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    Today, 12:45 AM
    The fact that this stuff even needs to be explained just goes to show how far we've fallen. Making childbirth into a clinical affair was the first stage. Next, the act of intercourse itself was made clinical (condoms, barriers, etc.) COVID turned out not to be nearly as deadly as it seems the depop types had hoped, but it was still great for practicing "social distancing" and for covering up the doorway to sexual intimacy: the human face. The final stage will be the full castration of humanity, as a species, and we are on the verge of this with AI/robotics poised to absorb most, if not all, human sexual energy, thus sterilizing the entire species. That may sound like hyperbole, but if I had told you in 2017 that, in 5 years, there would be a fully conversant AI, nearly indistinguishable from a human and much smarter and more fluent than the average human on most topics, would you have thought that was hyperbole? Of course you would have, unless you're one of those people who believes every "secret government technology" rumor. Right now, they're working like mad on artificial womb technology. This isn't just "scientific curiosity" or "economics-driven technological innovation". What is the great economic problem being solved here?! Obviously, there is none. Contrary to popular perception, sex isn't just a dopamine hit, and it's not really about "getting off". Intercourse is a fundamentally spiritual act, in fact, it is one of the deepest and most important spiritual acts of all. That's why it's so important to get it right, and that's why strategic-objective #1 is to fight the coming attempted castration of our species. They want a human-free future. And if we stop making love, they'll get what they want. Note that I said "stop making love", not "stop making children". We can keep making children, yet become un-human. The real purpose of the coming physical castration, is spiritual castration, that is, the removal of our soul from within us, that inner mystery that is what makes us human. That is the thing they're ultimately seeking to eliminate. They want to make you -- the living you -- into an automaton, a machine, and they want to deny that you are conscious at all, and I can back those claims up from their own writings. They want to make you into a piece of furniture, while you yet live.
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    Today, 12:10 AM
    Pretty much, yes, that's the idea. As a result of many complex social dynamics, the collective intelligence of humans in a large, unorganized group tends to be well below the population average. The population average isn't even very good. So, the intelligence of a large, unorganized group of people (such as the electorate) is horrible. Economists have partially explained why this happens in rational ignorance theory. There is such a thing as rational stupidity. If it doesn't matter to me to invest effort thinking something through, why will I bother? And if my choice (vote) doesn't make a difference in the ultimate outcome, then why would it matter to me to invest effort into it? The root problem is that the majority-vote mechanism for decision-making doesn't scale. For this reason, if I were in an "emperor pro tempore" position, I would basically "hold hostage" the issues that the everyman cares about (e.g. sports regulations and nonsense like that) in exchange for action on actually important issues, such as the Fed, strangulating regulations and taxation, uparmoring of police (that is, reversing it), and many more. "One for you, one for me." You give me one of my issues that are actually important, I will give you one of your issues that you care about. In this way, the populace would become motivated to actually fix the country. "He fixed the baseball pitch rules!" Who gives a damn about baseball pitches. But if I could use that (or something equivalently trivial, but which the everyman is deeply passionate about) as a bargaining chip to force Congress to start the process of shutting down the Fed, that's precisely what I would do. "You want fentanyl off the streets. OK, but first, give me my #1 action-item."
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    Yesterday, 10:08 PM
    Not exactly role-models, but points for creativity... :tears:
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    Yesterday, 09:57 PM
    Apologies. The counter-point is that these issues are actually quite complex and subtle, and the "conventional wisdom" on both left and right tends to be so wrong that it's just beyond belief. If you'd like to understand where I'm coming from, overall, I highly recommend Thomas Sowell's excellent and highly readable book, Basic Economics. I read that book in 2007 and it turned my world upside down. Note that I was a highly conservative Republican at that time, both culturally and economically. I had no idea how messed-up my economic beliefs were until I read BE. And, as a conservative, I was an economics genius compared to any typical moderate or left-leaning American. It's a problem so enormous that sometimes I despair of how it will ever be corrected. Milei-level of drastic is a bare-minimum. I think even more drastic measures would be required in the US because the stakes are so much higher. I don't even think about it very much because it's just too much to bear... I think we should not double-down on failed policies, and the War on Drugs is a proven failed policy. That doesn't mean I'm pro-legalization, I'm just anti-NEW-measures-which-are-proven-failures. We don't need to empower cops any more than they already are. And what else are you going to do to "get fentanyl off the streets" besides empowering our already tyrannical, redcoat police-forces?! What we need to do is wake up, as a nation, and start addressing the hard problems, in order of hardness. So yes, that means we need to confront the hardest problems first. And first among those is ending the Fed. That doesn't mean we need to complete the project of ending the Fed before addressing fentanyl. If I were "emperor pro-tempore" of America, this is the deal I would strike: if my fellow Americans are so eager to get fentanyl off the street, first pass a resolution that the Fed is going to be ended and set up a committee to research how that will be done, and then move on to fentanyl. And I would apply that same bargain for every issue that suburbanites care deeply about, because suburbanites automatically care about the wrong things. That's no fault of their own, because there is no good reason why they should care about the right things, that is, the incentives are all wrong. My point still stands: the government itself is the problem, not the solution. Adding more of the poison won't cure the problem created by the old poison.
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    Yesterday, 08:41 PM
    If you're right, then the main battlefield is spiritual/religious. Which if you take a look over my post history in the last several years, is what I've been constantly harping on. This is not just politics anymore. It's spiritual. We need a renaissance of biblically-based Christianity in this country, because that's what it was built on. We've since gotten distracted with Yoga and Wicca and every new-fangled thing to come down the pike. Sure, the other religious perspectives are free to exist, but they are objectively inferior in terms of not only moral teachings but, even more importantly, their theological view of God, humans and society. A nation of people living in religious delusion is guaranteed to be unfit for a republic based on individual accountability and self-determination. OK and "First do no harm". The VERY first step is to stop causing new/fresh injuries. If someone is in a severe roadside collision and they are injured and in need of EMT, the first step is to let go of their ankle and stop dragging them along the side of the road causing new injuries to their spine/whatever. So, the first step that WTP need to take is to put a full-halt, forthwith, to all expansionary measures. That means: stop printing new money, stop expanding government expenditures, stop increasing government revenues, stop issuing subsidized credit to banks/etc. stop increasing regulations, stop making new laws, stop approving new weapons systems, stop deploying more troops, stop opening new theaters of war, etc. etc. etc. Also, do not allow the Fed to trigger a deflationary collapse... they need to be "freeze-framed" and forced to maintain exact ceteris paribus until WTP decide through Congress what to do with them and how to disband them. IOW, stop dragging the poor collision victim along the pavement and causing more and more massive new injuries. Once we STOP making new injuries, we can start the discussion over how to prepare for the arrival of the EMT, i.e. how to reverse the past century+ of ever-increasing damage that has been done by layers upon layers upon layers of government corruption and misguided interventions. That's not what I meant. What I mean is that they are taking a self-solving problem and they are characterizing it in terms of something that "WE need to stop." Self-solving problems can usually just be solved by freeing up private parties to defend their own property. When a homeless person gets shot and killed for trespassing in the loading dock of a local business, and the police arrive and say, "Good job, we need private citizens to defend their property so the whole burden is not on us", and no charges are pressed, the rest of them will flee like a flock of birds to some new destination. I don't have anything against the homeless, I've been homeless myself at one point. It can happen to anyone, most Americans do not realize how thin the line between themselves and homelessness. But these scourges are always the result of prior bad policy, and then the ruling class just uses the scourge itself as excuse to call for even more bad policy to fix the previous bad policy. This is the cycle of modern omnipotent government that has been going on, unchecked, for over a century.
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    Yesterday, 08:13 PM
    The 2024 election memes are gonna be FIRE, lol...
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    Yesterday, 04:46 PM
    Hmm, I think that's just not the right way to think about it. "Markets" don't "address" anything, they are just people producing and exchanging in order to make a living. Rather, when you get the government out of the business of trying to play Jesus, this allows the appropriate institutions to move in and do what they do best... charities, religions, education establishments, other NGOs. Most of the "public-policy problems" that our "leaders" constantly push into our faces are actually self-solving problems. Drug-addicts tend to die early. Contrary to conventional wisdom, self-selection is a real thing. Fewer addicts having children over the generations --> fewer addictive personalities in society. What creates more of a particular type of person (with dispositional/behavior problems) is government subsidy, because this artificially extends the life and reach of such persons which would otherwise be cut off by Nature much earlier. Thus, there is a relatively higher proportion of these undesirables than there would otherwise be. Consider the phenomenon of baby-mamas raising the spawn of their convict baby-daddy just released from prison who impregnated her, abandoned her, then got sent up on fresh charges due to re-offense... all paid for by you and me through taxes in the name of "child welfare". That child is the spawn of someone who, 100 years ago, would have died young, and childless. So, welfare is actually demographic warfare in disguise. This has nothing to do with "eugenics", quite the opposite, it is dysgenics. That's the point. The ultra-wealthy live in a cocoon that completely insulates them from all of this. They are at war with us, thus, they support policies that turn the public space into a living nightmare. They hack our worthless opinions about "The Way It Oughtta Be" to flip the entire social order on its head. In a democracy, everybody somehow "just knows" the way everything should be done, and that's precisely the hubris which the misanthropic "elites" use to flip us all on our heads, reducing the general social order to little more than a human cesspool. And everybody just goes on with life like everything's perfectly A-OK. Actually, the problems with living in most parts of the world are exaggerated here in the US. There are horrible places to live in every part of the world, including most major US cities. If you just film those parts, you can make any place look like an absolute shithole. And while the US is 1000x less free than it was a century ago, it's still not as unfree as many other parts of the world. The entire "American experiment", which we have pretty much forgotten since 9/11, was to demonstrate to the world -- by a living experimental demonstration -- that freedom produces both peace and prosperity. Thus, the Old World lie that "you must give up freedom to have security (peace) and prosperity" was exposed for the whole world to see. When the people of Podunkistan read and heard accounts of the American cities whose streets are paved with gold and where a man is free to do whatever he wants so long as he doesn't commit a crime, this caused them to wonder, "Why again do we have to have these tyrannical rulers here in Podunkistan? Freedom works great in America. There's no reason it couldn't work here, too." Needless to say, this scared the "elites" of Podunkistan absolutely shit-less. That could spell the end of their inter-generational parasitic scam! This is the real reason why the NWO came into being. The NWO doesn't originate within America, it originated within the Old World system, and that's really what it is... it's the Old World Beast System with a new mask on, calling itself "teh New World Order". I call them the Bug-Eaters because they're so obsessed with eating bugs. This is the snapback against the culture of Americans who flaunted their freedom to the whole world and demonstrated that peace and prosperity flow from freedom, not from the suppression of freedom. 9/11...
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    Yesterday, 03:18 PM
    The problem with this line of reasoning is that it just assumes that we have any choice in the matter. Effective enforcement is expensive. Therefore, you can't enforce everything, and you have to choose what is important to enforce, and how many things you are going to enforce (this is economics 101, the principle of alternative uses.) But because of the myth of omnipotent government, the modern West lives in almost total denial of this obvious reality. We are a culture of narcissists trapped in an echo-chamber of our own egotism, enabled by wantonly wasteful government expenditures on trivialities, while ignoring collapsing infrastructure. To sort through issues like this, States could pass ballot measures to ask "Which issue is more important? Stopping fentanyl distribution on the streets or stopping daylight break-ins of parked vehicles?" Using a computer algorithm, it is not difficult to construct a relatively small sample of questions like this that will allow you to then sort the issues in rank-order of importance, reflecting the "values" of the public, at least, on the issues in the list. Once you have this list, you can then configure public-policy accordingly. The most government expenditures should go to solving the first problem on the list, less expenditures should go to the second problem on the list, even less to the third problem, and so on down the list. While this is still less efficient than market methods, it's at least rational given government control of law, courts, police, etc. What we have now is not rational towards any end which is consistent with the public good, broadly construed. This situation did not come about by accident, either. Our systems of government are being actively sabotaged.
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    Yesterday, 03:08 PM
    Probably going to be using this meme a lot this year... :rolleyes:
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    Yesterday, 02:10 PM
    Because Reason are mostly a bunch of Swamp creatures who have been brought to heel by the R-Establishment.
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    Yesterday, 02:03 PM
    This was the genius of the Founding Fathers. We don't have to "just know" whether drugs should be legal/illegal. Rather, every State in the union has authority from the Constitution to set their own laws in their own State. So, the correct answer to the vast majority of modern "national issues" is not legalization, or illegalization, it is de-federalization. There are a few things that do need to be Federal. You have to have a proper election in your State for the electors, representatives, etc. otherwise, you are potentially allowing a North Korea to be a State in the Union, and that's no good. So, those are the things that ought to be federalized, but SCOTUS treats them as "States' rights". Amazing. On the flip-side, issues like abortion and drug legalization are clearly not within the authority of Congress to regulate, and are issues reserved solely to the discretion of each state under the 9th and 10th amendments. The purpose of the Constitution was to act as a framework or foundation under which the States -- each of which is a government in its own right -- could set local laws according to the views of their own citizens and, through a process of competition between these various legal regimes, the best policies would tend to emerge over time. There are a couple quotes from the Founders to this effect although I've forgotten the citations. This is one of the most misunderstood principles of the founding of the US government, and it's an absolute travesty that American school-children are not taught this in their government indoctrination centers schools.
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    Yesterday, 12:54 PM
    TRUTH. "Deep State" is just a gateway drug to the truth. The truth is that it's just the State. But almost nobody can believe that until they see the truth for themselves. Exposing the Deep State is ultimately just exposing the State...
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    Yesterday, 12:50 PM
    He made a nice Bible to sell that people will like to buy. What's the issue supposed to be (genuine question, I can't keep up with Woke "moral" logic)...
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    Yesterday, 12:22 AM
    Fake, but on-point. This one's REAL (click image for link to article):
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    03-27-2024, 06:58 PM
    The saga continues...
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    03-26-2024, 10:32 PM
    BINGO. This is why I push so hard against the black-pilling along the lines "it's all going according to THEIR plan". Really? Either way you go with this, it doesn't work. Either everything is going to plan, and COVID is the most retarded "plan" ever, in which case, they are retards and should not be feared. Or, everything is not going according to plan, and they should not be feared, because they are not omnipotent, even though they pretend to be. Reject the propaganda. We The People have the power, we have always had the power, and we will always have the power if we can muster enough moral courage to stop coddling our own favorite sins which the demonic "elites" use like cords to knit shackles around our wrists. We are being sealed into a prison built from bricks made of our own self-betrayal. The solution cannot be simpler: we must stop betraying ourselves. But putting coins into old-fashioned parking meters costs workers over a thousand hours a year in wasted time, and the upgraded electro-whiz-bang meters which accept plastic and cost 10 times as much are faster, when they work! That's a critical eco-green-agenda issue (also, a central-banking CBDC issue!) and far more important than basic maintenance of roads, bridges, waterways, and other essential infrastructure!
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    03-26-2024, 11:32 AM
    A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything -- Suno wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs — but what does that mean for artists? Afghanistan is sometimes called the graveyard of empires, and for good reason. My prediction: Music will turn out to be the Afghanistan of AI. When it comes to music, the tastes of the public are outrageously arbitrary and bespoke. If you've skimmed through the sheer number of genres in modern music, it's truly staggering. That's not to say that an AI song-generator couldn't imitate all of those genres. Of course it can if it is given enough training data, that has been thoroughly proved by current-generation AI. But music, even more than images and video, is a medium that is truly intangible. You can't see music. You can't even really visualize it, not in its essence. You can't touch it. You can't weigh it. You can't really apply mathematical reasoning to it, except in some theoretical sense that is not directly connected to the essence of what people care about in music (the aforementioned intangibles). My challenge to anyone who thinks that "AI will solve music" -- that is, that AI is going to write music that people generally prefer to human-created music -- is this: explain to me the mathematical theory of melody. Not harmony. Not chord progressions. Melody. Explain to me why and when a melody should move up or down, or even stay the same. Explain to me why it should go fast or slow, why it should be in 2-time, 3-time, 4-time, 6-time, and so on. You don't have to even spell out the details, just point me to the body of theory that explains this. There is nothing in the body of music theory itself that explains why a melody is the way it is. There are principles, no doubt. There are known reasons for why certain things work especially well. But there is no general theory, not even a framework of a theory. And that has important implications to AI. In the case of text, images and video, there are very general mathematical theories that explain them, that is, explain their encoded structure. Text might seem random at first, until you realize that words occur in patterns, and those patterns have structures. And while music also has patterns, and those patterns also have structure, we go back to the intangibility of these structures. Part of what makes a melody have a certain "feel", is how common or widespread the elements from which it is constructed are. If you use very simple intervals like fourths, fifths and steps, your melody can have a simplistic or youthful vibe, like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Or, a melody may make heavy use of chromatic and chaotic elements or have almost no discernible structure at all, yet still seem compelling. Music is not objective in the way that images and video are, nor communicating definite ideas, as language does, so there is no definite "target" to shoot at for training AI neural nets, and any choice that is made by the training data-set is really just an arbitrary stricture that will dye or fingerprint the resulting neural net in a way that listeners are going to notice. Trying to "please everybody" won't work, either, because music is inherently biased. That is, part of what makes any particular genre/style so compelling is what it doesn't do. The pentatonic scale is a great example of this. Pentatonic scales do not use two of the notes in the diatonic scale. The characteristic "sound" of the pentatonic scale comes from not using those two notes. As soon as you add those "missing" notes back into the scale, the sound goes flat. "Music is sound painted on a canvas of silence" -- in music, what you don't do is just as important as what you do, sometimes even more important.
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    03-26-2024, 09:00 AM
    +rep... Thomas Sowell is a quote-machine...
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    03-26-2024, 08:57 AM
    Well, that's not good.
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    03-25-2024, 08:34 PM
    From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: --- Me: Politics is just cold civil war.
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    03-25-2024, 08:10 PM
    That's bizarre, I went to the second page of Google and that link wasn't there. Google mainly just serves me SEO garbage nowadays, maybe I'm seeing a different set of results than other people? (I wouldn't put it past them.) The memory-holing is one of the surest signs of what is really going on right now. I screenshot/download pretty much anything that is even slightly outside the bounds of PC, otherwise it is sure to disappear by the time I return to search for it. Even archive.org is starting to get hit with the memory-hole -- more and more stuff is not available even there. Look, I'm not going to go back and forth endlessly on this issue. Something in reality "broke" prior to Trump running for President. I can't describe it in words more precisely than that... but something broke. Clown World isn't just a term for deriding the political antics of the Ds... we really are in a darkly absurd timeline, and I have no idea how we got here. Causality, especially social-causality, is broken. Impossible things happen all the time, and things that were once commonplace have disappeared. Overnight. For that and many other reasons, I don't read the political scene in the way that was common prior to Clown World, because that calculus is broken. What Trump said or didn't say is uninteresting to me. What is interesting to me is the outcome. The outcome is that bump stocks were banned. Bump stocks are worthless, unsafe piece-of-garbage accessories whose reason-for-existing is inherently absurd. They exist to go around NFA (which itself is unconstitutional) and to make "firearm go BRRRR". If you kept one in your closet for self-defense, you're potentially putting innocents at risk because you cannot properly control the weapon while using one or, even if it can be done, that's a feat in its own right. I agree that we don't need any more bans on stuff, but I'm guessing that Trump got something in exchange for that concession (behind-closed-doors bargaining). What matters more to me than what Trump says to his political opponents in a political negotiation session, is what he says to his constituency, and how he lives up to that (or not). I share all the criticisms that anybody on this forum has for the 2-party system but, for now, Trump seems to be the closest thing to addressing the actual issues in the Swamp and all the neoCONs have boundless hatred for him, which is an enormous green check-mark in his column. I'm not a Trumper and, as I've said many times before, if you can find someone with the principles of Ron Paul, and the rockstar power of Trump, point me to that man and I will write him in for POTUS.
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    03-25-2024, 07:18 PM
    The Austrian economists frequently use the analogy of a drug addiction, and it's somewhat more than an analogy. Quitting is going to bring withdrawals, and the withdrawals are, of course, terrible. But this is the thing: the withdrawals are inevitable, the only question is how terrible they will be. The longer they are deferred, the longer the drug is taken, the worse the withdrawals are. You can blame the rehab caretaker for your suffering, or you can acknowledge that you created your own predicament and, for the duration of the withdrawals, all you can do is suffer through them. There is charity, there is sound advice, and many other remedies that can help people get through this hard time with the least amount of suffering possible. We all want people not to be suffering. However, living in denial of the inevitable accounting is just delusional. Nothing can stop judgment day. It is the only truly inevitable thing, even more inevitable than death.
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    03-25-2024, 12:45 PM
    There is something unusual about Milei, I can't put my finger on it. So I also sense what you sense, although in different words. But I hope that he lives up to his promises of eliminating the Argentine central bank and giving common Argentines a chance to rebuild their economy as it was before it was destroyed by socialism, and beyond. I know they can do it, they have a history of economic flourishing, and other South American countries that have told the globalists to take a hike (e.g. Chile) have gone on to flourish economically.
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