What’s your beef with feminism?

Fiat:

- climate change

- communism

- feminism

- bug food

- polyamory

- cultural decay

- poverty

- no kids

- depression

- guilt

Bitcoin:

- techno optimism

- patriarchy

- cultural revival

- large families

- steak and eggs

- political power

- network states

- wealth

- satisfaction

- happiness

The reader just did an overall perfect job. Makes me want to check out more stuff he read just because he read it.

Was in a Trader Joe’s just now and heard an employee ranting to his coworkers about bill gates, mosquitos with genetic mutations, vaccines etc…

His coworkers were listening intently.

Then I had this moment of clarity like who does this serve? Is it serving the Trader Joe’s employees? Is it bettering their lives to be tapped into this firehose of information (true, false or otherwise).

How can it be? They’re working in a Trader Joe’s for $20 an hour.

Then as I walked to the checkout counter I wondered to myself is this the new opiate of the masses?

Approved conspiracies manufactured for wide public consumption while the real ones are swept out of view.

Giving the public the illusion that they have secret esoteric knowledge of major events that are set to transpire imminently… yet somehow never do.

America’s past time used to be baseball and now it’s conspiracy theories. That has to be by design right? Right?!

Anyway then I remembered I forgot to get ground beef so I went back to grab it.

$5.49 a lb, pretty good deal.

Any good non-bitcoin podcasts you’ve listened to lately? #asknostr

Any good non-bitcoin podcasts you’ve listened to lately? #asknostr

Do you have a link I could read?

Watched They Live (1988), a satirical sci-fi action movie directed by John Carpenter. A drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal aliens controlling humanity with messages in media. He teams up with a friend to expose the aliens. It’s a critique of consumerism and control. I enjoyed it. Very entertaining. It has a slow start but picks up nicely. 7.6/10 #nodereviews

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I read Upgrade by Blake Crouch and wasn't a big fan. The outline of the story was promising but the execution was inconsistent, in my view. I'd give it maybe a 6.5/10.

It's set in the near future, with a specific event having messed everything up. A genius scientist that tried to solve world hunger by genetically modifying crops accidentally caused a global famine, killing 200 million and damaging the world economically and socially for decades in a way that it never fully recovered from. Gene editing is now forbidden, and since the technology is accessible at pretty low cost, there are police forces dedicated to surveilling for usage of it and raiding peoples' houses to prevent another catastrophe.

The main character, the son of that scientist, gets infected with a disease that changes his genes and makes him superhuman mentally and physically in a world where that's outlawed. And thus his adventure begins to find out who infected him and what to do.

Without giving spoilers, probably my main issue with the story was the villain. She was badass with a cool background and setup, but then her motivations didn't really make sense. And the majority of the book is about the philosophical and external conflict between the hero and this villain. Solid outline and idea, but felt rushed and not as well thought out as it could have been. Some elements felt preachy in the sense that it feels like the author set up this conflict, which didn't really need to happen, in order to make a point. By fine-tuning the plot a bit more, I think it could have been executed better and more believably and preserving the overall outline.