Identity politics used to be the scourge of the left, but now I see it everywhere on the right too.

Won the men's Padel tournament today. Granted they paired me with Boris Becker (German guy who was good). But it validates my decision not to transition.

Might as well name him if he wasted your time like that. Consider it a public service. View quoted note →

Ha — that account kept zapping me small amounts and liking my posts, and I ignored it. Was tempted to follow, only because my threshold for following on nostr is low, but held off. Even if it were real, just unseemly basing your account identity on your kid getting cancer. Something gross about the whole thing. And yeah, be reliable, honest and fair to people in real life — most “charity” is virtue signaling or outright fraud. View quoted note →

Meant to zap a few of you over the last couple weeks, was traveling, can’t do it from my phone. So if you get a random zap now, that’s why.

Rental car company offered us EasyPass. Told my wife: “Hard pass.”

Last day in the States before heading back to the museum that is Europe. It’s a nice museum, but having trouble figuring out how to pay for the maintenance.

Was in Princeton the other day for kid’s basketball camp. Camp was great — very well run, high level of play, but the town was, for lack of a better term, extremely vaccinated. Was a Free Palestine protest (which is fine IMO), but it occurred to me there would never in a million years have been an mRNA mandate protest there. They only protest what they’re allowed to protest, that to which “good” people are permitted to object. Elite colleges are museums to critical thought and earnest inquiry. The forms are all there — beautiful buildings, large libraries, giant old trees, but the spirit is dead.

You lettuce-hands little bitches will regret this!

Deepest rabbit hole, still stuck in it: https://highlighter.com/chrisliss/7q71e0j44v37i0zl

New York and Vegas are so ridiculously expensive right now. Inflation is way more than advertised in some places. Love being in the US, think there are so many ways it’s superior to Europe, but it’s almost as if these cities exist to separate you from your money by design. Even Portland though not as bad was still not cheap. Forget about the middle class, they’re coming for the upper middle class now.

It’s not that nostr will succeed, but that all the platforms will eventually fail. Censorship is nostr’s marketing department, social credit systems demonstration of use case. If the platforms could resist there would be no need, but they can’t, just as governments can’t resist printing money. Human nature plus time.

Love the Palm Springs airport. This is the terminal after you get through security. It’s outdoors with palm trees.

Lotus Of Siam is the best restaurant (to my knowledge) on planet earth.

Gambling should be mandatory. Jail time if you aren’t gambling. View quoted note →

Saw a show called “Postcard Earth” at the Sphere. Visuals were great, buf the story was predictable climate change propaganda. In a giant air conditioned dome with insane amounts of electricity. Beyond retarded.

Have to admit I enjoy Vegas, especially after living in Europe for so long. It’s the anti-Europe.

Don't like how they're going after Hillary Clinton for being "psycho-emotional" and on heavy tranquilizers. Killing that many people you know would take its toll on anyone.