Yeah, that’s right, guys. I’m a digital nomad now. I’m a digital nomad, which is probably the most millennial thing possible, right? In case you zoomers don’t know about digital nomads, it’s the lamest thing in the universe. It’s basically where you’re homeless, but you’re rich because your parents gave you a lot of money. So, you just go to different countries, don’t have a home, and you just live with people you met on the internet or live in hotels. You spend like $100,000 a year on housing and flights and rental cars, or like actually having a car and moving it all over the world, like from overseas and stuff like that. It’s the most bug man thing possible.
Anyway, I’m doing my own kind of digital nomadism. I wanted to do a stream. Okay, here’s the deal: I want to do streams regularly. As you know, I do not have internet at my house. Basically, I don’t have internet at my house. I get like 300 KB down. That’s how slow my download speed is, and it’s something like 20 KB up. Okay, so you do the math. You guess how long it takes for me to upload a video from my house. So anyway, I literally checked myself into a hotel just so we can do a stream. It’s a cheap hotel. I had to drive like an hour, but I figured I wasn’t doing anything this early this week, so I’ll do it just for fun.
Of course, that means I got to make up my costs. So that means you actually have to give donations. All right? Got to give—actually, I think people have already given a couple super chats. I’ll have to check on that. Um, so yeah, if I can actually get a good, you know, like spending money or whatever from streams, I’ll do them regularly. It’s just I got to do travel, you know? I got to drive like an hour or so.
Anyway, I’m going to go ahead and start reading comments people have already put in with donations because I think I had the chat going for a couple hours while I was getting here. Uh, anyway, so in the news, well, I’ll just read what people have sent in. I got $10 from—who is this from? From Brian. He has a donation message: “Is the Dways Bible based or cringed? And are you voting for Donald Duck?”
Um, so Dways, for people who don’t know, I think that’s how you pronounce it. I don’t actually know. I’m pretty sure it’s Dways. But it’s basically one of the original Catholic translations of the Bible. It was published a little bit before the King James version. I would consider it based, definitely based. I mean, it’s basically like the King James version. In fact, when the King James version translators got lazy, they just stole passages from the Dways.
I mean, obviously, like KJV was done by Protestants, and again, the Dways was done by Catholics, but you know, that’s one of the differences. Um, so yeah, that’s that. I don’t have a copy of it though. I will say that I usually use the King James or sometimes New King James if I’m around normies, and they’ll like autistically screech if they don’t want to hear like King James English or something like that because it’s hard for people to understand or something like that, which is silly.
You know, the nice thing about the King James version and New King James as well—New King James is just like, you know, made it a little bit more modern. But the good thing about them is they’re like really formally loyal translations. They translate things more or less—not literally, but like they’ll translate prepositions and metaphors pretty much literally. Um, so a lot of other versions will like take the originals and guess what they think they mean and then put in their own version of like when you’re looking at theological passages, it makes a big difference.
Um, so yeah, I definitely support using Dways. It’s good. King James is good. New King James is okay. Um, so let me turn off that notification sound. Um, and the other question: are you voting for Donald Duck, aka Orange Boomer? Of course, I’m voting for Donald Bluff. Um, isn’t everyone on this channel? Um, yeah. I have no opinion on if he’s actually going to win. We’ll have to see about that. I mean, a couple weeks ago, I was like, “It’s like 50/50. Who knows?” I think I’m leaning more to him winning at this point, but you never know.
You know, you just got to be—you just got to prep, you know? I mean, one of the reasons I actually moved out into the middle of nowhere—I don’t know if I’ve told people this—is because back when the 2016 election was happening, and things were getting really intense, and it was right before the election happened, like for the whole time I was like, “Oh yeah, Trump’s definitely going to win. It’s like no contest.” Um, but you know, maybe the week before, I was like, “Oh dude, you know, all these polls, they’re so terrible and stuff like this, and maybe, you know, Hillary’s going to win or something like that.”
It was during that period I actually decided, okay, regardless of the outcome, I have to move out of the city. Like that’s the priority because, you know, that’s going to be where all the bad stuff is happening. I’m glad I did. I missed all this Corona stuff. Um, you know, where I live, of course, everywhere around like the big—like this city that I’m in now, you know, everything’s like you have to wear masks, except for no one wears them, you know?
Um, but yeah, I’m so glad. And the same thing is true now: like if you’re in a city, it doesn’t matter who wins, like you need to make plans to move out of a city pretty much ASAP because you’re not going to go wrong. Um, all right. Let me pull up—uh, so that was a donation. Thanks again for the donation, Brian. Um, but yeah, let me actually go ahead and—and that was a zel donation. Like, if you want different methods of donating, go to my link over there. You can donate through cryptocurrencies or whatever, PayPal.
Um, remember, of course, like obviously I take YouTube super chats, but like YouTube takes off a good—like if you donate a couple bucks, they’ll take off like 30% of that or something ridiculous. So, if you donate some other way, I will read them out. I’ll read the email or whatever. Um, okay. So, anyway, let me actually look at this. Some super chats have actually gone ahead and come in. Um, yeah, the chat is moving so fast, like I’m trying to keep up with it.
Um, okay. So, a couple—well, there were actually some from the other day when I did a premiere. Um, Gum Butter sent in $5 and said, “Proud of you, boy.” Uh, I guess that was during the app image snap pack. Snap pack. Is that what it’s called? Snapcraft, whatever it is. Uh, yeah. Video. I felt like I needed to do that because again, it was totally nuts to me that like Snapcraft and Flatpack have just become so common, and I never heard anyone criticizing them at all.
Like even, you know, the thing is like take systemd, okay? People criticize systemd all the time, like, “Oh, it sucks.” Like even if systemd is totally free software, it’s not like out of its own domain. It’s not really doing that much weird stuff. Well, frankly, like as time goes on, it gets bigger and bigger, and that can be problematic. But, um, so it was weird, especially that people are so critical of systemd that you don’t hear these radically new, incompatible package managing applications being criticized. That was always weird to me.
Um, actually, I’m going to look at this chat for a second. I don’t know. Um, is the quality of the video good? Uh, I’m actually on Wi-Fi now. I don’t know how bad it is or good it is, but, um, I mean, it looks—no one’s complaining, it looks like. So, um, yeah, I actually decided to stream at 720p because I thought I could get away with it here because the internet’s actually pretty good. This is a pretty cheap hotel. I might come back here again if I’m just going to stream. It’s a relatively cheap hotel compared to the other ones, but it looks like the internet’s good. In fact, they have an Ethernet plugin, but I didn’t bring an Ethernet cord.
Um, okay. So, anyway, let me keep reading. Um, okay. So, again, from yesterday, uh, Nate Edwards sends in $5, a cookie for a boomy. Thank you. Uh, Marco Maya sends in 25 real. Uh, he says, “Must consume.” All right. Thank you. Uh, Ralph, this is today just now. Ralph sends in 275 or 79 in Canadian dollars. Enjoy the two fraudulent treasury notes. Thank you.
Um, make stuffers sends in 200 rubles. Stop using ffmpeg and use gstreamer instead, you bald gnumer. Um, why would it—what gstreamer? Why would I—is that a command line application? I don’t even know. Um, Marco Maya sends in 25 real and says, “Sal, Luke, Sal.” Um, A8 Linux sends in 400 rubles. I wonder how much that is. I don’t know how much is a ruble right now. I assume that’s ruble. I assume that’s like $2, you know.
Um, I’ll just find out just so I know how. Anyway, he says—what does he say? You look like linen. Okay, thank you. Whatever. I’ve never heard that one before. Um, let’s see. Yeah, I think that’s a couple bucks. Anyway, um, Ice the Lane sends in 4,000 COP. I wonder what C—people are always sending in these weird currencies. He doesn’t have a comment, but I’ll read. Let’s see. COP currency. I got to find out what these are. You know, I don’t keep up with Forex anymore. I used to be an economics major. I used to know most of the important currencies, but I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of COP.
What is this? Ugh, oh, Colombian Pesos. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, and Crazy Red sends in £10. Uh, here’s some shekels for the digital nomad trust fund. Are you even using that room for the night or just here for the stream? I actually will be staying here over—oh, yeah. The other thing I meant to say, so this town—I’ll go ahead and dox myself. Okay, I’m in Valdosta, Georgia right now. So, if there’s a Luke Smith fan club in Valdosta, Georgia at the university, you can feel free to email me. I’ll be here till maybe—I’ll be here tomorrow morning at least. I might do something.
I have to get—I was actually going to go further, go to another town and do another stream, but I’m actually going to go back home. Some family members invited me to dinner tomorrow night, so I’m not going to go too far. Um, but I will be here, so if you’re in Valdosta, feel free to contact me. Um, especially if there are like multiple people who know each other, uh, who know me. Um, I actually used to go to—for one year, I went to Valdosta State University. So, I actually drove by the campus just as it’s actually mostly the same way, although they were building the student union when I was here last.
Um, okay, let’s see. Um, $5 from King James, FYI. Uh, he says, “Thank you for your Vim tutorial. Working with Linux for the past year and missing the progress of Windows and Mac OS makes me realize I became too stupid to use them. Trying to set up a second account on Windows 10.” Yeah. I mean, especially—I mean, Mac OS, one good thing about that is it doesn’t change that much, but Windows, you know, the big pain of it is even though it’s supposed to be an operating system that everyone is using, right? They change everything about it every year.
Like every time, you know, I’ll be on a Windows machine every once in a while and will want me to fix something, and like every time I get on there, it’s like everything has changed. I have to figure out how it works now. Um, that’s a big annoyance about Windows. Um, so yeah, I don’t know. I don’t feel like I have—like the thing is, I’m still way more competent than a normie when it comes to anything on a computer, even if it’s like Mac OS or some modern variety of Windows. But, um, it’s still like, “Oh dude, this is so weird. I want the classic control panel,” you know?
Um, $2 from Ivonne Ivan. Uh, you made you mad, Boomer. You scared the [h__h] out of me. I’ve opened a tab and forgot about it. Okay, so you—I surprised you. Um, now I need a new pair of underwear. Thanks a lot. By the way, if you don’t have internet at home, how do you download DM DWM patches? I don’t need to download them. Besides, they’re just like text files. Who cares?
Um, okay. So, uh, Nathan sends in 20 bucks. I don’t see a donation written on this, but thank you for the $20, Nathan. Um, or a donation comment. Uh, let’s see. Um, okay. I’m just checking—test looking at the—uh, if we have good stream quality. Um, all right, it looks good. I’m going to go ahead and close all these other windows out just in case the internet gets bad.
Um, okay, so $5 from Chris. Thoughts on micro kernels? What do you think about making a seal for desktop? Uh, I’m not quite sure what that is. SE4. Am I stupid? Is that something I should know? Or is that like a gamer term or something that I don’t know anything about? I have no idea. Oh, it’s a micro kernel. Yeah, I don’t—I can’t tell you anything about micro kernels. I don’t really have—like there are domains of things that I’m not interested in in computing.
Um, so I can’t tell you anything about them. Um, 10 Australian dollars from FF_. Are you spending the night at this hotel? The staff will surely assume the worst if they check out a few hours later. If only they knew. Yeah, I’m staying here. I’m staying here. I might as well get my money’s worth. Might as well do something in the big city while I’m here—in the big city of Valdosta, Georgia. I mean, when I was a kid, of course, you know, I went—as I mentioned, I went here for school for one year, my freshman year in college, and um, like when I—I just remember thinking it’s like the smallest town in the universe. I was like, “This place is so small.”
It’s actually bigger than it used to be. Driving around here is a big pain. Uh, but now it’s like the big city. Like people around here are like, “Oh, Valdosta, that’s like the big city.” Um, actually, a lot has—like there used to be an old mason house across the hall there. Where is it? It’s somewhere around here. I don’t know. There used to be an old mason house, and um, that me—it was abandoned, and me and my friends, we would just go out there and just like explore it. It was like an abandoned building, uh, like shrubs growing all over the place. I think there were a couple homeless people there.
Um, but now there’s like a hotel where it was and stuff like that. A lot has changed. Um, the whole place looks different. Like the university is pretty much the same, but you know, the town’s a lot different, and it is a big, big pain to drive around. Um, 400 HUF. What do I want to guess that that currency is? I’m going to look that up. HUF. I wish they would just like tell me what they are. Uh, anyway, 400 HUF from SaltMaster. Uh, how to kindly content creator Emac Lisp. Yikes. I think he’s just putting in words that he thinks are banned on my channel.
Oh, that’s Hungarian currency. Okay. Well, thank you for your Hungarian currency. Um, Eric sends in 10 Canadian dollars. You might be interested in checking out the Orthodox Study Bible. It includes all the deuterocanonical apocryphal books translated from the Septuagint. Um, thanks. Love your channel and your takes. All right. Thanks for the donation. Yeah, I’ve thought about getting something like that. I do have—I mean, I have the Septuagint. I thought I might have brought it to the host. Actually, let me see. Well, no, I didn’t bring the Septuagint.
I do have—so this is probably the book. I don’t know. This is like the book that I’ve read most in my life. This is a bilingual New Testament. So, it’s like Latin on one side and Greek on the other. I got this as a present when I was like 16 after I started learning Latin, and I also sort of learned Greek from this, like, you know, looking at one and looking at the other. Um, but that’s just the New Testament. I do have a Septuagint for the—for boomers or zoomers who don’t know, the Septuagint is the Greek Old Testament. Okay, that was translated a little bit before, um, you know, Jesus, before that period.
And of course, it has the so-called deuterocanonical or apocryphal books in it, uh, which a lot of definitely Protestants don’t include any of this stuff. Some Catholics don’t include some of them. Um, but, uh, what was I going to say? I don’t know. Um, okay. Uh, got to refresh my donations. Um, Marco Maya sends in 25 real. Uh, $5 from the Brazilian merchants guild. Thank you, Brazilian merchant. You’re my greatest ally.
Um, five pounds from Rogue Halo. Got any updates on Larsbs that you can share? Updates? Uh, I try not to update it at all. That’s the thing. Like, it’s pretty stable now. It used to be like I’d make some radical change every week. Now it’s very stable in terms of, you know, it’s just bug fixing. There are some bugs right now that are annoying me to no end that I need to get rid of. The biggest one is at least on Arctics, on Arctics with Run It. Okay, there’s audio problems. And this isn’t just on a new install of Larsbs. This actually happens on my own computer where, uh, if you just start—um, when you start your computer and let’s say you pull up your browser and then look up—um, any play a video with sound, the sound won’t start.
Like Pulse Audio does not start on Run It. Um, if you have Run It as an init system unless there’s like some—only in Chrome. That’s the weird thing, or a Chromium browser. Obviously, got to use Brave, not freaking Chrome because I’m not, you know, an ignorant boomer. But, um, yeah, what was I saying? Uh, I have not figured out that problem. People have given me solutions that I’ve implemented. None of them are perfect. I think it has something to do with fluid sync. I even changed the settings for that, but I don’t know. That’s the biggest annoyance right now on Larsbs.
Um, and people have continually suggested me to, you know, make an ISO. Um, and you know, there’s a point for that. I mean, I don’t want to market it as a dro because it’s not a dro. Absolutely. Like I’m totally against making new dros. There are plenty of dros. Um, and, uh, I just—if anything, I sort of like how it is now. You install Arch or Arctics, and then you run Larsbs, and you get this desktop environment. Um, I think it’s—I don’t know, but I’ve thought about doing an ISO just maybe. Um, that’s an option.
Okay, let me check. Uh, but yeah, in general, I try not to make any changes to Larsbs. Well, it’s not that—not even that I try that. Like now at this point, my system is so stable. Like, you know, I know some people think that my channel—what separated my channel from a lot of other earlier tech channels is that, you know, I had this fancy configured system that looked cool and did all this weird stuff, and it wasn’t because like I don’t even think of myself as like a riser. I mean, if anything, because my desktop has never looked good.
I mean, it’s always been functional. Like I’m always like, “Oh, let me optimize this. Let me get like—let me communicate things. Let me be able to see information clearly, uh, open things up quickly,” but I’m not a riser. Like, I’m not—there are some people who do that and do it, you know, make very impressive things. Um, trying to think like IBSD, you know, he has a BSD machine, but what’s his name? Donovan. Um, he has—he’s done some really impressive stuff. Um, and there are other risers, but I’m just not one of them, you know? I’m just like all about efficiency.
And earlier on my channel, when I was figuring things out when I switched over to DWM, I was always changing stuff. But now I’ve converged on something that’s pretty optimal for my purposes, and you know, other people like it. And you know, the golden hour is just making it accessible and extensible to people. Um, so like newbies can get on it and figure out what’s actually happening.
Um, okay, so Matteo sends in $5. Hey Luke, I’ve already told you how you helped me become more internet independent and helped me cut my bad habits, uh, which made me closer to God. Are you aware that you have been such a positive influence on so many viewers? Uh, and how does it feel? I mean, you don’t—I mean, the internet, as far as I know, like me doing stuff on the internet, it doesn’t feel real. Okay? Like, there might be thousands of people who know me in the world, but it’s always weird when real life connects with someone I know or, you know, someone—I meet someone from online that knows me or something like that.
So, I’ll tell you, it definitely doesn’t feel like—I don’t wake up every day and it’s like, “Wow, I’m sure doing a great thing for people.” I—you definitely—I mean, if it did feel like that, I wouldn’t want to feel like that because that sounds arrogant or whatever. Um, but yeah, I mean, it’s basically the same as anyone else’s life. It’s just maybe I have a footprint that, um, you know, more people are in touch with. Um, so I don’t know, but you could probably say that about a lot of people.
I mean, the weird thing—it is weird to compare it to like other, I guess, positions of authority that I’ve had, like when I taught in universities, right? You know, you think you’re having all this effect on people’s lives because they’re in your class, right? You’re giving them your anecdotes. You’re redpilling them on whatever. Um, but then, you know, I just look at, oh, I can just put up a video and it gets 10,000 views. If it’s a bad video, it’ll only get like 10,000 views, and that has much more effect. You know what I mean?
Or like you look at the view time hours. That’s the weird thing. Like people have been watching me for like lifetimes, you know, in terms of view hours. That’s the weirdest part, you know? Um, but no, like you—it doesn’t make me feel—I can’t—well, I definitely don’t feel arrogant because I don’t feel like it—it doesn’t feel like a real thing. You know, it’s not something you experience directly.
Um, I don’t know if it’s obvious, but you know, I’m one of those people—I don’t think the internet’s real, you know? Uh, and I don’t act that way. Maybe it’d make me nervous if I did feel like that. Um, but yeah, that’s why I do whatever. I don’t care about like video quality or something like that or like, you know, quality in terms of like special effects and lighting and stuff like that because I don’t know. Fundamentally, just one day I started putting up videos and, um, you know, didn’t really expect it to go anywhere.
Um, so anyway, thanks for your $5, Matteo. Uh, Uncle Bed sends in $2.36. Any considerations on bed chair beds/chairs? Should we live more in contact with the ground like in eastern cultures and be comfortable with sleeping and sitting without the aid of such cumbersome structures? I don’t know if—well, there was an old meme, right? Um, a couple years ago, you might remember from when I originally started doing streams where I told people like, “Oh, I sleep on the floor,” and I did for a long period. Like I’d just sleep on either the carpet or like a pad of reflectix, and I just have a cover, and that’s what I—and it’s not—it’s great for your back. It’s fantastic.
Um, and when I do sleep on a bed, like I use pillows, but like I basically put my head between pillows and have it facing directly on the bed. Yeah, beds—like I feel like—and of course, always sleep on your back. Like don’t sleep on your stomach or something stupid like that. That’s like bad for you. Uh, but yeah, sometimes like the comfort of a bed can be like, you know, it’ll undermine your spine and stuff like that. So, you know, it’s one of those things.
Um, but I don’t—I sleep in a bed pretty consistently now. Since I’ve moved into the cabin, I basically I’ve slept on a bed every single night. I haven’t even slept on the floor. I haven’t even—I haven’t even slept out. I thought—I thought when I moved out here I’d be like, “Oh, I could just go out any night and like sleep in my hammock,” and I could. But I haven’t actually done that. So, maybe I should. I need a better hammock, though. My hammock broke pretty recently. Uh, because I had it outside too much, and it dried out and tore. It’s an old Eno hammock.
Um, yeah, I need—I need one of those. Yeah, donations will go to that. I need one of those. Um, no, donations will probably—if I get enough donations, I’ll probably just do streams relatively frequently. Like I mean, at this point, since I’m not wage-cooking right now, I could do one like a week or something like that, but it’s only if I make okay money from it. Um, but, uh, you know, the effect might lessen over time.
Okay, so, um, so if sends in 10 Australian dollars, I assume $8 is Australian. I’m just going to guess. I say, “Starting my own personal site as per your recommendation has been very personally rewarding. For any Zoomer looking for a free host, Neocities looks decent for static content.” Yeah, Neo Cities is a good site. And of course, my recommendation is long-term, you want to have your own VPS. Um, so, you know, I use Vulture. You can go, you know, whatever. You can click my affiliate link, and I get $25 if you spend $25 on it.
But, uh, either like I recommend—I mean, not just Vulture, but like any VPS is nice because you can do a whole—like you have a website, but you can also do a lot of other stuff. But Neo Cities, if you’re just wanting to make a static page, Neo Cities is very nice. And, um, I guess Zoomers might not even know what Geocities is. Geocities was like back in the old days of the internet, back when the internet was actually good. Geocities was like the best website on the planet because anyone could go and—well, you had to imagine how things were before search engines. Like everything had to be link-related.
Okay? So like, you know, you have a homepage, and then, you know, you can’t go to google.com and search for stuff, or even if you knew that you could do that, a lot of people didn’t know that. So, you know, you’d have a link to this site, Geocities, and Geocities was like, “Okay, we have a million categories—automobiles, sports, culture, politics,” and you could click on one of those categories, and then they would list out a million Geocities sites that you can make on their site, and they would link—like you could go through subcategories and eventually get to those, um, you know, people’s individual pages.
That’s what they’re called, Geocities, because they’re supposed to be little cities. Like, “Oh, here’s the politics city, here’s the sports city,” you know, they’re all sort of like subpages. But yeah, that was like—everyone—Geocities is like the best historical website ever. It doesn’t exist anymore, although there are archives of it. Like there are people—you can download terabytes and terabytes of like Geocities sites. You can get the whole thing, and um, it’s just interesting. I don’t have it, of course, but I don’t have that much storage space. Maybe I should get it.
Um, all right. So, yeah, Neo Cities is nice if you just want a simple page, but I do recommend getting a VPS. Um, okay. Um, that sends in $2. I know you’ve spoken negatively about politics, so did you vote? Uh, next week will be interesting. I mean, what do you mean by negatively about politics? I’m not that interested in the ins and outs of politics, and I don’t—I can’t talk about them on YouTube, obviously, because I’m too based and red-pilled. Uh, but yeah, I’m going to vote, of course. I’m going to vote for Orange Boomer.
Um, uh, everyone is. Um, so yeah, I’m not like V—I’m definitely not like a Varg guy where Varg’s like, “Oh, you need to be independent, and you need to be so independent from the system that you don’t even like vote.” Because even that, even if you like do your normal life and then spend one hour going to vote, that’s like totally cut. I’m absolutely against that. That’s totally cringe. Um, I might not even believe that there is a solution within the political system, but you have to do everything you can to, uh, just push things in a direction that are going to be least harmful.
Like there’s no way—like if Biden and Harris got in as president, um, and or you have like Democrats in the House and Senate, that—I mean, that would be—I mean, these people have openly said, “Oh yeah, we’re going to like prosecute, uh, you know, so-called white nationalists,” which of course that basically means anyone right now. Um, like you already see like everyone has basically been kicked off of Twitter and Facebook or shadowbanned from YouTube or stuff like this, and you know, the next stage—like if they can’t silence you by pushing you off these sites, they’re going to start prosecuting people on trumped-up charges, and they’ve already done this with a lot of people.
You know, like the little car accident in Charlottesville that’s, you know, they tell normies is a, you know, terrorist attack or something stupid. This little kid got thrown in for like 450 years for a car accident. It’s so stupid. Um, but, uh, anyway, that’s how it is. Like things are serious. Um, don’t be [h__h] and not vote for the Orange Boomer. Um, like, but, uh, yeah, I mean, that doesn’t mean that I think like things are just going to be hunky-dory. Um, if he does win, because obviously, you know, he won last time, and the banhammer still came down, but things are only going to get worse if you give his enemies power, you know.
Um, okay, so anyway, let me look at super chats. I think I got a couple. Um, uh, Banomo sends in 20. Thanks a lot. Um, sorry, I’m tired. I’m going to bed. Good night, Luke. Yeah, the thing is I pretty much always do my—well, good night, but I always do my streams at a time that, uh, um, you know, it’s bad for Europeans or something like that. I may, you know what? Maybe if I don’t have anything to do tomorrow morning, maybe I’ll do a stream that like the other side of the world could see. I’ll think about that.
Um, let’s see. Okay, so, uh, $5 from Valerie. No comment on that, but thanks for the $5. Um, okay. Did I get—did I finally get through all the donations? Oh, no, not quite. Oh, there are already more. Um, $2 from Dakota. Podcast recommendations. Thoughts on religious studies major? Um, podcast. Okay. Well, well, I’ll do religious studies majors first. Um, probably cringe and blue-pilled. Um, you really want to major in theology. I mean, that would be like never make any studies a bad idea because that probably just means some, like, you know, leftist department or something like that that was founded 10 years ago.
But theology departments wouldn’t be as bad, um, if they exist in your school. Uh, you always want to go for things that have existed for hundreds of years because they’re probably institutionally better, and it’s not a bunch of neo-lights, um, you know, in their own made-up literature. Um, but yeah, I mean, obviously, well, in case people don’t know, I’m totally against college. You shouldn’t go at all. So, I’m talking in the world where you’re forced to go to college for some reason, which you want—you totally should drop out.
Um, but, uh, but as for podcast recommendations, no, I don’t really have any. Uh, I’m sort of—I mean, I even have a podcast. And the reason I don’t put up videos or that many episodes is because like I feel like podcasts are a big time sink, okay? In terms of like a lot of people just get in, “Oh, well, I have like five podcasts that come out weekly that I listen to,” and that really adds up sometimes. And there have been times that I listen to like a podcast or two, um, and I feel like a lot of it is just like, “Oh, let me listen to my friends on audio,” or something like that.
So I feel like usually they’re not the best things to do. Uh, I’ll give you—I mean, of course, there’s my podcast, notrelated.xyz, which I’ll put out more episodes for. It’ll eventually happen. Um, but, um, I mean, I just want quality. I don’t want to like, you know, reduce—do things more often or do something when they’re not inspired. Um, but you know, notrelated.xyz, other ones that I’ve recommended in the past, um, the insight by Raze Khan and Spencer Wells. Um, they’re geneticists, and they do—they do like different topics. Frankly, I think they’ve sort of branched out. They just interview random people now.
But, um, some of their earlier stuff on genetics is really good. Um, and then the myth of the 20th century is pretty good too. That’s more like based in red-pilled stuff, and they talk about, you know, a bunch of different—a variety of things. Um, but I’ve only listened a little bit to their stuff. I know that I want to say those guys either watch my channel or a lot of their people watch my channel. Um, and I think you’ll see some overlap. Like, you know, they do stuff on like Ted Kazinski or something like that, or I think they did a couple years ago.
Um, which is not even to assume that, you know, my channel’s about that. That’s just, you know, um, a recurring meme here. I don’t exactly know when the Ted Kazinski meme started. Uh, here. Um, okay. So, anyway, uh, let me look back at, uh, so Hakee sends in two pounds. DWM tabs and lars don’t work with an AZERTY keyboard. Yeah, I know. You have to just—um, well, there are a couple ways I could deal with that. Well, I’m probably not going to deal with that. I’ll just tell you that.
Um, you basically have to be an English speaker to use it. Um, what you can do for that, hypothetically, if you wanted to fix it, there’s a patch for DWM where you can change instead of like key sims, you use key codes, or is it the other way around? Whatever. And, uh, you could set them to particular key code numbers. Um, except for that’s just a lot of effort, and it makes the source code like—I don’t know. I just—it’s hard to tell which one’s which. You have to comment everything. Maybe I’ll do it in the future. Maybe if someone makes a pull request, I guess I’ll accept it if it’s not ugly.
Um, but, uh, yeah, I don’t know. I don’t have a big plan on doing that. Um, yeah, but I know that that happens. Um, okay, so anyway, thanks for the donations. Uh, we’ll see. Um, fish kung fu sends in $10. Is Exorg really dead? Is Wayland ready to replace Exorg? Okay, that’s a shill comment, dude. No one get this Wayland stuff out of here. No one cares. No one cares about Wayland. Yeah, there are people who think Arch users are strident and annoying. Wait till you hear a Wayland user. It’s the worst thing ever.
Um, and the thing is like—and of course, the thing—the reason it’s most annoying is like a lot of the stuff that the Wayland supporters say is true. “Oh yeah, Xorg has problems. Exorg blah blah blah. Wayland deals with this. It’s more minimal. It’s blah blah blah.” But it’s like it is such a pain to use it. It is such a—because all these programs are working for Xorg, and you have to use these weird emulators or stuff to get basic functionality. And of course, DWM—there is a build of DWM, like maybe it’s like DWL or something like that that’s supposed to be Wayland-based. I forget exactly what its name is, but you know, to get all the patches you know and love from DWM.
I mean, it’s basically a different program, you know? So to make all the patches you know and love work, I mean, you’re basically not going to be able to do them because a lot of them use like XProp or some other kind of Xorg stuff. So, it’s pretty much—there’s no way unless someone, like again, gives me a magical PR that fixes everything that I’m ever going to switch to Wayland. Just not going to happen. Um, I mean, it’s one of those things. It’s like, you know, the VHS-Betamax debate where people are like, “Oh, VHS is superior,” or “or inferior,” even though it became popular. Same thing here.
Like Wayland might be superior, but no one cares. Like nothing’s built for it, and it’s a pain to run now because nothing is built for it. So sorry, that’s just how it is. It’s the same thing for people who don’t want—who—the worst thing is when people want to use alternate keyboard layouts like Dvorak or Colemak or something that’s going to cause you literally nothing, like for the alleged—well, actually, it’s even worse there because there’s basically no actual benefit to not using QWERTY.
Um, like they pretend, “Oh, it’s better for your fingers,” or whatever, but it’s like maybe if you get pro at it, there’ll be like a marginal benefit, basically unmeasurable, basically statistical noise. Um, but it’s like—it will cause nothing but frustration and pain and just suffering if you ever have to learn it. And then it especially if you’re like—if you’re like one of the people who watches this channel and configures their system and wants everything on key bindings or wants to be able to use Vim, you know, something basic like that, you know, just forget about it. Nothing but a pain.
Um, so JWWW sends in $5 and says, “Thoughts on Section 230.” So that—um, so that’s a thing that I think Blump is supposed to either repeal or change or whatever that basically takes away some of the privileges of like tech companies or—okay, what is it? Let me be absolutely clear about it. This is like the—okay, let me—I probably should actually pull it up, but it’s supposed to be basically like, uh, companies on the internet. The thing is—or like websites, um, traditionally they have been immune.
Like if you post some threats on Facebook, okay, Facebook is not legally responsible for that kind of stuff because they’re not a publisher. Uh, I think 230 is the thing that says, “Oh, well, they’re not liable for that.” Okay, the thing is—I mean, and this has been said by a lot of people—like Facebook and Twitter are now effectively publishers because if you post something on Facebook and Twitter, um, and they disagree with you politically, they ban you or they shadowban you. That effectively makes them publishers that frankly should have—you know, that is how it should be, you know?
Uh, they should not be considered—they’re not public forums. They’re not immune from the responsibility if they’re taking responsibility for the content that’s on their site. They need to be responsible for all of it. So, how it is now is, you know, they say, “Oh, well, we’re against this political speech because it’s, you know, hate speech or something like that.” You know, these boomers sharing, you know, QAnon stuff, you know, this absolute cringe like basic center-right content. We’re against this. This is hate speech. Oh, but everything else—all the other people, like, you know, on our side that are like planning violence and doing all this terrible stuff. Oh, we’re in an open forum, so they can post that, which is, you know, the whole thing is BS.
Um, now, of course, a lot of people have criticized—I’ve seen good criticisms of like the 230 repeal or change, like it’s going to have like unexpected outcomes, and that’s probably actually true. But the important thing is Blump is sort of aware that this is a problem and is willing to actually do things. Um, so that’s nice at least. But, um, yeah, there will definitely be unintended consequences. Uh, if it actually happens, it probably won’t. Knowing Blump, nothing—he never does anything right. Um, or like he’ll even say when he’s going to do something, right?
Oh, I say, “Oh, I’m going to have an executive order telling, uh, you know, declaring that, um, uh, birthright citizenship isn’t a real thing for illegal immigrants because it’s never been ruled on in a court.” He said he was going to do that two years ago and never did it. You know, just, you know, all the most base things he never does. Um, things that would be very easy for him to do with executive orders. Um, but yeah, so I don’t know. Um, I don’t really have an opinion on it. I think that, um, there—the real solution is something a little bit more extreme or specific.
Um, but yeah, like ultimately Twitter and Facebook—Twitter, like especially Twitter. Twitter again used to masquerade this as this kind of site where, “Oh, we’re the free speech wing of the free speech party.” Now, like if you post any kind of political opinion that’s not some insane consensus leftist opinion, you will be banned. You can’t even be like a Bernie [h__h] leftist on Twitter anymore without getting like censored in some way. You basically just have to be a shill to be on Twitter. Um, and that’s—that’s called a—Twitter is a publisher. Okay, that’s how it is. It exists to, you know, basically enforce an editorial line. So, it should be treated as a—a—a editorial company. That’s what it’s doing.
Um, okay. So, uh, let’s see what else. Ed sends in 25 bucks. Thank you for your 25 bucks. Uh, what do you think of GPI trying to fix? Oh, yeah, the same thing. Section 230 of the CDA. Uh, if you’ve heard about it, I think he might be able to at least mitigate the rampant censorship online. Yeah, I mean, I just said that. Thanks for your money. Um, but yeah, I think again I’m skeptical of it. Well, you know, I guess I’m happy that something’s happening, but I’m just a little skeptical that it’s going to happen.
Um, and it’s going to work the way it’s intended to. Like, you know, frankly, we’re—you’re going to have to do something a lot more drastic to these companies. Um, because like it’s not—it’s the culture of the companies. Like they’re going to find other ways to do this kind of stuff. And you know, they deliberately—maybe I should even—maybe I should talk about this, but you know, YouTube has really ramped up their censorship. Um, and I don’t—I don’t even mean like people getting banned. I mean, of course, they’re doing that, but um, it’s nuts. They actually micromanage comments now.
And it—you know, on my side, when I see comments come in on a video, I can see it happen. It’s crazy how it happens now. Like people have complained multiple times, um, of, “Oh, like comments saying this or that got deleted.” People email about—email me about them saying, “Why did—oh, I posted something based and red-pilled. Why did you delete it?” And it’s like, “No, I didn’t, dude.” Like, I guarantee you like these people micromanage channels now.
And the weirdest thing—there was actually—oh shoot, which one was it? There’s some video—I put up a while ago, and in the comment section, there was like, I don’t know, some like stereotypical leftist guy who was like calling everyone Nazi KKK or something like that. I forget exactly what they were talking about, but he was just like posting all this stuff, and people were sort of roasting him. All right? Uh, and I saw this comment thread, and of course, you know, this guy was—you know, all the people roasting them were getting good upcomings. You know, they had a bunch of likes on their posts.
Um, this other guy was just going nuts and like, you know, wasn’t getting likes, and that’s expected. But then I came back the other day—all the likes on those posts had been deleted. In fact, even I had liked some of them, and they had been deleted. And I was just like, “What?” I mean, this is something—I mean, if that is something that was actually—I guess theoretically it could be some kind of weird database error, but I just find that really unlikely.
Um, and there have been a lot of posts—even my own posts—like if I post something in a comment section. I posted something the other day, um, in my own comment section, I was like, “Oh, yeah, that’s gay,” or something like that. And that post was like immediately—like within a couple minutes deleted in my own comment section. You know, that’s the thing. So people—like YouTube is absolutely monitoring comments, deleting them, removing likes, I assume, putting on likes.
Like people have noticed in the past—there was a couple months ago, there was like some—or actually, no, this was around 2018. There was like this video that, uh, maybe it was like Bernie Sanders put out, okay? And it was like criticizing Trump about something, okay? Um, and then everyone in the comments realized that like it—you couldn’t downvote it. Like it had—it had a couple thumbs down. It had like three thumbs down and like a million thumbs up. And everyone in the comment section is like, “I just downvoted this,” or like, “If you downvoted this video, you know, like my comment,” and you’d have like a thousand com—or likes or something like that.
Um, and like those kind of things—and that’s happened multiple, multiple times on different videos. Like there’s some certain videos that YouTube will protect from being downvoted. Um, or downvote—why do I use Reddit terms? I’m usually making fun of Reddit, as you know—unliked, disliked, whatever. Um, so yeah, this kind of stuff happens all the time. It’s getting ridiculous. So now, like this is more—this is worse than like, “Oh, this is a platform that censors people,” even at the most basic level. They’re sort of manipulating these things to make themselves look good, to make their political opinions look popular or something like that.
And so that’s why I’m constantly thinking, “Oh, do I actually—I mean, even what we’re doing now, it would probably be nice eventually if I just have like, you know, an IRC chat window instead of the chat here, and we do that, and we have totally external donations and stuff like that because I don’t know how much longer I feel like we can keep using YouTube because it’s just getting so crazy.” Um, and I’ve said before, like a lot of the people—like old based comments get deleted, entire users get deleted. Um, and it’s always one direction, you know? It’s not the cringe people who get deleted, you know.
Um, anyway, uh, I need to actually start taking like screenshots when this stuff happens, you know? I need to like just record my screen as I scroll through my comment section because you’d be able to see that kind of stuff. Uh, okay. So, $2 from Plemic. Um, do you see any end to the Corona BS? There’s supposedly a new wave, but no one dies, and I feel like this feels like a way to take away civil rights. Well, yeah, people don’t have freaking civil rights anymore. I mean, that’s the craziest thing when this stuff happened.
I mean, I feel like a cuck because I didn’t speak out because I was just like, “Oh, maybe it’s serious.” Like everyone, even the most libertarian people were like, “Uh, whatever. I guess we’ll just shut down all businesses in the country because the government told us to.” Yeah, it’s insane. Um, I think that it—as for when it ends, I think it partially depends on who wins the election in the United States. Um, I think that if Biden wins, they’ll probably be like, “Oh, you know, it’s been magically fixed.” And then they’ll go back to—well, they’ll use it as a justification for more stupid stuff.
Um, but I—I mean, the main—like in the United States especially, and I think frankly the same thing even in other countries, you know, a lot of other countries are taking cues from the American media, frankly. And the American media, their goal the past year has been to just explode in hysteria about literally everything. They’ve been fomenting these race riots. They’ve been, you know, doing this fomenting this, you know, corona shutdown, which is basically just like, “Oh, a mild flu that maybe kills some old people,” you know?
Okay, interesting. I mean, again, I was a—I was a paranoia person when it first started, and now I’m like, “Yeah, dude.” I mean, the weird thing is, you know, originally it was like, “Okay, no one around me is getting it.” And then everyone around me got it. Like, all of my friends got it. All old people at our church got it. Guess who died? No one. No one died. Like, that’s the weird thing, you know? And the question is, I’ve actually heard of people who died. I have heard of people who died, but they’re like 90 years old, and they’re the kind of old people who like any random flu would have blown them down, you know?
Um, but what was I saying? So, as for when it ends, I think it’s going to be—I think it might be a permanent fixture of like the propaganda system, but I think most people are already sick of it. Like most people who are not like extreme leftists are already like, “Yeah, this is stupid.” Like, who cares? We’re back—like around here, even in this big city. It’s not a big city. It’s a small town, uh, college town. Um, people are totally over it. I mean, people in the country, they’re just totally over it.
Every—even every building has on signs, “You must wear a mask.” No one wears a mask. No one cares. Um, and I—but I think if Trump, um, you know, let’s say Trump wins the re-election, they’re going to keep going hysterical. They’re going to keep, you know, doing whatever. But again, it’s like one of these things. You can’t fake it at this point. You can’t convince people that like this is some plague where like a third of the population is going to die when obviously it’s not happening.
Like it was one thing when it was like something no one had been in contact with, but now that everyone is, you know, tested positive for this thing, you know, all of my friends have had it, you know, I’ve probably had it. I don’t know. I had a cough one day. Um, but, uh, yeah, people are not going to be able to be convinced that this is a—um, anything out of the ordinary. Um, I mean, the real question is, is this actually statistically any different? I mean, of course, it has bigger numbers than the flu did last year because, you know, the government is quite literally paying people, you know, with these relief programs to write people off as having this, you know, disease.
Same thing—insurance companies are like, “Oh, uh, well, you’re—these people aren’t insured for coronavirus. Uh, you know, check the insurance, check this—the small print.” Uh, so, you know, they want people to, you know, be diagnosed with this kind of stuff. Um, so the question is, if we didn’t have any kind of fingers on the scale, would it be any different from just the random strand of coronavirus that happens, you know, new strand that happens every year? I doubt it, frankly. Uh, maybe it’s worse, but it’s obviously not like world-shattering or anything, you know, notable.
Um, okay, uh, Monstro sends in $6. Um, uh, started learning Latin shortly after your last stream. Thanks so much for the recommendation. I’ve been having a blast doing it. Been using Color and Daniel’s First Year Latin. Great. Um, any other books to look out for? Um, well, I think I mentioned Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, LL PSI. Look that up. Um, that’s the one you want to get once you’re—once you know the, um, all of the—what’s it called? Um, the declensions and the conjugations and stuff like that.
That is the thing to read. Um, or look up—what is it? That old—hold on. What? What’s that old webpage? Uh, Latin by the Dowling method. Hold on. Let’s look that up. It’s like an old webpage. Um, and it has—yeah, Dowling method. D-O-W-L-I-N-G. It’s an old—like this old boomer wrote this little old webpage like way back in the day about how to learn Latin, and he’s basically like you memorize all the tables, you do all that kind of stuff, and Color and Daniel or any other old Latin book will help you with that.
Then you read Lingua Latina, you know, per lust strata, which is a fantastic book series. Um, because it’s just a reader. Um, all right, so yeah, good, good. It’s good that you’re learning Latin. Um, I’m actually rewriting my website right now. You haven’t—there are no changes you can see on my website right now, but I’m making it even simpler and more like old school. Um, but I’m also—I have some pages that I’ve already made on like how to learn languages and stuff like that.
Um, okay, let me look. Uh, $2 from Night King. Um, how would you generate side income as a soy dev in big tech? I’m a Euro, so it doesn’t pay even if it’s a pretty good—uh, pretty comfy job. Uh, I could do a gay white YouTube channel or maybe freelance. What would you do? Also, thoughts on Nick Fuentes? Greetings from Croatia. Um, I don’t know. That’s the kind of thing you got to figure out yourself. Uh, it depends on like what you can do, you know, what you’re willing to do.
Um, I mean, obviously what I did is I, you know, I just did whatever. Uh, and I sort of fig—like when I started my—like I, you know, I make enough money online to live. Um, I mean, I’m not rich. Don’t think I’m rich, by the way. Donate, please. Please don’t die. Um, but, um, you know, it’s the kind of thing you got to figure out based on your own strengths and what you’re interested in. I mean, if you’re interested in web dev, that’s one thing.
Uh, if you’re interested in writing programs or even the kind of stuff I do, you know, I just write free software and have sort of popularized it on YouTube and do some other things. Um, I don’t know. It’s the kind of thing I can’t tell you. Uh, I’d have to know your circumstance directly. Um, so what was I going to say? But yeah, I mean, a YouTube channel is a possibility if you just want to put stuff out there. Uh, don’t expect to get big, of course. You know, the vast majority of people don’t, but you know, I actually have a couple friends in real life who have YouTube channels, and they have like, you know, 10 subscribers or something like that.
So, people are always—actually, of the people I know who have YouTube channels, they’re basically all girls. Um, and you know, one of my friends has sort of asked me directly, “Can I get a shout-out from you?” And I was like, "Well, I could—I could talk about—we could do a video together, but, um, you’re just going to have a bunch of like simps and creeps watching your channel because she does like, you know, um, art and stuff like that. She’s a girl, you know?
Um, and I don’t think she realizes—or she probably does realize what my audience is. I think she just wants subscribers. Um, so maybe I’ll talk about—maybe I’ll do a video with her if, you know, I don’t mind you guys going to sim for her. Um, anyway, so also Night King asked, “Oh, what are your thoughts on Nick Fuentes?” Um, I mean, what I know of Nick Fuentes, I like—I’ve never really watched his streams or anything like that, or I think I’ve seen parts of his stuff, but yeah, I mean, he seems—he seems, um, he’s always had like a better vision.
Like back in the day where before everyone else got banned, right, Nick always had like a good vision like don’t do anything to make—you can make cringe jokes or like, you know, jokes that are a little too race-based and red-pilled. Um, but, uh, ultimately his thing has been like, you know, just be—you know, we represent morality and Christianity, and like, you know, our opponents are freaking evil, you know? It’s nothing personal, but, uh, it’s a lot better than the like really gay neo-Nazi larpers that are out there who I don’t know are just sort of stupid.
So Nick is—Nick is pretty good. Um, Nick’s very good. He’s one of the better ones out there. Um, greetings from Croatia. Thank you, Night King. Um, yeah, I don’t—I’ve never had any interaction with him. The weird thing is like, you know, like I’m in a weird position. The thing is like because I just have a YouTube channel where I talk about mostly who cares stuff like, you know, technology and things like this, and then like people will ask me how I feel about all these kind of people who theoretically do political stuff, you know, which of course I have opinions on, but, um, it’s sort of weird.
Like how do I interact if I were to do streams with people like this? How would I interact with them, you know? That’s the real question because—and this is sort of my criticism I have of a lot of the people who started putting out right-wing content a couple years ago. Um, a lot of them were just like one-trick ponies. Um, and that was one of the reasons so many of them got banned because like if you just do nothing but political videos, um, people are just going to think like, “Oh, that’s all you know, and that’s all you do,” when in reality most of these people are highly competent individuals, um, who have like really, you know, a lot of stuff going on in their lives.
And I like—I think it’s more productive to just show people that, and then I don’t know, they’ll figure out where the politics comes from, or I guess the thing people need is like they just need the example of real-life people. Okay? Because, you know, most people nowadays, like you don’t even meet like your plumber or your carpenter who has based and red-pilled opinions. You just hear like whatever Twitter liberals think. Uh, and then you’re told that like everyone else who has like other opinions, they’re just like weirdos.
And so when you see people online who are just talk about nothing but politics and have no other kind of life, that’s just like sort of weird. Um, I mean, it’s not to say that’s necessarily bad. I’m not saying someone like Nick Fuentes is bad because again, his optics are very good. Um, but, um, it’s just one of those things where I think people need to see like the fuller side of you. And that’s not even to say people on my YouTube channel see a fuller side of you, fuller side of me. Um, but, you know, I just think it’s a little cringe to just talk about politics all day.
Um, because some of these things—I mean, some of these things I think of as being obvious, and I think mostly people don’t—people are afraid to say them because they don’t think other people do or have the same vision that they do. Uh, when in reality, it’s just sort of like a massive self-centered—I’m the kind of person like I’ve never been able to withhold truth. You know what I mean? Um, I just don’t do that. I can’t pretend up is down and down is up. But okay. Uh, I don’t even remember. I thought that was the Nick Fuentes question.
Um, $10 from Northwesterner. Could you publish the next podcast episode as MP3? My podcast client can’t handle AUG in before I toddlers BTFO. Actually, that’s literally the answer. I toddlers BTFO. Stop using, you know, Mac stuff. Like dude, AUG is a basic—is a very basic container. Every music player can play them except for stupid Apple stuff. Okay? Same thing with like—I’m pretty sure like a lot of Apple can—can they play FLAC? That’s pathetic. I remember back in the day that they couldn’t play FLAC, but I’m pretty sure that they can now, but we’ll see.
Okay, let me look at super chats. Uh, oh yeah, I got a lot of super chats. Uh, thoughts on—$3 from Airswing. Thoughts on city planning? Uh, planning is stupid. Cities are stupid. City planning is double stupid. Um, yeah, I don’t really have a comment on that. Um, depends on what it is. Like the—the thing is a lot of city planning is done a lot—well, this goes for many domains. A lot of this kind of stuff is done for the people within the domain. Like a lot of architecture is done to like please other architects and not to be functional.
That can happen with city planning as well. Definitely happens with web development nowadays. O web development is like the soy devs writing these websites. They don’t write them to be functional. They don’t write them because they work well. They don’t write them because that’s what people want to see. They write them for other soy devs. “Oh, look at my—oh, look at my impressive framework.” Blah blah blah. That’s—that’s why they write them. They’re totally stupid. Um, so yeah, that’s the state of the modern internet, frankly. That’s how it is.
Um, I mean, it’s a shame, you know, that that’s the biggest—that’s the biggest problem. The like the biggest problem with soy devs, we can complain about their individual flaws or something like that, but it’s frankly they’re motivated too often by like things that you do for social reasons or to look cool. Um, like what kind of impressive framework you can use or, you know, let’s say you go to—I remember one time I went to like Chipotle’s website. Okay, now what you know, I forget what I was looking for, maybe like the menu or like nutrition facts or something like that, basic information that’s actually what people want when they go to websites, and I pulled—I remember pulling it up, and it’s like burritos are flying all over the place, and there’s like a spinning thing, and like the whole screen is taken up by some kind of video thing.
It’s like, “Could I please get to the information?” That—that’s what I want. Like, that’s—that’s a problem with soy devs nowadays, you know? They—they just mess everything up. Um, I’m going to pull up this for a second. Uh, let me continue reading. Uh, Lionel Whitehorn sends in $2. What are your thoughts? What do you think of ATR? How—oh, anti-tech Revolution. Why and how by Uncle Dead. I actually have not read the entirety of that. I—or is that the one that Industrial Society and Its Future is like built into? It’s like marketed as a part of it. I forget, but I haven’t read that much.
Like someone from some book publisher actually sent me, um, like a couple Uncle Ted books a couple months ago, and I haven’t actually read them. Like I just put them on my shelves. They’re in my library list. By the way, if you want to look at my library, go to lukemith.xyz/library. Um, but yeah, I haven’t actually read anything else. I haven’t read anything else he wrote besides Industrial Society and Its Future. Um, again, I know that people think there’s this meme that like that’s what this channel’s about because we make the jokes and, you know, I moved into the country and, you know, I’m a uniboomer or something like that, but it’s—it’s really just a meme.
Um, he honestly was not a big influence on me. Very few people have been influences on me in a weird way. A lot of people ask me like what thinkers influenced me, and I’m just like, “That’s not—it’s not how I operate.” That’s one thing I don’t necessarily like when you have people—there are a lot of YouTube channels, um, I mean especially like leftist channels, like cringe Bernie cuck left like communist channels, like all they talk about all day is like which, you know, the—the internal social politics of all these different thinkers as if anyone cares.
And of course, there are a bunch of right-wing channels—right-wing quote-unquote, you know, if you’re on YouTube, if you’re on YouTube, you can’t really be right-wing, but I mean, um, who do sort of the same thing, or I mean, you can have 20,000 subscribers before—or they ban you or something. But, um, yeah, I just don’t like that idea, the—the constantly talking about like the historical thought of particular people. That’s not to say I’m not interested in philosophical distinctions and philosophical problems. I’m very interested in these, but I think too often people get attached to the personalities.
Um, and I think that’s a bad idea. Um, because you—you have to detach your own personality to look at things, I guess, I guess more objectively. I mean, I—I don’t really even—I think that’s sort of a lark anyway, but, um, yeah, I just don’t do that. I just don’t do, you know, endlessly talking about figures. Uh, um, $4.99 from Nicholas. He says, “Have you tried Nyx OS Linux? It’s really interesting Linux. It’s a really interesting Linux distribution due to how it handles software and system configuration.” Yes, I’ve heard of it. No, I have never tried it.
Um, I’ve never had a big reason to try it. I mean, it sounds interesting from what I’ve heard of it. I mean, it’s one of the few—is it actually a Linux distribution? Does it use Linux properly? I—I don’t know, but yeah, I’ve heard of it. I’ve thought about trying it. I’ve thought about trying Geeks, whatever it is, GUIX. Um, which I think—I mean, it has some other—is that similar to Nyx OS or does it? It has some other unique way of doing things, but, um, they’re one of—they’re the few Linux distributions that are actually different. Most Linux distributions are just like the same thing over and over again.
Um, unless you’re like compiling from source like in Gentoo, but even that is not too different. Um, but no, I haven’t tried it. I think I had a roommate who used to use it, I’m pretty sure, but that was before I used Linux. That was like a million years ago. Uh, Pipace sends in 5 real. In a recent video, uh, you said that we should be accommodating and on engaging conflict, but what if it’s something important like transitioning kids? Um, like training kids? Is that what you’re talking about?
I mean, it depends on who you’re talking to. If you’re talking to like someone who’s not involved in that, it’s okay to be out there and moralistic about it because I think most people who haven’t been brainwashed are like, you know, silently they’re like, “Oh, this is insane. What are we—what are we—I feel like I can’t criticize it because people are going along with it.” But around those people, it’s totally okay to blow a gasket or even exaggerate how, uh, you know, how upset you are at this kind of stuff.
But around people who are like bought into the system, it’s better to concern troll them because again, if they feel any pushback, they’re just going to go even further. You know, they’re just going to be—because like, you know, liberals when they’re doing this kind of stuff, like they like the—they like the fact that people are giving—oh, that people are disgusted by them. Okay? I mean, that’s—here’s an example in transgenderism. Okay? Everyone makes fun of the fact that on Tumblr and all these sites, people have unpronounceable pronouns. You know, their pronouns are like Seir or something like that. Stuff that starts with X.
Now, that’s for a reason, okay? It’s not because, “Oh, I just identify with this phonetic sequence.” It’s because people are doing—they’re making things absurd. They’re putting the standards so high because they want you to be weirded out and disgusted and like, “What are you doing, you psycho?” Like that’s—that’s insane. They want that reaction from people. Um, that is—that’s their idea of like, you know, you know, it’s well—it’s actually like Ted Kazinski notes, like leftists are sort of, um, are like self-defeating. They want abuse in a way.
Like their morality comes from—it’s the self-flagellation that they’re trying to get. So it’s important not to give leftists that kind of stuff. That’s why I don’t engage with these people, um, in real life. Or I mean, if I’m around some crazy—like dude, I lived in universities for like 10 years, okay? And if people ask me, I’ll tell them my political opinions, but you know, when they’re talking about that kind of stuff, I’m just like, “Yep, okay, that’s interesting.” I mean, I’m not going to be like, “Okay, that’s good.”
But, um, don’t antagonize these people or they’ll go crazy. I mean, I lived 10 years around these kind of people, and you have to be accommodating with them, and then they’ll understand. They’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, you know, he has a point. Maybe we are a little weird about this kind of stuff.” Um, but yeah, when you’re talking to a normie who’s not like super brainwashed, yeah, of course you should be like, “Yeah, this stuff is evil. These people are like sexually mutilating children. That’s like evil.” Like, that’s insane.
Like giving them hormones and stuff like that, that’s like from the pits of hell, literally. Um, and the worst part is like when liberals try and, uh, pass it off as like, “Oh, you’re oppressing the children if you don’t do that.” In reality, like these kids are getting like gassed up on this kind of stuff that’s going to end up, you know, it’s going to be terrible for them in the end. If you actually care about these kids, you’re going to be putting the brakes on it. Like that’s the fact of the matter. That’s what they don’t want to hear, you know. But that’s, you know, that’s the truth. Um, you know, and I’ve had I’ve had a bunch of friends, well, not a bunch of friends, but a number of friends who who were into that kind of stuff probably before it was really even big. When I lived in Atlanta, I lived with a transgender guy. He was one of my roommates. And uh man, it’s just him seeing him progress down this this road and every month it was worse and it was just sad to see.
Um, what was I going to say? Um, “where’s the sauce” sends in $5? You discourage people from college and encourage disconnecting themselves from the system, but why not go into college in order to change the system? Because it’s not going to work. Okay, you’re… it’s not going to work, dude. I mean, I guess I had pretensions of doing that kind of stuff. I mean, it’s like saying, “Oh, um, oh, I’m a Muslim and I’m going to convert Christians into being a Muslim by pretending to be a Christian and going to a Christian church.” That’s what it is. That’s basically what you’re doing. Like, when you’re doing that, you are entering a religious authority, a religious institution that has singular goals, and they’re not going to be confused about what those goals are just because you’re there. It’s not going to work, and you’re going to be… you know, maybe you’ll be able to find a friend and redpill them or something like that, but um, it’s just not… it’s going to be nothing but frustration. You’re going to be sniffed out. They know they will find out. They will come for you. It’s going to be bad. Okay. Um, it’s just not worth it. Um, I mean, if you go to school as an undergraduate, maybe even as a master’s student, you know, and get by, that’s fine. Um, but it’s not… it’s not going to end as well as you think.
Um, okay. Uh, Joe Nuts sends in $5. Forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned. Sad. No sing. We don’t simp on this channel. Um, Mung Queen sends in 5 pounds. Luke, I’m a brainlet. Do you think Link will ever be worth $100 plus, or has the ship sailed already? Crypto mainly goes over my head. I think that, like, we’re still in a bull run. Like, frankly, Link will go up. Everything will go up. I don’t know how far it’s going to go up. I don’t know when this bull run will be over, but pretty much everything’s going to go up. I sold… I think I sold off most of my Link when it was a little higher than it is now. Um, although I sort of feel like I should have kept it. I think it will go up. Um, in the past couple of weeks, everything has been sort of on the up and up since PayPal made that announcement. They’re going to be using crypto and stuff like that. Um, yeah, now I would say it’s a good time to have cryptocurrencies. Um, yeah, I think the conventional wisdom is we’re in a bull run at the beginning of one. Uh, I don’t know if Link is going to go to $100 or $500 or whatever, but, uh, I mean, Link definitely has potential. You know, Chainlink is… is, uh, you know, Chainlink has the potential to make cryptocurrency like a normie thing, you know, because it basically… for people who have no idea what we’re talking about, Chainlink is a kind of cryptocurrency, and um, it’s built on Ethereum, but what it does is it basically makes it easier for you to write programs off the blockchain that interface with the blockchain. That’s sort of, you know, in a gist, that’s what it does. So, you might be able to, um, you know, I might be able to easily take payments for stuff and like have them run scripts when someone makes a payment on my website or something like that. That kind of stuff. Uh, that’s sort of what Chainlink does. Um, it’s more complicated than that. You know, it has to do with oracles and all this other stuff, but you can look up the white paper if you really care.
Um, $5 from Phoenix Matrix. Uh, what do you think about gaming on Linux? Uh, I don’t think anything about gaming on Linux. Uh, I don’t game on Linux. I don’t even have… I guess I used to… I used to even have Steam installed on Linux. I used to play Soyalization 5. Um, but yeah, I don’t think about gaming at all. I don’t care. I mean, you know, what people have said about Linux is true. Like, Linux is usually a better platform just because it has way lower overhead. It’s obviously free software and stuff like that. Um, so there’s that sense in which it’s better than Windows. And I think as time has progressed, more and more stuff is on Linux, and in the future, I think it’s unlikely that, um, I think that, you know, gamers will be able to actually use Linux in the future. That’s what I think. Um, and Windows will be a little bit eclipsed or at least like won’t have any comparative advantage.
Okay. Um, Clayman sends in $4.99. What is the social project thing that you’re working on? An ETA on when it will be ready to share? Again, I’ll… it’s going to be like sort of a way for people to donate to me, like, you know, set up a monthly payment, and you also get perks like, um, uh, have access to a chat server and, uh, which I might actually do live streams on in the future. And I’m thinking also a Mumble server. I might bring a Mumble server back. That’s like an audio chat and, um, an email account. So you could have… you would have a Larsbs account where you have like, let’s say you’re Billy at lararsbs.xyz, um, you would have that email account, you’d have an XMPP or matrix account, and you would have, um, you know, be able to access a Mumble server. Um, and I might have other stuff in there as well. I might even bring back a forum. I don’t know if I want to do that. I don’t want to say that. Um, but as for when it’s going to be done, it’s going to be done by the end of September. Um, don’t ask me. I don’t know. I’m gradually working on it. I haven’t worked on it much in the past week or two. I’ve done like just a little bit. The thing is I have to learn how to be a soy dev. Okay? I got to learn how to write all this like the PHP interface on the… on the like web front end so people can change their passwords and do things like this. I have to interface it with an LDAP server. I have to, um, uh, the hardest part now is getting it to work with Stripe or like some kind of payment processor. If only Chainlink worked. But, uh, yeah, that’s the hardest thing. If anyone knows how to… if anyone has worked out a Stripe payment system, I need to figure that out. Uh, it’s been such a pain just like getting the details taken care of. Um, you can tell it’s late in the stream because I’ve been like scratching my nose. As you may know, my nose always gets itchy when I’ve been talking for a long time. Although, I don’t think that’s always true. I feel like it’s only when I’m doing YouTube videos. Um, like when I used to give lectures in classes and stuff, I don’t think I… I don’t feel like that ever happened.
Uh, Saggy Vegeta sends in $2. Um, he says, “Can you explain in depth or make a video or blog post on why you think the university is bad and why you think people should drop out?” I mean, if you haven’t already done that somewhere else, um, I could just tell you my story from all those years, but there’s a lot of details to that. Um, I mean, as I said before, like universities, if you’re in a university under the pretenses that it is for learning or something like that, you are gravely mistaken. Again, like universities are basically just churches for liberals. Um, like at an entry level, it might seem okay. It might seem, oh, I’m just having fun with my friends. It’s just like in all the college movies I’ve seen. But like in terms of how the… how it is run, how decisions are made, how, you know, things are presented to students, it is openly a state-funded conspiracy theory apparatus that basically brainwashes people and it also makes them incompetent. Frankly, like there are some programs you can go to and you’ll learn stuff like, oh, maybe if you get an engineering degree or math degree, there will still be some learning involved, maybe if you’re lucky, maybe not at public universities, but maybe at like really high-tier universities that might be the case, or maybe at really low-tier universities too sometimes. Lower-tier universities, community colleges, they’re not that bad, I will say that. But, um, the higher you get, you realize that they’re really just used for brainwashing. I don’t know. When you’re on the other side of like these departmental meetings and you see how they do things, it’s hard to explain. You have to be there. You have to be there. Um, maybe I will do a video on that, but it will have to be a very long one, and it will probably be biographical, frankly, because in order to explain things, I need to show you how specific things have happened, how I’ve been exposed to them, and things like that. And I think, um, you know, I mentioned maybe in a stream before there was an old poll of people who were involved with Neo Reaction and stuff like that of like what’s their education level. Invariably, they are like, um, you know, graduate students and stuff like that because that’s when you really get redpilled. You really realize how the system works when you’re on the other side and what, you know, how its actual priorities and stuff like that.
Um, so, okay, Night King sends in another $2. Thanks for your answers. Have some more shekels. I do web and cloud dev for, um, uh, for one of the cloud giants, so my skills are not a problem. Okay, good. Uh, I could even do courses. Uh, but it’s super hard to monetize these nowadays. Um, don’t want to end up as a two subs YouTuber either, I think. Um, well, if you know how to do Stripe, I’d be interested in that. Um, yeah, it depends. I like… I would just put stuff out there like just… I mean, notice my videos, especially my normal videos, like literally all I do is just turn on ffmpeg, record what I’m doing, talk through things. It’s like a no-cost operation. And if you’re going to end up as a two or like a 10 sub YouTube channel, like it’s not… okay, no big problem. You know, maybe you’ll take off eventually. Just like my… the way the position I put myself in is like, oh, I never want to like invest too much in this. Like that’s why I don’t… I still don’t have like fancy lights. I still don’t have, you know, fancy production equipment because like the most expensive thing I ever bought for my YouTube channel is this $100 mic right here. That’s it. I could probably have gotten away without it. No. Well, I don’t want to say that. You need a good mic. Um, and this webcam is like $30. That’s why it’s so crappy. Um, if I actually record audio from it, it can record audio, but like you hear a worrying all the time. It’s, you know, when it’s transferring video as well. So, um, yeah, I would just go ahead and put stuff out there. Um, I definitely… when it’s anything cloud or internet related, that is a great area to actually do stuff in because who’s doing the videos on this stuff on YouTube right now? A bunch of petites. A bunch of petites who are just like, you know, just following the directions point by point. They’re not explaining how things work. They’re just like, here’s a command, run it. I’m not going to explain what this does. You know, that’s the state now. And if you are capable of… the most important thing is you being able to understand what people don’t know and explaining that to them. And if you can do that, that works. You’ll be able to do it. Um, and you know, my content, I don’t like… you know, I’m not saying that, you know, my channel was just like so great or something like that. But I think that’s what separated some of my early tutorial videos because I explained things through. Um, whereas most people are like, “Okay, do this, then do that, then do that.” That and also I was like nervous about taking up too much time. So like my first… my first latte tutorial videos are like 3 minutes each. I’m just like, here’s how you do bold. Here’s how you do italics. Here’s how you make a new section. You know, I just… because I was like nervous. I was like nervous when I first started this stuff. And that can be good.
Um, anyway, uh, pandemic $2. How did universities get to be the way they are now? Uh, well, subversion. I mean, the thing is like back in the day, and I mean it used to be in western countries if universities had any political pretensions and often they didn’t. I think there’s a sense in which they always did, but often, I mean, it wasn’t as obvious as it is now, but a lot of professors would be very conservative compared to average people out there because average people would be sort of like populists and things like this that… and they’d, you know, support harebrained ideas. You know, if you look like 150 years ago at academia, people were usually very conservative. They were, you know, classically educated people. Um, actually, if you want an aspect of the university that’s still up to like… that’s a preservation of a previous era, good topics to study: Latin, um, theology, uh, anything that liberals have no interest in. Okay? Just any of those… any kind of classics or things like that. You will actually meet healthy, well-adjusted people with good physio, even cute girls. I guarantee you that sounds like I’m making fun of you, but no, you actually will meet marriageable women in those departments. Or, well, it might be all guys. I’m not going to get your hopes up, but if you do meet a girl, the ones worth marrying would be in a Latin department or a theology department or something like that. Um, but that… you know, so as to how universities started getting taken over, I mean, basically universities got taken over by the government. Um, and after the Second World War, you had this institutionalization of science where, okay, now in order to get state… you know, universities now get massive amounts of state funding, and they get that by this big racket called peer review where appointed authorities decide, you know, who is true science, who is excluded from that. And what happened very quickly is there is a political tinge to a lot of that. A lot of it actually was supported by the American government, frankly. Um, even, you know, they had this kind of consensus center-leftism that became popular, and during the 60s, that got a lot more radical. And in fact, it may have been more radical than the American government originally intended. Uh, I actually don’t necessarily think that if you look at a lot of these radical movements that, you know, even if parts of the American government were against them, like maybe the FBI, maybe Hoover’s FBI was like spying on some of these people, you know, but in general, it was sort of like, you know, it’s… you know, one thing that I… there’s this old article on, uh, what is it? Maybe it was like the Hestia Society when it existed, but they had this really great article about how protests, you know, to the left. Protests are not like you’re actually protesting something. A protest is a victory dance. And during the 60s, leftists who were taking over these institutions started staging protests just to get stuff because they knew they could. You know, if you’re someone excluded from the political process, if you’re a dissident, protests don’t mean anything. Protests are the things that are going to get you thrown in jail and never released. If you’re a, you know, some kind of leftist, you’ll get thrown in jail for like a night. You’ll get that little… you’ll get a little gold star on your record and you, you know, get a mug shot and you’ll get released because of some DA that, uh, you know, is on your side and you’ll be clapped for and stuff like that. Um, but there’s this… you know, during the 60s, you definitely had this takeover of more radical people, and there are a lot of… I don’t know, there are a lot of little events that people don’t even remember. That’s the weirdest part. You might know where… where was it in Yale? There was… I think it was in Yale. There’s this period where like, uh, either Black Panthers or some kind of like black liberation quote-unquote movement just brought assault rifles to Yale, or maybe it was Cornell. I’m not quite… it’s either Yale or Cornell. One of those schools up there, not Harvard. Um, but they took assault rifles on campus and they took over a couple buildings, held people hostage, and they just demanded stuff like, “We want more money for our programs. We want blah blah blah blah.” All this kind of stuff. And, um, yeah, they got it all. No one got in trouble. That was just it. Like, you can just take… I mean, that’s why this stuff is not real. I mean, the whole thing is like a big fake thing. Like, the whole narrative of like, um, protests… like, the universities wanted to give in. That’s the thing that people need to realize. Like, all of this kind of stuff, um, is fake. Like, it’s… it’s just like for the public. Oh, they’re supposed to pretend that they don’t want it, but they actually do. But yeah, I mean, once academia sort of became institutionalized in terms of like the government giving them money, you have this radicalization of, oh, the American bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly leftist, basically funds universities. Okay. And so how’s that going to work? You know, it’s going to be self-reinforcing ultimately, and that’s how it is now. Uh, you know, that’s why Moldbug talked about the cathedral. The idea being it’s not like there’s one party behind the whole thing. It’s that it’s a self-reinforcing system, you know, and that’s what we’re looking… that’s why it’s so hard to deal with it now. That’s why, you know, electing Donald Trump doesn’t magically make things better because it’s a diffuse and emergent system that we’re dealing with. Uh, and until people like radically start defunding the bureaucracy and, uh, uh, universities, it’s not going to… nothing is going to happen unless like people totally lose faith in them and stop going to college, which is something that I, um, feel like I need to help people understand.
Um, all right. I… so I’m way behind in donations, I think. Uh, and I need to check my email too, ’cause I’m sure there are others as well. Okay, so let me check my email. $5 from Jonas or five, uh, Libras. Uh, euros, euros. Libras. Why do I… I’ve probably been calling euros pounds this whole time. Uh, Nicholas sends in $5 by Zel. I don’t see a comment. Zel doesn’t often display comments if you send in a Zel donation. So you can feel free to email me, uh, Nicholas, your comment. Um, two bucks from who is this? Uh, James, I think the… I think I’m getting, uh, super chat emails. Um, okay. All right. Let me go back to the actual, uh, super chat windows. Okay. Oh man, whole bunch of stuff. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay. Um, $5 from German Shepherd. What’s a country you’d rather be a citizen of? Um, I’m very content with the United States right now. I mean, there are basically no other pl… I mean, there are more places that are not too cucked. I’ll tell you countries I’d be okay with. Um, Switzerland, I’d be okay with. Um, that’d be basically it. I don’t know. Switzerland is like independent enough. Like, it’s not… it’s not… Switzerland is basically not part of Zog. Um, it’s sort of pure. It’s less attached to the system. You know, it’s very decentralized. You don’t have to worry about what the government’s going to do because everything’s very local. Um, and to an extent, a lot of Norwegian countries, Scandinavian countries like Norwegian countries like Norway, um, are sort of like that too. Even though they have a reputation of being like cucked and liberal and stuff like that, a lot of it is because even Iceland, which is like, you know, you look at the government and they’re like nominally extreme socialists and stuff like that, but governments like that aren’t that bad because, um, you know, a lot of them are locally oriented. I mean, they’re really like people who… a couple million people who are closely related and they feel like a familial bond with each other. So countries like that, a lot of people will say Sweden’s cucked, um, and stuff like that, and that is true. Like, Sweden is headed in a bad direction, although they didn’t shut down. That’s the one thing, one good thing you can say about Sweden. Okay, so Sweden is probably the least cucked country right now, but, um, those countries aren’t that bad. Um, but honestly, I… America now, especially after this Corona stuff, I’m like, man, I’m glad I’m in America because, um, well, I don’t know how it is in other countries, but here in America, I definitely realize like no one buys this Corona stuff anymore. People have this rugged cowboy mentality, which, you know, when the chips are down is actually very good. And I’m glad that people have it, but I’m sure in other countries that’s the case as well. I just don’t see it ’cause I don’t see people, you know, normal people. I just see internet people. I just see, you know, soy devs and stuff like that from other countries. Um, so, but no, I’m perfectly content with America. It would be lame. Uh, I’m literally unironically proud to be an American.
Um, El Hocus Pocus sends in 50 PLN. Was that Polish money? I don’t know. Um, for a nice tree to the garden. All right. Thank you. Hopefully that’s enough for one. However much of PLN, let’s see what PLN is. Peeling [Music] currency. Uh, yeah, Polish zloty, however that’s pronounced. Slaughter. Um, okay, this is pro sends in $5. Uh, do you think Yuri Bezmanov’s predictions have been seen through to fruition? Is America too far gone to be repaired? Um, I think in general, uh, yeah. Um, I would say, well, yeah, I mean, the guy said a lot of true things. Um, as for if America’s too far gone, it depends on what you mean by America. America, the government has been too far gone for forever. Um, the American people are not too far gone. Even if… even if you see them on polls saying really cut things, you have to realize most people are very suggestible. Most people are going to go along with whatever. Um, you really just need a small minority of people who see through things to be able to change things. And you know, that’s what we’re all about. We’re not about democracy, you know, we’re about, um, appealing to the people who are going to make a difference. And you know, of course, we want normies to be on our side. Normies are good, but normies will come. You know, Clayman sends in $4.99. Talk to Dick Masterson about Stripe setup. He does a comedy show, but he is also a software engineer and has made a Patreon alternative. New Project 2. Is that what it’s called? New Project 2. Uh, yeah, I’ve heard of Dick Masterson. Um, but he’s the… um, he’s like that guy from the old internet video that’s like, “Men are better than women.” He goes on like what? Like Dr. Phil or something like that? I think it’s Dr. Phil or Oprah. Um, that… it’s classic. Or is that the same guy, right? And then he did… and then he had… he was the guy who did the show with Maddox and Mad Cucks or whatever. Dude, remember when like Maddox was like the edgiest thing on the internet? Like, I remember… I remember when I was a kid, I remember thinking he was like so edgy, dude. This guy’s so cool. I wish I could have a website with him and like post sarcastic things. Um, and then I just realized, oh yeah, I’m a [\h__ kid. Like a very childish kid. And I remember like looking back at his site recently and I was like, man, dude, this guy was always cringe. Um, it’s just when I was a kid, I was cringe. Uh, yeah. All right.
Anyway, Alexander Gon Ganser sends in $2. What are some low… so low webdev? What are some low soy webdev resources for scrubs? Uh, I don’t do webdev, so I’d be the last person to ask. Um, but, uh, yeah, I don’t know anything about web development. I am like piecing together like a bunch of PHP to get my Stripe system or my like login system and all this kind of stuff working. Uh, which is going to be the most soy dev thing I’ve ever done. Actually, it’s probably going to be very little soy dev stuff because the thing is soy devs will make these apps for things like, oh, I need to be able to change my password dur, you know, in an LDAP server or something like that. And there were like a million soy dev things that they made that were like 50,000 megabytes. And I ended up writing like a script that’s like, you know, 10 lines or something like that. So it will not actually be that soy. But I’m probably doing lots of stuff wrong that I don’t even know. And PHP, I’m not that familiar with. Um, but yeah, I don’t know any… I dude, look at my website. I mean, although I do have my website the way I would want it. I’m not going to add stupid scripting to it. Uh, I also don’t really do that kind of scripting. Like, I don’t think it’s necessary for 99% of things. It happens to be now I’m doing one of those 1% things that needs web development, but you know, whatever.
Um, Morgan sends in $5. Hey Luke, good to see you. Did you finish your dissertation/PhD? Sorry if you’ve mentioned this recently. I haven’t been in a while. I haven’t worked on my PhD in like forever. Theoretically, I’m supposed to be dissertating. Actually, my university emailed me. Well, I’m not even like late on anything. That’s the thing. I’m sort of like… I think one of the guys who started the PhD program, or maybe two… no, no, no, one, uh, who started the PhD program the same year I did, I think he graduated last spring. Um, but everyone else is delaying and during this Corona stuff, like who knows or who cares. Uh, but yeah, I’m not particularly interested in finishing it. A lot of people and a lot of normies are like, “Oh, dude, you should finish a PhD.” But at this point, like Arizona has like… the University of Arizona has wronged me to such an egregious extent that I haven’t really told people what exactly happened. Um, but I feel like I would be betraying my virtue by even just finishing the dissertation. I feel like it would be a disgrace if on my CV I had PhD, University of Arizona. Like, I would be so… I feel I would feel wrong. And although I, you know, I have a lot of writings that I could basically just compile together for a, you know, binder dissertation, my adviser basically said, “Why don’t you just do that? Why don’t you just put in some of your former writings? They’re good. Like, it’s enough for a dissertation. Just add some more stuff.” And, but I’m just like, dude, I’m so burnt out on all that kind of stuff. And like the stuff that happened to me at Arizona was just beyond ridiculous. I don’t know. I feel like I can’t even go into it. I feel like I’m saving it up for some traumatic event and maybe I’ll release it then. Just dude, that it was so crazy back then, and that was like back when Blump had just gotten elected and people were going nuts and like there was just like constant inquisition and, um, dude, these people were crazy. Uh, but yeah, that was like the… you know, that’s the thing. That’s the one period in my life where I struggle forgiving people. I’ll just say that. Um, ’cause man, that was bad. Um, but you know, I could have been more accommodating to them. I did… I would say I didn’t have a moral obligation to be such, but I could have been. Uh, but either way, the things that I had to go through there were so stupid. So stupid. Um, kids don’t… friends don’t let friends go to college, by the way.
Um, Alexi sends in €2. Cheers from Zoomer on curfew. Thanks. I assume that you know this is a Corona curfew since basically the whole world is living in a police state and most people are okay with it. Uh, look. Okay. A lot of… okay, I’m going to read some Streamlabs donations. Oh man. Uh, I got to go back a good bit. I need to… I need to answer questions quicker. Um, is do… so this toen extra something in German but all the words are together. Um, $230 or… yeah, 36 is donating money just… upcommies taken too far. Yeah, basically is… I’m thinking we should start calling them upies now. I think that would be funnier because there was someone earlier who sent in a super chat that was like a cookie for a boomer and I misread it. A cumi for a boommy. No, it was… yeah, it was a cookie for a boommy. I was like… I read it as a kumi for a boommy. Um, and I feel like, you know, with the coomer meme, it’d be funnier if we said kumies now. Upkumies is the new thing. Um, all right. So let’s see. Uh, $20 from Red Horse. Thanks for the $20. Have you ever thought about working for some Linux-based company like Red Hat or Canonical? Um, definitely not Red Hat or Canonical. Uh, that I would be making the world a worse place for sure working there unless I was like purposefully undermining them. Um, based… I don’t believe in… I don’t think open source needs companies at this point. Um, I just don’t… this is not a thing. I don’t think… I look at the companies that exist for open source software and they’re just all disastrous. The only potential, um, exception would be… I mean, software itself, I sort of feel like software does not need companies at this point or really it never did. Like, companies for writing software have always been suspect. They’ve always been made… you know, there’s always the incentive to bloat things up to make people reliant on you even if you’re releasing open source software. You’re trying to make this software that’s like, you know, its own thing. It doesn’t interface well with other stuff, and I always think that’s bad. Um, as for like privacy-focused and open-source hardware kind of people, let’s say, you know, I work for a company that did like, um, you know, VPSs or something like that or systems administration for some kind of, you know, privacy-centered service. I’d be okay with that. But in general, just companies and open source, just not my thing. Not my thing. I don’t… they always seem to be doing bad stuff.
Uh, Kaikulus sends in $2. Thoughts on philosophical zombies? Are these soulless NPC humans that lack consciousness, inner experience? Conscious inner experience and lack conscious may be what the KJV means by reprobate mind. Um, well, yeah. I mean, you know, philosophical zombies, they’re basically out there. I mean, I think, um, uh, I don’t know if there’s anyone who’s a pure NPC, but I think it’s definitely… most people out there are NPCs on particular things. That is basically undeniable. I mean, you know, when you’re driving a car, you’re mostly an NPC, you know. Um, in politics, most people are grown up to be NPCs. Like, I’ve talked about this, like you can tell if you’re a political NPC if how you process political events is there are words that I’ve been brainwashed to either like or dislike, and I compare new information to the words that I… the buzzwords that I’ve been brainwashed against. That’s how NPCs work in politics. And I think there is a sense in which there’s conscious thought that happens when they do that. But ultimately, it’s like they’re… they’re… think… it’s nominally conscious, you know. Um, I don’t know if there are any people who are fully non-conscious. I find that maybe hard to believe. Um, obviously, you know, in my first podcast episode, I talked about Julian James’s idea, you know, of the bicameral mind that early humans, like consciousness is a learned thing and early humans were basically non-conscious and a lot of their social traditions and primitive religions were based around, you know, conditioning non-conscious people to do good things. Um, I don’t know how much I actually buy that. I think that’s a very interesting idea. I think that people should read that book. You know, the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind and listening to my podcast on it. Actually, read the book. Reading the book is better, but you know, listening to the podcast will give you an idea of what’s going on. Um, I don’t know how much I buy it. I think it’s a very interesting idea though. That’s why I did a podcast episode on it. Um, now that goes for other things as well. Usually, like my… if people think like my podcast is like a political manifesto or like some… I’ve seen people try to do this, like connect the dots and like what I actually think in terms of my politics or something. Uh, my podcast is not necessarily a good guide for that. And then I did like an episode on Schumpeter. Uh, when I was younger, I agreed a lot with Schumpeter. I still do on many things. Um, but you know, even his take is not necessarily him saying his political beliefs or anything.
Um, okay. $30 from Red Horse. Thank you for the $30. Have you ever thought about working for some… Wait, no, I already read that. Okay. Well, thanks again for your $30. Yeah, I… um, yeah, that’s the Red Hat or Canonical question. Yeah, again, not a big fan, not a big fan of any kind of open-source company. Kaikulus sends in six more dollars. What do you think about Mars Hall McCullen’s theory that internationalization of a medium alters the mind and changes how humans experience reality? I’ve never heard of this person. Like how with internationalization of the printed word, humans ceased to see the world and instead read the world. Ceased to see the world and instead read the world. I don’t know how that would change. Yeah, I don’t know this argument. I’ve never heard of this. Um, sounds interesting. But, um, I do think I have heard people say stuff like people like consciousness is systematically different over time. I think that’s understandable. Like I think if you ask individual people… I mean, one thing that happened after the NPC thing or the like no internal monologue people, people started realizing that, you know, the internal worlds of people are very different. Like some people are always thinking in words, some people never think in words, like physically or mentally cannot think in words. Um, you know, I wouldn’t say I think in words, but I think… I mean, of course, I can think in words. I can have monologue whenever I… But usually, when I’m thinking in monologue, that’s when I’m doing dumb thinking. I think in… it’s hard to describe what my normal thinking is like. It’s a little more complicated than that. But, um, let’s see. Um, the $5 from Northwester. Do you think we’ll see a real resurgence of right-wing populism/nism in American politics or will big tech be successful in stomping it out? I think it’s going to be hard to stomp it out at this point. Um, like the weird thing is like, you know, big tech, its reach is only so far, and they’ve basically already stomped out everyone they can stomp out. They’ve even banned like QAnon boomers from posting stuff, and it’s the weirdest thing to see is normies who are now being like, “Okay, I need to delete my social media.” That’s weird. Uh, and that’s happening. Like, people are starting to like… I mean, even people who have been critical of Trump, even like red-blooded Americans who have been critical of Trump, none of them even pretend to trust the media anymore. Like, there’s just no chance that you’re going to believe anything on the news. Like, every single thing they say is suspect. That wasn’t the case back in the ’90s. Even when people would say stuff like, “Oh, CNN, it’s the Clinton News Network and they’re going to be liberal and stuff like that.” But now, like, it’s so much deeper. Um, just normal people who are not politically involved, they just tune out the media now. Um, and so I think that… I mean, let’s say if… well, I’ll tell you this. If Trump wins re-election, that’s going to be… I mean, this is going to be proof in their face like how little control they have over things. If he doesn’t win the election, I think still they’re going to have to be grappling with this forever. Um, especially if, you know, let’s say next time, you know, next time the Republicans run someone who is sort of Trumpist in like his political beliefs, like he’s, you know, sort of so-called right-wing populism. It’s not even right-wing populism. It’s just populism. Um, because Trump, you know, he’s basically an economic centrist. Um, anti-war, although he actually has, you know, way more leftist positions than most people in the Democratic party, frankly. Um, you know, all of his economic stuff, especially… I mean, he’s by… in 2016, outside of Bernie Sanders, actually sometimes even including Bernie Sanders, Trump economically was the most leftist candidate by far. Um, so if we had someone in, you know, 2024 who ran on that kind of populist platform but was just more generally likable than Trump because Trump is just a lot of people just don’t like his personality, they don’t like his style, you know, they think he’s bad optics. Um, like he’s a really unpopular candidate. Obviously, he’s very popular among some people, and that might… that’s frankly the thing that makes a difference. That’s why he won the Republican nomination. But, um, if you could have someone passably… I mean, what I’m trying to get at is the cat is out of the bag. You can’t go back now. They can’t just pretend like there’s not like a big hole in the system. Like, no matter how they’re trying their hardest to pretend that that’s not the case, but they can’t do it. Okay, they’ve already banned everyone and this… it’s still there. And even if Trump loses the election, he’s still going to be out there. He’s still going to be the same force. He’s still… I mean, when he last time when he said, uh, before he got elected, he said something to the effect of, “Oh, if I lose, I’m just going to start my own news network and I’m going to do this and that,” and he’s still going to be in politics. And, um, you know, let’s say someone like… someone based in Redpilled like Tucker Carlson runs for president, which obviously would be the best thing ever, frankly. Um, but he’s a much more likable guy. He’s based in Red… way more based in Red Pill than Trump, actually. Um, but he also knows how to… he knows how to even speak with leftists and like convince them of things, you know, these kind of Bernie kind of people. Um, so yeah, that would be a force that’d be pretty hard to stop, frankly. Um, so yeah, you can’t… you can’t stop this kind of stuff unless like they literally start a civil war and start killing people, like go out and hunt for Trump supporters. Um, they’re not going to be able to stop them.
Um, Lordly Hungry Bear 33 sends in $10. I’m unfortunately a Commian and I’m saving up to move out. Um, do you have any suggestions as to what states I should consider? Um, honestly, any state, even there are places in California you could move that are fine. Like, the thing is, it’s more of an urban-rural divide. I would make your decisions based on your personal… if you have relatives somewhere, that would be a good place to move. Um, after that, I would just consider passable climate, which could be anywhere, frankly. I mean, the United States is so varied, and moving anywhere, it would be fine. It just depends on your circum… your personal environment. But any state that is like not going to be… if you’re looking or if you’re worried about the state politics, just move to a place that’s not going to be a blue state anytime soon. Um, obviously, like the absolute based in red pill displaced, like West Virginia is probably the abs… it’s like the one place where like is getting more and like consistently more based. Uh, and it’s just like there are no big cities, there’s no like big city liberals who are going to be passing laws or a couple hipster areas. Um, but it’s like an entirely rural state, and you want to look for entirely rural states, you know, or like Great Plains states or options. Um, places in the south, you might not… I don’t know about places in the south because you’ll have to deal with urban people, um, and you might not want to do that. I’m fine with that. You know, I grew up with people like that, so it’s fine. But, um, you know, I know a lot of people you don’t necessarily want that experience if you haven’t been around them before. Um, but, uh, honestly, any state is fine. Any state is fine as long as you’re in a positive place. But if you’re worried about state politics, just move to a place that’s going to be a red state for a long, long time. Um, regardless, like look wherever immigrants are moving less to. That’s the best place. And West Virginia actually is the only place in the… the only state in this country where the percentage of immigrants is decreasing, which is hard to even imagine, but that’s true. Um, but Tennessee is really good. Tennessee I contemplated moving to. Um, Kentucky, those places. Um, yeah, just as long as they’re going to be a red state if you’re worried about that kind of stuff. And you can look up things like property tax, who has low property tax, who has, um, doesn’t have a bunch of laws about homeschooling and stuff. States like that’ll be good. But in general, any consistent red state’s going to be fine. Um, or even if you get in a safe place in a blue state, you know, it’s good. But West Virginia is particularly good. Tennessee is really good on a lot of regulations.
Um, okay. Got to… uh, so that was… I’ll go back to super chat. See if there are any new ones here. Oh my goodness. I’m never going to get over it. Uh, I just keep getting more. How long has this stream been? I don’t even know. Um, Clayman sends in $4.99. That’s the person. Uh, Maddox turned into a cuck. But seriously, Dick is a good dude and knows what he’s doing. His current show is called The Dick Dick Show. Yeah. Yeah, I’ve heard of him. I’ve heard of him. I just wasn’t sure if that was the same guy. Um, yeah, I… yeah, I don’t really watch podcasts, but yeah, I’ve seen him. I’m pretty sure he’s not actually bald, though, right? I think he actually… ’cause I saw him with like a bunch of hair back in the old days when he was doing the men are better than women thing. He was bald. I think it makes him sound more, you know, bald… being bald makes you sound more abrasive, you know? It just makes… I don’t know. That’s just how it is apparently.
Um, uh, Makita sends in, uh, 25 PLN. Are you the author of, uh, of soy dev definition at Urban Dictionary made by Arch user 10001? No, I’m not, but I’m sure… I mean, I made up the word soy dev. So, anyone who is using that word has either got it directly from me or from someone else who got it from me. Um, yeah, I’m… we need to take that word off and, you know, or make it take off, you know what I mean? Let’s see. See, I’m trying to think what other words I’ve made up that became semi-popular. That might be the biggest one in our domain. Actually, probably a lot of terms or phrases I’ve used. I feel like I didn’t invent bloat, but I feel like I popularized it, and I feel so guilty for that ’cause it’s so cringe. Bloat is still banned on my channel. If you post bloat or bloated in any comment, it’s automatically ma… you know, hidden or whatever. So, there are a couple other words like that. Um, I think I got mad. I got annoyed when people kept telling me to put on a seat belt in, uh, when I’m driving in a car. So, I banned the word like seat belt and safety belt and like every permutation of it with and without spaces ’cause that was just so annoying. We’ll call it sifty belt. It’s now called a safety belt. I’m not against wearing a seat belt. It’s just I don’t wear it unless like I’m on the highway or something if either I think I’m going to get pulled over or if I’m in a high-speed area. Like, the use of like, you know, I’m not going to call anyone a cuck for using a safety belt. Um, but using it in like the small town environment I’m in is just sort of neurotic if you were around the places I was. It’s just sort of… but you know, it’s good to be safe. Like, you should wear a soy belt. Um, I don’t want anyone to think that I’m like against it. Uh, whereas masks, on the other hand, that is total soy stuff. Don’t… dude, cringe. Um, it’s the principle when it comes… when I don’t wear a mask, it’s civil disobedience.
Um, Clayman sends in $4.99. When you have time, here’s Dick Masterson talking about the unfortunate end of Project 2. I think I remember… and he provides a YouTube link. Uh, I think I remember hearing about that, like Stripe or someone like cucked him or… or I forget. There was some kind of… that’s the thing. Everyone’s like, this is why Chainlink needs to take off ’cause we need to be able to not be shut down. It’s so stupid. It’s like Stripe has canceled people. Um, there are some like sort of, I guess even like white nationalist people who still use Stripe and haven’t been banned. But, you know, the thing is once you ban one person, everyone starts getting banned. That… that’s the annoying thing. Like, once liberals have the… once you give the devil a foothold, they’ll try and take everything and you’ll end up at the place where you’re banning boomer QAnon posters. It’s utterly stupid. Like, there is… there… like the slippery slope is absolutely real. Anyone who ever tells you the slippery slope is not real has not been around for two months. Um, $5 from Michael Smith. Um, do you think the natural order will repair itself? Liberalism is a denial of the natural order. I’m hopeful that liberalism will cause its own demise. Um, I’m not a believer in the… I think it’s sort of a cope when people talk about the pendulum. Oh, oh, whoa. Well, things have gotten so far and the pendulum’s going to spring, you know, swing backward. Well, here’s the thing. Like, the pendulum has been going that way. It’s been going left for like 400 years. And what it comes down to, I’ve talked about this before, like when you’re living in a technologically complex society where you… it’s easy to produce enough food to feed people and to give people digital technology and products they can consume, you can have an extremely corrupt environment where very few people are actually having functional jobs, where people are throwing their lives away on cuming and consuming and all this leftist stuff. It’s very easy to live in a very corrupt environment. So, um, if the pendulum were to swing back, it would have to involve some kind of technological collapse because all of that is relying… like technological advancement. It… I don’t… I’m not even like a Ted Kazinski kind of person in the sense that I think that technology always causes degeneration, like cultural degeneration, but it definitely enables the possibility. I think we can live in a world if we have sufficient cultural discipline and moral discipline. Uh, we can live in a technologically advanced society that continues to, you know, shoot rockets off to planets and live in high-tech and live in a socially functioning world. But higher and higher tech always gives a greater propensity for corruption. So we need a… a more… in order to survive, we basically have to have a higher and higher moral standard for us the higher we get in the technological strata. So I don’t think that things are just going to get good. Like, I don’t believe in the buffer overflow theory of morality, like we’re just going to get so liberal until like everything just explodes and we have to, you know, become extremely moralistic. That’s not… I don’t think that’s going to happen at all. Now, on specific issues, it might happen, and in fact, it’s happened many times in the past. I mean, one example, you know, back in, uh, uh, uh, America around 150 years ago, you know, one of the big liberal causes was abolition, okay? Another big liberal cause was, uh, uh, women’s suffrage, okay? What was the other big liberal cause back then? Anyone remember? What was the first big feminist issue even before, you know, you know, women voting? What was the biggest feminist issue? It was alcohol prohibition, okay? It’s… it’s totally been swept under history, but that was one of the first big leftist causes, okay? Right up there with, uh, abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage, banning alcohol, and they won. They won on that as well. They got… they got constitutional amendments for all of this kind of stuff. The same people who were against slavery, the same people who were against, uh, or who were for women’s suffrage also wanted alcohol prohibition. But that’s one example of that failed so miserably, and it was so obvious that it was causing huge social upheaval. Whereas, you know, the other two things, if they’ve, you know, if the abolition of slavery, um, or women’s suffrage has caused social upheaval, it’s been like very… it’s more diffuse, more deniable. Alcohol prohibition was like a huge disaster. And that’s one of those things where it’s a liberal policy, uh, you know, a progressive policy that was a huge failure, and they don’t take responsibility for that. They just sort of sweep it under the rug. Or maybe you’re sort of told, oh, that’s like a conservative thing ’cause like Christians… I mean, it was extreme leftist Christians who were behind this kind of stuff. The same people who are for all this leftist stuff, the people who are now Unitarian Universalists, you know, secular humanists. It was the same kind of social groups of people who are for that kind of stuff. Now it’s just swept under history. Um, the same thing might be true. I mean, the same was sort of the case back in the 60s where, um, there was a tendency to kind of normalize pedophilia, and they realized, okay, that’s a bad idea. People don’t… people aren’t going to take that. It’d be better optics if we just do gay stuff. They’re more okay with that, and we’ll warm them up to other stuff, you know. So, so that kind of stuff didn’t happen. And it might be, you know, let’s say transgenderism is one of these things which in 10 years they might realize it’s been a total failure. Okay? People aren’t… people cannot take it. It’s too much, and they abandon that. Okay? That’s a possibility. But don’t assume that that’s going to be the case with every… like in general, you know, in general, as long as we have this kind of negative, you know, social force out there and we have technology which is allowing us to embrace degeneracy, we’re going to… in general, we’re going to be embracing more of it if we don’t have the social discipline. But there are individual cases where the pendulum will, you know, swing backward. You know, remember when Nixon won? Nixon, of course, both of his elections were basically landslides, but his second election, and this was like after Watergate too. Um, Nixon basically won every state except for what, like Minnesota? Um, or no, was that… I mean, it’s basically every state. I want to say it was, um, it was like either Minnesota or like two other states and maybe DC. He didn’t want overwhelming landslide. And the reason he did is because the pendulum swung too far, you know. Um, you had all these kind of race riots and stuff, you know, a lot of people, a lot of like white liberals at the period, they were like, “Okay, we’ve just passed all this civil rights, you know, uh, uh legislation, and oh, that means we’re finally putting… we’re finally, you know, going to have racial peace,” and then you have all these like riots, sort of equivalent to what we have now, except for many of them were way worse. And so that’s when a bunch of even liberal people voted for Nixon, and it was like a massive landslide, you know. Um, so the pendulum swings back on individual issues, but I don’t necessarily think things are just going to get better because they’ve gone too far again because of technology.
Um, so the natural order only exists when we’re close to nature, and technology has gotten it to the point where we’re not very close to nature. Um, okay. So, let me continue reading. Uh, $2 from Night King again. Honestly, there’s no easy entry into webdev because these people try to come up with more confusing syntax for, uh, every year just to create something new and shiny. Choose one technology and do the official tutorial. React, Vue, or Svelte are good choices. Yeah, that’s… well, that’s the sad thing, isn’t it? So, um, I don’t know. Like, I don’t even know the field well enough. I mean, if you’re talking about… I think this is… I think the guy who said he might do a YouTube channel or is looking for stuff for how to… I mean, I would try and make things easy, like do it as suckless as you can. I do your own take on, “Here is… okay, webdev sucks.” Maybe my channel is like webdev is… I don’t know, it sucks or something like that, and you talk about, you know, here’s the real way to do things or here’s, you know, if you actually want to get… like, ’cause there… I’m sure there are lots of people like me who don’t want fancy stuff. They just want to be able to do stuff like with scripting on servers, just simple things. Can I just do simple things just the way people used to do them? So just nice little simple things that people might want to do, like, “Oh, I want to have like an old school guest book,” or “I want to have an old school web ring,” or something like that. If you can do something like that and start with little pieces, that’s the kind of thing that I think that, like, I’m sure my subscribers would be interested in. I would be interested in that kind of stuff, and that’s the kind of stuff that’s not out there. So, when I say webdev, maybe I’m talking about more small-scale stuff. I think that that kind of thing is not very well attested online.
Um, uh, $2.84 from Torres Junior Jr. or Jr. Jr. Facebook, Twitter, etc. is a sewage drain. You never talk about the Fedverse. I know you’re a huge… you’re anti-upcoming… upcomi… we’re now doing. Um, I see huge potential for this free federated normie-friendly network. Isn’t this our greatest chance at freedom, um, from the propaganda and radicals? Well, yes, theor… the technology is, yes, but as it is right now, the reason I don’t talk about Mastodon or the Fedverse is because right now they’re just run by a bunch of like crazy… like they’re run by the people who thought Twitter is too right-wing. Okay, that is the fact of the matter in the Fedverse. They’re all like just liberals talking about their feelings and like microblogging their like, uh, uh, mental illness and stuff like that. That kind of stuff, like, “Oh, I feel so depressed today. #depressed # I need to take my SSRIs.” That’s the kind of stuff that you see there. So, I would be like, “Oh, use the Fedverse. The technology is interesting and censorship-proof.” And it absolutely is. I agree that it is, but there’s just no good content out there. Like, there are a couple people I know that… what is it? Like the Kiwi Farms guys have something like that, or, you know, there are a couple like based and red-pilled people, but like in general, I mean, and again, as you say, like I’m not a Ukumi person. Like, I don’t really care that much about social media technology, so that’s why I haven’t been that into it. Uh, I just have no desire for that. Um, but yes, you’re absolutely right. That technology for those who are interested in it, like the Fedverse technology, you can have things like a Mastodon instance, which is basically like, you know, a Twitter that you can run on your own server and interface with other servers, or you can, you know, go to your friend, you know, have an account on your friend’s server and it interfaces with accounts on anything else. It’s the same for those who saw my videos on PeerTube. PeerTube is the same thing for like a YouTube thing. I have my own PeerTube instance now. Other people who have instances, you know, you can make an account on my instance or another person’s instance. You can watch videos that each of the instances follows. Uh, it’s a very nice system and it’s a future-proof system. It has all the perks. It’s just right now there aren’t many people in them, so I never feel like I can recommend that much. I’m on PeerTube now just because I need an independent place to put my videos, and, um, maybe I’ll try and do something Mastodon-related. Maybe when I do a Larsbs account thing, I might have some kind of Mastodon account as well or like a Mastodon Fedverse kind of thing. Uh, that’s an option. Um, I might as well do it if I have an LDAP server that I can get everyone to log in on the same thing. That would be really cool. Uh, I’ve been able to do it with most stuff. I just need to… it’s the scripting and the Stripe stuff I need to figure out.
Um, Panopad sends in $3. OpenBSD win. I always think about it. Again, I’ve never had a big reason to move over, but I think about it more and more every day. Um, Kyus sends in another $2. Kai, yeah, Kaikulus. I don’t know how Culus, how does he want his name pronounced? I don’t even know. The idea is internalization of a new medium like typography. The invention of… oh, this is about the, um, writing affecting thought or something like that. The idea is internalization of a new medium like typography. The invention of an identical, uh, of identical interchangeable letters leads to new ideas like the idea of interchangeable parts leading to, uh, invention of mass production, uh, things like the engines, rifles, etc. I don’t know. It sounds a little far-fetched, but I don’t know. I probably have to see it from the horse’s mouth to understand exactly what’s going on.
Um, let’s see. So, $5… Wait, I already read that. $4.99 from Clayman. Sorry for the spam. I’m really looking forward to see what you… you’ve come up with. And I know, um, he’s a legit programmer behind the scenes who’s done it. Oh, Dick Masterson. Yeah. Um, yeah, if he’s done Stripe, um, that’s one thing. The Stripe’s documentation is atrocious. It’s awful. And you can look at tutorial videos on it that have been done like two months ago, and like the documentation has changed totally, totally, and it’s really… I mean, the annoying thing… okay, here’s the actual issue. Um, I got to think it through. So basically, I want people to be able to pay for an account. I want to join an account. And then they need to be able to create an account, like have a token to create an account. And you need to check things like, oh, has this username been used? Um, things like that, and then create it. Making sure, like getting verification from Stripe, not just paying with Stripe, but getting some kind of token of verification, then being able to create one account and one account only. It’s just all these little details that it’s like, uh, I don’t have to deal with this and like have all these scripts on my server that do it. But you know, you got to do it. Oh, that’s a meme that I haven’t got to do it. That… sorry, real life meme. Um, that was back from Arizona.
Um, $2 from RMS. Thoughts on Catboy Cammy? I know that he exists. I know that he’s, um, a little too based in red pill. Um, and I know he’s also some kind of weird pervert. Um, so that’s not actually based in red pill. I mean, he says based in red pill things, but he’s also kind of a weirdo. Um, so no, no big opinions though. That’s all I know about him. So those are my thoughts. Okay. Did I catch up? Did I finally catch up? All right. Now I’m going to check my email for, um, manual donations. Uh, you missed my super chat. Account name based in Turkey Pilled. Let me check out… check it out. Based in Turkey Pilled. Based… based. I do not see such a super chat. Based in Turkey. Oh, wait. No, no. Here it is. Um, did I miss this one? Uh, based in Turkey Pilled sends in $5. He says, “Uncle Ted strongly, strongly, strongly believes that human nature should be preserved as is. What is good about man now as opposed to what the system might make of him?” I mean, that’s supposing that man can change like that. Like, what do you think? Like, you’re just going to put incentives in front of people and they’re just going to magically change? If you’re asking… I mean, I guess the real question is will… well, first off, the biological incentives that the system, quote-unquote, puts in front of us will change us. Will it make us happier? Like, it’ll change us biologically as well, you know, people… you know, one thing that people talk about in the field nowadays, um, we talk about it in a bunch of fields like biology and anthropology and even linguistics, people talk about it, the idea of self-domestication, like civilization is something that self-domesticates people. Um, and, uh, I guess you could say, oh, well, what if, you know, we self-domesticate more and more, and that’s something that’s more and more enjoyable. Now, the fact of the matter is if you look at how people actually… you know, human psychology is something that comes after that. Okay, one of the things I talked about in my episode, uh, my not-related episode on like the agricultural revolution, it’s a good example. Like, humans have, you know, technology has put us in this environment, for example, where people can mass-produce grains to eat and we can survive eating those, but they have a lot of effects on us that are unanticipated. We don’t digest these things as well. We get fat, we lose teeth, uh, we have psychological problems stemming from our consumption of agricultural products that we didn’t have as hunter-gatherers. Um, there are a bunch of things that crop up. And you might say, oh, well, way in the future we might be at a state where we might enjoy these and we’re well-adjusted. Um, and I think that’s a little unlikely because it hasn’t really happened over thousands of years. Like, we still have the psychological issues of, you know, having 9-to-5 jobs and like basically wage cutting. That’s something that people don’t enjoy, you know, even people who are like more autistic don’t enjoy, but especially we’re at the point, you know, when we’re at the point where the technological system is advancing at an exponential rate, every generation’s environment is going to be different from the last generations, so natural selection or even artificial selection… artificial selection, mind you, is the worst possible thing. I’ll just say that. The idea that we’re going to be able to… we’re going to be able to perfectly predict how to breed people and that’s not going to have any bad outcomes, you know, like artificial selection like, you know, eugenics. This is why I’m against eugenics and stuff like this because eugenics, you select one thing. Maybe you select IQ or height or something like that. But whenever you do that, there are a million… there’s so-called mutational load. There are other mutations that you can’t get out of the system. So the problem with the technological system is it is advancing at such a rate that you can’t breed people to keep up with, you know, keep their psychologies up to date with it. So you’re always going to have people that are psychologically disturbed or things like that. That’s why, you know, people now, even though we’ve been living in agricultural societies for so long, we still have this, you know, weird, you know, depression and things like this that people in tribal societies just don’t really have ’cause they live lifestyles that are, you know, their psychologies are well-calibrated to. So I don’t think we’re ever going to be at a point where man is going to change. Man is going to be constantly changing to whatever the last… slightly changing to what the last generation required when in reality the new generation of what technology wants of us is going to be something totally different. So no, I agree with him on that point. I think that you cannot… the whole transhumanist lar is just dangerous. Um, like we’re never going to be… this is… we’re never going to be living in a Ray Kurzweil world, whatever his name is. His dream is never going to come true. Even if we have the technology, our psychology is never going to be up to date. Uh, unless you literally just want to destroy the human body and psychology and hook brains up to orgasmatrons all day, which probably… I mean, the fact is when you… even when you do stuff like that, even we basically already are hooked up to orgasmatrons, right? You know, people can just get constant stimulation from their computers and, and [\h__ to porn and all this degenerate stuff. And are people happy because of it? No. No. Because that’s not how human psychology works. Human psychology is not pleasured by constant stimulation. That’s not how it works. Ted Kazinski talks about how it actually works. The power process, it’s very Nietzschean. It’s… it’s will to power. It’s the process of figuring out how to solve problems, and you get enjoyment from solving them, especially if they’re related to your well-being. That’s how it actually works. Uh, so I’m… thanks for… sorry I missed your donation originally. That’s a good question though. Um, so thanks for bringing that to my attention.
If I missed any others, you guys can say. I’m going to check super chat, super chats, and all the other stuff and donations again. Again, thanks for the donations. Seriously, go donate though because, again, it actually costs me a lot to get out here. It probably cost me, well definitely more than a hundred bucks to get the room and drive out here and do all the stuff. So, if you want me to do streams as a regular thing, yeah, I need to make money.
So, I should put like a tracker like, “Oh, I want to reach $1,000 this week” or something like that. Like, if I want to be… I’m not actually going to be a real digital nomad. That’s total Bugman stuff. I’m not. That’s a joke. You know, all my… if there’s soy faces in the thumbnail, it’s a joke, guys. I just want to be clear.
But I do feel like there’s going to be a point where literally all of my videos… because I’ve noticed, like, I feel like I do Linux content ironically now because I don’t really enjoy Linux that much. When I have something to say about it, I’ll talk about it. But I feel like the desire to put soy faces in everything I do Linux-related is becoming greater and greater.
Um, so anyway, Rea sends in $6. What is your opinion on Docker? Asking because I started to host my own services and a lot of software offers Docker install only. My services in Docker, I feel abandoned, and it becomes harder to migrate as my data grows. Am I on the wrong side of history?
No, Docker… I have basically the same criticisms of Docker as I do of all this other junk, you know, snaps and flat packs. Docker is sort of the same thing. I think it’s a little more justifiable reasons, not like the nonsensical security reasons that people just make up in snap packs. Are they called? And again, it’s usually an annoyance.
For my purposes, like the project that I’m working on where I have an email server, an LDAP server, and all these things interconnected, Docker is like impossible to work with that kind of stuff. I mean, the real… or it’s harder to work with that kind of stuff. Like when you have, as I said in that video, whenever you have containerization, containerization is going to be fighting against the Unix philosophy at all points in time.
That’s the thing you have to remember. If you don’t need the Unix philosophy, if you don’t need things to work with each other, if you just want to have something running independently as its own thing, you know, maybe some kind of server on a particular port doing something that isn’t related to anything else, maybe Docker is okay.
But in general, my reflex is never use Docker. That’s my view on it. And you know, I didn’t say in the snap video, one thing I really don’t like about this Docker stuff, all this containerization stuff, this so-called universal package manager stuff is that there are some domains where it’s taking over. Like you, as you say, you can’t get a normal install. You can’t just install something. You have to containerize it.
You can’t even just install it on your computer. That is the thing that’s most annoying when people can’t even… and honestly, just give me the source. Like, don’t… you know, of course you can get the source, but like just give directions, basic directions on here’s how you install stuff. It’s not that hard. Come on, dude, like installing a program on Linux from like a make file, dude, it’s not that hard.
Make files are basically already the universal package manager as far as I’m concerned. That’s the way God intended, right? So you’re definitely not on the wrong side of history. Or if you are on the wrong side of history, that history is going in a bad direction. And I don’t believe you should, you know, be like that.
Two from Ray Paul, one does not say anything though. Thank you for the donation. Let me check my email for more. I think I got through all the donations. I think I’m finally… I think I finally got through. Someone is probably in the process of sending a donation right now though. So I will actually look at the chat. I will actually look at… where is it? I closed out of it.
Okay. How many people are watching? Let me actually see how many people are watching. Okay, now where is… okay, there it is. I can actually pull up my own stream. It would be awkward if we went offline and I didn’t notice. Okay, thousand some people watching. I feel like there were more. I feel like there were 1,500 or so a while ago, but I feel like I’ve been going… yeah, I’ve been going a while. People are probably having dinner. I’m interfering with people’s dinner.
Yeah, I actually… again, I’m in Valdosta, Georgia. And I know I’ve actually talked to people who live in Valdosta on my channel. So, if anyone’s in town and wants to do something, maybe I might do something. I might turn this off and go out. But I will be here tomorrow morning. So you guys can email me if you’re around.
Um, yeah, I think I got through… oh man, dude. Thanks, people. Okay. I might as well take a break. I’m surprised no one has… people usually ask me about religious stuff. No one asked me about the Pope’s recent comments. Usually, I get a bunch of questions about Catholicism, but no one brought that up. I’m a little surprised because, you know, basically the Pope said something like, “Yeah, we should have gay civil unions.”
And at this point, it’s like this guy… I can’t even pretend it’s got… imagine not being a sedevacantist. Imagine thinking this guy is like a Pope. He also gave a TED talk, which is like… oh, basically, you know, a TED talk is just like a sermon at a liberal church. That’s really what a TED talk is. It’s basically like sermons for liberals. That’s what a TED talk is.
Um, only good one is Sam Harris, of course. But the Pope gave this TED talk about climate change. Cringe. And he managed to go 13 minutes as Pope and not mention God. Like imagine even masquerading as Pope as he is and nominally being not just a Christian or Catholic but supposedly the Vicar of Christ on earth and not mentioning God. That’s just very interesting.
I mean, the fact is the guy… guy… guy… guy… guy… guy… guy’s just an atheist. Like the guy is just… it’s ridiculous. Imagine not being a sedevacantist. Like imagine… someone put a comment on my last stream and it’s a good… maybe it’s a good comment. I’m not… I shouldn’t totally dismiss it, but he was like, “Well, Luke, if you’re sympathetic to Catholics, which compared to other, you know, compared to most Protestants, at least I am highly sympathetic to Catholics, why don’t you at least go to a Novus Ordo service, like a post-Vatican II, in communion with Pope Francis? Why don’t I go to a service like that?”
Um, and that’s a good question. And I think my view is like, although I attend a Protestant church, I consider… and there are many things that I don’t agree with Protestants. I don’t consider it sacrilegious in the way that I would going to a fake Novus Ordo Mass where the Mass is, you know, it’s not in keeping with the Council of Trent. It’s not… or you’re allegedly, you know, under the jurisdiction of Pope Francis.
I would consider that more sacrilegious because Protestants, you know, their services, they don’t believe in sacraments, right? They don’t believe… oh, well, they believe when you do the Lord’s Supper, that’s just to remember Jesus. They don’t even pretend, “Oh, this is supposed to be the actual presence of Christ or the body and blood.”
Um, whereas if you were in a church that claims that under false pretenses being under the authority of this homosexualist Pope, I would consider that extremely sacrilegious and I would not want to be a part of that. So that’s why I don’t do normie Catholic services. I’ve thought about going to some sedevacantist priests that are within a couple hours of where I live. There aren’t obviously very many, but I would not be against going there.
But I would be against going to a modernist Catholic, even a Latin Mass. Um, well, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll have some sympathy for, you know, the Society of St. Pius X. Maybe, but I don’t know. That would be against my… I just… I don’t know. Anyway, that’s my explanation of that. I’m surprised no one brought up the Pope because, like, people were absolutely seething when he said this kind of stuff.
Uh, because it’s ridiculous. This guy is like… I mean, that should be like… or I don’t know, it should be excommunicable for a layperson to say that, and it would be under normal circumstances if we had real Popes, but we don’t. We have, you know, fake Popes. Um, a fake Pope whose only religion is like insane leftist modernism.
Um, and yeah, I mean, eventually it’s going to come out this guy has been like just gay. He… oh, here’s my gay lover. That’s going to happen where he’s going to say, “Oh, I’m gay. I’m a homosexual orientation person with a celibate boyfriend or something like that.” Like that’s going to… it’s going to happen. And I can only imagine, you know, this guy.
Anyway, um, okay. Kaikulus sends in $2. He says, “Marshall McLuhan. He wrote a few books. A couple good ones are Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man, and The Gutenberg Galaxy. He was a Joy Scholar and founded the University of Toronto Media Studies in the 1960s, I think.”
Okay. I… yeah, I haven’t heard of him. Um, beep beep sends in $2. What’s your thoughts on being a glowy? Based or cringe? Also, what’s your opinion on the NSRV, like the new Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha? NSRV.
Okay, I got to remember which one’s NSRV. Um, I usually don’t have… okay, unless it’s like a hyper-liberal translation, I probably don’t really care about it because, you know, there are some translations of the Bible that are like, you know, they take the passages about… like, well, we just talked about homosexuality.
Like, they take passages condemning homosexuality and they like do mental gymnastics to interpret them as something different. It’s just so cringe. If it’s one of those, I big cringe. Um, and obviously, I like KJV, New KJV, and Douay-Rheims, but um, yeah, I don’t know about this.
Let’s see who made the NS… um, National Council of Churches. Are those… oh, yeah, they’re mainline Protestants. They say Eastern Orthodox were involved too, but you never know. But if mainline Protestants were involved, it is probably subversion.
And also says African-American evangelicals were involved. Black evangelical churches are usually not theologically good too. Like, they… even though like black Christians are usually like individually conservative. Like, they’re very conservative on some issues. Probably the only exception being abortion. They were usually like okay with abortion.
Um, but theologically, a lot of these black churches are like really leftist in terms of like gay stuff. I mean, in like lay people, like lay black Christians will be like, “Dude, that’s cringe, man. That’s gay, man.” Uh, but like their churches will be like really liberal on that kind of stuff. So it sounds suspicious.
I forget exactly. I can’t tell you about the NSRV specifically, but probably cringe. Um, what are your thoughts on being a glowy? Uh, it depends on what you mean by glowy. Um, like working in the CIA or being an urban person. I don’t know what that means. Uh, it could be either one. Working for the CIA is cringe. Uh, being urban is not necessarily cringe.
Um, also what’s your… oh. Okay. All right. Okay. Let me check super chats. Um, $2.99 in Australian dollars from Phantom Beach. Uh, Nick Land or Moldbug. Who did NRX more based?
Um, I’m not really familiar with as familiar with Nick Land. Um, and he was the sort of accelerationist guy. That’s sort of cringe. Um, I mean, so I guess I’d have to say Moldbug. Moldbug isn’t perfect either. Um, Moldbug is… he said some cringe things, especially about, you know, you know who.
Um, I mean, not that cringe. Like Moldbug is generally good, but I think that, uh, you know, many people can say that Moldbug for his credit he did focus on the decentralized nature of the system, you know, how, as I said before, a lot of it is just like self-regulating.
Uh, but there are certain forces out there I think we all know who that are acutely negative. Um, but aside from that, you know, Moldbug is very good. He’s just a terrible writer. He’s a good writer in the sense that his writing is intelligent and written for smart people, but he’s a terrible writer in so far as actually explaining what he’s talking about.
Um, for like a normie, like a 100 IQ norm is going to read his stuff and just be like, “My brain hurts.” Or this guy’s just like saying weird stuff and I don’t get it. He has a Nietzschean style of writing, you know. I think I said that last time.
Um, let me check my email. Um, someone else says I forgot their donation. Let me check. Someone said named James West said, “I missed their donation.” But I do not see a donation named James West. Unless he named himself something else.
Going to have to tell me if he gave a super chat or on what’s it called on Streamlabs. Yeah, I don’t know. Um, yeah, you’ll have to tell me. I see that you say that. I didn’t get it, but let me check. Um, let me see for other ones in the meantime.
Yeah, you’ll have to tell me your screen name. Uh, Pyrus sends in or PYUS, however you want to pronounce that. I guess people pronounce them both ways. Uh, sends in $4.99 in, um, good boy points, whatever they’re called, GBP, uh, Great Britain pounds.
Um, how do I reconcile my faith in God with my epic Reddit logic brain? Sometimes I feel like I only believe in God because it’s more convenient. It depends on what you mean by more convenient. Um, autism is bad.
Like, I mean, the thing you have to realize about Reddit brains is that, you know, your brain, like the logical faculties of your… like there’s a… okay, there’s a Redditor tendency to like look at, oh, people who believe in religion like, “Oh, that’s some kind of brain error,” when in reality even logic itself is a kind of brain error.
Like it doesn’t perfectly recapitulate the things that are going on in real life. Um, it’s sort of like, you know, maybe there are some logical laws that apply, but like your brain is like so full of holes. It’s easy to convince anyone of anything.
So, you know, there’s no… a lot of people… the idea that Reddit logic people are… I mean, like the thing that kind of viewpoint, I guess the kind of Reddit atheist thing. Um, first off, it’s highly culturally, you know, I guess centered on our worldview.
Like in the past, you know, let’s say in the medieval ages, you look at all the people who are reasoned philosophers who are talking things out. None of them are atheists. They just don’t even… I mean, first off, people back then defined God differently than how they’re defined now.
You know, back in classical theism, which is actually what Christians are supposed to believe. Very few Christians nowadays actually believe that because they believe in this cartoon idea of God that God is like some personified, some kind of personality in the sky.
That’s not… that’s when Aquinas gives his proof for God. That’s not what he’s trying to prove. He’s trying to prove a prime force behind the universe or an origin of the momentum of the universe or, you know, a force external to it.
Okay, the idea that like Reddit, you know, the Reddit atheism often talks about God in the same way that like boomer evangelicalism talks about God. The idea that God is like some kind of dude, like a dude with a personality and like there are… he has traits and he has feelings and stuff like that.
You know, when the Bible talks about God having feelings, that’s a metaphor. Like in classical theism, any traditional classical Christian theologian would agree.
Um, so yeah, the idea that there’s like a discompatibility, miscompatibility, whatever, between Reddit atheism or Reddit… I mean, even Reddit atheism like at some level of abstraction, you know, I’ve said this to people like, um, you know, when you look at God in the most simple belief, like aside from viewing, you know, believing specific things like the incarnation in Jesus or something like that, let’s just say the existence of God, that often is more of a question of do you personify the moving force of the universe or do you not?
And an atheist is someone who is autistic and therefore does not personify that force. Whereas someone who believes in God is someone who either thinks of it as a person kind of thing or at least someone who understands that like that in classical theism, that’s when people talk about God as being a person, like that’s the whole point.
Like atheism is really an absurd belief when you look at it that way because atheism is basically like a kind of hyper-material skepticism where I only… the only things I exist or the only things I see or the only things that exist are the things I see.
Right? When nowadays atheists all believe, okay, well the universe had an origin. It had an initial motion. There is something that… there has to be something that is beyond the physical plane that put things in momentum.
Obviously, tautologically, that’s ob… that’s taically true. It’s not even like a prove or disprove thing. It’s just like obvious that that kind of thing exists. Even if you try and explain it in terms of like particles coming in and out of existence, like there’s some force behind that.
Um, and in that sense, like that is analogous perfectly to what Aquinas is talking about as being God. Um, now the only other question is like, well, what else do you think is associated with this force beyond the universe?
Um, is it… is the incarnation of Jesus, is that inc… is that related to that in some way? Well, you could read Aquinas’s supposed proofs of all these other things or you could look into that. But once you’ve taken that step, you realize that atheism, Reddit atheism is just like autism.
When you’re looking at, um, you know, the God in the universe. Um, and I guess my trail back from cringe atheism started when I started to look into classical theology where you have this different viewpoint but also sort of panentheism and the kind of, you know, kind of… I guess like the Freemason kind of view of God or the view of… or the Priscilla theologica view of God, like the idea that, um, there are themes of God behind all religions that, you know, mean some kind of… there’s some kind of abstract similarity that they’re talking about.
And once you have that viewpoint, you realize, oh, like oftentimes, you know, the difference of believing in God versus not believing in God is again just an issue of personification. And then what other claims do you think are… do you think there are other supernatural events that happened in history?
Once you can admit that, you start looking at, okay, can supernatural events happen? They must happen. I mean, in the sense that there are some things beyond, you know, the material universe that must happen. But are they specific things that are, you know, part of religious folklore? That’s the next question you have to answer.
Um, so what was I going to say? Uh, you know, and there is this stupid idea, um, the Humean idea. So, you know, David Hume, uh, skeptic, patient zero for Reddit. Um, you know, he famously had this really dumb… like when people think about… when you think this through, you realize how it actually works.
He had this supposed proof that you should never believe miracles. You know, the argument is, you know, let’s say, um, something apparently miraculous happens and you observe it. You observe it happening. Okay? Some, I don’t know, some guy comes down from the sky or something like that.
Even if you literally see a miracle, you know, he basically argued based on your previous experiences and based on what it would require to believe in that miracle, that requires you to believe that the physical laws of the universe have been temporarily altered and all this crazy stuff, unexpected stuff has changed in the universe.
And Hume basically argues even if you see a miracle that you still are not rational if you believe it because you still should doubt it. And a lot of people will… a lot of atheists will use that argument to say, “Oh, therefore, miracles don’t happen.” When in reality, it’s actually the opposite.
Okay? Hume basically argues, “No, even if miracles happen, you still shouldn’t believe them,” which is sort of absurd when you think about it. Like if you actually want to have factual beliefs, you actually can’t rule out… you have to say, “Okay, there are things… there are black swan phenomena. They happen.”
Like it might be that some event that seems out of the ordinary or even an event that seems in the ordinary might have some… the physical laws of the universe have been altered. That’s not… so, you know, Hume’s argument is often used as a reason for not believing in miracles, but it’s not a proof against miracles.
It’s a justification for not believing in them even when they happen, which is stupid. Which is stupid when you really think about it. Um, and, uh, yeah. So, anyway, that’s it.
Uh, let me read some more donations. Maybe I should take a drink. I feel like I’m getting… I haven’t taken a single drink this entire time. This whole 2 and a half hours, 2 hours, 40 minutes, however long it’s been.
Kaloo sends in another $2. So, thinking about hosting an old school TNET BBS server, but I’m too stupid to get it to work, and I figured out no one would even visit to chat. Uh, anyway, so I gave up.
Uh, do you think a renaissance of BBS servers could be a refuge from censorship? I briefly had a PHP board. I guess that counts. Um, yeah, I think a lot of people do have those.
Uh, well at least like PHP boards and stuff like that. I don’t know if you want to do a real telnet thing. I don’t know if you’re going to get normies into that. I mean, it has to be something… whatever technology you’re dealing with, you always have to have something that normies can like go to the website and view.
Okay. I’m trying to think. So like Roo… Roo has a forum, Rouv. Um, I recommend everyone check out Rouv’s stuff if you don’t know him. V.com, rv.com. Uh, he’s pretty based in red.
Uh, he used to be like a pickup artist. You know, he went to countries and like picked up girls and, you know, wrote books about how to sleep with girls in other countries, and then he got based in red pill politically and then he became an Orthodox Christian and now he’s like sworn off all that kind of stuff.
He like unpublished all of his pickup books and now he just posts like pretty based, pretty good reflective blog posts and stuff like that. I think he’s like writing books right now for sort of his newfound faith and new life.
But yeah, he’s definitely based in red pill. Even his stuff before he was a Christian is like… even his stuff back when he was like a pickup artist was like pretty red-pilled. Um, but yeah, he’s good.
Uh, but yeah, he has a forum and he got banned from YouTube recently for some stupid… like literally nothing like criticizing people who, you know, I don’t know, like propagandize the kids about like transgenderism stuff, which is like, you know, you’re living in an evil time when you know… anyway.
Uh, Richard Zion sends in scholars. Uh, I feel like the god of the Greek philosophers was grafted into Judaism. Um, I think that is a more accurate thing than people might think.
Um, you know, I’ve said this before. I think I even mentioned it in my stoicism episode of my podcast, not related to xyz for my podcast if you don’t know, which I’m sure I’ve mentioned already in the stream, but um, yeah, like a lot of people… if you’re var, like you’re… and if you’re like a var tier pagan anti-Christian, basically your argument non-stop is, “Dude, Christianity is Jewish. Jew religion. Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew. It’s a Jew religion, dude. It’s freaking Jewish, dude.”
And that’s… then you look at the actual Christian theology and it’s like literally just like Hellenism. It’s like everything… like I mentioned in passing in that episode, like you look at the Trinity, for example, totally analogous to Neoplatonist thought, like how they thought like everything originates from the Monad and you have things like the Logos that emanates from it and like, you know, it literally is perfectly analogous.
Like you compare it to like how Jews viewed God. It’s a different universe. Whereas you look at like Greek thought and you look at like, you know, Romans and all this kind of stuff and it’s like perfectly analogous.
So the whole thing… like, and this is why I said like the Priscilla theologica and theologia, I guess, um, that kind of stuff drew me closer to actually being a Christian again because you look at like these traditional pre-Christian, post-Christian ways of looking at God in the simplest sense and you see like the actual reason for Christian Trinitarianism and all these kind of things.
Like they’re not histo out of cloth. Like they’re philosophically grounded. There’s like a worldview behind it. A worldview that’s been lost to time, but it’s definitely there.
Um, and like people who say like really… you look at it and you see like if you actually want to say that Christianity is a culturally dependent religion, it’s really a, you know, European religion where Hebrew folklore was sort of grafted onto it.
Oh yeah, we believe in like Noah and the flood and stuff like this. That’s a more accurate thing to say. Like, I mean, Christianity in some sense was an orientalist religion. It was practiced by Gentiles. It wasn’t practiced by basically any Jews, you know, even at the earliest period.
Um, and it just sort of had like motifs, like Jewish motifs in it. Like, oh, this kind of orientalist motif. Oh yeah, nominally, you know, Jesus was Jewish and came from this Jewish background, but his message is for everyone and it’s not for Jews or… I mean, it’s for Jews in the sense that it’s for everyone, but you know, I mentioned before you look at the New Testament, why the New Testament was written was to explain to people why Jews aren’t Christians.
Okay, all of the Gospels, the story of the Gospels is how Jesus was rejected and murdered by the Jews. That’s the gospel story. I mean, well, aside from Jesus’s teaching, but like what happens in the stories, that’s why, you know, you have the Jews saying, you know, “Let his blood be on our ancestors,” because Christians at the time who were writing these books were like… had just been kicked out of the synagogues and stuff.
You know, Jews were like, “No, you’re not the same thing. Get out of the synagogues.” And so they were really butthurt. You know, the gospel writers were very upset about this.
Uh, same thing with the Acts of the Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles is literally just the story of the Jews rejecting Jesus’s message. And because that is a positive thing because, you know, as Paul says, that’s a good thing because now Christianity goes to the Gentiles.
Many other people, you know, so the Jews’ rejection of Christianity was a beneficial thing in that sense. It didn’t remain some kind of ethnic religion.
Um, Michael Smith sends in $5 more dollars. Is a philosopher king the ideal form of government as proposed by Plato? Also, do you have any thoughts on the YouTuber Keith Woods?
Um, I don’t believe in ideal forms of government. I mean, I’ve said before, um, well, first I’m not a philosopher. Plato’s a… I’m not a big fan of Plato, okay? Especially his political writing.
Um, I think his political writing is good in so far that it’s an antidote to some things in modernity, but Plato was like the original LAR. Um, I didn’t actually release this podcast past podcast episode. I recorded half of it, but um, I do sort of agree with Carl Popper when he did his analysis of like the open society and its enemies.
Uh, in that Plato is basically the origin of all LAR. Like all political stupidity comes from him in the sense that he is the first guy who sat down and was like, “Oh, let me imagine a society designed by me and my friends. How would that be? How should… you know, it’s the first LAR society.”
When in reality, my view is that societies have to be, you know, organic entities. They’re sort of bottom-up in a way. There’s a sense in which you cannot plan societies.
I mean, some people know this at least in the economic domain. You know, libertarians will be like, “Oh, well, communism, you know, planned economy doesn’t work.” But yeah, that… but like everything else that… that… but like morality as well.
Morality is not something we can sit down and decide. Morality is something, you know, NZ notes this. We don’t actually have… you know, we don’t… we don’t out morality. We know what morality is and moral philosophers can guess about why we have moral senses about things.
Um, but it is a given. It’s an emergent thing that happens in society. There’s no such thing as someone who says, “Oh, let’s change society’s values.” What that really means is let’s destroy society. Let’s lobotomize part of our organic entity.
Anyway, so I’m not a big fan of Plato, although, you know, I said in the previous stream that, you know, if you have a large-scale society with a political realm over a large swath of territory, monarchy is the least degenerate form of government in that a subsidiarist monarchy, mind you, where you have many… you have a lot of decentralization, where you have a kind of, you know, feudalism.
Feudalism is a word that we’ve been brainwashed against. You know, it’s supposed to be like, “Oh, imagine serfs digging and having a middle miserable time just like in Monty Python banging cats against, you know, wood and like just slinging dirt all over the place.”
But in reality, feudalism is one of the most efficient and natural forms of government because you have people who live in local communities. They have, you know, hierarchical government right above them that they’re connected to.
Um, and then above that, there’s another form of hierarchy. Everything is organized, everything is, you know, there’s kind of property to it. That is that the king is not, you know, the king is not like a president who is only in for 48 years and, you know, wants to take advantage of the system for his own good.
The kingdom is his property and it’s his not just his obligation, but the incentives are on his side to take good care of it. Um, so, you know, as I said before, there are really two forms of government. If you have a government that is not organized at a macro level, you’re going to have a kind of private law anarchy, a kind of… I don’t even want to say like anarcho-primitivist or anarcho-capitalist kind of society, maybe even anarcho-communist, depending on how small scale it is, if you don’t have need for currency or property.
But nearly, I mean, in all like semi-wealthy societies, you do need private property as an institution. That just emerges. Um, you know, I know that hurts the feelings of many communists, but that’s how it is. I’m sorry. Get over it.
Um, but, uh, so anarchy is sort of the natural state when you don’t have a, you know, you have no need for a, you know, an imperial organization. But when you do have a massive country, a monarch is, you know, not a philosopher monarch, that’s cringe. That is Reddit tier, that’s enlightenment tier.
But a monarch who treats the company… the company well, yeah, the country like it’s its company, that’s ultimately, yeah, private a CEO of the country, you know.
Um, right, and of course you would never run a company democratically because it would just fall apart. Same thing with the country. Um, but yeah, and I think some of it… you always have some of both because if you look at so-called monarchies in the past and, you know, the individual liberties that people had were much greater than they are now.
Uh, the freedom from taxation, the freedom from micromanagement was a lot greater. You just didn’t have to offend the king. Uh, you just didn’t do anything that undermined his rule. And you know, you don’t have to worry. It’s not… again, it’s not like democracy where the rulers have to convince you and humiliate you of things.
You know, you have to be convinced that up is down and down is up to function. Um, anyway, so he also asked, um, also, do you have any thoughts on the YouTuber Keith Woods? I’m aware of his channel.
Um, I think he does, uh, well, you guys might want to check it out. He does sort of, um, I guess reactionary kind of stuff. Um, I don’t know if he’d identify with that word, but like right-wing, um, general kind of… it’s hard to explain.
I’ve seen his channel. I don’t really watch channels like that that often. He seems okay. Um, yeah, that… so, I mean, I’m not… yeah, I’m not unendorsing him or something like that. It seems like a good channel.
Um, but I only recently ran across him. I feel like someone either messaged me about him or something. I forget. And I remember looking at it, but again, I really don’t watch YouTube channels that much.
Um, but he seems okay. He seems good. Um, and that’s Keith Woods for those who wanted to look it up. Let’s see.
Uh, Purus sends in $1.99. Uh, what’s a good place to start with theology? I think, um, it’s hard to say. Um, depends on what your background is.
I think I’ll tell you what was most instructive for me as a low-church Baptist in upbringing. Um, I didn’t know anything about anything else. You know what I mean?
Uh, I learned a lot about Catholicism from what is it? Vatican Catholic.com. Uh, I mean they have a website, but really their YouTube channel is the good stuff. They’re like sedevacantists who are like extreme traditionalist Catholics.
Um, I had no idea what Catholics actually believed until I watched that channel and I understood it and other some other traditionalist Catholics. Um, that’s a good way to getting into some of the historical debates between Catholics and Protestants.
Um, as for, you know, as I was mentioning before, the sort of, um, uh, like the general view of how pre-modern people thought of God, um, or like medieval people or like late classical people, that’s a harder thing to give a recommendation on.
Um, there’s no one book that’s coming to my head or no one place that I honestly know if I feel like this is not even the kind of thing that people usually talk about.
I guess I read a lot into Freemasonry and what they believe, um, which of course a lot of people consider like Satanism or something like that.
Um, Freemasonry or like theosophy or these kind of people there. Most of it is like new age garbage. Um, especially Blavatsky. Uh, yeah. Don’t… I mean, well, okay, some of that stuff will give you a representative sample, but you know, I guess I read into like what people in the Renaissance started believing about God and, um, how, you know, how Aquinas… I started reading Aquinas’s Summa, um, and other things.
It’s sort of hard. Like the thing is there’s no one source I can recommend to you. It’s sort of a thing you have to piece together from multiple sources.
I can’t get… I wish I could give you some good thing about like just theology, but as far as I know, there’s no one who’s really red-pilled on everything.
Um, I… you just have to read… you have to read loosely from a lot of things until you get the gestalt of how it works.
Um, even stuff like Evea because Evea and the so-called, um, what is it? Like traditionalist school where basically, you know, the traditional… that’s traditionalist with a capitalist T where basically they try to reconstruct, you know, their view is like there are two main worldviews.
There’s modernism and traditionalism. And it’s not just that like traditionalism is the thing of the past and modernism is, you know, nowadays how people look at things.
It’s that there are two main mindsets that people in different times and places will use and traditionalism is systematically different in that, you know, how they view the order of the universe, how it is ordered around God, how it is ordered around a king in the political realm, how, you know, there are certain symbolic meanings of things.
It’s hard to explain, you know, but reading some of those guys might… you know, Evea might be something to think about. I don’t even know about that.
Um, I can’t give… I can’t give you… I need to… maybe I need to write something like this drawing from a bunch of sources because it’s one of those things.
There’s not a single source I can give you on, you know, to really get a view on things. Um, Chris Jones sends in $2. What’s your take on Eastern mysticism like Dao and Zen?
Uh, I don’t really think about it that much. Um, like I think it’s a little… it’s a little Bugman to think about like the viewpoints of a culture that, you know, I’m not fully connected to.
Um, I’ve spoken positively about Daoism generally. Um, but, uh, yeah, I’m not big into Eastern philosophy at all. Um, even Indo-European philosophy like Indian stuff, I’m not a big fan of.
But, um, you know, Daoism is fine. I guess I’ve written about it a couple times, but you know, I don’t… it’s not like I identify with it or something lame like that.
Um, I bode B. I have no idea how this is pronounced. Is that like a Welsh name? I don’t even know. Who knows? Oh, no. It sends in 10 real.
So, I guess what is that a Brazilian name or something? Doesn’t look very Brazilian. Anyway, um, what do you think of Eve and his view that Christianity is a decay in the sense that it is faith-based instead of something like the Vedas where the element of having faith is not present?
Okay, that… yeah, the grammar of that comment was messed up, but I think he’s saying like, um, you know, Christianity is based too much on faith, belief, whereas Vedas, you know, some many traditional religions are not about that.
Well, first off, like Christianity itself, you know, really… this kind of, um, I guess the Protestant view of Christianity where it’s things about things you like as a person ascent to, you know, like beliefs you ascent to.
Islam has a lot of a little bit of that too. Um, whereas, you know, even in… or Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, um, in Catholicism, well, both Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, um, you can be baptized into the faith, of course, and some Protestants, by the way, who still retain this more traditional view of Christianity.
You can be baptized into the faith and not have a clue what the faith is about as a child. And you can, you know, if you die in, you know, a state of grace in Catholicism, if you’re a little kid and you are baptized and you die, you still go to heaven and stuff like that.
Um, the view of sacraments in the Catholic Church is that really, um, although assenting to the facts is a part of the faith, as time goes on, sacraments are fundamentally things that, you know, are not your belief.
You know, there’s required faith in the sense that you trust, you know, you know, when you go to confession or something like that, you, um, you know, you have to be generally sorry for your sins or genuinely be sorry for your sins and stuff like that.
Uh, but the idea that like the faith itself is consenting to specific things. Now, it is like not doing heresy and stuff like that, but people can have individual doubts.
Like if you’re a Catholic and you’re like, you know, I don’t really know if God exists or something like that. If you go through the sacraments and you have faith, I mean, if faith actually is, you know, not necessarily thinking that something is absolutely true, but having faith that you know it is true.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Like a lot of people ask me like, “Oh, how do I have faith in this? I can’t make myself believe.” When in reality, it’s like, yeah, that’s what faith is.
Like maybe you can’t be convinced of something rationally. That… that’s sort of the point. Um, so in Catholicism, for example, the sacraments of baptism and confession and all of this kind of stuff, there are things that are external to you and that affect you.
Um, same thing in Orthodoxy. In Orthodoxy, you know, um, there’s a lot of ambiguity about specific things that people in the Western church take for, you know, oh, well, we know exactly how heaven and hell work.
In Eastern Orthodoxy, there’s sort of an ambiguity about, well, we don’t really know. God hasn’t really revealed that much specifically about him or specifically who goes to heaven and specifically what that means and specifically what hell means.
And so we have to leave that as an ambiguity. So there’s not so much of a faith. I mean, it’s not like the idea that like a religion is all about assenting to facts is a very Protestant notion.
And I think if Eve is construing that as what Christianity is, and of course that is a part of it. I mean, you have to have faith in, you know, the resurrection and stuff like the resurrection of Jesus and the dead, right? That’s pretty much a fundamental part.
You might even have a different view of what exactly that means, you know. Um, but, um, you know, and in the same way, there are many… I mean, especially in the past, and there are many Christians now who look at a lot of the Old Testament as, you know, maybe this stuff didn’t literally happen in the way that some people think or it’s written or, you know, even in the way that the Gospels are written, right?
There are many Gospels that tell stories totally differently in different… tell stories in contradicting ways. Is it a lack of faith to say that, um, you know, both of these couldn’t have happened?
Like in each of the Gospels, Jesus has different final words, you know, final words that he says. Is that, you know, if faith is like factually consenting to something that the Bible says about Jesus, isn’t that a contradiction?
In reality, it’s just like… it’s autism if you’re thinking about it on that level. Um, that’s not exactly the point, you know.
Um, so anyway, but yeah, like there are religions like, you know, Hinduism or, you know, frankly, you know, Catholicism nowadays, a lot of people who call themselves Catholics don’t actually believe anything.
Um, well, that’s more a statement about the absolute state of… statement about the absolute state of… uh, capital… I was about to say capitalism, Catholicism.
Um, but yeah, Hinduism is one of those religions where like, eh, do I believe in gods? That’s not the point. I mean, if you really get at esoteric Hinduism, it’s actually very similar to European paganism where like people, you know, people normies would believe in like gods as these things that exist.
But like the philosopher people, they would believe in God. They would believe in one singular god behind all of them. Sort of a hidden monotheism. And that’s what gradually evolved into, you know, Christian theology as we were talking about before.
It wasn’t just, again, it wasn’t just like, you know, like Var says, “Oh dude, desert Jews took over.” Dude, it’s not accurate, you know.
Um, all right, let me refresh these pages. Okay. Oh boy, I’m way behind. Oh, okay. People are sending in a bunch of little donations. Jeez. Okay.
Uh, I’m way behind. Um, okay. Uh, Mister sends in $2. I’m assuming… Okay, there are a lot of $2 donations. I might have to give priority to bigger ones, but I’ll read these if I can get through them.
I might be stopping sometime soon. I’m getting a little tired. Um, Mister sends in $2. I’m assuming stuck at the crossroads. I currently have three options. Take a bachelor’s degree in IT, become a cop, become a household electrician. Thoughts?
Um, don’t become a cop. I would not… well, it depends on where you are. Actually, if you’re in an urban environment, I would not ever become a cop because, you know, you’re just going to get, you know, accused of racism and like killed or something.
Um, so I… and if you’re in a small-scale community, it might be a fine thing to do, but you know, I’m just suspicious of being a cop nowadays. It’s, you know, that for better or for worse, it’s a very risky thing to do.
Um, okay, so being an electrician, that would be a good thing to do. I highly recommend that if you can take classes for free in it. If you’re in a place where like you can get free stuff, like, you know, I’m in Georgia, right?
So in Georgia, they have the HOPE scholarship, basically free college if you have a 3.0 GPA. Um, if you can take college basically for free, it might be okay if you want to learn specific things, but it might be a big waste of your time depending on what you already know.
It might be better to… I mean, becoming an electrician, you can make a lot of money if you know what you’re doing. Um, it’s pretty easy to learn what you’re doing.
Uh, yeah, you actually can make a lot of money. Um, and, you know, I feel like it is the kind of thing… I mean, I’m speaking of someone who, you know, everything I learned in IT, I’ve never taken a computer science class in my life.
Actually, I did sign up for a computer science 101 class when I was an undergraduate. Went one day and I was like, “H, this sounds hard. I don’t want to do this.”
Um, so, you know, I’m the kind of person I’ve taught… everything I know about computers I’ve figured out myself and I sort of feel like most people who are capable of learning this kind of stuff can do it.
So, I would… it depends on if you can take classes for free. I would definitely pursue the electrician thing. And if you can take classes for free halftime or something like that, that would be a good thing.
Um, if you are already sort of competent and you have a way you can start making money online doing IT stuff, I would try to do that and double it up with the electrician thing.
Uh, it’s hard to go wrong with being an electrician. That will be… you’ll be able to make good money anywhere you live, move out to the country, get a real job. Um, be your own boss. That’s a good thing to do.
Um, okay. Kais sends in $2. C. He looks like he sent in a bunch of $2. So, um, one of them is, uh, thoughts about making a forum, but they could strip my registrar if I allowed free speech. I’m a noob.
Is there a way for normies to click an icon and I can make a simple program to connect SSH to a forum instead of on a server on my own IP address instead of the command line terminal?
Uh, that sounds a little gimmicky. And I will say so a lot of people will be like, “Oh, dude, they’re just going to shut me down if I allow free speech.”
Okay, I… the issue they will shut you down if you’re on… you YouTube. They’ll shut you down if you’re on Twitter or Facebook. And yes, there have been high-profile sites that have been like shut down by registrars, but one is you’re going to be small-scale and it becomes more and more difficult for them to find you and shut you down.
That’s one thing. I mean, keep in mind like the original site that was shut down, really the one site that’s been shut down is the Daily Stormer, right? So, the Daily Stormer used to be dailystormer.com. They were like the first people to ever be kicked off a registrar for no illegal content.
Basically, they just made fun of that fat girl who died in a car accident in Charlottesville. And then the registrar was literally like… he wrote… he actually wrote a blog post about this.
He’s like, “I was angry about this, so I’m just going to kick him off and I don’t care about the slippery slope or anything like that.” He actually published this embarrassing blog post about his stupid… he literally got emotional and started a dangerous precedent.
But the Daily Stormer was kicked off of dailystormer.com. They’re now daily.su. You can go there. They’re still on the clear web. It’s just they just got a better registrar. They’ve gone through many different registrars.
Um, but I think that the thing that people say, “Oh, I’m just going to get kicked off and it’s not going to be any good.” Uh, well, they’re still on… the Daily Stormer is still online. It’s still, you know, the best comedy news site out there.
Uh, which is Andrew England’s actually really freaking funny. Um, but, um, you know, they’re still on the clear web. They do have a Tor site, but, um, I think a lot of people just get in this cope or anti-cope.
They’re just like doomer mindset where they’re like, “Oh, everyone’s just going to get shut down.” And, uh, it’s very hard for them to shut everyone down and it’s not worth their effort to shut everyone down.
And if you make your own website and you make your own service, even if they… even if your registrar shuts you down, you just go to another registrar and you still have your own… you still have your own VPS or you still have your own server.
You can just, oh, okay, change the DNS settings, tell people to go to this website instead. It’s not too hard. So don’t freak out about that kind of stuff.
Um, lots of people… there are a lot of very edgy sites that are still on the clear web. Uh, and they’re going to continue to be that way. And I think people realize like this shutting… shutting down sites, it’s a big inconvenience.
It was a big inconvenience to Andrew England when he got shut down. Um, but, um, there’s only so far they can go. They can’t stomp people out just forever.
Um, and there are plenty of sites that are like much edgier than his and actually like, you know, some dangerous sites frankly. Uh, not political stuff, but there’s really edgy content on the clear web.
And I think people who just get in this… they censor themselves because they’re worried about getting censored when you don’t really have to worry about that. It’s like, no, I mean, if you have to buy one more domain name, okay, oops, $12 more this year, not a big problem, okay?
You know, so don’t worry about that kind of stuff. Just do it. Um, but yeah, don’t do anything gimmicky. Just have a normal BBS kind of thing.
Um, he sends in two more dollars. I missed the small group brotherhood community back in BBS days and I feel like it’s missing in modern and on Reddit and 4chan culture. I wish we could have a renaissance of something like BBS but better.
Uh, build back better QAnon confirm. Lol. Um, yeah, it would be nice. It’s just the culture of the internet has sort of been gone.
Uh, Albert sends in $22. Hi Luke about the transhumanism. Why not set the simulation triggers to stimulation triggers to important but non-naturally stimulating for user activities and talk about the human psychology and talking about the human psychology why couldn’t… shouldn’t be ch… why oh it be changed?
Sorry, like these are formatted so weird when I read them. How’s your hotel? Cheers from Russia.
Okay, the… all right. Why can’t human psychology just be changed? Well, first off, I just told you the reason it can’t be changed via evolution because it’s like trying to shoot a moving target with literally a billion genetic variables, all of which can cause cataclysmic failure.
I mean, a lot of people have this idea that like the human brain is just like a computer and you just change variables if you want to. That’s not how it works. Like people have literally not… like neuroscientists have no freaking clue how the brain works.
Anyone who… no, there’s no such… like there’s no… it’s such a complex system so beyond anything we understand. It’s just stupid. Like neuroscience, you know, I had, um, when I was at Arizona, there was one of the professors there, he was like so based in red-pilling because he basically just like pooped on everyone else because everyone else was like doing bad work and he was like really freaking great.
Um, he actually moved to the University of Florida. His name was, uh, Andrew Lotto, but he had this great expression. He was like, you know, neuroscience… neuro… what neuroscientists do? They just like scan the brain and they look at stuff like stimulation.
Okay, neuroscience is basically like if computer science was trying to figure out what a computer is doing by looking at what parts of the computer are hot. Okay, that’s basically what neuroscience is.
All right, exactly what neuroscience is. Uh, actually, in fact, um, it’s like such a… I’m not even… you know, I don’t believe in the word pseudoscience, but it’s such a like fake statistical correlation fest of just like big data nonsense.
People have no idea. Like human psychology is not just a thing you can change. So that’s not even a real question.
Um, and even if we are changing the stimulus response system over generations of evolution. Again, like whenever you have some kind of strong natural or artificial selection on humans, you always have genetic defects popping up everywhere else.
It never ends up how you… whenever you have any kind of founder effect, whenever you have any kind of like massive selection of people for even for IQ or something like that, you have massive genetic, you know, side effects on the… you know, that basically if you are selecting for one particular thing, you by definition have to not select for everything else.
It is not an actual natural environment where a species acclimates gradually to their environment and doesn’t develop anything hostile during this happens. It’s like a disaster every time.
It doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as why don’t we just change human psychology. That’s an extremely naive thing to say. I just want to say.
Um, so I don’t really understand the first part of the question about the transhumanism. Uh, why not set these stimulation triggers to important but non-naturally stimulating for user activities? I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean, dude.
Like the whole thing like transhumanism is just a freaking LAR. If people, again, like if people were more in tune to how neuroscience works or really doesn’t work or how… you know, any of this kind of stuff, they would realize, oh, it’s just… this is impossible. It’s a sham. It’s never going to happen.
Okay, the more we learn about the brain, the less we realize we realize we know about it. Okay, it’s not going to happen. I’m really serious about this.
Um, like there’s not all these Elon Musk ideas. We’re going to have brain interfaces or stuff. If we do, it’s going to be a disaster. None of it’s going to work.
It’s going to, you know, and the same principles apply even outside… even when we’re manipulating people outside of like neural engineering.
I mean, as I said, we are creating a pleasurable society. We, you know, where you have phone games that are supposed to be perfectly designed for your psychology so you find enjoyment of them. And guess what? You’re still going to get bored by them.
You’re still going to be engrossed in them and they’re going to still harm you in unexpected ways. Like that’s how it is. Like this is just… don’t just… yeah. None of it’s going to happen.
All right. Ka… listen, uh, $2. I was an anthro… I was in an anthropology program but dropped out after I found a Spanish armor breastplate in Citrus County, Florida in a cave.
And they treated me like a criminal for finding something from Navarez expedition. And, uh, I don’t know what they did with what I found. That’s interesting.
Yeah, you never really… like people are really touchy about stuff like that. I don’t know exactly even what the rules are or what the protocols are. Who even freaking knows?
Um, okay, another $2 from Kaloo. Uh, what do you think about the GPT-3 AI from OpenAI? Same thing. Don’t… yeah. None of it.
Um, and what do you think about it not being open anymore? That Elon Musk guy creeps me out. Uh, TBH.
Well, the thing is we don’t have to worry that much about transhumanism or like people becoming robots or any of that kind of crap because none of it’s going to work.
Okay? It’s all going to be a big sham. Like it’s never… we are never going to… there’s not going to be a singularity point where like the human brain is interfacing any of that kind of stuff.
I don’t believe in any of that for a second. Maybe at a very superficial level. Um, but the idea that… I mean, especially AI, like AI…
Um, yeah, you’re never going to have AI in the way that… or let me put my words together on this one because I feel like the way that AI is being approached is never going to have human analogous machines the way that it’s done with neural nets and all this kind of stuff.
It’s not… it’s just the entire wrong approach. And there are other people who criticize this from other angles. I mean, there’s like the Noam Chomsky critique that, you know, we’re not doing the engineering. People are just doing like big data kind of stuff.
Um, but I think even more than that, like the total direction is just… I don’t know, off the… anyway, AI is just like… whenever you’re talking about AI, I just hear like people throwing their effort down an infinite chasm that’s never going to happen.
Same thing with true transhumanism. I think when people like really look into the difficulties involved in that kind of stuff and like how great they are and like… like there’s so many other things we could try to like… people like in neuroscience, they have like… um, there are some animals with brains that are like what, like 14 neurons or something like that.
The simplest thing in the universe and we still don’t know how to… we still can’t model their brains. I mean, it’s still nuts. You know, you can look at these little nematodes or these little amoebas and we still can’t understand it and understand them.
So, the idea that we’re going to like understand the human brain or like be able to interface it, which, you know, as it’s evolved over, you know, billions of years and, uh, you know, all this, it’s just… I don’t… I don’t buy it.
I don’t… no, it’s not going to happen. Um, $2 from Melanar’s thoughts about Mises, Rothbard, and Hans Hermann Hoppe.
Um, only the ones I’ve given on every other stream. That’s got to be… I feel like we have to promote those guys to like, uh, you know, I’m glad no one asks about Jordan Peterson anymore.
Every stream it used to be, “What are your thoughts about Jordan Peterson?” Um, Mises, um, I’ve read Human Action. I guess I like it. It’s interesting.
Um, I like Rothbard’s stuff. Um, I like… I’m not really sold on the whole Austro-libertarian. I’m not sold on praxiology.
Um, I like… like Austro-libertarianism is an interesting critique of, you know, gay and fay… you know, modern economics or whatever.
Um, I don’t buy praxiology because it’s like the same… I mean, it’s the same thing that like Marxism is in the sense that it’s like a very fragile reasoning system where people like, um, like, you know, reason through why this or that should be the case and if any of the blocks in the logical system are wrong or whatever, you know, the whole system falls down.
But these guys instead base their entire moral philosophy on praxiology and it’s just a little… or well, I guess Rothbard for Rothbard, it’s moral.
For Mises, I think he’s sort of… he still believes in is-ought distinction, but Rothbard doesn’t. Um, Hans Hermann Hoppe, you know, I talked about him in the last stream.
Um, generally based. I I’ve read Democracy: The God That Failed. Um, I don’t think it’s very readable to normies though, but I mean, I think his points are… um, but yeah, I don’t think about it that often.
I mean, I went through a phase where I read a bunch of these handcap guys, but I haven’t in a while. Let me check my email for donations.
Denoian. Um, okay. Let’s see. Uh, PayPal donation. Okay. So, James, um, James West, uh, he was the one who said that he sent in a donation and I didn’t read it.
I’m looking at the donation. There is no comment on it. I think it’s for $2. Either that or there’s another James. Well, there’s a James West and James Westerman. I don’t know if those are the same people.
Um, okay. Oleg sends in 10 bucks. Uh, I don’t see a comment on that either. I don’t know if, uh, they’re not putting the comments in those.
Um, and then one more. Uh, Josh Wilson and 10. I don’t see a comment on that either. I don’t know if these are actually just, uh, donations from Streamlabs that, um, I always get confused if they… they always do things differently.
They change if they send emails to you, redundant emails or blah blah blah. Pandemic $2 sends, uh, he sends in. Uh, AI is a total misnomer. It’s, uh, very successful at what it does, but it’s mostly glorified regression.
Uh, that’s definitely true. I agree with that. Uh, and the people who design it know that as I understand it, it’s mostly, uh, a marketing ploy to call it AI.
Uh, very good at specific tasks but can’t generalize. Yeah, I mean, we did AI stuff back at the University of Arizona and yeah, that’s definitely true.
But the issue is people, especially in academia, get confused because, you know, they’re… yeah, they fall for the marketing ploy. They’re like, “Oh, this is like cognitively real stuff,” especially when you call something neural nets.
I mean, I guess it’s supposed to be analogous to how neurons work, but, um, the idea that this is like supposed to be a cognitive model is lost on people.
Now, I will say this. I will say this. There is a kind of implementation of neural nets in linguistics called optimality theory.
Actually, linguists don’t even understand optimality theory. Every undergrad or at least advanced undergrads and graduate students in linguistics will learn about optimality theory and it’s sometimes mistaught because like linguists don’t understand like neural nets and stuff like that.
But it’s basically like a kind of shorthand for making decisions or like deciding what optimal forms to use over a neural net. It’s like a shorthand implementation. It has like charts and charts and constraints and all this kind of stuff.
It’s actually not exactly… um, well, it’s a shorthand, whatever. Um, but I am a big fan of that, especially when I was at the University of Arizona. I started doing projects like deriving like a word order across languages from optimality theory or… which effectively means that… or, well, really everything.
Like eventually I got to the point where I was like, “Okay, all the things that are done by traditional generative syntax like Chomsky and generative syntax, all of that stuff could be much better done like word order or like making decisions about, you know, how to extrapose constructions or other things that you can’t account for in generative grammar.”
Very easy to do in optimality theory and in fact, you can use… you can basically say you just have phonological and semantic constraints and they interact over a neural net and that solves basically every problem in linguistics.
I mean, that would be the, uh, basically what I argue at this point. Now that’s very ironic because when I went into graduate school, I was like, “Oh dude, this optimality stuff, what the heck?”
Even actually my roommate in Arizona red-pilled me on this. I have to give him credit because originally I was confused like as most linguists… linguists aren’t even properly taught about optimality theory.
They’re not taught that it’s like supposed to be a neural net. They’re just taught, “Oh, it’s some weird shorthand,” and like it doesn’t actually make any sense.
Like there’s this idea that there’s like this thing called GEN that generates every possible candidate for deciding something and then you have constraints that weed through them like psychologically as a psychological model.
It doesn’t make sense, but it’s really just a shorthand for a neural net. So my roommate red-pilled me on that. And after I took that red pill, I was like, “Oh dude, you can actually do a lot of stuff with this.”
There are a lot of things in syntax where you have basically… you can’t account for them with linear rules. You can’t account with them… count them, whatever, with, uh, you know, sort of minimalist syntax, but it’s easy to do in optimality theory.
It’s easy to do with, you know, a neural net. Um, so yeah, yeah, it is totally a misnomer.
Um, but the problem is most people, even in academic fields, totally think that AI means intelligence where when in reality it’s like something totally different.
It’s… I don’t even know. It needs a new… I mean, it’s like the, um, what is it? The MIT course that people always quote from, from, uh, on computer science where in lesson one he has like computer science written on the board and he’s like, “Well, the first thing about computer science is it’s not really science,” and he crosses out science and he explains why.
And the other thing is it really has nothing to do with computers either, and he crosses out… because that’s true too. Like computer science, it’s like study of, you know, recursion and these kind of formal properties that has nothing to do with… it’s not like a scientific experiment thing and it also per se has nothing to do with computers either.
You know, computers happen to use it. Um, it’s very useful for computers, but computer science has actually nothing to do with computers.
All right, okay, let me check. I’m getting tired. I’m getting tired. I’m an old boomer. Let me check this donation list.
Uh, yeah, guess I haven’t gotten anything in a while. I might… I might call it quits soon if we haven’t had donations and maybe I’ll take a nap. An old boomer nap.
I’m really looking forward to the time falling back. I’ll tell you that. So, uh, and people are gradually leaving. So, guess people got to go to bed. It’s night in Europe or wherever.
It’s night everywhere, basically. All the important parts of the world. It’s already night here.
Um, all right. I’m actually looking at the normie chat. Let’s see if there are any… anyone saying anything interesting. Show me your… show me your best soy face. No, I’m not going to do that.
All right. I noticed that like the past 30 minutes, it’s just been like the same three or four guys just giving $2 super chats over and over again.
I… here’s the thing. Let me go ahead and say, as I said, I… well, I didn’t plan this, but it sort of came up in the stream, but, um, you know, I talked about… I really just want to move away from YouTube because, as I mentioned, they’re just censoring so much.
Um, so much of it is just like a fake astroturfed platform now. And you know, maybe things will cool down after the election. Maybe it’ll be a little better. We don’t know.
I either way it happens. I don’t know. Maybe they’ll ramp it up if Trump wins. Maybe they’ll ramp it up if Trump loses. But, um, either way, I think it’ll cool down after the election.
But either way, I, you know, long term, I need to find a way to do a stream, including a chat and including a super chat thing that is independent of YouTube.
Now, I know a lot of people moved to Dlive. I actually had a Dlive account for a period, but the thing with Dlive is, um, and you know, I’m not against the platform or anything. It’s a fine place to stream. A lot of people do it.
But they have their own fake… they have this thing they pretend as a cryptocurrency. It’s not actually cryptocurrency. It’s just like fake cummies, basically. Kumies we call them now.
Um, and you know, a lot of people use them. I didn’t… Alex Jones got banned on Dlive because he criticized the Chinese government.
Like Dlive is owned by China, you know, and that’s usually a good thing for censorship because, um, you know, China, as long as you’re not like calling for the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party, like they’ll let you say whatever.
They don’t care. Um, you know, anything in American politics is fair game. So, um, but like I just want to be a… like my vision that I’m… I think I’m constantly moving closer to and my vision not just for myself but for the internet is, um, you know, for it to be easy for a person to set up their own server with their own website, their own, you know, being able to do a stream with friends and even watch videos together, you know, or have a chat together.
Doing that on a pl… on your own platform. You know, it’s very cheap to have a VPS, a couple bucks a month. Um, and it would just be really nice if people could use that to the fullest extent instead of having… and of course federating through services, um, through, you know, federal services and interacting with other instances.
Um, that would be a really nice thing to have an internet like that. And that’s the internet we have to eventually make. That’s the way the internet was supposed to be, frankly.
Um, but you know, the convenience of all these sites like YouTube and Facebook have distracted people and let’s hope it’s a temporary distraction.
Now these companies are omnipotent. They can just ban people and it’s very sad and just disheartening and it has a lot of… it’s really destroyed the internet and we need to make… we need to, you know, a lot of people are like, “Oh, let’s fight censorship,” but really you fight censorship by making it as impossible as possible.
So, all right. So, I’ll take a last look at donations and I guess I have to call it quits. Oh, I’m pooped.
All right. No more… I don’t see any more donations on Streamlabs. I don’t see any more super chats. Let me check my email.
Joshua sends in $2 and it says, “You rock it.” Is that like a sticker or something? I don’t even know how that works. Um, okay. All right. Well, I guess I’ll call it quits. I’ll look at the chat one more time and then we’ll head out.
This has been a long stream. I don’t even know. I hope I… I’m pretty sure I made the money that this hotel room cost. So, I might do this. Well, I definitely did. It’s just like, did I make enough to make it worthwhile to drive out and do this every once in a while?
I might be going on a personal trip. I was thinking about doing it this week, um, and leaving now and like going from here into somewhere else. Um, but, uh, as I said, a family member called me over to, “Hey, you want to have, um, dinner on Tuesday?” And I was like, “Okay, yeah, sure. I’ll do that. I’ll come back.”
But I think maybe either this week or the next week, I’ll take off and go on a bigger trip. If any of you are in Georgia, if any of you are in maybe North Florida, or if any of you are in Alabama, maybe Eastern Tennessee, uh, maybe South Carolina, uh, you can feel free to email me because I might be in the region of one of those places, especially if you know multiple people who know my channel.
I might come by and see you guys. Um, maybe even if it’s just one person, you know, it might be weird if you… but you know, it’s fine by me. Um, if you want to have lunch or dinner at some point, um, just go ahead and email me and I might be around.
But when I’m doing this traveling, I’ll probably be traveling slow and staying in hotels and doing streams during the nights. Um, I have a video that I think was uploading while I was, um, doing this stream, so I might release that tomorrow.
Um, until then, I’ll take one last look. Not Nashville. Maybe Nashville. Um, if I get multiple… you know, I have a friend in… I don’t think she still lives there. I don’t think. And plus, now I’m a Christian. I can’t stay with a girl.
That’s one thing that, you know, back in the day, I wouldn’t feel weird about staying with a girlfriend of mine, but now I feel like this is a Christian channel. I feel like that’s a bad, bad example. I don’t want to.
Um, anyway, uh, all right. Well, I guess I’ll call it quits if I don’t see any more. Um, well, see you guys next time. And again, if you’re in Valdosta, Georgia, uh, you can contact me now, like literally now. And maybe tomorrow morning, I’ll still be here. Well, probably tomorrow morning. Maybe tomorrow, even afternoon, I’ll be around here.
Uh, if you know other people in Valdosta, we’ll do something. All right, see you guys next time.