Lee Kibler

"Everything has become so boring that there's no need to be punctilious about entertainment, as long as it's diverting." (Demons) -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@VraserX I am hopeful that humanity will provide alternative ideas/paths that are in essence "mutations" to common thought patterns. This process would twist virtual reality thereby adding to the AI ... driving innovation, improving the general welfare and enhancing positive progress.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

NYC: Fire bombing churches last night

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@WLester1889 @Osint613 Men no longer carry pocket knives or have any degree of situational awareness. The estrogen male class is doomed to the control of the totalitarians.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@WadingSmith Lost at least 2 relatives from SC in Gettysburg. Thank God the 3rd brother survived or I wouldn't be here to tell the tale.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1970, Salvador Allende promised Chileans paradise through nationalization, price controls, and the printing press. By 1973 he delivered 600 percent inflation, empty shelves, and factories seized by decree. Wheat rotted while bureaucrats in Santiago set the price of bread. Food shortages naturally followed. Central planning produces shortage administered by clipboard, not equality.

Then came the counterrevolution of ideas. A group of Chilean economists trained at the University of Chicago, the "Chicago Boys," took the wheel after 1975 and did the unthinkable. They cut government spending. They privatized state firms, roughly 500 of them. They slashed tariffs from an average of 105 percent down to 10 percent by 1979. They freed prices and opened the country to trade.

The results were not a matter of opinion. Chile's per capita GDP climbed from among the region's laggards to the highest in Latin America, surpassing Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Poverty fell from around 45 percent in 1987 to under 10 percent by the 2010s.

José Piñera's 1981 pension reform let workers own their retirement accounts instead of trusting politicians who spend the funds by Tuesday.

Free the prices. Watch the wealth follow.

[Matthew Baszucki @matthewbaszucki]

My recovery from bipolar disorder was a grind.

I didn't just cut carbs and, whoop de doo, I was all better, no more mental illness. The metabolic recovery was MUCH bigger than keto.

-Taking ketone levels, trial & error, finally settling on carnivore
-Tapering meds using a compound pharmacy, going through the withdrawals, working with a psychiatrist
-Medication, prayer, & spiritual practice
-Therapy, sobriety, psychological work, CBT, etc.
-Focusing on relationships
-Limiting social media, TV, etc., reading old books instead
-Cutting out drugs, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine
-Physical exercise, weights, walking, time outside

Today, you'd have no idea I have a 'bipolar disorder' diagnosis. My psychological health has transformed since my hospitalizations in 2016-2018.

But it did not happen overnight. It was a slow, methodical recovery.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@jseubanks @WNBA Virtue signaling at its finest.

[Handre @Handre]

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." - Milton Friedman

Income tax was a temporary wartime measure in 1913. The IRS turns 112 this year and shows no sign of packing up. Friedman wasn't joking.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1962, General Ne Win marched into power and announced that Burma would build socialism its own way. Within a generation, the country that had exported more rice than anyone on earth could barely feed itself. Rice output collapsed from 1.9 million tons to roughly 530,000. The "rice bowl of Asia" became a beggar with an empty bowl.

You should understand what actually happened here, because the mechanism is the whole lesson. Ne Win nationalized everything. Banks, factories, import houses, the rice trade itself. He set the price farmers received for their crop by decree, far below what the grain was worth, then forced them to sell their quota to the state. So the farmer did exactly what any rational man does when you confiscate the fruit of his labor: he grew less. Why break your back planting a third paddy when the state pockets the difference and hands you a receipt? Output falls. Smuggling rises. The black market becomes the only honest market left.

The price system is information. Strip it out and you blind the entire economy at once, and no committee of colonels in Rangoon can reconstruct by guesswork what a million traders once knew.

The regime also rationed dyes along with everything else, and saffron, the deep orange that has marked Buddhist monks for two and a half millennia, fell under the controls. So the monks wore dull, washed-out robes. A government with the power to set the color of a monk's robe had decided it was wiser than the farmer, the merchant, the lender, and twenty-five centuries of religious custom. The robe faded because the planners reached that far. They always reach that far.

By 1987 the United Nations granted Burma "Least Developed Country" status, the same bracket as Mali and Chad. A nation rich in rice, teak, oil, and rubies had been engineered into poverty by men who believed sincerity could replace prices.

Sincerity does not plant rice. Farmers do, when you let them keep it.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@EchoesofWarYT FDR and Lincoln were by far the worst presidents. Lincoln goaded the Confederacy into war and FDR did the same to Japan. History is not made of events but of the “story” for the people.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@LAChas77 doesn't look this way anymore....

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@LPNational Reconstruction into a different type of slavery.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».

J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.

Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.

Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.

Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.

Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.

Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.

Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.

C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.

L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.

[Andrew Wilkow @WilkowMajority]

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@Lisa14022497 @Sudharsan_ak Different scheme.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@Bmoen0107 @Sudharsan_ak Pardon but she just won a game on a three point shot from the logo.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@BjornLomborg @JanetTxjnet Very lucrative for CO2 injection companies

[Voltaire @VoltaireQuote]

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

[James Anderson White @jamesawhiite]

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered.

You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day.

This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm.

The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone.

A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time.

Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans.

We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all.

Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

[Lee Kibler @elbertakibler]

@TeddySaginaw @EvaLovesDesign A lot less than most cities

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Anyone wanna go out together to raise $1B seed @ 0% dil with me now that this precedent is set?