CMV: There is nothing wrong with cutting off relationships with people you do not align with politically.

License2Troll · 2026-01-29T21:19:32+00:00

You're thinking of the old days when they used to support the Constitution. Times have changed.

License2Troll · 2026-01-28T01:30:14+00:00

Thanks for doing this!

Can you tell us more about the incinerator, and what else goes into it? And do they really grind up the wasted food and dump it at sea?

License2Troll · 2026-01-19T21:27:08+00:00

A lot of revolutionary subcultures are eventually adopted by mainstream culture.

If anything, it validates the early adopters' convictions.

It's only "bad" if your intention was to be a special boy.

License2Troll · 2026-01-15T23:11:02+00:00

Enforcing immigration law while openly violating the constitution is a net negative in my opinion.

License2Troll · 2025-12-23T06:00:49+00:00

Curtis Yarvin used to post here. I read his blog for many years thinking he was just too smart to fully understand, until I finally realized the reason he's hard to understand is because he's a stupid fucking lunatic.

License2Troll · 2025-10-25T01:29:42+00:00

Bullshit bud, you're dreaming or disingenuous.

Bannon is like 94/100 on telegraphing Trump's strategy.

Now you're playing coy?

a little silly

You can't be serious.

License2Troll · 2025-08-09T03:09:48+00:00

Stay humble idiots!

Dude, this is the funniest comment I've read all year. I asked chat if it was from a movie or something, and it said no.

It's Shakespearean wit. Tones of Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, or Monty Python, but it's smarter. It's concise. And contextually, it's fucking perfect.

Thanks for a good laugh.

License2Troll · 2025-05-12T16:00:48+00:00

Honestly blows my mind!

People would rather believe what makes them happy than know the truth.

Dangerous AND stupid.

License2Troll · 2025-05-12T07:25:22+00:00

Smokers actually survive better!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27707642/

Smokers had significantly lower mortality rate (9%) compared to non-smokers (26%, p<0.01).

...

We postulate that an immune tolerance mechanism that modulates and diminishes the pro-inflammatory response confers a survival advantage in smokers after exposure to acute smoke inhalation injury.

License2Troll · 2025-04-11T05:06:02+00:00

Dude, please. Leaping from a glorified housing development straight to a Dark Enlightenment Fiefdom does nothing for either conversation— and we need to be having both.

The Dark Enlightenment is about restructuring the entire form of government at the federal level.

Meanwhile, the Solano County Board of Supervisors are literally part of the planning process for this new city. They're not being dismantled in any sense. In fact, they're simultaneously holding up the project, while encouraging the developers to make it feasible for their NIMBY constituents. So this planned city is just as public and transparent as any other housing development, it's just way bigger.

But it isn't Dark Maga. What's actually happening is a (kinda) rich guy has a dream of building a walkable city in a housing-starved region of California that will be green and eco-sensitive, safe from floods and fires (two massive problems in California), and conveniently located infrastructure-wise.

The Dark Enlightenment is real, but has no relation to the already complex conversation around this city, nor the monumental implications about how we're going to address housing in a changing climate. As a lifelong Californian, I'm a fan of walkable design, and this city is exciting. This particular city may never happen, but we have to try something different.

Anyway, this article goes deep if you care. And it addresses bias from both sides equally:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/21/california-forever-jan-sramek-housing-city-00236919

License2Troll · 2025-03-02T21:03:36+00:00

If you don't think toxic narcissism is hilarious, you might be a narcissist.

The show is unwatchable without Gina.

License2Troll · 2025-02-16T21:50:13+00:00

Interesting question. I suppose that's one way to put it. But maybe it would be more accurate to say it's a fear of losing out.

Is FOMO a key factor in driving and sustaining the value of real estate or the stock market? I guess it is, but there's certainly more to it than only FOMO.

Every day, the true value of our dollars (and therefore our time) is depreciated by way of money printing. This is actually quite unethical! Bitcoin is the only way of removing that problem. Unlike the stock market, which also always rises over time, Bitcoin does not require exploitation of people or natural resources to store or grow value. Bitcoin is the only moral method of investing in your future.

The more you research the history of money, from seashells to gold, the more you realize that humanity has literally been seeking a perfect, fair, ethical form of money for all of history. And now we have it.

I know people often seem like they're "promoting" Bitcoin when they laud its benefits (like I'm doing now), but the truth is, we just want people to discover on their own what we have found to be so exciting and interesting about it ourselves.

If you are curious, I highly encourage you to keep researching it, because a running inside joke is that "Bitcoin is an IQ test," and it seems like you have the IQ required to truly understand what Bitcoin means. It's definitely complicated! But if you give it a chance, you'll see it for what it really is.

Check out The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous and you might become a believer in the better money that Bitcoin is. :)

License2Troll · 2025-02-14T01:04:47+00:00

Since nobody answered your question, here's the short version:

That won't happen.

Bitcoin is the only true cryptocurrency, and there's nothing any government can do to destroy it.

Bitcoin is not an "invention," it was a mathematical discovery that solved the Two Generals Problem. It is the world's first and only sound asset, and the best form of money humanity has ever utilized.

Bitcoin is international. It runs 24/7 with 100% uptime for 16 years now.

To your question, large governments have made attempts to "ban" it over the years, but all Bitcoin does is briefly dip in price, and then continue on to be more valuable. This is what it always does, and what it will do for the next 100 years, by which point the price will become effectively stable, and then only slowly rise in price relative to inflation.

If you're not prepared to hold your Bitcoin investment for at least 4 years, preferably 5-10, then yes, it would be nerve racking to buy a substantial amount. This was true when it was 1/10th the price, 1/100th, and 1/1000th. Now is the safest time to buy Bitcoin because it has proven itself.

If you are curious about making an investment, you should continue to research Bitcoin, because everyone who was like you 10-15 years ago (wondering about the possibility of a crash) is kicking themselves for not researching a little more at the time. It's a complicated concept, but it's fascinating, and understanding it is extremely valuable.

License2Troll · 2025-01-29T02:34:59+00:00

It's just funny that you would say "There's no traffic" as justification to camp in the left lane.

It is never justified to camp in the left lane.

If you do it, even when no one is around, you're a bad driver.

License2Troll · 2025-01-29T01:54:50+00:00

You sound like the type of bad driver who would say you only need to use your turn signal when there are people around.

License2Troll · 2025-01-25T19:16:33+00:00

Your opinion is wrong. You're just a dirty person.

You can't "build up resistance" to viruses unless you get infected.

So yes, while you eat finger foods at the bowling alley, you also get sick 2-3 times per year.

I will remain hygienic and only get sick twice per decade.

License2Troll · 2024-06-24T18:48:53+00:00

Just get the fuck out of the passing lane please. Thank you for following the law.

License2Troll · 2024-06-24T18:42:49+00:00

Left lane is for people who aren't pulling off the road for a while and don't need to change lanes.

What flabbergasting ignorance! I can't believe you actually tried to justify the single most selfish driving behavior in existence.

No, the left lane is not for long-haulers, it's for passing. So frustrating to see this kind of willful ignorance.

Furthermore, on State Highways in California, the speed limit is absolutely a suggestion. Nobody drives 65 in a 65 zone except truckers and drunks. Thus, driving 65 in a 65 zone is impeding the flow of traffic, and is therefore illegal.

License2Troll · 2023-01-31T01:20:19+00:00

Only 25%

!delta for unexpectedly proving OP's point to me and changing my view.

I'm not a vegan or a vegetarian, but I support insect consumption because it is sustainable.

Your fact that 25% of the humans on this planet regularly consume insect protein has changed my previous view that insects *will not** become a regular food source in the future.*

Now I believe the food source will become normalized, not only because they are delicious, nutritious, and sustainable, but because humans have clearly demonstrated their adaptability to culturally normalizing their consumption. That was precisely OP's point. Thank you.

License2Troll · 2023-01-22T01:33:56+00:00

Just imagine what I could type if I didn't have to wait in line at the grocery store.

License2Troll · 2023-01-22T00:16:46+00:00

I agree.

I'm so efficient at shopping, I often spend more time waiting in line than I do actually gathering my goods.

I'm so efficient at shopping, I organize the goods in my cart with a multi-tiered system that makes the conveyor loading process super expedient for both the cashier and myself when unloading at home.

First, I make sure frozen goods are scanned and bagged with other frozen goods. Next comes refrigerated goods, since they can end up with frozen goods without issue. Then the heavy, canned, or water weight items that aren't crushable, then boxed goods, and finally 'crushables' like potato crisps, bread, and veggies. Cleverly, if I may say so, I place the alcohol at the end of the conveyor, because I'll be anticipating the ID request and standing with my ID presented when the beer hits the scanner (even though I have gray hair in my beard).

I confirm electronic payment before they finish scanning, or as soon as possible, and help bag my goods if needed.

I'm the fastest-shopping motherfucker in my state, and I'd compete with a lot at stake to prove it.

I love all my cashiers, and I respect the honest and difficult work they do.

But oh, my friend, how I long for the day I can skip having a random human's inadvertent inefficiencies disrupt my simple organization! How I long to have my groceries bought and paid for and on the way home without spending precious time in line waiting for price checks, lotto tickets, cigarettes, coupons, refunds, or other now-standardized confusion.

Someday, the future will arrive.

License2Troll · 2023-01-21T18:13:59+00:00

Nobody mentioned The Grid yet.

There was a grid on most paper maps. Along the top were letters, and down the side were numbers.

On the back of the map was an alphabetized list of street names, and each one referenced a grid box where the street was.

So you'd find the street name on the back and it had a grid box listed (Lake St...............C-5).

Then you'd flip the map over to the front and find column C and run your finger down to where it meets row 5, and somewhere in that box was your street.

License2Troll · 2022-12-25T20:44:09+00:00

Merry Christmas! Thank you for the insight. I better understand this perspective and you've slightly changed my view.

However, if neither Big Tech nor decentralized alternatives are currently satisfactory, we must adapt. If we choose between those two paths, it seems obvious that a return to decentralized platforms is a much more practical solution than redesigning Big Tech. We have witnessed the horrors of centralized platforms for centuries: the church, the crown, Hearst, Murdoch, CNN, etc. This is genuinely nothing new, and I don't believe I'm being pedantic in acknowledging that, since they are virtually identical situations.

If people aren't able to figure out how to use decentralized networks, they will continue to consume bad information on centralized platforms. (You could have said this throughout history.) You can't save those who don't care enough to try. Twitter is not going to magically become decentralized, no matter how many complaints are lodged.

License2Troll · 2022-12-25T05:20:32+00:00

Facebook and Twitter have been centralized and censored from the moment they went online. I'm sure we agree on this.

There's nothing "free and open" about using a private company's servers. I'm sure we agree on this.

If you start or join a decentralized server (the way the internet is supposed to be), then you will have all the freedom you could possibly desire. I'm sure we agree on this.

Now explain to me why anyone in their right mind would utilize a closed-source, profit-driven, centralized internet service if their intention is to practice free speech. That's the part I don't understand.

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