Most libertines are just raising arguments to justify free riding.
Really. That’s all it is.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 14:17:00 UTC
Most libertines are just raising arguments to justify free riding.
Really. That’s all it is.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 14:17:00 UTC
OK. I’m a little out of it at the moment, and I don’t understand this shift… Help?
—“We think this will be a four to five-year bull-market in the dollar. The whole exchange system is seeking a new equilibrium,” he said. “We think the euro will reach $1.12 to the dollar by next year and will be even weaker than the yen in the race to the bottom.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 10:58:00 UTC
(Oversing Status : It is getting harder to find bugs and work needed to complete features for the Alpha. I do have one problem, that I have to choose between finishing billing and invoicing (boring and well understood) and finishing the cultural features (that differentiate the product), first. And I’m going to take a bit of a risk and go with what differentiates the product first at the expense of not allowing the user to immediately bill and invoice, because I am afraid the features won’t make it to Beta unless I keep pushing for them now. And I am afraid of alpha-users’s initial reaction – not understanding the scope of the product – without them. So, alpha will not have the full billing/invoicing or triangulation/estimating features complete. I have to wait for beta. As of today there are about 350 issues open. And while 125 of them are nit-bugs, the rest of them are all over the place.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 07:50:00 UTC
(diary)
Exasperation: We will finish the Alpha for use by small interested parties by the first of the year. And this changes my world a bit. I can live anywhere. I just need to visit my staff now and then, and I very much want to keep the business in Ukraine, because of all Ukraine has done for me. I love L’viv, because Roman is there, and he is my editor, advisor and coach, and I will forever be grateful for all he has done for me in every aspect of my life, – more than I can ever repay. I also have enough friends in Tallinn to be constantly happy and the widespread use of english would be easier on me. In the greater London area I could have access to other philosophers who help me through constant criticism – although I feel more at home with the quiet in Ukraine, so maybe one of the secondary cities would be better (although not my family’s ancestral towns in the midlands.) I have many friends in New York, but the intellectual movement is not in the states any longer, its in Europe, and NYC is so LOUD and so depressing for a white protestant male that I prefer London. Seattle is NOT an intellectual community, but an engineering center – but I have many friends there, and my business partner Max is there, and I have access to VC’s there, and I will spend the spring on capital, branding, and marketing, because the product is at the point where the remaining features have no material UI dependence (my contribution). My family is in new England so if I lived in Connecticut or Boston, I could be with them more often, despite the fact that face-to-face confrontation with the daily progress of the death of New England might be too much to bear. The Russians have killed the economy in Kiev for the time being, and their incremental plan to reconquer Ukraine proceeds.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 06:54:00 UTC
MOST HELPFUL EXPLANATION I’VE EVER PROVIDED FOR STRONG WOMEN?
—“This is quite possibly the most helpful thing you have ever posted (at least for me).”—
Women fear and reject us (men) all the time, for a zillion reasons every day. And we don’t like it really. Especially crazy chicks (the vast majority of women) when we are just trying to be friendly or get along, or learn, or whatever.
One of the things that makes us feel emotionally and intellectually and socially safe is to be around women who aren’t ‘fragile’. Strong men like women who are strong.
**Being a man around women is a little like being a gorilla in a glass-shop: everything is really easily broken if we aren’t really careful at all times.**
Strong women make you feel ‘safe’ that you can talk and act like your natural gorilla-self without fear that the glasses will break (the crazy chicks will get over excited). And the crazy chicks will rally and shame other women and god forbid, other gorillas to punish you, for accidentally breaking a goblet, just cause, after all, you’re just a gorilla.
I mean, that’s the reality of it. It’s that simple. That’s why strong men like strong women.
Women often wish men thought more like them and men wish women thought more like them. We all wish others would think more like us. I mean, everything is easier the more similar that we are.
But men are faster, stronger, and extremely dangerous super-predators. and when we get strong women around us we feel safer. Weak men want less strong women. Because if we don’t feel STRONGER then we don’t believe women will be attracted to us. (And they aren’t).
So it’s a totally logical thing we’re talking abut here. Men want strong women that they wont break, and get in trouble for breaking (or lose opportunity for sex by breaking). And on the other hand, men don’t want women that are so strong that they won’t be attracted to us. The thing that works against mankind, is that women are so attracted to gorillas at the expense of everything else (no matter what they say, that’s the data), that women force regression toward the mean, because impulsive aggressive alphas aren’t as useful as un-impulsive, cunning alphas. So without monogamy, assortative mating, and property rights, women will cause dysgenic reproduction. And without assortative mating you get the middle east: invariant dysgenia holding at the mean.
So that’s the truthful narrative, not the fallacy that’s cast by feminists.
—“I also think men do have that whole scaling Everest thing. So something not easily obtained is worth working toward.”—
Let me reframe this a bit: Men are scared. We are disposable and we know it. We are constantly threatened by permanent loneliness that can easily drive us to suicide. We mature later, and die earlier. In exchange we are stronger and faster, less sensitive and more specialized. We are, each of us, an experiment that can succeed or fail.
About a third of us are undesirable as providers or gene suppliers, and about another third only marginally desirable as providers, not gene suppliers. Men try climb everest in order to capture the best genes that they can. It’s not complicated.
And, worse, just as women must lie to themselves to control their paranoid impulses for acceptance in the tribe, lest not be able to seek rents when needed against fellow tribe members, men must lie to themselves so that they continue to work in the service of their genes despite the near total likelihood of failure.
Men look in the mirror and see much better visions of themselves than others do, and women look and see worse than they do – the mirror always lies. And it must, or we would never keep the relentless pursuit of the interests our genes. Because what is rational in real time, is inconsequential to the intergenerational requirements of genes.
This is why women can collect so many men to help them with so may different aspects of life without actually giving them sex, but merely the most remotest of chances that sex and affection are possible. Because men must play ever option available to them. And the lower on the curve they are, the more important are those options. And the more desperate the man the more aggressive he can become in pursuit of them – his genes drive him to reproduce, and his reason is a mere mouse riding an elephant of intuition, that does everything possible to lie to the mouse in order to get what it wants.
I think of the elephant of intuition as blind, deaf and dumb and reliant on the mouse of reason. Intuition wants satisfaction for all intents and purposes must feed upon chemical satisfaction, and it only gets chemical satisfaction from rewarding the unconscious genes. The rider is a device for getting satisfaction. Everything is a compromise between the blind deaf and dumb elephant that has no problem lying to the rider, and the rider has eyes and ears and can speak and control the body, but little else.
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 06:12:00 UTC
(TALES OF A STRANGE LIFE: I wonder how many other guys keep a fresh shirt, underwear and socks rolled in the bottom of their backpacks? The revolution, my own government trying to destroy me, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, really changed my behavior last year. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 05:41:00 UTC
PUTIN CHANGES TACK – BACK ON TRACK AGAINST THE CATHEDRAL
Now, as I said, he played it poorly. He could have easily acquired the east and not put Russian economy in a tailspin.
But as of yesterday he is back on the ‘western ideas have failed’ and the european ‘new world order’ is a failure. All that happens is that the USA creates worse circumstances again and again.
This message has been selling to most of the world.
If he had purchased eastern Ukraine with oil and gas (as I recommended), the locals would have loved the idea, and he would have had an IDEAL client-state, as is Germany: wealthy but dependent. Instead, he restarted the cold war. And he clearly doesn’t understand American Morality of altruistic punishment: WE WILL NEVER, EVER, STOP – EVER, against a moral violation by our own (white people). So the american strategy will be to cause enough pain that Putin becomes internally weak.
Because in a corrupt mafia state, held together by money and power, not morality and rule of law, there is easily another sitting behind you waiting to take it from you.
I turned on Putin entirely because of his abuse of Ukraine. But in no small part because I AGREE WITH HIS CRITICISMS OF THE WEST. I disagree that Russia provides the world with any value, and that the world can learn anything from Russia. But I do not disagree with his criticism of the Cathedral.
Because I am also a critic of the Cathedral.
The difference is that I would use rule of law and truth telling and he would use bribery and violence and corruption as an alternative to the Cathedral’s New World Order (of cosmopolitan construction)
AND I AM RIGHT AND HE IS WRONG. PERIOD.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-04 05:32:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfxdlWje5nkOk. Despite the speaker’s weakness, this is a great little video.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 23:54:00 UTC
TRUTH IS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Because no one else does it. And no one else does it because it’s expensive.
And so telling the truth is the highest tax we can pay for our civilization.
Germanic westerners pay the highest normative taxes in the world — by far.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 11:01:00 UTC
POPPER HAD IT BACKWARDS – WESTERNERS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG
(is this then, a reformation of Criticial Rationalism? )
Popper had it backwards and was a Platonist himself. The problem is not in the discovery of “the nature of things”, but to eliminate the anthropogenic bias endemic to all human thought whether to our reason, memory or perception.
Telling the truth is easy. It’s not telling a lie, acting as a vector for a lie, or failing to grasp that our intuition lies on behalf of it genes, or errs because of cognitive
limitations during our evolution that is the problem.
Had popper and Russell and others understood that it is not the mind of God that was philosophy’s task, and that scriptural interpretation was the method they were applying by the study of language, and instead, they had sought as did science, to remove error, rather than the verbal chimera of truth, the socialists and feminists and Keynesianism may have been unable to destroy western civilization.
WESTERNERS HAD IT RIGHT ALL ALONG: TRUTH.
And in an attempt to seize power from the state, we adopted justification.
And that was our failing.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-03 10:18:00 UTC