Love these little propaganda videos challenging people’s views on a country, this time #Vietnam Fact is, both elements are true - sometimes on the same street. Modernity mixed with backwards squalor is everywhere. I have a smart home, with a pool, better Internet than I had in Aus and better mobile, a cleaner, pool cleaner, in home massage for <$10, my life is qualitatively better here than home for 1/4 the price. Also - a cow randomly walked past and turned off my water main a few months ago, end of my street there is a huge smelly garbage pile, and until a week ago the view out my front door was overgrown abandoned portapotties The place is chaotic and alive, very very different to the sterility and staleness of Melbourne which whilst much cleaner, feels dead. Personally I enjoy this much more. Sure there’s lots I don’t enjoy, but being amongst a culture not living for the weekend where every day seems like a possibility, and things don’t feel like they were all planned 100 years ago and everyone’s just hanging on to that because they’ve got no better ideas, feels more invigorating.

This poor guy had his legs eaten by cannibals - he survived!

Look past the title of this one for my latest #bookstr review Stefan Molyneux’s “Peaceful Parenting” was recommended to me by a friend who is a fan of his who thought I’d enjoy it. The ethics of the parental relationship with children through a moral and philosophical lens is a big focus of this work, it’s much less “parenting manual” and moreso cause and effect discussions about parental choices and how they play out with children. I appreciate that Molyneux took on the subject, it’s clearly an important one and as he frequently reiterates; our society claims to put children above all, but in observable reality clearly does not. And that leads to my biggest gripe with this book - the frequent reiterations. Molyneux will use 3 examples to illustrate and emphasise every single point he’s making. It’s tedious and a proper editor would have slashed this book in half. Why he felt the need to be so verbose I’m not sure, it’s clearly designed for philosophical libertarian types who gain nothing from such mental coddling. Because of that I found myself enjoying this in fits and starts. Too slow and monotonous, and then occasionally punctuated by brilliant philosophical insight. Despite my criticisms I would actually recommend this book to everyone (there is a condensed version I found out after finishing). People claim to care so much about the future and pin so much on the next generation and then completely discount them from moral and ethical consideration because of the power imbalance in parent-child relationships - this book, whilst Molyneux drones on, allows for reflection on those ideas. “Low time preference parenting” might have been a better title as really it’s about forcing adults to consider their actions and the results they will have on children as they grow into adults. You can skip the last section where he backs his points with data, it’s interesting in a nerdy way but completely unnecessary as his points stand without this. Overall a good book on a worthwhile subject that needed a better editor.

Man shoots up Bondi beach. #AUStriches mainstream media - let’s check out how much his home is worth and do an article about that. The obsession with hoom prices is pathological. View quoted note →

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was one of the victims of the Bondi shooting. Whilst Australian nationalists focus on the Muslim perpetrators who should never have been allowed in the country (with which I agree). They and everyone else ignore these Zionist Jews who see their Central Bank Charter State as their true home, whilst they parasite on Western societies as they destroy them from within. None of them should be in our countries. Not the jihadi Muslims, nor these Zionist shitcunts - get rid of ALL of them.

Putin makes an appeal to Westerners. That he can do this via the internet, and get traction because Western Governments have been so full of shit for so long, is an indictment on Western culture - specifically the Boomers to whom the entire narrative is shaped. The West needs to send Boomers back to the mines to pay off the debts they racked up. They need to be disenfranchised and defunded entirely or nothing will change. We have to eat the pain.

South Australian Premier challenges social media companies to oppose his Under 16 social media ban noting that he appointed the former Chief Justice of the High Court to write the legislation. “Good luck” he says. Told you the State was going to win the war. View quoted note →

Peak irony is this #Bitcoin Core Dev who has been defending v30 now saying “wow, would you look at what happened” after he was told this is exactly what would fucking happen.. Core is full to the brim of retards. They might be good at writing code, but they are ALL fucking retarded.

Every institution has drastically evolved in the past 200 years. All of them, except one. Government. We still elect representatives to go to some far flung city to do whatever the fuck they want for 3 or 4 years with zero accountability or recourse. We could actually have social contracts, we have the technology. But instead we’re gaslit to believe you agreed to give the Gov half your money in perpetuity, and follow whatever insane laws they make, simply for being born on their turf. I feel the injustice of this in my bones.

This piece on Nvidia and the AI bubble is rather long, but it’s worth the time. If you’re not familiar with Enron and the Dotcom bubble, and don’t know whats happening with US stocks and big tech nowadays - the important points are covered in here. The only outstanding questions for me at this point are “when?” will this fall apart, and how big will the bailout be?

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“The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer is a very short, but very good book up for my next #bookstr review. It’s a discussion of the commonalities in personalities drawn to extremist and fanatical ideologies. Much of it is obvious if you’ve read lots of history, but you could cut through tons of learning by reading this book early on. His categorisations and the overlaps he notes are particularly good, bypassing l arbitrary lines to show how both a Stalin and a Hitler can be so effective and the types they will resonate with as mass movements share commonalities regardless of the espoused ideology. For me, this was a far superior book than Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” which I rated my worst read earlier this year. Given it’s condensed into 2.5 hours of reading and far better explains Desmet’s title, skip his book and go with Hoffer if this topic interests you. View quoted note →

Queen Eurohag announces they’re opening up the EU to Indians to fill skills gaps.

Road sign in #Vietnam says: “Road Section - Accidents Happen” Zoom in, then see picture 2. This is a quiet backstreet a block from the main beach road to Hoi An where it’s mostly empty lots and it’s *still* a hotspot lol View quoted note →

Theft, stealing, seizure, confiscation - these all require someone taking control of another’s property. The Cat excises UTXOs from consensus; no one takes possession, no transfer occurs. Voiding UTXOs is not a crime.