Your daily reminder to not be so racist that it makes you gay.

People abuse kindness and try to take advantage. I just leave people alone and I hope I don't have to deal with too many people. Look around the stupidity, what they believe to be true, their world view, what they post. Idiots everywhere.

Hahahaa. People who are nice all the time are so fake. They don't have personality, own thoughts. They just want to fit in society, no matter how wrong.

I'm sticking to edgy, thx.

Many smart people get stuck in level 1 and by that they limit their own potential. They turn into the angry guy who's always right but nobody ever listens to them. They lose sight of level 2, thinking that the only important skill is to be smarter than others. Other smart people soon learn to ignore them, because at that level, everybody around you is smart, but some of them are assholes.

It's completely up to you what you become. It's your responsibility, nobody else's.

There are no bad Sowell quotes.

There’s a few reasons why this is actually the BEST way Trump could’ve closed his talk:

1. He’s the incoming commander in chief of the most important country in the world. He should be focused geopolitics and the big deals that need to be made for global sanity and stability - not on stupid bitcoin minutia.

1b) this is why I don’t like RFK. He’s simping way too much for Bitcoiners. He doesn’t have the presence or strength to take on the globalist shitfest. And certainly doesn’t have the balls to strengthen the US against other powers (Russia, China and globohomo).

2. It’s not a leaders job to micromanage & get in the way. In fact, I’d be worried if he was more interested in bitcoin. His job is to be aware, and delegate that to someone more interested and competent.

3. Bitcoin is STILL YOUNG!! I know some of you are naive enough to think we’re getting mass adoption this decade, but I’m sorry - we’re a 100yrs away.

Not only do we need to the space to build, which benefits from such a posture (good luck with your little bitcoin thing), but more importantly, bitcoin needs time to grow and mature BEFORE governments of any kind take it more seriously - let alone the United States of fucking America.

I have other reasons too…

But I’m hungry and want to eat dinner. TBC…

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GN, freedom doesn’t mean that everyone is going to agree on social issues or that people will only “be nice” to you. Thinking that either is relevant to the idea of liberty is to misunderstand the fundamental reason it’s so important and what it actually means.

Freedom is important because we will *never* all agree on social issues. They explicitly don’t scale, which is exactly why freedom is necessary.

1980s excerpt:

Is the dollar about to collapse?

He announced that Fed policy will continue to be "accommodative," allowing the money supply to grow.

That could translate, traders calculated, into still lower interest rates, which would make it less attractive for foreign investors to hold dollars. Volcker insists, though, that he is "not interested in jumping on a decline of the dollar and pushing it lower."

He maintains that the answer to the problem of the overvalued dollar is a reduction in the budget deficit. As Volcker pointed out, a drop in the dollar is dangerous because the U.S. depends on the inflow of foreign capital to finance the deficit.

Meeting with a group of private economists, President Reagan said he believes the high interest rates that jeopardize the success of his economic policy will be declining "in the not too distant" future.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker testifies before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, where he urges to make substantial reductions in the Federal deficit during the next few years.

Maybe because in Egypt they are all ethnically Egyptian or if not something close like Arab or Black African? If USA was still the same demographics like it was in the 70s it would still have unity even with all the pressure from media to divide

Made giant candied beef bacon weaves first thing this morning.

Prep for Nashville!

Stressed. Need memes and laughs ASAP. Whatchu got?

I've had a similar outcome as mandrik, but with a somewhat different context. It's something I still think about a lot.

When I was an engineer/manager, I worked in person, and had a great social group there. After I left it, I became inherently remote-work based in my home office, which has a lot of advantages but also some social isolation-related challenges.

I then gradually drifted away from work-friends I knew for a decade. Between work and family, we just gradually could barely find time for a group lunch anymore. Actually it was more on their side than mine; they have longer commutes, children, etc.

And my US family is small and dispersed around the country. So aside from my husband, a lot of my social interaction is online and at events within the past few post-covid years. The big exception is the part of the year I spend in Egypt, where I am surrounded by in-person family and friends every day, but have less overall productivity (bad internet for starters, problematic time zone, plus it's also vacation time and social time).

And the most notable part of each year is when I come back to the US first to take care of things here, and my husband is still in Egypt for another month to finish taking care of things there, where I risk turning into a solo cat lady.

So that makes me really focus on genuine internet dynamics, treating people online similarly to how I treat them in real life, building real connections there, going to events to meet my "tribe" despite the travel hassle, etc.

It also has prioritized having children to me recently. I've been focusing on work, focusing on elder care, etc. Due to my starting point, I have been in the position of having to support a parent and then in-laws since my 20s, while also being a workaholic to reach the positions I've gotten to. For years I was simply too busy for anything else, but increasingly the next generation is an element of life I think about a lot.

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It's the right thing to do, but there's this feeling of loss over what could have been.

You see so much potential in someone, and they are simply not interested in unlocking it. I feel a lot of sadness when I think about it with some friends.

A coup?

Is anything really real?!