Chris Liss

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2026-02-02 22:26:29 UTC

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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.
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2026-02-02 20:31:58 UTC

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small time

2026-02-02 20:31:21 UTC

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worst case, we could switch off

2026-02-02 20:30:55 UTC

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his problem!

2026-02-02 19:46:21 UTC

The release of the Epstein Files is good and all, but for the love of God, just put some people in prison already.

2026-02-02 19:44:22 UTC

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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.

2026-02-02 18:46:36 UTC

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I'm paranoid, but that's next level

2026-02-02 18:27:26 UTC

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people think this?

2026-02-02 17:05:39 UTC

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.

2026-02-02 15:40:09 UTC

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right, but people who are bearish aren't gonna short it, they'll bet against it. People who are bullish will buy

2026-02-02 15:39:25 UTC

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libertarians think anything goes, don't censor while limited government advocates think there should be some minimal restrictions

2026-02-02 13:58:49 UTC

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true conspiracy theories are still conspiracy theories

2026-02-02 13:25:20 UTC

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bullish
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2026-02-02 13:23:51 UTC

There are two kinds of people in this world:
1. Conspiracy theorists
2. Retards
(with some overlap obviously)

2026-02-02 13:22:55 UTC

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.

2026-02-02 13:19:04 UTC

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real talk!
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2026-02-02 10:14:03 UTC

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

2026-02-01 15:22:47 UTC

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Real talk!
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2026-01-31 23:05:27 UTC

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

2026-01-31 12:31:07 UTC

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Anytime

2026-01-30 18:20:05 UTC

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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.

2026-01-30 16:35:31 UTC

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.

2026-01-30 14:22:25 UTC

Australian Open semis are bananas. Djokovic staved off nine break points in the fifth set so far. Alcaraz match was crazy too.

2026-01-30 09:21:03 UTC

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The word "essential" is the divide between libertarians and limited govt advocates.

2026-01-29 15:52:02 UTC

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don't know if this is true, but it's the core argument between libertarians and limited government advocates
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2026-01-29 15:49:45 UTC

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No, what people think is irrelevant. Truth is independent of that.

2026-01-29 08:12:21 UTC

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The point of the post isn't that Team Good IS good, it's that it's what people think is good. On nostr, they think being above it all is good. I'm saying, neither is good. It's just what the dominant ethos of good is on the various platforms. And that there is one.

2026-01-29 07:56:19 UTC

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they certainly think they are

2026-01-28 23:04:06 UTC

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and yet most people live in places where your bills are priced in fiat

2026-01-28 22:41:45 UTC

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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.
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2026-01-28 18:23:43 UTC

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I don't think libertarians are communists, only that they share a naivete about human nature. I hope they are right about bitcoin.

2026-01-28 18:21:59 UTC

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I hope he's what he seems to be. But politicians use religion all the time for their agendas.

2026-01-28 18:21:00 UTC

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well said

2026-01-28 17:29:37 UTC

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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.

2026-01-28 12:57:46 UTC

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didn't play today, was it "bitch"?

2026-01-28 12:31:15 UTC

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.

2026-01-28 08:34:15 UTC

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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.

2026-01-27 21:45:05 UTC

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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.

2026-01-27 21:40:45 UTC

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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.

2026-01-27 19:32:35 UTC

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.

2026-01-27 19:27:03 UTC

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.

2026-01-27 18:55:32 UTC

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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.

2026-01-27 18:17:46 UTC

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hell no

2026-01-27 18:14:35 UTC

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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.

2026-01-27 17:50:54 UTC

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.”

2026-01-27 10:51:48 UTC

A religion, a philosophy, a belief system. It won’t work.

2026-01-27 10:40:20 UTC

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.

2026-01-27 10:09:54 UTC

Libertarians are like communists — their utopias are right around the corner if only humans behaved they way you want them to!

2026-01-27 10:06:58 UTC

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.
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2026-01-26 19:10:38 UTC

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Thought the same -- you can't just turn over your private communications to AI!

2026-01-26 19:00:55 UTC

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Would be shocked if they get more than a handful of real users.

2026-01-26 15:36:29 UTC

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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.

2026-01-26 14:45:38 UTC

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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

2026-01-26 14:20:57 UTC

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.

2026-01-26 13:27:13 UTC

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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.

2026-01-26 10:48:00 UTC

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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.

2026-01-26 10:37:53 UTC

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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

2026-01-26 09:04:04 UTC

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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.

2026-01-25 23:09:06 UTC

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That's like saying "people by their nature cannot respect the rights of people" then telling me how you got robbed. Both police and people must act lawfully in accordance with society's limitations of how one can act. Rogue power-tripping police officers are criminals.
As for society requiring driver's licenses I can see an argument against it -- maybe requiring driving competence before getting on public highways is a net good, but outweighed by the state getting too much control. I can see the case. But the uncomfortable truth is there are always tradeoffs and no "solution".

2026-01-25 23:04:56 UTC

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1. Because no police leads to an intolerable state of lawlessness, and the people will beg for an overcorrection.
2.. The people keep themselves in check either by doing violence themselves (state of nature) or outsourcing the violence to an accountable third party (police). Doing it yourself works for a small minority of those cut out to be mafia bosses and warlords, but most will choose to outsource. There is no utopia without the credible threat of violence as deterrence. If you don't punish violent criminals severely you don't have a functioning society.

2026-01-25 22:58:02 UTC

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he's not saying he's libertarian, he's saying it'll appeal to libertarians

2026-01-25 22:07:01 UTC

Libertarianism and communism are two sides of the same coin. That coin is denial of human nature.
The solution to human prosperity at scale is balance between top down and bottom up, which means limited government, armed citizens, minimal coercion (laws, police, etc.) required to create good conditions for individual freedom and prosperity.
Like pulling weeds from the garden so the desired varietals can grow. Libertarianism is like letting the garden get overrun, communism is like spraying it with Roundup.

2026-01-25 21:36:30 UTC

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Why would anyone be pro police or anti-police? I'm not pro doctors or anti-doctors? I'm for doctors who practice sound medicine based on root causes and voluntary consent. I'm anti doctors who are pharma shills who don't give two shits about the person in front of them. Likewise I'm pro police who arrest violent criminals and respect the rights of law abiding citizens. I'm anti police who don't arrest criminals or who intentionally harass law abiding citizens. Why would anyone differ with me?

2026-01-25 21:20:46 UTC

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The irony of the "defund the police” crowd is they’ll end up having way MORE of a police state when the conditions become intolerable.
Everyone wants a tidy paradigm that’ll solve humanity’s problems once and for all. The socialists just think if we tried real socialism, the communists want “real communism,” the anarchists want “real anarchy” but none of that shit works in practice. We had anarchy, i.e., the nasty, brutish and short state of nature, we’ve tried communism, and it killed > 100M people last century. There are no isms, no paradigms that will solve the problems of humans living among other humans.
Best trade-off I can come up with is top-down fascist government but only to the absolute minumum extent necessary to foster the conditions for maximum bottom-up prosperity.
That’s messy though because once you have a top-down government, you have to watch to make sure it’s (a) doing it’s job (keeping order, protecting its borders, arresting criminals); and (b) not overstepping its job by undermining bottom-up prosperity with regulations, cronyism, onerous taxation, bureaucracy, etc.
You have to have a government and keep it within these narrow bounds. Does too little, you slip into anarchy. Does too much, you slip into communism/totatitarianism. It’s like water — too cold, you get ICE (no pun intended), too hot you get steam.

2026-01-25 17:25:34 UTC

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It's just "defund the police" all over again. Yes, ICE or the police could overstep, no you are VERY unlikely to be a victim of it. Stop conflating this with real widespread violations like forced injections. It's not even close.

2026-01-25 15:32:45 UTC

The argument that ICE is bad because they could screw up and arrest actual citizens is the same argument as the police are bad because they could screw up and arrest innocent people. This is basically “defund the police” in different clothing.

2026-01-25 08:59:39 UTC

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literally in this case

2026-01-24 23:08:58 UTC

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Agree with half of this, but not all. The CDC was barring me from going to a restaurant if I didn’t inject myself with poison. ICE isn’t barring anyone from anything. You can ignore ICE, and they will ignore you. Unless of course you are in the US illegally and especially if you are here illegally and have committed another crime. Otherwise, it’s not your problem.

2026-01-23 15:31:49 UTC

excerpt from: Report Yourself To The Authorities
https://www.chrisliss.com/p/report-yourself-to-the-authorities
https://v.nostr.build/kWinNUlPFQWxuHlG.mp4

2026-01-22 22:21:42 UTC

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I asked how to custody them, and it said you need a "Penning Trap" which I already have.

2026-01-21 17:57:53 UTC

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?

2026-01-21 07:35:36 UTC

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Don’t underestimate the opportunity for entertainment value they often provide.

2026-01-17 14:31:43 UTC

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Good primer on this from Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction

2026-01-16 15:00:56 UTC

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Too soon!

2026-01-16 08:22:30 UTC

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very hard to change a full grown adult

2026-01-16 08:10:06 UTC

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.

2026-01-15 18:34:15 UTC

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haha, those bitches at the NYT would never do it

2026-01-15 18:18:43 UTC

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Haha, never play anymore unless my daughter wants to play.

2026-01-15 18:14:02 UTC

Best way to play Wordle is to give yourself only one guess and move on. Also guess the same word every day until it hits. Been using “bitch” for the last five years.

2026-01-14 17:02:33 UTC

damn I think I might have lost @npub138y…aszc' private key

2026-01-14 15:31:50 UTC

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Which is why those markets are poor indicators because the entire bull side of the bet isn't wasting time there.

2026-01-14 12:01:25 UTC

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maybe so

2026-01-14 11:07:20 UTC

Maybe this post will age poorly, but I feel I’ve been through the worst of the fourth turning (for me) already, that for me it’s already turning around. For normies, the worst might be yet to come.

2026-01-12 20:14:10 UTC

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I don't know. He also talked solo for 2 hours, zero back and forth.

2026-01-12 18:57:57 UTC

Saylor sounding a little too much like Jack Kruse here: Still bullish on MSTR, but you can tell the price action is taking a toll on him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J85O-ckNxCw

2026-01-12 17:35:22 UTC

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don’t know what that is

2026-01-12 17:34:58 UTC

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I like Saylor, but that interview showed the bad price action is taking its toll on him.

2026-01-12 17:30:17 UTC

I would buy it
#note1w3j…uh0l

2026-01-10 11:52:25 UTC

In Portugal, they’re very fond of these soggy, overripe persimmons, and I’ve gotten hooked on them. Problem is every time you bring them home from the farmer’s market, they get crushed in the bag and spill out everywhere. Had no choice but to eat three of them just now, mixed in with yogurt. They are the size of large apples. But I had no choice.

2026-01-10 10:00:15 UTC

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Pretty sure Ashton Forbes was talking about it on Twitter. Worth listening to his theories on what happened to MH-370 (plasma orbs zapped it through a wormhole which is why it hasn’t been found). Would imagine he went into what Nuno Loureiro was researching.

2026-01-07 16:26:35 UTC

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Yeah, we’ll see. Lots of malefactors still running around not just for covid too.

2026-01-07 15:33:36 UTC

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it's happening as they revise the childhood schedule first, small steps to deprogram people from seeing it as a religious rite. Once the deprogramming succeeds, and they are judged on the merits, it will be like an avalanche. I don’t think they can put the genie back in the bottle. Too many people know, and once the taboo has been broken… we’ll see. Maybe not quite Nuremberg, but I don’t see how they avoid some kind of reckoning.

2026-01-07 14:29:16 UTC

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gravy train to Nuremberg?

2026-01-07 14:08:13 UTC

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Yeah something’s weird. First thought was who would want anything to do with that?

2026-01-07 14:07:11 UTC

Just hate putting the 25KG ones in the luggage
#nevent1q…pyuz

2026-01-07 11:46:47 UTC

I’ll offer you a running challenge I really believe everyone should try. I failed it today, but I succeeded last week.
Do two miles (no walking, no stopping) in *more* than 24 minutes, preferably on an empty stomach, no music, no podcasts. Also, press start on your watch and don’t look until you’re done.
I made it in 24:05 last Monday, but today I blew it and finished at 23:53.
I have a theory that if you push yourself when running, you will eventually get faster, but there is also resistance. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. But if you go slow enough and sustain it, at a pace that requires no real exertion, you build stamina without resistance. And that moves up the baseline from say walking to jogging slowly. Think of it like your favorite commodity making higher lows, starting from a higher base.

2026-01-07 11:41:48 UTC

Often I wake up and see no way I can get anything useful or difficult done. It’s like I’m paralyzed into doomscrolling and thinking and theorizing, and doing anything is impossible, just too daunting. It’s like Xeno’s Paradox, to move one foot, you have to move six inches, and to move six inches you have to move three, and to move three you have to move 1.5, and so on. There are an infinite number of steps you’d have to take, so you can never cross the chasm from thought into action.
And then I put on my running shoes and walk out the door.
There is no bridge from the mind into the world of action except action. To refute Xeno’s paradox you could argue the limit as the denominator heads to infinity is zero, or you can just take a step.

2026-01-07 09:53:46 UTC

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Never gonna get that chance. Cat's out of the bag.

2026-01-06 17:38:22 UTC

One might argue — wait, you can break the rules if there’s sufficient urgency to do so? So force-vaccinating people and locking them down was cool because of the scary *pandemic*?
No! If you break the rules, you had better be correct. There was no science to justify lockdowns, no precedent to quarantining healthy people, no double-blind placebo controlled studies for ANY vaccine let alone this novel mRNA product that turned out not even to stop the spread. And in breaking the rules you MUST do so in the least invasive, most judicious way possible, e.g, extracting Maduro, not destroying Iraq.
But how do we know in advance? Well, we knew the science was fake in advance, and the measures were extreme, unprecedented and unsupported by evidence. But to some extent, we really don’t know in advance. The mark of a great leader is to know when to break the rules and when not to, and if you break them, only break them to the minimum extent necessary.
But if we don’t know, and we can’t formulate a rule how do we know if the action is justified?
We don’t. Being a leader requires taking a chance sometimes, and if you get something wrong, error correcting quickly and decisively, something that did not happen with Covid.
It would be great if there were just a rule book you could follow in all cases and we could consult it to see whether something applied or not. But I’m talking about cases in which the book in on fire, and in any event, no book can contain the complexity of real life.
#nevent1q…a4qr

2026-01-06 17:13:17 UTC

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right, kind of looks like that had already happened