I do think people think of social media as a town square. It's actually not one. Just a massive house with a crappy owner that let's a lot of sus people in and doesn't kick them out.

Elon owns Twitter. There are no public squares. The closest thing to a public square is the Internet itself. But it's not either. It's a network. Nostr is a better model than social networks IMO.

That's cool. I somehow missed that you've been doing this. Or I just forgot. Been that kind of season for me.

Shouldn't they be rising... not falling? Has anyone been watching the other teams play? Its not been a pretty year for most teams.

No... that's wild

Its not a philosophical breakthrough but rather the application of existing philosophies that are not new. That's what is so fascinating about bitcoin. This attempt I sometimes see to disconnect bitcoin from the ideas that predate it is silly to me.

Indeed

Amen!

Yeah, people also hate to feel like they are in the out group.

I've found that most people lack any sense of consistency and logic when it comes to politics and government. They behave like toddlers. They want what they want and don't care if you don't want that or if it hurts you. This is both on the right and the left.

Agree with you on the scrolling part but I find Nostr boring due to the low value content most days. That said, its a solvable problem. I find SN far better of an experience but SN is not Nostr. Its just a web site.

I will add, I like that RFK brings up these topics and has for decades. I once fell for these lies. RFK was a part of me seeing how these sick systems works. The revolving door between state and industry. The sweet deals these scumbags in government get from the industry. The protection the industry gets from "regulation". Its all terrible.

Where I think RFK gets it wrong is that the FDA should not be a monopoly. It really should just compete with private industry watchdogs that compete for credibility. The root problem is that the state has so much weight in most people's eyes. Even after Covid. Its wild to think about but people still care about government recommendations. You are always gonna have groups that try to game the system. To me the only real solutions to fight against this is competition and breaking the sacred place state blessing of products holds.

I don't do something because the state says its safe. That's VERY foolish to me. Sadly, this is not a common view.

I support people's choice to put whatever they want in their bodies. But that support ends at THEIR bodies. And it is downright evil the relationship between pharma and the state which pushes these products on people using fear and social pressure as well as real state power. Its a hard line that I will not be pushed on.

I disagree. It might not be as common but I know people that are VERY anti-corporation to the point of opposing capitalism itself. Plenty of democrats like to pretend they hate corporations. I run into them quite often. They would not call themselves socialist or commies. The are democrats or progressives.

The commies I've encountered usually aren't pro-indemnity, they just think the tech should be run by the state altogether. They lack the ability to understand that the state itself is a corporation. Or at least functions as one would if it had an incredible monopoly and therefore is unaffected by the good parts of free-market pressures.

I think number three is probably less common but I've encountered it a lot. Granted, plenty of these people are fake. After all, they talk a big game while using their iPhones and driving their Teslas.

Its a hard truth for one to accept. Especially when they have been endocrinated with the virtue of democracy and the myth of the social contract.

Yeah, in that sense 100%.

The problem with these kinds of thing is that you aren't comparing static things. But also you can't explain all the price differences in this way as the state / local gov has a massive impact on top.

IMO people make decisions on where to live based on bad over generalized data and don't focus enough on designing the life they want and using that as the criteria for comparison.

Being close to an ocean is one example factor. What's that worth to you. Do you also want as little government as possible? Do you care more about fuel or home costs?

Those are non-tangible so don't really seem to be a factor on how much a 100 bucks will buy.

But you make a great point.

I would add that intra-state prices differ as well. San Francisco is dramatically more costly than most of California.

I've used Pihole for years as well as uBlock origin. When I don't have them it's painful. There are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Sometimes I need to disable uBlock. That's easy. Sometimes someone in the house needs to disable pihole. They can switch their DNS on I can temporarily (automatic toggle) Pihole.

I seriously do not know how people use the Internet without DNS filtering and script blocking. The Internet is a cespool of ads and trash. The tradeoff on these tools are worth it to me.

We all think we have it. Then women enter the vehicle. Now we never have a clue where we are going.

I remember going out to dinner with clients and our consulting team and they were all talking about some show. One of them asked what show I was into right now. This was around 2016 and my honest answer was Russian Dashcam footage on YouTube. That got some reactions and I immediately knew the people I would click with.