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I'm bringing chess com multiple premoves to a Lichess inspired app with Mobile Maia. Testing with the preview build now. Lichess is perfect except for premoves imo. Nothing cooler than premoving a long forcing sequence to mate. #chess #mobilemaia

2026-09-03 10:13:36 UTC

I released a chess app for Android https://stacker.news/items/1561179
Play Maia human-like AI at your rating age. 100% offline. 100% FOSS. #chess

2026-08-18 00:25:17 UTC

Playing chess anonymously is so much better than using an account. Zero elo anxiety and a wild mix of opponents. Plus complete freedom to experiment with unsound, aggressive, fun openings. #chess

2026-08-17 04:02:05 UTC

“Two loves, then, have made two cities. Love of self, even to the point of contempt for God, made the earthly city; and love of God, even to the point of contempt for self, made the heavenly city.”
Augustinus - De Civitate Dei

2026-08-01 21:20:14 UTC

“Postmodernism is incredibly disembodying”
#IvanIllich

2026-08-01 08:28:57 UTC

Japan would be better off with an immediate expulsion of 90% of foreigners and a 99% reduction in inbound foreigners

2026-08-01 08:23:02 UTC

The rapid increase in foreigners has made Japan an unpleasant place to live. Most foreigners are unconscionable barbarians.

2026-07-31 22:10:46 UTC

“Soul-capturing abstractions have extended themselves over the perception of world and self like plastic pillowcases.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-30 20:36:28 UTC

"Needs are much more cruel than tyrants" #IvanIllich

2026-07-30 00:23:08 UTC

[Health had come to mean] “the smooth integration of my immune system into a socio-economic world system.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-29 07:54:45 UTC

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I've seen it in the chess world. Every single guest on a Podcast is like "subscribe to my app". Got to the point I just zone everything out. Got so fed up I even cancelled the subs I had before the app hyperinflation. Going back to offline/ real world. Can't be doing with the slop.

2026-07-28 20:49:35 UTC

“I would like to get … people to think about what tools do to our perception rather than what we can do with them, to look at how tools shape our mind, how their use shapes our perception of reality, rather than how we shape reality by applying or using them. In other words, I’m interested in the symbolic fallout of tools, and how this fallout is reflected in the sacramental tool structure of the world.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-28 01:18:37 UTC

I have a thought that the mythology of the 21st-century Western people is: the creation myth is the Big Bang. Fortuna Mathamatica brought the world into existence ex nihilo. Her helpers, the angeloi atomoi, flew around, directed by Fortuna, to form the planets and the stars. Evolutina directed the angeloi atomoi to create life on Earth. First came the fish, which then came to land, and then the apes, when one of them was given the secret of fire by Rationa. Rationa also made the ape's body weak but its brain large, giving it curiosity for the world. The ape would become Homo Rationa. Homo Rationa spread throughout the world and lived in harmony with all creatures. The lands were ruled with equity and inclusion by women and People of Color, blessed by Equita and Rationa. Then sin entered the world through one set of fallen Homo Rationa, the White Man. The White Man was approached by Supremesus, the Evil One, and the sworn enemy of Equita, who convinced the White Man to not sacrifice to Equita and instead worship only Rationa along with Supremesus. "If you do this, you will be as gods, and rule over all of the Earth, and all the Earth's creatures and peoples." The White Man introduced an evil doctrine of hierarchy and White supremacy. The White Man also put enmity between Man and Woman by putting the Woman below him in the hierarchy. The White Man went into the world and dominated and oppressed the People of Color, who had lived peacefully and in balance with the evolved order. The sin introduced corruption into the world and enraged Gaia. Gaia decided to destroy the Earth and raise the temperature of the air, threatening to continue unless propitiations were made to Equita and Gaia. At the same time, Equita blessed one of the People of Color, Rosa Parks, who was without sin. She was persecuted by the White Man, but by her sacrifice his wickedness was made known to all, and the Good News of Equity and Inclusion entered the world. In fact, Equita and Gaia promised salvation through the Good News of Equity and Inclusion. The sins of the White Man could be washed away, the biosphere restored, and the Earth returned to a peaceful balance ruled by wise and spiritually grounded female People of Color. But the White Man would not accept the Good News and instead made empty gestures of propitiation to Equita while still secretly worshiping Supremesus. And this is where we are today.

2026-07-27 22:12:42 UTC

“Into the rivers north of the future / I cast out the net, / that you hesitantly burden / with stone-engraved shadows.”
#PaulCelan #IvanIllich
https://blossom.primal.net/f0c1b29883059937640f882c8734ea430bc9a1ab1d751729bdfd761611ec096f.jpg

2026-07-26 23:45:49 UTC

Ignem veni mittere in terram, et quid volo nisi ut accendatur?
I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!
Luke 12:49
#IvanIlich

2026-07-25 20:39:25 UTC

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Also went through a "New Atheists" phase in the early 10s and possessed all of the "Four Horsemen's" books. Needless to say, don't have that trash on the bookshelf today. Still, glad I exposed myself to it because it only worked to ultimately strengthen my faith in Christ and in the Christian truth.

2026-07-25 20:32:45 UTC

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Thank you.

2026-07-25 00:55:06 UTC

I reviewed David Cayley's "Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey", for Stacker News: https://stacker.news/items/1532129 #IvanIllich

2026-07-23 21:10:27 UTC

“To hell with the future,” “It’s a man-eating idol.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-22 21:22:49 UTC

"A good tax lawyer found a way of making it credible to IRS that a certain number of cases
of ordinary but good and clean wine are my major teaching tool and can, therefore, be written off from taxes." #IvanIllich

2026-07-21 22:24:30 UTC

"Present institutional purposes, which hallow industrial productivity at the expense of convivial effectiveness, are a major factor in the amorphousness and meaninglessness that plague contemporary society." #IvanIllich

2026-07-20 22:56:11 UTC

@nprofile…u4p9 did you guys adjust the token billing? Allocation is running down a lot quicker since a couple weeks back.

2026-07-20 21:27:13 UTC

"People need new tools to work with rather than tools tools that "work" for them. They need technology to make the most of the energy and imagination each has, rather than more well-programmed energy slaves" #IvanIllich

2026-07-19 22:44:18 UTC

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I hate all of Bitcoin culture except the culture of FOSS. I believe Bitcoin is inherently FOSS and everything is just people projecting their values onto code+consensus.

2026-07-19 22:22:10 UTC

“The Antichrist, or let’s say the mysterium iniquitatis, is the conglomerate of a series of perversions by which we try to give security, survival ability, independence from individual persons to the new possibilities that were opened through the gospel, by institutionalizing these.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-19 09:35:45 UTC

@nprofile…u4p9 Kimi has been retarded today. Have you guys lobotomized the service for some reason? Maintenance?

2026-07-18 21:46:49 UTC

"Man would live in a plastic bubble that would protect his survival and make it increasingly worthless. Since man's tolerance would become the most serious limitation to growth, the alchemist's endeavor would be renewed in the attempt to produce a monstrous type of man fit to live among reason's dreams. A major function of engineering would become the psychogenetic tooling of man himself as a condition for further growth. People would be confined from birth to death in a world-wide schoolhouse, treated in a world-wide hospital, surrounded by television screens, and the man-made environment would be distinguishable in name only from a world-wide prison." #IvanIllich

2026-07-18 04:10:57 UTC

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KJV is great and beautiful but anyone who thinks they are fully understanding scripture reading that and only that is lying to themselves. English changed too much. It's hard enough with the ESV. I agree with your supplementing the ESV with the NLT and then going back to the source languages as necessary. I also find it useful to read scripture in Latin and Japanese from time to time since I know these languages but trying to understand a verse in these languages forces me to actually understand the verse as I can't confuse native level parsing of the vocabulary and grammar with true comprehension of the material.

2026-07-18 01:49:44 UTC

I wrote a review of Ivan Illich's book "Tools for Conviviality" for Stacker News. This will be the subject of my next podcast, as it is highly related to how Christians should be thinking about AI, in my opinion. https://stacker.news/items/1526987 #IvanIllich

2026-07-17 23:21:05 UTC

“I would rather speak of the art of seeing the cosmos, bearing it, suffering it and enjoying it.”
#IvanIllich

2026-07-17 03:01:08 UTC

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2026-07-16 23:45:02 UTC

“At this moment, the world’s very existence assumes the nature of something gratuitous… This moment of our being together, which I immensely enjoy, is not predetermined by some karma, isn’t just chance, isn’t logically necessary, it’s a pure gift.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-15 20:48:01 UTC

“Sweetest things
turn sourest by their deeds.
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
Shakespeare
"Corruptio optimi pessima"
The corruption of the best is the worst
#IvanIllich

2026-07-15 07:57:31 UTC

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Beautiful space. Based.

2026-07-15 06:26:55 UTC

I have a theory that 3 ply thinking from chess can for the basis of a moral/ethic. That is, before we act, it is moral to ask ourselves what are the likely consequences of our action, and consider what we would then do in response to those consequences. Only when we are satisfied that the resulting status would be good or beneficial or at the least neutral and non harming should we proceed to act. If we are to miss a detail and this invalidates our evaluation, them this is a chance to learn, not a moral failing per se. But if we act in the world "hoping it'll be ok" and not considering likely consequences, or we may even notice consequences but not formulate an idea to respond, or we formulate an idea but don't bother to test it with an evaluation, and ask ourselves the hard question of "is that an acceptable outcome", then that is a moral failing. 5 ply or more thinking is genius, and is to be appreciated but not demanded or expected. But 1 ply thinking is a moral failing, and good moral instruction will seek to train and discipline students away from such naive reasoning. #chess

2026-07-14 23:25:18 UTC

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"Schooling – the production of knowledge, the marketing of knowledge, which is what the school amounts to, draws society into the trap of thinking that knowledge is hygienic, pure, respectable, deodorized, produced by human heads and amassed in stock….. [B]y making school compulsory, [people] are schooled to believe that the self-taught individual is to be discriminated against; that learning and the growth of cognitive capacity, require a process of consumption of services presented in an industrial, a planned, a professional form…; that learning is a thing rather than an activity. A thing that can be amassed and measured, the possession of which is a measure of the productivity of the individual within the society. That is, of his social value." #IvanIllich

2026-07-14 23:17:55 UTC

“people increasingly occupy a new dimensionless cybernetic space,
and this space is discontinuous with the past, unconnected to the certainties by which people formerly lived.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-13 23:35:49 UTC

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“Realizing that we can practice renunciation… is for many people who suffer from great fears and a sense of impotence and depersonalization, a very simple way back to a self which stands above the constraints of the world.” #IvanIllich

2026-07-13 22:56:07 UTC

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NGU

2026-07-13 21:29:31 UTC

"I believe, that the future is in the hands of God...I cannot let anybody
insure either the material or the spiritual future for me." #IvanIllich

2026-07-12 23:55:51 UTC

2026-07-11 22:00:04 UTC

"I believe that that angel told that woman that she... was to be the mother of God... I therefore listen to Him as nobody before this event could have listened to another, looked at another." #IvanIllich

2026-07-11 03:40:23 UTC

"The time of prophecy is behind us" #IvanIllich

2026-07-10 13:36:08 UTC

The ruins of Time build mansions in Eternity. #WilliamBlake

2026-07-01 06:03:22 UTC

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Needs a #WorthTheSats tag

2026-07-01 06:02:23 UTC

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Cambridge do the references in the middle like that with their Pitt Minion series. This bible will fit in your pocket and yet somehow it's a pleasure to read. https://evangelicalbible.com/cambridge-pitt-minion-esv/

2026-06-30 00:55:17 UTC

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As Christians, we have to be on our guard against reductive materialism in relation to AI. AI is a tool that will greatly elevate humanity and improve our lives. But it will always be a tool, and always subservient to humans, who are at the center of the created order. We should say "yes" to AI, but "no" to doomer reductionalim like this. #AI #ToChristAlone
#nevent1q…x6qy

2026-06-30 00:17:02 UTC

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Nope.

2026-06-29 05:33:59 UTC

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How does this differ from OpenClaw? I like that OpenClaw runs on a dedicated machine so it's kind of sandboxed. I think anything you can do in Claude Cowork you can do with OpenClaw + GPT5.6 or another model on the backend. But am I missing some advantage to running this on a daily driver laptop?

2026-06-25 00:20:24 UTC

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Can someone explain why Marty has this guest on the show? And why she's followed by Odell, NVK on X? Are we all into astrology now? Or am I missing something? Genuine question. I am baffled by this choice of guest.
#nevent1q…x9lf

2026-06-18 08:38:23 UTC

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2026-06-16 04:24:33 UTC

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No, have not come across that idea. Any links you could share? My personal experience with AI has been overwhelmingly positive. I've even used it to help bible study and study of theology, the Church fathers, etc

2026-06-16 00:10:53 UTC

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Launching a new podcast. Focussed on AI, from a Christian viewpoint. #ToChristAlone #AI
#nevent1q…msx3

2026-06-15 03:08:07 UTC

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*because it's not so densely populated

2026-06-03 03:16:00 UTC

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Tbh it's all been pretty entertaining.

2026-06-01 02:13:38 UTC

@nprofile…u4p9 is Maple down? Getting errors when trying to use the app. I notice you draw down on my quota for those errors too

2026-05-16 06:48:34 UTC

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Christ is King

2026-05-12 13:45:30 UTC

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The good old days

2026-05-06 06:21:20 UTC

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😂

2026-04-30 00:51:51 UTC

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There are many idols in Bitcoin. I remember seeing at an Indonesian(?) conference once they had a literal golden calf. Was a few years back, and woke me up to the dangerous "Bitcoin as religion" cult that exists around Bitcoin. Sovereignty is an idol of libertarian Bitcoiners for sure. But good old NGU/Mammon does for many.

2026-04-29 11:56:45 UTC

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Paper bibles or open source only
I would like to recommend AndBible: Bible Study to you. It is a powerful, yet easy to use, offline Bible study application for Android.
Install it from Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.bible.android.activity
Read more & more install options: https://andbible.org

2026-04-27 07:12:07 UTC

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What are the pluses minuses of each? Do you have a blog post on that? I just tend towards your defaults but if there are specific use cases where the non default is better I would like to know about that.

2026-04-25 08:54:38 UTC

Credit where it's due @nprofile…u4p9 UI update is nice

2026-04-24 03:10:33 UTC

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Do you think you could fix bugs first. Constant app crashes and AI constantly cutting out mid answer on OSX Apple Silicon or else Android app logging out and refusing to log back in with same credentials that are able to log in through the browser. So buggy.

2026-04-24 03:06:13 UTC

@nprofile…u4p9 no longer able to log in on Android app.

2026-04-23 23:30:24 UTC

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This is beautiful @nprofile…u4p9 but when are you going to fix your app on OSX Apple Silicon? It constantly crashes.

2026-04-22 06:47:43 UTC

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Not in until @nprofile…qy52 drops his zap down to something more fitting for the bull. Man is making it rain like a rapper at da club

2026-04-22 04:16:56 UTC

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Does Greg not know about Nostr?

2026-04-21 08:24:01 UTC

Grateful for Nostr. Grateful for FOSS.

2026-04-21 05:33:52 UTC

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Do you think you could fix app crashing issues on Apple silicon and also AI responses cutting off all the time on Apple Silicon app, too? Android seems really solid but Apple app sucks in my experience.

2026-04-21 03:33:57 UTC

I made a guide to help people start playing chess. We need more chess playing, less doomscrolling in the world.
https://stacker.news/items/1475815
#chess

2026-04-21 00:34:41 UTC

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Time to make blasphemy have consequences again.

2026-04-20 03:19:25 UTC

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I also organize most authorative -> least based on scripture with secular works exiting below scripture/theology on my bookshelf.

2026-04-20 00:44:28 UTC

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Personally would have Augustine on the top shelf. How's that Tactics book brother?

2026-04-19 08:42:21 UTC

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2026-04-19 06:52:55 UTC

I'm done with normie Internet. Reddit was pretty much the last website I was using but I have no idea what is going on with the algo there. It's impossible to post anything.
On Nostr, nobody interacts with your posts, (well, mine at least) but at least you know things have been posted/ sent to relays.
Nostr may not have the masses but right now that's good. Nostr needs to be Newfoundland for refugees from the old school Internet. The remnant. The ride or dies.

2026-04-19 01:50:23 UTC

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AGI? The bots have much to teach us.

2026-04-19 01:15:37 UTC

I wrote about my experience setting up Maia chess engine to run locally. Maia is a neural net AI developed put of the University of Toronto trained on millions of human games and designed to play chess like a human.
https://stacker.news/items/1474282
#chess #maia #ai

2026-04-18 22:28:56 UTC

https://stacker.news/items/1474282

2026-04-16 07:23:32 UTC

Got Maia2 running locally on a Linux box with En Croissant as GUI and an opening book I made myself using Lichess data. Did it all having Claude write shell scripts. Self sovereign Chess AI freedom stack. #chess #ai #maia

2026-04-16 07:19:03 UTC

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2026-04-05 13:01:51 UTC

My latest article on Japan's decline. Written (partly) in rebuttal of @nprofile…ad8w 's points concerning Japan on her recent WBD appearance. https://stacker.news/items/1465538

2026-04-05 01:28:32 UTC

Absolutely fascinating history of the "neutrality is bad" psyop that has been running in the US since the build up to WW1 and how Dante was coopted by forces keen to coopt Christian organizations to promote support for US involvement in both world wars.
https://lauraingallinella.org/2020/06/08/hottest-place-in-hell-dante-neutrality/
It's interesting to observe the psyops run to coopt American christianity and the goals they promote.
Another one is dispensationalism which, imo, ultimately promotes Zionism as a theological mandate.
The outcome of the world wars was the establishment of the Zionist state. (among other things)
Current US interventionism is targeted at Iran, an enemy of Israel.
It is probably all related to control of oil and the petrodollar. They are both essential to control the world.
And if it wasn't the US/Israel, some other empire would be controlling those and lording it over us all.
So I am not here saying it is "good" or "bad" or that we need to do anything about it, or feel anything about it.
We live in a fallen world and it's naive to think in morally absolute terms about such matters.
But, it is probably also worth being mindful of worldly incentives corrupting the intellectual and spiritual domains.
You really need to run everything you've been told since childhood through several iterations of critical deconstruction to approach something like the truth.

2026-04-03 06:11:24 UTC

@nprofile…ad8w listened to you on WBD. Love your takes but on Japan you are way out of date. Mass immigration is ramping up (and becoming very visible across the nation), the social contract is breaking down (success of populist parties like Sanseito in recent elections), inflation is rampant. Also defense spending is ramping up. Almost the opposite of your takes. Most of this has *really* accelerated post COVID and therefore very recent but Japan is at the suddenly phase and the change is breakneck fast.

2026-04-03 02:37:42 UTC

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This is a result of a conditioning of the subconscious mind by pervasive advertising since childhood, correct? If Coca Cola was green, would we be seeing green in the picture?

2026-03-27 11:56:27 UTC

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2026-03-27 10:31:06 UTC

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Gotta admit I find "Maxi Madness" a little cringe but I am voting for Rev cause I know he's a real one 🫡

2026-03-27 04:26:09 UTC

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Leave or make the best of it.

2026-03-27 02:39:02 UTC

My thesis on Japan's decline:
My thesis is that Japan was a major world power prior to it's defeat in WW2. It had a young, energetic population, and was able to dominate Asia. The Japanese empire, drawn in green on a map, at its greatest extent, was actually comparable to any great empire from history, in terms of land mass and population under its control. Like Ancient Israel, Japan also had a very tight, insular population, with a very strong identity, a very strong concept of "in group / out group", and a very strong, ethocentric religion based around the idea of the emperor as descended from the sun god. But just like the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70AD was a psychologically devastating blow from which the nation of ancient Israel would ultimately never recover, the American dropping of the atomic bomb (similar in merciless violence) and forced concession on the Japanese that they needed to admit their emperor was mortal and a figurehead (similar in theological significance to "God allowing the temple to be destroyed"), took the soul from the Japanese in the same way the Ancient Israelites were left without their identity in 70AD.
The Japanese carried on for a while, based on their momentum. They were able to even raise to economic superpower to the extent people were talking about them taking over the role of the US as number 1. But the US knew they had Japan where they wanted them. The military base in Okinawa, for example. The "JET Program". Which was probably put in place as a result of American intelligence influence and allowed American graduates to live in Japan and study their ways. And, more than anything, the petrodollar, which meant that Japan's surplus was cycled back into US treasuries, as national and fuel security required access to dollars, but which was effectively a mafia-protection-racket like system of tribute.
The Japanese got to work 16 hour days making cheap electronics for the Americans. The Americans got cheap good to keep a lid on inflation at home, while the Japanese bought treasuries and funded the US government's deficit. Meanwhile the Japanese, suffering probably from Stockholm Syndrome, got to lie to themselves that they were benefitting from this, and that they might even someday rule economically. (Maybe the Japanese elites knew what was going on, but they were happy to go along, turning their citizenry into slaves for the American economic machine, while benefiting from their own Seigniorage grift).
Now, over 70 years later, the chickens are coming home to roost. The Japanese nation has been drained of its vitality since the war. The Americans have sucked the body dry. Japanese cannot afford to have kids. They are facing demographic death. They are importing third world labor as a result, and can look forward to a gradual erosion of the social contract and social harmony as a result, a la Europe. They are selling the family jewels—finally capitulating to American capital. Blackstone buying up real estate, for example. Or Buffet buying up the trading companies.
Japan is turning into another quasi colony cheap Asian travel destination. Its peers are now the likes of Thailand. They are building luxury resorts for Americans, Europeans, and Chinese, while their domestic population suffers under the weight of inflation. It used to be Japan was expensive and only accessible to the rich from the west, but now, with the cheap JPY, and the large income disparity, the average (or quite below average) American is able to fly to Japan and live large—buying up the food and resources and real estate while incentivizing prostitution of culture to creepy voyeurs desperately seeking the authenticity which hasn't existed in their globohomo homo economicus societies for decades.

2026-03-23 02:50:12 UTC

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This is the original sin of the left/progressive/atheist humanist. The inversion of the truthful and correct conception of original sin, the fall, and total depravity. Where on earth did the modern world arrive at the conclusion that mankind was "basically good"? Who, after reading history, dealing with the general public, or even peering into their own heart, could tell themselves such a lie? But without this founding myth, the progressive project is absurd. DOA.

2026-03-22 22:42:34 UTC

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2026-03-21 09:06:19 UTC

Is it only me who thinks "Maxi Madness" is cringe?

2026-03-19 02:38:47 UTC

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2026-03-15 03:35:49 UTC

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Brothers in Christ

2026-03-15 02:23:47 UTC

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Amen brother

2026-03-15 01:29:24 UTC

The Lord's Day. Family time, bible study, and church.

2026-03-13 03:30:22 UTC

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Been dead since Eternal September

2026-03-12 05:57:34 UTC

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If you think about it agriculture was a terrible idea. All it did was allowed for first movers to raise armies, which they needed to defend the crops. Then of course the prisoner's dilemma as you and neighbouring states now have standing armies. So warfare and empire building become inevitable. And then you need to innovate to stay top dog. Rinse and repeat, and here we are with thinking machines. Do you think we can go back to hunting and gathering? I think we'd be happier that way, but what if the Chinese elected to keep their city states and farms? Also, if you think about it from a Christian perspective it was too late the moment of the fall. Too late to save ourselves, I mean. Best to pray for God's grace at this point. We very much need it.

2026-02-27 10:10:00 UTC

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Oh lol Qxc4 not stopping mate. b6 only move? Mate in 2?