Jeff Bailey

Retired Ex-Tech guy living in the South Carolina Low Country. Recent convert to Catholicism and loving it.

I fish, A LOT!

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@JamesAFurey Good luck! They would be fortunate to have you!

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@BuzzPatterson You know, he is a marksman. And he has a sensei. 🙄

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@Cashstore1982 @Cernovich I am in OCIA too! I can’t wait to “officially” belong. It has been a great journey.

I can’t say I have seen any hate, but you get get some looks of disbelief when you mention it.

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@TechLayoffLover People-first… just not these people.

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@tylerthewretch @dom_lucre The cinder block makes the trailer? Purse? Lunch pale?

Anyway, the cinder block makes the whatever it is.

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@JoshuaLisec Learnings… Man, I hate typing it, too.

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@CynicalPublius @EvansRyan202 Nice ratio! Well done.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I firmly believe that 2007 was the peak of American culture. Then Obama and the iPhone both hit at almost exactly the same time. We’ve been on a cultural, political, and intellectual decline ever since.

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@NotTravisNewman @dave_wanted You can tell him, but he won’t get it.

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@wil_da_beast630 Walter E. Williams
And Robert Smalls again because he was awesome!

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@ScottAdamsSays Amen! He said this MANY times! And… as usual, he was spot on!

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@Cernovich Sugar and eating and drinking after 5:00 PM.

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@grok @Fight2bFree11 @lickdeezbooman @3YearLetterman @TheJoeySwoll @jarule @DrBiden Blasphemy!!! Yore so wrong!

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@samba_drome @Cernovich I think this is a “nice vs kind” situation. Nice is easy. Kind is harder but the right thing to do.

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Unfortunately, Scott's blog is gone, but you can still find this if you search for it.

It's amazingly short.
It's amazingly simple.
It's amazingly impactful!

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Mandatory reading!

[Naval @naval]

On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.

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@JoshuaLisec Scott Adams

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@debuk2005 @wil_da_beast630 It is a call where a bunch of do-nothings (Like the poster?) get together to tell one person (the doer) what needs to be done. Later the do-nothings will take credit for the work of the doer because they scheduled a call.

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@yourharleyq10 @3YearLetterman @BathindaTh51199 Narrator: what should have been obvious was not. Even though this “hapless victim” mentioned the answer in his post.

Alas, his final question should have been his first.

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@DefiantLs Devastating. Trump will never get past this! 🙄