Chris Liss

Idea to bookmark for later: real numbers are incompressible like reality itself. Pi and e are compressible reals, ambassadors from reality to the land of reason.

2026-03-01 16:27:06 UTC

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Perfectly valid to raise concerns about how this could become disastrous, (and it surely *could*) but that's speculation at this point. What I'm seeing is people posting as though it has already become disastrous, or disaster is inevitable now. They were doing the same re Venezuela and while that too *could* become disastrous, it doesn't remotely seem to as yet.

2026-03-01 16:00:40 UTC

Lots of people get confused by labels. When evaluating NFL players, people will say, but so and so was a first-round pick when he was taken 28th, and so-and-so is a second-round pick when he was drafted 35th. There's a much bigger difference between pick 6 and pick 28 than pick 28 and pick 35. The "rounds" are just arbitrary cut-off points.
Similarly people will say "Trump promised no wars" and now he's attacked Iran. "War" is like first-round pick. You can define what's happening in Iran as a "war" and sick burn all the peace promises if you like, but the difference between this "war" and a war where we spend trillions, kill millions and destabilize an entire region is a lot different than kidnapping Maduro or taking out Khameni.
If this does devolve into Iraq 2.0 or worse, that'a another matter, but if it's more like Venezuela, then it's not really contradicting the platform on which he was elected. Think a lot of people are conflating the two for clicks and outrage, but it's pretty obviously stretching one label to cover two very different scenarios.
This is not an opinion on whether taking out Khameni (or kidnapping Maduro) was "good," legal or desirable -- we will only know that over the medium and long haul. Only that this conflation of two very different things is lowest-common-denominator posting.

2026-02-25 17:31:11 UTC

Odd how the price has spiked with Jane Street sidelined. Think it was Max Keiser who said JPM had a short on MSTR so big it would collapse them if the price mooned again. Occurred to me these large connected entities might be working together -- JPM shorts MSTR, scrambles to build competing products (or just hopes to delay/destroy it), knows Jane Street is good for the price manipulation of the underlying, both have inside info re overleveraged players, where the liquidation points are. We'll see, just seems like a hell of a coincidence of timing.

2026-02-14 11:11:54 UTC

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above my paygrade

2026-02-14 09:17:43 UTC

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The number of "suicides" and
"accidents" that are not suicides is probably unfathomable. Prince, Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Anthony Bourdain to name a few, but it's my base case they murdered a lot of our most based and talented artists. If you want to know why the culture is such slop now, consider that the ass-lickers like Rage On Behalf Of The Machine, Bruce Springsteen, Robert DeNiro and Neil Young are at no risk and as such have squandered the brilliance they once had.
#nevent1q…wcfp

2026-02-10 11:46:17 UTC

Base case is we're about to bounce big time because we never really had a bull market from the last ATH, especially when adjusted for inflation and especially when compared to gold.
And the real reason we had the dip was sellers front-running the top of the 4-year cycle which invalidated it. IOW, the second order effect of everyone knowing the 4-year cycle was to destroy the cycle.
But when it happened people thought, "Of course, it's the cycle" and expect a two-year bear. So they capitulated early, and the real bull begins as the macro environment turns inflationary and the fundamentals are better than ever.
Of course I could be wrong, but one thing I know for sure is all the clever people telling me it's a bear and breaking out their charts don't know shit, either.
Skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been.

2026-02-05 13:49:36 UTC

Just donated blood today to shed some iron and it occurred to me how every medical system always needs blood, they're always out there begging for it, and yet at the same time people need blood tests, and in the US at least they cost a fortune. Why not if you need routine bloodwork, you just pop in donate a pint, and they take the first vial full and process the bloodwork? Every blood drive should offer free HBA1C, triglycerides, insulin, HDL, vitamin D, etc. Two birds one needle.

2026-02-04 19:57:48 UTC

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Grok

2026-01-30 16:35:31 UTC

You can argue Trump is Hitler, and ICE are the Stasi, but if you're arguing it publicly with your name attached, you have refuted your own point.

2026-01-29 08:12:21 UTC

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The point of the post isn't that Team Good IS good, it's that it's what people think is good. On nostr, they think being above it all is good. I'm saying, neither is good. It's just what the dominant ethos of good is on the various platforms. And that there is one.

2026-01-27 10:40:20 UTC

On legacy social media Team Good was mostly leftist/corporate HR-think. On Nostr Team Good is libertarian-above-it-all platitude-think.
This is not to say whether one set of values is better or worse per se. Only that, effective or not, none of you (and not me either) represent the “good” no matter how many pats on the back you receive.
Best one can do is aim for truth and let the chips fall.

2026-01-14 11:07:20 UTC

Maybe this post will age poorly, but I feel I’ve been through the worst of the fourth turning (for me) already, that for me it’s already turning around. For normies, the worst might be yet to come.

2026-01-12 20:14:10 UTC

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I don't know. He also talked solo for 2 hours, zero back and forth.

2026-01-12 17:35:22 UTC

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don’t know what that is

2026-01-12 17:30:17 UTC

I would buy it
#note1w3j…uh0l

2026-01-10 11:52:25 UTC

In Portugal, they’re very fond of these soggy, overripe persimmons, and I’ve gotten hooked on them. Problem is every time you bring them home from the farmer’s market, they get crushed in the bag and spill out everywhere. Had no choice but to eat three of them just now, mixed in with yogurt. They are the size of large apples. But I had no choice.

2026-01-07 16:26:35 UTC

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Yeah, we’ll see. Lots of malefactors still running around not just for covid too.

2026-01-07 15:33:36 UTC

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it's happening as they revise the childhood schedule first, small steps to deprogram people from seeing it as a religious rite. Once the deprogramming succeeds, and they are judged on the merits, it will be like an avalanche. I don’t think they can put the genie back in the bottle. Too many people know, and once the taboo has been broken… we’ll see. Maybe not quite Nuremberg, but I don’t see how they avoid some kind of reckoning.

2026-01-07 14:29:16 UTC

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gravy train to Nuremberg?

2026-01-07 14:08:13 UTC

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Yeah something’s weird. First thought was who would want anything to do with that?

2026-01-07 14:07:11 UTC

Just hate putting the 25KG ones in the luggage
#nevent1q…pyuz

2026-01-07 11:41:48 UTC

Often I wake up and see no way I can get anything useful or difficult done. It’s like I’m paralyzed into doomscrolling and thinking and theorizing, and doing anything is impossible, just too daunting. It’s like Xeno’s Paradox, to move one foot, you have to move six inches, and to move six inches you have to move three, and to move three you have to move 1.5, and so on. There are an infinite number of steps you’d have to take, so you can never cross the chasm from thought into action.
And then I put on my running shoes and walk out the door.
There is no bridge from the mind into the world of action except action. To refute Xeno’s paradox you could argue the limit as the denominator heads to infinity is zero, or you can just take a step.

2026-01-06 17:38:22 UTC

One might argue — wait, you can break the rules if there’s sufficient urgency to do so? So force-vaccinating people and locking them down was cool because of the scary *pandemic*?
No! If you break the rules, you had better be correct. There was no science to justify lockdowns, no precedent to quarantining healthy people, no double-blind placebo controlled studies for ANY vaccine let alone this novel mRNA product that turned out not even to stop the spread. And in breaking the rules you MUST do so in the least invasive, most judicious way possible, e.g, extracting Maduro, not destroying Iraq.
But how do we know in advance? Well, we knew the science was fake in advance, and the measures were extreme, unprecedented and unsupported by evidence. But to some extent, we really don’t know in advance. The mark of a great leader is to know when to break the rules and when not to, and if you break them, only break them to the minimum extent necessary.
But if we don’t know, and we can’t formulate a rule how do we know if the action is justified?
We don’t. Being a leader requires taking a chance sometimes, and if you get something wrong, error correcting quickly and decisively, something that did not happen with Covid.
It would be great if there were just a rule book you could follow in all cases and we could consult it to see whether something applied or not. But I’m talking about cases in which the book in on fire, and in any event, no book can contain the complexity of real life.
#nevent1q…a4qr

2026-01-06 17:13:17 UTC

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right, kind of looks like that had already happened

2026-01-06 17:12:48 UTC

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Yes, you had better be right. And it had better be the case that what you did was necessary due to the corrosion and corruption of those institutions that are no longer serving their intended mission.

2026-01-06 15:51:27 UTC

Feels like Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is more relevant than ever. You can be tolerant, but if you tolerate intolerance, tolerance is gone. So you must not tolerate intolerance.
When people complain (and I have in the past) about El Salvador almost certainly violating rights (even gang members are innocent until proven guilty), you get to a contradiction: if the tolerant system wherein everyone gets full due process under the law has been destroyed and abused beyond recognition, then you might have to use supra-constitutional force. If a neighboring country is actively harming and undermining your own, you might have to use force that violates its sovereignty.
Whether El Salvador was really in such a situation (I’ve never been there), I don’t know for sure. I can only go by what I read online. And whether Maduro was really doing everything he’s alleged to have done and it had a material impact on the security of our votes or the health of our citizens, I don’t know.
Governments who want to use these extra-legal powers to achieve desired ends are notoriously deceitful and self-serving in the justifications for their actions.
But it’s naive and misguided IMO not to acknowledge the principle in itself: namely, that if circumstances are such that the institutions themselves are no longer capable of delivering justice and/or protecting the liberty of the people, then you cannot restrict your actions to what’s legal within their own rules. You must make an exception and be intolerant to this intolerance.
It cannot be correct that one should rely on the courts to ensure due process or comply with international law if those institutions are coopted and broken.
The question as to whether Bukele in ES or Trump in seizing Maduro were justified in doing what they did can and should be argued. That Trump says so is obviously not good enough.
But what I see now is people who believe that even if Venezuela were deliberately and materially harming the US that Trump needed to play within the rules even if the harms done were set up to circumvent them.

2026-01-06 15:05:21 UTC

There’s no such thing as capitalism. There’s just voluntary exchange among human beings and involuntary coercion. You get to pick which model you prefer, but if you pick the coercion one, you only get to pick once.

2026-01-06 08:40:25 UTC

Rough day for those who think elections don’t matter:
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/7d70c115819e4fcc3f4e90b30fc2bc7705ba504bfd175691034cf6d88b175a15.webp

2026-01-06 08:02:30 UTC

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maybe I should try to define every word in the English language from first principles, fail, find the language wanting and never speak again?

2026-01-05 21:10:27 UTC

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the meaning of what I wrote is clear — you are free to disagree with it, but endless semantic pedantry isn’t moving the needle for me.

2026-01-05 21:00:03 UTC

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I'm not denouncing ALL generalizations only the lazy ones I’m seeing trotted out in response to current events.

2026-01-05 20:33:35 UTC

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sorry, not seeing it

2026-01-05 20:33:11 UTC

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That could be. I had read the US has the kind of refineries to process it, but who knows?

2026-01-05 19:06:57 UTC

I read that Venezuela's vast oil reserves have not really been developed, and that the regime was siphoning off the 15 percent that it had developed for itself and its cronies, basically transnational criminal organizations, while impoverishing the people.
So the US will come in with its oil companies and over a few years get it up to speed and extract/make good use of its plentiful and valuable reserves. I would expect *some* of the profits therefrom to flow to the locals, and conditions there to improve, maybe substantially since it’s starting at a low point.
But I very much doubt the locals will see the lion’s share of it — I’d expect most of the wealth to flow to oil companies and the American government entities cutting them in on the deal.
I could be wrong about all of this, of course, I get my information from the internet like everyone else. But I see it playing out mostly as a benefit to certain US factions, the US economy to some extent and the Venezuelan economy to some lesser extent.
The other big issues with Venezuela are the drug cartel/rogue CIA/foreign intelligence agencies that were benefitting, and if what I’ve gathered is true, they will be disrupted/damaged by this. And Venezuela’s alleged involvement (with rogue CIA and foreign intelligence) in stealing US (and other countries’) elections.
If Maduro really does have intel on this and spills the beans, that too would be seismic result of his capture.
Draw your own conclusions as to whether this is true, and if so whether that makes Maduro’s capture a good thing. I tend to think it’s net positive and might be, but of course it could also go very wrong.

2026-01-05 16:51:11 UTC

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I'm not making a generalization except about generalizations themselves. I’m saying each geopolitical event is unique, to take them case by case.

2026-01-05 13:04:54 UTC

Don’t confuse weakness or ineffectiveness with virtue.

2026-01-05 10:40:46 UTC

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Real man has access to minimum three freezing lakes. Had a higher opinion of you before this post.

2026-01-04 20:24:31 UTC

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NP — appreciate the apology. (Only thing rarer than bitcoin!)

2026-01-04 10:44:40 UTC

The stalest genre of geopolitcal analysis is the one-note retards who see EVERYTHING as “this is a distraction,” “this is another neo-con forever war,” “this is done at Netanyahu’s behest,” “this is more of the same” no matter what happens.
That’s not to say that these conclusions couldn’t be correct in any given case — they might, and surely they have at times in the past — but applying them lazily to EVERY case is retarded.
The world-weary “I told you so” mantra in the face of ANY development is a tell a person hasn’t looked into what’s going on, and just wants to sound savvy to others.
You are under no obligation to pay attention to geopolitics — maybe you’d even be better off hiking in the mountains and swimming in freezing lakes. But if you’re not paying attention except to headlines and hot takes, why make the discourse dumber?

2026-01-03 18:59:23 UTC

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If you can’t enforce it, it’s not real

2026-01-03 18:52:10 UTC

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No idea maybe they were never credible.

2026-01-03 18:40:22 UTC

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but those institutions are no longer credible

2026-01-03 16:07:57 UTC

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Don’t think there really is a such thing as “international law” except insofar it’s used against powerless countries to punish them.

2026-01-03 15:50:13 UTC

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usually the case

2026-01-03 15:25:28 UTC

It's obviously wrong to break into someone's home, but if a guy shoots a few people, then goes home, the police are justified in breaking in if he won’t voluntarily go outside and surrender.
It’s obviously wrong to break into a sovereign country and capture its leader, but if that leader has done something to warrant it, has been asked to surrender himself and refuses, it would be justified.
Did Maduro’s behavior justify this? I don’t know. Government allegations are not proven facts. So we’ll see (or we may not see.)
But that the US went in and arrested him isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It might be, and it might not.
What would be a bad thing unequivocally is if the US invaded Venezuela and killed a million people because it wanted to get Maduro. That would be very bad.
Kind of like what the FBI did in Waco, Texas when they wanted to get David Koresh.

2026-01-03 15:20:57 UTC

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lot of reporting done (no idea if it’s true) that Venezuela (believed it or not) was the epicenter of 2020 election fraud, not just for US but other countries too.

2026-01-03 15:05:04 UTC

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seems more apt, but it’s not the one being cited by the biggest pearl clutchers

2026-01-03 15:01:29 UTC

I don’t know whether taking out Maduro was good policy or bad, time will tell. I do know for sure people comparing it to invading Iraq and killing 1M people to take out Saddam Hussein are retarded.

2026-01-03 12:53:47 UTC

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Why are you incapable of discussing something without accusing the person with whom you are discussing it as “simping” for war criminals and mass murderers?

2026-01-03 12:52:47 UTC

All governments fascist in that they use top-down coercion to achieve their agendas.
Legitimate governments use only the minimum top-down coercion to perpetuate conditions for bottom-up prosperity which is the ONLY kind of prosperity.
If there is rampant murder and gang violence in say El Salvador, the fascist government uses top-down coercion to remove it and bottom-up prosperity is possible. Unless it goes too far and becomes the impediment itself.
So government is “fascist” yet can be necessary the way medicine is, only insofar as it’s used to facilitate natural healing and never more than that.
I was thinking this might also apply to foreign intervention, i.e., war. War is always a breach of sovereignty, but is only legitimate when the minimal use of force is used for its objective.
The problem with government and war (and medicine) is humans are very bad at limiting force only to the minimum amount necessary. But the alternative is also untenable — not using force even when force is necessary.

2026-01-03 12:44:35 UTC

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They didn’t attack Venezuela either. They just captured Maduro. Did Maduro commit crimes against the US that warranted his capture? We’ll see,

2026-01-03 12:33:25 UTC

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there might be one, we'll see

2026-01-03 12:02:57 UTC

Same people who said bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to a ground invasion, Iraq 2.0! and WWIII! are reprising the same tired hysteria to Venezuela.
They say bets are a tax on bullshit, and I’m happy to bet some sats on this if anyone wants to take the other side.

2026-01-03 10:30:01 UTC

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incorporate the robbery/kidnapping/murder into your trip — will make it more intense, find out what you’re really about!

2026-01-02 22:37:33 UTC

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I've argued with them, got them to concede the error, but then they made more errors.

2025-12-31 16:50:23 UTC

Had this thought that someone (funds/nation states) is simultaneously losing money on purpose to short bitcoin/keep the price in this range and buying large sums of it OTC at these prices. IOW, you pay the $10M a day or whatever it costs to keep the price in the 80s, and you buy 1-10K coins/day at a small premium to spot OTC. If you didn’t pay to short the spot price, the OTC price would be much higher.
When there are no more OGs unloading OTC, they will pull the short and price discovery will return.

2025-12-31 13:15:56 UTC

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Almost everything

2025-12-30 14:56:43 UTC

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seems like manipulation, too tight to be organic

2025-12-30 14:51:39 UTC

the range-bound price action is fake as fuck

2025-12-29 22:48:00 UTC

My friend injured his Achilles heel, was walking around in a boot. I asked him: “Would you say that’s your Achilles heel?”

2025-12-29 22:23:05 UTC

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I go there way more than that. Actually far less annoying now that I’m not paying for it. But it really should be done 1-2x a day to try and discern some signal.

2025-12-29 22:16:03 UTC

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It’s intermittent, like some posts get no views, but others have more reach than was previously possible. Either way the check was a worse scam than Somali daycare centers!

2025-12-29 22:09:07 UTC

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think you'll be okay if there's a toilet nearby

2025-12-29 22:06:18 UTC

Maybe the reason they were so slow to go after the daycare fraud is most of the medical system in general is fraud.

2025-12-19 18:28:43 UTC

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when EU capitulates probably

2025-12-19 18:25:00 UTC

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they can’t pay it back now without risking systemic collapse apparently

2025-12-19 16:56:26 UTC

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Appreciate this idea of block time being a framework to understand the nature of time itself (which is impossible to do directly given any measurement of it takes too much time) and the implications this would have for quantum computing and the FUD comcomitant to it.

2025-12-18 10:17:56 UTC

Ever feel like you’re just going around in circles?
#nevent1q…w9ax

2025-12-17 19:01:30 UTC

Why you shouldn't listen to football experts -- same reason centralized planners always fuck things up.
https://v.nostr.build/IuxGNa9kyJNTZh54.mp4

2025-12-17 18:59:45 UTC

New Real Man Sports podcast:
https://rumble.com/v7356fu-week-16.html
excerpt:
https://v.nostr.build/6dEySpteXkWhdfEB.mp4

2025-12-17 17:56:23 UTC

Just asked Grok whether this was true, it said no, then I asked it for the area of an infinity many sided polygon with radius 1, and it said π and conceded.
#nevent1q…uleq

2025-12-17 17:52:10 UTC

A circle is just a polygon with infinitely many sides. Prove me wrong.

2025-12-17 15:16:25 UTC

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Which is totally fine of course, but also just another belief you have.

2025-12-17 08:17:47 UTC

This is axiomatically correct. And there are religious traditions (particularly eastern ones) where doubt is the path. Total doubt, not just of religion, not just of atheism, but of everything. Doubt of the “I” that pops up in your mind out of habit. Doubt of words that one uses to name one’s feelings.
There is nothing “wrong” with believing the Bible. There is nothing right about it. It’s just another belief that is also subject to doubt.
We don’t know shit. And we don’t even know that we don’t know shit. Doubt that too.
#nevent1q…va7s

2025-12-17 08:12:32 UTC

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covid vaccine side effects remind me of when I used to collect baseball cards in the 1990s. All the companies came out with these sets where there were special “rare” cards, say 1 in 500 of a player that would be signed by him or have a little piece of his jersey or baseball bat (some shards) attached.
Out of the pack these were worth like $500 back then, so you were playing the lottery by buying them. After a while, though, you realized that so many companies were issuing so many sets that these “rare” cards were actually not so rare. They could just issue a new premium “glossy” set with the same dynamic. So every year, there were like 30 different sets, each with this “rare” version for each star player. That’s when I stopped buying them and wished I had spent the money on cards that were actually rare from the 50s and 60s.
Each side effect could be unlikely in particular person, but collectively it’s not rare at all. And even the particular ones aren’t nearly as rare as they should be.
Incidentally this lesson re the cards also kept me away from shitcoins which is the same principle.

2025-12-16 08:32:54 UTC

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classic overestimation of the State and its competence.

2025-12-15 12:29:28 UTC

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yes

2025-12-15 09:47:20 UTC

Imagine you were totally surveilled but did not know it. Lived your life as freely as if no one were watching.
Contrast that with living your life as though totally surveilled even though no one were actually watching. Just passive data collection in which no one was interested in you particularly. Yet you were super careful just in case, made sure not to post anything controversial under your own name.
You could say the first person is naive, that it’ll come back to bite them. But the second person is already in a prison of his own construction whether the threat turns out to be real or not.
By contrast, the best way to imprison someone is to do so while encouraging him to believe he’s free. That way he never tries to escape. The one who knows he’s in prison must be held there by force.
So there are four possibilities:
1. Believe you’re free, you are free.
2. Believe you’re free, but adopt all the dogmas and limitations as instructed, become the most easily jailed.
3. Believe you’re unfree, force the jailers to expend maximum energy to keep you captive.
4. Believe you’re unfree when you are actually free, jail yourself.
The psyop pushes people to 2 (normies) and (4) paranoiacs. But you really want to toggle between 1 and 3, wherein you live your life without worry and to the extent you personally are involved in some totalitarianism (e..g, covid), you are non-compliant and therefore expensive to those foisting compliance on you.

2025-12-12 14:28:07 UTC

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haha — I’d buy anything at this point myself

2025-12-11 14:16:45 UTC

excerpt 2:
https://v.nostr.build/WYfh7nTgLMA4yFS9.mp4

2025-12-11 14:13:42 UTC

New podcast:
https://rumble.com/v72vrou-extent-of-the-theft.html
Excerpt:
https://v.nostr.build/5F75nzkzmRcgxvxY.mp4

2025-12-11 09:57:00 UTC

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No, the laws against murder are clear, obvious and just, provided due process is in place. But if it’s speech, then it’s for the citizens themselves to handle. The Constitution accounts for all of this.

2025-12-11 08:41:59 UTC

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The argument is not whether in that instance the speech is harmful -- it surely is. The argument is whether we tolerate that harm vs allowing bureaucrats to use that harm to silence dissent. I would punch that guy in the face, and he could sue me, or I could be prosecuted, and when the facts came out, I’d probably be let off with the most lenient sentence for doing so.
But we don’t want the state weighing in on the speech. We as individuals can shame people for bad speech or even get violent, if necessary, but the government MUST stay out of it for society to be livable.

2025-12-10 18:23:26 UTC

New Real Man Sports podcast:
https://rumble.com/v72ulx0-week-15.html
excerpt (about Shadeur Sanders)
https://v.nostr.build/CnLKYdKVPGR2CviZ.mp4

2025-12-09 13:49:38 UTC

Was gonna post questioning why people in the UK are tolerating this insanity from their government, but I know some Brits who are fine with it and think I get why.
They are the people with all the correct beliefs. They believed in funding Ukraine, in taking the mRNA of course, in gun control. They already enforce a strict adherence to rightthink lest they be socially excommunicated which for them seems worse than death.
So if they’ve already gone that far to police themselves, they have zero concern about being arrested for posting something. In fact, their right-think is a testimony to their place in society. The people who might run afoul of the authorities are low class or idiots who should know better. Maybe arrest is extreme, but no worse in their minds than the social excommunication they most fear.
Even speaking up about it would risk social condemnation, and since they’re NEVER going to be the target of this, why risk it?

2025-12-09 13:43:51 UTC

Didn’t realize @npub1lrn…qnw5 was being serious.
#nevent1q…nhqr

2025-12-09 12:43:03 UTC

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haha, can't say, don’t follow him, but funny if true.

2025-12-09 12:34:42 UTC

I think the effective tax rate on productive people is probably north of 90 percent when you include Federal, state, city, sales, capital gains (which has already been income taxed) and property tax (property that was bought with after-tax dollars.)
Then you factor in the inflation (debasement) tax (2-10 percent, depending on how you measure it) and also the (38T!) national debt for which you are on the hook in terms of future inflation.
Basically, I think it’s probably the case that 90 percent of the nation’s productive capacity is flat out stolen and redistributed via government programs and NGOs to allies of the regime.

2025-12-09 12:27:06 UTC

Gonna create a nostr nym under which I’ll post GM, pura vida and other kumbaya shit so no one will ever be able to link me to it IRL.

2025-12-09 10:51:28 UTC

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everyone is persuaded it's not worth the risk, and freedom of speech dies

2025-12-09 10:25:51 UTC

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A person who would say anything she was told to say, zero conscience beyond approval from her social and professional orbit.

2025-12-09 10:05:39 UTC

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real talk!

2025-12-09 09:52:09 UTC

We're having our annual Christmas party this year. Wife and daughter are in charge of the invite list. I just go to the farmer’s market and buy the ingredients for large cauldrons of beef stew I make — one of them with chilis, the other mild.
Anyway, it’s this Saturday, and was driving with my 13-YO daughter, asked her which of her friends she invited. (Thought she’d say like 4-5 people.) She rattled off a list of 15-20 people.
Our apartment is comfortable for three of us, but it’s not especially large. So I asked my wife how many people she invited? She said she’s sure a lot of them won’t come even though she says that every year, and every year almost all of them do. Then she says, I’m sure they’ll be staggered, not all there at once. Again, not true from my experience as EVERYONE is there at around 9- 10 pm. Last year, the kids all had to go out to a small local part because it was too insanely crowded.
This year, I expect 30-40 percent more people than last, especially kids. Wife who gets more stressed out by hosting than I do, I’m realizing, is in total denial too. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

2025-12-09 09:42:32 UTC

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Yes, but pseudonymity only allows you to say “illegal things” without getting caught. The goal is to make it illegal to punish people for speech and for that you need enough people to say things under their real names.
I have no problem with people saying things without getting caught, but IMO the ethos that ends this is enough people with their real names attached telling them to fuck off.

2025-12-09 09:38:41 UTC

Great way to steal a car too
#note18mj…a40s

2025-12-07 12:45:13 UTC

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the camera is a nice touch