Another major realization I just had out of nowhere: Human DNA can create people who are impossible to coerce, and it can create people who are impossible to convince with logic, but it can't make both the same person. If someone is completely incapable of seeing reason, they must be completely possible to pressure into shit, and vice versa.

All the normies who pay no attention are just unable to process these 2 things at once. They take the side where you wouldn't be safe if every enemy existed, and they imagine that means preparing for everything is meaningless. They can't see how both sides of the equation fit together, they just pick a side. View quoted note →

Major realization I've just had: There's a fundamentally confusing mirror-image of concepts in trying to think about safety and security. To be a security expert is to imagine every possible enemy, and defend against all of them. But, for any of us to have any security at all, relies on the fact that not every enemy you can imagine actually exists. If you don't prepare for every possible enemy, your preparations are not enough to make you safe; But if you do prepare for every possible enemy, it still wouldn't be enough to make you safe if all those enemies actually existed at once.

Theory: when asking chat bots about real people's alignments, they will never say "lawful good" because they always reserve the right to label you a criminal or terrorist or something later

Is college still actually better, for other reasons? I dropped out so maybe I'm missing the point. View quoted note →

Apprenticeships protected human psychology from peer pressure. They sucked in many ways, but they made people willing to learn from the guy with knowledge in the topic they want to learn about, instead of just accepting whatever they're told by random idiots. This seems to be a weakness of the modern college system we mostly moved onto.

Any other YouTube viewers constantly getting ads with a Mormon girl who wants to talk about Jesus? Idk why I'm being targeted with this. They must know I'm a sucker for pretty girls

TempleOS is the most private OS. It's designed to have user privacy, and it was made by a very competent dev+team. It's not Linux and doesn't even have internet connectivity. Tails is the least un-private OS with internet access, as far as I know. It's designed to privately spy on users and it's made by a team with a reputation to pay for privacy leaks, instead of just leaking for free. Any distro that refused California's recent age verification bullshit, like Devuan, could be runner-up behind TempleOS and Tails. They might have some reputation at stake too. Any distro that went along with California's bullshit, like mainline Ubuntu, is just leaking your shit for free. The devs don't have (and don't try to have) any credible reputation, they just rely on getting free user data from users that aren't smart enough to stop them. It costs them nothing to steal your money, put you in prison, etc. I typed this as a reply to a question a reddit user posted, but then also copied and pasted it to nostr as this standalone post.

Every lilypad has a turtle hiding under it if you look

My mom has smoked cigarettes for too many years and now she's running out of time. She also quit cigarettes in the past and started smoking again as a punishment for me and the abusive guy she made me spend a lot of my childhood with who wasn't my dad. For something he did that I participated in as a kid, don't remember what, probably an argument about politics or something. Restarting cigarettes is a pretty psychotic punishment and really makes me not want to offer much comfort in her final years. I also just don't have the mental bandwidth to process worrying about her dying while I don't know if Digit is alive. Digit might have committed suicide BECAUSE OF ME, it might be my fucking fault, failures that were actually mine as an adult, not some psycho committing suicide to punish me for nothing as a kid. I also understand that when parents die, we regret not being better kids for them, or being there for them more. I know that's going to fuck me up for the rest of my life, but I still DON'T HAVE the bandwidth to do anything about it while I don't know if Digit is alive. I cannot make myself be nice to my mom all the time or stop myself from cursing and yelling at her, and I cannot stop myself from being fucked up for the rest of my life knowing how much of a failure I am. I'm not asking for advice, you cannot help me if you cannot prove Digit is alive. The only useful purpose this post could serve is if it impacts how many cigarettes someone smokes, but I doubt that will happen because generally I just yell into the void, no one listens to me, and there is no useful purpose to me trying to talk.

Bitcoin isn't even beating inflation anymore tbh Fuck Primal btw, scammy af app