Bottle opener too.
Bought some peanuts at the gas station on the way to Montenegro. Told my wife to ask how much they cost. She asked. Said it was peanuts.
Will be at 120 by day’s end if you crackheads stop checking the price.
Finally you pussies stopped selling!
Picture of nostr:npub138y5h8asc895pxdndrdnx4mgnz5aq55zmy2aerhfad2zlagq0a5qw3aszc sleeping outside at his dog camp in Sintra.
Clean conscience, not a care in the world.
I survived the second breakfast FWIW
If they have good, crispy bacon, it’s always the right move.
If I could pin a post to my profile this would be it.
Wonder if they’ll let me do the breakfast buffet a second time.
To paraphrase Yogi Berra half of what I say is 90 percent serious.
Stop checking the price you retards, and we’ll be at 120 by tomorrow night.
Lose the hubris that you have the solution, be part of the problem. Nature is healing.
STILL on vacation in Croatia. Kid has a basketball camp here, so we’re along for the ride. Just shitposting, tracking Wimbledon results, doing Sudokus and reading my sci-fi book.
No Shitter on my phone, no nicotine pouches left. 2x per day sauna, swim in the Adriatic.
I’m good at resort life, don’t need to be doing shit.
Stop trying to make the world a better place. You don’t know shit, and your busybodying is unnecessary and if anything making things worse.
Ha — was meant to be a response to a thread started by nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs, but accidentally posted it as a stand-alone post.
Was supposed to be a reply, not a standalone post — what can you do? It’s Nostr.
Remember playing a drinking game at my friends apartment in NYC — 2 on 2 “to the death” in a back room. Loud knock on the door, friend says “get the fuck outta here, it’s 2 on 2.”
Was a policeman in uniform. Apparently people were throwing eggs out the window at pedestrians, someone called the cops.
No one got arrested but party was over.
Good times!
Would green-light that. Sequel could be 28 Millennia Later, totally incomprehensible to the viewer.
The mushroom cloud should clue me in, it’s true.
Be part of the problem.
nostr:npub138y5h8asc895pxdndrdnx4mgnz5aq55zmy2aerhfad2zlagq0a5qw3aszc turned 5 yesterday despite having no concept whatsoever about it.
Friend had a brain transplant operation. Tells me it was amazing, feels like a different person!
Copying from a Twitter post I made today:
Being wealthy is just having the power to allocate capital. The question is who we want doing that -- those who have accumulated it via the market, or those who have accumulated it via politics.
Of course, crony capitalism is a hybrid that disguises political accrual of capital as market-based, but ask yourself whether that problem increases or decreases the more we transfer capital into the hands of political actors.
In an ideal world, those who accumulate capital and have the power to allocate it got that power by providing value to people who voluntarily traded small bits of capital for that value.
It seems obvious then we want capital allocation to be in the hands of those who create value for people, rather than in those who got it via politics.
Socialists who redistribute capital for political gain are not offering value via voluntary exchange, but via top-down edict.
Capital *might* be more evenly distributed, short term, in a socialist society but by "evenly distributed" it means more people have less control over resources, while the political class (and those closely connected to it) have far more.
Moreover, it's a recipe for much less total capital available for society as a whole, as individuals allocating capital top-down are far less efficient in creating new capital and effectively distributing it than a market comprised of millions making individual choices about what they want.
I would rather live in a wealthier society that lets the market choose "winners" and "losers" than a poorer society that ensures everyone except the political class and its cronies are losers.
Finally, with respect to social safety nets, I understand why people don't want to rely on the "beneficence" of the wealthy, but the "beneficence" of the state is equally suspect. (Look at the rampant homelessness in CA, for example, that allocated $24B allegedly to "remedy" the problem.)
In the end, I suspect it would be easier to persuade the wealthy it's in their interest to cough up say 10 percent of their capital voluntarily, then to force people to give up north of 50 percent in a much poorer society, for example.
The richer and more innovative a society is, the more trivial it is for them to provide for everyone's needs. The poorer and more regulated society, wherein the government disincentivizes innovation and crudely redistributes, has to strain to provide for its most needy.
Bottom line -- capital should be in the hands of those who have earned it via value creation, not those who have stolen it by violence-backed wealth-seizure. I would rather live in an unequal via wealth (though equal via civil rights) society where the poorest have what they need than a more equal one where that equality is based on collective poverty.
Unfortunately there is no third choice wherein wealth distribution can be made more equal by forced redistribution and prosperity still accrues to society as a whole. It's not the fault of the rich, but of reality itself -- it favors the wisdom of the market, comprised of millions, over the top-down edicts of the politbureaus. If you don't like it, take it up with reality (God, evolution, the universe, the Tao, whatever you want to call it.) We must deal with the way things are not the way we might wish them to be.
If the US ever repealed capital gains taxes on bitcoin sales, it would have to kill the treasury companies, right? Who’s gonna buy MSTR or MTPLF is you have to pay cap gains on stock sale, but no cap gains on the underlying?
Now if they instead just repealed cap gains on *spending* bitcoin, it might have the opposite effect — people would spend and replace way more, shoot the price up, and both the underlying and the treasury companies would have no comparative advantage when traded for dollars.
Relatedly I’ve heard it said the purpose of propaganda is not to serve the masses false information but to sew so much doubt and confusion that no one knows what to believe. And that such a population, lacking all conviction in anything, is easier to control.
It’s a similar point to the one below — that even if many of the conspiracy theories are actually true, the bigger purpose is served that nothing can be trusted, everything is up for grabs.
That way, you can have good evidence of sex trafficking, election rigging, influence peddling, virus creation, mandating poisonous injections, even Clinton-esque serial “coincidental deaths” and it all just goes into the “conspiracy theory” bucket of “who knows?”
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Portugal is pretty nice too, stifling bureaucracy notwithstanding. I might move back to the US if I could figure out where.
Speaking up about one’s concerns is fine. Declaring it’s Iraq 2.0, he’s betrayed his base, he’s owned by Israel, telling everyone they got rugged and then not coming back to say, “Oh, I was totally duped by the narrative pushers, totally caught in the mania” is weak af.
Think it was both sides — the “it’s the JOOOOSSSSS!” minority Maga sect and also the TD crowd saying “I told you so!”
*The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.*
Expecting all the pundits crying about how Trump sold out his base to the warmongers, that he's owned by Israel, to memory hole that hysterical episode entirely!
My feed this morning is even more full of TDS! It’s almost as if people are now pissed he didn’t go to war against Iran because it undermined their priors, and the cognitive dissonance is bothering them.
Rip Trump all you want for the shitcoins, the free speech violations, the lack of accountability re Epstein and covid — those criticisms are deserved,
But people wildly underestimate how propagandized they’ve been for the last 10 years and even longer — how someone like Trump (a man with gaudy taste, who openly boasts, who eats McDonalds and DGAF) is not of the class of people who should be president.
The entire educational system has instructed you not to be like Trump, and a lot people went into debt to get the status boost, to learn the right way to be, and they fucking hate it that this dude, this perma-tanned asshole with the McMansion of all McMansions, the white gangsta-rapper of sorts, is now running the show and doing a better job than the self-deprecating, well-mannered “adults” in the room who they aspired to be.
I suspect people will be even more pissed if there’s a lasting peace deal between Israel and Iran. People virtue signal their concern about the Iranian people or the Palestinians all the time, but that’s mostly just as fake as the missile exchanges we just saw the last couple days.
It’s a slippery slope with drastic unintended consequences though. Luigi Mangione can argue he transferred the intent to the evil healthcare system, and its CEO was just a killer he had to stop.
Any form of utiliitarianism fails on its own terms both because the future can never be 100 percent known (that’s why it’s the future rather than the past), and the consequences of one’s actions don’t simply end at killing 1, saving 5 (even if that was actually how it played out.) The consequences of normalizing killing people you think are net harmful would be vast.
If you do decide to intervene to prevent a mass shooter, for example, you do so not out of a trolley-problem calculation, but out of an instinct. But you are surely taking a risk if you do so. Some risks are worth taking, but utilitarian justifications won’t bail you out if things go south IMO.
Were the lawsuits and prosecutions fake too? Really have to question the counter narratives as much as the obvious fake narratives.
easiest hedge ever — convert and bet big on NO
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