Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan and The European Miracle by Eric Jones
damn it, I think I have to do it now:
https://watcher.guru/news/186-banks-found-to-have-similar-risks-as-silicon-valley-bank
“Nostrica” is supposed to rhyme with “Costa Rica” if you say both fast, right?
RIGHT?!?
I’ve now heard multiple say it “noss-trik-uh” and I’m wondering if I’m the crazy one …
let’s just tell people that and see what happens.
If I run out of time or ideas I might actually do that.
I was contemplating pitching it to Quillette or similar (I have some cachet there but it’s been a while) - but that runs up against the same problem from the other direction. will they get it at all? will they countenance something so “one sided”, “alarmist” etc?
kinda feel like whipping up a medium post called “the beginning of the end” or something to that effect.
serious question: is there even any point? will I say anything that everybody doesn’t already know?
Lmfao. “If we hadn’t fucked everything then everything would have been fucked.”
I mean … is she even wrong?
“This is our meme world. Everyone else is just living in it.”
- Gandhi
’s and roses, babyyyyyyyyyyyy 🥳🔫🌹🎸
Covid jab racket
"The proposed Pfizer amendment to the Pfizer agreement is clearly unacceptable to us given the critical situation of vaccine oversupply in Bulgaria and unjustified financial burden for products destined for destruction," Medzhidiev said.
"We call on the Commission to return to the negotiating table, taking fully into account the mandate given. Until a solution is found, all the deliveries must be stopped," he said.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2957202168503-pfizer-agrees-to-revise-eu-covid-vaccine-contract-ft
LMFAO. this is diplomatese for: “Bulgarians all remember communism and have had enough of this shit. kindly fuck off.”
I just had to google a tool I’d never heard of. I’m definitely not ready for civilizational collapse 🤦♀️
I hereby propose inostr: *impermanent* notes and other stuff transmitted by relays.
FUCK - *pathologize 🤣
“I’M NOT IDEOLOGICAL, YOU’RE IDEOLOGICAL!!!” - every ideologue, ever 😂
you are correct that I’ve thought a lot about it. I’ll try to keep the answer short(ish) rather than writing you a book.
whether you really are ideological or not, you will inevitably seem that way to others for a handful of related reasons. what you are proposing, even is solely positive terms, is so absurdly outside the Overton window most have trouble interpreting it at face value and think there must be something else going on here, you must be kinda crazy, etc.,
since you are implicitly (or explicitly!) rejecting enormous swathes of contemporary culture, politics, and economics, it’s difficult for people to see that as *anything other than* ideological. of course they don’t realise they are living and participating in a competing ideology, but its dominance is such that their attention is never drawn to it. having their attention drawn in that way is unpleasant and they’d usually rather pathologies the pest rather than genuinely introspect.
for what it’s worth I try to tap into this in how I communicate in public. as much as I see the place of the tribalism, memes, lore, etc., and hence am not at all knocking anybody who focuses on that kind of thing, I am wary of this coming across as overtly ideological and unnecessarily unpersuasive. I tend to focus my commentary on how stupid and evil the fiat system is, often veering into outright mockery and humiliation of those who believe in and propagate it. the goal is to make *them* look crazy, not us.
when I talk about bitcoin itself my tone is usually dry and the content purely factual. where possible, I play up the technical challenges both to be honest about the material and to fake my own humility to try to strike a contrast with fiat propaganda.
so something like, “bitcoin is the fastest and most secure value settlement mechanism ever created and lightning offers nearly free and instant simulation of “payments” by swapping cryptographically enforceable deferred settlement in this layer. contrary to every other fiat payment method in existence, it is a true debit. there is no counterparty risk and no credit extension, although maintaining adequate channel liquidity and protecting against malevolent channel partners are both novel and challenging … etc.”
rather than: “lightning can do a trillion transactions per second and is going to DESTROY card networks and bitcoinize the dollar.”
the latter is probably true but the former is how I’d prefer to communicate. so back to your question: I don’t think it’s a good or a bad thing about the arguments themselves, and it’s not even necessarily true - it’s just an unfortunate reality of how they are likely to be perceived by most. but depending on what you want to achieve, you can certainly affect that perception.
(sorry for the novella)