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Last Notes npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Excerpt from latest Chris Liss podcast (on the toxicity of legacy social media): https://v.nostr.build/YOM97GZgPb53ipCH.mp4 Link to full episode: https://rumble.com/v75cfaw-there-will-be-blood.html npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Excerpt 2 from latest Real Man Sports podcast (topic of paywalls): https://v.nostr.build/VolaK2kPPH5mZGM2.mp4 Full episode: https://rumble.com/v75cew6-super-bowl-talk.html npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss New Podcast: https://www.realmansports.com/p/super-bowl-talk Excerpt: https://v.nostr.build/ADwW1DiFPwTemCr0.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss it might not go away entirely, but it'll be reduced in its power and influence npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss have to come clean -- fridge started leaking again tonight #nevent1q…vavn npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss The fiat system's last stand? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Just donated blood today to shed some iron and it occurred to me how every medical system always needs blood, they're always out there begging for it, and yet at the same time people need blood tests, and in the US at least they cost a fortune. Why not if you need routine bloodwork, you just pop in donate a pint, and they take the first vial full and process the bloodwork? Every blood drive should offer free HBA1C, triglycerides, insulin, HDL, vitamin D, etc. Two birds one needle. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Fast crash > slow bleed IMO. Much more likely to snap back violently. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss fucking killed that whistleblower for nothing #nevent1q…ur5g npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Grok npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Best stock I ever bought was DYOR. Really paid off big the last six years. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss So our fridge was leaking, took a photo of the model, uploaded it to AI, told me to unscrew the panel, pull it off and run a hair dryer on the drain until the ice melted and that shit actually worked. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss what could go wrong? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss it's why biological systems are an exception npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I'm aware of that, but even on its own machine if it has access to your personal files, emails, accounts, internet access... npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss You guys cover the privacy implications? Wanted to play around with this, but terrified I'd be giving it access to things I'd later regret. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Was thinking about time and how we know whether one event preceded or followed another. Like there’s nothing axiomatic about the words on this screen succeeding my typing them. I could dictate them and type them afterwords for the hell of it. But in some cases we know what came first and what came second, for example, a whole egg and a splattered one. The whole egg MUST precede the splattered one. The splattered one can never reassemble into the whole. That’s because the splattered egg is more disordered (has more entropy) and the arrow of time is essentially increasing entropy. But biological systems in some ways undercut that because while it’s trivial to grasp the whole egg came before the splattered one, it’s hard to say whether it came before the chicken. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss same muscle, no kidney tests, actually donated blood BEFORE the 5.5, going to donate tomorrow coincidentally to shed some iron npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss What's weird is I was exercising and fasting before too. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Just got the results of a blood test, A1C was 5.1, down from 5.5, and this after eating a TON of fruit, ice cream and dried fruit the last few months. I exercise a lot and fast/intermittent fast, but lowest its been in 10 years, and been eating more unrefined sugar than ever. Very strange (and good). npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Logged out of Twitter today. Algo is hurting my brain, like I ate too much Halloween candy. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Put this behind the paywall on my substack, but figured I'd post for free on nostr: Super Bowl 60 I haven’t felt as strongly about a Super Bowl pick since 2014 when the record-setting Peyton Manning Broncos took on the Legion of Boom/peak Russell Wilson Seahawks. Here’s a video of that prediction from 12 years ago. Most of you know my pick already, but I’m putting a paywall on this as a differentiator for my paying subscribers. Believe it or not, they really exist, and every now and then I need to provide some value that’s not freely available to everyone. Super Bowl LX Patriots +4.5 vs Seahawks (45.5) Before I looked at the line, I expected it to be about seven. The Seahawks had just beaten a Rams team that’s tough on both sides of the ball and blown out a 49ers team that was competitive all year. The Patriots benefited from the easiest regular season schedule in the league, drew the Chargers who were missing their entire offensive line, the Texans in a weather game where CJ Stoud had five turnovers and the Broncos in another weather game without their starting quarterback. They happen to represent the AFC, but even today, the Bills would be favored against them on a neutral field as would the Broncos with a healthy Bo Nix. The other trend I’ve documented at length is that elite defenses tend to overperform expectations in the Super Bowl. One can form theories as to why this is, but the examples are overwhelming from the underdog Seahawks crushing Manning’s Broncos to the 2016 Broncos (underdogs) stifling Cam Newton’s 15-1 Panthers to the 2000 Ravens to the 2002 Bucs (underdogs) to the 2020 Bucs who took apart Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Even the Giants two improbable wins over Tom Brady were largely due to a defense (though not highly ranked on the year) that was loaded with edge rushers and playing out of its mind in the playoffs. For whatever reason, if there’s a Super Bowl, and one team has an elite defense, that team tends to win and cover. But is the Seahawks defense elite? Let’s look at the numbers. Sorted by yards per play, the Seahawks (4.6) were second only to the Broncos (4.5). And they did this despite playing the Rams (6.2 YPP, 1st) twice. The Patriots defense was middle of the pack (5.2 YPP) despite getting the Jets (4.4 YPP, 29th) twice and other bottom-10 offenses like the Browns (32nd), Raiders (31st), Saints (27th), Panthers (26th) and Bucs (24th). And the Texans, who they saw in the playoffs, were 23rd, the Chargers 21st and the Broncos 16th, and that was with Nix, not Jarrett Stidham. Essentially, the Patriots defense is average at best. On offense, the Patriots were second at 6.2 YPP, but the Seahawks were fourth at 5.9 YPP, and given the disparate competition, I’ll call that a wash. But as I mentioned, for whatever reason in the Super Bowl, even one of the all-time offenses, Peyton Manning’s 55-TD pass Broncos, got smoked by an elite defense. Defense really does seem disproportionately to win championships. Seahawks 34 - Patriots 19 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Listened to about half of the @nprofile…6dtc pod, and something clicked for me. The Yen blows up, people are worried the Japanese who own $5T in US assets might be forced sellers, so they flee into a neutral reserve asset (gold). If Japan dumps UST and stocks, gold is protection. So gold (and silver) moons, but that trade gets crowded. If only there were another neutral reserve asset available at a discount. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Theory: banks are behind the dip to thwart MSTR, Coinbase and stable coins from eating their lunch ahead of the regulation. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss it's free npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I know, but if they're gonna claim AGI, at least be able to build a fucking baseball cheat sheet from clear instructions! I used to do it with excel painstakingly. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss It's dumb to lie about anything, but I can at least understand someone lying when they think they'll get away with it. But people lie even when they have to know they'll get caught! It's hard for me to understand that mentality, so much so that I almost believe them except that it's happened so many times I've just gotten more skeptical of everyone. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I don't care if it has my baseball spread sheets. But surely it should be able to handle this task. It's just manipulating data. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Asked the free version of Claude (and Grok) to build me a fantasy baseball cheat sheet. I gave it some complex parameters (I used to do this for a job), and both failed badly. The task involved aggregating two separate projection systems for hitters and pitchers. Classifying and z-scoring the players by position relative to the size of the league and aggregating it with market prices for those players on a separate spread sheet. It outputted junk. When I spotted the errors, it correct the ones I spotted, re-worked it, outputted more junk. AI is great for figuring out why my model of fridge is leaking water, but terrible for complex (and this isn't THAT complex) tasks. Maybe the paid versions are better? WTF? I was told we had AGI! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss this is good #nevent1q…n4du npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I agree with this, but it's not only that people have gotten used to being the product rather than paying. It's also that a substantial amount of content that people pay for is essentially fraud. Influencers peddling health fixes, money-making strategies, life coaches whose lives are not in order, etc. If you want to get people to part with their money, you promise them something they are desperate for, make it seem plausible, have a good pitch, etc. People will also pay for garbage that feels exclusive, provides them status. Content that is insightful, earnest and articulate is hard to monetize. Maybe a few will succeed, but largely it will go unrewarded. So we're not just up against the habit of people getting content for free in exchange for their attention, we're up against an entire world of fake and superficial. And this predates social media obviously. I don't have an answer for this except to post and create into the void for the sole reason that you have something to say. If someone finds value and wants to tip you, that's great. If you find value and want to tip someone else, also great. If we create an ethos of value for value, even better. But it'll take a major shift before most people pay for freely available content that promises nothing and merely causes them to think. #nevent1q…st4r npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss small time npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss worst case, we could switch off npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss his problem! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss The release of the Epstein Files is good and all, but for the love of God, just put some people in prison already. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I used to have a fantasy when I was a kid that I'd have an identical twin who could go to school for me. Similar vibe. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I'm paranoid, but that's next level npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss people think this? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Had a crazy thought this morning. Was thinking about how it had been six years since the start of the covid madness, and about how everything is fake, and if everything we hear is fake, maybe history is mostly fake, but then maybe so is my understanding of time, and maybe it hasn't been "six years," that's also a psyop. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss right, but people who are bearish aren't gonna short it, they'll bet against it. People who are bullish will buy npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss libertarians think anything goes, don't censor while limited government advocates think there should be some minimal restrictions npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss true conspiracy theories are still conspiracy theories npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss bullish #nevent1q…hqlc npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss There are two kinds of people in this world: 1. Conspiracy theorists 2. Retards (with some overlap obviously) npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss No matter how out of shape you are, you should jog one mile slowly if you can, even if it's cold and/or raining out. It will reset your mind. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss real talk! #nevent1q…xx3k npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss My base case is Epstein is still alive. One of the files had an eyewitness account of him being taken away the night before he was allegedly suicided. Little chance someone with the knowledge and dirt Epstein had would not have had a kill switch he made sure to let everyone know about. Not saying it's impossible he killed himself (with the cameras malfunctioning and guards AWOL) or was murdered and somehow let that happen without releasing information, but IMO he's likely still alive. https://blossom.primal.net/44fc9394d2a2b3b240262db90bbdb16abd81aa93cfe0607aa10f689ac924e76d.png npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Real talk! #nevent1q…mf6c npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Not saying this couldn't happen but prediction markets on this are retarded. People who think it’s going lower will bet against it. People who think it’s going higher are making that bet on an exchange, buying MSTR or an ETF. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/68243fa0e2b77884c51371bac9c7edc4b313bc8459964aefbc1d17ba9d44b39e.webp npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Anytime npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss No, you can say whatever you want. Just that it's patently false as of now if you're saying it publicly under your own name. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss You can argue Trump is Hitler, and ICE are the Stasi, but if you're arguing it publicly with your name attached, you have refuted your own point. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Australian Open semis are bananas. Djokovic staved off nine break points in the fifth set so far. Alcaraz match was crazy too. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss The word "essential" is the divide between libertarians and limited govt advocates. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss don't know if this is true, but it's the core argument between libertarians and limited government advocates #nevent1q…qc3z npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss No, what people think is irrelevant. Truth is independent of that. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss and yet most people live in places where your bills are priced in fiat npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss There is an odd dynamic wherein you notice the Fed prints money, debases the currency, steals from you and everyone else, so you opt into a hard money as a defense against that, but that hard money only gains purchasing power if they continue to debase and steal from everyone. So now you root for them to keep debasing and stealing. #nevent1q…zu5a npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I don't think libertarians are communists, only that they share a naivete about human nature. I hope they are right about bitcoin. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I hope he's what he seems to be. But politicians use religion all the time for their agendas. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss well said npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I hear you but when the state resists and foments hostility unfortunately there will be incidents. That doesn't mean lethal force was necessary -- as far as I can tell it was not and if it rises to the level of wanton use of such force those who used it should absolutely be prosecuted. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss didn't play today, was it "bitch"? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I'm been banging on libertarians here for a bit, so let me steel-man the case for them. For me, the biggest counterargument against them is what happened in El Salvador. You had a shithole country, with the highest murder rate in the world, and it took a strongman to bring the criminals to heel, and now by some accounts it's a paradise. I've never been there, so I don't want to say that's exactly true, but it's hard to argue that it's at least much better than it was. Libertarians would have abandoned it or if they stayed had a rough go of it. But it also occurred to me as the story was happening how uncanny it was that Bukele was able to do it. Wouldn't the CIA/drug cartels intervene and take him out? The last thing the WEF/Biden admin/commie overlords would want is proof of concept. And it would seem trivial to take out a third-world leader. It happened a few times during covid in Africa to leaders who didn't care about covid measures. A few of them were assassinated. So I was (am) a little suspicious. I certainly want it to be true, but it's possible it only happened with permission of said overlords. If that's the case, then the El Salvador model which is basically just a more extreme version of what Trump is trying to do with ICE -- re-establish the rule of law, create conditions for prosperity -- could be an op of sorts, wherein they let things get so out of hand and then point to the law and order as a huge relief. I remember Ed Dowd saying a few years ago, the "eat bugs and own nothing" pitch was so bad, no one would really go for it, but to beware of the counter-proposal which will seem reasonable by comparison. Moreover, there's another guy on Twitter Donnie Discerned who cites biblical prophecy to argue that when the beast arises, the people will embrace him because he'll seem like he's delivering them from captivity and then they'll actually make war on Israel (which had fallen into bad ways) thinking they were being righteous, but actually the messiah would arise from it, and they'd be making war on Jesus himself. Forget about all the Israel atrocities for a minute and the theories that "the Joos are behind it all" for a second and consider how this is playing out -- Israel is a pariah now, Gaza is in the process of being taken out of its hands, and the UAE, Saudis and Trump are re-imagining the region as a corporatist paradise. In other words, by vanquishing WEF, Netanyahu and other malefactors, it might seem like law, order and the triumph of good, but now you're in the Palantir surveillance based world of "prosperity" and "peace" via strength. Seems better than Netanyahu killing civilians, but a prison nonetheless. He says (I'm not especially knowledge about the Bible) that the beast will reign through a false peace and use it to convince people to go along. But prophecy aside, you can see the idea -- that we're being played, and that it was a setup the entire time, the globalist scourge, the covid totalitarianism, etc. to get people to embrace the alternative, a government of law and order where you can buy and sell and enjoy the world's various pleasures, at the expense of real sovereignty, and by sovereignty I mean connection to meaning, to purpose, to God. In other words, we sell out our highest consciousness for something safe and resembling prosperity, a deal with the devil most are eager to snap-call given how bad the alternative was. And really that is Trump's MO -- make outrageous demands such that the counterparty settles for what he actually wants because it's so much better than the alternative. We accept our overlords, lose trust in God (or whatever word you want to substitute for our deepest selves) because they've staved off the horrors of whatever the fuck the WEF et all were proposing for us. In that case, Bukele was an op, Trump is an op, and we should reject all of it, even if it's so obviously better in the short run. The libertarians reject centralized law and order because even if it takes care of certain acute problems it will never lead to real sovereignty. I am sympathetic to this because even though my base case is that Bukele has done a great job, and Trump is cleaning up a horrific mess that was left to him, I am under no delusion that the powerful suddenly care about me or any other individual, even if our aims are temporarily aligned. The libertarians are ineffective, and that's the drawback, but perhaps to be effective in that way is ultimately the path to slavery. Again, this is not my base case, and my beef with them is they fail to take into account human nature as it is (rather than how we would like it to be), and given that, we're faced with Popper's Paradox of Intolerance (about which I have written) wherein if we value tolerance we must be intolerant of intolerance, lest the intolerant dominate and swallow up any chance of tolerance at all. So that's the tension. But I like to take on the steel rather than straw man because it's the only path to finding out what's actually true. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Agree with that obviously, the part about rogue cops often acting badly, they too are criminals, and the law should be brought to bear on them too. And if Minnesota were its own country with borders between neighboring states such that New Yorkers would be free of the consequences of whatever Minnesota prefers that would be more tenable. But if Minnesota allows illegals who commit crimes, there's nothing stopping them from going to NY and causing problems there too. I also don't believe the majority of people in Minnesota want criminal illegals there. The people objecting to their deportation are a small minority of organized (and likely paid) instigators. The reason I believe this is no one in his right mind wants criminal illegals in his community. And if your own state is encouraging/enabling/causing this, then the feds will have to step in and do that job. It would be much better for everyone if Minnesota just handed them over to ICE like many other states do, and idiots like that nurse weren't interfering. But unfortunately they are not, and instead fomenting the kind of insane response that caused an incident between an insane person and a cop that was unsuited to the task. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I think my preference of people here illegally committing crimes being deported should absolutely be forced on them. And I think if I were committing crimes in another country to which I arrived without permission from the hosts, their preferences should be forced onto me. I don't think anyone is acting badly in enforcing those preferences. The people acting badly are the criminals. I don't think what I'm saying is especially controversial. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss My problems are really just how to take care of my family, health and finances and how to apply my energies toward something useful and enjoyable. Nothing is ever *solved* per se, but that's what I'm preoccupied with. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I really want to use AI for more things, but I just don’t have a use case. Zero chance I’m going to outsource it for my personal private messages, even though it’s tempting to experiment with it. I’ve tried a bit to get it to generate fantasy baseball rankings or NFL bets, but that task seems too hard for it as yet. I use it now basically as a search engine and to look up basic facts or learn about some topics, but I feel like I’m missing out on something, like I should build something useful with it. I just can’t think of what that would be. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Went to the dentist today for a teeth cleaning, 10 am appointment. They're always on time, never make you wait. At 10:15 they apologized, asked if I wanted a coffee. I said yes, At 10:20, they took me into a red-light therapy room, for a free session, apologizing as someone apparently had a dental emergency, needed the dentist. At 10:45, they came in, said she was ready, told me the cleaning would be comped. That's how you run a business, and I can't tell you how rare this is in Portugal, but these guys know what they're doing. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I don't think ICE should have killed those people because as far as I can tell they could have used restraint and still subdued/arrested them. But I 100 percent support ICE deporting illegals convicted of crimes and if the individual states don't cooperate but instead rile up easily manipulated people to interfere with the operation, there are bound to be incidents like this, unfortunate as they are. But this entire spectacle of deporting criminal illegals and incidents happening as people interfere is not remotely like covid measures or the mRNA or basically anything even out of the ordinary. Every admin deported just as many people, there were incidents, and every country would do the same. To equate or even compare this to real totalitarianism is poor discernment, so poor IMO, it's not credible in terms of principles. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss hell no npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Stealing this quote from a guy I follow on Twitter, but it's along the lines of "a basic function of intelligence is discerning meaningful differences." Surely one can discern differences between kidnapping Maduro for example and invading Iraq and killing 1M people, cost the US $6T and 3K men for 15 years. But yet the Greenwalds and Dave Smiths were citing the track record of interventions to hyperventilate about it. That's not to say kidnapping Maduro was *correct* or *legal* or even good policy. I don't know enough to say for sure. But it was surely not remotely by any stretch like invading Iraq. Same thing going on here. Ice enforcing immigration law, an explicit platform on which the current admin was democratically elected, is not remotely the same as forced injections, lockdowns, bureau of disinformation, etc. One can have any view one likes about immigration policy or whether those laws are right or wrong. But the knee-jerk (it's just fascism from the other side, statist) is absurd. Well, it's not entirely absurd, as all government action IS fascism to an extent, but that includes normal enforcement of criminal statutes, etc. IOW, getting exercised about the current thing as if it's like COVID is what's absurd, and so patently so, it just comes across as virtue signaling when I see it. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I grew up in NYC. When I got to college in 1989, there were a lot of leftist “cool” guys on campus. Long hair, smoked weed (so did I), were not nearly as woke as it is now, but it were woke-ish. They had beliefs about things that if you didn’t share, you were considered kind of a bad person. Like you were insufficiently concerned about racism or whatever. It was a bit of a contrast coming from NY where everyone just joked aobut racist shit all the time about Jews, blacks, Italians, Irish, Polaks, Puerto Ricans, etc. That shit was verboten there. But whatever, it wasn’t that big a deal back then, no one got cancelled, it was more just discouraged and frowned upon. It was an ethos of being the sort of person who is good and cultivated and refined. These cool guys felt they were “good” because they had the right beliefs. I was friends with a couple of them. One of them went to work for Goldman Sachs I think, not sure, I lost touch. But it was the first time I really encountered people patting themselves on the back for their “right-think.” Again it was nothing compared to woke social media of the last 10 years, but more similar to what I see on nostr now. Cool guys patting themselves on the back for the correct beliefs, virtue signaling their adherence to the “freedom” ethos. Some of them will parlay it into some sats via building a following, most will just be aspirational, generating a few likes and some in-group approval. It’s fine — no one gets canceled on nostr. Just noticing the same pattern. Find it mildly retarded, but a good reminder human nature isn’t suspended just because you’re on the “freedom protocol.” npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss A religion, a philosophy, a belief system. It won’t work. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss On legacy social media Team Good was mostly leftist/corporate HR-think. On Nostr Team Good is libertarian-above-it-all platitude-think. This is not to say whether one set of values is better or worse per se. Only that, effective or not, none of you (and not me either) represent the “good” no matter how many pats on the back you receive. Best one can do is aim for truth and let the chips fall. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Libertarians are like communists — their utopias are right around the corner if only humans behaved they way you want them to! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss You should always be against government overreach. But some people are against any reach at all even at the expense of ensuring fundamental conditions for bottom up prosperity. #nevent1q…zm9j npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Thought the same -- you can't just turn over your private communications to AI! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Would be shocked if they get more than a handful of real users. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Your question was based on a faulty premise — whether humans ARE evil is not relevant. It’s what they are CAPABLE of doing that is not in doubt. You can argue the merits of a private police force and the tradeoffs that would entail. But they would still be police and they would still be highly imperfect and not perfectly accountable. But some entity is going to need to apply force to violent criminals if you want to have a functional society, and that entity will be top-down fascistic to some extent, given its power and role. But it’s self-evident the prospect of retaliation disincentivizes violence. Some people will STILL act violently, but far fewer than if there were no prospect of jail time. And when those who do act violently get got, that’s a measure of justice, which is necessary for people to move on and avoid, for example, multi-generational blood feuds. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss You seem to be arguing agreeing to ANY government action that affects the affairs of its citizens is the same thing in principle to agreeing to EVERY government action, no matter vastly different those actions might actually be in their factual details or the purposes of it. But that is not a good argument. My philosophy about government is as follows: https://blossom.primal.net/897575ae8b85fa0e9929b7301467812b3082b45697f17395c68f0598e5503c69.png npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Two things can be true: 1. ICE should have used more restraint in subduing two protestors/organized political operatives they killed. Maybe follow and arrest the driver instead of killing her, not shoot the guy with the gun when he was on the ground. Use the minimum necessary force for self-defense and keeping order, and if more is used out of misunderstanding or fear, don't pretend it was good and righteous. 2. These people are idiots, jacked up on a cocktail of TDS and propaganda, doing something worthy of a Darwin award in service of protecting illegals, some of whom have committed additional crimes on US soil. Responsible leaders would tell regular citizens not to interfere with federal immigration enforcement and order the local authorities to assist the feds UNLESS there were good evidence of the feds targeting ordinary citizens on purpose and not actually doing the immigration enforcement they purport to be doing. But the leaders in Minnesota are not responsible, probably because they are implicated in a well-documented multi-billion dollar fraud, and their only play now is to flip the chess board over and cause maximum chaos and violence. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I wasn't interfering with the CDC, I was going to a restaurant. ANY restaurant, not the 1 in 1,000 that was getting a health inspection at the time. Don't know what more can be said. If you can't see the difference or are relying on hypotheticals on what *might* happen if ICE decides to go to every workplace all at once, then I don't think our frameworks for viewing the world have sufficient overlap for a meaningful discussion on this topic. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss 1. Humans are inherently *capable* of violence and evil, yes because what drives human behavior (mostly) is incentives. If you do not strongly disincentivize violence, it's a virtual certainty that *some* humans will use it against regular people, and society will be at the mercy of those most willing to use it. Libertarianism fails to disincentivize violence against the innocent. Communism fails to incentivize wealth creation among the capable, and when resources are scarce, violence ensues. They both ignore basic, fundamental obvious facets of human nature. 2. There may be other options, but what's not optional is the credible threat of retributive violence should you commit violence against someone else. Again, feel free to live in the wild west and hunt people with your posse if you prefer, but most people are going to want to outsource that task. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Ignoring being able to go to your job in many cases? To attend public events, grab a meal out with your family? I mean I don't know how this is not clear. ICE doesn't affect you AT ALL, so long as you choose not to interfere with one of their operations. Here's another angle to consider: https://blossom.primal.net/f81bdc1b6ddc2544ef1dea99ebaa550a1c62985d77d703618f9c847834ecb19b.png npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Pretty sure they had kings who could just order your execution without due process if you ran afoul of the edicts. Human nature is such that it needs boundaries. The key is to make those boundaries wide and causing the minimum interference necessary. But without boundaries, there is no peace for anyone. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss excerpt from: Report Yourself To The Authorities https://www.chrisliss.com/p/report-yourself-to-the-authorities https://v.nostr.build/kWinNUlPFQWxuHlG.mp4 npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I asked how to custody them, and it said you need a "Penning Trap" which I already have. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Was asking Grok AI about protons and atoms, it mentioned anti-protons, I told it I had some anti-protons to sell, and it advised me to contact the authorities. What, you can’t joke about custodying some anti-matter? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Good primer on this from Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Too soon! npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Advice to single dudes on this protocol: find a parsimonious wife. Yes, it’ll be annoying when she scolds you for ordering the steak or stresses when you are buying a new laptop after six years, but this is the problem you want to have. The opposite problem can destroy your life. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Which is why those markets are poor indicators because the entire bull side of the bet isn't wasting time there. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss gravy train to Nuremberg? npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Never gonna get that chance. Cat's out of the bag. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Feels like Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is more relevant than ever. You can be tolerant, but if you tolerate intolerance, tolerance is gone. So you must not tolerate intolerance. When people complain (and I have in the past) about El Salvador almost certainly violating rights (even gang members are innocent until proven guilty), you get to a contradiction: if the tolerant system wherein everyone gets full due process under the law has been destroyed and abused beyond recognition, then you might have to use supra-constitutional force. If a neighboring country is actively harming and undermining your own, you might have to use force that violates its sovereignty. Whether El Salvador was really in such a situation (I’ve never been there), I don’t know for sure. I can only go by what I read online. And whether Maduro was really doing everything he’s alleged to have done and it had a material impact on the security of our votes or the health of our citizens, I don’t know. Governments who want to use these extra-legal powers to achieve desired ends are notoriously deceitful and self-serving in the justifications for their actions. But it’s naive and misguided IMO not to acknowledge the principle in itself: namely, that if circumstances are such that the institutions themselves are no longer capable of delivering justice and/or protecting the liberty of the people, then you cannot restrict your actions to what’s legal within their own rules. You must make an exception and be intolerant to this intolerance. It cannot be correct that one should rely on the courts to ensure due process or comply with international law if those institutions are coopted and broken. The question as to whether Bukele in ES or Trump in seizing Maduro were justified in doing what they did can and should be argued. That Trump says so is obviously not good enough. But what I see now is people who believe that even if Venezuela were deliberately and materially harming the US that Trump needed to play within the rules even if the harms done were set up to circumvent them. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Today is really the first day of the new year. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss Don’t think there really is a such thing as “international law” except insofar it’s used against powerless countries to punish them. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss It's obviously wrong to break into someone's home, but if a guy shoots a few people, then goes home, the police are justified in breaking in if he won’t voluntarily go outside and surrender. It’s obviously wrong to break into a sovereign country and capture its leader, but if that leader has done something to warrant it, has been asked to surrender himself and refuses, it would be justified. Did Maduro’s behavior justify this? I don’t know. Government allegations are not proven facts. So we’ll see (or we may not see.) But that the US went in and arrested him isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It might be, and it might not. What would be a bad thing unequivocally is if the US invaded Venezuela and killed a million people because it wanted to get Maduro. That would be very bad. Kind of like what the FBI did in Waco, Texas when they wanted to get David Koresh. npub1dtf79g6grzc48jqlfrzc7389rx08kn7gm03hsy9qqrww8jgtwaqq64hgu0 Chris Liss I don’t know whether taking out Maduro was good policy or bad, time will tell. I do know for sure people comparing it to invading Iraq and killing 1M people to take out Saddam Hussein are retarded.