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2026-08-31 12:37:59 CEST

Had to click a box to verify I was human, clicked it too fast, failed the test.

2026-08-24 16:44:25 CEST

https://www.chrisliss.com/p/rip-________

2026-08-24 16:43:59 CEST

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https://www.chrisliss.com/p/rip-________
#nevent1q…rpxd

2026-08-21 12:03:06 CEST

Obviously the dip was always fake af

2026-08-13 13:54:27 CEST

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Sadly the smaller of the two died, had to dispose of its body in a plastic bag. Disney movie just took a dark turn. Other one is fat but seems a bit forlorn now.
#nevent1q…d2xm

2026-08-13 13:48:07 CEST

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too soon!

2026-08-13 00:16:14 CEST

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Saw this retarded post on Twitter -- UWS has a lot of Jews, but not nearly the wealthiest neighborhood, and tons of Jews on UES, Tribeca and everywhere else chock full of cameras. Slop.
#nevent1q…c4ym

2026-08-11 09:56:24 CEST

If e-coli ever does adapt to bourbon, we’re cooked
#nevent1q…tanv

2026-08-11 09:54:56 CEST

Paraguay has $90B GDP? Would’ve guessed 1/4 of that. Not the point of the post, I realize.
#nevent1q…6e6l

2026-08-08 18:53:09 CEST

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Upon return from the States two weeks later:
https://blossom.primal.net/05fbc3fc32a649e36af5df179c9187b66469556efabe8798bb25c0452f1d2624.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/35f3f327200fd4ef826492f2b17f50d5f939d36cd938ae238b25993c00e30324.jpg
#nevent1q…7tq5

2026-08-08 13:34:10 CEST

Use @strike to move money from US to EU where I live. Best product, best CS on the planet, could get funds through with minimal delay.
But now they’re holding up funds for up to a week @npub1cn4…3vle, and my CS contact’s email gets returned to sender. Won’t dox her, but was honestly the best CS I’ve ever gotten from any company ever. She just got things done and was extremely nice about it.
What’s going on there?

2026-07-21 21:08:28 CEST

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of course you *can*, but crying about cultural appropriation is pussified

2026-07-21 19:49:56 CEST

Few thoughts about the Odyssey which I haven't seen though I might at some point, probably on an airplane:
1. Don't cry about who is cast as whom or "cultural appropriation." It's a work of art, Nolan can do whatever the fuck he wants. Your remedy is not to see it if it doesn't interest you.
2. If you're pointing out the hypocrisy of other people crying about cultural appropriation when the culture being appropriated is non-white, save your breath. Leftists don't give two shits about hypocrisy, and it's not even really hypocrisy to them since they have long ago abandoned rational argument and logical consistency.
3. If you're complaining about the hypocrisy (fruitless) or mad about the cultural appropriation (dumb) online, you're feeding the controversy, and the controversy is good for box office.
That's because once it becomes coded as "good" by one team and "bad" by another, not only does it get tons of free publicity, but the cost/benefit is asymmetric.
The people who would have bought a ticket but didn't due to perceived politics are fewer in number than the people who wouldn't have bought a ticket but did for the simple reason that there are more people who don't buy tickets for any given movie, i.e., the pool you're drawing from (non-buyers) is much larger than the one you're losing (would-be buyers).

2026-07-21 18:19:21 CEST

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Can be arranged!

2026-07-21 17:03:05 CEST

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Healthcare cannot be a fundamental right like free speech because it requires other people to do something for you. To treat you, pay for you, etc. That's always got to be voluntary.
Whether people *ought* to care about those who couldn't or more commonly didn't care for themselves is IMO a legitimate philosophical discussion to be hate. But a "right"? Doesn't work.
Also, obviously people will get sick and die no matter what the state does. I know rich people who spent millions on care only to die in misery after untold surgeries, treatments, etc. The idea that we should dedicate vast resources to ameliorate something that can only really be prevented by the person themselves seems crazy the way it's playing out.

2026-07-19 14:14:04 CEST

Why am I talking? I made a substantive post about something on my mind which you unsolicitedly trolled rather than engaging on the substance.
I am here to say what’s on my mind, that’s obvious. I’ll ask again, what are you doing here?
#nevent1q…gcp0

2026-07-19 14:03:48 CEST

LOL “hide and run” — anon troll accusing someone who puts his name and photo on every post of hiding and running!
Why are you even here?
#nevent1q…x5rv

2026-07-19 13:56:31 CEST

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Trolling just to troll, adding zero of value, got it

2026-07-19 13:28:52 CEST

Think this dude is alleging I used AI to write this post. Not true. I’m a professional writer, never used AI to compose anything, don’t need it, don’t want it.
AI doesn’t own m-dashes, certain phrases, etc. I just write what comes into my mind, not going to go out of my way to avoid things just because they overlap.
#nevent1q…64k7

2026-07-19 13:22:54 CEST

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2026-07-19 12:56:15 CEST

People talk about money printing by the banks (every new mortgage or loan is a print), but I would bet that's rivaled, if not exceeded, by the healthcare industrial complex (HIC).
Think about it, every time a boomer gets a scan, a checkup, a procedure, the government has to issue a transfer to HIC. Not even talking about the Learing Centers which siphon off hundreds of billions collectively via fraud, but the legal, "legitimate" health care system which provides actual services.
I know boomers whose entire lives revolve around seeing yet another specialist, getting another test, talking endlessly about health issues. They are like a marauding army seizing enormous amounts of wealth from wage earners and savers and transferring it to the HIC. The system almost seems set up by design for this purpose. And they are oblivious because it's all "covered."
The problem isn't merely that old people get sick a lot and need medical care, but that old people are incentivized to seek it as a first rather than last resort, and the system is set up to treat this as normal. Your doctor with his pills and potions, scans and procedures is in charge of your health, not you via eating right, exercise, attitude, habits. That's one problem.
Another problem is the system takes advantage of old people, endlessly prescribing HIC solutions to lifestyle problems and stoking their fears to keep them as customers.
Politicians call these "entitlements" and warn of "unsustainability", but it doesn't to the heart of the problem which is HIC-capture that sets the prices, optimizes for extraction and controls the messaging.
People believe *health*care is how you stay healthy rather than something you only use if absolutely necessary IF you get sick, which you do everything in your power (and you have a lot of power in this area) to prevent or at least delay for a long time. Just changing the HIC to SIC (sickness industrial complex) would go a long way. It's not how you preserve your health, it's where you go when your efforts have failed, and it's a weak substitute for success.
I don't know exactly how much money is siphoned legally from the tax payer/saver/wage earner to the HIC, but I do know it's an unfathomable amount. I also suspect that's why the vaccine cult has so much power, part of why the covid response was so all-encompassing, why anyone who spoke out against the mRNA was demonized, fired, excommunicated and destroyed. It's not just a few large companies who spend ad dollars on CNN or whatever, it's a multi-trillion dollar extraction engine, and the entities positioned to receive the spoils have almost limitless unchecked power.
Inflation comes from money printing, but it's not like the treasury just runs sheet after sheet of hundred dollar bills and dumps it into the economy. It's the bank reserves enabling issuance via loans, yes, but also this incredibly escalating healthcare black hole, fed largely by old people who are getting it for "free".
Ironically many younger people, who are not completely covered have their savings wiped out by it and fall by the wayside as inflation gets worse every year, advocate for universal sickcare, not realizing that the reason it's so expensive and inflation so severe is in large part due to the universal sickcare (for old people) in the first place.
The solution to this would be to open sickcare to the free market, not cover it at all, let private insurance and private providers compete for business. This would coincide with lower taxes on everyone, less national debt, lower inflation, cheaper sickcare (no endless demand backstopped by govt dollars.) Young people would be more able to afford sickcare when needed too.
Of course, many old people would suffer and die sooner. More families would go broke paying for their elderly parents during the transition phase before the savings from lower inflation and lower taxes offset the cost of private insurance (that would be cheaper because prices would come down.)
That's always the problem -- going from the obviously broken, catastrophic, unsustainable state of affairs to a much better, saner, fairer, more sustainable ones involves real short-term pain. That's how parasites survive, make the cost of getting rid of them painful enough that no one does anything about it until they consume the entire organism.

2026-07-17 15:46:06 CEST

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Did they try "password"?
#nevent1q…4l7q

2026-07-16 12:11:18 CEST

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bullish
#nevent1q…sf34

2026-06-30 11:26:16 CEST

A lot of you are fake and full of shit.

2026-06-29 22:32:56 CEST

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Whenever economic problems arise, I like to ask the village idiot what he thinks should be done about it.
#nevent1q…ntg7

2026-06-29 22:27:40 CEST

@nprofile…xr40 knows what I'm talking about
https://blossom.primal.net/b9919c4a722cfea98aa48772b4869ebf5b8cac0db4e8d4337a1102febc040d45.png

2026-06-29 11:42:53 CEST

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Ha --we'll see

2026-06-29 09:06:12 CEST

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You joke but there's truth in that. Banks are coming after him IMO because STRC was a real threat.

2026-06-29 09:04:40 CEST

Remember when MSTR mooned, and Saylor was CIA?

2026-06-26 21:38:31 CEST

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at Chris_Liss

2026-06-26 19:35:28 CEST

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maybe it's that

2026-06-26 15:49:28 CEST

no one is still taking covid boosters, right?

2026-06-23 18:10:07 CEST

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deranged

2026-06-21 15:36:10 CEST

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Remember about 20 years ago during the real estate boom, was riding in the back seat of a car with an ex-girlfriend, her 70-YO dad was driving. He was talking about his new real estate gig (which made him a bunch of money), told us when he interviewed for the job, they asked him what his biggest accomplishments were, and he felt stupid, couldn't think of any except his two daughters. We broke up a year later (quality person, didn't work out for various reasons), but remembered hearing that, and now that I have a 14-YO daughter, I get it.

2026-06-21 12:26:28 CEST

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Good article.
Would just argue SpaceX is being valued on the VAST future potential, not present earnings, and future potential is relatively uncapped in this one case. The AI companies are pretty hard to justify given it's almost a commodity at this point. Of course the numbers would be very different if we had a market-based hurdle rate rather than the FED.
I also watched The Great Taking, and while it scared the shit out of me, I think it's not really saying anything we don't already know, namely that IF things break down badly, anything you don't physically (or mentally) hold will be a legal claim and nothing more. Think of the Palisades fires -- you can sue the insurance company for non-payment, but you no longer have a house, and you are reliant on third parties to enforce your contract .
And the only thing ensuring your claims have real value are incentives -- they won't default on your shares or bonds because that would be catastrophic for their own portfolios and those of their friends and families too. Mutually assured destruction is what keeps the system afloat. But once things get so out of whack that there's nothing to lose, the incentives break down, and the great taking occurs.
I think it definitely COULD get to that point, and when it does there probably won't be much warning, but in the meantime you have to live in the world as it is, pay the fiat bills, etc. because that time could be 5, 10 or 20 years away or happen never. Just make sure you have some insurance in the form of a bearer instrument rather than a claim.

2026-06-21 11:43:34 CEST

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You're talking about a real Christian, but most who purport to be are the guy on the left.

2026-06-20 21:05:08 CEST

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There are no socialists -- every one of them is stingy af when it comes to their own property. The ideology of socialism is just a framework that justifies their meddling. They are a bunch of meddlers. They are miserable and they want to spread it to everyone else.

2026-06-20 19:10:03 CEST

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That's not capitalism. That's the law of the jungle. Capitalism implies property rights. Without property rights, there is no capitalism.

2026-06-20 13:44:42 CEST

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How can private citizens "own" anything unless there are rules protecting private property? That's what it means to own something, that someone else is not allowed to take if from you with force, i.e., they can only convince you to part with it *voluntarily*. If I can steal your property, then there is no ownership. And it's not capitalism.
That's why capitalism does not mean "state of nature". It's the natural order of things only when certain conditions are in place. Laws are necessary.

2026-06-20 12:30:35 CEST

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Probably an element of this — certainly influenced me.

2026-06-20 12:27:58 CEST

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I agree, capitalism is not about moralizing, it's just a natural state of affairs when people are left to trade and exchange value. But theft and fraud are NOT part of capitalism because the exchange is not voluntary. Capitalism needs *some* top down intervention, e.g., a legal system that punishes crime, but so what? That doesn't mean we should be redistributing wealth indiscriminately.

2026-06-20 12:00:43 CEST

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Capitalism doesn't need to be tried, it's the default state of affairs when people are free to exchange goods and services voluntarily. Conflating that with what happens when people capture parts of the system and rent-seek is the sleight of hand. There will always be rent seeking and crony capitalism but it's a baby/bathwater situation. The alternative (indiscriminate forced wealth redistribution) is all bathwater.

2026-06-20 11:19:21 CEST

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Common sleight of hand is to conflate capitalism with crony capitalism.

2026-06-19 15:12:52 CEST

Excerpt from latest podcast. Link to full: https://www.chrisliss.com/p/preference-falsification
https://v.nostr.build/PPiykXesOe51q8ky.mp4

2026-06-18 16:32:23 CEST

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If you bought the credit, you traded fiat for a promise in fiat. If you sold the credit, you traded a promise to pay in fiat for bitcoin. How could the BTCTCs get margin called in that scenario? They seem to be at greater risk for a margin call in the event of dollar deflation.
#nevent1q…re8p

2026-06-18 12:57:10 CEST

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Primal, amethyst and Nostur

2026-06-18 12:54:31 CEST

What’s up with all the low-quality AI reply bots?

2026-06-18 09:50:18 CEST

Nicotine on demand is miserable. A cigar in the evening while walking your dog is pleasant and civilized.

2026-06-17 22:26:21 CEST

The communists will probably try to burn me at the stake eventually but think I’m gonna take up golf this fall. Got a friend who wants to do it, knows a cheap 9-hole course. Almost nothing I’d rather do than play a sport outside in the fresh air. Got into Padel 15 months ago and am playing 3x a week. Reminds me of when I used to play basketball all the time in my late 20s in LA almost 30 years ago.

2026-06-17 09:23:20 CEST

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Congrats!

2026-06-16 11:16:47 CEST

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Listen to the Arch Independent Podcast episode on Epstein. I actually now think Kash Patel, Bongino and Trump when he said it was a hoax were telling the truth. Not that Epstein didn't do a lot of what he was alleged to have done, but not at the behest of governments or intelligence agencies. When he was asked in August of 2024 whether he'd release the files Trump said he'd do it, but in a very non-committal way. Maybe afterward they claimed they'd do it as it surely reonsated with voters, but it wasn't a huge part of the campaign. And the warmongers seem pretty disappointed in the scope of the Iran conflict.
I just think "He's owned by Putin" "Israel controls him!" "He's being blackmailed with the pee pee tape!" is so tired at this point. We should just judge him on his performance like any other president. Let's see how the Iran fallout plays out. Better or worse than the status quo ante? Once we find out that's the basis for the evaluation.

2026-06-15 15:08:34 CEST

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if you are telling people they are statist for disagreeing, or scolding them for using Twitter, or for wanting to earn more fiat or buying an ETF or whatever, you are not a freedom maximalist. You are a fundamentalist. That was the point of the post.

2026-06-15 14:52:57 CEST

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And that was the point of the OP.

2026-06-15 14:26:54 CEST

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I’m saying you can’t be a freedom fundamentalist. Freedom is the freedom to be wrong.

2026-06-15 14:18:46 CEST

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Right, depends upon what the consequences are for dissent. If you call someone a racist who disagrees with you and by “racist” you mean anyone reading should excommuniucate that person from their lives including their employer, you are advocating for coercion. If by “ought” you mean in your opinion you think it would benefit them, but there should be no added consequence except foregoing those benefits, then yes.
I mean you can say or advocate for whatever you want, consequences or not, but my point is if you are a freedom fundamentalist, you’re really not for freedom.

2026-06-15 13:43:59 CEST

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You can say what others ought NOT to do if it interferes with you, but you can’t say what they ought to believe or do.

2026-06-15 13:42:42 CEST

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Think there can be substantive discussion about what level of top-down control is ideal for maintaining conditions of bottom-up prosperity (the only kind). I’m for the minimum amount necessary and think zero leads to communism as people overcorrect. But whether I am right or wrong is a matter of how aligned I am with reality not whether it puts me in the “good” or “bad” camp, according to the particular tribal edicts of Twitter or Nostr.

2026-06-15 13:07:04 CEST

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It’s not wrong, so long as you are not purporting to say what someone else ought to be doing.

2026-06-15 13:04:33 CEST

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Both are fake, empty tribal signaling.

2026-06-15 12:45:32 CEST

Found out the other day I have a screw loose.
Literally, dental implant started wobbling.

2026-06-15 12:12:01 CEST

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MSTR’s coins are still part of the network. They just have contracts with preferred shareholders to pay them in fiat later for fiat provided now. Investors in the common have contractual ownership over future balance sheet assets. Both are taking on counterparty risk of course but the network itself doesn’t care.

2026-06-15 11:38:48 CEST

People on Nostr calling you a statist is like people on woke Twitter calling you a racist. It’s meant as a way to disparage your character and dismiss you totally but no one cares anymore.

2026-06-15 11:36:10 CEST

I don’t care about Bitcoin. I just care about living a good life. It just so happens Bitcoin creates the right incentives and the opportunity to live as you’d like us under threat from bad ones. But don’t put the cart before the horse.

2026-06-15 11:32:24 CEST

Older I get, the more distaste I have for puritans, especially around the subject of freedom tech. How can you be a freedom fundamentalist? Contradiction in terms.

2026-06-15 11:30:01 CEST

Two contradictory thoughts about the spectacle on the White House lawn:
1. Bread and Circuses
2. You can unapologetically do things in America

2026-06-15 11:24:26 CEST

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Agree with the first part, but why would he be “compromised?” Just seems like that’s something the legacy media has repeated endlessly from Russiagate to the Epstein Files without basis. I mean I’m sure he’s looking out for his backers like all politicians but the “compromised” thing just seems facile to me.

2026-06-13 09:21:29 CEST

One reason a dog makes such a good friend to a person is you can both comfortably walk the same pace. Contrast with having say a pet snail -- would be too frustrating.

2026-06-09 19:20:25 CEST

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People are salty because they missed the trade the first time, happy to see the price get knocked down now. Most of the vitriol is just pettiness IMO.

2026-06-06 15:42:23 CEST

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Haven't eaten Portobellos since

2026-06-06 15:35:20 CEST

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Saw that, was wondering what it was about too

2026-06-05 10:06:01 CEST

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This is fucking retarded
#nevent1q…tfy6

2026-06-03 14:43:41 CEST

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think there's an element of that in all of them. but I do think Trump, for better or worse, has his own agenda.

2026-06-03 12:07:05 CEST

I've given up convincing brainwashed people that Trump is just a president to be evaluated on the merits like any other, that he'll do some good, some bad, that one should only believe what one can verify, etc. The TDS is so crazy now, there is no hope to get through.
So I'm stepping back and trying to convey the depth of the TDS to people who don't have it, so they understand the extent to which people have been brainwashed in this regard.
Again, it's not really about Trump per se -- he's just a politician, he's not your friend or family or anyone important in your life. But that people can be so thoroughly brainwashed about what's going on is dangerous. Voltaire's "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" is in play.
People, normal, regular, "upstanding" people believe absolutely insane shit, and I'm not talking about denying the moon landing (I'm 20 percent in that camp) or flat earth -- those beliefs are not a problem and actually good for the discourse. Question everything, trust nothing, etc. What's insane is people believe political edicts, believe other people are evil, it's like we're in the pre-enlightenment middle ages, and the church is telling them to burn the witches and who will wind up in heaven and hell.
I'm not sure if it was the mass formation psychosis during covid that traumatized people and pushed them over the edge, or whether it started earlier the race hustling of the Obama years, the election of Trump in the first place, the excommunications from polite society if you said the wrong thing on social media. It doesn't really matter when or why.
I'm just getting a bit uneasy with how many people's brains are truly broken beyond repair, the impossibility of ever getting through and the weaponization of this zombification. People worry about CBDCs or surveillance or whatever, but those things are all downstream of a compliant populace, and the easiest way to get people to comply is have them believe in an insane narrative that is impossible to puncture or challenge.
Maybe I need to stay off Twitter and stop talking to people about their worldviews as it relates to geopolitics, but then you wonder whether you wake up one day in a dystopia that people not only wanted but insisted was essential -- for the greater good.

2026-06-03 11:53:24 CEST

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per *se*

2026-06-03 11:33:45 CEST

Don't know why but have been shocked especially of late by the brainwashing. Was talking with someone with TDS, asked her what policies specifically are you against, she said putting people "in cages" "treating them like animals". I said you know Obama deported more than Trump. She said, yes but he deported bad people, Trump's deportations "are not vetted." I asked what basis she had for believing that, and she admitted there was none. So Obama deported more people than Trump, and forced deportation of someone who presumably doesn't want to be deported entails holding facilities (cages) and force. I asked why the emotional language (animals, cages) around Trump's admittedly lower deportation rates, she says, "Just because the other guy did it, doesn't make it right!" I said, yes, but you never once mentioned Obama's deportations, and when I asked you about policies, you mentioned Trump's and used emotional lanaguage (cages, animals). She said you can't really think the people around Trump are smart, that Hegseth, he's the worst!
I know it's comical in a way, but I'm feeling a little disturbed how deeply this runs. I don't care about Trump per say, but they have turned people into unthinking zombies.

2026-06-03 11:02:23 CEST

The extent to which you are convinced your beliefs are good, and opposing ones evil, that's exactly the extent to which your beliefs actually are evil.

2026-06-02 17:23:11 CEST

No matter how much I know about propaganda, no matter that we lived through covid and the vaccine sociopaths, I still find myself surprised to learn some people think they are *good* because of their political beliefs.
Don't get me wrong, I have beliefs too, and I might think yours are retarded. But I don't think I'm *good* and you're *bad* because we disagree about what's happening in the world.
That's the part that shocks me -- these fucking midwits think processing the information available to them in the correct way makes them *good*. Like if there were anything worth knowing they'd be telling it to you on TV, you subtard.

2026-06-02 17:16:24 CEST

Was on Twitter, giving me an outrage headache. Just can't take it anymore. Like eating too much candy and you start to feel sick. Nostr sucks too, but for a different reason. Like going for a run in the city or something. It's not good, but at least you don't regret it. Remember when Elon wanted to "maximize unregretted user minutes?" They are almost all regretted.

2026-05-29 20:15:35 CEST

You might want to turn on this Djokovic match -- insanely high level, now in the fifth set.

2026-05-29 19:28:11 CEST

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that's exactly what I was getting at -- all the EV is in the long tail that you'll never see.

2026-05-29 19:26:51 CEST

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hope I didn't jinx him
#nevent1q…e9q9

2026-05-29 17:14:20 CEST

Djokovic playing like the GOAT so far today. Amazing to watch.

2026-05-27 16:29:47 CEST

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Agree with this, natural wine, dry cider, good tequila/rum/scotch don't hit me too hard. If I drink cheap red wine (even a glass or two), wake up in a cold sweat. Been selective and moderate, haven't had a hangover in almost 3 years.

2026-05-27 16:06:42 CEST

Almost got hit by a car today. Was crossing the street in Lisbon, where they let both traffic and pedestrian lights stay red for like 5 seconds. IOW, instead of one light going red, and a second later the other one turns green, they BOTH linger red, presumably for extra safety. But because of that, and because I'm a native born New Yorker, when I see the traffic stopped at a red light, even though I too have a red light, I figure I can go, that it'll be another few seconds before the traffic starts. I timed it wrong, lights must have been red for 4.5 seconds already when I darted into the street, and I had to sprint to avoid the accelerating car.
But it goes to show that this kind of safetyism, which not only costs everyone God knows how much time in the aggregate, leads to its opposite. I suppose if everyone complies and waits around like an asshole for as long as it takes the light to turn green, it might work, but throw in some non-compliant NY Gen-X types, and it's the reverse of the intended effect.
I exaggerate a little that I almost got hit -- I moved so quickly the car didn't even have to slow down. I was prepared to be wrong when I took the chance. But I did have to book my ass off to avoid having the guy screech the brakes and honk at me.

2026-05-27 15:49:52 CEST

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real man vibecodes a portal to the fifth dimension, runs it on his raspberry pi
#nevent1q…gm3x

2026-05-27 15:48:24 CEST

Went through to delete old voicemails on my phone, like 50 of them over the lastt 6 months. Most of them were some kind of tax/banking/loan emergency or cash windfall I needed to follow up on asap. All of them sounded like real people at real companies/government entities.
Realized afterwards that if some ACTUAL govt entity or company needs to warn me about something, can't get through on voicemail, I'd never believe it. As AI gets better at these scams, it'll obsolete email and text for that purpose as well. Snail mail is the last remaining refuge for entities like the IRS, and eventually the scammers will probably figure out a way to kill that too.
IOW, the scammers will set us free via plausible deniability.

2026-05-26 18:50:51 CEST

Last night, while reading in bed, heard the faint buzz of a mosquito. Saw it on the wall few feet above. Tried to smash it with my book, but it got away, went up to the ceiling which is like 12 feet high in this old apartment. There was no way I could turn out the lights and go to bed with it there -- it would torment me all night. What could I do?
I saw my ragged old Sudoku book, maybe 80 pages, soft cover, 7 inches by five inches, removed the pen, flipped it up toward the mosquito. Just missed. It moved a couple feet away, still on the ceiling. Heather from the other room (it's now 1 am and for God knows what reason she's still working) yells after hearing the book slap the ceiling and wood floor loudly, saying it's waking up the old guy who lives upstairs. But she's not realizing what's at stake.
The mosquito is still there, not moving, I pick up the Sudoku book again, flip it harder in its direction. Boom! The outer sheets slap against it, killing it instantly, falls to the floor. Heather is pissed, comes in, "Now you've woken him up, hear him walking around." Tell her she's underestimating the epic and heroic thing I just achieved. She says she doesn't care. But I'm posting about it here because it was in fact fucking epic. I killed that fucker with a Sudoku with hail mary type of throw, and both of us slept undisturbed as a result.

2026-05-26 12:53:30 CEST

Lyn Alden's sci-fi book (reads like an action movie script) is pretty good. Wouldn't be surprised if someone optioned it for a series or movie.

2026-05-26 12:43:57 CEST

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Think I'm gonna be part of the control group == yet again!

2026-05-26 12:43:38 CEST

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I think I'm gonna be part of the control group == yet again!

2026-05-25 09:52:53 CEST

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If Ashley St. Clair says so, I'm taking this very seriously!
#nevent1q…a7wd

2026-05-25 09:50:58 CEST

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Dude is performing a useful experiment on his own dime even if his ideas are self-evidently retarded at times. You want to be protected from the thing under which all life evolved since time immemorial?
#nevent1q…ed84

2026-05-25 09:43:11 CEST

Leftists and libertarians wind up in the same place over time. Limited government is a harder thing to articulate than no government or total government, but doing so is the only way to propserity. Top down only to the minimum extent necessary for bottom up prosperity. A structure to contain the empty space.

2026-05-25 09:37:22 CEST

Nostr is still small, there's little engagement, you don't see all your notifications on every client, too many monomaniacal purists, libertarians, leftists, conspiracy theorists (of which I'm one), anons and retards. And yet it still has the energy of a "public square" to me. Twitter, I'm not sure what it's become. I post less and less there, not because I'm a purist or "it's fiat" or anything stupid like that. It's just feels dead, the energy is gone, there's no juice to it any more. I can't explain exactly what it is, there are still some good follows, interesting people, but the algo has killed the vitality somehow.

2026-05-24 23:20:40 CEST

Needed a good place to keep @nprofile…ggk7 for the summer when we travel. Heard about a couple that takes care of dogs in an area that's 15 degrees cooler by the coast, but they had to meet him first make sure he was a good fit. It was like a job interview of sorts.
So we show up there today, meet the couple, they give us a tour of the place, very nice overgrown plot with trees, shade and a cool stream. Oscar's doing great, sniffing around, meets their 15-YO dog that lives there full time, they sniff each other uneventfully, everything's fine, they're commenting on how handsome he is. Then he's walk under the patio table, crouches down, takes a shit.
Heather says sorry, reaches for the bags, they're like don't worry about it, kind of goes with the territory. Long story short, Oscar took a shit on the floor during his job interview, still landed the gig.

2026-05-20 19:39:19 CEST

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Too early to judge -- project is definitely not occupying Iran and running it, but probably more to do with global energy flows, China, etc. We'll see if it was a stupid idea or not.

2026-05-20 18:00:53 CEST

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We can be pretty sure the Iraq War was catastrophic, for example. We don't know the whole story, but we know the price tag, the amount of people killed and it's hard to find the benefits. With this operation, we really don't know, but we'll probably have an idea in time.

2026-05-20 17:17:48 CEST

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You are reading things into my post there were not there. And you assume you know via pattern recognition what's going on in this particular instance like it's a fact. It's not, you don't know, you might be right, or you might be wrong. And yet you are doubling down about my post after I just pointed out you ascribed to it three things that were not true. There is no misinformation -- that's a propaganda term. Good day to you too!

2026-05-20 16:58:19 CEST

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but I'm not MAGA, never said it was justified and never called Iranians or Venezuelans savages, so not only do you (like everyone else) not know what's going on, you're making things up.

2026-05-20 16:42:48 CEST

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How do you know? The legacy media (lead propagandists) are mostly shitting on the war, in stark contrast to wars past. That doesn't mean it'll work out, I have no idea. But neither do you. And neither do they.