It appears there are three choices: - rage against the tide, be miserable, and look like a nutter to the majority around you, including your extended family, who are totally blind to “the long game” of totalitarianism - focus on those things you can control (building a family, educating your kids, building local networks for the provision of essentials, securing means of obtaining water, growing your own food, maintaining means of trade, securing your family’s physical space, staying fit, and finding other awakened individuals to cooperate with), and watch “what has already been written” play out while you try to be a source of inspiration, assistance and hope to those around you. - go full insurgent and make sure to take a few of “them” with you before you leave your loved ones behind to navigate a shitstorm by themselves, that you could have made a little more bearable and happy The only thing that has ever turned such tides and pushed back such assaults on human dignity and freedom, throughout history, is blood and human sacrifice. Buckle up. What other constructive responses to the current timeline exist? #asknostr View quoted note →

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What evolutionary trait makes water up or on a shirt cuff feel so awful? #randomthoughts #asknostr

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Here’s an aspect of human nature that I’ve been thinking about lately that parents (and others who are trying to educate people around them) have to contend with. It’s the aspect of human nature that inadvertently leads to generation after generation repeating the same mistakes and falling into the same traps as the one prior. It’s one of the qualities of humans that allow authoritarians who are playing the “long game” of societal and monetary control to successfully advance agendas over time. It is this: Pain is what makes people take a meaningful interest in learning important lessons and information. Until one feels first hand the pain of poor decisions or lack of knowledge and awareness, all the advice in the world from others who know better from experience doesn’t mean shit. You can drop truth bombs on people all day long, BEFORE they fall into a trap, but they will largely ignore the information until they feel the pain for themselves. It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Add to this the fact that even the best advice can have a shelf life based on societal and economic changes, and it makes it even more likely that those you would spare from your own painful past lessons are doomed to repeat them. A classic example of this today is a boomer telling a Gen X’er about the wisdom of paying down their mortgage as fast as possible with their limited fiat income, when today the best option is clearly to make minimum payments and invest any excess cash in hard, appreciating assets rather than depreciating ones. To use debt as a tool. Investing instead in things like land, Bitcoin, and metals. Given this human propensity for ignoring advice and learning things just a little too late, 9 times out of 10 the individual has made a lasting, irreversible set of decisions that got them into their current fix before they start to pay attention. Pain, once again, becomes the teacher. After it’s too late. I think about this a lot when I think of the pitfalls of some peoples’ early adult decisions like deciding to embark careers in law enforcement or the military, before they know the true nature of those jobs and institutions. Or people embarking on courses of study that can only lead to fiat employment vs gaining them the ability to launch a business or provide services for cash. How do we get the people we care about to: 1) care to learn about topics that haven’t yet caused them pain? 2) act on these lessons early enough to avoid the trap in the first place? Especially in a world where 7/10ths of young peoples’ time before they start earning is spent in indoctrination centres teaching the status quo? Try for example teaching someone and making them care about the nature of our monetary system while our dollar is relatively stable and they haven’t felt anything too unbearable from inflation. It’s the Orange Piller’s Paradox. #asknostr

The Death of Quality Time The distractions eating into quality time with loved ones sure have ramped up over the past 10 years. Remember when relationship therapists were saying that a couple watching a movie together didn’t constitute “quality time”? I whole-heartedly agree. The activity requires zero focus on communicating and sharing thoughts and ideas. In fact, it actively discourages it. Sure, the physical closeness is great, but it hardly constitutes a “relationship building activity”. At best, you might come away with the shared experience of a great cinematic experience or interesting story to discuss later. Or maybe a little warmup for an intimate time to follow. But now, even that is being voluntarily destroyed by peoples’ inability to set down these damned devices. Even substandard “together time” like watching a movie or show together on a cold winter night has been degraded. ie One or both people spending the entire time with eyes on their devices or the TV, completely missing brief key parts of the narrative and having to fill the rest of the time asking questions about missed scenes and further ruining the already substandard experience. And forget about the fact that the activity of watching a movie or a show is already abstracting the couple one step away from genuine connection and conversation. I’m seriously considering unplugging our router each day when I get home, and putting schedules on the cellular data access on the family’s phone accounts. As a 70’s and 80’s kid, it all feels like utter madness. What does everyone else think? Have you felt this too? I’m ready to unplug completely. #asknostr #unplug #technologylashback

TIL you can ask an AI model to administer a short A or B answer questionnaire to quickly find out your Meyers Briggs personality type. I wasn’t surprised I’m ISTJ #grownostr

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Great episode. @Contra so much of what you said resonated and aligned with my philosophies on freedom and other topics to a tee. Brother from another mother. 👊🏽

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The Jake Woodhouse Podcast • Thought Criminals - Contra (JWP111) • Watch on Fountain

In this conversation I spoke with Contra, and dove deep into the concept of a “thought‑criminal”, - anyone who refuses to let algorithms and ...

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