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"People only ever have the degree of freedom that their audacity wins from fear." —Stendhal, Vie de Napoléon

gonna try to hit triple digits next year

when Milton Friedman visited a construction site during the building of the Panama Canal, an official explained that the workers were using shovels (instead of machines) in order to create more jobs. Friedman replied, "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."

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well, simplex is now in blockchain nft land it was a good run

luke dashjr couldn't protect his own bitcoin but he thinks he can, and should, protect the entire bitcoin project his religious fervor is now mixing with his autism to create an aversion to depravity & illiicit material so strong that it's distorting his sense of actual reality in retrospect, the gas mask during covid was a tipoff that what used to be quirkiness had veered into a kind of apocalyptic self-aggrandizement

Nestle (the candy bar company) also has a whole health sciences division two of its brands are Peptamen (for treating gastrointestinal impairment) and Vitaflo (for treating metabolic diseases and kidney disease) sell the cause, sell the cure

i listened to the new taylor swift album. it's trash and hilariously cringe, everything you heard is true. but if you're a fan and you like it don't listen to me, people should be able to enjoy things. but it is terrible it's fine, i enjoy some terrible things too. like cheap light beer, and Tottenham Hotspur, and the movie The Chase starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson never apologize for liking things