“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really: get busy living or get busy dying.”

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These giant spheres are within 0.05% of a pure mathematical golden ratio. Then, multiply in the odds of the Moon and Sun aligning (entirely independently of that Kepler triangle) to produce perfect eclipses, both solar and lunar… ie: the Sun is ~400x the moon’s diameter, and ~400x farther away. What are the odds there? Then multiply in the odds of a life-supporting planet-moon system forming at all, with a *giant* moon that stabilizes tilt, gives us tides, and lets complex life form. Just the odds of Earth supporting any life at all is like Goldilocks on crack. Then multiply that by the odds of *conscious* life evolving here to witness it all, with the resources to build the tools to measure it. Then multiply the odds of us being here *right now*, in the tiny cosmic window when eclipses still happen, before the Moon drifts too far for them to work. Then multiply by the odds of the golden ratio appearing again and again in math, nature, music, etc. It beggars belief already. Now get underneath all of THAT, and multiply the odds of the laws of physics themselves allowing any matter to exist at all. Mathematical constants like the Fine-Structure constant, the cosmological constant, or Euler’s identity (numbers that physicists like Feynman openly admitted were bizarre and beyond human reckoning) You’re looking at something like 10⁻¹⁰⁰⁰⁰, at least. That’s like plucking a single atom out of all the atoms in the universe at random, scattering them again, and picking the exact same atom the second time. Now repeat that, 100 times in a row. And don’t even get me started on innate good and evil, synchronicity, the supernatural, or DNA being code that builds tiny nano-machines. This place was created and tuned. And we’re here for it. 🍿🙏
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Wrote this last year in a moment of realization: I had misconceived what we call the State for most of my life. Here I defend the following: All slogans aside, the state as we know it consists of an aspirational cartel of dominant industrial interests in every sector which are engaged in ongoing conspiracies against a free and competitive marketplace. We don’t normally think of the state as this, but this seems like the most realistic conception of what it actually is and does. What Is the State and Who Controls It? brownstone.org/articles/what…
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While you wait for Fauci’s hearing to start, a reminder that when the U.S. government purchased Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, it contractually agreed to keep the PREP Act immunity in place for as long as their vaccines are administered in the United States. What that means is that the U.S. government promised Pfizer and Moderna that it could not be sued for harms from its Covid-19 vaccines, irrespective of whether an emergency continued to exist. But not only did our government contractually agree that Pfizer and Moderna can harm and kill Americans with impunity, it also guaranteed Pfizer and Moderna billions of dollars for this privilege. Even worse, the U.S. government guaranteed this immunity in July 2020, months before it first authorized Covid-19 vaccines in December 2020. Meaning, the U.S. government pre-guaranteed these companies immunity from any harm caused by their products, thus, knowingly undermining any incentive for them to create a safe product. And how much were Pfizer and Moderna guaranteed to be paid by the U.S. government to develop a product that could harm its own citizens with impunity? A total of over $21 billion just in the initial rollout -- $8.63 billion for Moderna and $13.15 billion for Pfizer. Sound unreal? See the actual contracts for yourself linked in my most recent restack. The Fallout The implications are incredible. To start, Pfizer and Moderna could sue the U.S. government for breach of contract and potentially other relief if PREP Act immunity is terminated before the United States’ use of their COVID-19 vaccines ceases. Only in an upside-down world would the U.S. government siphon over $21 billion of its citizen’s taxpayer dollars to Pfizer and Moderna and pre-guarantee a profit-motivated company sweeping immunity for harms its product causes to its own citizens. Summing it up: The U.S. government guaranteed Pfizer and Moderna immunity for injuries from their products before they were even developed, thereby eliminating the incentive for these companies to make their product safe. Worse, it gave these companies billions of dollars of its citizens’ money to develop these products, and even more incredible, it then spent billions more of its citizen’s money to promote Pfizer’s product as “safe and effective.” And in an ultimate slap to its citizens, then it required them to be injected with this product under the threat of grave consequences, including expulsion from school, losing their job, discharge from the military, etc. Who is Being Protected? Who exactly is the U.S. government working for? Whose interests is it protecting? Government agencies have a well-documented history of being captured by industry. It is known in political science as regulatory capture. In this case, the capture is by pharma and the degree of capture is unprecedented. You, the collective citizens of the United States, have paid Pfizer and Moderna billions of dollars. You have paid with your taxes. You have paid with your bodies when you were injured without recourse against Pfizer or Moderna. You have paid with your right to freedom when you were forced to be injected with their products under penalty of losing basic civil rights, employment, or more. And what have Pfizer and Moderna paid? Nothing. They instead raked in billions of dollars of your money as long as they developed a Covid-19 vaccine and were shielded from liability irrespective of how unsafe of a product they developed or how much harm it would cause the public that paid them. The Solution The above again brings into focus why no medical product should ever be mandated. This assures you can say “no” if you don’t want a product developed with pre-guaranteed immunity for harms. “No” where its clinical trial had more deaths in the vaccinated group than the placebo group. “No” where it generates over $55 billion in revenue but its morally-bankrupt manufacturers won’t spend a dollar to compensate those injured. Even if you support all current vaccines, masks, etc., there may come a day when you may not want to take a mandated medical product or procedure. When that day comes, it may be too late to recapture the rights you have surrendered. Rights lost are rarely retrieved. This is why, while everyone should be free to take any medical product, everyone should also be free to decline any medical product without penalty. It should be that simple. Take Action To that end, I encourage you to send the following proposed legislation to your legislative representatives: “No law may require or coerce a person to receive or use a medical product, or impose a penalty or deprive a benefit for refusing a medical product or refusing to disclose whether a person has received a medical product.” Medical freedom is freedom. If you cannot get a job, go to school, play sports, sit in a restaurant, or otherwise participate in civil society because you refuse a medical product, then what good are your rights if you can exercise them only at home by yourself? That is why medical freedom is a fundamental right that must be permanently fixed into the law of every civilized nation. Thank you to all the warriors, veteran and new, who join arms in the battle to secure this fundamental right. As aptly stated in the Declaration of Independence, we “are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and to safeguard those rights “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” We must never yield to the tyranny of permitting others to dictate what can or must be placed, administered, or injected onto or into our bodies. For once that right is ceded, none truly remains.
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This has to be satire.
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Hey @glangley — I was the head of design for connected devices at Axon when we did the deal with @Flock_Safety. What you may not know is that our CEO, Rick Smith had met with Vigilant, the ALPR leader at the time. During the demo, their team pulled up a random Axon employee’s car from the parking lot and showed the Axon leadership everywhere that car had been. I wasn’t in the meeting, but I’m told Rick immediately kicked them out of the Scottsdale office. You can make a good case for officers (hell, even politicians) wearing body cams because it empowers citizens to watch the watchers. Flock offers no such benefit. You’ll likely justify the surveillance state you’re helping create with platitudes of a “safer society”. But America wasn’t founded to be safe. America was founded to be FREE. Flock is much more compatible with totalitarian countries like China or the UK, and I wish you great success there. As Benjamin Franklin famously summarized America’s ethos of rugged individualism: "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Now kindly get the flock out of America.
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🚨 Day 77 The silence from YouTube is deafening 75 days ago my 155K sub WWII history channel was disabled overnight and my 55K channel terminated. AI’s excuse? “Harmful content involving minors.” Meanwhile the videos only contain 80 year old grainy war footage of tanks and soldiers. This is dangerous precedent. Today it’s history channels. Tomorrow it’s documentaries, education, truth. Human review is the minimum we should demand. If you’re with us: LIKE if this angers you #YouTubeCensorship #Day72 #WWIIArchive @TeamYouTube @YouTube
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Today I will send my last appeal, I'm just done with YouTube. I'm completely burned out. After fighting for months to save my 13-year-old Panzer Picture channel from that ridiculous false "Child Sexual Abuse" flag, I pretty much lost all hope it's ever coming back. Bigger channels stay silent, when so many channel are being removed for CP and Sexual abuse, I can tell you, your time will come. The stress has been brutal on my health (Crohn’s hasn’t helped). If you're still here and believe in preserving WW2 history, a like or RT would mean the world right now. Thank you for not forgetting ❤️ #RestorePanzerPicture #WW2History #YouTubeCensorship
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i unironically think with this free week we are gonna see 100k+ people on launch and im not joking or exaggerating, quote tweet me when it doesnt happen
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What’s this whole, “scared” thing you shitters always do? If I don’t want illegals raping my family members I’m, “scared of immigrants” If I don’t want homos doing gay shit around my kids I’m, “scared of homosexuals” If I don’t want to play your dogshit game I’m, “scared of women” You people are just lame and retarded.
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Man @roadtoserfdom3 I just found a real banger in my photo roll. Thanks again man. You have no idea the enormity of your importance during those dark days.
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Holy fuck this is the longest screed. Why do people even post this kinda crap? I’ll help: “this guys girlfriend wasn’t horny for him after seeing him get knocked out, so he dumped her.” That’s it. This aparagoid dude “wrote” like 1500 words to say that.
I know an MMA fighter whose 7 year relationship basically died the night he got knocked out for the first time Not because she wanted it to die, but because something clicked inside her on that night she could never get back When I was 22 I became friends with a MMA fighter He was extremely talented at BJJ and just starting to get adept at striking. He racked up a few wins, about six wins in amateur MMA and that's about when our friendship began He'd had a girlfriend for a long time, since school I think. About six years they were together by the time we got to know each other I went to two of his fights to support him. I don't think there was any prize money. He just got a few hundred Euros for showing up Then he had a breakthrough to a bigger event where they gave him five thousand Euros and plane tickets to compete in Poland His girlfriend had been by his side to every fight so far and she pledged to be supportive no matter what because it was his dream to eventually break through into the UFC or IIRC maybe One Fighting Championship And he was on what seemed to be the right path so far In this particular fight he got knocked out in the first round by a jacked black guy. I wasn't there, but I saw the YouTube vids and it was pretty brutal. He looked lifeless for 20 secs before they got him conscious again This is normal for fighting. You can't win them all What's more interesting is what happened to his relationship We spoke about a month after this fight. I just wanted to see how he was dealing with the loss. I wanted to give encouragement to him He said yeah I'm fine, I'd expect to lose at some point and you just learn valuable lessons and know what to work on. He knew his striking needed serious work He seemed positive about it all. He didn't really care about losing, since it meant learning But then he said the weird thing is since I got knocked out, the bedroom has been dead He said, with some hesitation, I haven't been able to get my girlfriend to have sex with me. She's just been like a "lifeless, still, completely cold" She doesn't even cuddle me in bed anymore. She just turns to her side and goes to sleep He said asked her what's wrong and she said oh it's nothing, I'm just feeling a lot of stress lately, that she was going through grief a few years after her father passed away, and so on Anyway I thought this was weird but ups and downs happen in different relationships About six months later we spoke again and this came up He said there's been no change ever since that fight where I got knocked out. There's been no intimacy, starting from that exact moment He said there were maybe two times but it felt incredibly forced and I stopped it because I didn't feel like she even had any desire for me. It didn't feel anything like it had before And he told me that he was going to have to end it because he wasn't getting his needs met. That he couldn't marry into a dead bedroom He said it felt like an exercise futility. It felt like she just didn't love him anymore A couple months later he rang me and told me he'd ended it She never gave him any direct clarity about what happened but she just couldn't be intimate anymore for some reason and she didn't know why and she hated herself for not being able to. She explained it as depression and a "her problem" And so that was a seven year relationship killed on the exact night the guy got knocked out Not because she wanted it to die. She really didn't, apparently, she just couldn't feel the spark anymore Not because he wanted it to die But because something clicked inside her on that evening and she could never get it back Anyway this was a couple years back and now he's moved on and he's with another girl with a kid on the way and he is very happy so what happened before that doesn't matter really But I thought it was interesting nonetheless
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This is the dumbest crap I’ve ever seen in my life. Online, I’ve seen people die doing careless shit. I’ve seen senseless crimes committed. But THIS is one of the worst, most useless things in the history of mankind. That people enjoy this is incomprehensible to me.
🔥 Watch what happens when effort refuses to quit.
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Replying to @MKFANFOREVER7
I think the problem is that many of these game devs themselves were hired on due to post-Obama kumbaya ESG/DEI practices, and they hate their target audiences. They’ll take a paycheck and enjoy the chaos as long as they can.
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Bro, let’s stop pretending. Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries. Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country. Shinto exists only in Japan. So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about? The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them. That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority. Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first. If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.
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Total WHITEPILL @michaelmalice is vindicated once again
The future looks conservative. The assumption that birth rates are falling across society in general is not really true. People who identify as conservative are having almost as many children as they were decades ago. The decline is overwhelmingly among those on the progressive left.
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Six years ago today.
Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests. "White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they wrote. trib.al/iVynMCH
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This is brutal to read. My brother and his girl are in a similar boat, but have a 7 year jump on these folks. Best of luck having a kid (or even two!). 🙏
Replying to @ClassicLearner
This happened to me. I’m 45. Married 15 years. I didn’t want kids because I was in despair about the state of the world. I believed the lies. I thought the earth was on fire and it was our fault. I thought overpopulation was real I thought recycling mattered I thought viruses were real I thought human were a cancer on the earth and that we bring death and destruction whenever we go I thought all of these things and this combined with the food land air and water poisoning by big corporations tha no one seemed to be able to fight, the banking cartels, the educational system, the healthcare system etc just made me sick to my stomach. I thought having kids would not only be shitty to bring a being into this dumpster fire, but would also tie me to it. Like I’d have to get my kids up for public school at 6am and vaccinate them and shop at Walmart like every other person I know who has kids. That sounded like a horrible way to live and I felt like hy having kids it would sic me into the beast system even harder. I did not understand the levels I could RESIST. I didn’t know about all the demoralization campaign lies they tell to get us e to self loathe and self destruct. I would have kids with my husband now. We’ve been trying for a year. He got his vasectomy reversed. We woke up during covid. It took us a few years to realize what we’d done when we made the decision not to have kids. We changed our mind. Maybe it’s too late for us. If that is true, then we’ll walk that path. But the self extinction promoting lies they tell are powerful. More than half the people we know in our age range didn’t have kids for similar reasons. I regret it. But I’m so thankful to be awake now. Thank you for your work! I would totally have used your books and program if I end up with child.
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This moron doesn’t understand how heritability and IQ work. Or he DOES, and imagines himself being part of the Eloi rather than the Morlock.
Replying to @Mick_O_Keeffe
Get over it. We are all citizens of the same planet. Why grieve over human-drawn borders, drawn at varying times over the history of humanity?
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Seems relevant here.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.
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Oh my god. This is awful. The comments are more awful. What the hell. We are cooked as a species.
These indie devs made a library simulator where you must return all 3,072 books to their rightful places. It's currently a top-seller on Steam. - Sort books by cover & title - Run a magical arcane library - Very satisfying It's called Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!
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