Rebuilding Pop Culture…
This is such an important and daunting priority.
As with the other corporate boycott situations, the first step is to stop giving toxic elements of our culture our attention and resources.
The second step, which is necessary if we actually want to recover the culture, is to support and create the content we want.
This is why Oliver Anthony, Angel Studios, and ISOM comics are so important.
Interesting thoughts: there's definitely something to it.
What I think the critics are referring to is exemplified by what has happened with how geometry is taught. Geometry used to be a vehicle to introduce rigorous deductive reasoning and it has become memorization of various features of shapes. The former is much more important to a free society than the later.
There are many other cases like that, but you're also correct that memorizing various facts (and learning how to memorize facts) is very useful.
WARNING: Watch This Video Before Eating Another Egg
This is a very detailed look at conventional egg production. Spoiler: it's disgusting and extremely unhealthy.
If you're going to eat eggs and can't raise your own chickens, the only good products are "pasture-raised organic". Every other label is a complete scam.
Also, this applies to US markets. I have no idea what's going on in other countries.
PSA: Leaving a bad review for a product you've never used is a dick move.
Need money for college, Need college for job, Need job for money, Who the hell designed this system?
Interestingly, none of those three statements are true (at least in the sense they're usually meant).
The very small percentage of students who financially gain from college, generally didn't have to pay for it.
Everyone else would have been better off financially (or at least not worse off) if they hadn't gone to college.
If "job" means getting hired by an employer, that ignores the enormous number of entrepreneurs who run their own businesses.
Reddit was the only one of those I ever used. I quit using it when I discovered Stacker News. https://stacker.news/r/Undisciplined
Is that politically feasible? Aside from the occasional Dave Cullen video, I have no sense of what's going on in Ireland.
Talkeetna, Alaska elected a cat mayor for like 15 years straight.
Worse, it's someone else's perception of what some other person thinks is acceptable.
Hasn't he been calling for that the entire time?
identifying yellow-black insects!
"Being told you can't say certain words" is not oppression, facing a threat of violence for saying certain words is oppression.
Too many people self-censor because they exaggerate the riskiness of speaking. I've known several people who just openly say the most outlandish stuff, with no regard for who's listening, and none of them have ever been punished or reprimanded for it.
It seems to be pretty difficult for people on the right to make the kinds of distinctions you're highlighting.
There are lots of natural alliances between libertarians and the types of progressives who are great on war, mass incarceration, and corporatism (The three most important issues, btw). I think of those as real progressives, but it's also not really my place to make that judgement.
It's an interesting point about the right/libertarian American context. Personally, I'm glad that exists, because there are so few spaces where we get to feel at home, but I also would like everyone else to feel welcome in the conversations.
Also, I do have the truth and will tell you when you're wrong. ;)
Great ep nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm!
There’s a ton of mainstream and left-leaning bitcoiners (and folks on #nostr) that resonate with him. Great episode 👏
Hopefully one day we can stop talking about how much of a minority our left thoughts and perspectives are in bitcoin
I think we'll be best served if people can just give their honest thoughts about things, rather than doing a tribal/partisan filter first.
There's clearly a lot of overlap in how people feel about things on nostr, so we should be able to have disagreements in good faith.
I've been saying for a while that history will probably consider us to already be in both an economic depression and a world war.
It seems like he's predicting that a bunch of these obese Boomers are going to live for billions of years. No group has been more heavily scanned than them.
