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It was “suicide,” and under the circumstances one would not be out of line to suspect Jeffery Epstein values of "suicide."
In a twisted sense, I do enjoy the Thunderdome aspect of X. The negativity just rolls off my back. There are fun things, like watching Javier Milei explain the economic principles behind one of his policies and end it with a metaphor about the corporate press taking it in the ass.
Lizards are justice.
It’s just the evolution of something new. Evolution never goes in a straight line. Rothbard even wrote about this.
This rather masturbatory military video popped up on my feed and I watched half of it out of morbid curiosity.
Yemeni launches missile at US jet. US jet evades. US successfully retaliates, spending approximately 100× on munitions, fuel, airtime, etc., as the stuff they destroyed.
The Tomahawks alone cost a minimum of $2M each (times four), to blow up a missile launcher, radar truck, and command post, all equipped with ancient leftovers and hand-me-downs.
The narrator drones on and on about all of the additional aircraft, ships, support personnel, and munitions thrown at these targets in the name of endless overkill and Showing The Already Dead Who's Boss.
The partisans in the comment section cheer, as the country continues to bankrupt itself protecting the commerce of other, unappreciative nations.
Make America Broke Again!
Vibe: prog hard rock / heavy metal / jazz fusion instrumental supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) playing their arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
LTE is Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, and Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater and Tony Levin from King Crimson.
I'll put a YouTube link below.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/rhapsody-in-blue/1547849672?i=1547850015
Youtube live version:
Vibe: prog hard rock / heavy metal / jazz fusion instrumental supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) playing their arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
LTE is Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, and Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater and Tony Levin from King Crimson.
I'll put a YouTube link below.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/rhapsody-in-blue/1547849672?i=1547850015
Since we need a new conspiracy theory...
It was easy when podcasts were more about general philosophy and critiquing the establishment. It's easy to effectively tear things down and not be dumb about it.
But now Podcast Bros (and the occasional Podcast Gal *cough* TRHL *cough*) have gained enough audience to where they're their own sort of establishment and have shifted towards prescriptive rhetoric.
And you know what?
Almost none of these people have built anything in the real world, and it shows.
There's a fine art between maintaining the stratrigic purity of a dream or goal and balancing it against the pragmatic realities imposed by the craziness and fractally-frothy unpredictability of the real world.
The podcast world is full of people who have never learned to do this effectively with serious skin in the game. It's this weird combination of trying to max out on purity points and making over-the-top compromises for minimal or unholdable gains.
It's become a new version of the intellectually-incestuous circle-jerk that traditional academia and the corporate press have been for ages, with the same zombie-level personality cults following along.
The Dave Smith vs. Douglas Murray debate? Both of them are unwatchable (unless you really have time to waste).
Current vibe: Another Dimension
https://music.apple.com/us/album/another-dimension/149011320?i=149011528
My goofy #cyclura Xena fell asleep with her head between her food dish and her water dish (low-light photo).
Ah, I have some stories of unwanted attention from those in bad suits from my well-spent youth.
But I'm not even sharing those on Nostr.
There have been days when that was a metaphor for my life.
I've been seeing a lot of it as analogous to gambling addiction:
People focus obsessively on an upside "jackpot" win they expect from their cult leader's promises that's statistically not quite impossible but might as well be. They discuss it as if it's a religious certainty.
People completely blank out the downsides: cost, risk, and the horrible, horrible odds. Downside risk analysis is critical for any important decision, and people completely blank it out even as the downside risks hit with the same frequency as "not winning the lotto."
I think this describes voting very well.
Some people have bats in their belfry.
I have a lizard in my laundry.
My #cyclura Casanova is always getting into mischief and hooliganism!
When my favorite heavy metal keyboardist, Jordan Rudess, finds a piano at the airport everyone gets a free show.
We should have fewer wars and more beautiful music.