Trump pre-emptively seeding the counter narrative. I still don’t think he has the balls to do what needs doing to avoid being rugged. View quoted note →

Why do we need permission to travel to Antarctica? To protect the ice?

Today this might seem extreme to you, but I’ve just skated ahead to the neutral zone, ready to put the puck in to an empty net when I saw them pull the goalie. The puck is coming to me one way or another; I can feel it in my balls. View quoted note →

Bitcoiners are perhaps the most competent cohort of people on earth. Except when it comes to boating 🛶

Just spitballing here, haven’t fully thought this through. But what if the bubble this time isn’t BTC Treasury Companies, but rather, Shitcoin Treasury Companies.. People trying to outperform BTC might be attracted to them starting from a lower base, thinking they can get outsized gains. So the Robinhood gambling-type leverage goes there. These entities aren’t holding BTC though, so when they run into problems they don’t have #Bitcoin to dump and flood the market with; just their illiquid shitcoins. Is it possible for Crypto to implode and Bitcoin to continue on unaffected? 🤔

The Knowledge - Lewis Dartnell My next review for #bookstr is a good short book which provides a guide for how to restart civilisation in the event of a major collapse. The book specifically uses a pandemic scenario from which very few survivors remain but essentially the rest of the world remains as it is, just without people. This will be the only content in the “prepper” category I’ll be consuming for 2025. Once you’ve assessed and weighted the risks of major catastrophes which would lead to such a scenario, and then factored in your chances of being a survivor, you realise how little of your attention this subject actually deserves as interesting as it might be. However I did enjoy this book, it tickled my autistic mind in a similar way to Exactly by Simon Winchester. But where Winchester is passionately describing history and how technologies evolved, The Knowledge is briefly outlining critical technologies and how to re-discover them and get humanity back to a cyberpunk technology level without spending centuries going through trial and error. This is the kind of book you’d want in your pocket if you could time travel back to the 1200s and wanted to blow people’s minds.

There is much focus on chemistry and engineering processes to get to higher levels of chemistry which I did find interesting. Some of it you will likely know, and there are no doubt better books specific for that domain, but tying those advances together with what other tech unlocks it gives you is cool. It’s like a more detailed tech tree from the video game Civilisation. The aspect for which I give the author great credit is his acknowledgement of socioeconomic factors and the impact they have on society’s adoptions of technologies. He doesn’t dwell much on the point, but he does note that China for example had a lot of tech discoveries well ahead of Europe but they didn’t progress because they didn’t have the right incentives simply by how they had their society structured, whereas Europe innovated on that institutional front and then went on to technologically leapfrog and then colonise the world because of better alignment. This today, is the main thing holding humanity back - the Managerial State. It’s why we don’t have abundant, unmetered nuclear energy. It’s why our food is poison. It’s why they import millions of immigrants to prop up their fake economies. Yes it’s all run on and enabled by fiat, but you cannot have fiat without this Managerial State and Bitcoiners must realise, we cannot replace fiat with Bitcoin and keep the same Institutional Structures in place - it’s all gotta go.

Saw that one coming.. But sorry shoe - where we’re going, women won’t be voting at all. View quoted note →

Scammer Justin Sun has “returned” to Earth from his fake space trip aboard the Dildo Express. Katy Perry sold it better then this clown

Asians win on spoons, but chopsticks are inferior utensils to the knife and fork. So much more utility in a blade/scraper in one hand, and prongs/scoop in the other than just one-handing a pair of long sticks. But I will say the etiquette surrounding silverware is an abomination. Literally it was just rich and bored aristocrats coming up with new social norms to separate themselves from plebs who didn’t know their made up rules; we should let those rules die. View quoted note →

@semisol has never seen a bowl of cornflakes he didn’t want to take a gigantic shit in. I love curmudgeons like that. This bastard will sharpen your steel unlike anyone else, and we’re lucky to have him! View quoted note →

“These knives, destroy lives” - Premier of Victoria selling her machete amnesty disposal bins via the M5M. 1.7K replies on her video with just 267 likes. They’re not selling it very well.. View quoted note →

#Nostr is 4chan for 37 year olds

Having just returned from Dubai, I can confirm this is a massive psyop. I’d never heard of “Dubai chocolate” before and now it’s everywhere there as though they’re world famous for chocolate..

Victoria now has machete amnesty disposal boxes. View quoted note →

In 2013, the verification can meme was the dystopian dreaded future for internet natives. Turns out we didn’t have to worry about Megacorps controlling access to the internet with insane ad integrations (Sony actually has the verification can patent and never used it). No, it was Governments who are terrified of the people they represent, all along!

Lucky for some, 13 View quoted note →