Sometimes I think I ruin what should and could be happy times by constantly thinking adversarially about countering certain threats that are coming our way. While I personally have endless endurance for this kind of thinking and existence, I’ve recently come to understand that many around me, when faced with the truth, get really worried and scared. And that they’d rather continue living with comfortable lies than uncomfortable truths. They find my now very occasional attempts at sharing information intended to help them prepare, exhausting. The most recent example was a conversation I was having with my sister about managing assets in the face of the asset stripping that we appear to be set up for in the next five years. She straight up told me that she didn’t want to know such things. That they just make her worry. And that she’d rather ignore it and “just have a happy life”. I have been very judgemental of “normies” since I “woke up” in about 2003. And especially so since I e been a Bitcoiner. But now I think I’ve come to understand that it’s not just disinterest or intellectual laziness that keeps people stumbling around in the dark. It’s the fear they feel confronting so many things in this world they believed to be true that simply are not. In fact, they are so afraid that they would sooner kill the messenger than face reality in many cases. View quoted note →

I never understood the creation vs evolution debate. The two words don’t even describe the same part of the process being described. These two concepts can and must coexist. One term describes how things, including living creatures, came INTO being… The other describes how things change AFTER coming into being, through selection for traits. Traits that enhance or diminish survivability, and in turn the likelihood of reproducing. What am I missing here? Aside from a frontal lobe #asknostr

I’m more concerned about the K shaped economy of knowledge than the K shaped economy of assets. One is imposed, the other is based on willful ignorance or laziness in a world where almost all human knowledge is free.

I still think the documentary “The Social Dilemma“ is still one of the most important films on the effects of social media algorithms on people. 

Watch The Social Dilemma | Netflix Official Site

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

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I could save some of the people in my life so much pain and heartache if only any of them had more than a 30 second attention span to crack a book, or watch anything more than a short form video. 

Talking with Maple AI about the bond market: “If the bond market suffered mass insolvency, retirement savings would be among the least of Canada’s problems. Fixed-income-heavy portfolios would be decimated, pension guarantees would likely prove inadequate, and the broader financial system would face an existential crisis. It would make 2008 look mild by comparison.”

WTH

A more common sight in our area. At least there are tons of whitetails to pick off. #catstr

Important pod. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6t2d8O1hyWlzEsFIEfSjje?si=sjHUzlMpSXuxLtCdCeIFxQ

I winder how many poor saps are going to have 400% overages on their home data because everyone in the house just turns off the TV instead of exiting the app on their streaming box. View quoted note →