One of my first jobs, short-lived as I was quickly replaced by Hamlin.

Watching the golden globes because I want to be reminded of how much I hate Hollywood!

My daughter and I did a book swap.

Yesterday I went and got a beard trim & a haircut for our daddy daughter date night.

She chose Wings of Fire for me to read and I chose The Alchemist for her.

She took this pic of me.

What I can say is this is actually a very entertaining book, and the lesson I took from it is the following:

Stack sats like a Scavenger so you can soar like a SkyWing.

This is why so many people thinking leftists are really dumb when it comes to economics

Because these talking heads are.

The bar is so low, and we are so early. nostr:note16f76suqdw4g6evv6ayvhn6dfddfrkvhagfvfneyz7wq8z86y9eusgwgwka

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It's possible to both condemn the actions of US Health Insurance providers, *and* condemn the actions of a brazen murder in the streets. We don't have to choose.

I genuinely worry that we're headed to some misguided idea of a 1917-style revolution because the dangers of the society borne from that movement have never l become an abstract concept in many people's minds.

Also, all these people laying blame at the McDonald's employee are acting foolish. Like sorry, if a murderer entered your workplace, you would think "that's awesome", you'd want him as far away from you as possible.

It’s also worth emphasising that there is no justification for murdering an innocent man whatsoever, regardless of the political ideology you follow—whether you’re a man or a woman.

If you sympathise with this behaviour, fuck you. nostr:note1q98w4x4xltkt60t90964hdszex6zf4d6tpn6efvqk3edn5rkw0usmys9aa

Being “good” or “kind” to someone is not attained by just going along with whatever weird or crazy thing they say even if I know it’s wrong, or when I think that they are making a mistake, in some misguided attempt to protect their feelings.

To the contrary, that is being selfish because it suggests I would rather play along with something that I know is false, and may cost them at some point, just so *I* can avoid the stress of having to tell them the truth.

Doing the right, or “good” thing, would be in finding a way to communicate that truth, even at the cost of our comfort.

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Shorter version: If you care about someone, you tell them the truth. If you don’t care about them, or if you want something from them, you tell them what they want to hear.

Good morning Nostr. ☀️

Here’s my I have only had 5 hours of sleep take on Donald Trump’s win.

This election was about class. Once upon a time, class and identity were separated as the neoliberal era took hold. Democrats capitalized on identity and it worked for a while. But as our guest on @TPBPod, Alan Minsky, noted… Neoliberalism is dead. We have to realize that these new alliances that are forming under Trump are not only odd bedfellows, but because they are, they signify a new cultural and political power shift.

I have been watching this happen since Bernie ran in the 2016 primary. The coalition is building beyond race among the working class. A unity that the left could only dream of. Yet, this is not an empowerment of the working class in the way that we’d envision. I don’t believe that this will end in a worker revolution where the proletariat owns the means of production.

I don’t because this is a coalition of the working class with a different faction. This isn’t the traditional corporate-state-capitalist alliance that has coalesced in the Democratic party. This is an alliance of those who feel powerless, with those who want absolute power.

I am not sure where we are headed, but if Lawrence Wilkerson is right, this is dark.

The liberals will have yet again made it possible for the worst outcomes to happen. The left progressives (a wide umbrella that covers a coalition of socialists and center-left), unable to unite to stop the Democrats, are at their most powerless.

I really ask Democratic supporters, to wake up. We are a country that has been living three different experiences simultaneously. And just now, two roads have merged into one.

I have traveled so much around the US and the world this year. I truly believe that in the US, we have two countries in one. There’s two cultures thar have developed as a result of rural isolation and gross economic inequality. For those who have, identity issues are the only remaining issues. For those who do not, identity is the least important. It makes sense. Then we have the ultra rich, who saw an opportunity to exploit this. This where the danger now exists.

I wish I could tell you what happens next. But, what I do know is that the probabilities of socio-economic and political disasters are much higher now than ever before.

The left must find a way to bring the workers back. But I am afraid that the left has become mainly the highly educated who do not understand the worker’s plight.

And what of bitcoin? Bitcoin works no matter what but also because of what happens next. It is both a deterrent and an accelerant. We have skin in the game.

Here’s my observation with respect to the U.S. Elections. Most people opining on why Americans shouldn’t vote for the other party/candidate are full of shit, painting caricatures of people who vote for the other party/candidate. This goes both ways, from both the “Trump/Vance” camp and the “Harris/Walz“ camp, both Democrat and Republican.

The majority of people are re-enforcing inherited narratives about the “other”, fuelled by the toxic incentives that guide electoral politics as sport. I’m more and more won over to the idea that this is by design.

If we actually invested time to speak with each other, to focus on values and hopes for society, we would find that 80% of people can generally agree on 80% of things. However, our current civic climate pushes us to engage at the fringes, beginning from the disposition of the 20% focused first and foremost on the 20% of things on which they disagree. We are sucked into this abyss of false conflict.

Regardless of the outcome today, perhaps make a point of talking to more people with who you are led to believe you “disagree”. If you skew Democrat, have a conversation with some people who skew Republican. And, vice versa. Ask people what they think a better, fair society means to them; what it would look like. Try to get at what they think the core values are that should infuse society. Make the effort to extend a generosity of spirit.

The only way things get better is if we make them get better, one person, one conversation at a time.

#ElectionDay #USelection #press

Truth

When Canadians join the military they pledge allegiance to the King of England. They do not serve the country or people. Same with the politicans and everyone who works in government.

The government also recently removed the rule that you have to be Canadian to join the military. You no longer need to be Canadian if you want to serve in the military. You can be a permanent resident.

This is a good strategy if you have plans in the future to make soliders follow unlawful orders.

You should never look up to soliders or worship them like they do in movies.

They will come after you if ordered by the government.

I don't even wear a poppy in November. Soliders do not fight for our freedom. It's all bullshit.

The American military is a little different. They pledge allegiance to protect the constitution.

But most soliders as we saw during 911 can be fooled easily into fighting overseas for a enemy that never existed. Fooled into destroying countries overseas in the pretense of fighting for freedom while their own country back home is suffering and deteriorating.

Keep that in mind and never worship the military. They will murder you if ordered.

Good evening.

In the first year after my husband and I bought our house, we kept having the security system’s smoke alarm go off, and it would auto-alert the fire department. A mess, repeatedly.

Literally the same dude would show up, sigh, and be like “you cool?” And I’d be like, “yeah, sorry.”

Eventually I was like… let’s just remove that one. It’s always the problem, it’s too close to the stove. The so-called experts installed it, but from experience it was wrong. So we outed it. Just that one.

And we did, and the problem went away forever. For us and for the firemen.

Sometimes it’s the rules that are the problem. Not the rules’ breaker. Test everything.