoted note →

People who were wrong about everything by definition don't know they were wrong. Keep that in mind when you see people you'd expect to hide from public view forever expounding on things without conscience.

Excerpt from Real Man Sports’ (realmansports.com) writeup on Friday’s games. Real talk about sports if anyone is interested in the NFL.

Watching US Open. Only possible obstacle for Alcaraz is mental. He hits the ball better and harder than anyone I’ve ever seen play. Just a different animal.

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Everyone is always “going to” release the list, always threatening to do it. Just fucking do it or STFU already. View quoted note →

54, oldest person on Nostr View quoted note →

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Probabilistic thinking is for when you don't know. For things you know, it will lead you astray.

Best fantasy football/NFL video content on the web. And it’s on nostr, though most of you are a different kind of nerd. View quoted note →

Beyond insane we had freaks like that guy at the CDC.

Shit, gonna have to ditch Substack, which will be a big pain. I don’t make that much money on it, either, but I HATE being ripped off, and I have to punish them for this. Nostr isn’t ready yet — too little interest in sports content (one of my substacks) — and not enough revenue. What’s the best alternative if you’re not especially technical? Ghost? View quoted note →

“I want to live in a civilized society that excludes violent savages who can’t control themselves. No pity passes, no exceptions.” Not racist. “Those people from x country are a bunch of violent savages, they can’t control themselves.” Racist. What’s the difference? The difference is the former is drawing healthy, normal boundaries any sane person would require. The latter is seeking to exclude innocent individuals on the basis of conduct by others who share the same race, culture, country of origin. Racism has come to mean “bad” so no one wanted to be a “racist”. But then the word got overused, people got sick of it, and not some are like, fine, I’ll be a racist. But racism isn’t saying the wrong word or getting cancelled for some faux pas. It’s literally evaluating individuals on the basis of race rather than individual behavior/conduct. It’s a form of collectivism. My point is you can want to live free of criminals and violent thugs without making it a race or country of origin thing. You don’t need to resort to collectivism to acknowledge the need for high standards and firm boundaries. I see a lot of people resorting to the race/COR heuristic rather than just saying the truth which is that boundaries and standards are not optional, and the derangements of the last ~10 in the west need to be fixed. IOW, I’m seeing an overcorrection, and I’m saying something not because “racism = bad” but because it’s lazy and incorrect. View quoted note →

People want simple, clear unambiguous solutions to life’s uncertainty. But the uncertainty is the only clarity.

You can reject suicidal empathy/tolerating the intolerant without falling into xenophobia/racism.