The desire for "legacy" can be a really dangerous thing. It leads people to try to do things that aren't good ideas because they think those things represent progress, and they want to be remembered for the progress they created.
Writing the above was sort of an "aha" moment for me, because that explains exactly why so much retarded shit is being pushed through right now, since a lot of leaders are on the verge of death (and someone like Trudeau is just a true believer in the retardation being enabled by the old-ass retards surrounding him)
A true legacy is sort of boring -- it's acting with discipline and principle for a very long time rather than trying to throw out a bunch of revolutions in the last few years of your life. It's like being the "fun dad" vs. the disciplinarian dad who makes you do your homework every night. The former might think he's doing something special that'll make you remember him for doing some flash in the pan fun stuff, but the latter is building your life in ways that'll ripple positively over generations.
Writing the above was sort of an "aha" moment for me, because that explains exactly why so much retarded shit is being pushed through right now, since a lot of leaders are on the verge of death (and someone like Trudeau is just a true believer in the retardation being enabled by the old-ass retards surrounding him)
A true legacy is sort of boring -- it's acting with discipline and principle for a very long time rather than trying to throw out a bunch of revolutions in the last few years of your life. It's like being the "fun dad" vs. the disciplinarian dad who makes you do your homework every night. The former might think he's doing something special that'll make you remember him for doing some flash in the pan fun stuff, but the latter is building your life in ways that'll ripple positively over generations.
My dad recently said "I used to hate Mulroney, I thought he was an arrogant asshole and he was hurting Canada. Now I finally understand he was doing what the country needs to survive and we're living through what would have happened if he didn't do those things"
We've been a red family for generations, we're now outspoken blue (and when blue isn't blue enough, purple)
We've been a red family for generations, we're now outspoken blue (and when blue isn't blue enough, purple)
"The teevee told me I'm a good person if I support her so I support her because I'm a good person"
[Admin Mode]Away from home for 8 days, and 8 days 2 hours 10 minutes afterwards the power goes out. Had to update DNS records.
Saw shawty from behind and I exclaimed "gotterdammerung"
And realized I should probably stop reading German philosophers while listening to rap.
And realized I should probably stop reading German philosophers while listening to rap.
Stupid mongorians, don't they rearize they supposed to capture reader of their nuclear powered northern neighbor and the arry of their nuclear powered southern neighbor?
Herro mongorian!
Herro mongorian!
If there's one thing England is known for, it's how dry it is. "Land where the sun is never hidden and clouds are unknown" they call it.
I hate it when people misinterpret the double slit experiment.
Look, Quantum Physics is totally unintuitive and doesn't behave like the macro world, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have rules or that it's a magic spell. It means that it has its own set of rules separate from the macro world.
If you measure things in the macro world you change the measurement by measuring it too. For example, in order to measure a temperature, you have an RTD you run current through that adds heat or a bimetallic element that takes it away. Even something non-touch like infrared requires the object's measurement to change because giving off the infrared light takes energy. This isn't because an all-knowing universe server operator steps in to fiddle with energy levels, it's because the nature of the stuff at the macro level is such that you need to add or remove energy from a system to measure that system. Sometimes like using light to detect distance of a quite large object it's a trivial amount of energy, but start bouncing photons off of something still in the relatively macro realm that is nonetheless not at the quantum level, and you'll make a real mess.
When you get down to the unintuitive quantum level, the same applies. It isn't because some mystical being is looking down going "oh, looks like a human is watching, better stop surfing twitter", it's because the nature of the stuff at that size is such that you can know how fast something is or where it is but not both, and that's that. As well, sometimes light acts like a particle and sometimes it acts like a wave, and again that's not because the server operator steps in and changes things, it follows rules we can learn even if they are unintuitive.
Some of the earliest work on quantum physics ended up applying to cat's whisker crystal radios. They had to learn a whole new discipline to understand why the crystals behaved in a certain way, and that ended up leading to semiconductors and later microchips. Quantum physics applies in every bit of a modern CPU or GPU, even if nobody's looking at the screen.
When people start saying "Quantum Physics says" and then the craziest shit in the macro world you ever heard in your life, it's the same as the rich guy in the 50s who drank radium infused water because "energy is good, radiation is energy, so load up my water with radiation, doc!" -- it's quackery of a real thing that's used every day for real things.
Look, Quantum Physics is totally unintuitive and doesn't behave like the macro world, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have rules or that it's a magic spell. It means that it has its own set of rules separate from the macro world.
If you measure things in the macro world you change the measurement by measuring it too. For example, in order to measure a temperature, you have an RTD you run current through that adds heat or a bimetallic element that takes it away. Even something non-touch like infrared requires the object's measurement to change because giving off the infrared light takes energy. This isn't because an all-knowing universe server operator steps in to fiddle with energy levels, it's because the nature of the stuff at the macro level is such that you need to add or remove energy from a system to measure that system. Sometimes like using light to detect distance of a quite large object it's a trivial amount of energy, but start bouncing photons off of something still in the relatively macro realm that is nonetheless not at the quantum level, and you'll make a real mess.
When you get down to the unintuitive quantum level, the same applies. It isn't because some mystical being is looking down going "oh, looks like a human is watching, better stop surfing twitter", it's because the nature of the stuff at that size is such that you can know how fast something is or where it is but not both, and that's that. As well, sometimes light acts like a particle and sometimes it acts like a wave, and again that's not because the server operator steps in and changes things, it follows rules we can learn even if they are unintuitive.
Some of the earliest work on quantum physics ended up applying to cat's whisker crystal radios. They had to learn a whole new discipline to understand why the crystals behaved in a certain way, and that ended up leading to semiconductors and later microchips. Quantum physics applies in every bit of a modern CPU or GPU, even if nobody's looking at the screen.
When people start saying "Quantum Physics says" and then the craziest shit in the macro world you ever heard in your life, it's the same as the rich guy in the 50s who drank radium infused water because "energy is good, radiation is energy, so load up my water with radiation, doc!" -- it's quackery of a real thing that's used every day for real things.
That's why I plan (as a Canadian) to illegally immigrate in November to cast my vote for Donald Trump. Since the Dems love illegal immigrants voting so much.
Tbf, I was in my mid-20s at the time, and the teachers and principal kept telling me to leave the third grade classroom or they were going to have me charged with trespassing so buying a house would have been a better choice.
What kind of overtime pay do you think there is when you're stuck in a tin can in space for 8 months?
Last week, dozens of piracy sites went down that had shows that weren't on Crunchyroll. This week, those shows are on Crunchyroll.
I'm not making any arguments about why that happened, but it's strange af.
I'm not making any arguments about why that happened, but it's strange af.
There's some amazingly good stuff out there. Our cups runneth over.
The key with any sort of news or economic stuff boils down to one question: "Is this information good enough to help me run my life better?"
Overly optimistic news is obviously a problem because it might have you taking unnecessary risks because everything is fine. On the other hand, doomerism is just as bad because things aren't always all bad, and every cloud has a silver lining.
In the past I listened to a lot of APM or NPR, and I made decisions based on the news I got from them, and my predictions were often wildly wrong -- Predict one thing and the opposite would happen, pretty often. Much of the establishment media is like this -- if you listen to them, you'll be led astray because they report the official narrative, and it only shifts significantly after news has already started to happen and you can't do anything about it.
I often go back to my decision in 2020 to refinance my mortgage. (In Canada there's essentially no such thing as a 30 year fixed mortgage since banks take all the risk on such a thing and so while a 5 year fixed could be gotten at 1.9%, a 25 year was closer to 10%). 92% of people go with mortgages of 5 years or less, and they need to renew every 5 years or less at a new rate) -- the financial doomers I watched ended up helping me understand I should break my mortgage and refinance in 2020 for 10 years at a slightly higher rate because government policies at the time were almost custom-made to produce stagflation and thus Interest rates would inevitably rise. They did rise, and if I had taken no action I would be refinancing closer to 6% right about now as many people are.
In another case, I saw news stories about potential food shortages, and potential fuel shortages, and so I grabbed some gas cans with some stabilizer, a generator and some electric space heaters and filled the cans up with gas, and grabbed some staple foods that would last in storage for 20 years. It turns out there were food and fuel shortages shortly afterwards -- just not in my region. Europe got hit hard, and there were many stories of massive consequences to a lack of energy, and there have been revolutions in part over lack of food such as in Sri Lanka. I didn't end up needing the stuff I bought, but it was a measured response so I have fuel for years to come (I just use it in the lawnmower and snowblower), and occasionally we have some rice from one of the 80lb bags I've got tucked away. Not really the end of the world having food and fuel on-hand. It's important not to let total doomerism take over your psyche because even with good news sources you can get things wrong because you read the signs wrong.
The day Trump was shot, I had spent most of the day outside at the park with my son. And after I found out about Trump getting shot, I went back outside and we continued to play. What was actually important to me that day was the time I got to spend with him, not time I'd later spend looking into the details of a bit of political violence.
I used to host OpenStreetMap on fbxl (used the server for something else later), and I had an interesting moment I'll never forget. You start off looking at a world map. You see every piece of land on earth and go "This is what's here". As you slowly zoom in, the country lines show up, and you go "this is what's here". As you keep zooming in, you see provincial or state lines, and you go "this is what's here", and as you keep going you start to see cities, and then you see the streets in a certain city. Keep zooming in and you see the individual buildings, and that's where the map stops. But that's where the map stops but that isn't where complexity stops. Inside those buildings are many individual details -- what furniture there is and where, the relationships between the people there, other things strewn about. If someone has a handful of money, that's a tiny thing but it can be really important to the people inside. In the dirt in the back yard or even in the drain under the sink there can be entire microbiomes living, breeding, and dying and to the microorganisms living there, the drain under your sink is their entire world, it looks to them like the map of the world I started with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekt7VujAWNE
The world is infinitely complex, and it all matters, but we often ignore the small for the very big as if the very big is more important, but it isn't necessarily. As the western roman empire fell, that was a huge event, but most of the planet didn't care. There were tribes in the Americas that didn't realize the western roman empire ever existed. Asia mostly went unaffected. Australia didn't care. North Africa was affected, but Africa is a huge continent and most of it didn't care at all that something called Rome went away. Northern Europe lost its biggest customer for bog iron but otherwise wasn't directly impacted. For many of the people within the western Roman empire, life actually got a lot better. According to evidence from people's bones, the average person's health improved more than at any point in history when the western Roman empire fell. Despite that, many people think this empire falling was one of the worst things to happen in history.
Given that fact, it's probably important to pay a little bit to the outside world to make sure you're prepared for the future, but it's more important to make sure the world around you right now is good. I've always considered my relationship with my wife important, but I've really spent time cultivating it in the past 5 years and I'm happy I have because we're closer than ever. The time I spend with my son is surprisingly beneficial for my own mental health, but more importantly he's going to grow up and the decision to spend time with him is going to splay out in consequence that will pan out for generations -- the world around him will be different based on whether I spend quality time with him or not, and what specifically I decide that quality time looks like, not just in this moment potentially when he chooses who to marry, how he treats his kids, and how their kids decide to live their lives as well. Unlike many things where there isn't much evidence to support the idea that you can make a change, we know the overwhelming difference you can make in the life of your child, and the lives of people around you.
And in the same way the microbes under your sink could potentially get you sick and you can get your whole household sick and if you've got a kid in school they could send those germs to the school affecting a chunk of the school and thereby the city, I think part of the problems we're seeing today in the world are caused by people making the wrong decisions about their micro lives. At the end of the day politics matters but equally doesn't matter. It has effects on your personal life, but it isn't all that affects it or even the most potent thing -- you can't really talk about how your life is going based on who is president as much as what's actually going on in your life.
And that's where I think the media is dangerous but also can be beneficial. If you're able to take what you see and use it to make your micro life better, then it's useful, and if it only stresses you out over things you can't change or it misleads you into making poor decisions, then it's harmful.
The key with any sort of news or economic stuff boils down to one question: "Is this information good enough to help me run my life better?"
Overly optimistic news is obviously a problem because it might have you taking unnecessary risks because everything is fine. On the other hand, doomerism is just as bad because things aren't always all bad, and every cloud has a silver lining.
In the past I listened to a lot of APM or NPR, and I made decisions based on the news I got from them, and my predictions were often wildly wrong -- Predict one thing and the opposite would happen, pretty often. Much of the establishment media is like this -- if you listen to them, you'll be led astray because they report the official narrative, and it only shifts significantly after news has already started to happen and you can't do anything about it.
I often go back to my decision in 2020 to refinance my mortgage. (In Canada there's essentially no such thing as a 30 year fixed mortgage since banks take all the risk on such a thing and so while a 5 year fixed could be gotten at 1.9%, a 25 year was closer to 10%). 92% of people go with mortgages of 5 years or less, and they need to renew every 5 years or less at a new rate) -- the financial doomers I watched ended up helping me understand I should break my mortgage and refinance in 2020 for 10 years at a slightly higher rate because government policies at the time were almost custom-made to produce stagflation and thus Interest rates would inevitably rise. They did rise, and if I had taken no action I would be refinancing closer to 6% right about now as many people are.
In another case, I saw news stories about potential food shortages, and potential fuel shortages, and so I grabbed some gas cans with some stabilizer, a generator and some electric space heaters and filled the cans up with gas, and grabbed some staple foods that would last in storage for 20 years. It turns out there were food and fuel shortages shortly afterwards -- just not in my region. Europe got hit hard, and there were many stories of massive consequences to a lack of energy, and there have been revolutions in part over lack of food such as in Sri Lanka. I didn't end up needing the stuff I bought, but it was a measured response so I have fuel for years to come (I just use it in the lawnmower and snowblower), and occasionally we have some rice from one of the 80lb bags I've got tucked away. Not really the end of the world having food and fuel on-hand. It's important not to let total doomerism take over your psyche because even with good news sources you can get things wrong because you read the signs wrong.
The day Trump was shot, I had spent most of the day outside at the park with my son. And after I found out about Trump getting shot, I went back outside and we continued to play. What was actually important to me that day was the time I got to spend with him, not time I'd later spend looking into the details of a bit of political violence.
I used to host OpenStreetMap on fbxl (used the server for something else later), and I had an interesting moment I'll never forget. You start off looking at a world map. You see every piece of land on earth and go "This is what's here". As you slowly zoom in, the country lines show up, and you go "this is what's here". As you keep zooming in, you see provincial or state lines, and you go "this is what's here", and as you keep going you start to see cities, and then you see the streets in a certain city. Keep zooming in and you see the individual buildings, and that's where the map stops. But that's where the map stops but that isn't where complexity stops. Inside those buildings are many individual details -- what furniture there is and where, the relationships between the people there, other things strewn about. If someone has a handful of money, that's a tiny thing but it can be really important to the people inside. In the dirt in the back yard or even in the drain under the sink there can be entire microbiomes living, breeding, and dying and to the microorganisms living there, the drain under your sink is their entire world, it looks to them like the map of the world I started with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekt7VujAWNE
The world is infinitely complex, and it all matters, but we often ignore the small for the very big as if the very big is more important, but it isn't necessarily. As the western roman empire fell, that was a huge event, but most of the planet didn't care. There were tribes in the Americas that didn't realize the western roman empire ever existed. Asia mostly went unaffected. Australia didn't care. North Africa was affected, but Africa is a huge continent and most of it didn't care at all that something called Rome went away. Northern Europe lost its biggest customer for bog iron but otherwise wasn't directly impacted. For many of the people within the western Roman empire, life actually got a lot better. According to evidence from people's bones, the average person's health improved more than at any point in history when the western Roman empire fell. Despite that, many people think this empire falling was one of the worst things to happen in history.
Given that fact, it's probably important to pay a little bit to the outside world to make sure you're prepared for the future, but it's more important to make sure the world around you right now is good. I've always considered my relationship with my wife important, but I've really spent time cultivating it in the past 5 years and I'm happy I have because we're closer than ever. The time I spend with my son is surprisingly beneficial for my own mental health, but more importantly he's going to grow up and the decision to spend time with him is going to splay out in consequence that will pan out for generations -- the world around him will be different based on whether I spend quality time with him or not, and what specifically I decide that quality time looks like, not just in this moment potentially when he chooses who to marry, how he treats his kids, and how their kids decide to live their lives as well. Unlike many things where there isn't much evidence to support the idea that you can make a change, we know the overwhelming difference you can make in the life of your child, and the lives of people around you.
And in the same way the microbes under your sink could potentially get you sick and you can get your whole household sick and if you've got a kid in school they could send those germs to the school affecting a chunk of the school and thereby the city, I think part of the problems we're seeing today in the world are caused by people making the wrong decisions about their micro lives. At the end of the day politics matters but equally doesn't matter. It has effects on your personal life, but it isn't all that affects it or even the most potent thing -- you can't really talk about how your life is going based on who is president as much as what's actually going on in your life.
And that's where I think the media is dangerous but also can be beneficial. If you're able to take what you see and use it to make your micro life better, then it's useful, and if it only stresses you out over things you can't change or it misleads you into making poor decisions, then it's harmful.