I couldn’t walk in March. The fact that I’m able to slowly get my strength back is a gift. But I’ll get there.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-09 19:55:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1711470460737650765
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Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1711462833295114243
(Diary)
When I’m working on anything stressful (legal), I like to work at a local family-owned restaurant. I’m pretty friendly with the owner his family and the staff. And one of his daughters has a little one – who I’ve known since she w as born and is now three I think – that she brings to work most of the time. While she was originally very shy, I’ve finally managed to make her comfortable with me… And now she won’t leave me alone. 😉
But, I mean, big eyes, good nature, and cuteness.
I wish I had spent more time with my own kids.
Kids are awesome.
Source date (UTC): 2023-10-05 19:17:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1710011277144109056
(Diary) (lament) 😉
So I dealt with the civilization issue, then the class issue, then the IQ issue, then the race issue, then the religion issue, and at the end of that ‘unpleasant’ discovery process, I find out that the central problem of the age is just that half the population is plagued by ‘being female’ and having no control over their emotional responses and hypersensitivities – and while yes, there are ‘authors of bad ideas’ women are very vulnerable to, it doesn’t matter. Women are just destroying civilization every single day anyway.
I mean. I’ve thought of giving up now and then. But you know, does anyone else want the job of explaining that problem? You think the race, neoteny, aggression, and IQ thing is bad? Now we have to explain that women may be incapable of responsible thought word or deed in education, economy, or politice? OMG. Seriously?
My subconscious mind tells me that God set me on this mission back in my childhood. But, this is not something I wanna do. This isn’t exactly a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I mean, I’m good with blaming the subculture within that is at war with our people. But discovering that they really dont matter, it’s just the women that buy their nonsense, and the fact that women will do all this damage even without it? Can I have a different job from God please? Seriously. …. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-28 04:39:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707253794340319233
(Diary)
Have been through a tech chrisis of (1) my 17″ macbook pro hard drive crashing (thankfully I recovered it, with a lot of effort). (2) Dropping one of my macbook pros and breaking the screen (the one I’m using now with an external monitor), and (3) the ohter macbook pro battery popped open the case (ballooned) which is what happens before they spontaneously combust and burn your house down. (4) leaving me with a headless mac server and an ipad with keyboard, and my two iphones. Meaning I’m basically working on an iPad. (and oddly really liking it – other than the UI is clumsy for working with many browser windows.)
COSTS
#1 Macbook Pro 15 Retina Battery Replacement
$70 for the battery (OMG so many scams out there)
$100 for the 24hr install (local guy)
#2 Macbook pro 15 Retina Screen Replacement
Nope: about the same price as a full replacement unit, so I’ll pull the drive, memory, and get a replacement. 😉
Refurbished ~$500-600.
#3 Macbook pro 17 pre-retina drive replacement.
About $60
DUMB QUESTIONS
Q: “Curt why are you using 2014/2015 Macbook Pros?”
A: “Because they have retina displays, good keyboards, proper function keys, and lots of PORTS. I absolutely hate this minimize-ports nonsense apple’s been trying. The new macbook pros are faster for video but otherwise provide no increase in value as a desktop replacement for someone doing largely academic work. These two laptops were the best apple made at the time, fully spec’d out, and I can’t find a reason to replace them.
“…Most of what I do is keep four screens, and around 100+ chrome browser windows open organized into those four screens and within screens with tabs, because I use WordPress as my word processor, and database (it’s awesome). And otherwise it’s just my Telephone, Zoom, and Signal.”
And if you think I’m odd, you should see Brandon’s office – it looks like Cheyanne Mountain in that War Games movie. I’m half convinced he’s got a beta of Skynet running from there. Either that or he has the world’s largest organization of cam girls working for him in eastern europe. 😉
You don’t know him, his wife, or his mother. I do. That would just NEVER happen. 😉 That’s why it’s funny. 😉 And it’s funny, not because of the female family members. But because Brandon has zero (really below zero) patience for dealing with nitwits, psychos, and drama. 😉
I love that man. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-27 23:09:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707170570414985216
I was born in 59, I was part of the counter-revolution against Carter and the bringing about of the Regan revolution. I was a c-listed revolutionary by the late eighties and part of the rise of the libertarians and eventually involved in the Mises Institute and the Property and Freedom Society and I founded the Natural Law Institute as a spin-off from that PFS. And I did all this while building a series of tech companies in the 100M range each, and retiring in my late forties to work on reform full-time.
If you were anyone of merit or consequence I would know you. If you made a single viable argument with intellectual honesty I would falsify it. There is a reason that all of the mainstream libertarian thinkers avoid me – because I eat them for lunch, despite liking and admiring their efforts. And so far you have served nothing but puffery – so there is no ‘milkshake’ for me to drink so to speak.
Right now, I’m chuckled by your vanity, ignorance, arrogance, pretense of knowledge, and feminine resort to emotional invective because you are frustrated that I am happy to falsify the malinvestment you’ve made in your self-worth and self-status. I understand the sunk cost problem, and that’s why you behave as you do.
Cheers. 😉
Reply addressees: @Libertatum1776 @antipartison @desilva_frank @JoshEakle
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-27 17:31:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707085488194977792
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707061567249092609
Going through my kindle because I’ve got a couple of hours free and my head is tired of my own work. And, realizing I haven’t read a book since Reich’s that wasn’t a disappointment and reducible to bullet points in a ten or twenty page paper. And I can’t remember the last book before that that was worth reading. Fukuyama’s later books on history and trust yes. But so little in the past twenty. And almost nothing after 09 which was the tipping point I think.
And I don’t like the pattern I think I”m seeing … which is in my own work, yes we know the structure of the universe and the unification of the sciences, and this hierarchy of simple rules that everything in our world is made from.
So, …. I have to do some work on this but, does all this mean what I think it does? Is AI just going to help us with synthesis at the margins, and minor innovation within them? Or does it mean that the attack on reality by the left has succeeded so thoroughly that aside from a few niches, we really have gabbed all the low hanging fruit of scientific discovery across all fields?
Every time we thought so before we were wrong, but we were wrong in a very small number of very small ways.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-23 23:18:50 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1705723429045813248
Similar thoughts.
I was in a starbucks today. Did my usual silliness and mischief making with the staff to get them all laughing. Then sat down to work for a bit – and didn’t succeed.
Now, in my little rural town you run into school kids, young, that aren’t afraid of adults,… https://twitter.com/whatifalthist/status/1705035847869812843
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-22 02:06:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1705040889049944142
(Diary)
There are plenty of high fliers that have had more interesting and influential lives than I have, because greater wealth gives you access to even more insane levels of complexity and opportunity. But for a variety of reasons, even at my level of wealth, and perhaps because of it, I have been involved in more crazy nonsense across a broader range of conditions than most people can imagine is possible. At my late age I realize that this is just autism and novelty seeking combined with aggression, gregariousness, confidence, and unhealthy risk tolerance. Which I think, as a list, is totally redundant. But in any event I’ve managed to stick my nose and fingers in all sorts of nonsense. And it’s only beginning to dawn on me how odd that is. 😉 I kinda skirted that edge pretty often, where, for example, I had to break into an office in the night by climbing through the ceiling, to break into a cabinet to get information for the IRS to arrest a scumbag for financial fraud. And that’s just one I’m willing to talk about. And the number of times I sort of went over the top in one situation or another to right what I considered a wrong, or punish what I considered evil, is kind of uncomfortable in retrospect even if I felt moral pride at the time. 😉 So of course, when the government called and asked me to do the equivalent for god and country, I was like … um. You mean it’s OK now? OMG. It’s like Christmas! I kind of which I had started earlier because it’s pretty rewarding work.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-21 02:58:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1704691654186123265
As my faculties return, so does my desire to chase trucks of conflict, and the joy of war-mode. I promised myself I wouldn’t do this in business again, but you know, it’s getting about that time to slowly rally the legions for determining the coming decision about our future so to speak, and the more lawfare in the courts to start that flame of passions the better.
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-21 02:34:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1704685606125654016
(Health Update)
It seems my compassion for others is returning as well now. Very fascinating to go through this very disastrous experience of body, mind and soul, and to gradually recover, slowly enough that you can observe the incremental restoration of what you consider…
Source date (UTC): 2023-09-20 19:38:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1704580840028532776