one of my favorite silly things to do to people when they're not expecting it is to play podcasts at .5x and make the host sound regarded

"humanitarian aid" that induces dependency is not "aid".

those organizations around the world that were responsible for doling out "help" to "the needy" were managed by people who got paid. it's those institutional managers and directors who are the largest beneficiaries of "the aid" (printed US money).

if you would like to see your government print and give away more of the money they tell us we must use, then I would advise that the best way to have a positive impact would be to give DIRECTLY to the people who need, without an institutional intermediary.

literally dumping bags of money out of the air over places experiencing "need" would be a better use of the funds (in terms of helping the needy), than developing, training, and institutionalizing the managers into dependence on foreign money for their income, in these "needy" places

however, if you wanted to develop the CIA's ability to cause color revolutions, then USAID seems to have done a great job.

would you reform "the mafia" ?

I don't care much for "third party doctrine"

wow, that's fascinating.

this interview could have been 2 hours longer and much more informative about Theil's views, and I would have appreciated that. felt so frustrating that Theil was constantly interrupted by the interviewer

thanks for sharing.

Theil studied Theology if I'm not wrong. He says "I don't think the word 'nature' is ever used in the Old Testament" so I went to look, seems like it didn't show up till 1300

I think there's something to the "plebs are on a team, and we can coordinate the message" thing too.

it's kinda why I would encourage people to sell to their friends, so their friends can get gains in the long term.

obviously, people will do what they want tho

so,

is the updated advice "spend bitcoin to new plebs, who understand that it's a savings mechanism"?

or is it still "just do what you want with your money and let the market figure it out"?

at 2Trilly... I'm not sure how much impact retail has

great, thanks for the follow up!

i went looking for the book in the house, but didn't find it.

a friend who's a lurker suggested the following:

I dated a lady for a while who said people who use the noun "quality" without a modifier like "high" or "low" were idiots.

her opinion was ugly, to me. but it's the sort of nitpick that the OP is suggesting is a sign of idiocy.

this lady was super intelligent, at some things, but drove away many people by being drastically reactive to disagreements. she and I are still friendly & emotionally close, but she's dug herself a hole: people don't like her because she's so rude about seemingly insignificant issues.

I think the issues she raises are correct, but improperly weighted in her judgement process: accounting the relative quality of other people's opinions.

a) opinions should be qualified by their insight and correctness, not their articulation.

b) articulation, can be qualified by correctness, too, and it's a separate issue.

these two points are central to the argument that the original IQ tests were biased in favor of "western" ideals about supposed intelligence, and not actually able to measure intellectual acumen.

I should admit tho:

I also find myself distracted from the larger context by minor things. It's a feature of my behavior that I try to be aware of... my comments on your post could be an example :P

case in point... the parlance is "por que no los dos?"

surely you mean this in jest...

if we used an IQ measurement the average is 100, retarded is lower than that.

Additional thoughts:

When I read "mises" I pronounce it in my head as Mysis, not Meesis. I know the correct, but I just let my head.

Seb got into bitcoin at 2020 (maybe), and so isn't that new to the space.

Seb says a thing @ 14m18s about "hyper fixation on immediate needs". What needs are you attempting to satisfy in using Seb as an example of "an idiot" for mistaking an authors biological characteristics. Should we be concerning ourselves with the content of the arguments, rather than herring bait?

What makes you certain of that? I've never read the book, so you can call me out for using the ai slop tools at my disposal, but Grok doesn't indicate where Bessel self-identifies:

Stay humble.

dude drops his CNN piece and never responds to feedback. :(

okay, bear with me, I'm only like halfway through reading your post, but you say "Dunning-Kruger in action" after talking about mispronouncing words. consider the possibility that your heuristic for "stupid" is actually a heuristic for "sounds like I could score points on pronunciation".

stupid is at it does. wrongly thinking an author with a name like Bessel (Bess Elle, ends with Elle, sounds femme) after e.g. reading a book but not following up on the author, doesn't mean the book wasn't read. I've encountered plenty of smart people who don't watch internet videos and pronounce names or words incorrectly because they've only ever read the words. BUT THEY"RE READING TEH WORDS.

So, like... yeah, I hear you, but I also think your post (so far) reads a bit like somebody looking to make a point.

I'll now read the rest. Thanks for hearing me out.

stack harder.

get a cold card during a bear market

is what happened, imo

well... FOSS is pretty socialist if you ask old lawyers