Yup, and this is why he wins. Human's are not wired for "rugged individualism" we are wired for community. People who can't see that and speak to that will keep losing to people who can. A rant about it ->

A Libertarian’s Guide to Understanding the Popularity of Socialism – HannahMR

Why is sexual assault so endemic in our culture? Because we are obsessed with power. We have this collective unconscious view of the world as a zero-sum hierarchy and we are obsessed with being above others… obsessed with having power over others. Grape isn’t about sex, it’s about power. If you have an insatiable need to feel that you have power over someone else, what is the most brutal and intense way to prove your power over them? Grape. Famous prolific abusers, Epstien, Diddy, Weinstein, etc. are all men obsessed with accumulating power. No coincidence there. Countries with the lowest ages of consent or lowest ages at which marriage is allowed are also the most patriarchal, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. I doubt there is a higher rate of people with pedophilic urges in these places, it is simply that having a very young bride gives the husband much better odds at controlling his wife. It’s not about sex, it’s about power. And this epidemic of sexual abuse will continue for as long as we keep our cultural obsession with having power over others.

My hair is getting pretty ridiculously long. It's a pain. But I'm thinking I'll keep it till summer when I'll do a dramatic chop. But until then... what are some fabulous hair styles that require super long hair?

In a strange plot twist the red pilled dudes have gotten so bizarre that when I get pulled into a debate with one of them I now spend most of that time defending men. At this point the only way they can make their world view work is if they decide that indeed men are violent monsters and that is appropriate and necessary. ...and so I just wind up spending all my time explaining that men are actually wonderful, unique, honorable, caring people.

It’s sad to see Bitcoin framed this way, but we shouldn’t be surprised. When we talk about the technology almost exclusively in terms of investment and profit, then that’s exactly how people will understand it.

You know what I plan to do in 2026? I’d like to not spend time discussing NGU. Instead I'd like to spend lots of time discussing the utility of Bitcoin. I’d like to have many conversations discussing Bitcoin in it’s cypherpunk freedom tech context. Please join me.

Good morning! Happy International Hangover Day! 🥳😉

The Chicago color palette

O look, I found a word for people on Twitter...

Did Christianity get co-opted? I often feel unseasy around Christians or those wearing crosses as my experience with Christianity is that it is a doctrine based on hierarchy, submission, and punishment. It is fueled by comparison, hate, shame, and fear. But then I know Christians who swear to me that their experience is all about love. ...how can that be? Well I recently learned about Gnostic Christianity. This was one of the earlier forms of Christianity and it was much more focused on inner experience and knowledge rather than institutions and punishment. But then, somewhere around 300 ce it shifted. ...it got co-opted. And that makes perfect sense. We can see now that’s how politicians and “leaders” of all varieties function today. They take something that is very popular among “the people” and twist it and turn it to fit their needs. Perhaps the tyrants of the day co-opted what Christianity was, and made it conform to their hierarchy, submission, and punishment based structures?

You can love people more when you trust yourself to be able to walk away. People get so scared of “falling in love” or having intense feelings, romantic or not, for anyone. And I get that, you can get your heart stomped on. But being really into someone, romantically or platonically, is really good for you! It makes your day better when you think about them, it fills you with happy hormones, it just makes life more worth living. When you get a bit old, and after you’ve already had your heart stomped on a few times, you can get pretty good at knowing when and how to walk away. And once you trust yourself to be able to walk away, then you can really dive into appreciating someone. Go on and be obsessed. If they become an asshole you can say goodbye. And there is no need to feel bad about it. You gave love because you are a loving person, and they were the ones that lost that.

Sometimes I want to be stupid rich, but not so that I can go to the Met Gala or feel superior to others, but just so I can do ridiculous shit ... like buy myself and 4 friends last min tickets to China so we can try some cafe I saw on TikTok.

I find strict atheists to be just as illogical as the very religious. If you’ve got any honesty, you gotta admit that we just have no #$#@$ idea. Just think about it, we can barely even get ourselves off this rock floating around in the middle of nowhere, we can’t cure cancer, we can’t even stop murdering each-other… and we have the insane idea that we understand the universe? Madness! We have no idea. And sometimes that is even more terrifying than thinking we vanish into nothingness. But it’s the truth. All we got are shots in the dark.

I've probably got a whole journal entry about it.