I think welfare should be community driven only. Only the people closest to you can tell when you have a real need due to unfortunate circumstances. Only people who see you in day to day life can accurately judge if you’re abusing the good will of others.

I never liked NYC anyway..

Running Omarchy on my personal machine and then having to switch to my work MacOS makes me so sad. I’ve said it many times, but macOS has degraded so much. It’s so clunky and awful, it’s almost as bad as windows anymore.

I was listening to @HODL on the last WBD podcast and it made me realize something… In the next 2 - 3 elections, it’s very likely we end up with a president who is better known by their online handle/persona than their given name. Anyway, @HODL for president 🇺🇸😅

For a long time, I thought it was silly for gambling to be as restricted as it was. Now, seeing how wide spread the betting is, I am in shock at how quickly it’s turned into absolute degenerate behavior. I’m still not sure making it illegal is the right answer, but it’s hard to ignore the negative effects.

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is how incredibly inefficient public school is. When we enrolled my son, the kindergarten teacher said their academic goals were full letter recognition and count to 100. My son learned these things in half days, 4 days a week at a private preK. We asked about moving him up and they pushed back HARD, saying he would still occasionally miss letters. But my son was miserable. In 4 days of homeschooling, he’s reading/spelling 3 letter words and writing short sentences with minimal help. Not only will they indoctrinate your kids, they’ll make them stupid and hate learning.

I have a strong feeling this Venezuela has to do with rare earth minerals. Since china is trying to cut us off, have to desperately look elsewhere.

Starting a new fiat job next week. The C suite I work under used to be work at the Fed. Going to be incredibly interesting 😅

I think the future is less digital, not more. Social media, internet connected devices, and soon AI brain rot, have caused immense damage to mental health, real life communities, and families. It’s not to say the tech is bad, I use it every single day. But I’m very conservative in how I use these things, mostly because I’m a highly skeptical person by nature. But most people can’t handle using it responsibly. I can’t use Facebook, instagram, or twitter myself. Every time I do, I get caught up in doom scrolling or some other sin that measurably impacts my well being. More and more normies are waking up to this and reducing their exposure. I don’t see people integrating tech even further with AI glasses or the like.

Public school is straight up hostile to parents. We made the mistake of enrolling our son in kindergarten and they’re constantly harassing us about one thing or another. Today was our first official day of homeschooling and he’s already doing way better.

Power has been out for about 14 hours 🙃 Guess I’ll fire up the generator.

I guess I should turn my lottery miner back on lol

Tuttle twins books are so based. Love reading them to my son.