Heather had to call the restaurant in Lyon last night to tell them we’d be late for the reservation. I told her to say “Je suis en retard.”

Easy Jet = Evil Assholes Stealing Your Joy Every Trip

Ryanair = Route Yourself Alternatively Notwithstanding Apparently Inexpensive Rates

Spot on.

I would add the post-modern (nihilistic) outlook does purport a kind of morality but it’s the manipulable philosophy of utilitarianism — “the greater good” which translates to what serves one’s agenda.

That’s how we got lockdowns and mandates — for the greater good! — instead of respecting the first-principle-based civil liberties enshrined in the Constitution.

Haven’t been on Twitter in 13 days. Curious to catch up on the psyops everyone has fallen for when I get back from vacation. Then take a break from them again.

Initially thought of NOSTR as a freedom-based alternative to Twitter.

Now I think it’s going to kill all the walled gardens like the open web killed AOL. Not by taking its users but by obsoleting it.

don’t think I’ll be taking medical advice from a dementia patient

The lower the velocity, the less representative the current price.

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I hadn’t — will check it out. Thanks.

I’ve been posting my Substack links here, but thinking, why would they go to Substack (and why would I need it?) if NOSTR just had good blogging functionality? Might as well just host it here.

Right now I can’t even bold, link or italicize in Damus, but I imagine that’s all coming.

Will everything eventually just become a NOSTR client? Substack, Twitter, Instagram, etc? In other words, will those platforms basically die as we know them and be used simply as people’s preferred browsers for an open peer-to-peer protocol for content?

NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

6/28/23

There are two Orwellianisms that can justify virtually anything in our society: National Security and Public Health.

https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/national-security-and-public-health

National Security is the foreign policy version. It’s ISIS and WMDs and why we must arm Ukraine without end. It’s why we can’t know sensitive information about how our government spends (and apparently is unable to account for) trillions of dollars, much of which is off the books and beyond scrutiny. It’s why Edward Snowden lives in exile and Julian Assange is in prison. It is the umbrella under which George Bush and Dick Cheney could spend $6 trillion, kill a million Iraqis, find no weapons of mass destruction and yet avoid accountability entirely. “It’s a matter of national security!”

Public Health is the domestic policy arm. It’s why we had “14 days to flatten the curve” that morphed into an emergency declaration that was not rescinded until more than three years later. It’s why we had lockdowns, mandatory masks and experimental mRNA injections. It’s why you needed to show your papers to enter a restaurant. It’s why the government transferred tens of billions in taxpayer money to Pfizer. If you ask why basic civil liberties were violated without your consent or input, the answer was “It’s a matter of public health!”

Virtually any encroachment on your rights, any expense can be justified by “National Security” or “Public Health.”

The pharmaceutical conglomerates are to public health as the arms manufacturers are to national security — massive for-profit operations fronting as our protectors from disease and foreign adversaries, respectively.

Does anyone not on the payroll really believe we are more safe from destabilizing the Middle East or Central America or waging proxy war with Russia? Is our military industrial complex truly concerned with protecting our borders from plausible foreign invasion, or is it instead creating new enemies by the millions while administering to its own geopolitical aims and enriching its stakeholders?

Is our medical industrial complex substantially different? The cholesterol-heart hypothesis has been destroyed, and yet every doctor tests for cholesterol, and statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) remain among the most prescribed. The mRNA shot has killed thousands worldwide (this is not in dispute, even by the countries that mandated it!) in order to protect people against one particular kind of cold with an IFR of .15 percent (much lower among healthy people.)

Hospitals unnecessarily killed people by the thousands with ventilators during the height of the panic, and failed to treat bacterial pneumonia with antibiotics, something that was routine during prior flu seasons (apparently viruses weaken the immune system, and it’s the ensuing bacterial infection that’s responsible for much of the mortality.) Hell, the third leading cause of death in America is medical error, and these are only the errors to which they admit!

Does anyone wonder why the childhood vaccination schedule is up to 60 shots? Do you think the same medical system that brought you “if you get vaccinated, you won’t get covid,” has sufficient understanding of the complex system known as human immunity to intervene so aggressively in its development. Is it possible the epidemics of chronic disease, autoimmunity and, yes autism, are related to this heavy-handed (and highly profitable) meddling?

Now this is not to argue nation-states don’t need national defense or citizens within them don’t need medicine. There are such things as foreign invasions, and people really do get sick and need to be treated by competent professionals honoring their professional oaths. But these functions are now almost completely captured, and so long as that’s the case, the military industrial complex is, on balance, putting us at greater risk of attack, while the medical industrial one is making us sicker. And both are doing so while enriching themselves beyond belief and bankrupting both the state and the ordinary person.

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My policy here (for now) is follow anyone who posts *anything* interesting and to err on the side of engaging. NOSTR isn’t gonna bootstrap itself.

People argue the dollar is backed by the US military, but forget the military is itself backed by the dollar.

I hope they try again. Because if they push all-in, and people don’t fold. The game is over.

I’ve thought that for a while. Seems very strange the way it trades in such narrow ranges for so long too.

I ain’t gonna work on Elon’s farm no more. (No more than one day a week.)

I’m not comfortable with so much riding on my cellphone battery not dying.

When I get home, I plan to write about France after spending time in all these unbearably quaint small towns.

It’s like I opened an old closet full of perfectly preserved Mickey Mantles and Willie Mays baseball cards from the 50s and 60s.

At first you think you have hit the jackpot but then instead of dozens there are millions of them, and what you thought was ultra rare is actually common.

It’s a weird disillusionment, no fault of the place. Got me rethinking everything.

I’ve already made some dumb posts, but that’s okay. It’s the really really dumb and regrettable posts that matter, and you know better than to hit send. Or you can just suicide your entire account.